David Drake at the 2017 Shape the Future: Blockchain Global Summit
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David Drake at the 2017 Shape the Future: Blockchain Global Summit in Beijing
20th - 21st September 2017
09:00 am - 6:00 pm
Grand Hyatt Hotel
1 Harbor Road,
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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“2017 Shape the Future” Blockchain global Summit will be held in Hong Kong this September where more than 80 enterprises in the industry were invited to participate. Blockchain experts from worldwide were invited to give speeches over the same period.
The Summit will feature all the high-profile blockchain specialists, authoritative guests and companies to introduce the latest technologies and products, and bring your visions to the future in this conference.
One of the highlights of this event is the release of the First Bitcoin Documentary in China. The documentary witnesses the history of BTC in China.
About the Documentary
Starting from the concept of BTC in Satoshi Nakamoto’s paper in 2008, now BTC has already evolved into a 40-billion-USD digital asset. What happened to BTC in its 9 years’ development? And what role does China play in BTC industry?
In order to keep a detailed record of the growth of this industry, BITKAN chose to be the narrator this time, together with other outstanding Chinese BTC companies such as Bitmain, Huobi, Bixin, ViaBTC and renowned BTC professionals and investors, telling the story of BTC’s development through a documentary. Just to show the most real situation of this industry and share the interviewees’ unique option
Partial list of Speakers:
Jihan Wu
CEO of BITMAIN
The industry-recognized preacher of bitcoins. He is also the first one who translated Satoshi Nakamoto’s paper about bitcoin.
Roger Ver
CEO of bitcoin.com
He was the first person in the world to start investing in Bitcoin startups.He nearly singlehandedly funded the entire first generation of bitcoin startups, earning the name Bitcoin Jesus in the process.
John McAfee
Co-Founder of McAfeeXL
Mr. McAfee began the world’s first antivirus company: McAfee.
Evan Duffield
Founder of Dash
Evan Duffield is the inventor of DASH –pioneered the X11, InstantTransactions, Masternodes and many other features.
Leon Liu
CEO of BITKAN
He was the former head of Huawei's wireless R&D department. He once led a team of 2,000 professionals in researching and developing 3G/4G networks in China.
David Drake Founder and Chairman Victoria Global, LDJ Capital and The Soho Loft Media Group
David Drake is an early-stage equity expert and the founder and chairman of Victoria Global with divisions LDJ Capital, a family office and private equity advisory firm, and The Soho Loft Media Group - The Voice of Capital Formation - a global financial media company involved in Corporate Communications, Publications, and Conferences.
Mr. Drake has been involved in TMT (technology, media, telecoms), realty, hospitality, cleantech, energy and impact investments for more than 20 years. He is an advocate of innovative investing in early-stage equity, capital formation policies and developments globally, and the US JOBS Act which he lobbied for in both the US Congress and the EU Commission. Because of his leading work in this space, he represented the US Commerce Department at the EU Commission in Brussels and Rome in July 2012 and was invited in May 2013 to the White House Champions of Change ceremony in Washington, D.C. He was also invited to speak at the UK Parliament during their 1st national crowdfunding day celebration.
His investment, The Soho Loft Media Group, produces and sponsors over 200 global conferences annually and his articles are syndicated in over 100 publications. One such event was April 2013 for the institutional media leader Thomson Reuters, with speakers from Nasdaq, NYSE, KKR and Carlyle Group. He advances financial innovation through his work as an international speaker and writer. He has spoken in major universities like Cambridge, NYU, Cornell, Columbia, and writes regularly for major publications like WSJ, Forbes, Huffington Post, Thomson Reuters. He is the co-author of the books Planet Entrepreneur, Crowdfunding and Other Animals, Investors of Italy and is the author of the upcoming books Crowd Fund Economics, The SPPICE of Crowdfunding, and LIFEE: Life Instructions for Entrepreneurs and Executives.
Previously, Mr. Drake has acted as general partners in fund-of-funds, realty funds, venture capital funds, seed-funds and hedge funds. Mr. Drake’s holdings have media partnership with the European Business Angel Network and Angel Capital Association of North America. He sits on 4 angel networks and has co-founded two angel networks.
His focus today is to take on board advisory positions at companies, angel networks and venture funds, and to guide them on topics such as international regulations, corporate strategy and fund structures, with emphasis on the growing trend of online investment automation for retail and angel investors.
Privately, Mr. Drake has hosted the Harvard Business Club of NY at his home, produced Carnegie Hall concerts and raised funds for the charities Trail Blazers and Best Buddies Carnegie Hall for many years. Today he is a board director of the UBS Charity of the Year and London-based ARCHIVE Global.
Born in Sweden and fluent in six languages, Mr. Drake has an MBA in Finance and an MA in International Law and Economics from George Washington University, where he was awarded the Wallenberg Scholarship for academic merit.
