Viewed as the second generation of the internet (Internet of Value), blockchain has the potential to fundamentally reinvent our economic, financial, legal, and social infrastructure.  Since 2013, over $2B VC funds have been poured into this field to over 500 startups.  Large financial institutions and tech companies are investing tons of resources trying to catch this new wave.

ICOs are token sales offered by blockchain companies looking to exchange network access or equity for financing.  This year alone, ICOs have raised over $1B, more than triple the total “traditional” VC dollars over the same period.  Core development and blockchain governance platform Tezos claimed the largest closed ICO round in July 2017, at around $230M.

We bring together founders, experts and investors to delve deeper into blockchain's disruptive potential, covering everything from the hype of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), blockchain as a service, to the evolution of new applications.

Agenda:

6:30-7:00   Social and light dinner

7:00-8:00  Panel Discussion

8:00-8:30  Q&A

Speakers:

Konstantin Richter

CEO, Blockdaemon; Co-chair, adledger.org

A serial entrepreneur in the SaaS media space (audiotube, lookbooks, wiredrive), Konstantin is an advisor to leading blockchain companies like Gem and MadHive. He recently ICO'ed po.et, the extension of the proof of existence protocol. He is the co-chair of the advertising consortium adledger.org and CEO of Blockdaemon, the Heroku of Blockchain. 

Emmie Chang

Managing Partner, Superbloom Capital

Emmie is the CEO of SuperBloom Capital, a crypto asset management and investment company. SuperBloom actively trades crypto assets,builds trading algorithms and tech tools, and accelerates/launches new companies that are pre-token sales. She previously founded a Y-Combinator backed ed-tech company that served tens of thousands of users and bootstrapped 2 ed-tech companies to multimillion revenues. 

Tim Swanson

Director of Market Research, R3

Tim is a recognized expert and thought leader in cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger initiatives.  He was the first advisor to Hyperledger (acquired by DAH) and is currently an advisor to Clearmatics.  Tim was most recently a visiting research fellow at the Sim Kee Boon Institute at Singapore Management University. He is the author of three books, two of which cover the virtual currency and distributed ledger landscape.  He is also frequently quoted in media including: Wired, MIT Technology Review, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New Republic, American Banker and International Business Times.

David Gobaud

Co-founder & CEO, Mobius

David Gobaud is co-founder and CEO of Mobius working to connect billions of people and devices to the blockchain ecosystem.  David holds a BS in computer science from Stanford and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Arunram Kalaiselvan

CTO, BlockDaemon

With a background in Computer Science and Game Design, Arun has been working on architecting and deploying large scale, low latency infrastructures (LookBooks, PlaceIQ, MadHive ). He has been involved in the Bitcoin world for a while now as an early adopter and more recently building a cloud and blockchain agnostic blockchain deployment tool as the CTO of Blockdaemon, the Heroku of Blockchain.