At the event, our premier speaker lineup of renowned cryptocurrency and technology experts will cover many innovative and exploratoy topics, as well as the surging questions pulsing throughout the cryptomarkets today. There will include analysis of efficiencies within the global digital currency markets; discussion on capturing opportunities of dislocated markets; the challenges and solutions of maintaining consistent liquidity within turbulant digital markets; examination of long-term growth within state-of-the-art digital execution strategies; technology solutions review for delivering and managing digital assets and navigating the digital asset marketplace; the future of AI, machine learning and the cryptocurrency markets; scrutiiny of the opportunities and advantages within volatile Bitcoin markets; insight into the impact of blockchain technology and the capital markets infrastructure; and focused review into unlocking the hidden value of next generation investment products.
9:00 am Networking Coffee Break
9:30 am Introduction
Sol Steinberg – Founding Partner, OTC Partners
Introduction to Event and Landscape.
Modern Capital markets, bubbles, anomalies, and exploring drivers of Crypto's
evolution.
10:00 am SESSION 1.
Robert Savage – CEO, CCTrack Solutions, LLC
Crypto Market Dynamics and Currents, Crypto coin offers, volume.
Exploring trading across the eco-system spanning markets , exchanges, derivatives,
and regions.
11:00 am Networking Coffee Break
11:30 am SESSION 2.
Zura Kakushadze – Ph.D., CEO, Quantigic® Solutions. Author, “151 Trading
Strategies”
KEYNOTE: Crypto Factor Models and Statistical Arbitrage: Factor models for cryptoasset
returns.
Cross-sectional statistical arbitrage trading of crypto-assets.
12:30 pm Lunch Break and Networking
1:30 pm Leadership Discussion Panel 1: Rocky Road to Institutional Crypto:
Challenges and Opportunities
Vladimir Danishevsky – Head of Corporate Bonds Flow eTrading IT, Citi
Michael Petersohn – Co-Founder, ARC FinTech
Garrett Nenner – Global Head of Trading Product, Linedata
Biser Dimitrov – Former Technology Director, BlockEx
2:30 pm Leadership Discussion Panel 2: ETH and BTC: a call option on future
technology?
Eugene Lee – CFA, Co-Founder and Partner, Digital Mosaic Capital
Jim Kyung-Soo Liew – Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Co-Founder, SoKat.co
Brian Koralewski – Partner, Austere Capital
Mark Goldman – Principal, Zash
Bryan Feinberg – CEO and Founder, Etheralabs / ChainDynamics
3:30 pm Networking Coffee Break
3:45 pm SESSION 3.
Jonathan Nelson – Managing Director at HACK Fund: Fixing Venture Capital
Blockchain, emerging markets and the future of venture capital.
Blockchain is opening up massive new markets to investment, and solving the
liquidity problems of investing in technology companies.
4:15 pm SESSION 4.
Rob Griffitts – Partner, Masur Griffitts
US Regulators and Cryptocurrency: It’s Complicated
4:45 pm Leadership Discussion Panel 3: Key Questions the CFTC Wants Answered
About Ether
Gabe Frank – Institutional Custody and Cryptocurrency Security, BitGo
Haim Bodek – Managing Principal, Decimus Capital Markets
Wilfred Daye – Head of Financial Markets, OK Coin
Richard Rothenberg – Executive Director, Global AI Corp
Ron Quaranta – CEO, Digital Currency Labs
5:45 pm Final Discussion and Review
Sol Steinberg – Founding Partner, OTC Partners
6:00 pm Drinks Reception and Post-Conference Networking