2024 Blockchain Futurist Conference | 11 Polson Street Toronto, ON M5A 1A4 Canada

About 2024 Blockchain Futurist Conference

Blockchain Futurist Conference is Canada’s Largest Blockchain and Crypto Event returning for its 6th year on August 13 & 14, 2024 in Toronto, Canada at Rebel Entertainment Complex and Cabana. The conference focuses on exploring the potential of blockchain technology by bringing together the greatest minds of Web3, Crypto, DeFi, Staking, NFTs, DAOs and more. Designed as a fully immersive crypto experience with crypto powered marketplaces, NFT galleries, token gamification and blockchain technology used throughout the event. Experience VIP Cabanas, 3 stages, expo booths and dozens of networking events onsite. With 6500+ attendees, 200+ speakers and 150+ partners returning each year, it’s the perfect place to connect with top founders, investors, and projects. Come learn about the future in-person and be part of the Web3 movement at Blockchain Futurist Conference. The future is here.

Speakers

Sukhveer Sanghera

CEO, EARTH WALLET CUR8

Ashley Stanhope

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, ETHER CAPITAL Etherspot

Patrick Dunlop

CO-FOUNDER & CEO, JACKAL LABS Jackal Labs

Bin Zhu

FOUNDER & CEO, STRATOS Lunar Strategy

Austin Baggio

PRODUCT MANAGER, PAGODA Pagoda

Tracy Molino

COUNSEL, DENTONS CANADA LLP Hong Kong Canada

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Benjamin Kurrek

DEVELOPER RELATIONS ENGINEER, PAGODA | CO-FOUNDER OF FAYYR Pagoda

Aqeel Mohammad

PRODUCT STRATEGY / DESIGN, ETHEREUM FOUNDATION Ethereum

David Wachsman

FOUNDER & CEO, WACHSMAN Wachsman

Mark Connors

HEAD OF RESEARCH, 3IQ 3iQ Corp

Kimberly Adams

CO-FOUNDER, BRIDGE NETWORK Bridge Network

Lin Dai

CO-FOUNDER & CEO, ONEOF HELLO Labs

Fred Pye

FOUNDER & CEO, 3IQ 3iQ Corp

Eric Rodriguez

DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS, UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS Unstoppable Finance

Kate Goldman

SENIOR POLICY ASSOCIATE, ELLIPTIC Elliptic

Roger Ver

FOUNDER, BITCOIN.COM ₿itcoin Debuut

Eric Richmond

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, COINSQUARE Coinsquare

Brian Mosoff

CEO, ETHER CAPITAL Etherplay

Ego Huang

FOUNDER & CEO, DEEPCOIN EXCHANGE Deepcoin

Keith Grossman

PRESIDENT, TIME ATTENDING VIRTUALLY Virtually Human Studio

Josh Neuroth

VP PRODUCT, ANKR Ankr

Josh Stein

DEVELOPER ADVOCATE, ANKR Ankr

Ben Armstrong

FOUNDER, BITBOY CRYPTO BitBoy Crypto

David Cormican

HEAD OF PRODUCTION OVERSIGHT, MOGUL PRODUCTIONS Eye Q Productions

Kevin Hobbs

FOUNDER & CEO, AVENTUS VENTURES Aventus Network

Clayton Hartford

DIRECTOR, BRAVE SOFTWARE Brave

Charlene Cieslik

CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER & HEAD OF CUSTOMER SUCCESS, LOCALCOIN Metaverse911™

Daniel Shakhmundes

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, SECURE DIGITAL MARKETS Secured Finance AG

Vincent Kadar

CEO, POLYMATH Polymath Ventures

Andrew Weiner

VICE PRESIDENT, MEXC GLOBAL MEXC

Nora Anwar

MARKETING MANAGER, VIRGOCX The Linux Foundation

Dr. Nataliya Hearn

DIRECTOR, CRYPTOCHICKS Cryptochicks

Sergey Gorbunov

CO-FOUNDER & CEO, AXELAR Axelar

Tanim Rasul

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, NDAX Ndax

Abigail Castro

DEVELOPER EVANGELIST, SWIRLDS LABS Swirlds Labs

Sergey Metelin

DEVELOPER ADVOCATE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AMERICAS, SWIRLDS LABS Swirlds Labs

Andrew Gastwirth

CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER, DLA PIPER DLA Piper

Paulo Ardoino

CTO, TETHER ATTENDING VIRTUALLY Untethered Ventures

Anthony Di Iorio

Founder, Ethereum, Decentral, Andiami Andiami

6 ICO

$107 512 361

Miko Matsumura

Managing Partner, gumi Cryptos Capital gumi Cryptos

Lani Dizon

Co-founder & President Zenza Capital Zenza Capital

Dean Skurka

President & CEO, WonderFi (TSX: WNDR) WonderFi

Shytoshi Kusama

Focus: Big Picture Shiba Inu Shiba Inu

Anthony Diaz

Founder & Chairman, Zenza Capital Zenza Capital

Elena Sinelnikova

CryptoChicks, Co-Founder and CEO, Metis Foundation, Co-Founder Metis

Mike Silagadze

Co-Founder & CEO ether.fi EtherFi

Tyler Spalding

Ampera Foundation Ampera

Perianne Boring

Founder & CEO, The Digital Chamber The Digital Chamber

Lucas Matheson

Country Director, Canada Coinbase Coinbase

Koleya Karringten

President, Blockchain Insurance Inc., Executive Director, Canadian Blockchain Consortium Canadian Blockchain Consortium

Mark Greenberg

Global Head of Asset Growth & Management and Managing Director of Canada, Kraken Kraken Bitcoin Exchange

Adam Cai

Founder & CEO, Virgo Group Virgo Group

Pegah Soltani

Head of Payments Products, Ripple Ripple

Corbin Fraser

CEO, Bitcoin.com Psybitcoin

Bruno Caratori

Co-Founder & COO, Hashdex Hashdex

Scott Sigel

COO, Helium helium

Pamela Draper

President & CEO, Pateno Payments Inc Pateno Payments Inc

Alex Tapscott

Best-Selling Author, Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier Cultural Frontier

Tian Lim

Director of Technical Program Management, Consensys Consensys

Stefan Rüst

Founder & CEO Truflation Truflation

Ronghui Gu

Co-Founder, CertiK CertiK

Lisa Loud

Co-Founder, FLUIDEFI Executive Director, Secret Network Foundation Secret Network Foundation

6 ICO

$67 500 000

Trevor Koverko

Co-Founder, Sapien Sapien

David Shafrir

Co-Founder & CEO, Secure Digital Markets Secure Digital Markets

Alex McDougall

CEO, Stablecorp Inc Stablecorp Inc

Phillip Alexeev

Chief Growth Officer, CrossFi CrossFi

Claire Ching

Head of Institutional, Gemini GEMINI

Roberto Berwa

Co-Founder & CTO, Seal King Seal Holdings

Michael Rabkin

Global Head of Business Development, DV Chain DV Chain

Regan McGrath

CEO & Managing Partner, Metrics Chartered Professional Accounting Inc Metrics Chartered Professional Accounting

Ari Juels

Chief Scientist, Chainlink Labs, Professor, Cornell Tech Cornell Tech

Dustin Walper

Founder & CEO, Newton Newton

Christopher Chen

Head Invest Hong Kong Canada, Hong Kong Canada

Sarah Martin

Senior Software Engineer, Circle Circle

Adam Benzine

Creator, RUINED MASTERPIECES, Oscar®-Nominated Filmmaker

Dr. Nataliya Hearn

Director, CryptoChicks Cryptochicks

Aaron Grinhaus

International Tax Lawyer, Grinhaus Law Firm Grinhaus Law Firm

J.D. Seraphine

CEO, Raiinmaker Raiinmaker

Breeze Liu

Founder & CEO, Alecto AI Partner, HiBlock HiBlock

Mostafa Al-Mashita

Co-Founder & Director of Sales and Trading, Secure Digital Markets Secure Digital Markets

Usman Sheikh

artner (Head of Blockchain & Fintech Practice) Baker Mckenzie LLP Becker McKenzie

Taras Kulyk

Founder & CEO SunnySide Digita SunnySide Digital

Shana Derman

Sr. Manager Quality and Integrations, Figment 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Christian Sauer

Founder, soonami.io Soonami

Tigran Rostomyan

Founder, AML Incubator AML Incubator

Ben Thalman

Ethereum Specialist, Figment 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Maxim Sindall

COO, ALTURA Altura

Jennifer Senhaji

Growth & Business Development, Chronicle Chronicle Labs | Protocol

Michael Grills

Product Director, Matrix Labs & WORLD3 Matrix Labs

Ronnie Levi

SENIOR ACCOUNT DIRECTOR, MARKETACROSS MarketAcross

Anu Bhardwaj

FOUNDER & CTO, SHEQONOMI SHEQONOMI

Pramod Gopalakrishna

BLOCKCHAIN LEADER, EY EY Japan

Marc Lijour

CO-FOUNDER, DEFI TORONTO Toronto Inc

Dilesha Williams Stelmach

DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERED EDI Empowered Law

Wael RAJAB

FOUNDER, BLOCKCHAIN ACADEMICS BLOCKCHAIN ACADEMICS

Soushiant Zanganehpour

CEO, SWAE.IO Swae

Pico Velasquez

METAVERSE VISIONARY, ARCHITECT & ENTREPRENEUR | CEO, VIIRA Centrum für Entrepreneurship & Transfer

Kunal Bhasin

DIRECTOR & CO-LEADER, CRYPTOASSETS & BLOCKCHAIN, KPMG CANADA KPMG Canada

Emma Todd

CEO, MMH DATA SYSTEMS MMH Blockchain Group

David Yi

CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER, ASPEN CREEK DIGITAL CORPORATION Riot Platforms

Pratik Gauri

CO-FOUNDER & CEO, 5IRE 5ire

Shannon Wells

HEAD OF GROWTH, LIVEPEER Livepeer

Amer Ameen

VP OF PRODUCT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT, CHAINSAFE ChainSafe Systems

Stanley Szeniawski

CUSTOMER SUCCESS, QUICKNODE QuickNode

Kwame Bryan

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER GAMING, CHAINSAFE ChainSafe Systems

Jia Ling Yang

FOUNDER & CEO, PLAYGROUND Playground Global

Majd Hailat

FOUNDER & CEO, ALTURA Altura

Cristian Lupascu

CO-FOUNDER & CEO, OMNIA PROTOCOL OMNIA Protocol

Steve Ngok

PARTNER, DORAHACKS DoraHacks

Justin Hartzman

CO-FOUNDER & CEO, COINSMART coinsmart

Sam Bourgi

BUSINESS EDITOR, COINTELEGRAPH Cointelegraph MENA

Mary Sorrenti

VICE PRESIDENT, GAME PILL GAME PILL

Randy Marusyk

MANAGING PARTNER, MBM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW Ottawa Police Service

Corey Herscu

GROWTH & MEDIA EXPERT In Growth We Trust

Eduardo Vivas

CO-FOUNDER, STLR GROUP World Mobile Group

Tanya Woods

STRATEGIC ADVISOR, CHAMBER OF DIGITAL COMMERCE CANADA Chamber of Digital Commerce

Austin Davis

CO-FOUNDER, CROWNBITS REWARDS Crownbits

Joshua Lapidus

EXECUTIVE STEWARD FOR PARTNERSHIPS AND ECOSYSTEM AT OPOLIS, MERCH STEWARD OF ETHDENVER + TREASURER OF SPORKDAO Opolis

RUSSELL CASTAGNARO

ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE, BUFFICORN VENTURES Bufficorn Ventures

Pieter Vanhove

PROGRAM MANAGER, MICROSOFT Microsoft

RYAN BERKUN

FOUNDER & CEO, TELLER FINANCE Teller

Jessica Levesque

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, C4 C4Coin

AMEER ROSIC

SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR AND ANGEL INVESTOR Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Louisa Bai

CRYPTO STRATEGY AND PARTNERSHIPS, STELLAR.ORG Stellar

MAGGI XU

CO-FOUNDER, GMGN DAO BreederDAO

Denys Ivanov

COO, HACKEN.IO Hacken

Mawadda Basir

CO-FOUNDER & CEO, HUNT ANALYTICS Moody’s Analytics

Kevin Neilson

DEVELOPER RELATIONS ENGINEER, MOONBEAM Moonbeam

Alex P.

CEO & PRODUCT ARCHITECT, ĀUT PROTOCOL Architect Partners LLC

Milena M.

CTO, ĀUT PROTOCOL Āut Labs

Weso

LEAD DEVELOPER & STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP COORDINATOR, BEEFY BEEFY

Jean Yves Martineau

CO-FOUNDER OF PRIOR ART | DAO EVP OF TECHNOLOGY SIMWIN SimWin Sports

Mary K (MK) Marsden

CO-FOUNDER OF PRIOR ART DAO | MANAGING PARTNER OF TOUCHPOINT STRATEGIES Tölt Strategies

Graeme Moore

HEAD OF TOKENIZATION, POLYMESH Polymesh Association

Viveik Vivekananthan

FOUNDER & CEO, SWING.XYZ Swing

Michael Sanders

CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF STORYTELLER, HORIZON Horizon Bank

Didier Lavallee

CEO, Tetra Trust Tetra Trust

Leon Marshall

MANAGING DIRECTOR, HEAD OF INSTITUTIONAL SALES, GENESIS Genesis

Jamie Jung

Marketing Director, EthStorage, Co-Founder, Women in Web3 Korea

Eunika Sot

CO-FOUNDER, COO & CMO, YUSER VSure Group

Stas Zlobinski

Co-Founder, Hedgie.io Founder, Goat Gallery Goat Gallery

Toufic Adlouni

MANAGING DIRECTOR, RENNO & CO Renno & Co

Joseph Iuso

Global Regulatory Affairs, KYC2020 LLC KYC2020 LLC

Pavel Sinelnikov

INTEGRATIONS LEAD, METIS Metis

Souzan Esmaili

Founder & CEO TCAE

Chris Pace

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY ADVOCATE, COINCOVER Coincover

CHRISTOPHER OBEREDER

nvestor, Startup Chris Ventures Startup Chris Ventures

Andile Ndlovu

ARTIST MANAGER, ELECTRIC FEEL ENTERTAINMENT Gaijin Entertainment

Nikita Sachev

Founder & CEO, Luna Media Corporation Luna Media Corporation

Fazil Mohamed Jabar

CO-FOUNDER & CEO, NUGEN UNIVERSE NuGen Universe

Nahid Rahman

Training Team Lead, TCAE TCAE

Amber Scott

Co-Founder & CEO, Outlier Compliance Group Outlier Solutions Inc.

Wayne Chen

CEO, EukaPay EukaPay

Tomisin Jenrola

Founder, Tuvana Labs Tuvana Labs

Nandita Merchant

Cryptocurrency Compliance Consultant & Trainer, TCAE TCAE

Anton Umnov

Co-Founder & CEO, Helika Helika

Annelise Osborne

Author, From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets for Traditional Finance, Chief Business Officer, Kadena Kadena

Duncan Acres

Sr. Manager, Business Development - Global, Immutable Immutable

Shagufta Sayani

Senior Manager Ernst & Young LLP Ernst & Young LLP

Jonathan Keim

Director of Communications, IBN IBN (InvestorBrandNetwork)

Audrey Nesbitt

Co-Founder & CEO, Bloomly Bloomly

Vlad Avesalon

Core Team/Newsletter Lead ETHChicago ETHChicago

Claire Brownell

Reporter, The Logic The Logic

Jerry Qian

Co-Founder, Bitcoin Bay Bitcoin Bay

Justyna Osowska

Founder, Women in Blockchain Canada Blockchain Canada

Mansoor Madhavji

Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund Blockchain Founders Fund

Jacob Kirmayer

Technical Researcher, Ethereum Attestation Service Ethereum Attestation Service

Jenni Rogers (CryptoQueen)

Co-Founder, Shibwomen Shibwomen

Long Do

CEO, Anomaly Games Inc. Anomaly Games Inc

Ashley Wright

Founder, Fem T3ch Fem T3ch

Ceara Crawford

Chief of Staff, Innovation, Gitcoin DAO Gitcoin

Aaron "Carl" Lewis

Comms Lead ETHChicago + Craft The Future

Eustacia Lund

Education and Community Manager CryptoChicks Cryptochicks

Chris Sandico

Founder, Professor Meta's Academy

Dina Mainville

Founder & President, Collisionless Collisionless

Stephen Sargeant

Founder, Airdropd Airdropd

Estrella Li

Head of Marketing and Business Development, CryptoChicks Cryptochicks

Jesse Abramowitz

Lead Protocol Developer Entropy Third Wave Access

Tiara Nicole

Co-Founder, Craft The Future, Core Team, ETHChicago ETHChicago

Rob

Founder Cryptoducation.com Cryptoducation.com

Jacqueline Cooper, JD

CEO, Blockchain Legal Institute & Blockchain Legal Institute Foundation Cogent Law Group LLP

Contessa Louise Cooper

Sustainability Lead & Business Manager Craft The Future Craft The Future

Sahil Sen

Senior Blockchain Advocate, QuickNode QuickNode

May Mahboob

Co-Founder, MBD Financials MBD Financials

Jeff Chan

PRODUCER & DIRECTOR, COLLECTIVE PICTURES Happy Sundae

Tanya Lindsay

CO-FOUNDER, CRYPTOMIBS Cryptomibs

Ehsan Shariati

CO-FOUNDER & CTO, FUNCTIONLAND Functionland

Chua Kok Tung

LEAD GAME DESIGNER, PROJECT SEED Project SEED

Stephanie Hughes

FINANCE REPORTER, FINANCIAL POST Blockchain Reporter

Ross Macdonald

COO, GOKHSHTEIN MEDIA Gokhshtein Media

Larry O'Brien

CO-FOUNDER OF DGOV3 | MEMBER OF PRIOR ART | FORMER MAYOR OF OTTAWA | FOUNDER OF CALIAN GROUP Priority Power

Warren Paul Anderson

CEO, DISCREET LABS Discreet Labs

Tracy Leparulo

FOUNDER & CEO, UNTRACEABLE Untraceable

David Gokhshtein

PRESIDENT, GOKHSHTEIN MEDIA Gokhshtein Media

Kyle Fry

CEO, DIGTL DIGTL

Igor Denisov

CEO, SQUIRREL WALLET Purple Squirrel

About 2024 Blockchain Futurist Conference

Speakers

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