BLOCK-CON 2018 | 3100 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA

About BLOCK-CON 2018

BLOCKCON is back & it's happening Oct 10th 2018. Clear the schedule and get yourself involved because it's going to be another great event not to be missed!
Expect another awesome conference of great colleagues, great networking & of course awesome food, as we are lucky enough to have one of best speakers line-ups we've seen in years. The LA's best & brightest will be making the trip down to Santa Monica, see you soon there.

Reasons to Attend

WHY ATTEND

Gain insights, clarity and tools to make your ventures better and successful
Learn what works and what does not

Interact directly with Industry executives and businesses under one roof
The only convention that brings Blockchain community together on the west coast

Hear leading Experts from various sectors specializing in Blockchain
Understand where the industry is headed

Connect with people from Blockchain industry and its ecosystem
Connect with the disruptors who are taking market share from the incumbents

Speakers

Lowell Ness

Corporate lawyer

2 ICO

$41 500 000

Crystal Rose

CEO, Sensay | SENSE

Justin Newton

CEO at Netki, Inc.

Paul Walsh

CEO

William E. Quigley

Co-Founder

Colin Pape

Advisor

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Nassim Taleb

Author

Naval Ravikant

Advisor

Muhammad Yunus

Nobel Laureate

Diego G. Zaldívar

RSK Labs

Ralph C. Merkle

Senior Research Fellow

Kavita Gupta

Founding Managing Partner

David Moss

CEO

Zachary Fallon

Principal & Co-founder

Alan Watts

Philosopher

Howard Marks

CEO

Bret Cox

CEO & Co-Founder

Sam Kazemian

Everipedia, Inc.

Jo-Jo Hubbard

Co-founder

Rob Massey

Partner

Agenda

8:00 AM
Registration and Networking

8:50 AM
Opening Remarks
Kurt Kumar

9:00 AM
What is your SUPERPOWER?

9:45 AM
Better Google: Importance of Digital Privacy
Colin Pape

10:05 AM
Crypto Baskets – Investment Vehicles on Steroids
Ryan Berkun

10:10 AM
Tackling Tokenization: Balancing The Opportunities and The Challenges
Rob Massey (M), Neil Thakur, Stan Miroshnik, Lowell Ness

10:30 AM
What Young Warren Buffet Would Have Used to Manage His Crypto
Miles Paschini

10:45 AM
Eliminating Loan Sharks of the 21st Century
Bulent Tekmen

10:50 AM
Domain Names On The Blockchain
Matt Gould, Braden Pezeshki

10:55 AM
Decentralization Makes Sense: Taking Back Privacy & Self-Sovereignty in a Digital World
Crystal Rose

11:10 AM
Internet Of The People, By The People, For The People
Paul Hainsworth

11:20 AM
Solving Immortality
Ralph Merkle, Kurt Kumar, Maria Entraigues, Mark Katakowski

11:40 AM
Token Economics and How To Legally Print Your Own
Mark Jeffrey

12:00 PM
LUNCH

1:00 PM
Blockchain for Social Good
Marina Morozova

1:05 PM
Your Value: Past, Present and Future
Kristoffer Nelson

1:10 PM
AirBnB on the Blockchain
Walter Wang

1:15 PM
Blockchains & The Future Of Humanity
Ralph Merkle

1:30 PM
EOS: Today and Tomorrow
David Moss

1:45 PM
A World of Three Zeros: Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment & Zero Net Carbon Emissions
Muhammad Yunus

2:15 PM
Q&A with Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus

2:40 PM
Finally Smart Contracts on Bitcoin Blockchain!
Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar

3:00 PM
Alan Watts: Father & Philosopher
Joan Watts, Anne Watts

3:30 PM
What Blockchain Use-Cases Have Worked?
Karen Hsu

3:40 PM
How Not To Lose Crypto
Paul Walsh

3:50 PM
Coffee & Beer

4:20 PM
The Role of Economy in the Design of Virtual Worlds
Ciaran Foley

4:25 PM
Work Tokens Through The Lens Of Mechanism Design
Llew Claasen

4:35 PM
Does “World Minus US” Token Sales Make SEC Irrelevant?
Zachary Fallon, Wendy Jackson, Marc Boiron, Justin Wales

5:05 PM
Tokenizing Securities: How To Do It?
Howard Marks

5:15 PM
Instagram Your Way to Riches: Photography, Rights & Monetization
Jonathan Thomas

5:25 PM
Raising Crypto for Good
George Li

5:35 PM
AI + Blockchain: What Could Go Wrong!
Martin Froehler, Richard Craib

6:05 PM
Regulatory Compliant Smart Contracts & Security Token Exchanges
Andrii Zamovsky

6:15 PM
Fact or Friction: Scalable, Fault Resistant & Fast Transactions Chain(s)
Wyatt Meldman-Floch

6:25 PM
Future of Cloud Infrastructure
Greg Osuri

6:35 PM
What ICOs Can Learn From Hypermiling Record Holders
Sean Michael Mitchell, Erik Strait

6:50 PM
Closing Remarks

8:00 AM
Registration and Networking

9:00 AM
Opening Remarks

9:05 AM
Session By Rob Massey
Rob Massey

9:35 AM
State Of The Art In The Interblockchain Realm
Didier PH Martin

9:40 AM
WAX: Game Marketplace
William Quigley

9:50 AM
How To Fire Up & Build Your Brand + Token
Alan Soucy & Eric Doyle

10:30 AM
“3 most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, & a monthly salary.” – Nassim Taleb (No live stream)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

11:00 AM
Fireside Chat with Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Naval Ravikant

11:40 AM
Bloomberg Terminal But For IoT Data
Moshe Shadmon

11:50 AM
Can NEM Be IBM Of Blockchain?
Jeff McDonald

12:00 PM
LUNCH

1:00 PM
Asia: The Next 1 Billion Users In Crypto
Apolo Anton Ohno

1:15 PM
How We Become the Social Safety Net That We All Need
Max Borders

1:30 PM
Decentralized Trading Does Not Have to suck
David Bleznak & Alon Goren (Moderator)

1:50 PM
The Price of Privacy
Patrick Baron

2:10 PM
Digital Assets: Accounting Nightmare
Mark Li

2:15 PM
The Future of Live Sports: Guts, Glory & Blockchain
Grant Cohen

2:20 PM
Stable Cryptocurrency: Key To Mainstreaming & Hyper Growth
Eiland Glover

2:25 PM
The Energy Transition 2.0
Jo-Jo Hubbard

2:35 PM
Token Sales: Perspectives from Legal, Investment and Startups
Grant Fondo, Matthew Miller, David Siemer

3:05 PM
Identity: Balancing Anonymity With Basic Human Right
Justin Newton

3:20 PM
Tokenized Economy
Reeve Collins

3:30 PM
Break and Networking

4:00 PM
Decentralized Telemedicine: How Medicine Is About To Be Uber’ized
James Todaro

4:05 PM
How Blockchain Can Secure Assault/Domestic Violence Reporting
JP Ziegler

4:10 PM
Decentralized marketplaces on the blockchain
Josh Fraser

4:10 PM
ERC725: Decentralized Identity
Tyler Yasaka

4:15 PM
Seeding & Nurturing The Next Gen Of Startups
Kavita Gupta

4:25 PM
Women in Blockchain
Yadira Blocker (Moderator), Niki Williams, Phu Styles, Poesy Liang & Valeria Bystrowicz-Liendo

4:45 PM
Pothole Coin: Example Of How To Disintermediate (Incompetent) Government
Eric Stromberg

4:50 PM
SEC: Should The Community Be Worried?
Nancy Wojtas

5:15 PM
Choosing The Best Blockchain Startup Jurisdiction
Gordon Einstein

5:25 PM
Group Income: Why and Why Now?
Greg Slepak

5:40 PM
Exchanges and Liquidity: Opportunities & Current Challenges
Igor Telyatnikov

5:50 PM
Exchange Wars: How Forex Will Eat Crypto Exchanges’ Lunch
Harpal Sindhu

6:10 PM
Innovative Uses Of Blockchain Technology For Content Monetization
Ryan Charles

6:35 PM
Reimagining Renewable Energy: IoT, Smart Meters & Blockchain
Evan Caron

6:50 PM
Building Brands, Content & Community
Justin Wu

7:00 PM
Closing Remarks

8:00 AM
Registration and Networking

8:55 AM
Opening Remarks

9:00 AM
Definition of “Decentralized”
Lowell Ness

9:30 AM
Discover Talented Broadcasters, Streams & Video Chat Live with People
Adi Sideman

9:55 AM
Navigating Tokenization
Rob Massey

10:40 AM
bloXroute: A Network for Tomorrow’s Blockchain
Soumya Basu

10:50 AM
Session By Pavel Cherkashin
Pavel Cherkashin

11:00 AM
Exchanges
Les Borsai

11:20 AM
Facebook Can’t Be Fixed, So We’re Going To Replace It
Bret Cox