Block|FS

New York , United States

About Block|FS

American Bankers’ Block|FS is a day-and-a-half event to learn about the technology and how financial institutions are exploring, and scaling, blockchain solutions; meet leaders in this emerging field and; understand the impact so you can build your business strategy. Hear from industry execs on both strategy and execution, leave prepared to write your plan.

Speakers

Justin Chapman
Global Head of Market Advocacy & Innovation Research Northern Trust
Lewis Cohen
Co-Founder DLx Law LLP
Penny Crosman
Editor at Large American Banker
Dr. Jochen Dürr
Chief Risk Officer Six Network
Steve Ehrlich
Chief Operating Officer Wall Street Blockchain Alliance
Laura M. Fontana
Innovation R&D, Distributed Ledger Technology Program Wells Fargo
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Lucien Foster
Head of Fintech Strategy & Partnerships BNY Mellon
Dan Gisolfi
DE/CTO, Trusted Identity, Blockchain Technologies IBM
Michael Gronager
CEO and Co-Founder Chainalysis Inc.
Rouven Heck
Project Lead for the Digital Identity Platform (uPort) consensys
Marc Hochstein
Managing Editor CoinDesk
Frank Hourigan
Chief Operating Officer BKCM, LLC
Tom Jessop
Head of Fidelity Digital Assets Fidelity Investments
Hubert JP Jolly
Global Head of Financing and Channels, Global Transaction Services Bank of America
Susan Joseph
B3i North America Representative B3i Services AG
Alexander Kanen
Founder & CEO Kanen Law Firm
Joshua Ashley Klayman
Managing Member Kanen Law Firm
Jeffrey Knight
Founder Inc.
Ram Komarraju
Head of Innovation & Solution Delivery CLS
Alan J. Lane
Chief Executive Officer Silvergate Bank
Maja Lapcevic
Director, Innovation Network & Emerging Technologies Citi
Caitlin Long
Co-Founder of Wyoming Blockchain Coalition Symbiont.io
Jesse Lund
Global Vice President Blockchain & DLT Markets Bluewolf, an IBM Company
Tanaya Macheel
Reporter Cheddar
Elizabeth Maiellano
Vice President of Product Management Broadridge
Charlie Moore
Christine Moy
Executive Director, Blockchain Program Lead J.P. Morgan
Jason A. Nagi
Shareholder Polsinelli
Marc Peelen
Director, Fintech Strategy and Partnerships, BNY Mellon
Zac Prince
Chief Executive Officer Blockfish
Robert Rancitelli
Managing Director, Asset Management Operations Goldman Sachs
Jeff John Roberts
Staff Writer and Editor Fortune's The Ledger
Yuval Rooz
Chief Operating Officer MT Digital Assets
Nick Rosenberg
EVP, Director of IT Metropolitan Bank
Christine Sandler
Director, Institutional Sales Coinbase
Cooper Schorr
Member of the Global Business Development team R3
Greg Schvey
CEO Axoni
Bill Staniford
Chief Innovation Officer Compound VC
Josh Stein
Co-Founder and CEO Harbor
Brian Stoeckert
John Sun
Founder & CEO Spring Labs
Alex Treece
President Modularmining
Kevin Werbach
Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics , Wharton School University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Whalen
Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Dan Doney
CEO, Securrency
Elizabeth Renieris
Global Policy Counsel Evernym
Joao Reginatto
Director for Product Management and USD Coin (USDC) Product Lead Circle
Shahla Ali
Chief Compliance and Legal Officer BitGo, Inc.
Divya Agarwalla
Senior Vice President and Head of Product Circle
Joshua Ashley Klayman
Managing Member Kanen Law Firm
Andrea Tinianow
Chief Innovation Officer, Executive Vice Presiden Global Kompass Strategies
Kevin Bannerton
Partner, Corporate Strategy & Product Development Total Bank Solutions
Steven Becker
President and COO MakerDao
Jay Biancamano
Managing Director, Digital Product Development and Innovation State Street
Christopher Brown
Chief Executive Officer Modularmining
Tyrone Canaday
Managing Director, Global Head of Innovation Protiviti
Emma Channing
Emma Channing Satis Group

Agenda


Registration Opens + Breakfast

7:45am - 8:20am
Chair’s Opening

8:20am - 8:30am
Opening Keynote

8:30am - 8:55am
Speaker

Tom Jessop
Head of Fidelity Digital Assets, Fidelity Investments
Capital Markets on Blockchain - Disruption or Evolution?

8:55am - 9:45am
Moderator

Marc Hochstein
Managing Editor, CoinDesk
Panelists

Dr. Jochen Dürr
Chief Risk Officer, SIX

Christine Moy
Executive Director, Blockchain Program Lead, J.P. Morgan

Robert Rancitelli
Managing Director, Asset Management Operations , Goldman Sachs

Greg Schvey
CEO, Axoni
Blockchain for Fund Administration - Interview with Northern Trust’s Justin Chapman

 

9:45am - 10:05am
Speakers

Justin Chapman
Global Head of Market Advocacy & Innovation Research , Northern Trust

Penny Crosman
Editor at Large, American Banker
Refreshment Break

 

10:05am - 10:35am
Getting to Adoption

 

10:35am - 11:15am
Moderator

Tyrone Canaday
Managing Director, Global Head of Innovation, Protiviti
Speaker

Amber Baldet
Co-founder, CEO , Clovyr

Lewis Cohen
Co-Founder, DLx Law LLP

Ram Komarraju
Head of Innovation & Solution Delivery, CLS

Christopher Whalen
Chairman, Whalen Global Advisors LLC
Interview with CEO of Chainalysis, Michael Gronager

 

11:15am - 11:40am
Speakers

Penny Crosman
Editor at Large, American Banker

Michael Gronager
CEO and Co-Founder, Chainalysis Inc.
The Journey Toward DLT Adoption – ASX Case Study

11:40am - 12:05pm
Speaker

Yuval Rooz
Chief Operating Officer, Digital Asset
Lunch

12:15pm - 1:30pm
Live Demos

12:05pm - 12:15pm
Track A
The State of Stablecoins: Can Stablecoins Solve Crypto’s Volatility?

 

1:30pm - 2:10pm
Blockchain technology may be seen as revolutionary, but a significant element of the crypto narrative was always that cryptocurrency prices are too volatile to be a mature part of the ecosystem. The concept of stablecoins being able to counter that is a popular one, but has yet to prove it can actually do that.

Moderator

Tanaya Macheel
Reporter , Cheddar
Panelists

Steven Becker
President and COO, MakerDao

Jesse Lund
Global Vice President Blockchain & DLT Markets, IBM

Joao Reginatto
Director for Product Management and USD Coin (USDC) Product Lead, Circle
Track B
Transforming the Credit Ecosystem

 

1:30pm - 2:10pm
Moderator

Jason A. Nagi
Shareholder, Polsinelli
Panelists

Charlie Moore
CEO, Global Debt Registry

Marc Peelen
Director, Fintech Strategy and Partnerships, BNY Mellon
Track A
Crypto Custody: The Key to Unlocking Institutional Capital

 

2:10pm - 2:55pm
Moderator

Jeff John Roberts
Staff Writer and Editor , Fortune's The Ledger
Panelists

Shahla Ali
Chief Compliance and Legal Officer, BitGo

Jay Biancamano
Managing Director, Digital Product Development and Innovation, State Street

Frank Hourigan
Chief Operating Officer , BKCM, LLC

Christine Sandler
Director, Institutional Sales, Coinbase
Track B
Finding the Golden Use Case: Leveraging Dlt to Reinvent the Placement of Reciprocal Deposits

 

2:10pm - 2:55pm
Moderator

Kevin Bannerton
Partner, Corporate Strategy & Product Development, Total Bank Solutions
Panelists

Laura M. Fontana
Innovation R&D, Distributed Ledger Technology Program, Wells Fargo

Maja Lapcevic
Director, Innovation Network & Emerging Technologies, Citi

Cooper Schorr
Member of the Global Business Development team, R3
Networking Break

 

2:55pm - 3:15pm
Track A
The Current Reality and The Future Promise of Real Estate Tokenization

 

3:15pm - 3:55pm
While virtually everything around us is being tokenized, the legal and regulatory frameworks around blockchain technology are still maturing and issues related to scaling, infrastructure and custody remain to be work in progress, the importance for members of our business and real estate communities to better understand blockchain technology and the subject of asset tokenization, has never been greater and the potential risk related to not understanding the current challenges, has never been higher. Join us and our exciting panel of experts for a discussion about the current reality and the future promise of real estate tokenization.

Panelists

Dan Doney
CEO, Securrency, Inc

Alexander Kanen
Founder & CEO, Kanen Law Firm

Josh Stein
Co-Founder and CEO, Harbor
Track B
Decentralized Identity

 

3:15pm - 3:55pm
Growth in personal data and regulations around data sharing have created a new set of challenges impacting consumers and companies alike. Notable security breaches like the Equifax or Facebook hacks have established new headwinds around consumer trust. A new era of data ownership recalibration is upon us. Several years ago, a new forward thinking vision was introduced that aimed to rebalance data ownership in favor of the individual and described a future whereby individuals would be able to take back control of their identity and participate at a peer-to-peer level with their online and offline relationships.

Moderator

Maja Lapcevic
Director, Innovation Network & Emerging Technologies, Citi
Panelists

Dan Gisolfi
DE/CTO, Trusted Identity, Blockchain Technologies, IBM

Rouven Heck
Project Lead for the Digital Identity Platform (uPort) , ConsenSys

Susan Joseph
B3i North America Representative, B3i Services AG

Elizabeth M. Renieris
Global Policy Counsel, Evernym

John Sun
Founder & CEO, Spring Labs
Track B
Transforming Proxy Voting with Blockchain

 

3:55pm - 4:30pm
The application of blockchain to shareholder communications and proxy processing has the potential to transform how participants plan meetings, reconcile voting entitlements and cast votes. Independent verification through DLT technology can make proxy voting even more effective and transparent. The session will discuss how DLT technology can benefit all participants in the proxy process, from issuers and shareholders to proxy advisers and custodian banks. It will cover the application of blockchain at the three stages of a shareholder meeting: planning, voting entitlements and voting.

Panelists

Elizabeth Maiellano
Vice President of Product Management, Broadridge

Cocktail Reception
4:30pm - 5:45pm



Registration + Breakfast

7:45am - 8:20am
Chair's Remarks

8:20am - 8:30am
Keynote: Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust

8:30am - 8:55am
Speaker

Kevin Werbach
Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics , Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Retail Banking and Cryptoassets: Challenges and Opportunities

 

8:55am - 9:40am
Moderator

Andrea Tinianow
Chief Innovation Officer, Executive Vice President, Global Kompass Strategies
Speakers

Steve Ehrlich
Chief Operating Officer, Wall Street Blockchain Alliance

Zac Prince
Chief Executive Officer, BlockFi

Alex Treece
President , Modular
Banking Bitcoin

 

9:40am - 10:15am
This panel of smaller banks will talk about the “why” and “how” they are differentiating themselves (not to mention in some cases doubling their assets) by doing business with the very companies that larger banks have shunned. Although not without risks and uncertainty around regulation, the potential cannot be ignored.

Moderator

Brian Stoeckert
Partner, Stratis Advisory
Panelists

Alan J. Lane
Chief Executive Officer, Silvergate Bank

Nick Rosenberg
EVP, Director of IT, Metropolitan Bank
Networking Break

10:15am
Convergence: Blockchain + Token Coming Together

10:45am - 11:25am
Moderator

Amber Baldet
Co-founder, CEO , Clovyr
Panelists

Emma Channing
CEO and General Counsel, Satis Group

Joshua Ashley Klayman
Managing Member, Klayman LLC

Christine Moy
Executive Director, Blockchain Program Lead, J.P. Morgan
The Future of Blockchain is...?

 

11:25am - 12:00pm
Speakers

Grainne McNamara
Principal, PwC

Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Research Affiliate, MIT’s Sloan School of Management

Conference Concludes
12:00pm

High+

Start:
Nov 29, 2018, 9:00 AM , AEST (UTC +10)
End:
Nov 30, 2018, 6:00 PM , AEST (UTC +10)
Price:
$ 395–1045
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