Hong Kong Blockchain Week 2019

Hong Kong , Hong Kong

About Hong Kong Blockchain Week 2019

NexChange Group is delighted to present Hong Kong Blockchain Week, taking place between 4-8 March, 2019. Set to be the largest blockchain event in Hong Kong, the global blockchain community will converge onto Hong Kong to discuss the latest developments and insights into the ever-evolving, real-world applications of blockchain technology. With Hong Kong being the 'Gateway to China', 'Asia's World City', Hong Kong is well positioned to be a leading international blockchain hub. Hong Kong Blockchain Week continues to play an important role in this endeavour.

Features

Speakers

Charles Hoskinson
CEO - Input Output
Bart Chilton
CFTC Commissioner
Brittany Kaiser
Larry Sanger
Co-founder Everipedia

6 ICO

$36 000 000

Dr. Ben Goertzel
Founder & CEO SingularityNET
David Ben Kay
Chief Legal Counsel Pundi X
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Jacqueline Kwok
Director Of Business Development, Asia Markets Securitize
Benjamin Soong
Head of Asia Pacific Ledger
Edgar Seah
Head of Asia Pacific Region hedera hashgraph
Remington Ong
Dan Whang
Chief Investment Officer GSG Asset Managemen
Charles d'Haussy
Director of Strategic Initiatives ConsenSys Labs
Juwan Lee
Chairman & CEO NEXCHANGE
Julian Gordon
Vice President Asia Pacific Hyperledger

3 ICO

$7 543 380

Brian Lio
Founder & CEO Smith + Crown
Richard Ma
Chief Executive Officer Quantstamp, Inc.
Michael Gu (Boxmining)
Founder - Boxmining
NICHOLAS MERTEN
CEO & Founder - DataDash LLC
Apolo Ohno
​Co-founder of HybridBlock 8x Winter Olympic Medalist
Clara Chiu
Head of Fintech Unit & Director of Licensing Securities and Futures Commission
Sally Eaves
Official Member Forbes Technology Council
Thomas Lee
Former Chief Equity Strategist JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Simon Dixon
CEO & Co-founder BnkToTheFuture
Aleksei Antonov
Founder Suicide Ventures
Wayne Trench
Chief Executive Officer OSL
JESUS RODRIGUEZ
Managing Partner Invector Labs
Jason Fang
Managing Partner Sora Ventures
Dimitri Sogoloff
Co-founder Nexyst
Valery Romanyuk
First Vice President RACIB
Charles Mok
Member -Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Clement Ip
Co-founder Genesis Block
Kesem Frank
Co-founder AION
JASON HSU
Legislator - Legislative Yuan, ROC (Taiwan) Crypto Congressman
Brad Yasar
Founder - Blockchain Investors Consortium Blockchain Investors Consortium (BIC)
MICHAEL NYE

2 ICO

$37 230 081

Brian Kelly
Founder & CEO BKCM LLC
Justin Chow
Head of Business Development, Asia Cumberland
Czhang Lin
Partner JRR Crypto Advisor
MIKE BRUSOV
Co-Founder & CEO cindicator
Pindar Wong
Chairman (Hong Kong) VeriFi
David A. Cohen
Hashgraph Former Foundation Member The Iota Foundation
Samson Sam Lee
Founder & CEO Coinstreet Partners
OLGA FELDMEIER
CEO & Founder SMART VALOR
Kristi Swartz
Managing Partner Swartz, Binnersley & Associates
Andrew Fai
Chief Executive Officer Asia Blockchain Summit
ALY MADHAVJI
Advisor - Polymath Polymath
Roman Kravchenko
Dr. Meikei Ieong
Chief Technology Officer ASTRI
JASON DEKKER
Chief Executive Officer GoChain

3 ICO

$12 300 000

Sandra Wu
Founding Partner Origin x Capital
Andrew Work
Managing Director, Head of Media of Asia & Europe NexChange
Sergey Vostrikov
Managing Partner Memorandum.Capital
Sandy Peng
Partner Fission Capital
Kadeem Clarke
Investment Manager 8 Decimal Capital
Yat Siu
Chairman & Co-founder Animoca Brands
Gordon Einstein
Chief Legal Officer Distributed Lab
Tae Yoo
Managing Director, Global Client Development Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx)
Ran Neu-Ner
Host, Crypto Trader show CNBC Africa
Alex Nascimento

Day 1
Big Stage
09:00am
Registration
10:00am
- 10:10am
Hong Kong Blockchain Ecosystem and Trends
Juwan Lee, Chairman & CEO, NexChange Group
10:10am
- 10:30am
Keynote Speech
Bart Chilton, Commissioner, U.S. Commodities and Futures Trade Commission
10:30am- 10:50am
Keynote Speech
Brittany Kaiser, Whistleblower on Cambridge Analytica & Co-founder, Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA)
10:50am - 11:20am
Panel: Government and Blockchain - Power, Rights and Possibility
Moderator: Angie Lau, Co-founder & Head, Forkast.News
Charles Mok, Legislator, Functional Constituency (Information Technology), Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Jason Hsu, Congressman, Taiwan - Taiwan Parliamentary Coalition for Blockchain & Industry Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO)
Brittany Kaiser, Whistleblower on Cambridge Analytica & Co-founder, Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA)
Bart Chilton, Commissioner, U.S. Commodities and Futures Trade Commission
11:20am - 11:50am
Panel: Practical Application of Blockchain in the Global & Asian Financial Industry
Moderator: Ran Neu-Ner, Co-founder & CEO, Onchain Capital & Host, Crypto Trader show, CNBC Africa
Leo Chen, Managing Director – Head of Asia, Calastone
Chae-Ho Shin, Managing Partner, Blockwater Capital
11:50am -12:30pm
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Panel: Practical Insights for a Successful Launch of STOs
Moderator: Samson Lee, Founder & CEO, Coinstreet Partners
Jacqueline Kwok, Director of Business Development, Securitize
Benjamin Soong, Head of Asia Pacific, Ledger
Lowell Lo, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director,
BM Intelligence Group Limited (BMI)
12:30pm -01:30pm
LUNCH
01:30pm-01:45pm
The Institutionalisation of Digital Assets
Dimitri Sogoloff, Co-founder, Nexyst
01:45pm -02:15pm
Panel: Venture Investment Outlook
Moderator: Carman Chan, CEO, Founder & Managing Partner, Click Ventures
Dr. Valery Romanyuk, First Vice President, Russian Association of Cryptoindustry and Blockchain (RACIB)
Czhang Lin, Managing Director, JRR Crypto
Sinhae Lee, Partner, GBIC
Juwan Lee, Chairman & CEO, NexChange Group
02:15pm -02:30pm
Cryptoeconomic Design: The Use of Incentives in Distributed Systems
Matt Chwierut, Research Director, Smith + Crown
Brian Lio, CEO, Smith + Crown
02:30pm -03:00pm
Panel: Hong Kong's Regulatory Environment
Moderator: Lapman Lee, Partner, Risk & Regulatory Compliance, RegTech - Deloitte
Clara Chiu, Head of Fintech Unit & Director of Licensing, Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)
Kristi Swartz, Managing Partner, Swartz, Binnersley & Associates
03:00pm -03:30pm
Northbound eStockConnect: DLT as a Solution for Post-trade Operation Challenges
Moderator: Tae Yoo, Managing Director,
Global Client Development, Market Development Division,
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEX)
03:30pm -04:00pm
Cyberport Panel
04:00pm -06:00pm
Fintech O2O Event
06:00pm
END OF DAY / MIX & MINGLE

OPEN STAGE
09:00am
Registration
10:00am - 10:10am
[Broadcast from Grand Stage] Hong Kong Blockchain Ecosystem and Trends
Juwan Lee, Chairman & CEO, NexChange Group
10:10am - 10:30am
[Broadcast from Grand Stage] Keynote Speech
Bart Chilton, Commissioner, U.S. Commodities and Futures Trade Commission
10:30am - 10:50am
[Broadcast from Grand Stage] Keynote Speech
Brittany Kaiser, Whistleblower on Cambridge Analytica & Co-founder, Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA)
11:15am - 12:15pm
Blockchain Use Cases: Industry and Practical Applications:
Kevin Lau, Lead Consultant, Information Technology Division, Hong Kong Productivity Council
Aly Madhavji, Managing Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund
Shelly Lai, Research Analyst, Bitmark
Carmen Benitez, Presiden & Managing Director, Fetch Plus
12:15pm -12:30pm
Where Blockchain Meets The Gaming Industry
12:30pm -01:30pm
LUNCH
01:30pm -02:10pm
Blockchain Investment Panel: Lessons Learned from the Bear Market
Brad Yasar, Founder & CEO, Beyond Enterprizes
Sergey Vostrikov, Managing Partner, Business Development and Investor Relations, Memorandum Capital
Remington Ong, Fenbushi Capital
Anton Zanimonets, Founder & CEO, Iskander VC
02:10pm -02:40pm
Panel: Digital Asset Management: Trends We Need To Know
Jason Hu, Director-General, WDAO China
Dr. Cheney Tsoi, Founding President, Asia Blockchain Society
02:40pm -02:55pm
How Digitizing Commodities is Revolutionizing Financial Markets
02:55pm
-03:10pm
How Digitizing Commodities is Revolutionizing Financial Markets
03:10pm -03:40pm
Panel: Move it and Keep It: Custodial Issues for Blockchain in Finance
Moderator: Michelle Lai, Head of Business Development, Anchorage
03:40pm -04:00pm
NETWORKING / COFFEE BREAK
04:00pm -04:20pm
Speaker
Olga Feldmeier, CEO & Founder, Smart Valor
04:20pm -04:50pm
Panel: Security Tokens: Building Blocks of Liquidity
Moderator: Alex Nascimento, Co-founder, UCLA Blockchain Lab
Kadeem Clarke, Investment Manager - 8 Decimal Capital
Jesus Rodriguez, Managing Partner - Invector Labs
04:50pm -05:20pm
Panel: Breaking Boundaries: The Inevitable Social Impact of Blockchain
Moderator: Neha Mehta, Founder - FemTech partners
Benjamin Rameau, Director, Binance Labs
Sally Eaves, Official Member, Forbes Tech Council
Aly Madhavji, Managing Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund
05:20pm -05:50pm
Panel: Investing with the Crowd: Group and Social Investment
05:50pm -06:00pm
Closing Comments
06:00pm
END OF DAY / MIX & MINGLE

Day 2
Big Stage
09:00am
Registration
10:00am - 10:20am
Global Blockchain Landscape
Carylyne Chen, Global Head of Marketing, CoinMarketCap
10:20am - 10:50am
Panel: The International and Global Trends in Blockchain
Moderator: Gordon Einstein, Founding Partner Crypto Law Partners
Celia Mueller Chen, Founder & CEO, Comply Now
Matej Michalko, Founder, CEO & President, DECENT
10:50am - 11:20am
Panel: Blockchain and Payments: Roadblocks and Breakthroughs
11:10am - 11:40am
Hyperledger: Blockchain-as-a-Service
Silona Bonewald, Vice President of Community Architecture, Hyperledger, The Linux Foundation
11:40am -12:10pm
Panel: Fintech Evolution in Asia: Pearl of the Orient VS The Lion City in Blockchain
12:10pm -12:30pm
Blockchain for Social Good
12:30pm - 01:30pm
LUNCH
01:30pm - 02:00pm
Keynote Panel: The Future of Digital Asset Management and Governance
Moderator: Paul Schulte, CEO, Schulte Consulting
02:00pm -02:30pm
Cybersecurity Panel: Feeling Safe: Security, Privacy and Blockchain
Moderator: Dr Meikei Ieong, Chief Technology Officer, ASTRI
David Cohen, Founder and CEO, Taekion, Advisor for Hashgraph, & Foundation Member of the IOTA Foundation Hartej Sawhney, Co-founder, Hosho
Roman Kravchenko, CEO, 482.solutions
03:00pm -03:30pm
NETWORKING / COFFEE BREAK
03:30pm -04:00pm
Video Games and Blockchain:
Yat Siu, CEO & Founder, Outblaze
04:00pm -04:30pm
Panel: Healthtech, Biotech and Blockchain: Innovations and Breakthroughs
Ally Cheung, Head of Community Management,
Aenco Solutions, Aptorum Group
05:00pm -05:30pm
Final speaker

Open stage
09:00am
Registration
10:00am - 10:30am
Panel: Digital identity: Automated Future
Moderator: Dr Hans Lombardo, CMO & Director, Blockpass
Franklyn Richards, Founding Director, Litecoin Foundation
10:30am - 11:00am
Panel: Decentralised or centralised - that is the question!
Francis Lau, Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering & Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong
Alex Leverington, Director, Entropy Labs
11:00am - 11:30am
Panel: Stable Coins, episode "A New Hope"
11:30am -12:00pm
Panel: The Need for Speed: TPS Solutions
12:00pm -12:30pm
Keynote Panel: Interoperability: The Race for Cross-chain Communication
Ian Huang, Founder, Chairman and CEO DigitalTransaction
12:30pm - 01:30pm
LUNCH
01:50pm - 02:20pm
Panel: Chinese Entreprise and Blockchain
02:20pm - 02:50pm
Panel: Blockchain in Hong Kong: where East meets West
Moderator: Tony Tong, Co-Chairman, Hong Kong Blockchain Association
Andrew Fai, Founder & CEO of OBITO.IO,
Co-chair of Asia Blockchain Alliance, President of Y0G1
02:50pm - 03:20pm
NETWORKING / COFFEE BREAK
03:20pm - 03:50pm
Speaker
Pindar Wong, Chairman, VeriFi (Hong Kong)
03:50pm - 04:20pm
Speaker
04:20pm 04:35pm
Speaker
04:45pm -05:00pm
CLOSE
05:30pm
CLOSE

Day 3
Big Stage
09:00am
Opening Ceremony
10:10am - 10:30am
Keynote: Evolution of Smart Economy
Thomas Lee, Co-founder, Fundstrat Global Advisors
10:30am - 10:50am
Keynote Speech: Tech Talk - Power of Public Ledger
10:50am - 11:10am
Keynote: Creating a New Standard of Trust in Transactions
11:10am -11:30pm
Keynote: Stablecoins - Speed, Stability, Trust?
11:30pm -12:00pm
Fireside: Management Strategies with Alternative Currencies
Moderator: Charles Yang, Head Trader of Genesis Block
Justin Chow, Head of Business Development, Asia, Cumberland
Dan Whang, Chief Investment Officer, GSG Asset Managment
12:00pm - 01:00pm
LUNCH
01:00pm - 01:50pm
Panel: Investment in Blockchain - Lessons Learned and Moving Forward
Brian TK Lee, Founder, Blackhorse
Jason Fang, Managing Partner, Sora Ventures
Aleksei Antonov, Founder, Suicide Ventures
Sandy Peng, Partner, Fission Capital
01:50pm - 02:10pm
Hybrid Summit Spotlight: Resolving the lack of accessibility of Cryptocurrencies
Mark Lamb, CEO of CoinFlex
02:10pm - 02:30pm
Keynote: Expanding the DApp Ecosystem
02:30pm - 02:50pm
Keynote: Designing Enterprise Blockchain Applications
Edgar Seah, Head of APAC, Hedera Hashgraph
02:50pm - 03:10pm
Fireside: Blockchain Application Security
Richard Ma, CEO, Quantstamp
03:10pm - 03:30pm
Keynote: Cardano 2020- Developing Driven by Science
Charles Hoskinson, CEO, IOHK
03:30pm - 03:50pm
Hybrid Summit Spotlight: Application in Transportation and Logistics
John Malach, CEO of NativeAds.com & Co-founder of CryptocurrencyNews.com
03:50pm - 04:10pm
Keynote: Resolving the Lack of Accessibility to Cryptocurrencies
04:10pm - 04:50pm
STOs: The Co-Existence of Regulation and Innovation
Sandra Wu, Co-founder, Origin X Capital
David Ben Kay, Chief Legal Counsel, Pundi X
Nicholas Dimitriou, Chief Legal Officer, HybridBlock
04:50pm - 05:30pm
Panel: Banking of New Models - Tokenized Securities
Rod Jao, CEO, HybridBlock
05:30pm - 06:10pm
Panel: Be an Informed Blockchain Subscriber
Angie Lau, CEO & Founder, Forkast.News
Nicholas Merten, Founder, Datadash
Michael Gu, Founder, Boxmining
06:10pm - 06:20pm
Closing Remarks

Open Stage
11:10am - 11:30pm
Hybrid Summit Spotlight
11:30am - 11:50am
Hybrid Mini Talk
12:00pm - 01:00pm
LUNCH
01:00pm - 01:20pm
Hybrid Mini Talk
01:20pm - 01:40pm
Hybrid Summit Spotlight
01:40pm - 02:00pm
Hybrid Mini Talk

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Start:
Mar 5, 2019, 9:00 AM , HKT (UTC +8)
End:
Mar 7, 2019, 6:00 PM , HKT (UTC +8)
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