08.00 - 09.00
Registration and Morning Welcome Coffee
09.00 - 09.30
Conference Opening
Introductions, level setting the day &the day’s agenda
Modern Capital markets, bubbles, anomalies, & drivers of crypto demand
ETH & BTC: a call option on future technology & positive steps towards institutionalization
2019 forecasts for all markets: blockchain, cryptocurrency, and payments
SOL STEINBERG:
Founding Principal, OTC Partners
09.30 - 10.15
Crypto Market Dynamics and Currents
Crypto coin offers, volume, and trading
Markets , exchanges, derivatives, and regions
Strategies and future use cases
ROBERT SAVAGE:
CEO, CCTrack Solutions, LLC
10.15 - 11.00
Blockchain + Tokenization = Intellectual Property Liquidity
History of IP market & legacy monetization opportunities for investors
Blockchain & tokenization & Where we see this market heading
PATRICK WOLOVECK:
Founder, Knowledge Base Capital
11.00 - 11.30
Morning Break and Networking Opportunities
11.30 - 12.15
Crypto Investment Dynamics and Strategies
BRANDON ELSASSER:
CIO of Victoria Capital Management
12.15 - 13.00
Security Token Platforms and Securitization
Stable coins & Token economics
DAVID J. NAMDAR
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.45
KEYNOTE: Crypto Factor Models & Statistical Arbitrage
Factor models for cryptoasset returns
Cross-sectional statistical arbitrage trading of cryptoassets.
ZURA KAKUSHADZE:
Ph.D. CEO, Quantigic® Solutions. Author, “151 Trading Strategies”.
14.45 - 15.30
Topic to be confirmed
RAAKHEE MILLER:
Chief Executive Officer at Bitsian
15.30 - 16.00
Afternoon Break and Networking Opportunities
16.00 - 16.45
The Chicken and the Egg: How Cryptocurrency Derivatives Proliferation Has Spurred Liquidity and Reduced Volatility in the Spot Markets
How market makers transfer liquidity among markets through instantaneous cross-asset price discovery
Introduce the evolution/timeline of crypto spot and derivatives markets
BitMEX & the trading landscape monopoly, exploring other markets
MICHAEL DEL CASINO:
Portfolio Manager, Profluent Trading
16.45 - 17.30
Settlement for Digital Assets: Present and Future.
Risks and limitations of the existing model
What can be adopted from FX/Equity world?
What should be changed in order to leverage digital assets advantages?
Pitfalls and future steps
SERG GULKO:
CTO of XTRD
