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.
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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