Widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash, David Chaum is also known for other fundamental innovations in cryptography, including privacy technology and secure election systems. With a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, he taught at NYU Graduate School of Business and the University of California, led a number of breakthrough projects as well as founded the International Association for Cryptologic Research, the cryptography group at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam, DigiCash, the Voting Systems Institute, and the Perspectiva Fund. Chaum has been working behind the scenes on his latest venture, Mutiny Labs, to debut in 2019.

Jan Liphardt is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He is interested in technology-enabled healthcare, with a special focus on healthcare data, analytics, and privacy. Jan is a Searle Scholar, a Sloan Research Fellow, a Hellman Fellow, and the recipient of a Mohr Davidow Ventures Innovator’s Award. Jan teaches the "Engineering Living Matter" (BioE80) course with Drew Endy, the module on AI/Machine Learning in BioE301C, and a crypto/blockchain class (BioE60 - Beyond Bitcoin: Applications of Distributed Trust). Most recently, Jan founded the Distributed Trust Initiative at Stanford (cryptolab.stanford.edu).

George Ornbo is Chief Technology Officer at Clearmatics. George also oversees the research teams at Clearmatics with focuses on Interoperability, Privacy, Consensus and Network Economics. Prior to Clearmatics George was involved in a number of startups around bluetooth low energy, high frequency audio and multiplayer games. George has published educational books on Node.js and Go under the Sams Teach Yourself series.

An engineer at Clearmatics, Chris is a member of the *research-focussed* Interoperability team that designed and developed Ion. Chris' background as a physicist and prior experience in commercial development couple effectively in the architecting of new approaches and ideas. He believes that abstraction is the crux of elegant design.

Vilhelm Sjöberg is an associate research scientist at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. He is an expert in software verification, programming languages, and type systems. His thesis research focused on making dependent type systems more attractive for general purpose programming languages by making it optional to prove that functions terminate, and by incorporating automatic theorem proving via congruence closure. Currently he is interested in language support for layered verified systems like CertiKOS. Dr. Sjöberg is winner of 2016 ACM SIGPLAN John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Dawn Song is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Her research interest lies in deep learning, security, and blockchain. She has studied diverse security and privacy issues in computer systems and networks, including areas ranging from software security, networking security, distributed systems security, applied cryptography, blockchain and smart contracts, to the intersection of machine learning and security. She is the recipient of various awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, the Faculty Research Award from IBM, Google and other major tech companies, and Best Paper Awards from top conferences in Computer Security and Deep Learning. She is ranked the most cited scholar in computer security (AMiner Award). She obtained her Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley as a faculty, she was a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2007. She is also a serial entrepreneur, including Ensighta Security (acquired by FireEye Inc.) and Menlo Security. She is currently the founder and CEO of Oasis Labs, creating privacy-first cloud computing on blockchain.

Edwin Song is the Principal PM of Microsoft Azure team. He has ~20 years’ successful experience in IT include performance tuning tools, display and video drive, H5 Web OS, distributed multimedia processing and transmission cloud platform design and development of large projects. Hold more than 10 patents in United States and China. After joining Microsoft, he served as MySQL PaaS product manager for Azure Cloud Computing and is currently working on blockchain related initiatives.

Daniel Zhao, responsible for industrial application division of Shanghai Wanxiang Blockchain Inc.. He has over 10 years of experience in the automotive industry, especially automotive r&d, SCM and international trade. After join in Wanxiang team, he is mainly engaged in product research and design for industrial application. The application of supply chain which based on block chain technology is implemented. It helps enterprises save cost, improve efficiency as well. And wish to build a new ecosystem of blockchain.

Sophie is responsible for Commonwealth Bank’s portfolio of blockchain and embodied AI/social robotics projects, including design, development and testing of prototypes to drive commercial outcomes. The team collaborates closely with the customers, fintechs, government and industry participants to experiment in order to fuel innovation, and uncover insights and knowledge to create customer value. Sophie has a background in investment banking, working in capital markets in Europe and Australia.

Eric Ly is a successful Silicon Valley four-time serial entrepreneur. In 2002, Ly co-founded LinkedIn with several other Stanford co-founders, serving as its founding Chief Technology Officer. LinkedIn became the world’s largest professional network with more than 500 million users. Ly is currently working on Hub, a blockchain project focusing on second-party trust and investigating the potential of blockchain to bring transformational change over the next 20 years.

Financial and Technology researchers, the Gates Foundation scholarship winner, former senior engineer Lucent-Bell Lab. He used to be Vice President and lead researcher of OKCoin . Meanwhile, he also published two books “Blockchain: Reshape economy and world”,“Blockchain Development and Practices”.

GM of health insurance department at Minsheng Life Insurance Company, Ltd. Partner of distributed business innovation consulting service at Wanxiang Blockchain Inc. Leader of "Minsheng Life - Wanxiang Blockchain" joint innovation group. More than 18 years of practical experiences in Internet and finance, specialized in cross-industry innovation such as blockchain, international settlements/QFII, real estate, etc. During practice of blockchain in insurance industry, Chengyu believes that blockchain not only brings a technology innovation, but also reforms the way we think. Blockchain enables us to design products in a more digital and distributed manner.

Mr. Jihan Wu was graduated from Peking University with Bachelors’ degree in both Economics and Psychology. He joins the Bitcoin community since 2011. He was co-founder of 8btc.com and was the translator of the Chinese version of Satoshi’s Bitcoin white paper. In 2013, Mr. Wu founded BITMAIN as the lead angle investor, Director and Co-CEO BITMAIN, in charge of marketing, sales, investments and investor relations. Before this he was a financial analyst and investment manager of private equity Fund of Funds.

Alistair Stewart is a researcher on consensus algorithms at the Web3 foundation. He has a PhD and has been a postdoc in theoretical computer science.

Arthur joined DFINITY after implementing ConsenSys' initial content marketing strategy. He has a background in journalism, content marketing, and media production and has produced several popular blockchain-centric podcasts, most notably Beyond Bitcoin, The Ether Review, and The Third Web.

Co-founder/COO of Prometheum

Founder & Chief Commercial Officer Parity Technologies

Wenbin Zhong was graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently the Chinese Lead Developer of Qtum, focusing on Qtum Core and Qtum-x86 development. Wenbin had known Bitcoin and even mined cryptocurrency since 2013, and has solid knowledge on blockchain technologies. Before joining Qtum, Wenbin worked as senior developer in SYNOPSYS, and has over 4 years of experience in large-scale software development.

WeBank’s Chief Architect of Blockchain and plaform architect for FISCO BCOS (Blockchain open source project). Kaixiang has spent many years working in Tencent and has extensive experience in areas like distributed systems, network security, internet services and etc. Now, his focus is on the research of blockchain technology, promotion of blockchain-based services, and involvement in open source projects & communities.

Graduated from Peking University and The Ohio State University. Blockchain entrepreneur and technical expert. Cofounded Factom in 2014. Founded Wanglutech, which brings Blockchain technology to a greater range of applications.

Mr. Luo, the Chief Technology Officer of Wanxiang Blockchain Inc., Director of product and development team, and Leader of ISO TC307/WG1, has over 15 years of experience in IT technology planning and management. He had worked at a securities and futures exchange under the China Securities Regulatory Commission, during that time he had participated in joint projects with leading global exchange groups including Nasdaq, NYSE, NYSE Euronext and etc. in which he had established deep connections with architects from Europe and the United States. He has a global vision and a deep technical background in the financial sector. He has strong research skill in blockchain technology and its applications in the financial industry.

Prior to developing IRISnet, Harriet worked for IBM Research in various capacities including Director of IBM Research Shanghai Lab and was the recipient of 2010 INFORMS Wagner Prize. Harriet has an M.S degree in Robotics from CMU and an M.S. degree in Control from Tsinghua University.

Matej Michalko is a BlockchainPioneer with 7+ years of blockchain and cryptocurrency experience. He is the founder and CEO of DECENT and Co-Founder of ALAX. Matej’s passion and expertise with Bitcoin traces back to the year of 2011, when he started mining on his own laptop, switching to GPUs and ASICs later on. He served as the CEO of many Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency conferences in Austria, China, Belgium, UK (BitcoinExpo, Central European Bitcoin Expo, BTC2B Congress) and more. Matej founded the first Bitcoin Marketing agency in the world. He also founded the first Cryptocurrency e-Gaming Consulting Firm and served as a consultant in the Isle of Man. Matej is a regular speaker at major conferences about the immense potential and vertical integration of Blockchain Technologies into various industries. He now serves as CEO of DECENT and is on the mission to lead the redefinition of the internet enabled by DECENT Blockchain Network.

Sunny Aggarwal is a researcher and core dev at Tendermint/Cosmos focusing on proof of stake, blockchain interoperability, and mechanism design. He also is a cofounder of the Blockchain at Berkeley organization and a co-host of the weekly Epicenter podcast.

Herbert Yang has been a senior executive in multiple high-growth startups and MNC in technology, media and finance and a serial Internet entrepreneur with nearly 20 years of leading innovation and accelerating growth. Herbert builds startup ecosystem for AWS, works with investors and startups to discover and enable the next generation of unicorns.

Lianghong Fei has more than 20-year experience in IT industry and software development. He used to work in famous multi-national companies such as Microsoft and Apple as architect and technical consultant, and participated in the design, development and project management of many large scale software projects. He is currently focusing on technology areas such as cloud computing and internet application, and is devoted to help developers in China build next-generation internet applications based on cloud computing.

Mr. Wang has been involved to found the Germany Certgate GmbH which major participated in the German Government Security Mobile Phone SiMKo system. As the pioneer in blockchain technology, he leads the team own 20+ blockchain patents with the completion of independent license chain technology, the SDP Security Solution based on blockchain. He also represented as the advisor to many promising projects, such as Cybex, Scry.

SlowMist Security Director

As an associate professor of UESTC, Ms. Yang is a pioneer and an expert of formal verification technology for blockchain. She successfully developed the world’s first automated smart contract formal verification tool – VaaS, orienting multiple blockchains such as Ethereum and EOS etc. With over 10 years working experience on formal verification technology for security-critical software, she has provided long-term service of formal verification for security-critical software in aerospace and military industries. She has also been working on developing embedded security-critical software systems for Microsoft, Huawei, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation No.30 Institute and so on. Around 10 national major projects of security software are led by her and she was the founder of other 2 companies. Ms. Yang is the councilor in the CCF Blockchain Committee and CC international standards for computer security, and has published more than 30 academic papers and applied for more than 20 patents.

Senior System Architecture Specialist in distributed computing for Aspire Digital and China Telecommunications Research Institute. One of China's top distributed architects with more than 15 years of experience in the high-speed distributed computing field. Led the team to implement enterprise-class blockchain platform providing carrier-class services for commercial use. Jointly launched enterprise-grade BCOS open-source blockchain architecture in 2017. Independently developed a cutting-edge circuit compiler for MPC.

ConsenSys China Lead. Co-author of the first blockchain security guide in China, early member of self-sovereign identity project uPort, venture investor of blockchain and cyber security startups; engagement manage of Ernst & Young US cyber security services. Yi earned his MBA from Columbia University, Master of Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech, where his research on computer networks won IEEE SECON 2011 best paper award.

Jacky Hsu is the Principal PM manager of Microsoft Azure team. He has +20 years’ successful experience in IT including marketing, evangelism and R&D, and extensive working background in Greater China and Asia Pacific region. Jacky used to work in MSDN, Windows team and is in Azure team working on blockchain related initiatives.

CEO of Nervos Foundation,Co-founder of Teahour.FM,Core developer of Yunbi & Peatio,Co-founder of Fengche.co

Jason Jones –Entrepreneur-In-Residence, ConsenSys. Jason Jones is an entrepreneur and investor. He has invested in over 200 technology companies over the past 20 years and he has launched numerous businesses. He is currently an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at ConsenSys focused on financial services projects. He is also a board member for the Cardinal Rose Group, a fintech holding company that operates LendIt Fintech, a global fintech events business, and NSRInvest, a marketplace lending robo-advisor. Previously, Jason founded HighStep Capital, a data driven, technology focused investment firm. Earlier in his career, Jason worked as a technology portfolio manager/analyst at J. Goldman & Co.,SAC Capital, Goldman Sachs, Cambridge Associates, and Fidelity Investments. Jason holds an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University where he was a Park Leadership Fellow and a BS from Babson College. He is originally from the Boston area and he currently resides in the NYC area.

Zaki Manian, Executive Director of Trusted IoT Alliance, is a prolific contributor to the development of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology. Zaki has deep expertise in cryptography and distributed consensus system. He is an advisor to IRISnet project and also leading Tendermint Labs.

During Masters and PhD program, Marian conducted research of self-tuning solver and new computational methods for model-based dynamic optimization of real-time processes. During his professional career time, he worked as field engineer and project manager for process control, telemetry, supervisory control and IoT. In parallel, he built mining setups for proof-of-work. Later on, he joined blockchain industry. Firstly, as an advisor, secondly as a founder building research and development hub for DECENT with focus on ready-to-use lab exercises, templates for use cases, and benchmarks of various deployment setups.

Li has a rich academic background, including a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Master’s in Communication Engineering, MBA, and PMP. He is a senior blockchain architect and blockchain solutions professional with 16 years’ work experience in IT and fintech. Li previously provided technical architecture, management, and planning support for top international IT firms and major Chinese financial exchanges. He has taken part in the architecture design and technical management of many major systems, and has built up multiple technical teams and systems from scratch. Li also has a profound knowledge of the finance industry, excelling at internal management and external communication.