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H.E. Justin Sun is the Ambassador and former Permanent Representative of Grenada to the WTO, Founder of TRON, one of the world's largest blockchain DAO ecosystems, and Advisor to HTX, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges.

As an advisor, Sun provides strategic counsel to guide HTX’s development.

Sergei is the founder of the world's largest agency for listing projects on crypto exchanges Listing.Help, founder of the Jets.Capital investment fund. He is also the main organizer of the Blockchain Life Forum, the one of the biggest blockchain forums in the world.

With already more than nine years of industry experience under his belt, Sergei looks set to dominate the fintech and blockchain spaces for many more years to come.

Paolo eventually joined Bitfinex, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, as Senior Software Developer in 2014, tasked with trading engine development, platform scalability and high-availability. Later in 2016, Paolo transitioned to the role of CTO during which time he further refined his genuine passion for distributed systems, high-performance computing, and extreme-resilient platforms.

As CTO of Bitfinex, Paolo’s role is to manage the development team, evaluate new technologies, design and develop the Bitfinex backend platform. In addition to this, Paolo also serves as Lead Backend Developer and Lead Matching Engine Developer at Bitfinex.

Paolo also assumed the role of CTO for Tether in 2017. As the CTO of Tether, Paolo is responsible for overseeing the development and dissemination of technology for external customers, vendors, and other clients to help improve and increase business.

Pascal started his career at Kelkoo, a price comparison service acquired by Yahoo for EUR 475 million in 2004. He then joined the advertising company Criteo in 2008 where he worked for five years as COO, being instrumental in the pivot to advertising, which led to the company’s global expansion towards a EUR 2.17 billion market capitalisation.

Before being CEO at Ledger, Pascal worked as Venture Partner in Mosaic Ventures, a London based venture capital firm focusing on Series A stage companies. Pascal is also non-executive chairman of Kaiko, a financial data website on Bitcoin.

Andrei Grachev is the Managing Partner of DWF Labs, a global digital asset market maker and multi-stage Web3 investment firm.

Dominic is a crypto theoretician and entrepreneur. His recent research includes Threshold Relay and PSC chains, Validation Towers and Trees, and USCIDs, and he proposes new ideas such as "The 3 E's of Sybil Resistance".

Previously he ran a venture-backed MMO game using his own distributed systems that hosted millions of users.

Xinxi is the co-founder and director of Litecoin Foundation, co-founder and CEO of the Coinut CEX Platform. He started his trading journey got his first pot of yield in the Forex market and later he was attracted to Bitcoin and its features back in 2011.

He completed his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore. Xinxi is currently a core developer in the Litecoin foundation after he co-founded the Foundation along with Charlie Lee and later co-founded another Crypto-related product, Coinut Cryptocurrency Exchange Platform.

Danilo Carlucci is a Dubai-based serial entrepreneur and early crypto investor, who started his career within the watch industry in Switzerland.

After several years of founding startups, Danilo joined Google, leading YouTube’s UK creator community efforts. It didn’t take long for Danilo to go back to being an entrepreneur, and eventually founding Morningstar Ventures – an investment firm backing ambitious early-stage startups, which is also the backer of digitial art gallery 37xDubai and consultancy firm MSV Studio.

Irene Wu is Head of Strategy at LayerZero Labs, the leading interoperability protocol. Before joining the company, she worked as an investor at Insight Partners, where she focused on blockchain infrastructure and developer tools.

A developer by trade, she held design and engineering positions at IDEO - a leading global design company, and J.P. Morgan. Irene studied computer science at Harvard and co-founded Harvard Blockchain before leaving to join the founding team of Rowing Blazers, a VC-backed menswear startup that still operates today.

He is an Inc. 500 entrepreneur, MBA, and was one of the Forbes Crypto Top 40 and “40 Under 40" in 2023. An early-stage web3 investor & advisor to cryptocurrency, video game and entertainment projects with over a million followers

He established BDE Ventures, an award-winning venture studio, investment and marketing/advisory firm. He built a digital publication with an audience of over 100 million readers. Brian was a starring judge on the first mainstream crypto TV show. Founder BDE Ventures, Partner Apexblock Capital.

Jason leads OKX's innovation efforts, and is responsible for identifying new business opportunities, developing new products and services, and exploring new markets in the rapidly-evolving crypto industry.

Prior to joining the Web3 industry in 2016, Jason worked at Barclays Capital and cfX Incorporated. He holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Dr. Sameer Al Ansari is the Chief Executive of RAK Digital Assets Oasis, the only free zone in the world solely dedicated to non-regulated digital and virtual asset companies innovating in new and emerging sectors of the future including metaverse, blockchain, utility tokens, virtual asset wallets, NFTs, DAOs, DApp, and other Web3-related businesses.

Dr. Al Ansari is a UK qualified chartered accountant with over 30 years of senior corporate, operational, private equity investing, board, and strategic advisory experience.
He currently serves on several boards including RAK ICC, Marjan, TVM Healthcare Partners, Al Ramz Capital and Eureeca Capital.

Dr. Al Ansari has also served on numerous regional and international boards such as DIFC from 2004-2016, Hawkamah Institute of Corporate Governance, The Industrial Group KSA, Dubai Holding and Dubai International Capital.

Featured as a keynote/ panelist/ educator at CNBC, WEF Davos 2020/2022, Cointelegraph, Coindesk, Coin Bureau Live, Token2049, Le Figaro, Paris Blockchain Summit Week, Blockdown, AIM Summit, Altcoin daily, Cryptoslate, London Real TV and more…

Alex played a critical role to scale SwissBorg: built the Influencer / inbound
marketing strategy from scratch which currently holds the Top European & Japanese KOLs from YouTube to private groups generating over $25M in revenues to date through affiliation. Alex also kicked off SwissBorg Ventures which invested in Eigen Layer, Cross the Ages, De.Fi, Sweatcoin, LunarCrush, Composable Finance and more…

Alex is known for his love for teaching how to reach financial freedom w/ evidence based investment strategies, venture capital / distressed assets, fundamental analysis, valuation mechanisms & the evolution of tokenomics.

Alicia Kao is KuCoin's Managing Director and the head of Strategic Partner Development. With more than ten years of digital marketing experience, she's a blockchain believer and an avid NFT collector.

Alicia joins KuCoin since 2019. In her four-year tenure, she has been responsible for KuCoin's marketing and managing institutional and VIP client interactions. She's currently focused on external long-term strategy development and fostering lasting partnerships to help build the crypto industry.

Rajat is responsible for commercialization of Blockchain and Crypto products at Mastercard for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region. In his remit he drives the regional blockchain agenda and key initiatives across Web3 players and their intersection with FIs and Non-FIs.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Rajat worked in consulting, driving Digital and Innovation agendas for key public and private sector entities.

Darina is a leading specialist of the Jets.Capital fund in the field of DeFi, the formation of farming strategies and the evaluation of cryptocurrency projects. The Jets.Capital venture fund is focused on investing in blockchain projects and is one of the organizers of the Blockchain Life forum.

More than 5 years of experience in investments in the stock and cryptocurrency markets. Previously studied applied mathematics and economics.

Arpit has been in the tech space for 8 years and has a track record of bringing success to 25+ organizations (public and private sector), while forging key relationships, alliances, and developing new business.

Arpit specialized in growth function, creating org zero to one, hiring and managing growth teams, creating and managing strong partner ecosystems, defining distribution channels, new market entry and product launch.

Tone worked on Wall Street for almost 10 years starting as a Risk Analyst at Bear Stearns and later becoming a VP at JP Morgan Chase.

His expertise is in Economic Trends, Trading and Risk Analysis.

Ever since getting involved in the Crypto Currency ecosystem in early 2013, he has been very active in spreading the relevance and importance of this technology as it helps promote economic freedom.

Tone maintains a personal website LibertyLifeTrail and host of the Podcast - CryptoScam.

Michael is the VP of Engineering at DappRadar, the biggest Web3 dapp distribution platform, where millions find data about the web3 projects they are searching for, covering Web3 Games, DeFi, NFTs, and Tokens. With the vast amounts of blockchain data DappRadar possesses, Michael is close to the source of truth about the latest web3 trends.

He advises and invests in startups and serves as a board member of AustrianStartups, the largest startup community in Austria.

Michael educates millions on his YouTube channel about topics that will forever transform the world.

Mehdi is senior tokenomics analyst at Animoca Brands where he helps web2 and web3 project with web3 strategy and ecosystem design.

He is also the host of Open Metaverse Podcast, which is a leading podcast featuring thought leaders from web3.

He was former Director of Research at Token Metrics where led their research and venture team.

Alessia Baumgartner is responsible for taking care of the 250+ portfolio companies at DWF Labs, the global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm, one of the world's largest high-frequency cryptocurrency trading entities, which trades spot and derivatives markets on over 60 top exchanges.

Besides the portfolio overview, Alessia takes care of the company’s business development in the MENA region, where they have been based for over one and a half years.

Petr is an experienced web3 marketer and growth hacker with 5 years proven track record of launching successful user acquisition campaigns for various crypto and fintech projects. At Morningstar Ventures, he is in charge of marketing support for portfolio companies and in-house initiatives.

Morningstar Ventures is a Dubai-based proprietary investment firm specializing in digital assets and blockchain technology.

Nikita Sachdev is an Indian-American serial entrepreneur and investor. She studied Chemistry and Business at the University of Texas, Austin and James Cook University. Shortly after graduating, Nikita co-launched Luna Management in 2015, a talent management and production agency, based in Singapore.

Her passion and drive to tap into the Crypto and Blockchain space in 2017, led her to exit Luna Management and launch Luna PR, a web3-focused public relations agency. That same year, she simultaneously worked with crypto giant, Huobi, as the host of their talk show, interviewing and gaining exposure to some of today's renowned crypto pioneers.

Xiankun Wu, co-founder of Y Combinator-backed AI company rct AI and web3 AI platform Delysium. He worked for prestigious venture capital firms and founded multiple successful startups.

He was featured in Forbes Under 30 China 2019 and Forbes U30 Asia 2020. He has been exploring the spaces of AI, crypto and game for over 6 years.

Evan, a Forbes 30 under 30 winner, is an accredited Angel Investor and invests in a variety of products and businesses.

Having built and invested in 300+ companies in the last 5 years with a combined market cap in excess of $100 Billion USD, he continues to guide and mentor startups across all technologies.

He speaks to huge audiences and has spoken for Tedx, United Nations, Google, Nielsen and has done guest lectures at Delhi University, Washington State University, San Francisco State University and more.

Vadim has 15+ years of practical experience in large-scale transformations and productivity improvement projects for business with complex multilayered organizational structure, diversified business and extensive geographic reach.

Ran complex projects with more than 15 team members, often several simultaneous projects, and was responsible for the projects with industry-wide impact.

Completed engagements for companies of different sizes, corporate culture, form of ownership, including state-owned, and regulators; worked with top-management of large corporations and public persons.

Igneus is the public liaison for Mantle, a burgeoning on-chain ecosystem built around the high-performance modular Ethereum layer 2 Mantle Network.

Igneus is an ardent advocate for the transformative innovations in the blockchain and DLT space, a staunch supporter for on-chain governance and the emerging digital asset class, and a cogent communicator committed to the expansion of the common denominator among stakeholder communities.

Charmaine Lim is an accomplished professional in business management and sales with over 15 years of experience in investments and technology. Her expertise lies in effectively managing operations and implementing successful sales and marketing strategies across diverse sectors such as real estate, investment funds, and technological startups.
Charmaine's passion for and experience in cryptocurrency dates back to 2017, and it has been a driving force in her current role at Huobi. As a business development expert, she focuses on engaging with high-net-worth individuals and institutions in the digital asset space, helping them navigate the complex world of cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

Mehmet is a driving force in fostering growth and success within the BNB Chain ecosystem. With a strong background in business development, he specializes in onboarding new projects and providing ongoing support for their expansion.

His experience includes pivotal roles at global giants Binance and TikTok, where he excelled as a Business Development Manager and Client Partner.

Kirill Malev is a Junior Partner at The Open Platform (TOP), a UAE-based company developing Wallet in Telegram and the whole portfolio of customer-facing and infrastructure Web3 projects on TON blockchain. Kirill’s work inside TOP is focused on building and investing in different companies building on TON ecosystem.

Kirill holds two master’s degrees in applied mathematics (NSTU) and bioinformatics (Bologna University).

Based in Silicon Valley, Dirk is a serial entrepreneur and an early adopter of blockchain and related technologies. In addition to being the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Uplandme, Inc., Dirk is also the co-founder and chairman of the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (OMA3). He is the author of the bestselling book, "Navigating the Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Possibilities in a Web 3.0 World" (Wiley, 2022), co-host of the podcast "Navigating the Metaverse," and the official Metaverse ambassador of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC).

Previously, Dirk co-founded European and US-based FinTech and digital media companies, including the Financial Times Deutschland and Forbatec, which was acquired by SunGard (now NYSE:FIS). Dirk has mentored over 30 startups through his work at international startup accelerators in Silicon Valley and is a frequent speaker and panelist focusing on topics related to the metaverse, blockchain, and platform economics. He studied Business Administration in Frankfurt and Paris and earned a Ph.D. from the European Business School in Germany, where he wrote his doctoral thesis about private and state-controlled currencies.

Ahmed has over 15 years of experience in gaming, leading high-performing global teams and delivering impactful, strategic partnerships. He is currently the Global Business Development and Strategic Partnerships Manager for Gaming, BNB Chain.

Ahmed previously worked with Expedia, Gameloft and Huawei, and has been spear-heading the Game-Fi partnerships for BNB Chain on accelerating adoption and acquisition.

Mohamed is the Regional Manager for the Middle East at Chainalysis who alongside his team in Dubai are driving trust in Blockchains, specializing in technology trends including cryptocurrency, financial compliance and blockchain.

Before Chainalysis, Issa was Managing Oracle Middle East Channel for 10 years based out of Dubai.
Issa is pursuing his 2nd master's degree in Cryptocurrency and blockchains from the University of Nicosia and the ICA postgraduate Diploma in Financial Crime Compliance.

Lilly Douse is a young and passionate presenter who utilize her scientific and financial background to provide a unique and engaging perspective on a range of topics. She founded her own Web3 podcast, ‘Talk Crypto to Me’, in which she interviews some of the most successful entrepreneurs including the likes of Jimmy Choo, Spencer Lodge, Moon Carl (Carl Runefelt), and Da Vinci Jeremie.

Lilly hopes to educate the masses about investing in cryptocurrencies, future technologies and NFTs, asking the questions which the masses are keen to have answered. She also has the ability to demand attention on stage, working at numerous events globally including The Crypto Expo Dubai, AIBC Asia and Dubai as well as Kinza 360.

Amin Siala is a Senior Growth Consultant at Google. He's an expert in performance marketing for the financial industry and has consulted for some of the world’s leading brokerages and crypto exchanges, including Binance, ByBit, OKX, and others. His deep expertise in lead generation, leveraging paid ads, has catapulted many exchanges and projects to achieve record highs in user acquisition and trader activity

Amin has delivered keynotes and corporate trainings in over 14 countries, covering topics such as business growth, user acquisition, strategic expansion, and more. Prior to Google, Amin was involved in Apple’s Channel Sales growth strategies for the EMEA region, working closely with Apple’s senior leadership team.

Amin's academic credentials include a Master's from Imperial College London Business School and a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester.

Beyond his professional pursuits, Amin is fiercely competitive in HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) and is passionate about investing in emerging market opportunities.

Leonid is a trader with 6 years of experience in the crypto market, the creator of one of the largest communities of traders in the CIS.

In 2021, with his team, he took 1st place in Russia and 9th place in the world among 196 teams in one of the largest and most prestigious WSOT tournaments for traders from the Bybit exchange.

He maintains an author's Instagram blog dedicated to development and cryptocurrencies, one of the few people who remained in the market during the 2018 crypto winter and always spoke out in support of it.

15-years old crypto enthusiast and Youtube blogger. He is an Angel Investor, Crypto Content Creator, Technical Analyst and Speaker.

His mission is to educate his generation about disruptive technology and prepare them for the real world.