10th International Forum on blockchain, cryptocurrencies and mining

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 biggest blockchain forum in Europe and one of the biggest 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.

Ben is the co-founder and CEO of Bybit, building a mass adoption-ready exchange for the emerging asset class of cryptocurrencies.

With a background in forex, he combines the best practices of TradFi/trading and crypto-native solutions to catapult Bybit from its inception in 2018 to a leading global exchange for all crypto lovers.

Athena Yu currently oversees the international business growth of Binance Custody, an institutional-grade custody infrastructure providing a secure gateway for institutions to navigate the digital asset ecosystem. She is also the Founder of the Binance Charity Foundation, the first blockchain-powered platform dedicated to achieving Sustainable Development Goals by providing full transparency of all its philanthropic initiatives.

Prior to joining Binance Custody, Athena worked as the Head and Founding Member of Binance NFT, which she helped develop into one of the largest marketplaces in the industry. Her role also included growing the Binance Fan Token presence among sports clubs, established brands, and KOLs across the world.

Mehdi is the former Director of Research at Token Metrics, where he led their research team and did venture investing in web3. Before joining crypto, he did equity and global macro research.

He also hosts The Open Metaverse Podcast, which features industry and thought leaders from web3.

Cem is the Ecosystem Director at Circle, he is working with a multidisciplinary team responsible for building awareness, affinity, and scale on the Circle platform, supporting existing and future developers and alliances, including infrastructure and wallet partnerships, blockchain integrations, multi-chain programs, and fintech partnerships.

Previously, Cem was the Ecosystem Lead at Stellar Development Foundation. At SDF, Cem was leading the relationships with key ecosystem stakeholders. He worked with entrepreneurs and enterprises of all sizes to support them to grow their business while increasing the network activity.

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.

He leads the APAC enterprise business and works closely across market segments such as enterprise, digital native businesses, government & public sector, and Web3 natives.

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.

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.

Mikhail is an angel investor in 14 startups. Prior to founding GameFi Platform TON Play, Mikhail was a Co-Founder and CEO at LiptSoft, a software development company with 150+ engineers and $20M in revenue per year.

He is also the Senior VP at Bank Saint-Petersburg. As Vice President of IT, he led the bank's digital transformation and built a family of apps used by 2 million customers and 100,000+ companies.

At KuCoin, Mete leads the company's daily local operations, growth, business development, branding, community as well as the expansion of KuCoin backed Web3 initiatives like KCS, KCC, KuCoin Wallet in Turkey. Earlier, he led KuCoin's local business development team.

Before joining KuCoin, Mete had accumulated extensive experience in local CEXes, blockchain start-ups, automotive & fashion at industry leaders such as Mercedes-Benz and Harvey Nichols.

H.E. Gabriel Abed is the Ambassador of Barbados to the United Arab Emirates, Founder and Chairman of Abed Group and Co-Founder of Bitt.

Gabriel is internationally recognised as a leading authority on central bank digital currencies, math-based protocols and blockchain technology globally, having conceptualized and initiated the first global movement to encourage the use of central bank digital currencies.

Gracy is the Managing Director of Bitget and oversees the growth and expansion of global markets, strategy, execution, business and corporate development of Bitget.

She started her journey to crypto world since 2014, and has been an investor in the early days of BitKeep, Asia’s leading decentralized wallet.

Formerly an anchor and producer at Phoenix TV’s technology and finance channel, one of the largest media conglomerates in China, Chen has reported on financial news and events extensively, including the World Economic Forum. During her time at Phoenix, she interviewed tech leaders, including Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired.

Vineet led over 100+ investments in the crypto and blockchain space, investing in blockchain startups including Casper Labs, KILT and Sheesha Finance.

Vineet has been building and scaling startups in the tech space for over 15 years across Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East and India.

He has worked in global organizations like Emirates Airlines, TATA Consultancy Services, and Rocket Internet. He created Videocon d2h Online, the biggest DTH e-commerce player in India, and was part of the core team at Paytronic Network before starting Guiddoo World.

Bing has more than 10 years diverse experience in top tier tech companies, and she is also a serial AI entrepreneur, cofounder of startups with Baidu founder and company has been invested by Zhen Fund.

She is currently Global Head of Institution & VIP Clients at Huobi Global, used to led regional teams in Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia, and she was also CEO Assistant.

Bing is a geek MBA, strategic designer thinker, growth hacker, and experienced for both to B and to C market growth. She took her MBA in IE and Cornell University.

Han has been working 7 years in traditional finance, including Tier-1 investment banking, private equity and economic/financial consultancy in London and Hong Kong. She has accumulated a bulk of experience in regulatory/compliance matters, business development, risk analysis, strategic investment etc.

Currently, Han is the Lead Fund Manager with KuCoin Labs assisting with project/fund investments and incubation. She has been acting as an advisor to many projects, including Coinweb and Liquid Factory.

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.

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.

Manan is an award-winning entrepreneur. With over 9 years of experience in cybersecurity, he is part of Microsoft's top 100 security researchers in the world.

Prior to Avalance, at the age of 21, he has had the opportunity to solve cybercrime cases for some of the biggest MNC's in the world, such as Twitter, Yahoo!, Facebook, Nokia, Blackberry, PayPal, Skype, Google, Apple, Microsoft to name a few.

Irina is the leading cryptocurrency and blockchain lawyer based in Dubai and Switzerland representing clients worldwide. She is highly regarded internationally for her extensive experience and deep technical knowledge of blockchain, smart contracts and cryptocurrency matters.

She is the Partner with a regulated international law firm. Irina consulted multiple Governments and Regulators on policies surrounding Emerging Technology and drafted crypto-related laws.

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.

Matthias is a German entrepreneur who has been based in Dubai since 2007. He holds advisory positions in successful international projects such as the German HYGH AG and advises the CEO of the Dubai Blockchain Center, which is the highest government-related blockchain office in the UAE.

Currently, he is focused on building the Bonuz Market Eco System. This is a revolutionary platform on the Solana Blockchain that will connect fans with their favorite celebrities.

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.

Christopher is a German entrepreneur and Cryptocurrency expert. He is the Co-Founder of MMConsult and MMCrypto, one of the most famous Cryptocurrency-related YouTube channels.

Christopher was among the first people to ever using on-chain analysis to predict the Bitcoin price. Now he is known as the go-to expert for on-chain metrics and on-chain analysis.

Oleg is a serial entrepreneur, VC investor and a prominent blockchain influencer. After a 13-year in the FMCG industry which ended with a successful M&A exit, Oleg switched to the emerging blockchain industry to set up an internationally reputable VC investment platform.

He is an author of two books, Telegram influencer and manages 3 businesses now: Kommune, one of the most notorious VCs in Web 3 with 70+ investments in projects; Berezka DAO, DeFi asset management since mid 2019, the only historically transparent DeFi platform with zero hacks and asset losses; Weezi, a Web3 counterpart of the US-based AngelList.

Carl Runefelt, also known as ‘The Moon’ is the founder of The Moon Group. He is a serial entrepreneur who has invested in 400 blockchain-based startups, & has been featured in Forbes 30 under 30. The crypto evangelist has also been featured in top business publications such as, FOX Business, Forbes US, CNBC, Business Insider, Coin Telegraph and Tech Telegraph UK.

Carl is also the co-founder of multiple crypto companies and is a well-known speaker, a respected philanthropist and a blockchain expert who has a massive social media influence. With more than 4 million followers across YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok Carl is already well on his way to be a frontrunner in the mass adoption of blockchain technologies and crypto currencies.

William is Managing Director and Cofounder of Orbit Startups the first and longest running startup program in Asia and General Partner of SOSV the #1 most active venture capital investor in the world 4Q22 with US$1.5bn in assets under management.

Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets in Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas in e-commerce, fintech, media, health, education, and logistics.

Gordon is a hybrid Crypto-Attorney, Technologist, and Enterprise Strategist.

He is the Founding Partner at CryptoLaw Partners, working with Blockchain and Crypto startups, enterprises, service-providers and exchanges. His mission is to help stakeholders with the creation of decentralized protocols to suit the legalities of the broader market.

Vladislav is an entrepreneur and investor in the field of high technology, working for more than 20 years in the global IT market.

Being one of the pioneers of Blockchain technology, Vladislav founded the Atma Investment Group, the BlockGeeks educational platform and the Ethereum Competence Center in Russia.

During his time in the IT field, Vladislav launched several successful startups, which later became international leading companies in their segments, and also held senior positions in companies, such as Microsoft, SAP, Columbus IT, etc.

Filipe is the DeFi Architect supporting DeFi projects, with a strong focus on Liquid Staking and other projects support yield generating assets.

Former Investment Advisor with a demonstrated experience in wealth management working across several segments (Affluent, HNWI, and UHNWI) with both European and Emerging Markets clients.

His responsibilities include: leading Ankr Staking as a Product Owner, advising Ankr DeFi strategy and Ankr token tokenomics, directly managing a team of product managers, DeFi analytics, and marketing specialists.

In 2009, Anatoly together with partners founded the United Traders company, which specializes in providing clients with access to the largest trading platforms in Russia, Europe and the USA.

In 2011 and 2012, the UnitedTraders.com trading robot, developed by Radchenko, won the Best Private Investor competition, showing a yield of about 8,000 and 5300% respectively.

Jack is an entrepreneur who is passionate about sharing financial knowledge with people to help them become better in their financial management.

He is a crypto trader and also creates YouTube videos about investments, traditional markets, commodities, and cryptocurrency for his large subscriber base.

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.

Bogdan is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, an experienced blockchain entrepreneur.
For a long time he has been involved in game development, fintech projects, banking, and real estate in Australia. He has many years of experience in cooperation with the world's largest investors and projects.

Today, Bogdan is a co-founder of one of the largest blockchain software and game development companies. He successfully advises over 500 projects, many of which are in the TOP 200 according to CoinMarketCap.

Giovanni has 25 years’ international experience in IT and telco, from technical roles to business and sales in various countries.

He led the launch at scale of the first global enterprise blockchain solution in full production within Ericsson, introducing for the first time ever blockchain in the Ericsson Enterprise Architecture landscape.

Giovanni has also been appointed as Mentor for the MIT Pro, Blockchain disruptive technology course.

Julia is a Head Hunter, specializing in recruiting C-level managers, across different industries.
Now, she's currently focused on the Web3 market - a team from BeInCrypto once called her "The Unicorns Hunter."

She's been building effective recruiting processes for international companies, launching recruitment workflow for one EdTech company in Asia, and currently leading a team of recruiters for one of the top 3 crypto media outlets with team members from 49 different countries.

Mario is a serial founder since 2012 with business in over 30 countries. Partner at International Blockchain Legal. He is well-known as the Founder of the Athena Group of Companies, a business conglomerate of 15+ companies that operates in more than 40 countries.

However, his investments range across a wide variety of industries, including events, FinTech consulting, marketing, personal mobility, fitness, e-cigarettes, and ecommerce.

Nawfal's most far-reaching influence has been in the blockchain, cryptocurrency, and NFT industries and most lately in promoting and investing in the Multiverse.

Marcello is the CEO of SingularityDAO and Director of Communications at SingularityNET.

He was part of the founding team of SingularityNET in 2017 and a contributor to TechCrunch, Wired and The Guardian, following a career in marketing and PR across a number of tech start-ups in London.

Pokras is the famous NFT artist and “calligrafuturist”, from recent time he is an art director of XDAO.

He works in the "calligraffiti" technique, at the intersection of calligraphy and street art. He officially changed his passport name and surname to a creative pseudonym.

Participated in exhibitions around the world; at various times collaborated with the brands Nike, YSL, Comme Des Garcons, Pirelli, Dries Van Noten, Lamborghini, Fendi, Adidas, M.A.C. and others.

Karthik is a bitcoin OG and the ambassador of the P2P-Foundation (where Satoshi published the first bitcoin client). He runs BlockchainMonk, a DLT /Decentralised Autonomous Organization (DAO) Research consulting think tank.

He was featured in the top 25 Blockchain influencers’ list and has mentored and executed dozens of Blockchain and FinTech projects and startups in four continents. He holds close to half a dozen degrees from leading schools in the world like KTH in Sweden, Fudan University in China, among others.