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H.E. Justin Sun is the Founder of TRON, one of the world's largest blockchain DAO ecosystems, and Advisor to Huobi Global, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges.

A protege of Alibaba's Jack Ma, Sun has been named Forbes' 30 under 30 in the Consumer Technology category several times, among other global recognitions. Sun is an avid art collector, gamer, investor, philanthropist, and space enthusiast.

Veteran technology entrepreneur/investor Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a global leader in blockchain and gaming with the goal to provide property rights for virtual assets.

Yat began his career at Atari Germany, then established Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation, the first free web page and email provider in Asia. In 1998 he set up Outblaze, an award-winning pioneer of multilingual white label web services. After selling one of its business units to IBM, he pivoted Outblaze to incubate digital entertainment projects. One of those projects is Animoca Brands.

Yat has numerous accolades, including Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the DHL/SCMP Awards, and recognition as one of Cointelegraph's top 100 notable people in blockchain.

A classically trained musician, Yat is a member of the advisory board of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and a director of the Asian Youth Orchestra.

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.

Eowyn Chen is passionate about hyper-scaling crypto adoption to empower people with access and opportunity. She is the CEO of Trust Wallet, one of the world's largest multi-chain, non-custodial crypto wallets serving tens of millions of users globally. Previously, Eowyn was the VP at Binance, building and leading its central marketing team to help grow users from tens of millions into hundreds of millions.

Before diving into the blockchain industry, she helped international startups with their go-to-market strategy and operations in the US and was trained as a management consultant in financial services at Oliver Wyman in New York. Trained as a science-minded history concentrator at Harvard College, Eowyn always aspires to be a child-like truth seeker of fundamental principles of human individuals and society.

Dr. Marwan Alzarouni is an internationally recognized blockchain technology advocate, keynote speaker and strategic advisor. Dr. Alzarouni is the CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC), an impact business and a strategic partner to Dubai Future Foundation.

The center was inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum under the Area 2071 initiative in May 2018. It aims to create a fertile ground and a holistic ecosystem for blockchain companies and projects to thrive in. DBCC regularly hosts a number of blockchain startups within Area 2071 and also conducts educational classes and seminars around blockchain use cases in government and private sector.

With over 20 years of experience in finance, 12 of which have been around operations and trading. Has been in virtual assets since 2016 and has not looked back. Working towards a vision of bridging the gaps with physical and digital worlds.

At Binance Alex is responsible for leading and growing the operation of the regulated Binance business here in Dubai and spear-heading the growth of the region’s ecosystem from all things Web3, Metaverse and virtual assets and more.

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.

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.

Miriam Kiwan is Vice President of MENA at Circle, a global financial technology company helping money move at internet speed, with a mission to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value.

Prior to this, Miriam led Digital Assets and tech ecosystem development at Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). She held various strategic roles within the technology, financial services and nonprofit in the UAE and Europe.

She holds a Global EMBA from TRIUM, a joint program between London School of Economics, New York University and HEC Paris.

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.

After more than a decade in trading, investing, advising startups and building 3 businesses, he joined Evgeny and Harro to co-found his 4th venture: Wintermute Trading, an algorithmic liquidity provider in the crypto space.

Wintermute is now 6 years old, have near 100 staff, 4 investment rounds under their belts - proudly backed by Lightspeed, Blockchain.com Ventures, Pantera, Avon and a cool bunch of angels. They are very much striving for a culture of excellence and fair practices in this maturing space.

He currently overlap their BD and ventures arm, focused on maximising their optionality, and always trying to add value to anyone he interact with. He have just moved to Singapore to support their Asian expansion efforts.

Dr. Yang is the founder and CEO of MicroBT. He founded MicroBT in 2016 to supply high-performance ASIC miners (WhatsMiner) for bitcoin mining and has 20+ years of experience in the chip design industry. He is the pioneer of full-custom chip design methodology in the industry.

Bertrand Levy is a digital pioneer with over 15 years of experience in the music industry. He spent over 10 years at Universal Music Group, where he held the position of Global Vice President. Currently, he is in charge of Global Partnerships at THE SANDBOX, one of the leading metaverse platforms in the world.

As an entrepreneur and innovator in the field of VR, Bertrand Levy continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in virtual reality. Through Sandbox, he is helping to shape the future of VR by enabling anyone with a passion for creativity to participate in this immersive medium.

During his career while holding the title of CEO across multiple companies, Thiel successfully created in excess of $750 million in shareholder value, efficiently raised more than $150 million through both public (IPO and secondary offerings) and private capital sources, led multiple successful corporate transformations resulting in highly accretive exits, built high output agile product development organizations, and established corporate innovation groups resulting in the creation of new product businesses that generated significant new revenues in their first year.

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.

Nischal Shetty is the co-founder of Shardeum, a decentralized, Layer 1 blockchain. He is also the Founder, CEO of WazirX, India's largest crypto exchange by volume with over 12 Million users. Nischal is a well-known entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building and scaling global products out of India. A software engineer by education, he has also founded Crowdfire, a social media management product with over 20 Million users in the past.

Nischal has also been featured in Forbes '30 under 30' list previously. A passionate blockchain evangelist, he has been active in the Indian crypto space since its inception. Nischal's mission has been to make crypto accessible to every Indian; he's also been advocating positive crypto regulation in India with his Twitter campaign #IndiaWantsCrypto for over 1000 days.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Meera joined Binance in May 2022, leading Compliance (and Risk) for the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, focusing on Virtual Asset regulation under VARA, FSRA, and the CBB. Meera holds over 14 years experience in the international financial services markets, with an extensive understanding of compliance, risk, governance, and regulation.

She has held senior roles at interdealer brokers, including ICAP and ED&F Man Capital Markets in the UAE, supporting the establishment of robust risk management, operational, and compliance frameworks. Meera spent the first 10 years of her career in London, where she gained a foundation in systemically important financial market infrastructures, including exchanges and central clearing counterparties, having worked at both ICE and CME Group.

Meera holds a First Class BSc (Hons) in Investment and Financial Risk Management from Cass Business School, London. She has also completed a Diploma in Compliance, AML, and Financial Crime in association with ICMA Centre, Henley Business School.

Travin Keith has been involved in numerous projects around the cryptocurrency space, such as co-founding Immunefi, Web3's largest bug bounty platform with over $25bn saved from hacks, and STOKR, a fundraising platform for issuing security tokens with clients like Blockstream Mining.

In the enterprise space, he co-authored the Hyperledger white paper and worked on a project for the European Commission. He is also an advisor and investor to many projects and even has food businesses starting up.

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.

Founder & CEO of Chainstone Labs, an investment and advisory company focused on the intersection of securities and Bitcoin.

Cypherpunk Stockbroker & Managing Director at Watchdog Capital, an SEC registered and FINRA member broker-dealer.

Founder of Atlantic Financial, a registered investment advisory; over 30 years as a licensed financial professional.

Co-host of the Satoshi Roundtable, an annual retreat that gathers developers, CEOs, founders, academics and investors, now in its 10th year.

Bruce has been in Bitcoin full time since 2013. He has served as the Executive Director and board member for the Bitcoin Foundation, founded the original Bitcoin Association industry group and has spoken at numerous industry conferences. He is the founder of the Dubai Bitcoin Conference, a Devcore organizer, and an active investor.

Vincent Zhang joined in Crypto industry in year 2018. Before that he has been dedicated himself in marketing and sales for 19+ years after he got his Master Degree in Telecommunication.

He left Telecom industry as a top management in one of the toppest Telecom equipments provider and now he has been leading sales team of Whatsminer for 4 and half years.

During last 4 years he lead Whatsminer sales team achieve No.2 Market share of Bitcoin miners. He has solid insight in Bitcoin mining, and now he is leading Whatsminer heading to "future of Mining" which as what he said is "Future Bitcoin mining shall be more green by recyling heat generated by miners, we as leading miners provider shall make Bitcoin mining not only mining."

Since his initial investment in Bitcoin in 2012, Kyle Chassé has been a driving force in the blockchain industry. For many he is quite rightly regarded as an OG. In the last decade, he has founded, invested in, and advised 100+ early-stage projects, continually demonstrating his unwavering belief in blockchain’s revolutionary potential.

Founder and CEO of Master Ventures, a blockchain-focused VC and venture studio worth $330m (March 2023),
he specializes in investing in and building transformative blockchain businesses and products. With over 100
early-stage investments, 5+ co-founded companies, he excels in portfolio management and incubation.

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.

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.

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.

Shogo is a Co-CEO and Director for Middle East & Africa of the Cardano blockchain’s official commercial arm EMURGO.

He is a former CEO of QRC Group, a globally awarded RegTech solutions innovator and provider for blockchain companies to meet global regulatory requirements.
He led the publication of the world’s first Security Token Specification “PAS 19668”, independently facilitated and published by BSI, the UK National Standards Body.

Before the venture capital and tech industries, Shogo served as a Middle East policy expert in foreign services and worked for the Japanese Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.

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.

Senior Advisor at Horizen Labs and Founder and CEO of Airvey.io an enterprise that builds, supports and advises Web 3.0 companies.

A bitcoin and blockchain adopter since 2013, Mr. Larren became one of the first crypto miners in the US before listing the proceeds in public vehicles with Grayscale. He advised over a dozen projects including: Horizen Labs and the creation of Yuga Labs’ ApeCoin ($8B at launch) as well as Decentraland and the creation of the largest commercial zone in the Metaverse.

Mr. Larren has been profiled in publications such as Cointelegraph, Forbes, Bloomberg Magazine, American Express Spotlight Series, The Huffington Post as well as TV appearances on Bloomberg, KTLA and E! News. He is a renowned figure on the international speaker circuit having spoken at over 30 conferences in 10 countries.
Prior to founding his companies, Mr. Larren had worked at LVMH and Pernod Ricard.

Maurice is now Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Gate Labs, Gate Labs is the VC and listing department of Gate.io, a major top global cryptocurrency exchange. Established in 2021 as an accelerator, Gate Labs is highly devoted to providing entrepreneurs with various resources and supporting for startups' growth.

Gate.io's mission is to serve the blockchain industry by providing secure and reliable products and services to consumers and companies around the world. Transparency, security and integrity are the main values of Gate.io. The "Gate Web3.0 Ecosystem" consists of Wallet.io, HipoDeFi and Gatechain, all of which were created to provide users with a secure, simple and fair trading platform as well as the ability to safeguard assets and trading information.

Currently, Gate.io provides trade, investment, and digital wallet services for more than 1,700 digital assets and offers high-quality services for millions of users from over 130 countries.

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.

Boris is the CEO & Co-Founder of LiveArt, a global Web3 Platform for Art. He had previously founded Collectrium, a global digital platform for managing, discovering, sharing, and trading art (acquired by Christie’s).

Prior to Collectrium, Boris co-founded xfire, a high-growth social networking platform for computer gaming (acquired by Viacom); Centrata, a pioneering cloud computing platform for enterprise data centers; and greenscreens.ai (formerly Carggo), a two-sided marketplace for freight transportation.

Boris holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Malcolm Wright, the innovative force behind InnoFi Advisory, is a recognized global authority on virtual asset regulation and compliance, with notable roles including Dubai's Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA). A transformative executive in FinTech and virtual assets, he's shaped top-tier firms like BitMEX, Thomson Reuters, and Revolut, and successfully exited his own technology company.

As a key player in championing key virtual asset dialogues with the FATF and regulators, and as co-creator of the globally-accepted IVMS101 data standard, Malcolm's incisive speaking and writing illuminate complex topics, solidifying him as an indispensable voice in the financial services and virtual asset sphere.

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.

Eugene Cheung is VP, Head of Institution for Bybit, lead the exchange’s institutional business push since 2021. He has worked in the exchanged/OTC trading and derivatives industries for over fifteen years.

He was managing director, head of China for Tradeweb, responsible to lead the business such as Bond Connect and be accountable for implementing and achieving growth plan in the region.

He worked for approximately 10 years at CME Group and had been the head of China business development since 2012. He was responsible for identifying and pursuing opportunities to grow CME Group’s business, and managing and owning the responsibility for all key strategic initiatives. He is a regular speaker at industry seminars and provides advices and internal training to the regulators.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Previously he ran the US Stress Scenario Coordination and Analysis team at UBS. Prior to that, he worked at Elliott Management, a $73bn multi-strategy hedge fund, where he eventually led research on Energy, Global Macro, Political Risk and Emerging/Frontier Market investments out of the New York office.

Jordan started his career in Asia. Initially as an investigative journalist based in Shanghai, where he was published in dozens of newspapers and magazines, and then working under the Chief Asia Markets Strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management in Hong Kong. He holds a BSFS from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in International Politics and an MIA from Columbia University in International Finance and Economics.

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.

Jamie Elkaleh is a skilled public speaker and a crypto enthusiast. With a rich background in crafting educational content that's reached millions, Jamie is on a mission to break down the barriers to entry in crypto space.

As Bitget's Relations Manager, he's building partnerships and fostering connections within the crypto community.

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.

Manan is an award-winning entrepreneur. With over 11 years of experience in cybersecurity, he is part of Microsoft's top 100 security researchers in the world.

Prior to Avalance, 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.

In 2020 Entrepreneur selected Manan Shah "Entrepreneur of the Year" for his security work. He was one of Business World's "Hottest Young Entrepreneurs" and Outlook India's "Game Changers of Tomorrow".

In 2022, Entrepreneur Magazine Under 35, Forbes Under 30, and Asia One's Under 40 honored Manan Shah.

Tiago Pratas is a seasoned professional in the cryptocurrency industry with a deep understanding of the blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Since 2015, he has immersed himself in crypto, gaining valuable experience and knowledge.

Tiago serves as the DeFi Lead at Ankr, a decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider powering the foundational layer for Web3, DeFi, and the digital economy on 30+ blockchains with over $200 million in Total Value Locked (TVL).

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.

Dr. Mohamed Al Hemairy has 20 years’ experience in Research Management, Intellectual Property, Innovation & Technology Transfer from ideas to products in UAE and United Kingdom. He helped over a hundred researchers to file more than 130 inventions & managing around 250 patent applications in the largest IP portfolio in UAE.

As a Principal Investigator, he leads a research team to develop multiple Blockchain’s platforms for the industry. He has also served on the University Innovation Support Team, where hundreds of innovative ideas & projects are explored & filtered for potential patenting & business opportunities.

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.

Ryo Matsubara worked at Accenture after graduating from university, then joined gumi Inc. in 2018. During his career at gumi Inc., he participated in the launch of gumi Cryptos Inc. and other projects. He joined doublejump.tokyo in 2021 and has been in his current position since February 2022.

Arut Nazaryan is an entrepreneur, investor and a successful blogger. He is the founder of Arut Academy, EXBI Launchpad, Bugatti Music, Yofleet, Topor Barbershop, and father of two sons.

This year Arut established EXBI Launchpad, a crypto launchpad platform which aims to provide users with access to promising early-stage Web3 projects. The startup's focus is to create an environment where investing in crypto startups will be accessible and easy for everyone.

Arut Academy stands as one of his most ambitious projects. The Academy is a well-defined system of teaching money-making skills in the most relevant and highly profitable niches such as Cryptocurrency Market, E-commerce, Affiliate Marketing, and Artificial Intelligence.

Davinci Jeremie, also known as Davincij15 across all Social Media platforms, is a skilled software developer, YouTuber, Public Speaker, Crypto Educator, and Entrepreneur.

Davincij15 became famous in the crypto world when his YouTube video begging his audience to spend just $1 to buy bitcoin went viral.

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.

As an expert in digital marketing, Amelia began working in the fintech sector in 2014 after writing her thesis on Bitcoin technology. Previously author for several international crypto-related magazines and CMO at Eidoo. She is now the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Cryptonomist, and also PR manager for the Italian market at Bitget.

She is also a marketing teacher at Digital Coach in Milan and she published a book about NFTs for the Italian publishing house Mondadori, while she is also helping artists and companies to enter in the sector. As advisor, Amelia is also involved in metaverse-related projects such as The Nemesis and OVER.

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.

David is a digital visionary and global platform innovator. He is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Vodafone’s Digital Asset Broker (DAB) platform, and one of the leaders in blockchain technology for Vodafone Business.

David is a recognised thought leader in blockchain, Web3 and the application of these technologies to telecoms and wider enterprise business. He is an expert on the convergence of digital technologies and new business models, and currently exploring the opportunities associated with IoT, Blockchain, DeFi, Digital Identity and the Metaverse.

Kevin is a thought leader in FX, Crypto, Blockchain and Financial Regulation focusing on removing barriers and bringing real substantive change to capital markets globally, he does not just talk the talk, he actually walks the walk.

He frequently advises regulators and government bodies on matters relating to applying current regulations to new financial markets and instruments, regulatory sandboxes, and related topics.

As the founder of Coinmetro and a co-founder of Ignium, he is now looking to help shape a tokenized future and advance access to all people rather than the chosen few.

Matthias is an award-winning entrepreneur and visionary founder. He is a founding member of the Dubai Blockchain Center and a Crypto Influencer.

He is also the CEO and founder of Bonuz Market, a social engagement web3 ecosystem and super-app that allows fans token-gated exclusive access to their favorite creator's channel, proof of attendance and other community engaging features are included.

Mende has held a few board and advisor roles including Marketing Advisor at HYGH AG, Icetech, and Unit Ventures. He was the Chief Strategist at Block Gemini, helping Multi-Billion Dollar Supply Chain Enterprises to implement Blockchain Technology, Smart Contracts, and other distributed ledger technologies.

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.

Before joining Cypher Capital, Bill Qian was the Global Head of Fundraising for Binance Labs and M&A for Binance ‒ the largest global crypto platform holding 55% of the global market share, with $34 trillion in transactions in 2021.

Joining the Cypher Capital Team in late 2022, Bill sees himself as a “web-native investor” looking for phenomenal founders in the Web 3.0 industry.

Jorge is the Co-Founder of EcoX. Ecosystem ConneXions is the largest Blockchain & Technology community of Middle East, Operating across 9 Countries. Organizing regular meetups, start-up pitches, investments, resourcing talent and bringing and end-to-end Eco-System.

He is a seasoned CEO, CTO, CISO, Advisor and International speaker, with experience in Blockchain, Gaming, DeFi, NFT, Asset Tokenization, Cyber Security, AI, IoT, 5G, Digital Twin (Meta Verse) Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Bigdata, & Managed Services.

Jorge is professional advisor in several innovative start-ups using disruptive technologies with focus on generating business value and enabling sustainability, scalability and impact.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ivan is a business developer with robust experience in high-frequency trading and portfolio management, and former CTO of the algo hedge fund. Immersed deeply in ML/RL algorithms applied to financial markets and ways to speed up the execution.

Devoted to making sophisticated things simple and understandable, always in the chase for efficient cooperations with other participants of the digital assets market.