TOPICS & AGENDA
Block O2O Blockchain Summit 2018
May 8 2018 | PMQ, Hong Kong
Interoperability and the Next Wave of Blockchain
Blockchains – whether private, public, financial, IOT or consumer related – all have to talk to each other. Smart contracts will tumble if we build the Blockchain Tower of Babel. Interoperability must be addressed.
Cryptomarkets and Exchanges
Cryptomarket managers are facing pressure to improve security, standout in a crowded market of markets and maintain links to the fiat world as traditional banking tries to shut them out or shut them down. The future of Crypto Exchanges.
Financial Institutions and Blockchain
Far from the ICO scene, old school financial institutions are making new moves to adopt blockchain. The leaders discuss what projects they are implementing and challenges they face.
Prove it: Proof of Concept/ State/Work/State/Time and Space
As a new tech on the block, blockchain has a lot to prove. As it undergoes revolution after revolution, how we evaluate it is changing. Global leaders look at how we can measure real progress in the long blockchain march forward.
Investment: ICOs, VC, Funds Plus
Once the preserve of individual traders, funds are gathering to invest in the crypto and token space. The panel of investors look at how investment is spreading from the solo investor to the institution.
Agenda
9:05AM
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Intro & Welcome
Juwan Lee – CEO and Founder, NexChange
9:10AM
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Keynote 1
Nick Spanos – Founder, Bitcoin Center NYC
9:30AM
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Keynote 2
9:50AM
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Innovation Case Study
10:00AM
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Panel 1: Financial Institutions and Blockchain
Bonnie Cheung – Venture Partner, 500 Startups, Eyal Moshe – CEO, HUBsecurity.io, Julian Gordon – VP Asia Pacific, Hyperledger, The Linux Foundation
10:30AM
10:30AM Block O2O CONNECT
Networking
11:00AM
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Panel 2 with Keynote: The Cryptomarket: ICOs, C2C, C2F, and Exchangemania
Moderator: James Kim – Managing Director, NX Venture Partners, Panelists: Maksim Balashevich – Founder and CEO, Santiment.net, Olga Petrunina – Co-founder and CEO, Adara.io, Lijian Xiong – CEO and Co-founder, LoMoStar
11:30AM
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Keynote 3
11:50AM
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Innovation Case Study
12:05PM
Discover SOHO!
Lunch break
2:00PM
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Keynote 4
Alexander Borodich – Founder and CEO, Universa Blockchain
2:20PM
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Panel 3: Proving your Project: Proof of Concept/Work/State/Space & Time
Samson Lee – Founder and CEO, CoinStreet Partners, Dr. Tagir Aushev – Head of Laboratory of High Energy Physics, Moscow Phystech (MIPT), Jonathan Chou – Co-founder and CEO, The Bee Token
2:50PM
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Panel 4
David Allen Cohen – Founder and Chairman, Dcntral, Dr. Marta Piekarska – Director of Ecosystem, Hyperledger, The Linux Foundation, Francis Hwang – President & Co-founder, Bucket Technologies
3:10PM
Block O2O CONNECT
Networking
3:40PM
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Innovation Case Study
4:00PM
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Panel 5: Investment: ICOs, VCs, and Funds
Joe Daniels – Partner, McCarter & English LLP
4:20PM
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Keynote 5: Breaching Borders with Magic Internet Money
Alex Leverington – Ethreum Core Developer, Entropy Labs
4:40PM
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Panel 6 with Keynote: AI & Blockchain
Dr. Ben Goertzel – Founder and CEO, SingularityNET, Olga Alexeeva – Head of International Development, Smart Valley
5:00PM
Investor Match Networking
6:00PM
PIAZZA
Blocktails on the Piazza!
7:00PM
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