Adam is Head of Investment Solutions at Prime Factor Capital a digital assets investment manager that provides strategies for high net worth and institutional investors. Adam spent 10 years at Blackrock as an investment specialist working with institutional clients to produce investment solutions designed to meet client objectives. Prime Factor Capital is one of the first investment providers to construct a robust, professional investment vehicle to deliver exposure for investors to the crypto assets market. Founded by professional, seasoned investors with over 20 years’ experience in managing client portfolios at some of the largest asset managers in the world, Prime Factor Capital combines deep knowledge of the digital asset world with the risk management philosophy mindset that is so often missing in this space.

Adi Ben-Ari is Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain — a group of passionate technologists building blockchain solutions for enterprises and startups (including Shell, SITA, Vodafone, Toyota, APPII, and Cygnetise amongst others), as well as creating products to support platform-agnostic blockchain development. Adi’s 20+ years of enterprise experience for blue chip companies as a solutions architect, and his leading major deliveries of blockchain solutions is widely recognised in the industry. Adi is continuously invited as a keynote speaker at major industry conferences, at C-level presentations for corporations, and acts as an advisor for a number of early blockchain startups. His work has also been noted by the UK government, where he was invited to represent the industry at the Blockchain Round Table at the House of Lords. Additionally, Adi has co-invented and designed a number of patents within the blockchain and mobile payments space. Adi holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA.

Ambre Soubiran is the CEO of Kaiko, a leading provider of institutional grade digital assets market data. Kaiko collects market data from over 30 exchanges encompassing 5,500+ currency pairs. Kaiko’s clients include professional investors, academic researchers, start-ups, and institutional funds in the cryptocurrency space. Prior to joining Kaiko, Ambre spent eight years at HSBC in London and Paris, structuring equity derivatives and equity-based financing solutions (first in Global Markets, then in the Equity Capital Markets division). Ambre holds a Bachelors and Masters in Applied Mathematics from the Université Paris Dauphine. Additionally, she studied Entrepreneurship and Management at the Solvay Business School in Brussels. Ambre has a passion for world-changing technology. She first became interested in cryptocurrencies in 2013, and has since invested in a number of start-ups in the space. Outside of Kaiko, Ambre is the president of Féminin Pluriel UK, the London branch of a professional French women’s network launched in 1992. She is also a founding member of the CollectiveFuture, a group of tech leaders working to foster diversity in blockchain and cryptoassets.

Andrea is Founding Partner & CEO at Eterna Capital, an investment fund focused on blockchain technology. Eterna Capital was launched in early May-2018 by Andrea and 3 ex-BlackRock employees, receiving press coverage from the likes of Bloomberg, Coindesk, Financial News, Investment Week etc. Andrea was previously Co-Founder & CEO at HiredGrad, a London/Bangalore based graduate recruiting start-up part of Imperial College Incubator. Prior to founding HiredGrad, Andrea worked at Deloitte and KPMG in the M&A and Advisory division respectively and was part of the Business Development team at Satago, a FinTech start-up backed by Seedcamp accelerator. Andrea completed his MSc in Finance with Distinction at Imperial College London.

Arda Kutsal, MBA, is the Founder and CEO of Webrazzi, Turkey’s most influential online media publication covering tech startups. With a background as an industrial engineer and software developer, he founded Webrazzi in 2006. He has since been featured on the cover of Forbes Turkey (2010), and in Fortune’s ’40 under 40’ list from 2011-2017. Through Webrazzi’s profiling of tech startups, Arda became an angel investor with a portfolio of successful startups, including two unicorns. He has been interested in blockchain and cryptocurrencies for several years, buying his first Bitcoin in 2014.

Birol Ergüven has a BSc and a MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University and an MBA degree from Yeditepe University. He started his professional career as a Research Engineer. In 1994 he started working in the field of trading, sales and marketing of industrial equipment and machinery. In 2004, Birol Ergüven steped into energy sector with Akenerji, working as Sales and Marketing Director (till 2011), responsible for generation planning, energy trading and wholesale activities. He performed major tasks in post-privatization transformation projects of Electricty Distribution Companies. He currently leads Limak Energy Group as CEO since 2011. He is a Board Member at Hamitabat Electricity Production & Trade Co, Yeniköy Kemerköy Electricty Production & Trade Co, Limak Uludag Electricity Retail Companies (Four Regions covering 11 cities and 10 million customers), Limak Energy Europe (Bulgaria) and LC Energy Supply and Trading Company (Serbia). He is a founding Board Member of Energy Traders Association (ETD) and Vice Chairman of Energy Council in Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK).

Damir Bandalo is a General Partner at StakeZero Ventures, a blockchain focussed venture capital fund. Damir was educated at the University of Zagreb, where he holds a Masters Degree in Finance. He has experience in banking, but left the industry in 2010 for more entrepreneurial pursuits. Most notably, he ran his own Berlin-based mobile startup for several years. This startup was eventually acquired by a leading German media firm in 2016. Since leaving his startup, Damir has invested his time in exploring the next generation of technological trends - namely decentralisation, automation and blockchain.

David is the CEO/CIO of Cambrial Capital, an institutional-grade ‘fund of funds’ strategy. He has been researching and investing in the crypto space since 2013, and held a number of product and data infrastructure roles at leading FinTech and venture-backed companies.

Douglas Salt is a shareholder of Frank Salt real Estate Limited and a member of the board of directors. He has been actively involved in the real estate sector in sales and management for 27 years. He hold a Batchelors degree in Management and Public Policy from the University of Malta.
* Founder Member of the Rotary Club La Valette, Founder Secretary for three years, and past president;
* President of the real estate section of the Malta Developers Association and main council member.
* Member of the Board of Governorsof the Valletta European Capital of Culture 2018 Foundation
* Member of the BICC (Building Industry Consultative Committee) Main Committee and sub committees for the Regeneration of Property and the Property Market
* Drafted legislation regulating the real estate profession
* Sits on the Joint Committee of the FIAU

Francesco Boni is a 29 years old European Qualified Lawyer with several years of experience in the Venture Capital industry. Francesco is specialized in I.P and Antitrust Law in Innovation, which was the topic of a Legal Research Project he took at the UCI Irvine School of Law in Los Angeles in 2013. Francesco began his career as an associate at Juris Global, an international boutique Law Firm. Being the youngest associate of the firm, he was managing a team responsible of legal consulting of French base startups that were scaling to the UK market. When Francesco moved to the UK in 2013 he joined iStarter, the Italian accelerator in London. For 2 years he was responsible of managing the operations of the UK branch and has been involved with several successful fundraising campaigns for a total of 1.4 mln EU. He led with Simone Cimminelli, MD of the firm, the project “Made in Italy 2020” bringing together ten Italian Scale-Ups selected by the top 4 Italian accelerators Luiss EnLabs, Digital Magics, BeVentures and H-Farm. The selected startups have been hosted at the London Stock Exchange for the Market Opening on 9 March 2015. Francesco and Simone received a special mention from the Italian Ambassador Pasquale Terracciano for the initiative that aims to reduce the distances for Italian Companies willing to expand their businesses in the UK. He was then headhunted by Toucan Ventures, a Seed Capital Firm that supports creative entrepreneurs in the F&B, Retail and Lifestyle sectors. Francesco joined their senior management team as Director of Operations and is responsible for developing and operating the firm’s Startups and Scale Up divisions. He is directly responsible for the London operations, focusing on supporting startups with business strategy and fundraising. Francesco has been able thanks to his flourishing network of entrepreneurs, academics and professionals around the world to quickly make an impact on Toucan investee companies growth and is now focusing on a revolutionary project called The Nest that will be completed in 2020. He has been selected from Forbes Italia in the Best 100 under 30 list of 2018.

Jan is a co-founder of BedrockX, the infrastructure for digital funds of the future. He also consults top-tier VC funds and banks on their blockchain strategy. Previously, he worked at the VC firm Earlybird and at Google.

Jess is passionate about art, diversity and blockchain especially when all three come together. She is a co-founder of Codex Protocol, a decentralized asset registry for Art & Collectibles and a founder of shEOS, a Block Producer for the EOS network focused on funding women's technical education. Jess wrote a thesis on the applications of blockchain for the art world in 2016. She previously worked in private equity and investment banking. She has an M.A. Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art and an M.A. Economics & Management from the University of Oxford.

Max is a partner at Fabric Ventures, a fund adapting the VC model to investing in decentralised data networks. From active network participation to technical community building, they focus on the earliest stages of building & deploying projects and have invested in Orchid, Polkadot, zeppelin_os and Ocean Protocol amongst others.

Monty C. M. Metzger, CEO at LCX Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange (Twitter: @LCX - Web: www.LCX.li), is an internet veteran and acclaimed thought leader on the future of digital. Monty graduated in Germany and in Switzerland - but he had been an entrepreneur since early on, as he found his first Internet company back in 1998 while still going to school. Then he co-founded several tech companies and co-founded a future research and technology consultancy with offices in Beijing, Tokyo, Munich and New York. After he sold his company, he became a business angel and investor which he later turned into a registered Venture Capital Fund in Luxembourg where he served as General Partner investing in outstanding technology companies globally. Monty started to invest in crypto in 2013, but also he has been coaching institutions, governments and startups on blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, Tokenization, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Security Token Offerings (STOs). In his current role as CEO and co-founder of LCX he is building a blockchain ecosystem for institutional investors to manage and trade crypto assets in fully compliant way. Monty is a professional keynote speaker with more than a decade of speaking experience. He has been invited to many high-level conferences, corporate events and leadership workshops in Europe, USA and Asia - and is engaging at the World Economic Forum.

Nuri Ozlu was born in 1983, he ended his Academic educational career after getting the Master Degree on Management Information Systems at Bogazici University. He has a proven track record of 10+ years of Information technology mostly focused on Data science , Machine learning and Data driven product growth. He is now The Head of Product at Gobaba.com a London based Crypto currency company.

Olga Feldmeier is CEO of SMART VALOR, a Swiss-based blockchain company building a decentralized marketplace for tokenized alternative investments. Olga has extensive experience working in financial services sector for leading institutions such as Barclays Capital, UBS Wealth Management and Boston Consulting Group. Prior to founding SMART VALOR, Olga held the position of Commercial Managing Partner at Xapo, one of the largest Bitcoin custodians today. Olga is a prominent founding member of the Crypto Valley community, and is the producer of series of blockchain conference in Switzerland. She is also a mentor at the largest European accelerator program, Kickstart Accelerator, and regularly delivers talks at conferences and universities on Bitcoin, the regulation in blockchain industry, the tokenization of assets and the disruption of the banking industry.

On Yavin is the founder and CEO at Cointelligence, the data layer for the crypto economy. On has extensive experience as a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor, as well as more than 20 years of experience in the tech industry. On uses his deep hands-on experience and knowledge of online marketing to create winning strategies for ICOs, crypto, and blockchain companies. Having earned the reputation of crypto expert, On continues to contribute to this industry in ways that advance cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. On has a law degree (LLB) and is also a certified Advocate by the Israeli Bar Association.

Sean is a founding Partner at PROfounders Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in European digital startups. The fund is unique in that all capital comes from successful founders who have created over $6bn in value. PROfounders has invested and supported leading startups such as Made.com, Unity, GetYourGuide, onefinestay (acquired by Accor), Small Giant Games, Festicket, and others. Sean co-founded PROfounders in 2010 after joining from Benchmark Capital. Sean has an engineering degree from Rice University and an MBA from Wharton.

Shane is a Co-Founder of SVK Crypto, London. Shane oversees the 'Cryptogon EOS' Fund which invests in the most promising and early stage blockchain technology projects utilising the EOSIO protocol. Shane is an experienced portfolio manager with more than 18 years investment and hedge fund management experience. Shane was formerly a hedge fund manager and partner at BlueCrest Capital Management ($35bn AUM) and ran their global equity capital markets business focusing on IPO's fort he European Equity Long/Short and Emerging Markets fund. Mr Kehoe is an FCA regulated person and holds an Investment Management Certificate (IMC).

Sheba has 20 years’ experience in growing and running recruitment businesses, placing executives with financial and digital tech backgrounds into organisations such as Disney, Aviva, BBC, Barclays, News UK and Penguin Random House. Heavily involved in the sale of her previous recruitment business to James Caan CBE, the Dragons Den entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Coin Rivet and mother to four amazing children.

Shivani Dasani is an investment banking professional focused on U.S. Equity Capital Markets advisory for companies within the Technology, FinTech, Industrials and Healthcare space. In her role, she advises companies across the spectrum of maturity, from private round financing to initial public offerings. She has helped the Venture Capital and Private Equity community in both Silicon Valley and New York City facilitate monetization events for portfolio companies. Shivani has also worked closely with investors of Ripple and has advised U.S. hedge funds focused on the blockchain / cryptocurrency space. Shivani received a B.A. with honors in Economics from Davidson College and was part of the Phi Beta Delta International Honors society.

Tomer Federman is passionate about the promise of distributed ledger technology and is Founder & CEO of Federman Capital, an investment firm focused on blockchain technology and crypto assets. Previously, he led product strategy and global growth of major ad products at Facebook, helping to build the company’s multi-billion dollar ad empire. Prior to Facebook, Tomer was Founder & CEO of an ecommerce startup incubated by Stanford’s StartX Accelerator and worked at Fortune 500 tech companies, including SAP and TE Connectivity. Tomer holds a B.A. in Business Administration and Finance from IDC (magna cum laude) and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.