Speaker Category: Blockchain Africa Conference 2022

Gerhard Dinhof

Since 2014, Gerhard is hands-on exploring blockchain for IBM, making this technology real for business. He has worked as a Senior Architect on multiple international enterprise blockchain-based projects in various industries across Europe and has recently started in his role for IBM South Africa as Blockchain Country Lead. He is a well-renowned speaker at conferences

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James Zhang

James grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa and his family has been doing international business in the region for three generations, mainly investing in local infrastructure that helps develop local rural communities. James is a serial entrepreneur and avid investor and became involved with the crypto community starting in 2015

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Piers Ridyard

CEO at RDX Works, Piers Ridyard is a YC Alumni and successful serial entrepreneur having led several businesses, most notably, Nifty, one of the most overfunded tech startups on Kickstarter. He studied Aerospace, Finance, Mandarin and Law prior to starting a career in blockchain. You could say that Piers Ridyard grew up with entrepreneurship in

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Tessy Mosindi

Tessy Mosindi is Head of Computer Science and COO and Co-founder at an Indie blockchain games company, Kingdom of Kush. She is also Founder of a non-profit that empowers disadvantaged African and Caribbean girls. With over 20 years of experience building businesses, Tessy’s main focus remains championing underrepresented communities. She has done so by founding

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Dimitrios Kavvathas

As CSO of Amber Group, Dimitrios is responsible for formulating and driving the Group’s global strategy with particular emphasis on institutional client business, licensing footprint, and regulatory engagement as well as geographical expansion. Dimitrios was the founder and CEO of Nomisma, a regulated digital asset derivatives protocol, the CIO of Harmony Advisors, an SFC regulated

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Yele Bademosi

Yele Bademosi is CEO and Co-Founder of Nestcoin. Yele was previously the CEO and Co-Founder of Bundle, the Africa-focused social payments app for cash and crypto, aiming to drive crypto adoption in Africa and bringing more economic freedom and prosperity to all Africans. Yele is focused on developing the blockchain ecosystem in Africa, accelerating Africa’s

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Ciaran Adrian Ryan

Ciaran has written for most financial publications in SA. He spent time as an editor in California before returning to SA, and has been involved in several business start-ups, including a gold mining venture in Ghana. He is a long-standing writer for Moneyweb and is proud to have witnessed the phenomenal growth of Moneyweb Crypto

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