Maria Eisner Pelch

Maria Pelch is a Senior Manager at Concordium, a public science-backed blockchain designed to balance privacy with accountability through its novel ID framework. At Concordium, Maria is leading the work on ESG and sustainability focusing on building transparent, trusted Carbon Markets and creating a new paradigm for verified ESG reporting for corporates. Additionally, Maria is

Ayn Du Bazane

Ayn du Bazane is a Senior Fintech Analyst at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) focussed on crypto assets.  She is the Chair of the Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group’s (IFWG) Crypto Assets Regulatory Working Group (CAR WG), a regulatory structure that monitors and analyses the crypto asset ecosystem to inform and make recommendations to financial

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Maya Caddle

Maya built one of the first non-cusotidal on/offramping P2P protocols for Africa and is an advocate for localisation & web3 especially for emerging markets. She has delivered workshops and spoken on this topic for the likes of Developer DAO and FinTech Insider by 11:FS. Maya is very active in helping (web3) African startups obtain foreign

Bill Laboon

Bill Laboon is the Head of Education and Grants at Web3 Foundation. Before this, he was a lecturer in the Computer Science Department of the University of Pittsburgh, teaching courses in software quality assurance, software engineering, and blockchain technology. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on a variety of topics, including cryptocurrency, software quality,

Sunath Kolazhi

Sunath is the Vice President – MEA for Settlemint Blockchain Ltd, Dubai. Sunath is extremely passionate about Web 3 technologies, how it can positively transform businesses and governments. Sunath got over 17 years industry experience in multiple continents (North America, Europe, Middle East & APAC), with previous companies such as Oracle, DXC, Wipro. Sunath is

Julien Bouteloup

Blockchain OG. DeFi Builder. HW Eng. First Flash Loan of the history. Massive tech investor “The more your share, the more you get”. Julien holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the USA and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from France where he specialised in Artificial Intelligence, decentralised systems and security back in

Mandy Naidoo

Mandy Naidoo, a dynamic and motivated professional with two decades of experience in Compliance – Financial Services AML/CFT, Financial Crime & Ethics Programs, has a proven global Compliance track record of success which includes working with the DOJ Monitor team on the MoneyGram Deferred Prosecution Agreement and upliftment of their Africa & Global AML/CFT &

Brooks Entwistle

Brooks Entwistle is the SVP of Global Customer Success and Managing Director for APAC and MENA at Ripple. Prior to joining Ripple, he served as Chief Business Officer International for Uber, responsible for business development and the firm’s relationships across Asia Pacific, EMEA and Latin America. Previously, he was the CEO of Everstone Capital, a

Gwera Kiwana

Gwera is a fintech and web3 expert with a particular interest on where both areas intersect. She’s spent the last few years building and scaling fintechs. After spending time in the trenches with her own payments venture, she joined Monzo to scale their customer ops and internal product as the company grew from 100k to