ABOUT BITCOIN AFRICA CONFERENCE 2015

Bitcoin Events hosted its inaugural Bitcoin Africa Conference at the Atlantic Imbizo Conference and Function Studio at the Waterfront in Cape Town on the 16 – 17 April 2015.

International and local expert speakers included well-known South African entrepreneur, Vinny Lingham, early adopter and well-known Venture Capitalist, Brock Pierce, CEO of Gem, Micah Winkelsprecht and Chief Compliance Officer of Luno, Erik-Wilgenhof-Plante.

Vinny Lingham, the CEO of Gyft was the Keynote Speaker and he discussed how his company Gyft was the first e-commerce company in the US to have adopted bitcoin on its platform for customers to pay for gift cards using bitcoin.

The speakers discussed topics ranging from venture capitalist funding in bitcoin, how blockchain can be used in identity, using bitcoin to power smart metres for electricity, using bitcoin for remittances, how bitcoin adoption is growing in Africa and how companies are implementing compliance measures with regards to Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML).

Sponsors included Gem, Gyft, BitPesa, Bankymoon and PayFast.

Watch the highlights video below.

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Keynote Speaker
Vinny Lingham

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CEO and Co-Founder of Civic and Gyft
Keynote Address: Bitcoin: A Silicon Valley perspective

Elizabeth Rossiello

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CEO and Founder of AZA Finance (BitPesa)
Bitcoin, Remittances and the Developing World

Micah Winkelspecht

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CEO and Founder of Gem
Bitcoin Security: A Practical Perspective

Simon Dingle

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CEO of Inves Capital
Bitcoin, Present and Future

Jonathan Smit

CEO of PayFast
Bitcoin and PayFast: eCommerce Insight and Potential

Brock Pierce

Chairman of the US Bitcoin Foundation and Co-founder of EOS Alliance, Block.one, Blockchain Capital, Tether, and Mastercoin
Bitcoin investment

Gareth Grobler

CEO at iCE3
New Entrants and Disruptors

Lorien Gamaroff

Founder and CEO of Bankymoon
Smart Grids and the Blockchain – Bitcoin’s First Killer App

Sean Emery

CEO and Co-Founder of RainFin
Bitcoin and Peer-to-Peer Lending

Jonathan Levin

Co-Founder of Chainalysis
Bitcoin: Basics and Beyond

Erik Wilgenhof Plante

Chief Compliance Officer at BitX (Luno)
Earning Trust