Nathan Williams

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

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

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

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

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

Viv Diwakar

Yosuke Yoshida

Yosuke Yoshida is the former CEO of EMURGO Japan, where EMURGO Group was first established and started its entire business. Yoshida brings nearly 20 years of professional experience in M&A and business development and project management as the manager of Japan’s largest investment and cross-border trading company in the power sector. He has led multiple

Kevin Imani

Kevin is the Founder and CEO of Sankore 2.0, which operates in Kenya as NEAR Regional Hub, dedicated to blockchain innovation, education and talent development throughout the African continent. He is also the Director of Open Forest Protocol Hub (Kenya), which uses blockchain to monitor forest projects end-to-end and offers carbon financing to organisations that

Robert Brine

Robert Brine is the Director, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard. Based in Johannesburg, Rob is responsible for driving Mastercard’s AI, Cyber, Fraud, Identity and Security solutions in Southern Africa.  Mr Brine is also responsible for Mastercard enterprise safety, security and network solutions including fraud management and prevention strategies; security, identity, scoring and decision systems;