Brandon Topham

Mr Brandon Topham is the Divisional Executive for Enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority. He is an accomplished business executive with considerable local and international experience in corporate governance, finance and commercial law. He has served as a member of the South African Parliament, and served on the Trade & Industry, Finance, Auditor General

Jay Shapiro

Jay Shapiro is Founder and CEO of Usiku Games. He has a 20 year track record as a successful entrepreneur, digital marketer and visionary strategist. After leaving Canada in 1995, Jay moved to Asia and completed his MBA at the National University of Singapore. He went on to launch BLUE, which would become one of

Terry Kelly

Terry grew up in Cape Town and after military service joined SAB at the Ohlssons Brewery in Newlands. Before IBM launched the Personal Computer in 1983 he was heading down the road of becoming a Cost And Management Accountant however once he got his hands onto one of these devices he quickly realized where the

Kaj Burchardi

Kaj Burchardi is a Managing Director with BCG Platinion with more than 19 years of experience in IT consulting. He has worked with clients from various industries in Europe, US, and Middle East on IT architecture, Digital and Agile transformations. Kaj is leading the Blockchain practice of BCG/Platinion globally and supported clients in the strategy

Ajit Tripathi

Ajit currently leads institutional growth and strategy for Aave, the world’s leading decentralised liquidity protocol with over 5 billion in assets and borrowings. Using public blockchain technology, Aave creates significant opportunities for financial institutions to enhance market transparency, market efficiency, financial inclusion and systemic risk reduction. The last five years of his career have been

Sean Mouton

Sean is Chief Technology Manager Head of R&D at Absa with 32 years of extensive knowledge in banking and payments. Sean serves as the Chairperson for the Financial Industry Standards Association  and represent South Africa of Head of Delegation at ISO T68. Sean is also very involved with Digital Identity, CBDC and DLT.

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