Kamran Shahin is the Vice President of Product Development – Blockchain and Digital Currencies for the EEMEA region at Mastercard. In his role, Kamran is responsible for defining and driving the regional blockchain and digital currency strategy and key initiatives. Prior to this role at Mastercard, Kamran worked for 10 years at IBM as a
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Gavin is the Founder of Hippytech – a consultancy for decentralised technology. He is a well-known speaker on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in South Africa. Gavin has built his own bitcoin and blockchain crowd funding platform, called ShareBit. He has worked as the Head of Innovation at the mobile social network Mxit and as Product
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Uche Chude-Okonkwo is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and has over eighty (80) publications in reputable journals and conferences. He serves as a technical program committee member for the prestigious IEEE GLOBECOM, and associate editors for Frontier in Communications and Networks and the SAIEE Africa
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Moerieda Mackay is the Founder and CEO at Stride Consultancy Services & Consensus Forum Member of South African National Blockchain Alliance (SANBA). Prior to embarking on her entrepreneurial journey, Mackay was an executive and a member of IT Exco at African Bank. She also head the Enterprise Project Management Office, Process Management and Business Architecture
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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
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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,
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Founder/ Coordinator Blockchain Nigeria User Group, advisory Board Member at Kinesis Money, Caymans, and formally Regional Director for Africa at Paxful Inc. He is the protem Chairman Organization of Blockchain Technology User (OBTU), Africa Lead, Technology & Innovation at Blockspace Africa Technologies and CEO of both Techbuild Innovation Partners and Lagos Drupal Varsity. He is also
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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
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