Moerieda Mackay

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 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

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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,

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Chuta Chimezie

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 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

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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

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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 &

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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

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