Samy Karim

Samy works on ecosystem development for BNB Chain, supporting developers and project teams build and grow in the BSC ecosystem. Samy is passionate about education and specifically developer education, as well as contributing towards realizing the full potential of Web3, by leveraging blockchain tech and crypto to significantly improve and redefine the legacy systems which

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Jim Kyung-Soo Liew, Ph.D.

Dr. Jim Kyung-Soo Liew is an Associate Professor of Finance at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and revels in pushing the boundaries of financial knowledge and product development both as an academic and FinTech entrepreneur. He has published pioneering research in the intersection of social media big data, blockchain, and financial markets. He currently teaches

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Peter McCormack

Peter McCormack is a Journalist at Defance and What Bitcoin Did.

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Henri Arslanian (Keynote Speaker)

Henri Arslanian is the PwC Global Crypto Leader, the former Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia. Henri advises many of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, investors, financial institutions and tech firms on their

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Elendu Uche

Elendu Uche is the CEO of AppZone Switch, an AppZone Group subsidiary. Zone, their main product, is a decentralized payment infrastructure that uses blockchain to make digital payments across Africa faster, cheaper, and more reliable. With over ten years of expertise creating and delivering payment solutions to financial institutions and enterprises, he is a financial

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Emmanuel Babalola

Emmanuel Babalola is the Director for Africa at Binance and the interim CEO of Bundle, the Africa-focused social payments app for cash and crypto, driving crypto adoption on the continent. He has pioneered education initiatives such as Binance Masterclass which provides free blockchain education courses to the masses, especially in Africa and has reached over

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Stani Kulechov (Keynote Speaker)

Stani Kulechov is the Founder and CEO of Aave, an open source and non-custodial money market protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets. Stani was studying law at the University of Helsinki when he first got into Ethereum and he started exploring how it could impact the traditional financial system. In 2017, Stani

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Ben Zhou (Keynote Speaker)

Ben Zhou is Bybit’s Co-founder and CEO. He spearheaded the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange into a platform of more than one million users from its foundation in 2018. Bybit is now one of the world’s top five crypto derivative exchanges, and has the best liquidity for the BTCUSD perpetual contract. Established in March 2018, Bybit is

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Sandra Ro (Keynote Speaker)

Sandra is a proponent for ‘human-centric tech’. She left a career in investment banking and currency markets to focus on emerging technologies for sustainability, access, and resiliency, particularly in financial systems. She is an early investor in, and an advocate of digital assets. Sandra currently serves as the CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council

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Anil Hansjee

Anil Hansjee is General Partner at Fabric Ventures. For the past 19 years, Anil has been dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, especially from the fintech and digital media industries, achieve their dreams with capital, operational support, fundraising and exit advice. He has done this both from within funds (IDG Ventures and Mojo.capital) as well as an

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