Marvin Coleby

Marvin Coleby is the CEO and founder of Raise (getraise.io), a Bahamian and Kenyan startup building an asset ownership platform to manage compliant blockchain-based digital securities in frontier markets. Coleby serves as an advisor at the Africa Blockchain Alliance and Agentic Group, alongside partners at MIT, Coindesk, IBM and PwC. He is also the co-trustee of

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Alex McDougall

Investor, author, speaker and hater of zero-sum games. Former investment banker and current searcher for the hypotenuses of life. Liker of trust technologies, disliker of extractive data paradigms. Co-founder of Bicameral Ventures.

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Buchi Okoro

Prior to Quidax, had worked across several business sectors including; real estate, investment banking, fashion and logistics. For Buchi, starting Quidax was in response to a negative experience when he first attempted to buy Bitcoin. As CEO of Quidax, Buchi is driven by an innate passion to make it easy for individuals and businesses in

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Roselyne Wanjiru

Roselyne is an economist, youth mentor and blockchain strategy consultant. She is the Director of Growth and User Acquisitions at Pesabase and Chief Marketing Officer at Kesholabs Blockchain Centre, a Startup Studio in Kenya, Africa. She is a keynote speaker and thought leader in Africa’s budding blockchain ecosystem, having spoken in international conferences &media platforms

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Marc Taverner

Marc Taverner is the Executive Director of the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (inatba.org), the pre-eminent nonprofit organization supporting the growth of DLT & blockchain technologies. INATBA does this by engaging public and private audiences to address and reduce frictions that inhibit market growth. As executive director, Marc works with INATBA’s members to host

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Farzam Ehsani

Farzam is the CEO and Co-Founder of VALR.com, a platform that bridges the gap between our traditional financial system and the new world of cryptocurrencies. He was previously the Blockchain Lead at Rand Merchant Bank and the FirstRand Group, and was the inaugural Chairperson of the South African Financial Blockchain Consortium. He previously worked at

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Richard Ells

Richard Ells balances nearly three decades of successful entrepreneurship that include still running Sitewizard.com and Retortal.com and now leads one of the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency projects that has its very own global freelance platform that does not charge freelancers any fees or commissions and does not require them to have a bank account.

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Ehis Omozusi

Ehis is Conflux Network Africa Regional Marketing and Business Lead. He has a Master’s Degree in International Economics and Business from Nankai University, China. He is passionate about blockchain technology and its impact in Africa. Over a year ago, Conflux network set base in Africa and has partnered with a couple of reputable African startups

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Tone Vays (Keynote Speaker)

Tone has worked on Wall Street for almost 10 years starting as a Risk Analyst at Bear Stearns and later becoming a VP at JP Morgan Chase in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. His expertise is in Economic Trends, Trading and Risk Analysis. Ever since getting involved in the Crypto Currency ecosystem in

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