Blockchain Fest 2021 - Cyprus Event. Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Exchange, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Mining, Online Payments and Investment

Speakers

Government speaker

Ministry of Finance (Cyprus)

Government speaker

Ministry of Finance (Cyprus)

Government speaker

CySEC (Cyprus)

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, better known as CySEC, is the financial regulatory agency of Cyprus. As an EU member state, CySEC's financial regulations and operations comply with the European MiFID financial harmonization law.

Government speaker

CySEC (Cyprus)

Andrey Barchenkov

Co-Founder Finexpo & Unicap

One of the main FINEXPO projects are its exhibitions and trade shows, organizing annually all over the world! The events were attended by more than 100,000 visitors and 3,000 huge companies from all over the world.

Professional with a background: Stocks, Futures, Options trading and business more 25 years. Forex business more 20 years. Crypto trading and business more 5 years.
Producer of business, financial events and luxury trade shows around the world since 2002 more than 300 events during 15 years: Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, South Korea, China, UK, Europe, Russia, Ukraine

Andrey Barchenkov

Co-Founder Finexpo & Unicap

Johnny Lyu

VP & Co-founder of KuCoin

Johnny Lyu, VP & Co-founder of KuCoin, a serial entrepreneur, a dedicated backer to the blockchain industry, has invested dozens projects and advised several others with great potential. Johnny aims to bring together more promising projects, stronger strategic resources and high-quality funds, which will further contribute to establishing a perfectly sustainable blockchain ecosystem, eventually accelerate KuCoins evolution towards a more dynamic financial platform.

Johnny Lyu

VP & Co-founder of KuCoin

Tanja Bivic Plankar

President of Blockchain Alliance Europe

Tanja Bivic Plankar has 12 years’ experience in television broadcasting, public speaking and communications. Since 2017 she is an active member of the regional crypto community, has participated in numerous blockchain-related media campaigns and is involved in several blockchain technology projects.

Since March 2018 she is also the president of Blockchain Alliance Europe ( blockchainalliance.si )
Blockchain Alliance Europe is a non-profit organization that connects companies and legal entities that use or implement blockchain technologies or are a part of the blockchain ecosystem.

Blockchain Alliance Europe advocates for mass usage of blockchain technologies and crypto-assets and with the vision to transform Europe into a global blockchain destination.

The alliance was established with the purpose of mutual assistance in business development, networking, cooperation and a joint approach to defending the interests of the members of the alliance. Members of the alliance also work closely with the Slovenian and European regulators in the relevant legislation field.

Tanja Bivic Plankar

President of Blockchain Alliance Europe

Ethan Ng

CEO of BiKi.com

Ethan Ng is the CEO of BiKi.com Southeast Asia, BiKi.com is one of the fastest growing crypto exchange and ranking in the top 30 exchanges. He was also the Marketing Lead of Huobi Global, leading the team into market expansions in different markets, he was the organizer of Blockchain Festival Vietnam, garnering 1626 attendees, 30 vip speakers and 52 media delegates. Prior to this, he was a digital strategist in the banking sector and growth specialist in startups. Ethan graduated with Bachelor of Business Marketing from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. - Ex Huobi Global Marketing Lead - Digital Strategist from traditional bank - Extensive experience in growth marketing and lean startup - Southeast Asia regional expansion experience

Ethan Ng

CEO of BiKi.com

Thomas Borrel

Chief Product Officer at Polymath

Thomas leads the Product Strategy, Product Management and Product Marketing teams across Polymath’s product portfolio. Prior to joining Polymath, Thomas was Director of Product Management at Extreme Networks where he led Extreme’s Software and Cloud offerings. Prior to Extreme Networks, Thomas was VP, Business Development & Strategic Alliances at BlueCat Networks. Thomas holds a master’s degree from Toulouse University.

Thomas Borrel

Chief Product Officer at Polymath

Speaker

AAVE

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AAVE

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Speaker from BnkToTheFuture

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Speaker from BnkToTheFuture

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Secret Speaker from Binance

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Secret Speaker from Binance

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Speaker from General Bytes

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Speaker from General Bytes

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Speaker from bZx Protocol

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Speaker from bZx Protocol

Marc Taverner

Executive Director of the Inatba

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 bilateral conversations between governments (including the European Commission) and companies to inform policies and regulations and advance the international adoption of blockchain. Marc has been active in the global blockchain ecosystem for more than six years, working across 20 countries, engaging with organisations from core cryptocurrency companies to governments and financial institutions, to large corporates and industry associations.

Prior to joining INATBA, he was the Global Ambassador and head of Business Development for the Bitfury Group, one of Europe’s largest blockchain unicorns.
To INATBA he brings a unique set of experiences gained from a career in start-ups and industry-leading companies. The founder of a successful modem distribution company, Nuvo, Marc has held leadership roles with many top technology companies, including Genesys Conferencing, the world's largest provider of unified communications services, and Promethean, a market leader in educational technology solutions.

Marc Taverner

Executive Director of the Inatba

Dr. Oriol Caudevilla

Management Consultant / Advisor / FinTech Advisor / Fellow

Oriol works as a Management Consultant at AirHelp, Advisor for a Hong Kong-based FinTech company, ixFintech, Strategic Advisor at a Hong Kong-based WealthTech company, ETFCool, Strategic Advisor at ScallopX and FinTech Mentor at F10 Incubator & Accelerator, Singapore.

Oriol is member of the Blockchain, Digital Banking and Greater Bay Area Committees at the Fintech Association of Hong Kong (FTAHK), as well as the Singapore Fintech Association (SFA).

He is Fellow at the Digital Euro Association (D€A) and at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)

Dr. Oriol Caudevilla

Management Consultant / Advisor / FinTech Advisor / Fellow

Jesus Rodriguez

CEO of IntoTheBlock / Technology expert / Serial entrepreneur / Angel investor

Jesus Rodriguez is a technology expert, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and internationally recognized speaker and author.

A computer scientist by background, Jesus is the CEO at IntoTheBlock, a platform that leverages advanced machine learning to understand and predict crypto-asset markets.

Jesus is also the Chief Scientist and Managing Partner at Invector Labs, a development studio focused on leveraging artificial intelligence in real world applications. In addition to his operational work, Jesus is a guest lecturer at Columbia University where he teaches topics related to AI and data science.

Jesus’s career includes several successful exits as an entrepreneur in the enterprise software space and tenures building cloud systems at Microsoft and quantitative trading platforms for several Wall Street hedge funds.
Jesus has been the recipient of several industry awards including the Inc. 500 and Stevie Awards for American and international business.
He serves as a board member in several enterprise software companies and is an investor in over a dozen of startups.

Jesus Rodriguez

CEO of IntoTheBlock / Technology expert / Serial entrepreneur / Angel investor

Irina S. Litchfield

President of Lumeria

Irina S. Litchfield is President of Lumeria, Pre-IPO IR firm.

She is founder of BlockchainCube, DLT consulting firm. She is a senior advisor at SpaceFund, advisor at ProChain Capital and founding advisor at ABE, global securities exchange. She cofounded payments/gaming company in 2005.

Early to the blockchain space, she cofounded a bitcoin exchange in 2013 and later built an online bank. Passionate about innovation technology, positive social capital and democratization of space, investments and opportunities,
Irina often speaks as a subject matter expert. She is an organizer of ARRA global innovations summit, co-orgonizer of BitAngelsTexas and columnist at CoinRivet

You can reach her linkedin.com/in/irina-litchfield-b50352131

Irina S. Litchfield

President of Lumeria

Stefan Gergely

Head of Blockchain Department of Zitec

Stefan Gergely is the Head of the Mobile Blockchain & Advanced Technologies Department of Zitec. Stefan founded Aurus.io, a fintech company that built a 100% gold-backed cryptocurrenc; ATA, the Romanain Association of Advanced Technologies as well as other tech startups. Stefan co-founder Udevoffice, one the first agencies to develop blockchain technology, which was recently acquired by Zitec, one the largest development agencies in Romania.

Topic:
How to built a legit crypto startup, etc.
It's time for blockchain to enter the mainstream tech world
What PoCs we built for big companies to show added value of blockchain for their businesses
-> Transavia Airlines: we build a proof of concept to show how blockchain can improve the in-airport experience with a ticket "zero knowledge proof" solution
-> Identity solution for Armenia for the UNDP
-> etc
-> How to find the ideal blockchain use case for your company
-> How to integrate crypto into your business

Stefan Gergely

Head of Blockchain Department of Zitec

Mariana Danilovic

Managing Director of Infiom, LLC

Mariana Founded and manages Infiom, a global consensus blockchain economy for creation of DeFi, NFTs, and Consensus Blockchain Ventures. Prior to Infiom, she was the Managing Director of BitAngels, the first crypto angel network formed in 2013 that invested in launch of Ethereum. She is an Advisor to SuperWorld, Open Therapeutics, Alysida Health, uPrime, and System9.

Mariana was EVP Business Development for NTN Buzztime, Inc. (AMEX:NTN) and Head of Business Development, Content Aggregation and Programming for MediaZone, a broadband video company launched and owned by NASPERS Internet (largest investor in Tencent). Mariana also founded and directed the Digital Media Incubator at KPMG LLP. Portfolio companies raised angel investments from Michael Jackson, Beny Alagem, Al Copeland, IdeaLab, David Gefen, Brian Singer, Bob Daly, Jeff Pollack of Handprint Entertainment and John Gee, Executive Director of NASA Ames Research Incubator, and VC funding from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Intel, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Panasonic, and Chase Capital Partners.

Mariana served on the New Media Board and serves on the International Committee of the Producers’ Guild of America and is a member of the Television Academy. Mariana served on the Board of the Tim Draper’s Zone Ventures Club and on the Mayor Riordan’s Digital Coast Roundtable.

Topic:
Earn Revenue in NFTs, DeFi and Consensus Blockchain Ventures

Mariana Danilovic

Managing Director of Infiom, LLC

Henrik Gebbing

Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Finoa

Henrik Gebbing Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Finoa, a FinTech focusing on Banking Services for Blockchain-based Digital Assets. Prior, Henrik worked as a Consultant at McKinsey & Company, serving financial institutions and high-tech companies across the globe.

He started his career with a dual degree in the high-tech branch of Siemens AG. Henrik earned a B.A. in Int. Management & Finance (Germany), was granted a Fulbright Scholarship for his M.Sc. in Marketing at Golden Gate University (USA), and earned an MBA from IE Business School (Spain).

Topic:
Building a company that strives to bring sense and calm to the ever-changing blockchain ecosystem by bridging the gap between institutional investors, corporations and the wider crypto community

Henrik Gebbing

Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Finoa

Christophe Fonteneau

Head of Strategic Partnerships and BD of Request

Developing strategic partnerships in Blockchain based invoicing and crypto currency payments, sourcing relationships in DeFi and traditional finance, and identifying new revenue opportunities.
Responsible for shaping and developing business and partnership strategies, negotiating and closing deals and working closely with the Product, Engineering and Marketing.

Topic:
The One stop shop for simplified Crypto Management

Christophe Fonteneau

Head of Strategic Partnerships and BD of Request

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BLOCKCHAIN FEST IN THE FINANCIAL & IT CENTER OF EUROPE

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CRYPTO AWARDS 2021: PEOPLE’S CHOICE

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BLOCKCHAIN FEST IN THE FINANCIAL & IT CENTER OF EUROPE

BUSINESS NETWORKING ON TOP LEVEL

CRYPTO AWARDS 2021: PEOPLE’S CHOICE

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Agenda

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Sponsors

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