Blockbali 2020 Agenda

Conference Agenda: 1st December 2020, starts 9.30am India time, GMT +5.5

09:00 - 09:30

Online Login Starts

09:30 - 10:00

Keynote: DeFining Southeast Asia – How can Decentralized Finance Shape the Region?
Speaker: Patrick Tan - CEO & General Counsel, Novum Alpha
About Session: Eleven countries, ten currencies and 655 million people, Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse and disparate regions in the world, perfectly suited for the DeFi revolution. Find out how decentralized finance has the potential to bring financial services to the millions of unbanked in Southeast Asia and to supercharge regional economies.

10:00 - 10:30

Tadpole Finance, Efforts to Develop DeFi Ecosystem in Indonesia
Speaker: Oscar Darmawan - CEO, INDODAX
About Session: Indodax taking part in DeFi Experiment project through Tadpole Finance as Indodax commitment to become the spearhead of blockchain ecosystem in Indonesia.

10:30 - 11:00

Blockchain in Indonesia - Key to Global Blockchain Market
Speaker: Shunsuke Murasaki - CEO, EMURGO Indonesia
About Session: EMURGO Indonesia has been providing blockchain education to the Indonesian market through its various education programs. In this session, the audience can expect to know essential components of DEFI and some of the first steps to understand it better.

11:00 - 11:30

Legal - Compliance & Regulation
Speaker: Magnus Jones - Head of Blockchain, EY Tax Norway
About Session: DeFi by design is permissionless and decentralized which means, unlike centralized exchanges, there are no KYC (know your customer) requirements for users. It operates largely beyond the realms of government and regulatory control which raises concerns about illegal access to financial services.

11:30 - 12:15

Panel Discussion: DeFi - Breaking the Traditional Financial Systems
Moderator: Stephen Macaskill - CEO, Dasset
Panelists:

Felix Mago - Co-Founder, Dash NEXT
Richard Kastelein - Founder, Blockchain News
Antonio Juliano - Founder, dYdX
Matthew Finestone - Head of Business, Loopring
Jordan Kruger - Head of DeFi, Bloq

About Session: With DeFi on a rampage, interesting is the movement of institutional investors and traditional finance professions to DeFi as a way to break free from what is often considered to be an outdated and insular financial system. The current DeFi movement offers an open and permissionless system that is easily available to everyone. This interoperability helps companies scale products by easily leveraging other innovations in the industry.

12:15 - 12:45

Sponsor Session
Speaker: TBA
About Session: TBA

Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:15

Panel Discussion: DeFi Maturity & Adoption
Moderator: Irwin Chee - Associate Partner, Novum Global Ventures
Panelists:

Marloes Pomp - International Strategy, Dutch Blockchain Coalition
Pēteris Zilgalvis, J.D. - Head of Unit, Digital Innovation and Blockchain, European Commission
Prof Dr Philipp Sandner - Head, Frankfurt School Blockchain Center
Marc Zeller - Integrations Lead, AAVE
Sophie Lopez - Founder & COO, Kaleido

About Session: The majority of DeFi projects believe the industry is far away from maturity, but they are sure that mainstream adoption is likely to occur. DeFi is broadly scalable and would eventually achieve mainstream adoption. This panel shall cover a number of aspects including leading use cases, platforms and key metrics to follow.

14:25 - 14:45

The Future of DeFi: Real Asset Integration
Speaker: Jorge Sebastiao - Founder & CTO, DeFi-X
About Session: TBA

14:45 - 15:30

Panel Discussion: DeFi Composability: Creating Usable Money Legos with DAOs
Moderator: Rey Fernando Verboonen - Co-founder, CurioInvest
Panelists:

Alexander Russman - Director of Business Development, Enjin
Jocelyn Chang - APAC Community Lead, MakerDAO
Clayton Roche - Community Lead, UMA
Vladimir Nikitin - Ambassador, Polkadot

About Panel: DeFi composability allows developers to focus on their core business logic by leveraging permission-less and censorship-resistant infrastructure. A multitude of DeFi applications ("Money LEGOs") can be connected in tandem to create previously unimaginable use cases and financial products.

15:30 - 16:00

Networking Break

16:00 - 16:45

Panel Discussion: DeFi v/s Legacy Finance
Moderator: John Hargrave - CEO, Media Shower
Panelists:

Jorge Sebastiao - CEO, Global Blockchain Organisation
Thomas Zakrzewski - Founder, Egisdata
Gregory Keough - Founder, DeFi Money Market Foundation
Masumi Hamahira - Ambassador to Malaysia, Bitcoin Association
Ksenia Sussman - Founder & CEO, LATTUDE

About Session: Centralized systems have their advantages and disadvantages, and it is likely that, even if DeFi takes off, both types of financial products and services will always be available to the masses. This panel will debate at some of the advantages, disadvantages, challenges and problems of each counterpart of the financial world — centralized and decentralized.

16:45 - 17:15

Blockbali DeFi Awards Ceremony
Presenter: Novum Global Ventures

17:15 - 17:30

Closing Keynote
Speaker: TBA
About Session: TBA

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