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Conference Agenda: 21 February 2018 - New Delhi, INDIA

09:00 - 09:30

09:30 - 09:45

09:45 - 10:00

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 11:00

11:30 - 12:00

12:00 - 12:30

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Opening Address: The Status of Blockchain Technologies in India
Speaker: Pankaj Som Chaturvedi - Secretary, The Blockchain Foundation
About Session: In India high-level committee deliberations are said to be in support of encouraging the use of blockchain technology. Financial players are the first movers to capitalise on this technology. This session will shed light on the application of blockchain technologies in India.

pankaj profile

A serial entrepreneur, he has rich and varied experience in education, advising governments, supply-chain management, steel industry and the renewable energy sector. He studied Bachelors and Masters course Economics from RIT, Rochester, NY and SUNY, Binghamton, NY. He has worked in the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation as a Consultant and as Advisor to the Minister for Science & Technology and Power, Government of India, UPNEDA, UREDA, NREDA, & MANIREDA. Presently, he is also advisor to several companies in varied sectors like supply-chain management, steel industry and the renewable energy sector.

Govt Keynote: Regulatory Framework on Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain
Speaker: Ajay S Singh ICAS* - Chief Controller of Accounts, Government of India
About Session: Blockchain & cryptocurrencies are yet to be regulated in India. Digital India is the dream of our government. By setting up a high level committee to study and give suggestion on virtual currency regulations, government has again shown their keenness to study, understand and take well thought decisions. This session will shed light on the government's plan and vision on the aspect of regulation.

ajay s s profile

Mr. AJAY S. SINGH is an officer from Indian Civil Accounts Service and currently working as Chief Controller of Accounts, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation and Ministry of Panchayati Raj (Local Governance), Government of India.

He has worked in Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Ministry of Power and Ministry of Agriculture in different capacities. During last 23 years of public sector service, Mr. Singh as extensively contributed at the operational and policy making level in the field of public financial management.

He is the head of the PFM set up, budget, financial approval and internal control operations for releases by Government of India to sub-national government/agencies of Rural Dev. Sector. Releases of more than 20 billion USD made to agencies and more than 100 million poor individual beneficiaries through DBT means.

Earlier as Director, Multi-lateral Institution, Department of Economic Affairs, he handled loan portfolio of ADB and World Bank amounting to more than 4 billion dollars. He has also worked in Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd. (Currency Printer and Mint of India), CBDT and NHAI

Opening Keynote: Deploying Winternitz OTS Signatures in an Extended Merkle Signature Scheme for the Purposes of Securing a Network Against Quantum Computers
Speaker: Adam Koltun - Marketing Manager, The Quantum Resistant Ledger
About Session: ECDSA’s security rests upon the computational difficulty of factorisation of large integers, the discrete logarithm problem and the elliptic-curve discrete logarithm problem. Shor's quantum algorithm solves factorisation of large integers and discrete logarithms in polynomial time. Winternitz OTS signatures deployed in an Extended Merkle Signature Scheme, however, can achieve quantum resistance.

adam profile

Currently, in addition to his role at QRL, Adam advises a few other cryptocurrency projects on how they can best situate themselves for success in this developing market. With a passion for emergent and forward-looking technology, Adam sees blockchain as the foundation that will underpin the digital industrial revolution. He has a Bachelor of the Arts in Anthropology and a Bachelor of the Arts in American Studies from the University of Massachusetts.

Blockchain Technology: Efficiency, Reducing Costs & Creating a New Economy
Speaker: Ilya Frolov - Guestspeaker, Cointed.com
About Session: Distributed ledger technology (DLT), or blockchain as it is more commonly called, seems to have taken the world by storm, capturing the imaginations and the wallets of financial institutions around the globe. Over the last three years alone, more than 2,500 distributed ledger technology patents have been filed and the leading blockchain consortium boasts 45 of the world’s largest financial institutions.

ILYA profile

ILya has international and cross-industrial background since 1996 (IKEA, CAT, Coke, Pepsi) with main competencies in sales, marketing and economics. With passion for inventing and high-tech things, he was involved in few projects on new technologies, like 3D printing for construction and thermowood. Since 2015 he focused on utilization of computing waste for added value. Finaly it came down to PoW basis with launching in 2017 prototype of house, which is mining Bitcoin with compliments of covering mortgage and heating for free. His mission is scaling of decentrilized PoW hardware under ecofriendly agenda.

Tea Break

The Latest Developments in Cloud Mining
Speaker: Marco Krohn - Co-Founder, Genesis Mining
About Session: Cloud Mining is the process of crypto mining utilizing a remote datacenter with shared processing power. This cloud mining enables users to mine bitcoins or alternative cryptocurrencies without managing the hardware. Learn the latest developments from the best cloud mning company in the world.

marco profile

Marco studied mathematics, physics and economics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and worked several years for the finance industry and in investment banking. When he learnt about Bitcoin he quit his bank job to join the cryptocurrency revolution. Marco is co-founder and CFO of Genesis Mining, one of the largest cryptocurrency mining companies.

Public Transparency Meets Data Privacy - The World's First Dual Blockchain for Equities
Speaker: Sascha Ragtschaa - CEO, Chainium
About Session: We're building the world's first digitised share certificate using blockchain which we expect to become the new global standard. But how do we handle public data (eg shareholder name) and private data (eg date of birth) within a decentralised blockchain? Join us to find out about the world's first dual blockchain.

sascha profile

Sascha started Software Engineering at the age of 16, and worked for a number of web technology start-ups during the initial stages of his career. Working in streaming and multimedia technologies initially in 2000 (Kirch New Media, Munich) he branched out into data analytics and financial services, working as a Lead Engineer on multiple projects and business lines around the world: employee share plans, share registry, annual general meetings and events, shareholder communication and mortgage servicing to name a few.
Over the past 17 years he has worked for the largest global share registry and transfer agency provider in the world, and held various technology leadership roles in Europe, Australia and North America. In his most recent function he was the Chief Information Officer for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia, managing 421 staff across multiple locations and countries, covering the end-to-end technology delivery and servicing lifecycle of a global organization. He is now developing and deploying these capabilities in the new era of decentralized financial services applications, creating a business with the best engineers in the industry.

12:30 - 13:00

14:00- 14:30

14:30 - 15:00

15:00 - 15:45

Rebuilding Finance with the World’s Digital Assets
Speaker: Rajesh Gopi - VP Products, Wanchain
About Session: Wanchain is a distributed financial platform that enables private cross-blockchain smart-contract execution.

rajesh profile

Rajesh joined the tech scene in the mid-90s and witnessed the building of the internet through his contributions to various Operating Systems, Networking Products & Consumer Products at IBM, Sun Microsystems & Freescale Semiconductor. He is convinced that today we are at ground-zero of the next major innovation with the blockchain technology. He strongly believes that every asset will get tokenized and this disruption will lead to new finance. He is thrilled to be a participant of this major transformation. Rajesh also has experience at multiple startups and holds a Masters in Computer Application from NIT Calicut, India and an MBA from McCombs School of Business, UT Austin

Networking Luncheon

Society at the Edge of Technology Breakthrough
Speaker: Jörg Molt - Chief Executive Officer, Satoshi School
About Session: Since 2008 when BitCoin came alive til today everything changes. We have seen 26000+ blockchain projects, ICO and regulators which acting hard on it. But we see BitCoin hasn’t been stopped. At the edge who will survive in 5 year from now.

Jörg profile

Jörg Molt is one of the few experts in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. As a coach, speaker and consultant, he is indeed one of the more reputable specialists in Europe. He advises renowned companies and institutions from many different industries all over the world on how to implement digitalisation processes. As a solo miner and member of an Antminer network, he has helped create key structures, building up capital and fixed assets in Bitcoin from the very outset. By generally developing Smart Contracts based on the local blockchain, he founded a holding company to act as an agent between users and manufacturers. Together with other experts, this resulted in the “Satoshi Competence School”. Jörg Molt delights his audiences with his humour and clear explanations, using practical examples to demonstrate how (r)evolutionary technology can be applied.

When Love and Blockchain Collide
Speaker: Violet Lim - CEO & Co-Founder, Viola.AI
About Session: What happen when love and blockchain collide? A "Siri" with empathy that builds on Ethereum blockchain is emerging. Let Violet from Viola.AI share with you on how billions of relationships can be transformed by harnessing on Artificial Intelligence, Smart Contract and decentralisation of data, and made possible with over 1.1 billion datapoints from her 14 years of experience.

violet profile

Violet Lim is a passionate entrepreneur and expert matchmaker who has been running her dating company, Lunch Actually Group since 2004. Violet is a Certified Matchmaker, Best-selling Author, Relationship Columnist and Media Darling who has been featured in over 4,000 media globally. Today, Lunch Actually is Asia’s biggest premier lunch dating company with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Jakarta and Bangkok with the largest lunch dating membership base.
Viola.AI is the latest AI and Blockchain project that helps achieve the goal and sets to revolutionize and disrupt the world’s dating and relationship industry

Panel Session: The Future of Blockchain – Disrupting Business Models
Panelist:

Yale ReiSoleil - Chairman & CEO, IOB Fund

Oscar Darmawan - CEO, Tokenomy
Peter Orban - Chief Commercial Officer, Augmate

peter profile

Peter is a strategic and digitally focused global marketing leader with agency, client and startup experience. He is an entrepreneurial business leader with significant P&L experience in strategic communications development across traditional, digital, direct and retail. With deep experience in CPG, automotive, telecommunication and varying levels in nearly every other category, Peter brings his innovative yet analytical thinking to all consulting challenges.

yale profile

A private equity fund manager and quantitative trade, Mr ReiSoleil co-manages Sichuan Hongjian Medical fund, a 20 billion yen medical fund, and a cross border high technology venture capital fund. From 2013 to date, Mr ReiSoleil has developed several proprietary quantitative trading systems.
In July 2017 Mr ReiSoleil co-founded ReiSoleil McAfee Zhu Ventures (RMZ) with McAfee and Mr Zhu.

oscar profile

Oscar Adam Darmawan graduated from Monash University in 2006 with a double degree in Information Technology and System and he holds a certificate in Internet Security from EC-Council USA (Certified Ethical Hacker). Oscar had been involved in the IT industry for military, civil, and corporate for more than eight years. Nowadays, he focuses more in growing www.Bitcoin.co.id (PT Bit Coin Indonesia) as the biggest Indonesia Bitcoin exchange which currently facilitates BTC-IDR trading for more than 250k members in Indonesia. Acting as the CEO and the co-founder of PT Bit Coin Indonesia, he is in charge of the company operation, Bitcoin education in Indonesia and public relationship for the company.

Raffle draw & Tea Break

16:15 - 16:35

Blockchain and Mainstream Media
Speaker: Yashu Gola - Journalist, NewsBTC
About Session: A quick look into how Bitcoin is portrayed by the mainstream media channels around the globe, and how is it irrelevant to the sector's growth.

yashu profile

Yashu Gola is a video broadcaster and former Editor-in-Chief of NewsBTC.com. He has been active in the Bitcoin media since 2014, and has more than 2,000 published articles to his credit. He currently does a weekly show called We Need to CryptoTalk in collaboration with NewsBTC TV YouTube

16:35 - 17:00

17:00 - 17:30

A Decentralized Network for Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Chris Dawe - Co-founder, Effect.AI
About Session: As startups use blockchain to drive greater transparency and veracity across the digital information ecosystem, they’re boosting awareness of the blockchain technology in sectors ranging from payments to public policy. This technology has the ability to make the organizations that use it transparent, democratic, decentralized, efficient, and secure. It is likely to disrupt many industries in the coming 5 to 10 years.

chris profile

Chris is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years leading teams and projects to success. From early 2003- 2012 Chris lead international efforts of European and North American energy initiative projects through his company Choice Energy. In 2012, with a keen eye for emerging markets, Chris quickly realised that blockchain technology and digital currencies would be taking centre stage in the coming years. After networking through the tech world for years, in 2015 Chris was asked to take a lead role with a Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence solution project. It has developed into a project he hopes will change the world.

Evolving Online Retailing with Blockchain Technology
Speaker: Wei Li - CEO, Talent's Shop
About Session: Establishing a leading decentralized ecommerce solution in China. It’s quite different from current ecommerce platforms such as Amazon and Alibaba. There is no central operating role in this platform.

wei profile

Graduated in the UK, worked at Microsoft and Alibaba, former Taobao and Tmall's chief designer. Founded Showjoy.com in 2013, and it was valued more than one billion RMB two years later. Launched Talent's Shop APP in 2016, one of the fastest growing ecommerce platforms in China, and estabilished a leading deceteralized ecommerce solution by applying blockchain techonlogy.

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