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Conference Agenda: 7th February 2019 - Mumbai, India

08:30 - 09:30

09:30 - 10:00

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 10:50

11:30 - 12:20

Registration Signoff

Inauguration & Opening Address: The Status of Blockchain Technology in India
Speaker: Ravi Eppaturi - Chief Technology Officer, Lyncbiz Corporation

About Session: This opening session will shed a light on India's Blockchain status and the future outlook for blockchain.
Our experts will shed light on the current implementation programs and also highlight the areas of development of blockchain technology in India.
Listen to the insights and key statistics.

ravi profile

Ravi is an accomplished technology expert with over 25 years of global experience. He has played leadership and managerial roles in leading organizations. Ravi has the ‘big picture’ approach with hands-on strategic, tactical and technical balance for limiting risk and establishing creative solutions for internal and external customers. His industry exposure ranges from Healthcare, FMCG, Government, Energy–Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) and Retail

The Importance of Developing a Blockchain Ecosystem
Speaker: Peter Lim - Founder & CEO, PLMP Fintech
About Session: Nine in ten governments' plan to invest in blockchain technology in 2019 for purposes relating to financial transaction management, asset management, contract management and regulatory compliance. 2017 saw more than USD $900 million invested in the technology’s fintech applications. 2018 has already surpassed 2017’s record. The global blockchain technology market is forecast to grow to USD $2.3 billion by 2021. There’s much more to understanding and investing in the broader blockchain technology and the ecosystem that powers it.

peter profile

Peter is the Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer of PLMP FINTECH, Asia biggest Blockchain Technologies Center housing 60,000 sqft end to end ICO launch advisory, blockchain developer school, crypto exchange, Crypto investment OTC , Blockchain innovators incubator and thousand units mega rig mining farm.
Peter Lim diverse portfolio dating back from IT industry to infocomm and was actively involved in Dot.com startup funding. He was hand picked under EDB SEEDS Entrepreneurship and was team member of CHINA – SINGAPORE Information Technology Collaboration 2000 to 2003 developing vast experience in conceptualizing, marketing, organizing and executing successful venture in major IT infrastructure projects in both China and India.

How Blockchain can Transform India, eGovernance?
Speaker: Santos Sinha - Founder, OIX Global
About Session:
Government needs are different than industry and thus poses unique challenges. When Can Government Use Blockchain?
Government blockchain can transform the citizen experience with distributed ledger technology and standardization of intra-government data sharing and information management.

santos profile

Santos Sinha has been a much sought after security professional in the banking sector for much of his professional life. His thorough understanding of Fintech and Legal aspects of the business has enabled him to innovate and disrupt with ease.
He brings his extensive experience from his time at Price Water House Coopers, Bank of America, Master Card among others.

Tea Break

Panel Discussion: Blockchain - Transforming our Business & our World

Moderator: Santosh Kotnis - Global Business Leader
Panelists: 1. Ralph Liu - CEO, MuleChain & CEO, TurboChains
2. Julien Bouteloup - Founder - Flyingcarpet.network, CEO Stake Capital, CTO British Blockchain Association
3. Deepak Lalan - Associate Director, Accenture - Blockchain, India

About Session:
When we think about the potential of blockchain, it’s important to take a global perspective. Our banking system, government machinery and legal system; all have their inequities. But Blockchain has the potential to improve these institutions — to make them faster, cheaper, more efficient. The real transformational potential of blockchain is for countries where the democratic, financial, and legal institutions either don’t exist, are corrupt, or are inaccessible to a large section of the population.
This international panel of experts will give their viewpoint on how blockchain is transforming our businesses and our world.

santosh profile

to be updated

ralph profile

Ralph Liu, Founder and CEO, MuleChain, Inc.
Ralph has been a board level investment banker, seasoned derivatives trader on Wall Street and in many Asian financial centers. Currently, he is a venture investor and advisor in many Blockchain technology-based Fintech and Proptech companies through the California based incubator company Advanced e-Financial Technologies, Inc. (AeFT). He was formerly the Managing Director of JP Morgan Chase in Hong Kong, Vice President of UBS in Singapore after starting his career with Morgan Stanley in New York.

julien profile

Julien holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the USA and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from France where he specialised in Artificial Intelligence, decentralised systems and security back in 2009.
He has built multiple tech businesses from energy trading, high frequency trading, decentralised identity to autonomous transportation systems and won multiple competitions worldwide. He was first introduced into Bitcoin in 2010 and then Ethereum in 2015. He is now building Flyingcarpet:The geospatial layer for web3 and Stake Capital: digital asset investment company based on Proof of Stake services. He is also the AI and Blockchain lead for British Blockchain Association, advisor for the OECD and ADB.

deepak profile

Leader. Technocrat. Minimalist. Adventurous. Adaptive. Autodidact. Urbanite. Explorer. Aspiring Rock Climber.
Born in Bangalore, influenced by Indian Culture, and making my rounds across the globe.
Alumna of University of Wales.
Intrigued by lean philosophy, design thinking, traveling, photography, strategy, reading, The Big Bang Theory, Breaking Bad, and fabulous food.

12:20 - 13:00

14:00 - 14:45

14:45 - 15:05

15:05 - 15:25

16:00 - 16:45

16:45 - 17:05

17:05- 17:25

Suggested Topics

The Blockchain: Industry Applications & Legal Perspective
Speaker: Nishith Desai - Founder, Nishith Desai Associates

About Session: The Indian fintech space has seen considerable developments take place over the past few years. An inter-regulatory Working Group by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been constituted to study regulatory issues relating to FinTech and Digital Banking in India. This session shall briefly describe the working of blockchain technology, discuss the current state of the art in industry, provides a legal and regulatory perspective, and conclude with a list of challenges and the way forward.

Nishith Desai profile

Nishith Desai is the founder of the research & strategy driven international law firm, Nishith Desai Associates with offices in Mumbai, Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Singapore, New Delhi, Munich and New York.
Nishith himself is a renowned International Tax, Corporate, IP lawyer, researcher, published author and lecturer in leading academic institutions around the world. He specializes in the Financial Services sector and assisted Government of Mauritius and Government of India in launching their individual offshore financial centers.
A practicing advocate in India, Nishith holds a special license from the State Bar of NY, California and Singapore to practice Indian law.

Networking Luncheon

Panel Discussion: Blockchain - New Age Applications & Use Cases
Moderator: Samir Kumar Sah - Founder & CEO, Pritbor Digital
Panelist: 1. Hayk Hakobyan - Partner, Visioncapital.co
2. Sarang Bhoyar - Blockchain Leader, Infosys
3. Alexandre Kech - CEO, Onchain Custodian

About Session: Although many countries around the world are still framing regulatory policies and stances on many blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, the blockchain adoption and development in India is at an all time high. The government is exploring use of blockchain technology proactively for ushering in the digital economy.

Banks in India are already relying on blockchain to enable overseas transactions, international remittances, and other processes. The idea of blockchain as being “disruptive” is long gone, India is now looking at how blockchain technology can improve and enhance the business experience for people all over this country.

hayk profile

Hayk is a partner at Vision Capital, ICO financial advisory in SEA, in addition to being Expert-in-Residence at SOSV, the biggest VC accelerator in the world and APAC partner at Prysm Group, top blockchain economics and governance agency in North America and Europe. You can about him on https://haykha.com/

alexandre profile

Alexandre Kech has 20+ years of experience in the capital market industry. From global custody and asset servicing at the Bank of New York Mellon to data standardisation and Head of Securities & FX APAC at SWIFT, Alex has developed a strong post-trade industry leadership experience, extended in recent years to digital assets and blockchain

Sarang profile

Sarang is a Blockchain Leader from Infosys that sets large organizations on Blockchain transformation journey and helps them realize the benefits of early-embracing of Blockchain technology that is arguably the next biggest disruption in in all industries, BFSI in specific.
Sarang has 18.5+ years of industry experience and has a distinction of being one of the firsts who has ACTUALLY production-implemented BLOCKCHAIN technology for International Remittances and Domestic Trade in India. He is hands-on in architecting a Blockchain products on various Blockchain frameworks (Bitcoin Core, Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda, Ripple, etc.) and building industry popular use cases.

samir profile

to be updated

Innovative Financial Instruments Through Blockchain
Speaker: Anirban Chatterjee - Assistant Vice President, YES Bank
About Session: Innovative cross-border payment solutions built on blockchain technology are not here to replace FIs, nor do they seek to circumvent them. But the adoption of blockchain to power more streamlined, cheaper payments can transform India’s economy.

anirban profile

TBA

Email service on Blockchain
Speaker: Vinay Krishna - Founder, Pingala Software
About Session: Email is the standard for communication, tragically email services are composed with no privacy and no security. In excess of a billions of user actively utilizing email services regular, among which a large number of delicate and classified messages are sent each hour with conventional in-secured mail services like Gmail and Outlook which are centralized in nature, controlled and possessed by focal substance and opens door for hackers. The two serious issues with the present email services are unencrypted and centralized. Most of corporate and government departments face similar threat most of the time, despite of using current secured email services.
This challenge can be solved by building blockchain based encrypted email service

vinay profile

Vinay is a founder of Pingala Software and has 18 years of rigorous work experience on software product development. He is doing research in the field of Software architecture and his 14 papers have been published in various international journals and conference proceedings. His two papers are translated in Chinese language by scrum network at China. Delivering talks at many prestigious conferences/meetups/organizations. He had been a Guest Professor at Manipal University in past and now also acting as Guest Professor at BITS Pilani. In leisure time develop mobile apps and he also received Innovation Award in the year 2014 by Computer Society of India

Tea Break

Panel Discussion: Women in Blockchain
Moderator: Nehha Wadhwa - Founder, The Pink Table
Panelist: Eloisa Marchesoni - Blockchain Evangelist, The Blockchain Council
Gnana Lakshmi TC - Biz Dev Head, The Blockchain University
Shikha Mehra - Co Founder, Mainchain Research & Consulting
Meera Srinivasan - Executive Director FSS, IBM India

About Session:
The ratio of women to men in this space is very low. What are the potential reasons?
How to drive awareness within women entrepreneurs to factor using blockchain as part of their business strategy?
How can we leverage this technology to enable a circular economy and bring forth designs for the 'yin'?
What is the big shift that blockchain/ distributed ledger tech can bring to designs for wealth?

nehha profile

Nehha Wadhwa initiated The Pink Table in 2018. Having spent over 12 years across many roles in the corporate and start up world and working closely with people across different industries and spaces, Nehha came to one conclusion: the system we function in is limited in design and is ready to evolve. Functioning from a space of intuitive intelligence, Nehha resonates deeply with subjects that enable evolution in a tangible way. She uses ‘Pink Table Conversations’ as a platform to engage with progressive thinkers who are setting the path to this evolution

eloisa profile

Eloisa Marchesoni is Europe’s n.1 Token Model Architect and Due Diligence Expert. She is an ICO, IEO and STO advisor for various companies. A graduate from Bocconi University, majoring in Economics and Management, she will attend a Master in International Business at the Hult Int’l Business School. Eloisa is associate member of investment pools and blockchain research societies.

meera profile

Meera Srinivasan comes with nearly 3 decades of experience in the financial and IT sector having delivered transformation initiatives for banking majors such as SBI. She currently leads the Insurance Vertical for IBM India and is engaged in designing blockchain programs for her clients

gnana profile

I am passionate about all things Web 3.0 like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and IoT. I am a very hands-on individual and I love to take part in hackathons and technical competitions to work on real-time industry use cases. I am one of the City Directors of the WomenWhoCode Bangalore chapter work with the community to conduct various technical events in the field of latest technologies to encourage more women to join the technical bandwagon

shikha profile

Shikha Mehra, a certified Bitcoin professional and co-founder of MainChain Research & Consulting, is a prominent figure in the Blockchain and Crypto Currency network. She's on the advisory panel to IMAI’s (Internet Mobile Association of India) subcommittee on crypto currency and blockchain. As a subject expert, she is actively involved in the international crypto-ecosystem as a writer and speaker, engaging with businesses, users and revenue officials on the conceptual, technological and regulatory evolution of Crypto Currencies and the underlying Distributed Ledger Technology

Building a better planet, Block by Block
Speaker: Rajnish Gupta - Co Founder, Netsity Systems
About Session: We will explore Blockchain’s potential in Social Impact and UN’s 2030 agenda with 17 Sustainable Development Goals. There is a pressing need to solve world’s most complex problems, through decentralised self-governance, that could help in our drive towards - No Poverty, Clean Water & Sanitation, Affordable & Clean Energy, and Industry, Innovation, & Infrastructure. How can we potentially transfer value from shareholders to stakeholders? And how Blockchain can transform the way humans currently interact & transact to achieve these ambitious Goals.

rajnish profile

Rajnish is a social entrepreneur, passionate about solving world's complex problems that affect the underserved. He is currently working at the intersection of Fintech, Blockchain and UN Sustainable Development Goals. As a serial entrepreneur, in the last 20 years, his journey spans across - Agriculture, US Healthcare, BFSI, Supply Chain industry

The Value of Distributed Ledger Technology
Speaker: Anand E - Co Founder, Finiteloop Systems
About Session: For the past few years, financial institutions have been investing in blockchain technology with the idea that it could reduce the cost and complexity of many of its processes, ranging from payments and settlements to tracking shareholder assets.
Much discussion has focused on cryptocurrencies, rather than the underlying blockchain technology which has the potential to reshape the investment industry, offering significant opportunities as well as generating potential risks to system stability. Blockchain could facilitate secure decentralised transactions, reduce incidents of fraud, and increase transparency and efficiency in multi-party transactions.

anand profile

Previously led the Cloud center of excellence for a leading IT services organisation. Tea Connoisseur, Gamer, Audiophile, and drives an old Royal Enfield whenever he manages to start it. Hard core architect. Knows everything under the sun. Try it. Decades of hands-on experience. IASA Certified Architect

Smart Contracts on Blockchain
The Value of Distributed Ledger Technology
The Impact of Blockchain on Industries & its Key Application
Looking Beyond Decentralisation
Due Diligence: Blockchain & Crypto Regulations
Blockchain in E-Commerce

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