5th Penn Blockchain Conference 2023 | Penn Blockchain | 9 February 2023 | Penn Museum, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

Our conference is the largest of its kind, seeking to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the pursuit of building and using decentralized systems.

We bring together the brightest minds and talents around the world and provide them with the infrastructure to grow and develop.

2023 Speakers

Aleks Larsen
General Partner, Blockchain Cap

Alex Lin
Head of Research, Shima Capital

Amanda Young
Investor, Collab+Currency

Anand Iyer
Partner, Lightspeed

Andrew Piscione
Advisor, Valor Capital Group

Andy Krainak
President, VeeFriends

Anna Lerner Nesbitt
CEO, Climate Collective

Anna Li
Director of Tokenomics, Republic Crypto

Anna Stone
Co-Founder, GoodDollar

Asad Khan
DeFi Politician, Centrifuge

Ashley Scott
Senior Director, Circle

Ben Sparango
Head of Strategic Business Development, Solana Foundation

Benjamin.lens
Co-Founder, MAI Finance

Brandon Hoffman
General Partner, Sunset Venture

Bruno Lulinski
Ecosystem, Aztec

Calanthia Mei
Co-Founder, Masa Finance

Camila Ramos Garzon
Head of Developer Relations, Fuel Labs

Carl Hua
Partner & CTO, Shima Capital

Carlos Arena
Director of Digital Asset sales, Google

Catrina Wang
Head of Conference

Charles Wayn
Co-Founder, Galxe

Chia Jeng Yang
Investor, Pantera

Christina.lens
Head of Growth, Lens Protocol

Christopher Perkins
President, Coinfund

Chunda McCain
Co-Managing Director, Penn Blockchain

Cindy Jiang
Director of Research, FranklinDAO

Clea Chen
MBA Candidate, Wharton

Dan Eskow
Up Top Search

Daniel Helm
Developer Evangelist, Scroll

Daniel Schmerin
Co-Founder & President, Metaversal

David Gogel
VP of Strategy & Ops, DYDX

David Pakman
Managing Partner, CoinFund

David Schwed
COO, Halborn

David Wu
Head of Growth, Phantom

Devin Walsh
Executive Director, Uniswap Foundation

Don Ho
Co-Founder, Quantstamp

Dorian Lee
CFO, Metaplex

Evin McMullen
Co-Founder & CEO, Disco

Faris Oweis
Founder, Crypto Coach

Francis Gowen
Lead Governance Contributor, Flipside Crypto

Gregory Rocco
Co-Founder, Spruce

Henry Nguyen
Investor, Kraken Venture

Hester M. Peirce
SEC Commissioner

Isaiah Washington
Investor, Coinfund

Jared Madfes
Co-Founder, Tribe Crypto

Jason Brooke
VP, Sapphire Venture

Jason Cao
COO, CertiK

Jason Choi
Co-Founder, Tangent

Jason Huan
Co-founde, Frax Finance

Jesse Tasman
Head of Product, Redefine

Joe Doll
General Counsel, Magic Eden

Joel Monegro
General Partner, Placeholder VC

John Peurifoy
Co-Founder & CEO, Floating Point Group

Jon Kol
CEO, HyperLane

Jonathan Victor
Ecosystem Lead, Protocol Labs

Josh Finer
Investor, Solana Ventures

Julia Zhu
Partner, AlphaLab

Jun Park
Gaming Investments Lead Hashed

Jun Sun
Director of Governance

Justin Yuan
Partner, TIRTA Ventures

Katie Chiou
Investor, Archetype

Kenny Li
Co-founder, Manta Network

Kevin Werbach
Professor, The Wharton School

Kirill Naumov
Director of Investments, FranklinDAO

Lane Rettig
CT, SpaceMesh

Lang Cui
Vice Presiden, Struck Crypto

Lee Smallwood
General Partner, Hivemind

Lewis Cohen
Co-Founder, DLx Law

Lindsey Li
Bessemer Venture Partner

Maria Chak
Head of Gaming | Republic Crypto

Matt Fontana
Head of Ecosystem | Streamr

Matt Pearring
Head of Product | Arbitrum

Matthew Rossi
VP of Product | Polygon

Matthew Stein
Governance | StableLab

Mene Mazarakis
Partner | Chapter One

Michael Fischer
Founder | DB DAO

Michael Sena
CEO | Ceramic

Michal Benedykcinski
SVP | Arca

Miko Matsumura
Managing Partner | Gumi Crypto

Mo Saraiya
Executive Director | GCM Grosvenor

Natalie Mullins
Analyst | Volt Capital

Nick Emmons
Co-Founder/CEO | Upshot

Nick van Eck
Partner | General Catalyst

Nikhil Raghuveera
Head of Strategy | Celo Foundation

Nisa Amoils
Managing Partner | A100x Ventures

Omar ElNaggar
CEO & Co-Founder | Weavechain

Ori Nevo
Head of Customer Success | Chaos Labs

Paul Lei
Protocol Program Management Lead | Gauntlet

Porter Grieve
Co-Founder & CEO | Mercury

Raakhee Miller
CEO | Mojito

Ross Shuel
Governance Lead | A16Z

Ruby Thelot
FWB DAO

Sandra Ro
President | Global Blockchain Business Council

Sanjay Raghavan
Head of Crypto | RoofStock

Sergey Gorbunov
Co-Founder | Axelar

Seth Ginns
Managing Partner | Coinfund

Shayon Sengupta
Investor | Multicoin

Sofia Wawrzyniak
Co-Managing Director

Solana Ventures
Solana Ventures

Sudarshan Sarathy
MBA Candidate | Wharton

Sunny Parikh
Operating Partner | Point72

Sylvester Wee
Founding Partner | Sentinel Global

Thomas Bohner
Founder & CEO | Credix

Tim Peterson
VitaDAO Steward

Ty Haney
Co-Founder & CEO | TYB

Varun Kumar
Co-Founder | Hashflow

Vincent Tiu
Deputy of Development | FranklinDAO

Wenwei Xiong
Founding Engineer | Polymerdao

Will White
COO | WalletConnect

Winnie Lau
Vice President | BlockTower

Young Ling
London School of Economics

Zack Seward
Contributing Editor-at-Large | Coindesk

• Struck Crypto
• Alpha_lab
• Atarca
• Shardeum
• Streamr
• Edudao
• Certik