Blockchain Africa Conference 2021 | Bitcoin Events Pty Ltd | 18 March 2021 | Virtual Event, Online

Since 2015, Bitcoin Events’ annual Blockchain Africa Conferences have been the first of their kind in Africa and have brought together some of the top thought leaders from across the globe.

Over 40 countries, 2000 delegates and 170 speakers have attended our previous six conferences, from both the public and private sector.

Collective sentiment about blockchain technology is on the rise, along with meaningful implementations in the public and private sectors. Not only are we seeing the entrance of tech and payments giants such as PayPal, Square and Facebook, including institutional investment going into cryptocurrencies, but also the implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) by central banks such as in China.

As the technology matures, we see a move away from blockchain experiments towards the development of robust enterprise ready solutions. Adopters and application leaders are using blockchain to uniquely transform their digital businesses, especially with supply-chain-related and payments-related use cases.

Join us at Africa’s leading blockchain and cryptocurrency conference, the Blockchain Africa Conference 2021, and learn how blockchain is moving from hype to mainstream adoption.

2021 Speakers

MC:

John Lombela
Founder and CEO, Axalio and Founder of Cryptovecs Capital

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Mariana Gospodinova
General Manager of European Operations, Crypto.com

Charles Hoskinson
Founder and CEO of IOHK (Input Output Hong Kong) and Founder, Cardano

Peter Mccormack
Host of What Bitcoin Did Podcast, Defiance Podcast and Defiance TV

Henri Arslanian
Global Crypto Leader, PwC

Denelle Dixon
CEO & Executive Director, Stellar Development Foundation

Stani Kulechov
Founder and CEO, AAVE

Ben Zhou
Co-Founder and CEO, Bybit

Yele Bademosi
CEO, Bundle Africa and Founding Partner, Microtraction

Sam Bankman-Fried
CEO and Founder, FTX

Sandra Ro
CEO, The Global Blockchain Business Council

SPEAKERS:

Michael Awori
Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer: Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB)

Dominik Ernst
CEO, Acria Network

Atul Patel
Co-founder, Dltedgers

Dan Held
Growth Lead, Kraken

Alex Mashinsky
Founder and CEO, Celsius Network

Peter Tylczynski
Senior VP, Minebest

Dr. Steven Waterhouse
CEO and Co-founder, Orchid

Teana Baker-taylor
General Manager of the U.K. for Crypto.com

Rocelo Lopes
CEO and Founder of Stratum Blockchain Group

Muthoni Njogu
Managing Partner Njogu & Associates Advocates and Head of Telecommunication, Media and Technology, General Legal Counsel for Blockchain Association of Kenya

David Zacks
Chief Compliance Officer at Bitflyer Usa

Deniz Omer
Head of Ecosystem Growth at Kyber Network

Marvin H. Coleby
Co-founder and CEO of Raise and Co-trustee at the African Digital Asset Foundation

Alex Mcdougall
Co-founder of Bicameral Ventures

Buchi Okoro
Co-founder and CEO, Quidax

Roselyne Wanjiru
Director of Growth and User Acquisitions at Pesabase

Marc Taverner
Executive Director of Inatba

Farzam Ehsani
CEO and Co-founder of Valr.com

Richard Ells
CEO and Founder of Electroneum and Anytask

Ehis Omozusi
Conflux Network Africa Regional Marketing and Business Lead

Herco Steyn
Senior Fintech Specialist in the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Fintech Unit

Brenton Naicker
Business Development Manager, Binance (South Africa)

Felix Macharia
CEO, Kotani Pay

Yael Tamar
Co-CEO and Co-founder of Solidblock

Modibe Matsepane
Community Coordinator for Africa at Paxful

Nathaniel Luz
Lead at Dash Nigeria

Ajit Tripathi
Head of Institutional Business at AAVE

Richard De Sousa
Founder and CEO, Altcointrader

Ciaran Adrian Ryan
Editor, Moneyweb Crypto

David Gitonga
Managing Editor at Bitcoinke

Tony Obiajuru
Head of Programs and Broadcast Journalist at Cryptotvplus

Pretty Kubyane
COO and Co-founder of Coronet Blockchain

Ivars Zukovskis
Chief Compliance Officer for Bitflyer Europe

John Velissarios
Accenture Global Managing Director - Blockchain and Multiparty Systems - Digital Assets, Custody and CBDC Lead

Monica Singer
South Africa Lead for Consensys

Johann Bornman
Product Lead Metamask Institutional at Consensys

Brandon Topham
Divisional Executive for Enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority

Kaj Burchardi
Managing Director at BCG Platinion

Adeshina Adewumi
CEO and Co-founder for One Kiosk Africa

Dr. Oriol Caudevilla
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Scallopx

Bishnen Kumalo
Executive Head of Sa Modernisation at Bankservafrica

Gavin Marshall
Founder of Hippytech

Dr. Uche Okonkwo
Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Chuta Chimezie
Founder/ Coordinator Blockchain Nigeria User Group, advisory Board Member at Kinesis Money,

Richard Lema
Co-founder and COO, Clickpesa

Marius Reitz
General Manager for Africa, Luno

Michelle Chivunga N
Founder/CEO & Investor at Global Policy House, Senior Advisor to Government of Bermuda, African Union, Wusme & Fintech4good

2021 Sponsors

PREMIER SPONSOR:
• Crypto.com

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• AAVE
• Bybit

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Acria Network
• Minebest
• TDB
• Trading View

GOLD SPONSORS:
• AltCoinTrader
• Axalio
• Chainsulting
• Consensys
• CryptoCurrencyWire

MEDIA SPONSORS:
• AI Media
• AMB Cypto
• be[in]crypto
• bfmedia
• BIG
• Bitcoinke
• Bitcoin Mexico
• Bitcoin World
• Blockchain News
• Blockchain Media
• Blockchain Wire
• Cex.io
• Coin360
• CNE
• CoinPedia
• Coinspeaker
• Cointelegraph
• Crypto Current
• Crypto Currency Wire
• Crypto Events
• Crypto NewsZ
• CryptoTotem
• CTV
• Datafloq
• Global Crypto
• GCN News
• Hypertext
• Koin Post
• Moneyweb
• PANews
• Payments & Cards Network
• SuperCryptoNews
• The TechDailyPost
• TheNews
• uToday