Blockchain Leadership Summit 2018 | Blockchain Leadership Summit | 23 November 2018 | The Congress Center Basel, Messepl. 21, 4058 Basel, Switzerland

AboutThe Blockchain Leadership Summit is designed to become a continuation of our event earlier this year with a deeper immersion into the rise of the new technological revolution.

2018 Speakers:

Joerg Gasser
State Secretary of International Financial Matters

Hon. Professor Edward Scicluna
Member of Parliament and Malta's Minister for Finance

Eric Jakob
Ambassador, Board Member, Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research EAER State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO

Prince Michael of Liechtenstein
Chairman of Industrie- und Finanzkontor Ets. and Geo-political Intelligence Services

Jason Hsu
President at Taiwan Parliamentary Coalition for Blockchain & Industry Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO)

Esko Aho Prime
Former Prime Minister of Finland, Visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris

Jeremy Light
Vice President at Ripple, formerly Head at Accenture Payment Services for Europe, Africa and Latin America

Wilfried Pimenta
Business Development Director at the IOTA Foundation

Charles Hoskinson
CEO & Founder, IOHK

Tom Lyons
Executive Director, ConsenSys Research and Advisory

Prof. Armen Sarkissian
President of Armenia

Jason Lau
Vice President of Business Development at OKEx

Joseph Muscat
Prime Minister of Malta

Louis de Bruin
Blockchain Leader at IBM Europe

Dr Lee George LAM
Chairman, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited

Daniel Fritz
Supply Chain Domain Architect at Novartis

Marco Cuomo
Senior Digital Solutions Architect at Novartis

Johann Gevers
Founder of the Crypto Valley ecosystem.

Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner
Head of Frankfurt School Blockchain Center at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Wei Zhou
CFO of Binance China

David Chen
Senior Business Director at Huobi

Niklas Nikolajsen
Founder, Chairman of the Board & co-CEO at Bitcoin Suisse, Pioneer of the Swiss Crypto-Financial Sector

Rik Willard
Founder and Managing Director of Agentic Group

Shuonan Chen
Founding Partner at IOVC & Agile VC, CEO at Shinect, Board Member at North America Blockchain Association

Patrick Bont
Executive Board Member of the Financial Market Authority (FMA) Liechtenstein, Head of the Banking Division & FinTech Practice Leader

Aparna Krishnan
Co-Founder of Mechanism Labs, founder of Education Department at Blockchain at Berkeley

Robert Levin
CEO at Emerging Star Capital, Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum

John Riggins
Head of International Operations of BTC Media LLC, Leader in Digital Currency and Distributed Ledger Communications.

Denis Dovgopoliy
ICO investor, Managing Partner at GrowthUP Group, President at the GrowthUP Accelerator

Dr. Guenther Dobrauz-Saldapenna
Partner & Leader, PwC Legal Switzerland

Frederick M. Shepperd
CEO, at Shepperd Investors AG

Makoto Takemiya
CO CEO - Soramitsu Co LTD, Founder - SORA Token, Engineer - Hyperledger IROHA

Aviya Arika
Head of Aviya Law

Monty Metzger
CEO at LCX - Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange

Lili Zhao
Director of Ecosystem Growth at NEO Global Development

Rohan Nasir Chaudhary
Co-Founder of Inkrypt, Freedom of Information Advocate

André Guedel
KPMG Head International HQs Cluster– Crypto Economist

Sergei Sergienko
Founder and CEO at ChronoBank, Director at Edway Group, Tech Investor

Elliot Feeny
Senior Associate at BTC Labs, Strategy at Po.et, Blockchain Media Specialist

Kairat Kelimbetov
Governor of Astana International Financial Centre, Republic of Kazakhstan

Amalya Yeghoyan
Regional HighTech Development Manager in Enterprise Incubator Foundation & Executive Director in GITC.

Marc P. Bernegger
Board Member – Crypto Finance Group

Moritz Kaminski
Business Architect, Blockchain and IoT, Bosch Digital Solutions

Prof. Dr. Fabian Schär
Professor for Distributed Ledger Technologies and Fintech, University of Basel Managing Director, Center for Innovative Finance, University of Basel

Ben D. Banerjee
Board Member at European Family Offices Alliance, InnMind & Swiss Impact Investment Association, Fundraising Advisor

Alexander Shulgin
Investor, Founder & CEO at "Gruppa Kompaniy Familia" Blockchain Fund

Tal Catran
Accelerators Guru, Tech Investor, Start-Up Ecosystem Builder, Startup Nation & TEDx Tech Speaker

Sony Kapoor
Advisor on Financial Policy and Investment Strategy of EU and emerging economy Governments

Oleg Seydak
Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Blackmoon, Co-Founder at Flint Capital

Dr. Mattia L. Rattaggi
Chairman of regulatory policy at the Crypto Valley Association, Owner at Dr. Mattia L. Rattaggi Advisory & Consultancy

Prof Simon Choi
Expert in M&A, ICO, Crypto Finance and Regulations, Advisor at Asia Equity Exchange

Dr. Efi Pylarinou
Independent Fintech & Blockchain Advisor, Influencer, co-founder of DailyFintech

Dmitri Kosten
VP of special projects at RACIB, Russian Association of Crypto Industry and Blockchain. Head of the Insurance work group at IPE Lab, Institutional Project Engineering Laboratory Founder at 3D Business Solutions

Monique Morrow
President and Co-Founder, The Humanized Internet

Prof. Sally Eaves
CTO and Advisor on Blockchain, AI and FinTech Technology Influencer, Author and Speaker UK Government Blockchain Association Lead for Social Impact

Lahcen Haddad
Minister of Tourism International expert in strategic management, monitoring and evaluation, human development, entrepreneurship, democracy and governance and communication.

Thomas Dünser
Senior consultant to the prime minister of Liechtenstein, Project leader of the "Blockchain-Act" in Liechtenstein

Mamadou Toure
Chairman and CEO of Ubuntu Group. Forbes top 10 most influential people in Africa (2014)

Igor Jiang
Managing partner of FinForge Fund, Eastern Europe blockchain lab, member of CryptoValley Association

Michael Mosimann
Counsel (Attorney-at-Law & Civil Law Notary) at Prager Dreifuss AG

Sáva Savić
Assistant Minister for Information Society and Information Security at Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications

Eduardo Salazar
CEO, Forctis AG

Vladimir Popov
CEO at Synergis

2018 Sponsor and Partners:

• NOVARTIS
• IOTA
• ripple
• OKEX
• BINANCE
• Huobi
• NEO
• CONSENSYS
• BOSH
• nkrypt
• BTC
• QUORUS
• GGB
• BASEL AREA SWISS
• pwc
• GREAT CREW
• IBM
• RACIB
• SILKROADCOINS
• PRAGER DREIFUSS
• KPMG
• European Family Office Alliance
• SYNERGIS