Venue
Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road Northwest, Washington DC 20008, USA

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Event Date Sun Jan 13 EST - Tue Jan 15 EST (over 6 years ago)
Location Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
2660 Woodley Road Northwest, Washington DC 20008, USA
Region Americas
Details

The event will convene key Government, Industry, and Technology leaders in conversations on crucial issues and solutions to enable Blockchain(ge).

JOIN more than 500 blockchain experts, industry leaders, government officials, lawyers, and others who are enabling transformative innovation. Whether you are new to blockchain or have deep experience - BlockChainge DC 2019 is THE event for you.

Move forward from this immersive, engaging event with a deep understanding and practical insights to help you determine and navigate your organization's future.

Who the event is for:

• Government Officials, Employees, and Contracting Firms
• Technology and Industry Professionals
• Lawyers, Accountants, Compliance and Risk Officers
• NGO's and Trade Associations
• Academic Leaders and Educators

What you'll learn:

• Gain insights on how Blockchain is being deployed worldwide today
• Explore the crucial legal, regulatory and other issues required to enable transformative innovation
• Learn about the technical innovations that are paving the path for widespread adoption
• Venture into the future of Blockchain and how it will transform our money, governments, and societies

Speakers

2019 Speakers:

Warren Davidson
Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives

Jalak Jobanputra
Founding Partner, Future\Perfect Ventures

Jose Arrieta
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, US Department of Health and Human Services

Paul Snow
CEO, Factom

Bernadette Kogler
Chief Executive Officer, RiskSpan

David Schweikert
Congressman, US House of Representatives

Juan Zarate
Chairman and Co-Founder, The Financial Integrity Network (FIN)

Daniel Gorfine
Director, LabCFTC; Chief Innovation Officer, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Jim Cunha
SVP, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Sarah Olsen
Head of Business Development, Gemini Trust Company, LLC

Steven Sprague
CEO, Rivetz Corp.

Brian J. Longe
Former CEO, AST and CEO Wolters Kluwer Financial and Compliance Services

Dan Doney
CEO + Co-founder Securrency; Former Chief Innovation Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency, Securrancy

Elizabeth Renieris
Global Policy Counsel, Evernym

David McElroy
Federal Blockchain Lead, IBM

Charles Myers
Chairman, Signum Global Advisors

Gerard Dache
President, Government Blockchain Association

Andrew Busch
Chief Market Intelligence Officer, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Miko Matsumura
Co-founder Evercoin; General Partner Gumi Ventures

Stuart Davis
Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer, BMO Financial Group / BMO Harris

Todd Cooper
CEO & Co-founder, NuArca

Joshua Ashley Klayman
Managing Member, Klayman LLC; Chair, Wall Street Blockchain Alliance Legal Working Group, Klayman LLC

Eli Stern
Americas Financial Services Blockchain Leader, Ernst & Young LLP

Carol Van Cleef
CEO, Luminous Group; Partner, LeClair Ryan, LeClair Ryan

David Shrier
CEO Distilled Analytics, Associate Fellow, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Lecturer MIT Media Lab

Emma Channing
CEO & General Counsel, Satis Group LLC

Tony Spinelli
COO and GM, Cyber, Fractal Industries; Former CISO of Capital One and First Data, Fractal Industries, Inc.

Rob Finch
CEO, Cypherglass

Combiz Abdolrahimi, Esq.
Deloitte, Global Emerging Technology & Innovation Strategist; Former Senior Policy Advisors U.S. Department of the Treasury

Andrea Tinianow
Founding Director, Delaware Blockchain Initiative

Jim Liew, Ph.D
Assistant Professor in Finance at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School; Co-Founder of SoKat.co, John Hopkins Carey Business School / SoKat.co

Joseph Borg
Director, Alabama Securities Commission; Past President, North American Securities Administrators Association, Alabama Securities Commission

Richard Borden
Chief Privacy Officer, Partner, White and Williams LLP; Former Chief Privacy Officer, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

Charles De Simone
Vice President, SIFMA

Dana Syracuse
Partner, Perkins Coie LLP

Sue Lawrence
EVP, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, AST

Jason Dekker
CEO & Co-Founder, GoChain

Josh Thompson
CEO, Onward Labs; Venture Partner at Human Ventures

Martins Bratuskins
Co-founder and COO Monetizr

Harold Hughes
Founder, CEO, Bandwagon

Angela Dalton
CEO, Signum Innovation Capital, Signum Innovation Capital

Alex Khachaturian
Director, FINRA’s Office of Emerging Regulatory Issues

Kristin Smith
Director of External Affairs, Blockchain Association

Zachary Lynde
CFO, Factom

Michael Arendt
Acquisition / Program Management Lead, MITRE

Brian Park
Managing Partner, SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain

Kevin Werbach
Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Alexi von Keszycki
Managing Director, Deloitte

Jeff Truitt
Chief Corporate Development & Legal Officer, Securrency

Elizabeth Boruhovin
AVP, Risk & Training Management, Navy Federal Credit Union

Lewis Cohen
Co-founder, DLx Law

Ron Quaranta
Chairman & CEO, Wall Street Blockchain Alliance

Joel Telpner
Partner, Sullivan & Worcester

Edward Scheidt
ANSI x9 Vice Chair Global Security Standards

Kyle Burgess
Executive Director & Editor in Chief, Consumers' Research

Brian Weaver
Founder & CEO, Torch.AI

Dina Ellis Rochkind
Of Counsel, Paul Hastings LLP; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Treasury Department

Drew Hinkes
Co-founder, General Counsel, Athena Blockchain

Raina Haque
Founder, Erdos

Brian Rogers
VP Product, Augmate; Chairman Columbia Blockchain Alliance

Jintai Ding
Mathmatics Professor, University of Cincinnati (expert in post quantum cryptography); Board Member of the ABCMint Foundation

David Deputy
Director, Strategic Development & Emerging Markets, Vertex, Inc.

Suhrud Dagli
CTO, RiskSpan

Rika Khurdayan
Founding Partner, Dilendorf Khurdayan, PLLC

Laurin Mills
Partner, LeClairRyan

Tim Furey
Managing Director of Banking, Satis Group

Mark Li, CPA, CGMA
Partner - Blockchain and Digital Assets, BPM LLP

Heather Flannery
Health Circle Global Lead, ConsenSys

Ron Hammond
Financial Services Legislative Assistant, United States House of Representatives

Ruth Amos
CEO, Practical Informatics, LLC

David Stefanich
President & CEO, RYMEDI

Stephen Leahy
Director - Blockchain & Crypto, Cosimo Ventures

Valerie Dahiya
Partner, Perkins Coie

Victoria Adams
US Federal Government Lead, ConsenSys

Mitchell Dong
Managing Director, Pythagoras Investment Management

Frederic de Vaulx
Vice President; ACT IAC Emerging Technology Blockchain Working Group Co-Chair, Prometheus Computing

Jagruti Solanki
Partner, CPA, CGMA, Aprio, LLP

Claiborne Porter
Head of Investigations & Managing Director, Global Investigations & Compliance Practice, Navigant Consulting

Candace Culhane
Program/Project Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Cheung Tam
Head of Product, Token X, Token Inc.

Sam Trautwein
CEO and Cofounder, Carbon-12 Labs

Mitchell Kopelman
Partner, Aprio, LLP

Jon E. Wright
Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein and Fox

William Martino
Founder, Kadena

Joseph Mari
Senior Manager, AML Risk Advisory and Special Initiatives, Bank of Montreal

Tiffany Angulo
Policy Advisor, Staff Co-chair to Congressional Blockchain Caucus, U.S. House of Representatives

Eric Burger
Research Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University; CTO of the Federal Communications Commission

Thomas McInerney
Chief Product Officer, OpenFinance Network

Yusuf Hussain
Head Of Risk, Gemini Trust Company, LLC

Andrew Khalatov
Head of Enterprise Strategy, Kadena

Sponsors & Partners

2019 Sponsors and Partners:

• Dovel TECHNOLOGIES
• FACTOM
• PATRIOT OFFICER
• Perkinscoie
• AST
• Prime Trust
• BPM
• LeCLAIRRYAN
• Aprio
• VERTEX
• NAVIGANT

PARTNERS:
• GBA
• ALLEY
• WHF
• Consumers Research
• Enterprise Forum
• abc
• SparkLabs
• Stablecoin Foundation
• BLOCKCHAIN ASSOCIATION