Cardano Summit 2023 | Cardano | 1 November 2023 | Grand Hyatt Dubai, Grand Hyatt Dubai Oud Metha Road, Dubai Healthcare City Riyadh Street - Near Sheikh Rashid Rd - Dubai - UAE

The global Cardano event returns, bringing together industry leaders, businesses, and blockchain enthusiasts. It’s a hub to network and connect with a new generation of innovative projects.

Conference:
• Get inspiration from keynotes & panels
• Take part in interactive workshops
• Discover new projects
• Learn about blockchain & the Cardano ecosystem
• Gain insights into building on Cardano
• Delve into Dubai’s Web3 ecosystem
• Meet with investors & industry leaders

2023 Speakers

Frederik Gregaard
CEO, Cardano Foundation

Genevieve Leveille
CEO and Principal Founder, AgriLedger

Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni
Strategic Advisor at Dubai Department of Economy & Tourism CEO, Dubai Blockchain Center

Paola Valencia
Director of Operations, Home of Blockchain.swiss

Charles Hoskinson
CEO & Co-Founder, Input Output Global

Capt. Eng. Mohammad A. AlShamsi
Head of Firearms and Tool marks Section, Dubai Police

Ken Kodama
Founder & CEO, EMURGO

Juana Attieh
Co-Founder, LALKUL & Cardano MENA

Dr. Bernhard Kronfellner
Partner & Associate Director, Boston Consulting Group

Marcelo A. F. Curi
Blockchain, Crypto-Token Economy and Business Models Innovation Specialist

Naoufer Ramoul
TV Anchor and Producer, Dubai Media Incorporated

Nicolas Jacquemart
CLO, Cardano Foundation

Red Sheehan
Research Analyst, Messari

Loredana Manushaqa
Acting Head of AI Training, MBZUAI

Oliver von Wolff
Co-Founder & CEO, Helion

Kriss Baird
Group Product Lead, Input Output Global

Behrang Ravari
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Scientific Analytical Tools

Nick Cooper
Head of Finance, Stacks Foundation

Mike Ward
Chief Product Officer, Input Output Global

Leah Callon-Butler
Columnist, CoinDesk

Zygomeb
Technical Lead, Optim Labs and Ethereal Systems

Teodor Petricevic
Accelerator Lead, UNDP

Eran Barak
Chief Executive Officer, Midnight

Connor O’Shea
CEO, Bril

Carmen Hett
Corporate Treasurer, UNHCR

Sunny Lu
CEO, VeChain

Leila Hurstel
Board Member and Chief Metaverse Officer, Verse Estate

Dr. Vincent Peikert
Founder and Chief Product Owner, NOUMENA DIGITAL

Mel McCann
Vice President of Engineering, Cardano Foundation

Nikhil Joshi
COO, EMURGO

Dr. Tonya M. Evans
Founder & CEO, Advantage Evans Academy

Nikita Sachdev
Founder & CEO, Luna PR & Luna VC

Dominik Schiener
Co-Founder of IOTA & Chairman, IOTA Foundation

Robert Kopitsch
Secretary General, Blockchain for Europe

Assoc Prof. Innar Liiv
Associate Professor of Big Data, Tallinn University of Technology

Hernan Rajchert
Principal Software Engineer, Input Output Global

Sheldon Hunt
Engagement & Community Lead – Governance, Input Output Global

Kevin Hammond
Head of Software Engineering for Cardano Core, Input Output Global

J.J. Siler
Chief of Staff, Input Output Global

Joel Telpner
Chief Legal Officer, Input Output Global

Nigel Hemsley
VP of Governance, Input Output Global

Dr. Moayad Aloqaily
Project Manager, MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), UAE

James Graham
CEO and Co-Founder, GuildOne

Milica Begovic
Head of Strategic Innovation, UNDP

Olaf Hannemann
Co-Founder & CIO, CV VC and CV Labs

Navjit Dhaliwal
CEO, Iagon

Pieter Van Garderen
CEO, Orcfax

Tomasz Rybarczyk
Software Engineer, Input Output Global

Dr. Martin Hiesboeck
Head of Research, Uphold

Alexis Pappas
Chief Innovation Officer, ESG1

Massimo Morini
Professor of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Finance, USI, Swiss Finance Institute, and Bocconi University

Lise Wessel
CMO, TVVIN

Jillian Godsil
Founder and Editor in Chief, Blockleaders.io

Pat Sheridan
Founder, Modus Create

Robertino Martinez
Educator, Input Output Global

Mohamed Elshami
Founder & CTO, Senary Labs

Eliza Gkritsi
Senior Reporter, CoinDesk

Sheraz Ahmed
Managing Partner, STORM Partners

Sasha Bogicevic
Senior Haskell Developer, Input Output Global

Nico Arqueros
Co-founder and Core Contributor, dcSpark

Yosuke Yoshida
Co-CEO, EMURGO Middle East & Africa

Lenna Onto
Founder, CEO, Clay Nation

Francesco Pagano
Senior Partner, JAKALA

Andre Ayotte
Partner, Modus Africa

Hans Lahe
Product Manager, Input Output Global

Robert Quartly-Janeiro
CSO, Bitrue

Hagen Rooke
Partner, Reed Smith

Shahaf Bar-Geffen
CEO, COTI

Basil Al Askari
Co-Founder, MidChains

Connie Bloem
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Mesh

Michael Yagi
CEO, Ikigai Technologies

Daria Bystrova
Senior Marketing Manager, Tangem

Dmitri Safine
CTO, Ikigai Technologies

Phillip DiSarro
Head of Blockchain, Ikigai Technologies

Vattan PS
Board Member, Internet Native Organization

Jerry Sinayuk
Technical Writer, Nomad Systems

Christian Grobmeier
OSS Developer & Trainer, Grobmeier Solutions GmbH

Filip Blagojevic
Tech Lead, TVVIN

Tyler Wales
Fintech Community Lead, EMURGO

Franco Testagrossa
Software Engineer, Input Output Global

Thomas Tallis
CEO, TVVIN

Nadia Mannell
Director of Cardano Academy, Cardano Foundation

Patrick Tobler
CEO, NMKR

Ayumi Moore Aoki
Founder and CEO, Women-in-Tech

Alexander Moser
Associate Head of Infrastructure, Cardano Foundation

Marvin Bertin
CEO & Co-founder, Maestro

Takashi Hayashida
Managing Partner, EMURGO Ventures

Monty C. M. Metzger
CEO, LCX

Alvaro Cosi
Head of Communications & Innovation, Switzerland for UNHCR

Brice Vandevoorde
CEO, Realiz

Sandro Knöpfel
Head of Financial and Regulated Institutions, Cardano Foundation

Alex Apeldoorn
Director of Products, Cardano Foundation

Sandra Helou
CEO MetaMinds and GCC Lead, Zilliqa Group

Ghassen Benhadjsalah
Co-Founder & CEO, Acredius

Jeremy Firster
Global Head of Enterprise Partnerships, Cardano Foundation

Ashutosh Sahoo
Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Router Protocol

Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
CEO, SBI Digital Asset Holdings

Glen Jordan
CEO and Co-founder, Empowa

Michael Mouradian
Head of Digital Assets and Markets, Bittrex Global

Sebastian Zilliacus
Managing Director, EMURGO Media

Thomas Mayfield
Team Lead Decentralized Trust and Identity Solutions (DTIS), Cardano Foundation

Daniel Friedman
CEO, zenGate Global

Amar Singh
Director and Voltaire Lead, EMURGO

Jonathan Pullinger
Managing Partner, W3S Group

Lloyd Duhon
COO, DripDropz

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Tom Schneider
Senior Venture Architect & Founder, DB Schenker

Alexandre Maaza
Outreach Development Officer, Cardano Foundation

Nilay Saha
CTO and Co-founder, ReitCircles

Vineeth Bhuvanagiri
Managing Director, EMURGO Fintech

Janet Adams
COO, SingularityNET

Peyton Winget
Founder/CEO, Atrium Lab

Anton Starchenko
Region Head of CIS, KuCoin

Jarek Hirniak
Founder, Axo

Jon Chamberlain
Community & Marketing Lead, Astarter

Vijay Tirathrai
Managing Director, Riyadh Techstars Accelerator

Andrew Westberg
CTO, NEWM

Rudy Shoushany
Founder, DxTalks & CryptoTalks

Jide Fashola
Head of Technical Integrations, Cardano Foundation

Michal Urbanek
CEO, JamOnBread

Michael Madoff
Group Product Manager for Governance, Input Output Global

Clint Alexander
CTO, Tangent Protocol

Sebastian Bode
Director of Engineering, Cardano Foundation

Chadi Nassar
CEO & Co-Founder, PlutusArt

Michiel Van Roey
Co-Founder & General Counsel, Profila

Fabian Bormann
Team Lead Ecosystem Architecture and Engineering (EAE), Cardano Foundation

Sam Leathers
Head of Software Engineering, Input Output Global

Manal Rifki
General Partner, Klumi Ventures

Rizwan Pabani
Partnership Manager, Cardano Foundation

Narender Balachandran
Chief Business Officer (Academy), EMURGO

Nicolas Cerny
Community Manager, Cardano Foundation

Olivier Anselmo
Chief Operating and Financial Officer, Switzerland for UNHCR

Emmanuelle Ganne
Senior Analyst, Economic Research and Statistics Division, World Trade Organisation

Ruxanda Cornescu
Communications and Innovation Associate, Switzerland for UNHCR

David Meade
MC

Dr. Lars Brünjes
Director of Education (IOG) & CTO (GeniusYield)

Jillian Plomin
CEO, Mehen
Matthew Plomin
President/Founder, Mehen

Denis Baturin
Senior Blockchain Analyst and Developer, Tangem

Janis Aguilar
Head of Acceleration, CV Labs

John Valdez
CEO, Agrow Labs Corporation

Adam Dean
CTO, Agrow Labs Corporation

Riley Kilgore
Technical Lead, Agrow Labs Corporation

Ben Bonner
CEO, Zero Citizen

Thomas Langlois
CTO, Zero Citizen

Dan Baruka
CEO, Uptodate Developers

Josephine Ndeze
COO, Uptodate Developers

Tõnn Talpsepp
Ph.D Associate Professor of FinTech, Tallinn University of Technology

Prof. Claudio J. Tessone
UZH Blockchain Center, University of Zurich

Dr. Sheng-Nan Li
UZH Blockchain Center, University of Zurich

Simon Sällström
CEO and founder, DirectEd

Sebastien Guillemot
Co-founder, dcSpark & Paima Studios

Dr. Mihaela Ulieru
SingularityNET

Razali Samsudin
Co-Founder, Sustainable ADA

Cole Bartlett
Co-Founder, Sustainable ADA

Markus Gufler
Community Technical Lead, Cardano Foundation

Chris [STR8]
Straightpool

D.Jur. Nicola Massella
Partner, STORM Partners

Ashish Prajapati
CEO, Strica

Denicio Bute
Community Manager, Cardano Foundation

Temujin Louie
VP of Marketing, Wanchain

Lewis Cohen
Co-Founder, DLx Law

Dr. Jasmina Locke
CEO & Academic Head, SEE Institute

Tim Harrison
Executive Vice President, Community & Ecosystem, Input Output Global

Ben O’Hanlon
Community Chapter Director, Input Output Global

Jack Briggs
Intersect Bootstrapping Team, Input Output Global

Daniel Ribar
Community Manager, Input Output Global

Husam Habannakeh
Mastercard
Tamara Haasen
President, Input Output Global

Cory Pugh
CEO, BridgeTowerCapital

Bharat Arun Mallapur
Chief Technology Officer (Academy), EMURGO

Micky Watkins
CEO, World Mobile

Marcus Maute
BridgeTower Capital

2023 Sponsors

SILVER SPONSOR:
• Taurus

BRONZE SPONSOR:
• NUNET

SPONSOR:
• EMUR