CONSENSUS 2018 | CoinDesk | 14 May 2018 | New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019, US

CoinDesk is proud to present our 4th annual blockchain technology summit, May 14-16, 2018 at the New York Hilton Midtown. Consensus 2018 will feature 250+ speakers and 4,000+ attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.

We expect to shatter our 2017 attendance record, so reserve your spot today!

2018 Speakers:

Emmanuel Aidoo
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Strategy, Credit Suisse

Dr. Muneeb Ali
Co-Founder, Blockstack

Jeremy Allaire
CEO, Circle Internet Financial

Rob Allen
Co-Founder, nodl.io

Aleksei Antonov
Co-Founder, SONM

Yoni Assia
CEO and Founder, eToro

Nicolas Bacca
CTO, Ledger

Amber Baldet
Blockchain Program Lead, J.P. Morgan

Richard Beeson
Chief Technology Officer, OSIsoft LLC

Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director, Hyperledger

Perianne Boring
Founder & President, Chamber of Digital Commerce

James Bullard
President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Steve Bunnell
Chair of Data Security and Privacy Practice, O’Melveny

Hon. E. David Burt, JP, MP
Premier, Bermuda

Kell Canty
Co-founder, Verady

JJ Carroll
Head New Solutions Group, Swiss Re

Robert B. Carter
Executive Vice President, Information Services & Chief Information Officer, FedEx Corporation

Michael Casey
Chairman, Senior Advisor, CoinDesk Advisory Board, MIT Media Labs Digital Currency Initiative

Steve Cerveny
Founder, Enterprise Blockchain, ConsenSys

Dave Chapman
Chairman, Octagon Strategy Limited

Lisa Cheng
Founder, Vanbex Group, Etherparty and Vanbex Ventures

Bobby Cho
Global Head of Trading, Cumberland

Juthica Chou
Chief Operating Officer, Ledgerx

Robert Chu
CEO, EMBLEEMA

Chris Church
Chief Business Development Officer, Digital Asset

Jordan Clifford
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Scalar Capital

Allie Clift-Jennings
CEO, Filament

Robert A. Cohen
Chief, Cyber Unit, Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement

Tim Davies
Senior Director Risk Optimization, Koch Industries

Chistian Decker
Researcher & Software Engineer, Blockstream

Daniel Dehrey
Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

Tuur Demeester
Founder, Adamant Capital

Meltem Demirors
Founder, Athena Capital

Dr. Whitfield Diffie
Chief Scientist, Cryptic Labs

Johnny Dilley
System Architecture/Incentives Engineering/Product, Crowd Machine

Dante Disparte
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Risk Cooperative

Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman, Square

Liana Douillet Guzmán
Chief Operating Officer, Blockchain

Alin S. Dragos
Head of Strategic Partnerships, Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab

Timothy Enneking
Managing Director, Crypto Asset Management, LP

Julio Faura
Head of R&D, Santander

Olga Feldmeier
Chief Executive Officer, Smart Valor

Ed Felten
Professor, Princeton University

Craig Fischer
Program Manager, Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation (FIT), Bureau of Fiscal Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Gangesh Ganesan
Co-Founder, Peernova

Roham Gharegozlou
CEO, CryptoKitties/ Axiom Zen

Konstantin Gladych
CEO & Co-Founder, Changelly

Vanessa Grellet
Executive Director, ConsenSys

Marco Grossi
Director, Deloitte AG

Antanas Guoga
Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament

Kavita Gupta
Founding Managing Partner, ConsenSys

Zach Hamilton
Managing Partner, Airfoil Capital

Kimberly Harrington
Blockchain Program Leader, General Electric Aviation

Arthur Hayes
Chief Executive Officer, BitMEX

Sebastien Henot
Manager of Business Innovation, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi-Alliance

Wendy Henry
Sr Manager, Deloitte

Brian Hoffman
Chief Executive Officer, OB1

Josh Hofmann
Global Head, AWS Partner Ecosystem

Deniel Horvatic
Topic Owner Blockchain, Porsche Digital Lab Berlin

Ken Huang
President, TheKey.Vip

The Hon Albert Isola MP
Minister for Commerce, HM Government of Gibraltar

Stefan Jespers
CEO, whalepanda.com

Jalak Jobanputra
Founder & Managing Partner, Future\Perfect Ventures

Anil John
Cybersecurity R&D Program Manager, DHS Science & Technology Directorate

Eva Kaili
Head of the Greek SD Delegation, European Parliament

Yuzo Kano
Co-founder and CEO, bitFlyer

Natalia Karayaneva
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Propy, Inc.

Brian Klein
Partner, Baker Marquart

Trevor Koverko
Founder and CEO, Polymath

Pavel Kravchenko
Founder, Distributed Lab

Joey Krug
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Pantera Capital

Igor Lebedev
CTO, SONM

Jack Lee
Managing Partner, HCM Capital, Foxconn Group

Hu Liang
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Omniex

Vinny Lingham
Founder & CEO, Civic Technologies

Ted Livingston
Founder & CEO, Kik

Tyrone Lobban
Quorum Product Lead, J.P. Morgan

Tom Lombardi
Head of Market Development, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

Alex Lopatine
Managing Partner and CEO, Park Capital

Jameson Lopp
Infrastructure Engineer, Casa

Sunny Lu
CEO, VeChain

Joseph Lubin
Founder, ConsenSys

Leif-Nissen Lundbæk
Chairman / CEO, XAIN AG

Stephen MacKenzie
Senior Counsel – IP and IP Litigation, Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC

Subhajit Mandal
Director Innovation, LumenLab

Zak Manian
Executive Director, Trusted IoT Alliance

Rob Massey
Tax Partner, Deloitte.

Matthew May
COO and Founder, Acuity

Jed McCaleb
Co-Founder, Stellar Development Foundation

James McDonald
Director of Enforcement, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Todd McDonald
Co-Founder, Head of Partnerships, R3

R. Jesse McWaters
Financial Innovation Lead, World Economic Forum

Robert Miller
Director of Business Development, Medicalchain

Mia Molnar
Marketing Strategist, Genesis Mining

S. Michael Moro
CEO, Genesis Global Trading

William Mougayar
Managing Partner, JM3 Capital

Tyler Mulvihill
Co-Founder Viant, Global Business Development, ConsenSys

Richard Myers
Decentralized Applications Engineer, goTenna

Sean Neville
President, Circle Internet Financial

Lawrence Orsini
CEO, LO3 Energy

Justo Ortiz
Chairman and CEO, UnionBank

Shawn Owen
CEO, SALT Lending

Jennifer O’Rourke
Illinois Blockchain Business Liaison, State of Illinois

Rob Palatnick
Managing Director and Chief Technology Architect, DTCC

Linda Pawczuk
DC Principal, Deloitte

Daniela Perdomo
Co-founder & CEO, goTenna

Michael Perklin
CISO, ShapeShift AG

Henri Pihkala
CEO, Streamr

Andrew Poelstra
Director of Research, Blockstream

Antonis Polemitis
University of Nicosia, Chief Executive Officer

Gideon Powell
CEO, Autonomous Crypto Corp

Jesse Powell
CEO, Kraken

Brian Quintenz
Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Kiran Raj
Chief Strategy Officer, Bittrex

Sunny Ray
Co-Founder, Unocoin

James Allen Regenor
Director, Transformative Technologies, Moog, Inc.

Elizabeth Rossiello
CEO and Founder, BitPesa

Matthew Roszak
Chairman & Co-Founder, Bloq

Slava Rubin
Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder, Indiegogo

Kyle Samani
Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital

Travis Scher
Vice President, Investments, Digital Currency Group

Rep. David Schweikert
Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives

Jennifer Zhu Scott
Principal, Radian Partners

Ned Scott
CEO, Steemit

Todd Mason Scott
Blockchain VP-Global Trade, IBM Coropartion

Ryan Selkis
Co-Founder and CEO, Messari

Ryan Shea
Co-Founder, Blockstack

Brett Shear
Strategic Director, Balanc3, ConsenSys

Adi Sideman
CEO, YouNow

Dr. James Smith
CEO, Elliptic

Frederick W. Smith
Chairman and CEO, FedEx Corporation

Jamie E. Smith
Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Advisor, The Linux Foundation and West Exec Advisors

Jimmy Song
Bitcoin Core Contributor and Venture Partner, Blockchain Capital

Michael Sonnenshein
Managing Director, Grayscale Investments

Matthew Spoke
Founder, AION

Balaji S. Srinivasan
CEO, Earn.com and Board Partner, Andreessen Horowitz, Earn.com

Elizabeth Stark
CEO and Co-Founder, Lightning Labs

Dr. Jutta Steiner
Co-Founder, Parity Technologies

Bart Stephens
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Blockchain Capital

Carsten Stöcker
CEO & Founder, Spherity GmbH

Alex Sunnarborg
Founding Partner, Tetras Capital

Conor Svensson
Founder, blk.io

Ted Tanner, Jr.
Co-founder, CTO, PokitDok

Alex Tapscott
Co-founder, Blockchain Research Institute

Don Tapscott
Executive Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute

Simon Taylor
Co-Founder and Blockchain Practice Lead, 11:FS

Dr. Stefan Teis
Head of Blockchain, Deutsche Börse Group

Tseng Ching Tse
CEO, Vault Dragon Pte Ltd

Bridget van Kralingen
Senior Vice President, Global Industries, Platforms & Blockchain, IBM

Lata Varghese
Global Consulting Lead, Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Practice, Cognizant

Emily Vaughn
Blockchain Product Development Director, Change Healthcare

Valery Vavilov
Founder and CEO, The Bitfury Group

Paul Veradittakit
Partner, Pantera Capital

Erik Voorhees
CEO and Founder, ShapeShift AG

Maja Vujinovic
Investor & CEO, OGroup LLC

David Wachsman
Founder & CEO, Wachsman

Joseph Weinberg
Chairman, Shyft Network Inc.

Zooko Wilcox
CEO, The Zcash Company

Fred Wilson
Partner, Union Square Ventures

Catherine Wood
Chief Executive Officer/ Chief Investment Officer, ARK Invest

Amy Yin
Software Engineer, Coinbase

Martti Ylikoski
Radio System Evolution Lead, Nokia

Zia Zaman
Chief Innovation Officer, MetLife Asia

Torsten Zube
VP, Head of Blockchain, SAP SE

Guy Zyskind
CoFounder and CEO, Enigma

2018 Sponsos:

TITLE:
• Blog
• Deloitte
• LEdger
• Octagon
• Sonm

FOUR BLOCK:
• Accenture
• Ark.io
• Azbit
• Circle
• Einstein
• Etoro
• Fusion
• IBM
• Microsoft
• Nem
• Omnitude
• Pillar
• Otum
• Ripple
• Streamr
• Vechain

THREE BLOCK:
• Austrade
• Bitsane
• BlockchainIL
• Cognizant
• Coldlar
• Decentral
• Diginex
• Digital Currency Group
• Hyperledger
• Icon
• Interbit
• Kraken Bitcoin Exchange
• Lisk
• OAX Foundation
• PwC
• QLC Chain
• SAP

TWO BLOCK:
• Agrello
• AION
• Bankex
• Bankorus
• BDA Business Development Agency
• Blockstream
• Canadian Pavilion
• Changelly
• CME Group
• Cobin Hood
• Consensys
• Cosmos
• Dash
• Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
• FBG Capital
• Finova Financial
• Gem
• Genesis
• Harbor
• KPMG
• Nebulas
• Peernova
• Perkins Coie
• Polymath
• Remme
• ShapeShift
• Stasis
• Tierion
• Cash

BLOCK:
• Ochain
• Aelf
• AlphaPoint
• Wantique World
• ANX
• Atonomi
• Atum
• Aurora
• B2 Broker
• Bigchain
• Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Express
• Bitfury
• BitGo
• Blockchain Capital
• Block Ex
• Block Fi
• Blockfolio
• Blockmason
• Block Medx
• Blockstack
• Blocktrade
• Blox
• Boardwalktech
• Bodhi
• Cardstack
• Chart IQ
• Cinematix.io
• Codex
• Coinigy
• CoinFabric
• Coral Health
• CoolBitX
• Crypto Jewelry
• Crypto KABN
• Crypto Valley
• Davis Polk
• DCC
• Decred
• Coindesk
• Digital Asset Research
• DLA Piper
• Dominode
• Element
• Emercoin
• Emergent
• Etherparty
• Exchange Union
• Factom
• Fidelity Labs
• Fox Bit
• Friedman LLP
• Gecko Governance
• Genesis Mining
• Globacap
• Goodwin
• Grayscale
• HelloGold
• Ico Box
• Iconomi
• Ideas by Nature
• Indorse
• InvestHK
• itBit
• Kadena
• Katalis Digital
• Keep Key
• Kingdom Trust
• Kowala
• Libra
• Longenesis
• Margin
• Metaverse
• Metal Pay
• Module
• Monaco
• MyEtherWallet
• Netki
• New Alchemy
• Orderbook
• OTCXN
• Pantera
• Park Capital
• Plutus
• Propy
• Pundi
• QB
• Quorum
• ReedSmith
• RCN Global Lending
• RSK
• Salt
• Santander
• Santiment
• Schulte Roth & Zabel
• Security Token Academy
• Shift
• Shopin
• Silvergate Bank
• Sparkchain
• Steptoe & Johnson LLP
• Swarm
• Sweetbridge
• Synechron
• TechShares
• Token Agency
• Totle
• TradeBlock
• Tradelize
• Trust Token
• Tymlez
• Ledger
• Vanbex Group
• Vanbex Ventures
• Vertalo
• Very
• Volt
• Wachsman
• Wanchain
• Wanxiang Blockchain Labs
• Waves
• Wibson
• Woleet
• Wolk
• Xena Exchange
• Coin
• Zencash