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

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.

PRESS IN ATTENDANCE:
• American Banker
• Business Insider
• Bloomberg
• CNBC
• Entrepreneur
• Esquire
• Forbes
• Financial Times
• Fortune
• Handelsblatt
• MarketWatch
• New York Post
• Quartz
• The Economist
• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• Thomson Reuters

2018 Speakers

Zooko Wilcox
UX Engineer, The Zcash Company

Noelle Acheson
Media Producer, CoinDesk

Neeraj Agrawal
Director of Communications, Coin Center

Emmanuel Aidoo
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Strategy, Credit Suisse

Muneeb Ali
Co-Founder, Blockstack

Jeremy Allaire
CEO and Chairman, Circle

Rob Allen
Founder, nodl.io

Yaniv Altshuler
Co-Founder & CEO, Endor

Aleksei Antonov
Co-Founder, SONM

Yoni Assia
CEO and Founder, eToro

Federico Ast
CEO, Kleros

NICOLAS BACCA
CTO, Ledger

Amber Baldet
Co-founder, CEO

Sarah Banks
Managing Director, Global Freight & Logistics, F&L Blockchain Lead, Accenture Labs

Daniel Bar
Co-Founder, Tenzorum Project

Chance Barnett
Blockchain and Equity Crowdfunding Pioneer, Entrepreneur, and Investor, Decentra Capital

Mawadda Basir
Executive Director, ColliderX

Nolan Bauerle
Director of Research, CoinDesk

John Beccia
Consultant

Richard Beeson
Chief Technology Officer, OSIsoft LLC

Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director, Hyperledger

Eli Ben-Sasson
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, StarkWare

Stewart Bond
Research Director, Blockchain Strategies, IDC - International Data Corporation

Perianne Boring
Founder & President, Chamber of Digital Commerce

Nellie Bowles
Reporter, New York Times

Diane Brady
Founder, dB Omnimedia

Naomi Brockwell
CEO and Founder, Rainsworth Productions

Meegan Brooks
Associate Attorney - Retail Practice Group, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

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

Liam Bussell
CMO and Head of ICO Advisory, Diginex

Kell Canty
Co-founder, Verady

JJ Carroll
Head New Solutions Group, Swiss Re

Hilary Carter
Director of Faculty, Blockchain Research Institute

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

Steve Cerveny
Founder, Enterprise Blockchain, ConsenSys

Frank Chaparro
Reporter, BI

Dave Chapman
Chairman, Octagon Strategy Limited

Phil Chen
Decentralized Chief Officer DCO, HTC

Lisa Cheng
Founder, Vanbex Group

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

Lewis Cohen
Co-Founder, DLx Law LLP

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

Alan Cohn
Co-Chair, Blockchain and Digital Currency Practice, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Leigh Cuen
Reporter, CoinDesk

Brady Dale
Reporter, CoinDesk

David Dalton
Partner, Deloitte

Tim Davies
Senior Director Risk Optimization, Koch Industries

Dimitri De Jonghe
Head of Research & Co-Founder, Ocean Protocol

Chistian Decker
Researcher & Software Engineer, Blockstream

Marc Degen
CEO, modum.io AG

Daniel Dehrey
Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

Tuur Demeester
Founder, Adamant Capital

Meltem Demirors
Founder, Athena Capital

Gary DeWaal
Special Counsel, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Dr. Whitfield Diffie
Chief Scientist, Cryptic Labs

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

Dante Disparte
CEO, Advisor, Risk Cooperative, Power Ledger

Jacob Donnelly
Director of Marketing, CoinDesk

Trey Ditto
CEO, Ditto

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

Katherine Duveneck
LA, U.S. House of Representatives

Jordan Earls
Co-founder and Lead Developer, Qtum

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

Danny Fishel
EVP Kin Partnerships, Kik

Ian Friend
Attorney, Wilson Elser

Gangesh Ganesan
CFO, PeerNova

Konstantin Gladych
Director of PR, Changelly

Matthew Goetz
Co-Founder and CEO, Block Tower Capital

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

Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar
CEO, RSK

Zach Hamilton
Managing Partner, Airfoil Capital

Arthur Hayes
Chief Executive Officer, BitMEX

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

Wendy Henry
Specialist Leader, Federal Blockchain Lead, Deloitte Consulting

Marc Hochstein
Managing Editor, CoinDesk

Brian Hoffman
Chief Executive Officer, OB1

Josh Hofmann
Global Head, AWS Partner Ecosystem

Michael Hourigan
Managing Director, Fortress Investment Group

Ken Huang
President, TheKey.Vip

Kuan Huang
Co-Founder, Supermax

Jo-Jo Hubbard
Co-Founder and COO, Electron

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

Oleg Ivanov
Co-Founder and CEO, CryptoBazar Fund

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 Kelly
Founder and CEO, BKCM LLC

George Kikvadze
Vice Chairman, Bitfury

Brian Klein
Partner, Baker Marquart

Trevor Koverko
CEO, Polymath

Pavel Kravchenko
Founder, Distributed Lab

Joey Krug
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Pantera Capital

Michael V. Kruljac
Assistant General Counsel – Patents, Georgia-Pacific LLC

Ashley Lannquist
Treasurer, Board of Directors, Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI)

Eric Larcheveque
CEO, Ledger

Igor Lebedev
CTO, SONM

Charlie Lee
Creator and Managing Director, Litecoin Foundation

Jack Lee
Managing Partner, HCM Capital, Foxconn Group

Todd Lemons
Chairman, Veridium Foundation

Clément Lesaege
CTO, Kleros

Hu Liang
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Omniex

Vinny Lingham
Co-Founder, CEO, Civic Technologies

Ted Livingston
Founder & CEO, Kik

Tom Lombardi
Head of Market Development, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

Alexander Lopatine
Managing Partner and Executive Chairman, Park Capital and Wysh.ai

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

Jean-Luc Marcoux
CMO - Strategy Lead, Interblockchain

Ashley Martabano
Counsel, Baker Marquart LLP

Rob Massey
Tax Partner, Deloitte Tax LLP

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

Marc Mercuri
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Robert Miller
Director of Business Development, Medicalchain

Itay Milrad
Co-Founder & CTO, IronSource

Dan Morehead
CEO, Pantera

S. Michael Moro
CEO, Genesis Global Trading

Simon Moss
Managing Director & Co-Founder, Global Citizen

William Mougayar
Managing Partner, JM3 Capital

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

Alon Muroch
CEO, Blox.io

Richard Myers
Decentralized Applications Engineer, goTenna

Moritz Neto
Co-Founder, Tenzorum

Sean Neville
Founder and President, Circle

Justin Newton
CEO, Netki, Inc.

Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Journalist, CoinDesk

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

James Patchett
President and CEO, New York City Economic Development Corporation

Ankur Patel
Growth for Identity, Microsoft

Linda Pawczuk
DC Principal, Deloitte

Morgen Peck
Freelance Writer, None

Uriel Peled
Co-Founder, Orbs

Daniela Perdomo
Co-founder & CEO, goTenna

Michael Perklin
CISO, ShapeShift AG

Didier PH Martin
CEO, Interblockchain

Henri Pihkala
CEO, Streamr

Andrew Poelstra
Director of Research, Blockstream

Antonis Polemitis
Chief Executive Officer, University Of Nicosia

Gideon Powell
CEO, Autonomous Crypto Corp

Jesse Powell
CEO, Kraken

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

Brian Quintenz
Commissioner, CFTC

Kiran Raj
Chief Strategy Officer, Bittrex

Sujit Raman
Associate Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice

Raghu Rao
Director of Business Development, Peernova

Sunny Ray
Co-Founder, Unocoin

James Allen Regenor
Director, Transformative Technologies, Moog, INC

Ron Resnick
Executive Director, EEA

Bailey Reutzel
US Editor, CoinDesk

Jill Richmond
SparkPR

JT Rose
Product Manager, Microsoft

David Rosenberg
Managing Director, GE Ventures

Elizabeth Rossiello
CEO and Founder, BitPesa

Matthew Roszak
CoFounder, Bloq, Inc.

Slava Rubin
Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder, Indiegogo

Camila Russo
Reporter, Bloomberg News

Avi Salzman
Senior Editor, Barron's

Kyle Samani
Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital

Prakash Santhana
Managing Director, Deloitte

Tom Savel, MD
Director, Informatics Innovation Unit, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Travis Scher
Vice President, Investments, Digital Currency Group

Luca Schiatti
Blockchain R&D Associate Manager, Accenture

David Schwartz
Chief Cryptographer, Ripple

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

Sebastian Serrano
Founder and CEO, Ripio

Jon ShapeShift
Chief Operating Officer, ShapeShift

Ryan Shea
Co-Founder, Blockstack

Brett Shear
Strategic Director, Balanc3, ConsenSys

Laura Shin
Crypto Journalist, Unchained and Unconfirmed podcasts

Dieter Shirley
Co-Founder and CTO, CryptoKitties

Adi Sideman
CEO, YouNow

Paul Sin
Partner, Deloitte

Daniel Skowronski
Co-founder & CEO, DX Exchange

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

Jennifer Smith
Head of Worldwide Blockchain Marketing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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

Naman Srivastava
VP, Business Development & Finance, RealBlocks

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
Founder & CEO, Spherity GmbH

Marco Streng
CEO and Co-Founder, Genesis Mining Group

Alex Sunnarborg
Founding Partner, Tetras Capital

Conor Svensson
Founder/CEO, blk.io

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

Alex Tapscott
Co-founder, Blockchain Research Institute

Don Tapscott
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute

Simon Taylor
11:FS

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

Igor Telyatnikov
President & COO, AlphaPoint

Tseng Ching Tse
CEO, Vault Dragon Pte Ltd

Karen Ubell
Attorney, Cooley LLP

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

Lata Varghese
AVP, Consulting – Blockchain & DLT Practice, Cognizant

Emily Vaughn
Blockchain Product Development Director, Change Healthcare

John Velissarios
Managing Director, Accenture Blockchain Security

Paul Veradittakit
Partner, Pantera Capital

Paul Vigna
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Erik Voorhees
CEO and Founder, ShapeShift AG

Maja Vujinovic
Investor & CEO, OGroup LLC

David Wachsman
Founder & CEO, Wachsman

James Wallis
Vice President, Blockchain, IBM

Joseph Weinberg
Chairman , Shyft Network Inc.

Jason Weinstein
Partner/Director, Steptoe/Blockchain Alliance

Fred Wilson
Partner, Union Square Ventures

Joon Ian Wong
Reporter, Quartz

Pindar Wong
Chairman, VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd

Amanda L Wood
Vice President of Digital Media + Technology, The Real Estate Board of New York

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

Kevin Worth
CEO, Coindesk, Inc.

Naiem Yeganeh
Founder, FerrumNet.org

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 Sponsors

TITLE SPONSORS:
• bloq
• Deloitte
• Ledger
• Octagon Strategy
• SONM

FOUR BLOCK SPONSORS:
• accenture
• ARK.io
• Azbit
• CIRCLE
• einstein
• etoro
• FUSION
• IBM
• Microsoft
• nem
• OMNI TUDE
• pillar
• O.tum
• ripple
• Streamr
• vechain

THREE BLOCK SPONSORS:
• Australia UNLIMITED
• BITSANE
• BlockchainIL
• Cognizant
• coindesk KOREA
• COLDLAR
• decentral
• DINGINEX
• DIGITAL CURRENCY GROUP
• HYPERLEDGER
• icon
• interbit
• KraKen
• Lisk
• OAX
• pwc
• OLC CHAIN
• SAP

TWO BLOCK SPONSORS:
• Agrello
• AION
• AlphaPoint
• BANKEX
• BANKORUS
• BERMUDA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
• BLOCKCHAIN STUDIOS
• Blockstream
• CANADIAN PAVILION
• changelly
• civic
• CME Group
• COBINHOOD
• CONSENSYS
• DASH
• ENTERPRISE ETHEREUM ALLIANCE
• FBG CAPITAL
• FINOVA financial
• Gem
• Genesis
• HARBOR
• KPMG
• NEBULAS
• ORBS
• PEERNOVA
• PERKINSCOIE
• POLYMATH
• remme
• ShapeShift
• STASIS
• TIERION
• CASH

BLOCK SPONSORS:
• OCHAIN
• aelf
• ANTIQUUE WORLD
• ANX
• Atonomi
• ATUM
• AURORA
• B2 BROKER
• BIGCHAIN
• Bitcoin.com
• Bitcoin-express
• BITFURY
• BitGo
• BLOCKCHAIN CAPITAL
• BLOCKEX
• BlockFi
• Blockfolio
• BLOCKMASON
• BLOCKMEDX
• BLOCKSTACK
• Blocktrade.com
• blox
• BOARDWALKTECH
• Bodhi
• CARDSTACK
• cHART iq
• Cinematix.io
• CODEX
• CoinFabric
• COINIGY
• CoolBitX
• CORAL HEALTH
• Crypto Jewrly
CRYPT KABN
• Crypto Valley
• Davis Polk
• DBA
• DCC
• deCRED
• DIGITAL ASSET RESEARCH
• DLA PIPER
• dominode
• DRAGON
• ELEMENT
• EMERCOIN
• Emergent
• EP
• xchange union
• FACTOM
• FidelityLabs
• FOXBIT
• FRIEDMAN LLP
• GECKO
• Genesis Mining
• ICONIZ
• CONOMI
• ideas by nature
• Indorse
• InvestHK
• itBit
• jumptrading
• kadena
• KATALIS
• keep key
• KINGDOM TRUST
• KOWALA
• Libra
• LONGNESIS
• margin
• Metaverse
• MetalPay
• MODULE
• MONACO
• MyEtherWallet
• NETKI
• Neew Alchemy
• Orderbook
• OTCXN
• PANTERA
• park capital
• PLUTUS
• PUNDI
• qb
• Quorum
• ReedSmith
• RCN
• RSK
• SALT
• Santander
• santiment
• SchulteRoth&Zabel
• Security Token
• SHIFT
• ShoCard
• Shopin
• silvergate BANK
• sparkchain
• Steptoe
• SWARM
• Sweetbridge
Synechron
• TechShares
• Token Agency
• TOTLE
• TradeBlock
• tradelize
• TrustToken
• TYMLEX
• LEDGER
• VANBEX GROUP
• VERTALO
• very
• Volt
• WACHSMAN
• Xena Exchange
• COIN
• zencash
• AVAV