Converge22 | Circle | 27 September 2022 | Moscone Center, 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

This event is a gathering for change makers, looking to build what’s next in Web3. From crypto-natives to the crypto-curious, from traditional finance to DeFi, from regulators and policy makers to non-profits, It is an unprecedented opportunity to dive deep, collaborate and establish a shared vision of the crypto economy.

2022 Speakers

Ahmad Abbasi
Chief Executive Officer, Syndica

Rawan Abdelrazek
Chief Operating Officer, Anchorage Digital Bank

Jeremy Allaire
Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman, Circle

Aubrey Anderson
Co-Founder and CTO, New Computer Corporation

Michael Anderson
CEO & Co-Founder, Framework Ventures

John Andrews
Vice President, Head of Investor Relations & Capital Markets, Circle

Nicolas Arqueros
CEO, Rapadcin

Joaquín Ayuso de Paúl
Head of Nium Crypto and Web3, Nium

Teana Baker-Taylor
VP, Policy and Regulatory Strategy, EU/UK, Circle

Sam Bankman-Fried*
CEO, FTX

Bill Barhydt
CEO & Founder, ABRA

Irina Berkon
CFO and Board Member, Metallicus

Ryan Berkun
Founder & CEO, Teller

Sam Blackshear
Co-Founder, CTO, Mysten Labs

Thomas Bohner
Founder and CEO, Credix

Elena Bondareva
Founder & CEO, Vivit Group Worldwide

Marcus Boorstin
Director, Engineering, Circle

Johann Bornman
Product Lead, MetaMask Institutional

Michael Bouhanna
VP, Contemporary Art Specialist & Co-Head of Digital Art Sales, Sotheby's

Bernardo Brites
CEO, Trace Finance

Jerry Brito
Executive Director, Coin Center

Brian Brooks
CEO, Bitfury Group

Zach Bruch
Co-Founder & CEO, RECUR

Chris Brummer, JD, Ph.D
Agnes N. Williams Research Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Daniel Buchner
Head of Decentralized Identity, Block

Vitalik Buterin*
Chief Scientist, Ethereum

Gabriel Cardona
Developer Evangelist, Ava Labs

Nic Carter
General Partner, Castle Island Ventures

Elisabeth Carpenter
Chief Operating Officer, Circle

Roger Caruth, JD/Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Howard University

Michael Casey
Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk

Nikhil Chandhok
Chief Product Officer, Circle

Michael Chang
Principal Product Manager, Circle

Vijay Chetty
Head of Business Development, Uniswap Labs

Gee Chuang
Director, Product, Circle

Hila Cohen
Head of Business Development and Chief of Staff, WFP Innovation Accelerator

Cindy Cohn
Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tony Colafrancesco
VP Publishing, Big Time Studios

Corey Cooper
Senior Solutions Engineer, Circle

Patrick Corker
VP, Treasury, Circle

Dorian Crutcher
Developer Relations, NEAR

Mark Cuban*
Entrepreneur, Mark Cuban Companies

Reid Cuming
VP, Compound Treasury, Compound Labs

Kaito Cunningham
Co-Founder & CEO, Utopia Labs

Seraphim Czecker
Head of Risk, Euler Labs

Nikhilesh De
Managing Editor, Global Policy and Regulation, CoinDesk

Alonso De Gortari
Head Economist, Mysten Labs

Maya Dentzel
Member of Spawn, Blockchain Sustainability Researcher at UC Santa Barbara

Raj Dhamodharan
Head of Crypto & Blockchain, Mastercard

Dante Disparte
Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Global Policy, Circle

Denelle Dixon
CEO & Executive Director, Stellar Development Foundation

Trip Dixon
Senior Solutions Engineer, Circle

Carlos Domingo
Founder and CEO, Securitize

Katherine Dowling
General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Bitwise Asset Management

Chris Duffus
Founder & CEO, Fonbnk

Charlie Durbin
Co-Founder, Decent

Justin Evans
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Yaya J. Fanusie
Chief Strategist, Cryptocurrency AML Strategies

Josh Ford
Developer Relations Lead, NEAR

Jordan Forssman
COO, CYBAVO

Avichal Garg
Co-Founder/Partner, Electric Capital

Sergey Gorbunov
CEO & Co-Founder, Axelar

Mike Grant
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Circle

Paul Grewal
Chief Legal Officer, Coinbase Global

Keith Grossman
President, TIME

Jill Gunter
Chief Strategy Officer, Espresso Systems

Kim Hamilton Duffy
Director of Identity and Standards, Centre Consortium

Patrick Hansen
Crypto Venture Advisor, Presight Capital

Adrienne Harris
Superintendent, NY Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)

Brett Harrison
President, FTX

Robert Heeger
President & CEO, Endaoment

Tamas Henning
Senior Director, Security Engineering, Circle

Adam Hofmann
Founder & CEO, Nimble Insurance

Mike Hudack
CEO, Avian Labs

Peter Johnson
Co-Head of Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital

Jason Jones
CEO, END Labs

Ridhima Kahn
VP of Business Development, Dapper Labs

Kate Kallot
Co-Founder, Mara

Erbil Karaman
CEO, Huma Finance

Kanav Kariya
President, Jump Crypto

Johann Kerbrat
CTO & GM, Robinhood Crypto

Gwera Kiwana
Founder in Residence: Crypto, MFS Africa

Aaron Klein
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Sinan Koc
Co-Founder & CEO, BiLira

Matt Krak
Spawn Fellow, Head of BD at Blockchain at San Diego

Stani Kulechov
CEO & Founder, Aave

Ananya Kumar
Assistant Director, Digital Currencies, GeoEconomics Center, Atlantic Council

Mary-Catherine Lader
COO, Uniswap Labs

Angie Lau
Editor-in-Chief & CEO, Forkast.News

Scott Lawin
CEO/COO, Candy Digital

Julien Le Goc
VP, Enterprise Risk Program Management, Circle

Ian Lee
Co-Founder, Syndicate

Robert Leshner
Founder, Compound Labs

Adam Levy
Co-founder, Bello

Jake Levy
Founder and CEO of Spawn, The University of Texas at Austin

Alex Lewis
Product Marketing Manager, CYBAVO

Gordon Liao
Chief Economist, Circle

Rebecca Liao
Co-Founder and CEO, Saga

Alexandre Liege
Co-Founder, AlloyX

Jonathan Lim
Principal Product Manager, Circle

Boyan Lin
Senior Manager, Engineering, Circle

Brynly Llyr
Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets, World Economic Forum

Wyatt Lonergan
Principal, Circle Ventures, Circle

Al Luken
Developer Education, Alchemy

Gagan Mac
Director, Product Management, Circle

Sigal Mandelker
General Partner, Ribbit Capital

Joe Marenda
Global Head of Digital Assets Investing, Partner, Cambridge Associates

Sarah Martin
Software Engineer II, Circle

Uddhav Marwaha
CEO & Co-Founder, Friktion

Jai Massari
Chief Legal Officer, LightSpark

Cyril Mathew
Head of Crypto & Expansion Partnerships, Stripe

Walker Mayerchak
Senior Software Engineer, Circle

Chris McCann
Partner, Race Capital

Joe McCann
Founder, CEO & CIO, Asymmetric

Nathan McCauley
Co-Founder & CEO, Anchorage

Chase McDermott
Software Engineer II, Circle

Ian Melhorn
Crypto & Blockchain Training Lead, Circle

Alexis Miller
Vice President of Marketing, Palm NFT Studio

Robert Mitchnick
Head of Digital Assets, BlackRock

Pranay Mohan
CEO & Co-Founder, Nomad

Jesse Morris
Chief Executive Officer, Energy Web

Michael Mosier
General Counsel, Espresso Systems

Koyuki Nakamori
Director of Market Intelligence & AI, Ava Labs

Sathish Narayanaswamy
Software Engineering Manager, Circle

Advit Nath
Director & Controller, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Brandon Neal
COO, Euler

Sean Neville
Co-Founder, Circle

Chi Nnadi
Co-Founder & CEO, Mara

Patrick O'Grady
Head of Engineering, Ava Labs

Kevin O’Leary
Chairman, O’Leary Funds

Erikan Obotetukudo
Founder and General Partner, Audacity

Christine Parlour
Professor, UC Berkeley

Miles Paschini
CEO, FV Bank International

Kevin Peach
Director of Strategic Partnerships, Aidtech

Andrew Peek
Co-Founder & CEO, Delphia

Bryan Pellegrino
CEO & Co-Founder, LayerZero Labs

Sandra Persing
VP of Developer and Ecosystem Marketing, Circle

Illia Polosukhin
Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol

Anthony Pompliano
Investor, Pomp Investments

Guillaume Poncin
Head of Engineering, Crypto, Stripe

Sidney Powell
CEO & Co-Founder, Maple Finance

Coby Powers
Research Analyst, Fidelity Management and Research

Teej (TJ) Ragsdale
Real World Assets, MakerDAO

Jai Ramaswamy
Chief Legal Officer, Andreessen Horowitz

Kash Razzaghi
Chief Revenue Officer, Circle

Joao Reginatto
VP, Product Management, Circle

Francesco Renzi
CEO & Co-Founder, Superfluid

Rebecca Rettig
General Counsel, The Aave Companies

Paul Riegle
Chief Product Officer, Algorand

Kate Rooney
Tech Reporter, CNBC

Kyle Samani
Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital

Amir Sarhangi
Co-Founder & CEO, Supermojo

Anthony Scaramucci
Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge

Antoinette Schoar
Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan

Gokul Selvaraj
Director, Product Management, Circle

Sam Sends
Co-Founder, GLASS.XYZ

Sebastian Serrano
CEO & Co-Founder, Ripio

Amit Sharma
Founder & CEO, FinClusive

Avishkar (Ash) Sharma
Head of Crypto Partnerships, Checkout.com

Sunil Sharma
Senior Director, Product Management, Circle

Cuy Sheffield
Vice President, Crypto, Visa

Sheraz Shere
Head of Payments, Solana Labs

Kristin Smith
Executive Director, Blockchain Association

Vaughan Smith
COO, Bitso

Whitney Steele
VP, Marketing, OpenSea

Josh Sroge
CFO, HBAR Foundation

Lawrence H. Summers
Economist

Dan Tapiero
Founder & CEO, 10T Holdings

Emre Tekisalp
CEO, O(1) Labs

Sam Thapaliya
Founder, Zebec

Corey Then
Vice President of Global Policy, Circle

Charlize Theron

Johnny Thorsen
VP of Strategy and Partnerships, Spotnana

Mercina Tillemann
Vice President, Circle Impact, Circle

Tomicah Tillemann
Chief Policy Officer, Haun Ventures

John Todaro
Senior Research Analyst, Needham & Company, LLC

Oscar Tu
Software Engineer, Engineering, Circle

Itai Turbahn
Co-Founder & CEO, Dynamic

Jake Urban
Partner Engineering Tech Lead, Stellar Development Foundation

Sishir Varghese
Founder, Spectral

Benoit Vatere
CEO, Mammoth Media

Laura Vidiella
VP of BD & Strategy, LedgerPrime

Jackson Virgo
Engineer, Axelar

Rebecca Wald
Senior Product Manager, Circle

Sheila Warren
Chief Executive Officer, Crypto Council for Innovation

Adam Welc
Software Engineer & Researcher, Mysten Labs

Serena Williams*
Serena Ventures

Tim Wing
Senior Talent Acquisition Marketing Specialist, Circle

Paul Wong
Director of Product for Central Bank Digital Currencies and Institutions, Stellar Development Foundation

Alexander Wu
Co-Founder and CPO, Utopia Labs

Anatoly Yakovenko
Co-Founder, Solana

David Yu
Senior Software Engineer, Circle

Philipp Zentner
CEO, Founder, LI.FI

Alex Zhang
Mayor, Friends with Benefits

Chris Zuehlke
Partner and Global Head of Cumberland, DRW

2022 Sponsors

GOLD:
• Google Cloud
• Milkomeda
• Nimble
• Stellar Development Foundation
• Syndica
• Visa

SILVER:
• Avalanche
• CoinFx
• Delphia
• DriveWealth
• Dropp
• Dynamic
• Fairmint
• FTX US
• Goldfinch
• HiGlobe
• LG Art Lab
• Naira Gram
• Recur
• Solana
• Tron

OFFICIAL EQUALITY SPONSOR:
• Female Quotient

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS:
• Algorand
• TRM