Cornell Blockchain Conference 2022 | Cornell Blockchain | 22 April 2022 | Cornell Tech, 2 W Loop Rd, New York, NY 10044, United States

About this event
Cornell Blockchain’s 2nd Annual Conference, “Web3 Going Mainstream,” will be held Friday, April 22nd in NYC at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island. The one-day event will explore the ways in which the crypto industry is adapting to the exponential adoption of decentralized blockchain applications as these technologies are poised to revolutionize how business and finance are conducted.

The conference agenda will cover four main areas: DeFi, NFTs, Regulation, and Institutions, which all have a large role to play in “Web3 Going Mainstream.” Keynote speakers will include leading industry professionals such as John Wu (President of Ava Labs), Arwin Holmes (EY Global Blockchain CTO), and Joe Conyers (Head of NFTs at Crypto.com). Platinum and Gold sponsorship support is being provided by Ava Labs, Crypto.com, EY, Foundry, FTX, Intervest and Parcel, in addition to many other sponsors. At the first edition of the annual conference, held in 2019, Cornell Blockchain hosted over 250 attendees with a lineup of speakers including Emin Gun Sirer (Founder/CEO of Ava Labs), Sam Cassatt (CSO at Consensys), Kathleen Breitman (Co-Founder of Tezos). See our sponsors below.

2022 Speakers

John Wu
President, Ava Labs

Arwin Holmes
Blockchain, EY

Joe Conyers
NFT, Crypto.com

Paul Erlanger
dYdX

Corey Miller
dYdX

PANELISTS:

Ryne Miller
General Counsel, FTX

David Gan
Founder & General Partner, OP Crypto

Barry Finkelstein
Head of Business Development, Algorand

Ed Chang
Head of Gaming, Ava Labs

James Rathmell
General Counsel, Haun Ventures

Miko Matsumura
General Partner, Gumi Capital

Abraham Chaibi
CoFounder, Dexterity Capital

Tom Petrillo
Porfolio Manager & Quan, Dexterity Capital

Kim Grauer
Director of Research, Chainalysis

Yida Gao
General Partner, Shima Capital

Apollo Ohno
CoFounder & CEO, Tribal VC

Travis Scher
Managing Partner, North Island Ventures

Eric Turner
Head of Research, Messari

Kirk Finkel
Metaverse Architect

Don Thibeau
CoFounder, HBAR Foundation

MODERATORS

Alex Lin
Cornell University MBA

Xavier Lu
Pantera Capital, Quant Dev., Cornell University ‘22

Mac Naggar
Cornell University ‘23

Brady Dale
Reporter, Axios

Casey Wagner
Senior Finance Reporter, Blockworks

Noah Gaynor
CoFounder & CEO, Parcel

2022 Sponsors

• PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• EY
• Crypto.com
• Foundry

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Parcel
• FTX US
• Ava Labs
• Intervest

SILVER SPONSORS:
• The HBAR Foundation
• Dexterity Capital
• OP Crypto

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Enigma
• Algorand
• Flipsidecrypto
• dYdx