SF Blockchain Week Epicenter 2019 - Berkeley | San Francisco Blockchain Week | 3 November 2019 | University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

SF Blockchain Week is where blockchain startups, enterprise companies, academics, developers, and investors from around the world come together to define the future of blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

2019 Speakers

Don Tapscott
Co-founder & Executive Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute

Hester M. Peirce
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Olaf Carlson-Wee
Founder & CIO, Polychain Capital

Jill Carlson
Founder, Open Money Initiative

Vitalik Buterin
Founder, Ethereum

Meltem Demirors
Chief Strategy Officer, CoinShares Capital

Chris Larsen
Executive Chairman & Co-founder, Ripple

Mike Novogratz
Founder, CEO and Chairman, Galaxy Digital

Kevin Weil
Co-Creator, Libra VP of Product, Calibra

Arianna Simpson
Managing Director, Autonomous Partners

Christian Catalini
Co-Creator of Libra and Head Economist, Calibra

Jihan Wu
Co-founder & Director, Bitmain

Chris Lee
CFO, Board Secretary and VP of International Business Development, Huobi Group

Dan Morehead
CEO & Co-CIO, Pantera Capital

Congressman Warren Davidson
Member of Congress, United States House of Representatives

Jesse Powell
Co-founder & CEO, Kraken

Denelle Dixon
CEO, Stellar Development Foundation

Balaji Srinivasan
Former CTO, Coinbase

Christine Parlour
Professor, Berkeley Haas

Joseph Lubin
Founder & CEO, ConsenSys

Justin Kan
Co-founder & CEO, Atrium & Twitch.tv

Angela Dalton
Managing Partner, Signum Global Advisors

Brad Burnham
Partner, Union Square Ventures

Jed McCaleb
Founder and Chief Architect, Stellar Development Foundation

Charlie Shrem
Founder, UntoldStories.com

Samson Mow
Chief Strategy Officer, Blockstream

Chris Burniske
Partner, Placeholder

Sergey Nazarov
CEO, Chainlink

Muneeb Ali
Co-founder & CEO, Blockstack

Taylor Monahan
Founder & CEO, MyCrypto

Shafi Goldwasser
Turing award winner & Professor, UC Berkeley & MIT & Weizmann Institute of Science

Alex Gladstein
Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation

Michael Arrington
Partner, Arrington XRP Capital

Ashley Lannquist
DLT Project Lead, World Economic Forum

Martin Tschopp
Head of Ventures, Naspers Ventures

Paul Veradittakit
Partner, Pantera Capital

Sam Lessin
Partner, Slow Venture

Stephanie Hurder
Founding Economist, Prysm Group

Dan Robinson
Research Partner, Paradigm

Kevin Chou
Co-founder, Forte & Kabam

Joel Monegro
Partner, Placeholder

Izaak Meckler
CTO, Coda Protocol

Simon Kim
CEO, Partner, Hashed

Andy Bromberg
President & Co-founder, CoinList

Haseeb Qureshi
Investor, Dragonfly Capital Partners

Aditya Asgaonkar
Researcher, Ethereum

Ciara Sun
Chief of Staff, Huobi Group

Amir Bandeali
Co-founder & CTO, 0x

Matthew Roszak
Co-founder & Chairman, Bloq

Michael Casey
Chairman of the Advisory Board, Coindesk

Evan Schwartz
Engineer Lead, Interledger & Xpring

Steve Tadelis
Professor of Economics, Berkeley Haas

Dean Tribble
CEO, Agoric

Richard Muirhead
Managing Partner, Fabric Ventures

Jutta Steiner
CEO, Parity Technologies

Jonathan Johnson
Interim CEO, Overstock.com & President, Medici Ventures

Jeremy Welch
Founder & CEO, Casa

Clarence Liu
VP of Development, Elastos

Max Kantelia
Co-founder, Zilliqa

Ken Nguyen
CEO, Republic

Mike Walker
Sr. Director, Applied Innovation Team, Microsoft

Ouriel Ohayon
CEO, ZenGo

Max Skibinsky
Co-founder & CEO, Vault12

Sunayna Tuteja
Head of Digital Assets & Blockchain, TD Ameritrade

Anoop Nannra
Head of Blockchain, Cisco

Han Kao
CEO & Founder, Crypto Briefing

Esther Hu
Co-Founder, Taxa Network

Blake Commagere
Co-founder, Vault12

Chris McCann
Founding Partner, Proof of Capital

Evgeny Ponomarev
Co-founder, Fluence Labs

Tieshun Roquerre
CEO, Namebase

Allen Piscitello
VP of Product Management, Blockstream

Sunny Lu
Founder & CEO, VeChain

Xiaoning Nan
Founder & CEO, OceanEx

Kartik Talwar
General Partner, A Capital

MacLane Wilkinson
Co-founder & CEO, NuCypher

Marco Di Maggio
Core Researcher, Terra

Fahad Saleh
Assistant Professor, Finance, McGill University

Joseph Abadi
PhD Candidate in Economics, Princeton Universiity

Yukun Liu
Research Assistant, University of Rochester

Deeksha Gupta
Assistance Professor of Finance, Carnegie Mellon University

John P. Conley
Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University

James Cooper
Professor of Law, California Western School of Law

Guido Molinari
Managing Director, Prysm Group

Dan Guido
Co-founder & CEO, Trail of Bits

Jude Nelson
Engineering Partner, Blockstack

István András Seres
PhD student, Eötvös Loránd University, KZen-Research

Alessandro Chiesa
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, StarkWare, Zcash

Lun Wang
PhD student, UC Berkeley

Sergi Delgado Segura
Co-founder & CSO, PISA Research

Dimitris Karakostas
PhD student, University of Edinburgh and IOHK

Oded Naor
Recent graduate student, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Georgios Konstantopoulos
Independent Consultant & Researcher

Hart Lambur
Founder, UMA

Dimitris Kolonelos
PhD Student, IMDEA Software Institute

Joseph Bonneau
Assistant Professor, New York University

Mo Dong
Co-founder & CEO, Celer Network

Vassilis Zikas
Professor, University of Edinburgh, UC Berkeley, and IOHK

Jiaheng Zhang
Ph.D. student, UC Berkeley

Sami Mäkelä
Core Developer, Truebit

Alexander Hicks
PhD Student, University College London

Aram Jivanyan
Cryptographer, Zcoin

Jason Teutsch
Founder, Truebit

Dawn Song
CEO & Founder, Oasis Labs

Ben Chan
CTO, BitGo

Andreea Minca
Associate Professor, Cornell University

Alexander Herrmann
Mechanism Designer, Gnosis GmbH

Pratyush Mishra
PhD Student, UC Berkeley

Aditya Asgaonkar
Researcher, Ethereum Foundation

Rei Chiang
Co-founder & CTO, Gauntlet

Tal Moran
Chief Scientist, Spacemesh, Northeastern University, IDC Herzliya

Rafael Pass
Professor, Cornell Tech

Kevin Wang
Co-founder & Researcher in Token Economics, Nervos

Silvio Micali
Founder, MIT & Algorand

Bharath Ramsundar
CTO & Co-founder, Computable

Richard Holden
Professor of Economics, UNSW Business School

Beniamin Mincu
C‌EO & Co-founder, Elrond Network

Ally Medina
Director, Blockchain Advocacy Coaltion & Mayor, City of Emeryville, Blockchain Advocacy Coalition

Scott Trowbridge
WeWork Fintech Blockchain Labs Manager, WeWork

Andrew Thomas
Contributor, INC.com

Naomi Brockwell
Producer, NBTV

Martine Paris
Freelance Tech Reporter, Fast Company

Joshua Frank
Co-Founder and CEO, The TIE

Dan Finlay
Co-founder & Product Lean, MetaMask

Sam Abbassi
Technical Evangelist, Algorand

Kenta Iwasaki
CTO, Perlin

Kevin Zhou
Managing Partner, Galois Capital

Cooper Kunz
Developer Evangelist, Hedera Hashgraph

Thomas Bertani
Founder, Provable Things

Gareth Mensah
Developer Evangelist, Zilliqa

Chjango Unchained
Director of Community, Tendermint/Cosmos

The Bitcoin
Programmable, transparent and self sovereign

Guy Hirsch
USA Managing Director, eToro

Ethan Beard
SVP of Xpring, Ripple

Zaki Manian
Head of Research, Tendermint

Teck Chia
Head of Binance X, Binance

Jeff Roberts
Senior Writer, Fortune Magazine

Sean Moser
Chief Product Officer, GE Aviation Digital

Raullen Chai
Co-Founder, IoTeX

Paul Breslow
Innovation Director, EDF

Beniamin Mincu
Head of Blockchain Business development, SAP

Sheila Warren
Head of blockchain and DLT, World Economic Forum

Ro Khanna
Congressman, US House of Representatives

Matt Muller
Head of Security Operations, Coinbase

Dovey Wan
Founding Partner, Primitive Ventures

Tomer Afek
Founder CEO, Spacemesh

Boaz Avital
Product Manager, Anchorage

Amy Fisher
Business Development, R3

Fred Ehrsam
Co-Founder, Paradigm

Catherine Coley
CEO of Binance.US, Binance.US

Steven Goldfeder
Co-founder, Offchain Labs, Cornell Tech/IC3

Ryne Saxe
CEO, Eco

Jamie McCormick
Managing Director, Bitcoin Marketing Team

Aaron Klein
Founder, BlocWatch

Erez Halperin
Director Of Business Development, Blox.io

Jason Yanowitz
Co-Founder, BlockWorks Group

Kris Lumby
Cryptocurrency YouTuber, MrKristof

Mark Miller
Chief Scientist, Agoric

Ken Fromm
EEA Evangelist, EEA (Enterprise Ethereum Alliance) | BuildETH

Daryl Hok
Chief Operating Officer, CertiK

Ron Hammond
Manager of Government Relations, Ripple

Akash Khosla
Engineer, Anchorage

Dale Chrystie
Business Fellow, Blockchain Strategist, FedEx

Betsabe Botaitis
Co-founder & COO, AIKON

Lance Vick
Lead Security Engineer, BitGo

Nicholas Platias
Head of Research, Terra

Nevin Freeman
CEO & Founder, Reserve

Hannah Murphy
Tech Collumnist, Financial Times

Chen Zur
Partner&Principal EY US Blockchain Practice Leader, EY

Eric Winer
Vice President, Engineering, Gemini

Anthony DiPrinzio
Head of Blockchain Lab, BASF

Pete Najarian
Chief Revenue Officer, BitGo

Jaime Link
Director, Innovation & Technology Commercialization, EDF

Tim Davis
Principal, Risk & Financial Advisory, Deloitte

Jason Goldberg
Founder & Maker, Pepo

Shawn Douglass
CEO, Amberdata

David Nage
Principal, Arca

Qiao Wang
Head of Product, Messari

Brad Kam
Co-founder, Unstoppable Domains

Rob Massey
Global Tax Leader - Blockchain & Crytocurrency, Deloitte Tax LLP

Guido Appenzeller
Chief Product Officer, Yubico

Matt Pauker
Investor & Advisor, N/A

Michael Birch
Lead Developer, CasperLabs

Marko Baricevic
TBD, Cosmos/Tendermint

Alex Bosworth
Lightning Infrastructure Lead, Lightning Labs

Inal Kardanov
Developer Advocate, Waves Platform

J. Ayo Akinyele
Co-Founder & CEO, Bolt Labs, Inc

Christopher Brown
Founder - CEO, Zabo

Rod Garratt
Maxwell C. & Mary Pellish Chair in Economics, UC Santa Barbara

Sloan Thompson
Head of DevOps, Keep Network

Christian Catalini
Head Economist, Calibra

Lon Lundgren
Founder & CEO, Ocelot

Kiran Pachhai
VP of Technology, Elastos Foundation

Paul Lintilhac
Co-Founder & Chief Information Officer, Trace

MJ Irwin
VP, Product, Forte

Ken Kawai
Partner, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Wataru Shinohara
Senior Researcher, DMM.com LLC

Youngrok Kim
Senior Vice President, Recruit

Tomohiro Tagami
Chief Exective Officer, Techtec

Yuki Natsui
Co-founder, IMO Exchange

Jessica Groopman
Founding Partner & Industry Analyst, Kaleido Insights

Monica Quaintance
Head of Research & Networks, Kadena

Sunny Aggarwal
Research Scientist, Tendermint/Cosmos

Kapil Amarasinghe
UK Community Ambassador to the Particl Project, Particl

Illia Polosukhin
CTO, NEAR Protocol

Ben Golub
Executive Chairman & Interim CEO, Storj Labs

Brandon Kase
Head of Product Engineering, O(1) Labs (we work on Coda Protocol)

Ofer Rotem
Founding Partner, Collider Ventures

Rita Chang
Managing Director, KuCoin

Asa Oines
Partner, Engineering, Celo

Michael Klein
Senior Software Engineer, TQ Tezos

Calvin Liu
Strategy Lead, Compound

David Gold
CEO, Dapix (FIO Protocol)

Sebastien Couture
Host, Epicenter Podcast

Richard Holden
Professor of Economics, UNSW Business School

Or Perelman
COO & co-founder, ChromaWay

Medha Parlikar
Co-Founder & CTO, CasperLabs

Gehrig Kunz
Product Marketing Manager, Hedera Hashgraph

Isaac Ardis
Blockchain Lead, ETC Labs

Ken Krell
Founder & Chief Enthusiast, Total Wealth Strategies

2019 Partners & Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Casper Labs
• Etoro
• Lino

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Libra
• Blockstream
• Oceanex
• Vechain
• Ledger
• Huobi
• IMOEX
• NOIA
• T3
• Klaytn
• Blocwatch
• Cred
• Shapeshift
• Hashkey Capital
• Partcl
• Block Crafters
• Icon
• Elrond

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Algorand
• Celer
• Blox
• Meter
• Prism Coin
• Chainlink
• Orbs
• Forte
• Vault12
• Zabo
• Chromia
• Terra
• Cortex
• Nervos
• Waves
• Hedera Hashgraph
• Ethereum Classic Labs
• Provable
• ONTology
• Yubico
• BitCherry
• HaruBank
• Ultrain
• Reserve
• ECO
• Bitcoin Marketing Team
• RSK
• Taxa
• AHAM
• Xangle
• Blind
• Agoric
• KuCoin
• AAVE
• Total Wealth Strategies

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• KEEP
• Anchorage
• CryptoCrypto
• Oasis Labs
• FIO
• Compound
• GXChain
• Xpring
• Ripple
• Tepleton
• Polkadot
• Ocelot
• Zilliqa
• Second State
• Saldo.mx
• Pulse
• Scaling Ventures
• OSCity
• Unstoppable Domains
• Parity
• Prometheu,
• Trace
• Matic

CO-HOST:
• Berkeley Haas
• Multiplied
• Prysm Group
• Sutardja Center

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• 1kx
• Blockgeeks
• Microsoft
• BlockGroup
• BNC
• CISCO
• Collider Ventures
• Deloitte
• Accenture
• Fabric Ventures
• Hashed
• Rust in Blockchain
• Salesforce
• She256
• SIKKA
• Starfish Network
• Blockventure Coalition
• Winkrypto
• Insight
• Galvanize
• 500
• Mousebelt
• B9 Lab
• Squarelink