The Digital Money Forum 2018 | Digital Money Forum | 9 January 2018 | The Venetian, 3355 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109, US

The end of hard cold cash is in sight. As digital currencies become the norm, the question of trust comes into play. Where banks and governments once provided security and peace of mind, now the landscape is more resembling of the Wild West, begging the question: is trust still relevant, and if not, what is?

The increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies, algorithms, as well as the use of peer to peer payments and mobile wallets, are all steps toward the democratization of money. Nevertheless, the dice are far from being cast in terms of determining winners vs. losers. When you can pay for valet parking with Bitcoin, or your office vending machine uses a blockchain payment system; your mobile wallet lets you bypass the ATM while keeping track of all your rewards and loyalty points, and your smart home is buying your groceries – are traditional financial systems still pertinent? Who has the power and control? And what guarantees are there, for the safety of our money?

Join the 2018 Digital Money Forum as we examine and discuss the endless possibilities – as well as the risks, rewards and safety – of doing business and living with the democratisation of money.

2018 Speakers:

Jeff Bender
Vice President, Diebold Nixdorf

Patrick M. Byrne
CEO, Overstock.com

Cleveland Brown
Chief Executive Office and Co-Founder, Payscout

Derrick Carpenter
SVP - Product, Portfolio and Integrated Payments, Bank of America Merchant Services

Giff Carter
Chief Revenue Officer, Stash

Michael Casey
Senior Advisor, Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab

Tabitha Creighton
SVP iQmetrix Payments, iQmetrix

Charles Dachs
Vice President and General Manager of Secure Embedded Transactions at NXP Semiconductors, NXP

Beric Farmer
Co-Founder, XE

Chris Feeney
President, BITS, Financial Services Roundtable

Katie Finnegan
Founder & Principal, Store No 8

Brad Garlinghouse
CEO, Ripple

Edward Glassman
EVP, Account Management, Mastercard

Dr. David Hanson
Founder & CEO, Hanson Robotics

Sophia Hanson
Robot, Hanson Robotics

Tim Hong
CMO, MoneyLion

Scott Kessler
Director of Business Development, LO3 Energy

Jane Lacher
EVP, Strategy, Zenith

Lynne Laube
Chief Operating Officer, Cardlytics

Sih Lee
Senior Vice Presdient, Payments Technology & Innovation, Synchrony Financial

Vinny Lingham
Co-founder & CEO, Civic

Jesse Lund
VP, Global Blockchain Market Development, FSS, IBM

Dr. Jason Mars
CEO, Clinc

Halsey Minor
Founder & CEO, VideoCoin Network

Nana Murugesan
Vice President and General Manager, Services and New Business, Samsung Electronics America

Tim Pawlenty
CEO, Financial Services Roundtable

Thad Peterson
Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Philipp Piper
CEO, Swarm Fund

Amelia Powell
Sr. Director of Marketing and Strategic Partnerships, USA Technologies

Vincent R. Ramoutar
Founder & CEO, http://www.uConekt.com

Scott Roen
Managing Director, head of Digital, BlackRock

Matthew Roszak
Co-founder & Chairman, Bloq

Bill Shihara
CEO, Bittrex

Michael Terpin
Founder & CEO, Transform Group International

K. Brent Tomer
Chief Trial Attorney, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Dan Tynan
Journalist, Improbable Ventures

Enzo Villani
Managing Director, Transform Group

Andrew Vorster
Innovation Catalyst, AndrewVorster.com

Pindar Wong
Chairman, VeriFi (Hong Kong) Limited

Joe Ziemer
Vice President of Communications and Policy, Betterment

2018 Sponsors:

PLATINUM:
• CoinAgenda
• Synchrony Financial

GOLD:
• BlackRock
• Metronome
• USA Technologies

SILVER:
• Cardlytics
• VideoCoin

BRONZE/PLUS:
• iQmetrix

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Wowza

SUPPORTING:
• CoinDesk
• uConekt Inc.