Blockchain Connect Conference: Academic 2019

About the event -

Blockchain Connect Conference: Academic 2019 will be the third blockchain connect conference hosted by SV Insight. The theme of this conference is “Academic”.

This conference will gather the most authoritative blockchain professors around the world, the public chain projects with the most advanced technology, and technical experts, to discuss the most cutting-edge blockchain academic research, problems, and solutions.

By including keynote speeches and panels covering topics from research to application, the conference will explore the next big opportunity in the blockchain industry.

When & Where -

Date and time:

Jan. 11, 2019, 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM | General Admission



Jan. 11, 2019, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | VIP Reception



Location:

San Francisco Marriott Marquis

Highlights -

40+ Speakers - include Professors, Ph.D./Postdocs, CTO, and Chief Scientists/Research Scientists

1 Day

2 Tracks

20+ top global blockchain professors

20+ blockchain technical experts

100+ blockchain technology researcher

3 top public chain projects within the blockchain industry

300+ blockchain developers

Confirmed Speakers (more coming soon)



Vitalik Buterin

Creator of Ethereum

Dawn Song

Professor at UC Berkeley,

Co-founder of Oasis Labs

Mic Bowman

Principal Engineer at Intel Labs,

Research Lead in the Distributed Ledger Research Group

Elaine Shi

Associate Professor at

Cornell University, Co-founder of

IC3 and Thunder Token

Lake Dai

Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist

and Adjunct Professor

at Carnegie Mellon University.

David Chaum

CEO / Founder of Elixxir

Li Jun

Founder of Ontology,

Co-founder of Onchain

Kevin Sekniqi

Chief Protocol Architect of Ava Labs,

PhD at Cornell University

Ronghui Gu

Assistant Professor at Columbia University

Co-founder of CertiK

Aniket Kate

Assistant Professor

at Purdue University

Adam Goldberg

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

TF Guo

Co-founder of Taxa Network

Bharath Ramsundar

Co-founder and CTO of

Computable Labs

Andy Tang

Managing Partner

Draper Dragon, CEO of Draper University

David Tennenhouse

Chief Research Officer, VMware

Huining Cao

Professor at

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business,

CEO & Founder of Usechain

Aaron Cai

Head of Tencent Blockchain

Jeremy Gardner

Co-Founder of Augur, Co-founder

and Managing Partner of Ausum Venture

Michael Egorov

Co-founder & CTO of Nucypher

Justin Herzig

Global Blockchain Research Lead,

Accenture

Tai Jin

Co-Founder & COO

at Ludos Protocol

Ashley Lannquist

Project Lead for

Blockchain, World Economic Forum

Mark Rakhmilevich

Senior Director,

Blockchain Product Management at Oracle

Brett Noyes

Founder of Unbank Ventures

Henry He

Co-founder & CEO of SesameOpen

Brandon Bidlack

Co-founder & CMO of SesameOpen

Alex Wearn

Co-founder & CEO

of Aurora (IDEX)

Michael Dunworth

Founder & CEO of Wyre

Chris Rowell

Postdoctoral researcher and instructor

at University of British Columbia

Roberto Tonelli

Researcher and Professor

at University of Cagliari

Chunming Rong

Professor at University of Stavanger,

Chair of IEEE Computer Society Blockchain,

Co-Founder of bitYoga

Nir Kshetri

Professor at University of North Carolina

and research fellow at Kobe University

Raj Jain

Barbara J. and Jerome H. Cox, Jr. Professor

of Computer Science and Engineering,

Washington University in St. Louis

Jamie Finn

Co-Founder & President

of Securitize

Raghu Bala

CEO of NetObjex Inc

Dave Evans

CTO of Augmate

Todd Chamberlain

Founder & CEO of MedBlox

Davi Ortega

Postdoctoral Scholar at

California Institute of Technology

David Bailey

CEO of BTC Inc.

Jake Dreier

Director of Growth and Operations

of SimplyVital Health

Graham McBain

Principal Open Source Engineer

XYO Network

Berk Sunar

Professor at Worcester Polytechnic

Institute, director of

Vernam Applied Cryptography Lab

Ken Mayer

Founder & CEO of Safehealth

Jon Chou

Co-founder & CEO of Bee Token

Kent Yan

CEO of TraDove

Colin Harper

Staff Writer at Bitcoin Magazine

Peter Taylor

Audit Senior Manager at Deloitte

Deven Soni

Founding Executive at Polymath

Dennis Jia

Founder and CEO at CFUN

Shih-wei Liao

Professor at National Taiwan University

Jon Rice

Co-founder & Managing Editor

of Crypto Briefing

Rye Chang

Co-founder and Marketing Manager of SCRY.INFO

Yilun Zhang

Co-Founder & CTO of NKN

Zheng “Bruce” Li

Co-Founder & Co-CEO of NKN





More details coming soon at www.goblockchainconnect.com.

Our past speakers include Brad Garlinghouse (CEO at Ripple), Charlie Lee (creator of Litecoin), Bobby Lee (co-founder of BTCC), Zhong Shao (Thomas L. Kempner Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Yale University), to name a few; blockchain projects include Ontology, NEO, Qtum, Celer Network, Thunder Token, NKN, etc.

For details about the upcoming event, please visit www.goblockchainconnect.com.

*For inquiries about sponsorship, speaking engagement, or other questions, please send an email to contact@svinsight.com.