Experts

Anil Kumar Kadimisetty is Head Of Engineering at Opyn, Genesis Team at PolygonDAO. Previously, Director of Engineering at Chainalysis, Software Engineer in Test at Digital Asset, Quality Lead at Twitter, Director of Engineering at HuffPost.

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Anil Kadimisetty

Dietrich Ayala is IPFS Ecosystem Growth Engineer, Technical PM for IPFS Browser Integrations at Protocol Labs. Interested in the web and browsers, decentralization and distributed networks, IoT ethics and design of physical and room scale computing, connected device manufacturing life cycle, mobile Web as first-class development platform, device power/data consumption and optimization, optimization for slow/rare/unreliable network conditions, mentoring & technical academic partnerships.

Dietrich Ayala

Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger Protocol. Currently working to improve interoperability and competitiveness in the financial system.

Stefan Thomas

Juan Benet is the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs and inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open. Benet is also the founder of Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-incentivized storage network. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Obsessed with Knowledge, Science, and Technology - Protocol Labs, IPFS, Filecoin.

Juan Benet

Mike Goelzer is an engineer, hacker and leader of product management for the libp2p Project (libp2p.io) at Protocol Labs. Previously, he was a member of the team that built the Docker engine and Docker’s clustering technology. Before that, Mike has been an entrepreneur, engineer and computational chemist.

Mike Goelzer

I am CEO/CoFounder of Kyber Network, an on-chain liquidity protocol that powers decentralized applications, including exchanges, funds, lending protocols, payments wallets and so on. I am also researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. My research focuses on several problems of cryptocurrencies from improving the security to enhancing the scalability and usability of public cryptocurrencies.

Loi Luu

Entrepreneur, Product Geek, and Investor. Chartered Financial Analyst.

After a career in finance, Robert decided to help make the world a better place. One part web designer, one part finance jock, he spends his time dreaming of ways to make privacy mainstream.

He holds an Economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and has worked at awesome financial institutions.

Robert Leshner

Dawn Song is CEO and co-founder of Oasis Labs and a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Dawn has spent significant time researching and building security and privacy technologies, specifically in the areas of software, networking, distributed systems, applied cryptography, blockchains, smart contracts, and machine learning. She has been recognized for contributions in computer security through numerous prestigious awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, the Faculty Research Award from IBM, Google and other major tech companies, and Best Paper Awards from top conferences in Computer Security and Deep Learning. She is ranked the most cited scholar in computer security (AMiner Award). She is a serial entrepreneur, including Ensighta Security (acquired by FireEye Inc.) and Menlo Security. She obtained her PhD from UC Berkeley.

Dawn Song

Ish Goel, Building PlotX.io, ex-CTO at Nexus Mutual, ex-GovBlocks, CEO and key blockchain architect at Somish Solutions. Established blockchain centre of excellence in 2016 and has overseen development of several blockchain MVP’s across several industries and government.

Ish Goel established the ‘Blockchain Centre of Excellence’ at Somish in 2016. Through the Somish Group, he has worked with the Government, Real Estate, BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail, Agriculture and Logistics industry over the past one decade.

Ish is one of the key blockchain architects at Somish and has led delivery of blockchain products using platforms like Ethereum and Hyperledger globally. Key products where Ish served as a CTO / Founder include:

1) Nexus Mutual (alternative to insurance on Ethereum)
2) GovBlocks (Governance Protocol on Ethereum, govblocks.io)
3) Certy (Document Timestamping on Ethereum, certy.io)
4) DEF (Data Exchange Framework on Hyperledger Fabric)

Ish has been involved as a key speaker at blockchain conferences across the globe. A brief highlight on his thought leadership include:

‐ Winner at London Blockchain Week Hackathon 2017
‐ Speaker at Berlin Blockchain Expo 2017
‐ Keynote mention at Amsterdam ATA Aviation Forum 2017
‐ Speaker at ICT for Agriculture Conference Washington DC 2017
‐ Speaker at Blockchain Summit Bangalore 2017
‐ Speaker at London Fintech Week 2017
- Keynote speaker at India Blockchain Week 2017
- Speaker at Token Summit III, New York 2018
- Speaker at Fintegrate, Mumbai 2018 (Adjudged as Top 10 Startups in India)
- Keynote Speaker at USAID Conference, Bangkok 2018
- Winner at Chhattisgarh Blockchain Grand Challenge 2018
- TEDx speaker at TEDxMICA 2019

Seeking excellence ‐ Ish is always looking to develop that intangible quality which makes his work distinctive and truly excellent. He has his roots in the belief that ‘the more you give, the more you receive’.

Ish is also a passionate musician and a trained Tabla, Flute & Piano player.

Ish Goel

Moxie Marlinspike is the founder of Signal and Open Whisper Systems. He is a renowned cyber security expert and cryptographer. Moxie is known for his in-depth research of online privacy and anonymity issues. Moxie is also a member of the Institute for Disruptive Studies, and was formerly the Director of Product Security at Twitter.

Anil Kadimisetty

Head Of Engineering at Opyn.