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Austin King is Co-Founder of Rift Finance, building in Web3. Studied computer science at Harvard, sold my first company to Ripple.

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Austin King

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

Peter Smith is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blockchain, a financial technology and data company that has empowered millions of users across the globe to store and transact digital value quickly and without costly intermediaries. Under his leadership, Blockchain has become the market leader in digital currency and distributed ledger technology. By 2016, Blockchain’s software has powered over 100M transactions around the world.

Peter is a 2016 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and noted thought leader in the FinTech space, having been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, TechCrunch, and spoken at conferences around the world including Techcrunch Disrupt, Money 20/20, Web Summit, Collision, Wired Money, among many others.

Prior to co-founding Blockchain, Peter lived, studied, and worked in the US, Europe, MENA, East Africa, and Asia. When he isn’t basking in the glow of a laptop, you can find him either reading or out running, trekking, surfing, and climbing up or skiing down a mountain.

Peter Smith

Kelvin Fichter is developer at Plasma Group, currently work on a lot of stuff related to Optimistic Ethereum.

Kelvin Fichter

Entrepreneur and developer based in San Francisco. Experienced full-stack JS/TS web developer (Node, React, GraphQL, SQL). Ethereum developer. CTO of Connext.

Rahul is a talented and visionary product-focused entrepreneur with a well-rounded skill set. He has experience with both small startups and big companies, leading teams and projects as well as individually contributing.

Rahul is interested in cutting-edge technologies including blockchain, machine learning, AI, and robotics.

Achievements: Status.im Global Hackathon winner "Most Potential", Co-Founder of TipdOff (acquihired by ColorTokens), Tesla Motors promoted multiple times to team lead.

Rahul Sethuram

Yin Yin Wu is the founder of DIRT Protocol, a protocol that allows decentralized curation of trusted data sets. DIRT defines a set of rules for writing and validating information, and uses token staking to incentivize honesty. We build OpenMarketCap - a decentralized cryptocurrency price tracker.

Yin sold her previous startup to Microsoft, and was one of the youngest principal engineers there working on AI and mobile products. She is a YCombinator alumnus and studied Computer Science at Stanford.

Yin Yin Wu

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

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

Dominic Williams is Chief Scientist of the DFINITY project, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, and is President and CTO of String Labs, a Palo Alto-based studio, incubator, and investor focused on advanced open protocol projects. His recent technical works include DFINITY technologies such as the Threshold Relay/Probabilistic Slot Protocol blockchain consensus mechanisms, the Blockchain Nervous System (algorithmic governance for decentralized networks), and the PHI “crypto fiat” autonomous loan issuance system.

Dominic is a crypto theoretician and entrepreneur. His recent research includes Threshold Relay and PSC chains, Validation Towers and Trees, and USCIDs, and he proposes new ideas such as "The 3 E's of Sybil Resistance". Previously he ran a venture-backed MMO game using his own distributed systems that hosted millions of users.

DFINITY working on ICP (Internet Computer Protocol). We will extend the Internet with secure serverless cloud functionality using crypto.

Dominic Williams

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.

Austin King

Building in Web3 at Rift Finance.

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