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Brendan Chou is Smart Contract Engineer at dYdX. Previously at Site Reliability Engineer at Google, Financial Software Engineer at Bloomberg. Princeton Computer Science '15.

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Brendan Chou

Mick Hagen is the founder and CEO of Mainframe, a blockchain-based communication network that's impervious to censorship or surveillance. He's also a budding angel investor, having made several investments in startups like MyCrypto and others in recent years.

Mick is an entrepreneur, investor and advisor in the startup ecosystem. After dropping out of Princeton University (computer science), Mick founded Zinch, an ed-tech company connecting students globally with opportunities in higher education. Mick helped Zinch grow to an international, 8-figure revenue-run-rate startup that served millions of students and 800+ colleges & universities worldwide. After six years, Zinch was acquired by Chegg (CHGG, NYSE) for $45mm. Mick is currently CEO of Mainframe -- a new decentralized messaging protocol focused on productivity.

A few of Mick's notable angel investments include Andela, Kalo, Degreed, Origin, Dice, Weav, and Good Audience. Mick is also a crypto investor and bought his first Bitcoin in 2013. Mick leads a crypto investment syndicate which focuses on early-stage, private pre-sale investments in blockchain projects. Some recent pre-sale investments include Polkadot, ICON, Wanchain, Zilliqa, Aion. Mick's crypto syndicate will invest between to $6-8M per month.

Mick has been a speaker at various industry events including Techcrunch Disrupt, Mobile World Congress, Founders Forum, Gartner CIO Forum, InboxLove, TedX, Latitude59 and others. He’s a mentor to various accelerators including Techstars, Ignite, Barclays, StartupWiseGuys and CyLon. His writing has been featured in various newspapers and magazines, including Fortune Magazine and Techcrunch.

Mick has been named to the v100 (Top high tech entrepreneurs) and Top 40 business persons under 40 by Utah Business Magazine. Mick's work has been featured in the New York Times, Boston Globe, US News, Washington Post, CNN, and ABC among others.

Mick also enjoys philanthropy/charity work and is currently on the Board of an international non-profit, Effect.org.

Mick Hagen

Andrew Lee is Co-Founder and CTO of Handshake Protocol, Founded Purse.io. Making Crypto Useful: for consumers at Purse, for developers with Bcoin, and for industry with HBV.

He drives the company’s strategy, partnerships, and growth. Andrew draws on his previous experience founding an ISO, covering emerging payments at Merrill Lynch, and optimizing processes as an engineer at LG. He earned an MBA from Georgia Tech and a bachelor’s from the University of Florida.

Andrew Lee

Molly Wintermute is the anonymous DeFi hacker who found a bug in Hegic, her options trading platform, hours after releasing it, is pushing forward with her project.

Molly Wintermute

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

Silvio Micali has received his Laurea in Mathematics from the University of Rome, and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1983, he has been on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. 

Silvio’s research interests are cryptography, zero knowledge, pseudo-random generation, Byzantine agreement, secure protocols, mechanism design, and distributed ledgers. 

Silvio is the recipient of the Turing Award (in computer science), the Gödel Prize (in theoretical computer science), and the RSA prize (in cryptography). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Academia dei Lincei. 

Silvio is the founder of Algorand LLC. Algorand is a new foundational blockchain, developed from scratch, on totally new principles, which simultaneously guarantees true decentralization, scalability, and security.

Silvio Micali

Kain Warwick is Founder of Synthetix, CEO at blueshyft.

I run two startups; Synthetix is a synthetic asset platform built on Ethereum and blueshyft is a network of over 1200 retail locations that enable cash transactions for digital services.

Kain Warwick

Arto Bendiken, Master Toolsmith, Cypherpunk Division. Tech Lead for EVM at NEAR Protocol. Creator of The Unlicense. Hacker, maker, and entrepreneur. Programming since 1993. Creator of the Unlicense. These days working at the curious intersection of smart contracts and drone swarms. Also Conreality Game, Hebron IT Academy, CECG.

Arto Bendiken

Stefan George is a full-stack developer who previously worked for SAP in Palo Alto.  He became interested in Bitcoin in 2013 and began working with Martin Köppelmann on a Bitcoin-related startup for sports betting. After taking a break to complete his Master’s in Computer Science and to travel in Asia, Stefan joined Martin in developing Gnosis on the Ethereum network.  When he is not working with Ethereum, Stefan enjoys playing tennis and squash and likes to travel the world.

Stefan George

Greg Osuri is Founder & CEO of Overclock Labs and Akash Network, where he develops protocols, tools, and infrastructure to make foundational elements of the internet open, decentralized, and simple. Previously, Greg founded AngelHack and was the CTO for the world's largest hackathon-accelerator with over 80K developers in the ecosystem.

He is the author of several prominent open source toolkits that are well-regarded by the DevOps community and downloaded over 25M times. He has been ranked amongst top 20 programmers worldwide on several occasions for authoring open-source libraries used by widely-adopted projects like Ubuntu and Kubernetes.

Brendan Chou

Smart Contract Engineer at dYdX.

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