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Enrique “Mr. Algorand” Hernandez is your favorite up-and-coming reggaeton artist. Also enjoy software when not on stage. “!zeee kaaay enRRReeeKAY siempre! Early $ALGO adopter & fan. Latinx.

Enrique Hernandez

Sergey Gorbunov is an Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo (CrySP group).

I work on building systems and protocols that protect data and information in untrusted, distributed, and highly adversarial environments (such as in cloud-computing or blockchains). I want to enable new types of applications that have built-in trust and security properties and allow users to share, exchange, and compute information without having to trust each other or any third party. Towards this, I design new cryptographic models, primitives, and systems.

He received a Ph.D. from MIT, where he was a Microsoft Ph.D. fellow, and MSc and BSc from UToronto. His Ph.D. dissertation was on designing cryptographic tools for the cloud using lattice-based cryptography for which he received Sprowls Doctoral Thesis Prize for best thesis in CS at MIT. He was the founder and CTO at Stealthmine, the founding team member at Algorand where he was involved in various business and technical aspects of the business and led the cryptography group. He also spent some time at IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre.

Sergey Gorbunov

Nickolai Zeldovich is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2008. His research interests are in building practical secure systems. Recent projects by Prof. Zeldovich and his students and colleagues include the CryptDB encrypted database, the STACK tool for finding undefined behavior bugs in C programs, the FSCQ formally verified file system, the Algorand cryptocurrency, and the Vuvuzela private messaging system. He has been involved with several start-up companies, including MokaFive (2005), PreVeil (2015), and Algorand (2017), and his work has been recognized by several best paper awards at the ACM SOSP conference and by the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser award.

Nickolai Zeldovich

Naveed is a senior engineering leader and technologist fascinated by distributed systems and performance. Most recently of Mozilla, Naveed was instrumental in designing and leading the Quantum Flow program that focused 400 engineers to double Firefox’s performance in just one year. Naveed also lead the adoption of new technologies across all browsers to close the performance gap with native applications. These technologies include WebAssembly, SIMD.js, Shared Array Buffer and the still experimental Binary AST for JS (BinJS). Naveed is also previously of Bit9 (now Carbon Black) where he served as Principal Engineer of an enterprise application whitelisting product and then took over the Global Software Repository, a massive cloud-based application reputation system. Passionate about improving how enterprises use technology Naveed has also consulted on large organizational level projects for Fortune 500 companies including Boeing Jeppesen.

Naveed Ihsanullah

Pablo Yabo is CEO at Rand Labs, CTO & Partner at Algo Capital, Coding next blockchain technologies at Algo Capital, Randlabs.io and Coinfabrik. Experience leading software development teams and Project Management.

Pablo began working in the computer security field in 1997. Since then he has been responsible for designing and developing a variety of security-related products and leading product development teams, first at Core Security Technologies and later at Nektra Advanced Computing which he co-founded with Sebastian Raul Wain in 2003. In 2014 co-founded CoinFabrik with Sebastian Raul Wain and Sergio Lerner, to provide blockchain related services, where he is charge of R+D.

Pablo Yabo

Jing is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University. She is also an Affiliated Assistant Professor in the Economics Department and an Affiliated Member of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory. Her main research interests are distributed ledgers, game theory, and algorithms. Jing received her Bachelor and Master degrees in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, and her PhD in Computer Science from MIT. She did a one-year postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Jing received the NSF CAREER Award in 2016.

Jing Chen

Brian Olson is Principal Software Engineer at Algorand. Boston area software engineer. Likes high performance software. Dislikes gerrymandering.

Full stack developer; but it's been a while since I soldered up a computer and wrote boot code and kernel. I'm not the guy you hire to run your Hadoop cluster; I'm the guy you hire to write a new alternative to Hadoop.

Specialties: C/C++ (since 1992), Java (since 1998), Python (since 2007), Javascript (since 2009), Go (since 2011)

Large scale data processing and web serving. Nosql data integrity and processing. Detail oriented software that has to be _correct_ for security or safety or science.

Brian Olson

Alex Ridha—aka BOYS NOIZE—has been a DJ and making electronic music since the age of 15. As a DJ, Ridha has established himself as one of the world's preeminent wizards behind the DJ decks, having played some of the world's biggest stages alongside some of the biggest names in dance music.

He started his own label Boysnoize Records to remain 100% artistic freedom and ever since he has released three albums (2007's Oi Oi Oi / 2009's Power and 2012's Out Of The Black) and countless singles. 

Boys Noize has remixed and produced profoundly influential work for everyone from Depeche Mode, Feist, Daft Punk to David Lynch and Jarvis Cocker and he has also collaborated extensively with artist like Erol Alkan, Mr. Oizo and Skrillex (under Dog Blood).

Boys Noize's talents as a musician, a DJ, and label curator pretty much ensure that he never stops moving, playing, and creating.

Boys Noize

Sarah Friend is an artist and software engineer, specializing in blockchain and the p2p web. She is an alumni of Recurse Centre, New York, and an organiser of Our Networks, a conference on all aspects of the distributed web in Toronto.

Previous exhibitions include: Screensavers, Piksel Festival, Bergen; Seasons of Media Art, ZKM Centre for Media Art, Karlsruhe; Remembering Network, Radical Networks, New York; Crypto Grows on Trees, Devcon V, Osaka; Scaffolds I can no longer see, Interaccess, Toronto (2019); Much Ado About Everything, Microwave Festival, Hong Kong; ClickMine, Somerset House, London; Distributed Systems, Gray Area Festival, San Francisco; Perfect and Priceless, Kate Vass Galerie, Zurich (2018); Captive Portal: Customs and Border Protection, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2017). She has been the recipient of the 30 Under 30 Developers In Canada award, the GDC Scholarship for Women in Games and the Blockchain Art Commission from Furtherfield and Neon Festival. She has spoken at Transmediale, Berlin; The New School, New York; and Interaccess, Toronto, amongst others. Her work has been featured in The Art Newspaper, Art the Science, Motherboard and Spike Art Magazine.

Sarah Friend

Keli Callaghan is Head of Marketing at Algorand, a results-driven marketer, leads all aspects of marketing at Algorand. She joins Algorand from Avid, where she was responsible for global customer engagement strategies, field marketing teams and programs, annual customer conferences, ensuring the needs of the customer were represented in product releases and roadmaps, and the collaborative marketing partnership with Microsoft.  She was responsible for launching the customer community program that grew membership to tens of thousands of media professionals to become a respected voice in the industry. Prior to Avid, Keli worked with several global technology enterprises and startups that included Sprint, Zmags, and Rez1. Her roles have included the management of channel sales & marketing, developing marketing strategies and tactical execution plans to drive business awareness and growth, building go-to-market positioning and strategy, and leading cross functional teams.

Keli holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Marketing Communications and Business Ethics from Fairfield University and a Masters of Business Administration from Boston College.

Enrique Hernandez

“Mr. Algorand”.