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Jin Kwon is Vice President of Corporate Development at Ignite (Tendermint), Managing Director of Tendermint Ventures, Contributor to the Cosmos Network.

SAGA

Jin Kwon

Luis Iván Cuende is Co-founder and Lead of Aragon, Co-founder of Stampery. Advisor of Primitive, district0x, Status.im, Decentraland, KEEP.

Free software lover and hacker. Forbes 30 under 30 and MIT TR35. Named as best programmer of Europe under 18 by HackFwd. Advisor to the Vice President of the European Comission. Published my first book at 18. Enjoying life and empowering freedom.

Luis Ivan Cuende

Co-Founder and CTO of NEAR Protocol. Team of ex-MemSQL / Google / Tensorflow. Now building sharded mobile-first blockchain protocol.

Artificial Intelligence Researcher. Making this world better with software and data. Passionate about Machine Intelligence, understanding natural language.

Illia is an ICPC finalist and has more than 10 years of industry experience, including 3 years at Google where he was a major TensorFlow contributor and a manager of the team building question answering capabilities for the core Google search.

Illia Polosukhin

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

Arthur Breitman is the creator of Tezos, a public blockchain enabling decentralized governance through self-amendments.

Previously, Arthur was a research engineer for Google X and Waymo. In his early career, he worked as a quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Arthur graduated from the École Polytechnique and the Courant Institute of NYU where he studied applied mathematics.

Arthur Breitman

Meltem Demirors is a cryptocurrency investor, advisor, and advocate, with a unique blend of experience in both legacy & blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. On the legacy finance front, Ms. Demirors worked with some of the largest companies in the world, mainly on financial risk management and capital efficiency. On the blockchain-based finance side, she has had an intense focus on portfolio management and network development, beginning in the early days of cryptocurrency ecosystem development.

Meltem Demirors is the Managing Director at Digital Currency Group, which invests in (and advises) 100+ bitcoin and blockchain startups.

She is a member of the Global Future Council on Blockchain at the Davos World Economic Forum; building products CoinShares; investing, advising, lurking in trollbox; and is also an advisor and teacher at MIT and the University of Oxford.

Meltem Demirors

Aviv Eyal is Co-Founder of Spacemesh, working on a new free open source blockchain OS and a fair cryptocurrency. Actively working on growing the global team.

Entrepreneur and technologist. My passion is building consumer digital products and services that are useful, innovative, easy to use and have a great user experience. I’m a universalist software designer that has a track-record building high-quality full-stack systems, native apps, server and backend stacks all the way from conception, design, project management to production and users growth with small teams and limited resources. I’ve been serving mainly in co-founder/cto roles in innovative startups where I always make hands-on product and technology contributions while also driving the higher-level strategic technology decisions, team building and growth, and IP. I started 2 successful consumer media startups in San Francisco and NY.

Aviv Eyal

Hayden Adams is Founder of Uniswap. Ethereum developer, Inventor of the Uniswap Exchange Protocol.

Hayden Adams

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

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.

Jin Kwon

Co-Founder at Saga.

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