Antoni Martin, Co-Founder of PolygonID and Polygon Hermez, spent years working for Deutsche Bank before diving into the blockchain world. Until now, he has been Head of Enterprise, leading the business development and future growth opportunities for Polygon liaising with governments, regulators, banks, consultancy, or ETH companies implementing Polygon solutions. In his free time, he enjoys reading history books and engaging in outdoor activities such as swimming, skiing, and climbing. Antoni continually pursues intellectual enlightenment and pushes established boundaries like his idols Pep Guardiola, Johan Cruyff, or the All Blacks.

Dominic is founder of the Internet Computer (ICP) blockchain project and President and Chief Scientist of the DFINITY Foundation. Before transitioning to work full time in crypto in 2013, Dominic was an engineering entrepreneur that created multiple internet technologies and products. His previous venture was an MMO game that had millions of users. He was first introduced to cypherpunk thinking when using Wei Dai's crypto++ library in 1998, which had documentation referencing the b-money proposal.

Dominic is founder of the Internet Computer (ICP) blockchain project and President and Chief Scientist of the DFINITY Foundation. Before transitioning to work full time in crypto in 2013, Dominic was an engineering entrepreneur that created multiple internet technologies and products. His previous venture was an MMO game that had millions of users. He was first introduced to cypherpunk thinking when using Wei Dai's crypto++ library in 1998, which had documentation referencing the b-money proposal.

Dr. Efi Pylarinou is a seasoned Wall Streeter who has become a 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 & 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫. A domain expert with a Ph.D. in Finance and Faculty at Fast Future Executive, who is trusted by Global Brands. She is a Top LinkedIn voice with 200,000 followers. Included the Top 50 Digital Futurists by Engatica, and the Top 20 Fintech Influencers & Top 20 in ‘ Who`s Who in AI’ by Onalytica. She is a co-author in several books – e.g. 2024 Wiley `Fast Future Blur`.

Fabian Vogelsteller built the Ethereum Wallet, Mist Browser and web3.js. In 2015 he proposed ERC20, the first ever smart contract standard. in 2018 he founded the LUKSO Blockchain with its novel smart contract account, called Universal Profiles.

Jan Brzezek is the CEO and founder of Crypto Finance AG and a board member of Crypto Finance (Asset Management) AG.In 2017, Jan founded Crypto Finance AG. Since then, he has steered the company on its way as a leading provider of products and services covering the entire digital asset value chain. Today, Crypto Finance is a FINMA-regulated financial institution and a member of Deutsche Börse Group, offering professional digital asset solutions in asset management, brokerage, custody, infrastructure, and tokenization for financial institutions.An alumnus of Zurich University of Applied Sciences and UBS Asset Management, Wealth Management and Investment Bank, Jan has over 15 years of experience in the industry.Jan is a visionary who aims to establish a neutral, transparent, and highly scalable digital asset ecosystem under European regulation with Crypto Finance. Under his leadership, the institution has already become a force to be reckoned with in the global crypto market and has won numerous awards, including a Crypto Valley Top 50 blockchain company, Top 100 Swiss Start-up, and 2019 Swiss FinTech Award winner.

Jordi is Co-Founder of Polygon. He led the development and implementation of Polygon zkEVM, a leading zk-rollup. As one of the most widely recognized Ethereum developers, he has made several high-impact contributions to the Ethereum community, including CIRCOM and PIL, free and open-source projects demonstrating his commitment to Web3 values. He has a long history in the Ethereum community, including co-founding the WhiteHat Group to save funds during The DAO hack early in the network’s history. He has spent years as a sought-after auditor, leading the teams that poured over the contracts of MakerDAO and Aragon. Before Hermez, he co-founded several projects, including the donation platform Giveth, DAppNode, and Iden3.

Dr. Leemon Baird is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, Co-founderof Hedera, and Co-founder and Co-CEO of Swirlds Labs. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the US AirForce Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs. He has been the Co-Founder of several startups, including two identity-related startups, both of which were acquired.Leemon received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.

Lily Liu is an operator and investor focused on the blockchain industry. Lily is the President of the Solana Foundation and Co Founder of Anagram. Lily has a background as a CFO and operating executive in the US, China, and throughout emerging markets. Previously, Lily co-founded [Earn.com](http://earn.com/) which was acquired by Coinbase in 2018. She was also the CFO of the Chinaco Healthcare Corporation, where she built a 500-bed private hospital in China. Lily also worked at KKR in New York as well as McKinsey in New York and Beijing. Lily received a BA in Economics and International Relations from Stanford, and studied East Asian Studies at Harvard.

Mathias is a Co-Founder and Group CEO of Sygnum. Prior to Sygnum, he was General Manager at RNT Associates, Mr. Ratan N. Tata’s personal investment platform, which he joined as the first team member. He led multiple venture capital and private equity investments and participated in blockchain and DLT-related equity deals globally. Mathias started his career at Bain & Company where he led advisory projects for private equity funds, family offices and technology companies. He holds a PhD from the University of St. Gallen and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics (LSE).

Patrick Hansen is Director, EU Strategy & Policy at Circle, a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications worldwide. Circle is powering always-on, internet-native commerce, payments, and custody and is the issuer of USD Coin (USDC) and Euro Coin (EUROC). Prior to that, Patrick was head of strategy & business development at crypto-wallet startup Unstoppable Finance and head of blockchain policy at Bitkom, Europe’s largest tech trade association. Patrick holds master degrees in business and political science.

Dr. Prag Sharma leads Citi’s Global Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence (AI CoE). He is one of only 10 Citi Tech Fellows globally. He is a resident expert in Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML) across the organisation. As such, Prag has led the development of Citi-wide best-practices from a Governance, Risk & Controls and Technology perspective in AI, addressed AI-related infrastructure and tooling needs across the organisation and enabled state-of-the-art AI design, development and use at Citi across all its businesses. Prag holds a PhD in Machine Learning (Computer Vision) and an MBA, majoring in Innovation.

Robby Yung, CEO of Investments at Animoca Brands, a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification. Robby has been in gaming since 2012 and blockchain gaming since 2018. He served as the first CEO of Animoca Brands after taking the group public in 2015. Prior to that, he cofounded magazine publisher, One Media Group, which he listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He also founded Chinese television and outdoor media concern, Redgate Media Group, which was acquired by Inno-Tech Holdings.

Robby Yung, CEO of Investments at Animoca Brands, a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification. Robby has been in gaming since 2012 and blockchain gaming since 2018. He served as the first CEO of Animoca Brands after taking the group public in 2015. Prior to that, he cofounded magazine publisher, One Media Group, which he listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He also founded Chinese television and outdoor media concern, Redgate Media Group, which was acquired by Inno-Tech Holdings.

Sam has been at Google Cloud for 5 years and his current role is in the Emerging Trends and Technology team where he is the web3 technical lead.His time is spent exploring how the public internet is set to evolve in the future, and looking at the potential benefits and problems this change could bring to both Google and Google’s customers.He has specialisms with underpinning technologies such as blockchain, graphics rendering and generative AI. In previous roles he worked with video game creators helping them build and launch amazing experiences using the latest technologies.

Yessin has been the CFO of the NEAR Foundation since 2020. He has 20 years of professional experience. He held several CFO positions in asset management firms focusing on private equity, private debt, and infrastructure investments. During his career, he also worked for BlackRock, Swiss Re, and PwC. Yessin has been involved in the blockchain industry since 2015. He served as an Advisor of the Ethereum Foundation, contributed to the Web3 Foundation, and helped many Web3 startups established in Switzerland. Among other academic degrees, he holds a Swiss CPA, and he is a CFA Charterholder.