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BCVC Summit 2023
| 8:00-8:30 | Breakfast & Opening Remarks Revealing The Results of BCVC Web3 Founder Survey 2023 |
Kate (Ksenia) Laurence, CEO & GP, Bloccelerate VC Sam Yilmaz, COO & GP, Bloccelerate VC |
| 8:30-9:15 | Rebuilding Trust in Web3 | Moderator: Nils Puhlmann, ex-CISO of Zynga & Twilio Richard Ma, Founder & CEO, Quantstamp Grigore Rosu, Founder & CEO, Runtime Verification Einaras Gravrock, CEO & Founder, Cube3 Huagang Xie, CEO & Founder, Ancilia Inc. |
| 9:15-10:00 | RWAs on Chain: Real or Not? | Moderator: Charlie You, Co-Founder & CTO, RWA.XYZ Robert Leshner, Founder, Superstate (Frm. Compound) Joe Flanagan, Co-Founder, Maple Finance Aaron Collett, Principal, Warbler Labs & Contributor to Goldfinch Colin Cunningham, Head of Growth, Centrifuge |
| 10:00-10:15 | Morning Break | |
| 10:15-11:00 | Is Infrastructure Ready For The Next Billion Users On Chain? | Moderator: Alpin Yukseloglu, Venture Partner, Bloccelerate VC Steven Goldfeder, CEO & Co-Founder, Offchain Labs Emin Gün Sirer, CEO & Founder, Ava Labs Sreeram Kannan, CEO & Co-Founder, Eigenlayer (virtual) Sunny Aggrawal, CEO & Founder, Osmosis Hilmar Orth, CEO & Founder, Gelato Mathieu Baudet, CEO & Founder, Linera |
| 11:00- 11:45 |
What Bitcoin Spot ETF Will Mean For Crypto? | Moderator: Ric Edelman, Founder, Digital Assets Council for Financial Professionals Brian Foster, Head of Wholesale, Coinbase Matt Sigel, Head of Digital Assets, VanEck Will Peck, Head of Digital Assets, Wisdom Tree Cynthia Lo Bessette, Head of Digital Assets, Fidelity Joe Marenda, Head of Digital Asset Investing, Cambridge Associates (virtual) |
| 11:45-12:30 | The State of Crypto VC 2023 | Moderator: Sam Yilmaz, General Partner, Bloccelerate VC Aleks Larsen, General Partner, Blockchain Capital Ben Forman, General Partner, ParaFi Haseeb Qureshi, General Partner, Dragonfly Kishore Bhatia, Founding Member, Superscrypt Seth Ginns, Head of Liquid Investments, Coinfund |
| 12:30- 12:45 |
Lunch Service & Break | |
| 12:45-1:30 | Fireside Chat: Is Blockchain The Trust Layer for The AI Economy? | Moderator: Kate (Ksenia) Laurence, CEO & GP, Bloccelerate VC Joseph Lubin, Founder & CEO, ConsenSys |
| 1:30- 2:15 |
Fireside Chat: How Should Founders Navigate US Crypto Regulation? | Moderator: Elad Roisman, Corporate Governance Practice, Cravath, Swaine & Moore (Former SEC Commissioner) Rep. Wiley Nickel, Member of Congress, North Carolina |
| 2:15-3:00 | CeFi vs DeFi: Who Gets The Operational Excellence Right? | Moderator: Jay Sarkar, Managing Director, Evercore Lule Demmissie, US CEO of EToro J Gdanski, Founder & CEO of Evertas Jake Mendel, Director of Start-up Banking, SVB Jared Klee, Managing Director of Digital Assets, Vouch Sarah Elliot, Independent Director, Anchorage Digital (Frmr. OCC) |
| 3:00- 3:15 |
Afternoon Break | |
| 3:15- 4:00 |
To DAO or Not To DAO? | Moderator: Theo Fields, Investor, Bloccelerate VC Dennison Bertram, CEO & Founder, Tally Flex Chapman, Founder, Krause Hause DAO Azeem Khan, Head of Impact, Gitcoin Matt Wright, Community & DAOs, ConsenSys Christina Beltramini, Head of Growth, Aave (tentative) |
| 4:00-4:45 | The Rise Of Consumer Crypto | Moderator: Derek E. Schloss, Managing Partner, Collab+Currency Marc Boiron, CEO, Polygon Labs Christopher Lee, Founder, IYK Chris Maddern, Founder, FLOOR Justin Melillo, Founder, Monaverse Anton Kraminkin, Founder, Sleepagotchi |
| 4:45- 5:30 |
Closing Keynote: Crypto Vision 2030 | Moderator: Kate (Ksenia) Laurence, CEO & Founder, Bloccelerate VC Scott Stornetta, Scientist, Cryptographer, Bitcoin White Paper Reference #3 |