• 8:00

    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

    8:30-9:15

    Rebuilding Trust in Web3

    Nills Puhlmann
    ex-CISO of Zynga & Twilio
    Moderator
    Richard Ma
    Founder & CEO
    Quantstamp
    Grigore Rosu
    Founder & CEO
    Runtime Verification
    Einaras Gravrock
    Founder & CEO
    Cube3
    Huagang Xie
    Founder & CEO
    Ancilia Labs

  • 9:15

    9:15-10:00

    RWAs on Chain: Real or Not?

    Charlie You
    Co-Founder & CTO
    RWA.XYZ
    Moderator
    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

    10:00-10:15

    Morning Break

  • 10:15

    10:15-11:00

    Is Infrastructure Ready For The Next Billion Users On Chain?

    Alpin Yukseloglu
    Venture Partner
    Bloccelerate VC
    Moderator
    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

    11:00-11:45

    What Bitcoin Spot ETF Will Mean For Crypto?

    Ric Edelman
    Founder
    Digital Assets Council for Financial Professionals
    Moderator
    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

    11:45-12:30

    The State of Crypto VC 2023

    Sam Yilmaz
    General Partner
    Bloccelerate VC
    Moderator
    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

    12:30-12:45

    Lunch Service & Break

  • 12:45

    12:45-1:30

    Fireside Chat: Is Blockchain The Trust Layer for The AI Economy?

    Kate (Ksenia) Laurence
    CEO & GP
    Bloccelerate VC
    Moderator
    Joseph Lubin
    Founder & CEO
    ConsenSys

  • 1:30

    1:30-2:15

    Fireside Chat: How Should Founders Navigate US Crypto Regulation?

    Elad Roisman
    Corporate Governance Practice, Cravath
    Swaine & Moore (Former SEC Commissioner)
    Moderator
    Rep. Wiley Nickel
    Member of Congress
    North Carolina

  • 2:15

    2:15-3:00

    CeFi vs DeFi: Who Gets The Operational Excellence Right?

    Jay Sarkar
    Managing Director
    Evercore
    Moderator
    ​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

    3:00-3:15

    Afternoon Break

  • 3:15

    3:15-4:00

    To DAO or Not To DAO?

    Theo Fields
    Investor
    Bloccelerate VC
    Moderator
    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

    4:00-4:45

    The Rise Of Consumer Crypto

    Derek E. Schloss
    Managing Partner
    Collab+Currency
    Moderator
    Marc Boiron
    CEO
    Polygon Labs
    Christopher Lee
    Founder
    IYK
    ​Chris Maddern
    Founder
    FLOOR
    Justin Melillo
    Founder
    Monaverse
    Anton Kraminkin
    Founder
    Sleepagotchi

  • 4:45

    4:45-5:30

    Closing Keynote: Crypto Vision 2030

    Kate (Ksenia) Laurence
    CEO & Founder
    Bloccelerate VC
    Moderator
    Scott Stornetta
    Scientist, Cryptographer
    Bitcoin White Paper Reference #3
  • Special thank you to our gold sponsors, Silicon Valley Bank, and our silver sponsors, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Vouch Insurance for making this event possible!