Boston Blockchain Week

2022 SPEAKERS & AGENDA

Agenda

Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Friday, September 23, 2022

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Anastasia Stull
Executive Director
Assureg
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Anissa Gardizy
Tech & Innovation Reporter
Boston Globe Media
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Anne Kenyon
Senior Technical Product Manager
Algorand
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Bennett Thompson
Co-Founder
BlockBeam
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Bill Ramos
Creator & Founder
Dungeon Miners
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Brandon Wolf
iCTO
Napster
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Caleb Wursten
CEO
Worldhaus
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Cameron Armstrong
Founder
VF Protocol
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Christie Cheong
Fullstack Software Engineer
Medici Labs
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Dan Hoffman
Co-Founder & CMO
NiftyMediaArt
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Daren Hebold
Founder & CEO
LUXOLO Financial
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David Sittenfeld
Director of Current Science Communications
Museum of Science
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Douglas McCalmont
Co-Founder & Chief Compliance Officer
Chrysalis Digital Asset Exchange
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Erin Kolmansberger
Financial Services Partner
Nelson Mullins
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Estefania Ochoa
Head of Protocol Relations
Reach
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Fabio Italiano
Co-Founder & CEO
NiftyMedia Art
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Gabriella Kusz
CEO
Global Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Association
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George Howard
CIO
Acme Innovation
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Gregory Molinar
Co-Founder
Stay Bizze
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Gus Coldabella
Partner
True Ventures
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Ian Cain
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
QUBIC Labs
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Jay McCarthy
Co-Founder & CTO
Reach
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JD DiThomas, CRCM, CAMS
Chief Compliance Officer
Robinhood Crypto
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Jeremiah Stokes
Founder
Champlain REI
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John Cohan
COO
BEASY
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John Jannotti
Head of Applied Research
Algorand
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John O´Keeffe
Co-Founder & CEO
QUBIC Labs
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Jose Betancourt
Co-Founder & CEO
Ontropy
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Josh Cutler
State Representative - 6th Plymouth District
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Justin Tonini
Investor JT Invests in You
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Kate Lipper-Garabedian
State Representative - 32nd Middlesex District Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Kaveh Mojtabai
Publisher Artscope Magazine
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Kerty Levy
Managing Director Techstars
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Lisa Fosdick
Co-Founder
Finnoverge
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Lori Anne Czepiel
Partner
Nelson Mullins
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Mahlon Williams
Founder
Blockjocks
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Margaret Link
Vice President, Operations
Dequency
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Mari Tomunen
Associate
Goodwin
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Marissa MacDonald
CCO
FTX Trust Company
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Matt MacDonald
IT Assurance Manager
Wolf & Co.
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Matt Zarracina
Co-Founder
True Tickets
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Matthew Walsh
General Partner
Castle Island Ventures
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Max Lyman
CEO
Solon Labs
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Max Morgan
Co-Founder ACRE.World
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Naila Noor Jahan
Co-Founder
Moss
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Neil Tembulkar
Director, Strategic Initiatives
Boston Children's Museum
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Nic Carter
General Partner
Castle Island Ventures
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Nick Stanford
DevX Lead
Reach
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Patrick Finnegan
CEO
FlikTrax
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Patrick Larkin
Director, Innovation Institute
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
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Paul McCarthy
Founder & CEO
Chrysalis Digital Asset Exchange
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Philippe du Fresnay
Legal Scholar
Miguérès Moulin
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Rachel Payson
Blockchain Community Manager, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology
Fidelity Investments
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Rudy Dogum
Founder
Wholesome Crypto
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Sal Ternullo
Partner
Warburg Serres
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Sam Nathans
Vice Chair
Boston Blockchain Association
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Spencer Brody
Lead Protocol Engineer Ceramic
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Stephanie Howard
Co-Founder & COO
Endstate
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Susan Wang
General Counsel Komorebi Collective
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Thomas Hook, J.D., CAMS
U.S. Chief Compliance Officer Bitstamp
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Thomas Koch
Mayor
City of Quincy, MA
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Todd Cooper
Co-Founder & CEO
NuArca Labs
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Tom Grant
Founder Grantfin
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Tyquane Wright
Artist Graffiti Heroes
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Zeeshan SHEIKH
Founder
Taco

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

11:00

Registration & Networking

12:00

Opening Remarks & Welcome

 

  • Ian Cain, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, QUBIC Labs & City Councilor, City of Quincy, MA
  • Thomas Koch, Mayor, City of Quincy, MA
Program Logistics
  • Jeremiah Stokes, Founder,
    Champlain REI

12:15

Building a Global Blockchain Hub

 

 

Moderator: Anissa Gardizy, Tech & Innovation Reporter, Boston

 Globe Media

 

Panelists:

  • Kerty Levy, Managing Director, Techstars
  • John O’Keeffe, Co-Founder & CEO, QUBIC Labs
  • Sal Ternullo, Partner, Warburg Serres

1:00

The Road to Digital Currency

 

 

Moderator: Susan Wang, General Counsel, Komorebi Collective

& Partnerships & Legal, Women in Blockchain

 

 

Panelists:

  • Gus Coldabella, Partner, True Ventures
  • Mari Tomunen, Associate, Goodwin

1:30

Let’s Meet the Creators

 

Moderator: Gregory Molinar, Co-Founder, Stay Bizze

 

Panelists:

  • Stephanie Howard, Co-Founder & COO, Endstate
  • Max Lyman, Founder, Salon Labs
  • Bill Ramos, Founder, Dungeon Miners

2:15

For the Common Wealth: Innovation in Digital

Government

 

 

Moderator: Patrick Larkin, Director, Innovation Institute, 

Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

 

 

Panelists:

  • Ian Cain, Co-Founder & Executive Chair, QUBIC Labs & City Councilor, City of Quincy, MA
  • Josh Cutler, State Representative, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Kate Lipper-Garabedian, State Representative, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Sam Nathans, Vice Chair, Boston Blockchain Association

3:00

Networking & Refreshments

3:45

“Let us tell you how regulated crypto REALLY is.”

 

Moderator: Douglas McCalmont, Co-founder & Chief

Compliance Officer, Chrysalis Digital Asset Exchange

 

Panelists:

  • JD DiThomas, Director, Crypto Compliance, Robinhood
  • Thomas Hook, U.S. Chief Compliance Officer, Bitstamp
  • Gabriella Kusz, CEO of the Global Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Association
  • Erin Kolmansberger, Litigation Partner, Nelson Mullins

4:20

Live Pod – Wholesome Crypto

 

Host: Rudy Dogum

Special Guest to be confirmed.

5:00

Custody & Ownership of Digital Assets


Moderator: Marissa MacDonald, CCO, FTX Trust Company


Panelists:

  • Tom Grant, Co-Founder & CEO, Grantfin
  • Daren Hebold, Founder & CEO, LUXOLO Financial
  • Paul McCarthy, Founder & CEO, Chrysalis Digital Asset Exchange

5:45

Networking & Cocktail Hour

Sponsored by Algorand

Music Performance

  • Joey Cough

Thursday, September 22, 2022

11:00

Registration & Networking

Music Performance

  • Joey Cough
  • Ashwyn

12:10

Opening Remarks & Welcome

  • Ian Cain, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, QUBIC Labs & City Councilor, City of Quincy, MA

12:15

Live Pod – On the Brink

 

Hosts:

  • Nic Carter, General Partner, Castle Island Ventures
  • Matt Walsh, General Partner, Castle Island Ventures

1:00

Let’s Meet the Creators

 

 

Moderator: José Betancourt, Co-Founder & CEO, Ontropy

 

 

Panelists:

  • Christie Cheong, Fullstack Software Engineer, Medici Labs
  • Max Morgan, Co-Founder, ACME.World
  • Zeeshan Sheikh, Founder, Taco

1:45

What role for Boston’s cultural institutions in blockchain and

Web3?

 

 

Moderator: Kavah Mojtabai, Publisher, Artscope Magazine

 

Panelists:

 

  • David Sittenfeld, Director of Current Science Communications, Museum of Science
  • Neil Tembulkar, Director, Strategic Initiatives, Boston Children’s Museum

2:30

Sports, Entertainment, Brands & Collectibles: An NFT

Discussion

 

 

Moderator: Todd Cooper, Co-Founder & CEO NuArca Labs

 

 

Panelists:

  • John Cohan, COO, BEASY
  • Lisa Fosdick, Co-Founder, Finnoverge
  • Mahlon Williams, Founder, Blockjocks
  • Matt Zarracina, Co-Founder & CEO, True Tickets

3:00

Networking & Refreshments

Music Performance

  • Joey Cough
  • Prithvi
  • Ashwyn

3:45

Let’s Meet the Creators

 

Moderator: Rachel Payson, Community Manager, Fidelity

Center for Applied Technology, Fidelity Investments

 

 

Panelists

 

  • Cameron Armstrong, CEO, VF Protocol
  • Spencer Brody, Ceramic
  • Naila Noor Jahan, Co-Founder, Moss

4:20

Live Pod – Wholesome Crypto

 

Host: Rudy Dogum

 

Guests:

  • Dan Hoffman, Co-Founder & CMO, NiftyMedia Art
  • Fabio Italiano, Co-Founder & CEO, NiftyMedia Art
  • Tyquane Wright, Founder, Graffiti Heroes

5:00

Disrupting the Music Industry with Web3

 

Moderator: George Howard, CIO, Acme Innovation

 

Panelists:

  • Margaret Link, Vice President of Operations, Dequency
  • Brandon Wolf, iCTO, Napster

5:45

Interactive Music Experience & Cocktail

Hour

  • Ian Cain, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, QUBIC Labs
  • Paige Fetzer-Borelli, Senior Advisor, Napster.

Friday, September 23, 2022

8:00

Registration & Networking

9:00

Opening Remarks & Welcome

  • Ian Cain, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, QUBIC Labs & City Councilor, City of Quincy, MA

9:15

Domestic & Global Legal & Accounting Considerations

 

Moderator: Lori Anne Czepiel, Partner, Nelson Mullins

 

Panelists:

  • Philippe du Fresnay, PhD, Legal Scholar, Miguérès Moulin
  • Matt MacDonald, IT Assurance Manager, Wolf & Co.
  • Anastasia Stull, Partner, Nelson Mullins

10:00

Let’s Meet the Creators

 

 

Moderator: Justin Tonini, Investor, JT Invests in You

 

 

Panelists:

  • Bennett Thompson, Co-Founder, BlockBeam
  • Caleb Wursten, CEO, Worldhaus

10:45

Developer Excellence & Hack Boston Launch


Moderator: Estefania Ochoa, Director of Protocol Relations,

Reach


Panelists:

  • John Jannotti, Head of Applied Research, Algorand
  • Anne Kenyon, Senior Technical Product Manager, Algorand
  • Jay McCarthy, CTO & Co-Founder, Reach
  • Nick Stanford, DevX Lead, Reach

11:30

Closing Remarks

Partner Events

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

9:00

ACM Advances in Financial Technologies – AFT 2022

 

 

MIT Media Lab

75 Amherst St

Cambridge, MA 02139

 

 

Note: Boston Blockchain Week ticket holders get a

discounton AFT.

 

 

 

Registration: 

2:00

Innovation in Crypto Mining

 

Sponsored by Fidelity Center for Applied Technology

 

Fidelity Investments,

245 Summer St.

Boston, MA,

or Virtual

 

Registration

5:00

Bits & Brews

 

Sponsored by Fidelity Center for Applied Technology

 

Fidelity Investments

245 Summer St., 1st Floor Cafe

Boston, MA

Registration

6:00

Women in Blockchain Event

 

 

16C Restaurant

16 Cottage Ave.

Quincy, MA 02169

 

 

Registration

6:00

THE AFTER PARTY

 

 

Sponsored by ETRNL Events

 

 

Featuring Boston NFT artists, Sanidad Design and

 David Paredes.

Live music by DJ Sonabeats and Seaport Sounds.

 

 

Alba Restaurant Roofdeck

1486 Hancock St.

Quincy, MA 02169

 

Registration:

Thursday, September 22, 2022

6:00

ETRNL THE AFTER PARTY

 

Sponsored by ETRNL Events

 

Featuring Boston NFT artists, Sanidad Design and

 David Paredes.

Live music by DJ Sonabeats and Seaport Sounds.

 

Alba Restaurant Roofdeck

1486 Hancock St.

Quincy, MA 02169

 

Registration to come:

 

Friday, September 23, 2022

 

To be announced.