Conference dedicated to cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology and ICO.
All you need to know about blockchain integration into business and investing in token sales.
Participants
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Speaker
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About the conference
The first large-scale conference in Berlin organized by Smile-Expo, dedicated to cryptocurrencies, blockchain and ICO.
Key topics:
Participants: developers, entrepreneurs, investors, financial experts, blockchain enthusiasts, lawyers, startups founders.
The official language at the Conference – English.
Conference working hours: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Program
Blockchain & Bitcoin
Review of the conference program
Technical Vice President of Innovation and New Technologies, IBM Cloud
04 April 10:00 04 April 10:00
The Advancement of Blockchain Technology: From Concept to Implementation
Are you curious about the future of Blockchain? Viewed as both an opportunity and a threat, Blockchain technology is allowing your business to reimagine business networks and the fundamental ways they exchange value and information. Blockchain has shifted from hype to reality across many industries including Financial Services, Supply Chain, Retail, Healthcare and Government. Supported by the Linux Foundation's open source, open-standards based Hyperledger Project, Blockchain has the potential to improve regulatory compliance, reduce cost as well as advance trade. Come to this session to understand what the future holds for Blockchain by taking a closer look at a specific Blockchain case study.
Rechtsanwältin / Partner bei DWF speaker of the finance working group of the German Blockchain asscociation
04 April 10:25 04 April 10:25
Token Regulation – current status of discussion
Regulators around the globe start to voice their opinion of the regulation of token sales. This presentation will give an update about the legal classification of tokens and the regulations applying to sales, related services and listing as currently discussed in Germany.
A new data economy with power to the people
How do we build a decentralized data services ecosystem, why do we need it, and how do we incentivize users to curate and serve up relevant data. First I would describe why AI needs more data, and what are the current issues. How do we solve them (by pooling resources and creating tokens to incentivize curation), using token curated registries and curation markers. And finally what are the potential applications.
How blockchain can impact supply chain due diligence
The immutability and distributed nature of blockchain make it a promising technology for supply chain assurance, but how practically can it be used. In this session we will look at a number of conceptual models and their different trade offs.
Pitch Session
Big Data Project Leader at CERN, Blockchain Expert and orvium.io founder
04 April 12:00 04 April 12:00
Blockchain and Open Science Evolution
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, created the World Wide Web (WWW) at CERN. The WWW was made available via an open license and that was key to make achievements far beyond its expectations.
However, this open philosophy is not applied to the rest of scientific knowledge. The industry behind science dissemination keeps information behind paywalls and introduces biases, delays and barriers,
which limit the impact of science in society. Blockchain allows transparent, open, trustworthy, decentralized and traceable environments. This represents an unprecedented opportunity to disrupt the current
industry, return the control of science to scientists and enhance science impacts on society. Learn in this session how blockchain can make science more transparent, universal and open than ever.
Evaluate ICOs From a Technical Point of View
ICOs are a new form of raising money from a worldwide audience, but at this stage some white papers lack detailed information on either financials or technical details. Therefore some sort of technical guidance provides necessary evaluation to found a rating on. We would share some of our methods of our advisory for VCs as well as start-ups with the audience.
Lunch Break
Peter Mitchell and Christopher Murrer
Associates at Baker & McKenzie Zurich
04 April 14:00 04 April 14:00
The EU General Data Protection Regulation is coming. Are You Ready?
The GDPR goes into effect this May and works to modernize the existing data protection laws of the EU. The distributed and often public nature of blockchain protocols pose interesting questions for how the privacy rules and obligations will apply to blockchain-based companies. This presentation will discuss what companies need to consider before offering their tokens to the public.
Nanopayments on the Blockchain - pocket change for the web
Have you ever thought of transferring 1 cent across the internet? SatoshiPay is a login-free, one-click payment widget for the web. SatoshiPay's blockchain-based technology makes it possible to transfer super-small amounts between content publishers and consumers. This means new revenue streams can be explored: publishers can sell content for as little as 1 cent without any friction, bundling, or signup.
TAITOSS PROJECT and AI Technology
Evening Networking
Pitch Session
Moderator
CEO, Precious Metals & Cryptocurrency Expert, Midas Touch Consulting
04 April 16:00 04 April 16:00
Blockchain & A.I. Architect for Automotive & Industry, Porsche Digital Lab - the Porsche tech laboratory
04 April 16:00 04 April 16:00
Panel Discussion
From strategy to execution of ICOs: prospects, regulation and current state
Pitch Session
Who will be a Borderless Citizen™ in the 21st Century?
Adel's co-founder explores the creation of virtual communities fueling by blockchain innovation. The presentation explores the evolution of the Virtual State™ and the Borderless Citizen™.
Thanks to the Internet, and blockchain technology, the world is waking up to a political, economic, social and technological renaissance. The next two decades will be a fundamental shift in human interaction, sharing, and freedom. All aspects of vertical and horizontal markets will be affected, including Finance & Banking, Healthcare, eGovernment, Communications, Information Technology (IT) and the Internet of things (IoT). Adel’s General Manager will analyze this paradigm shift in behavior and present a vision for the future.
Closing of the conference
Theme: «Registration of participants. Welcoming coffee»
Registration
04 April, 09:00 04 April, 09:00
Theme: «Review of the conference program»
Moderator's welcome speech
04 April, 09:50 04 April, 09:50
Theme: «The Advancement of Blockchain Technology: From Concept to Implementation»
René Bostic is the Technical Vice President of Innovation and New Technologies for IBM Cloud. Enjoying her career with IBM during the modern millennial technological era, she is an expert in cloud computing, DevOps and emerging cloud technologies such as Blockchain. René has presented at IT Roadmap Conferences sponsored by IDG Enterprises, the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit sponsored by Gartner, Cloud Expo sponsored by SYS-CON Media and the Agile2017 Conference to name a few. Cloud Expo named René a faculty member for both their 2017 Cloud Expo East and Cloud Expo West Conferences. René is a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and a member of the Society of Information Management (SIM). René received a Business and Economics degree with a minor in Computer Science from St. Andrews Presbyterian University (Laurinburg, North Carolina, USA). She resides in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Theme: «Token Regulation – current status of discussion»
Nina-Luisa Siedler is partner at DWF, a technology-oriented global law firm, and head of the international Blockchain Competence Group. She focusses on the legal implication of blockchain/distributed ledger technology projects and assists her clients with the structuring of business cases in the infrastructure, IoT, data, logistic, energy and retail sector as well as the financing via token sales. Nina-Luisa Siedler is founding member of Blockchain Bundesverband (the German blockchain association) and speaker of the finance as well as the token/ICO working groups. She is also an advisor of BlockchainHub
Theme: «How blockchain can impact supply chain due diligence»
Nathan Williams is a Canadian blockchain entrepreneur living in Berlin, Germany. He is the founder of Minespider, a blockchain solution for tracking conflict-free minerals (http://www.minespider.com). He co-hosts the Analysis in Chains podcast and the Blockchain Unpacked meetup, bringing understanding of blockchain projects to non-technical audiences (http://www.analysisinchainspodcast.com). Nathan also advises the German Startups Association on blockchain projects and is helping to coordinate a blockchain focus camp for their Startup Camp Berlin event in April (http://www.scb18.de)
Theme: «Pitch Session»
Pitch session
04 April, 16:50 04 April, 16:50
Theme: «Blockchain and Open Science Evolution»
Manuel is project leader for Big data streaming infrastructure and Internet of Things projects at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN). During his entire career, Manuel has focused on supporting large research collaborations through technology innovation and evolution. Among other tasks, Manuel has been involved and led critical projects to improve the operations of the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and one of the most complex scientific instrument ever made. Currently, Manuel is the co-founder of Orvium.io, a blockchain initiative to unlock open and transparent science while returning the benefits of science to the society.
Theme: «Evaluate ICOs From a Technical Point of View»
Christoph Niemann is working for MaibornWolff GmbH as Blockchain Architect. He has worked in several projects that provide proof of concepts for real world use cases. Furthermore, he is contributing to the Ethereum ecosystem, for instance by providing the first JSON parser for Solidity that runs on Blockchain.
Christoph received his PhD on agent-based coordination mechanisms at University of Bayreuth in 2011. Since then, his interest are decentral mechanisms. Bitcoin has paved the way for decentral approaches in practical real world use cases. Christoph is enthusiastic about this development, in particular about the potential of smart contracts.
Theme: «Lunch Break»
Lunch Break
04 April, 13:00 04 April, 13:00
Theme: «The EU General Data Protection Regulation is coming. Are You Ready?»
Peter Mitchell and Christopher Murrer
Associates at Baker & McKenzie Zurich
04 April, 14:00 04 April, 14:00
Peter Mitchell is an associate in the International Tax and Wealth Management practice groups of Baker McKenzie Zurich. Peter recently earned his LL.M. in taxation from New York University. Prior to his studies, he gained several years of litigation experience in insurance coverage, federal investigations, and white collar defense.
Christopher Murrer is an associate in the International Tax and Wealth Management practice groups of Baker McKenzie Zurich. He joined the Firm after practicing for seven years as a domestic tax and estate planning attorney in New York and Washington, DC.
Theme: «Nanopayments on the Blockchain - pocket change for the web»
Meinhard Benn
Founder & CEO, SatoshiPay
04 April, 14:30 04 April, 14:30
Meinhard founded SatoshiPay, a blockchain-based nanopayments provider aiming to fundamentally change the way web content is monetised. As open source developer, social entrepreneur and avid shoestring traveller with 50 countries under his belt, Meinhard experienced the need for an open, global and decentralised payment technology first-hand. He already experimented with different alternative payment systems for years when Bitcoin and its ground-breaking blockchain technology crossed his path in 2011. As developer, entrepreneur and speaker he pushes the blockchain ecosystem forward ever since.
Theme: «TAITOSS PROJECT and AI Technology»
Jeong Hwan Kim
CTO , TAITOSS
04 April, 15:20 04 April, 15:20
Theme: «Evening Networking»
EVENING NETWORKING
04 April, 15:35 04 April, 15:35
Theme: «Pitch Session»
Pitch session
04 April, 16:50 04 April, 16:50
Theme: «Panel Discussion»
Alireza Siadat is a German legal and regulatory expert in the international financial services industry. He is a member of PwC's global ICO expert group and PwC Europe's ICO legal expert group. He is driving PwC Germany's ICO initiative and is currently advising major German ICOs.
Theme: «Panel Discussion»
Florian Grummes is an independent financial analyst, advisor, consultant, trader & investor as well as an international speaker with more than 20 years of experience in financial markets. He is specialized in precious metals, cryptocurrencies and technical analysis. He writes a bi-weekly in-depth gold and silver analysis for one of Europe´s largest gold and silver retailer the „pro aurum“ group. As well he is publishing a bi-weekly comprehensive gold, silver & mining stocks as well as cryptocurrency analysis for his numerous international readers. He is well known for combining technical, fundamental and sentiment analysis into one accurate conclusion about the markets.
Theme: «Panel Discussion»
Jan Sammut is the founder and CEO of RefToken, the worlds first decentralised affiliate platform, as well asICOMalta.com, a full stack ICO platform. A marketer by profession, he has previously held executive positions at industry heavyweights such as IGT plc, Stars Group and Highlight Media Group. Jan is a fixture on the European blockchain conference tour and advisor to ICOs with market caps exceeding $1B.
Theme: «Panel Discussion»
Claudio Weck is currently working on Blockchain and Distributed Hyperledger at the Porsche Digital Lab.
At MHP, a Management & IT Consultancy and Porsche subsidiary he worked for many cooperation’s including Audi, AMG, Bosch, Continental, Daimler Mercedes, formerly as Head of Data Science in Data Excellence and leader of the competence center for Predictive.
Collaborating with many startups in the blockchain area, his focus at ICOs is on technology and business usage in the industry and automotive.
Theme: «Panel Discussion»
Michael leads EY's German Blockchain community and focuses on exploring and co-creating transformative opportunities with clients from various sectors. With a strong background in Supply Chain Management and Operations Transformation, Michael helps to put the enormous potential of Blockchain technology into context of today's and tomorrow's business challenges and outlines pathways to realizing the benefits. He furthermore drives business development and acts as alliance manager liaising with technology providers, start-ups and regulators within the extended Blockchain ecosystem. Prior to management consulting, Michael spent years with hands-on transformation of manufacturing sites in Europe and Asia.
Theme: «Pitch Session»
Pitch session
04 April, 16:50 04 April, 16:50
Theme: «Who will be a Borderless Citizen™ in the 21st Century?»
Gabriel is a seasoned sales and marketing expert with over twenty years of experience in senior level positions at companies such as Motorola, VeriSign (part of Symantec), and SecureWorks (part of Dell). His strengths lie in international business development and strategic partnerships, as well as the unique ability to translate complex ideas and technologies into language that decision makers can easily understand. Gabriel has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from McMaster University in Canada and possesses expert knowledge in cloud computing, IT security, and video streaming technologies (Over the Top Content, OTT). Gabriel also runs his own company, Euro Tech Startups, and manages two blogs: https://dusil.com/ and https://gabrieldusil.com/
Theme: «Closing of the conference»
Moderator's closing remarks and summary of the conference
04 April, 17:30 04 April, 17:30
Exhibition area
Exhibition of software, equipment and services for the crypto industry. Mining hardware, crypto wallets, blockchain platforms, applications, payment services and unexpected solutions based on blockchain.
Present your product and find out about the latest achievements of the industry!
News
Meet new speakers and key news of the conference
Contacts
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Registration of participants. Welcoming coffee