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Rene Bernard has been an international tech entrepreneur since 2002. He studied Business Engineering in Germany and currently runs e-commerce businesses serving multiple markets and continents. Since 2009, he has been focusing on cybersecurity and IT system administration - and since 2011 he has been a cryptocurrency and blockchain tech enthusiast. Combining his business and the tech backgrounds, he joined the NEM team in 2016. Rene is a Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) and the president of the NEM Association Malaysia, a non-profit bringing forward the development and adoption of blockchain technologies.

Cédric Cobban, President and Founder of PeerTracks, a driven optimist set to learn and understand more about the world each day, especially in regards to the innovations making our lives richer. This passion led him to Bitcoin in 2011. Cobban’s understanding of sound economics and the potential of blockchain technology urged him to create PeerTracks, Troopeers and The MUSE Blockchain – the holy trinity set to revolutionize the way the entertainment industry is monetized. Taking talent discovery and fan engagement to a new level while creating a clean ecosystem for the music industry to build on and thrive in.

Jun-Seong Han is executive vice president in Hana Financial Group, as well as the Head of Future Financial Group in KEB Hana Bank. He is currently responsible for future strategies such as channel innovation, payment and new global business. He joined Hana Bank in 1991 as a founding member. Since then, he has been involved in many areas during his career including IT, e-business, strategy, and M&A.; With his comprehensive expertise in those fields, he set up and led New Business team since 2007 and has shown remarkable results in Digital Banking. Under his lead, we’ve launched the mobile banking app 'Hana N Bank' for iPhone just in three days after it was first released in Korea, followed by a significant success in implementing the digital bank - ‘1QBank’ - in Canada while establishing digital bank was still under discussion domestically. Last year, we’ve yet made another huge leap by first in the country building a platform ‘Hana Members’, in which all loyalty points are integrated and cashed, thriving as the top membership service in Korea. In April of this year, we were first in Korea to participate the global Blockchain consortium led by R3 CEV, and managed to develop prototypes in payments and KYCs with own resources, establishing our position in blockchain research. Such Fin-tech strategies are being benchmarked by prominent financial institutions abroad, and Mr. Han, the CFIO of all the projects, since has been attracting attention as the 'First Mover', recognized by some of the most prestigious medias as a creative disruptor, with his innovations highly regarded.

Hoh Peter In is the Director of CAAS (Center for Adaptive and Autonomous Software) and the Department Head of Graduate School in Computer Science. He invented a bitcoin-enabled vending machine as an Internet-of-Things payment system. He was a speaker at several FinTech conferences as World Knowledge Forum and Inside Bitcoins 2014, 2015. He is also a member of Global FinTech Institute and FinTech ITRC. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Southern California (USC) in Computer Science. He was an assistant professor at Texas A&M; University.

Zennon Kapron is the co-founder and Director of Kapronasia, a leading financial industry research and advisory firm with offices across Asia. Zennon has been involved in the financial industry for over 20 years and is a recognised expert on the development of fintech in China and its impact on the financial industry. Before Kapronasia, Zennon was the Global Banking Industry Director for Intel and before Intel, the CIO for Citigroup Portugal. Zennon is also the co-founder of China Fintech and the author of Chomping at the Bitcoin: The Past, Present and Future of Bitcoin in China. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Joonwoo Kim has worked in mobile payment industry for 10 years now. He graduated from Yonsei University and also studied in Indiana University. Previously, Kim worked in SK Telecom for years and moved to mobile communication division, Samsung Electronics. He is currently working in order to enhance user experience and security of Samsung Pay.

After majoring in computer science, Kim worked in Korea Ratings Agency being in charge of managing corporation data. Right after his graduation, Kim started working and accumulated various types of experiences and now he is working on development and commercialization of blockchain technology. He applied this technology to many different business areas including FinTech and proved that blockchain can be expanded beyond borders. Kim and his young and passionate technical crews attain competitive expertise in blockchain and fintech industry. He currently serves as CEO of LC Company and is also gaining trust as well as popularity with his cheerful attitude when doing business. The Blockchain technology of Korea will be exploited and recognized as a major one shortly by Kim and his crews.

Hyo Jeong Kim has been a leader of customer relationship marketing at Shinhan Card. She was a general manager of Value management team and Code 9 accelerating team. And now she is a head of Mobile business division of Shinhan Card, having played important role in establishment of Shinhan ‘FAN’, the new life style mobile platform, and M.P.A.(Mobile Platform Alliance) which means new mobile alliance between Shinhan Card and 34 non-financial leading companies. Now, she leads Shinhan Card’s mobile business to make Shinhan ‘FAN’ more profitable platform with abilities acquired from her experiences.

Brian Klein is a partner at the litigation boutique Baker Marquart. There, Brian has extensive experience representing clients involved with Bitcoin (e.g., he represented Erik Voorhees in his settlement with the SEC). His practice focuses on high-stakes criminal and regulatory defense and civil litigation, and he aggressively and effectively advocates for his clients in a wide variety of state and federal matters. Brian also volunteers as the outside general counsel of the Bitcoin Foundation and teaches a federal criminal practice seminar at USC’s law school. Before joining Baker Marquart, Brian was a federal prosecutor at the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles for five years (2007-2012). As a federal prosecutor, Brian handled significant white-collar criminal cases, including cases involving money laundering, corporate fraud, and tax violations.

Michael Ko is the Vice President of Bluepan Inc., a bitcoin-enabled remittance service provider in Korea. As the head of strategic planning and international business development, he played a key role in establishing international remittance network for Bluepan, helping the company process more than $40M in remittance as of November 2016. Prior to joining Bluepan, Michael was a successful investment banker and venture capitalist at Morgan Stanley (Hong Kong, Japan) and Merrill Lynch (Japan). He invested in many IT companies in Asia and assisted such portfolio companies in executing their growth strategy for successful exits. Michael is the member of American Institute of CPAs and holds an MBA from Anderson School of Management, UCLA.

Jae Kwon is a blockchain software architect and crypto-economist. After graduating from Cornell in 2005 with a B.S. degree in computer science, he worked as a professional programmer in Silicon Valley, including at Alexa/Amazon, and at Yelp where he led the mobile application development team. After getting the Bitcoin bug, Jae created the Tendermint BFT consensus algorithm and Tendermint Core blockchain engine to create a provably secure proof-of-stake algorithm, an alternative to proof-of-work mining. In addition to Tendermint, Jae is creating Cosmos, the network of blockchains.

Seunghaeng Lee, CEO of Midrate, previously worked at Walt Disney World Company and SK Engineering & Construction, Korea's global construction company. As an intern at Walt Disney World Company in Florida he was awarded as an excellent staff, and the Risk management and project financing work he did at SK E&C; gave him a broad understanding of the projects. At the moment, he is trying to implement P2P guidelines and achieve better protection of financial investors as the CEO of Midrate and the president of Korea P2P finance association.

John is dedicated to delivering solutions that enable companies across industries and geographies to benefit from simplified technology landscapes, integrated processes, streamlined operations and improved agility and performance the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem delivers. John holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics, Development Economics and International Economics from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada and is also currently a candidate for a Masters of Science (MSc) at Hariot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland in the field of Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation with a focus on renewable energy technologies, electrical power systems, distributed generation, demand management and storage. John is also currently serving as Director for Business Technology Development, Strategy and Operations at ConsenSys, the leading Ethereum blockchain software development group in the World where John and his team focus on enterprise services and interactions with many Fortune 500 organizations as they embark on their Ethereum discovery process. Partners include Microsoft, Deloitte, RWE and RedHat among others. Prior to ConsenSys, John was focused on distributed energy resource development at his role with LO3 Energy, a New York City start up, where John worked on developing the Brooklyn Microgrid, the TransActive Grid and Project Exergy.

Jack C. Liu is the Co-Creator & Chief Strategy Officer of OKLink and Chief Strategy Officer of OKCoin. A serial entrepreneur founding businesses in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Hong Kong, Jack has appeared on Bloomberg TV, Financial Times, New York Times, Coindesk and more. Previously, Jack was the Co-founder of Micropetition in Palo Alto, California. Jack began his career in Hong Kong at Barclays, where he covered pan-Asian equity derivatives markets, servicing a wide range of clients in volatility arbitrage, long/short equity, global macro hedge funds, endowment funds and pension funds. He is a graduate of Queen's University.

Ashok Misra, CISSP has built ecommerce systems for Amazon.com, Real Networks and Linden Labs ( Second Life) . He is the founder of Alina Consultants Inc, a boutique consulting firm advising and building solutions for ecommerce merchants on epayment architecture and security. He has considerable experience in crypto currencies and in particular in building bitcoin purchase paths. He is widely regarded as a Payment Security Expert and possesses in-depth knowledge on PCI Compliance. He has a deep knowledge of country specific payment methods and mobile payments. He is the Chairperson for the European Customer Not Present Payments Forum (EU CNPPF).

Avril Parkin is currently the Director of Client Technology for Thomson Reuters in North Asia. A global IT professional with over 20 years experience, 15 of which within the financial services community. In her current role she is focused on strategic discussions to leverage innovation and technology to address business challenges. Sharing insights on new technology, from the semantic web to distributed ledger technology and digital identity. Prior to this Avril was supporting Telstra’s strategic growth into the Financial Services vertical, providing key industry insight to shape new technology solutions. Avril started her career in Network Engineering and progressed to Service Management and Solution Sales before her recent involvement in Fintech and innovation.

James Slazas has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry. Starting his career trading on the futures exchanges in Chicago and Paris. At Lehman Brothers, James managed a proprietary arbitrage book of derivatives, structured products and created a global risk management group for the HNW credit exposure of the London, Swiss and Hong Kong banks. Later James co-founded a hedge fund investing in longevity risk through life settlements. At ConsenSys, James advises on blockchain strategy to a broad spectrum of financial institutions including central banks, exchanges, pensions, investment banks and regulatory agencies. Graduated from the University of Richmond, E. Claiborne School of Business and studied at Oxford University, Hertford College.

Jeffrey Song is the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Coinplug Inc. which is the prominent blockchain research and development company in Korea. He has designed and developed various cryptocurrency based systems including payment, authentication, and notary services. He also has more than 30 patents in relation to blockchain technologies. He is widely considered as a blockchain expert, and has considerable in-depth knowledge on public and private blockchain sector.

Anne Stevenson-Yang co-founded J Capital Research in 2010 to provide independent, bottom-up research on China-related listed companies, global equity ideas, and the macro economy. She directs the company’s research, writes on China macro themes, and covers companies in areas including Internet and media, fintech, and electronics. Anne was formerly co-founder of a group of online media businesses called Blue Bamboo Ventures and also founded and operated a CRM software company, Clarity Data Systems, and a publishing company whose flagship magazine is City Weekend. Over 25 years in China, Anne also worked as an industry analyst and trade advocate. Anne is author of the 2013 book China Alone: China's Emergence and Potential Return to Isolation, written while she served a guest lecturer at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Coming from mathematics, Marco Streng became involved with Bitcoin by studying emerging and self-organising networks. He has taken part in the community since its earliest days and has invested in several Bitcoin and Blockchain related startups so far. He is also co-founder and CEO of Genesis Mining, one of the largest Bitcoin Mining companies as well the largest Mining Company for Ethereum. Beginning of 2016 he founded the Logos Fund which is the first regulated Fund for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Mining in the world.

Tim Swanson leads Market Research at R3 and is a recognized expert and thought leader in cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger initiatives. Tim provides an unparalleled level of insider insights within the industry, and possesses a unique knowledge of developing technologies and companies, with an endless rolodex of contacts in the overall fintech industry. He was the first advisor to Hyperledger (which was acquired by DAH) and is currently an advisor to Clearmatics. He is a visiting research fellow at the Sim Kee Boon Institute at Singapore Management University and is a graduate of Texas A&M; University. He is the author of three books, two of which cover the virtual currency and distributed ledger landscape. His research papers have been cited in a variety of media and have appeared on more than two dozen industry panels in the past year. He is also frequently quoted in media including: Wired, MIT Technology Review, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New Republic, American Banker and International Business Times.

Roger is currently the CEO of Bitcoin.com. With an educational background in economics and computer science, Bitcoin caught his attention in late 2010 and he has been a devoted promoter of Bitcoin and the benefits of Digital Currencies as a technological advance that can greatly enhance the free flow of payments around the world. Roger was the first person in the world to begin investing in Bitcoin related startups and fondly believes that there are numerous ways that Bitcoin will change the world for the better.

Norb Vonnegut is the author of Wall Street and hedge fund thrillers that the New York Times calls “a red-hot franchise” and “his own improbably sexy genre.” He spent twenty years on Wall Street and writes a regular column in the Wealth Adviser section of the Wall Street Journal for and about financial advisers. He has appeared on Bloomberg, MSNBC, and given a TEDx talk about how to avoid financial predators. His first non-fiction book, The Dirty Little Secrets of Money, will be out in 2017 from Regan Arts. After growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, Norb still self identifies as southern though he attended Harvard College, Harvard Business School, spent time in Manila and Melbourne, Australia, and now lives in Rhode Island. Norb is drawn to stories about people who stand up to bullies or expose financial hijinks. And in The Dirty Little Secrets of Money, he probes the question that is a theme in all his writing: How do you know you can trust somebody?

Jung Ki Young, Head of electronic Financial Business Team, IT&Financial; information Protection Department, Financial Supervisory Service, has managed support and development of Fintech industry, supervisor of Electronic Financial Business part. And he has been trying to secure safeness and soundness of electronic Financial trading, electronic Financial Business.