2019 speakers

The 2019 conference brought together speakers from around the world and across industries to discuss their ideas, experiences and insights into blockchain technology.

2019 main stage speakers

Don Tapscott

Executive Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute

Bridget Van Kralingen

SVP Global Industries, Clients, Platforms & Blockchain, IBM

Imogen Heap

Music Maker, Founder of Mycelia

Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan

Global Head of TCS Interactive

Richard W. Smith

President and CEO FedEx Logistics

Bettina Warburg

Blockchain Expert, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Animal Ventures

Robert Carter

Executive Vice President & CIO FedEx

Carlos Moreira

CEO, WISeKey

Perianne Boring

Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce

Brian Behlendorf

Executive Director, Hyperledger Project

Joseph Lubin

Co-Founder, ConsenSys

Ron Resnick

President, InterWork Alliance

John Tory

Mayor of Toronto

Alex Tapscott

Co-Founder, Blockchain Research Institute

Jerry Cuomo

CTO Hybrid Cloud Integration, VP Blockchain Technology, IBM Blockchain

Martha Bennett

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester

David E Rutter

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, R3

Antony Elliott

Group Head of Business Transformation, Zurich Insurance Company, Chairman of the Board of Directors, B3i

Alessandro Spadoni

Chief Architect, B3i

John Carolin

Chief Executive Officer, B3i

Michael Casey

Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk

Tomicah Tillemann

Director, Digital Impact and Governance Initiative, New America

Don Tapscott

Executive Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute

Bridget Van Kralingen

SVP Global Industries, Clients, Platforms & Blockchain, IBM

Imogen Heap

Music Maker, Founder of Mycelia

Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan

Global Head of TCS Interactive

Richard W. Smith

President and CEO FedEx Logistics

Bettina Warburg

Blockchain Expert, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Animal Ventures

Robert Carter

Executive Vice President & CIO FedEx

Carlos Moreira

CEO, WISeKey

Perianne Boring

Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce

Brian Behlendorf

Executive Director, Hyperledger Project

Joseph Lubin

Co-Founder, ConsenSys

Ron Resnick

President, InterWork Alliance

John Tory

Mayor of Toronto

Alex Tapscott

Co-Founder, Blockchain Research Institute

Jerry Cuomo

CTO Hybrid Cloud Integration, VP Blockchain Technology, IBM Blockchain

Martha Bennett

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester

David E Rutter

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, R3

Antony Elliott

Group Head of Business Transformation, Zurich Insurance Company, Chairman of the Board of Directors, B3i

Alessandro Spadoni

Chief Architect, B3i

John Carolin

Chief Executive Officer, B3i

Michael Casey

Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk

Tomicah Tillemann

Director, Digital Impact and Governance Initiative, New America

Don Tapscott

Executive Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute

Bridget Van Kralingen

SVP Global Industries, Clients, Platforms & Blockchain, IBM

Imogen Heap

Music Maker, Founder of Mycelia

Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan

Global Head of TCS Interactive

Richard W. Smith

President and CEO FedEx Logistics

Bettina Warburg

Blockchain Expert, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Animal Ventures

Robert Carter

Executive Vice President & CIO FedEx

Carlos Moreira

CEO, WISeKey

Perianne Boring

Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce

Brian Behlendorf

Executive Director, Hyperledger Project

Joseph Lubin

Co-Founder, ConsenSys

Ron Resnick

President, InterWork Alliance

John Tory

Mayor of Toronto

Alex Tapscott

Co-Founder, Blockchain Research Institute

Jerry Cuomo

CTO Hybrid Cloud Integration, VP Blockchain Technology, IBM Blockchain

Martha Bennett

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester

David E Rutter

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, R3

Antony Elliott

Group Head of Business Transformation, Zurich Insurance Company, Chairman of the Board of Directors, B3i

Alessandro Spadoni

Chief Architect, B3i

John Carolin

Chief Executive Officer, B3i

Michael Casey

Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk

Tomicah Tillemann

Director, Digital Impact and Governance Initiative, New America

Don Tapscott

Executive Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute

Bridget Van Kralingen

SVP Global Industries, Clients, Platforms & Blockchain, IBM

Imogen Heap

Music Maker, Founder of Mycelia

Lakshminarasimhan Srinivasan

Global Head of TCS Interactive

Richard W. Smith

President and CEO FedEx Logistics

Bettina Warburg

Blockchain Expert, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Animal Ventures

Robert Carter

Executive Vice President & CIO FedEx

Carlos Moreira

CEO, WISeKey

Perianne Boring

Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce

Brian Behlendorf

Executive Director, Hyperledger Project

Joseph Lubin

Co-Founder, ConsenSys

Ron Resnick

President, InterWork Alliance

John Tory

Mayor of Toronto

Alex Tapscott

Co-Founder, Blockchain Research Institute

Jerry Cuomo

CTO Hybrid Cloud Integration, VP Blockchain Technology, IBM Blockchain

Martha Bennett

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester

David E Rutter

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, R3

Antony Elliott

Group Head of Business Transformation, Zurich Insurance Company, Chairman of the Board of Directors, B3i

Alessandro Spadoni

Chief Architect, B3i

John Carolin

Chief Executive Officer, B3i

Michael Casey

Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk

Tomicah Tillemann

Director, Digital Impact and Governance Initiative, New America

Bill Barhydt

Founder & CEO, Abra

Leanne Kemp

Founder & CEO, Everledger

Caroline Malcolm

Head of the OECD Blockchain Policy Centre

Dr. Eric Hoskins

Chair, Federal Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare

Bettina Warburg

Blockchain Expert, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Animal Ventures

Robert Carter

Executive Vice President & CIO FedEx

Matt Spoke

Founder & CEO Aion

Carlos Moreira

CEO, WISeKey

Perianne Boring

Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce

Dr. Uli Broedl

Country Medical Director and Vice President of Medical and Regulatory Affairs Boehringer Ingelheim Canada

Richard Carleton

CEO, Canadian Securities Exchange

Marley Gray

Principal Architect, Microsoft

Rob Meikle

Chief Information Officer City of Toronto

Roanie Levy

President & CEO, Access Copyright/Prescient

Vinay Gupta

CEO Mattereum

Dr. Sarah Muttitt

VP & Chief Information Officer, SickKids; VP & Chief Information Officer, University Health Network

Oli Harris

Head of Crypto-Assets Strategy and Quorum J.P. Morgan

Alex Tapscott

Co-Founder, Blockchain Research Institute

Eiji Ikeda

Senior Manager, Service Business Division, Network Solution Business Unit Fujitsu

Asif Qayyum

Managing Director Emerging Technologies Assurance PwC Canada

Mahesh Sahasranaman

Principal Architect UPS Supply Chain Solutions

Iliana Oris-Valiente

Managing Director, Canadian Innovation Hub & Blockchain Lead Accenture

Dr. Cathy Barrera

Founding Economist, Prysm Group

Andre Boysen

Chief Identity Officer SecureKey

Dale Chrystie

Business Fellow, Blockchain Strategist FedEx

Dr. Ann Cavoukian

Three-term Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

Jon Trask

Founder & CEO BlockchainGuru

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

Research Affiliate, MIT Sloan School of Management

Dr. James Orbinski

Director Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research York University

Emily Coleman

CMO ShapeShift

Scott Nelson

Founder & CEO Sweetbridge

Heather Flannery

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ConsenSys Health

Joseph Pallant

Founder Blockchain for Climate Foundation

James A. Regenor

CEO, VeriTx

Vineet Narula

MIT Sloan Fellow

Tanya Woods

Managing Director, Chamber of Digital Commerce (Canada)

Kesem Frank

President, Mavennet Systems Inc

Katherine Foster

Chief Strategy Officer Blockchain Labs for Open Collaboration (BLOC)

Jeremy Epstein

CEO Never Stop Marketing

Alan Wunsche

CEO TokenFunder.com

Lana McGilvray

Principal Blast Public Relations

Duri Alajrami

VP Marketing & Communications Moneris

Francis McInerney

Managing Director FutureCreators

Hilary Carter

Managing Director, Blockchain Research Institute

Anthony Williams

President & Co-founder Deep Centre, Inc.

Charlie Morris

Co-founder CMCC Global

Tom Isaacson

Shareholder Polsinelli P.C.

Toufi Saliba

CEO Toda.Network

Lawrence Orsini

CEO LO3 Energy

Dr. Rhea Mehta

CEO & Co-founder Bowhead Health

Mark Petrov

Founder & CEO Xtreme Blockchain Labs

Kieren James-Lubin

President BlockApps

Brian Magierski

CEO and Founder, Care Chain AG

Jack Spallone

Director of Content Licensing ConsenSys

Michael Terpin

Founder & CEO Transform Group

Shannon Grinnell

Founder & Host Speaking of Crypto

Louisa Bai

National Market Leader, Deloitte

Adam Lemmon

Blockchain Engineer Blockscale Solutions

Joel Telpner

Chair of Fintech & Blockchain Practice Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Janine Moir

National Blockchain Assurance Leader, Deloitte Canada

Michael Torrance

Chief Sustainability Officer BMO Financial Group

Jerry Cuomo

CTO Hybrid Cloud Integration, VP Blockchain Technology, IBM Blockchain

Alishba Imran

Machine Learning & Blockchain Developer

Cameron Chell

Chairman and co-founder KODAKOne Image Rights Management

Massimo Morini

Head of Rates and Credit Modelling and Coordinator of Model Research Banca IMI

Daniel Eidan

Solution Architect R3

Dr. Gordon Agnew

CEO Peer Ledger

Toni Lane

Early Blockchain Pioneer and Professional Speaker

Chloé Desmonet

Head of DLT projects MKS (Switzerland)

Bob Tapscott

CEO Tapscott Advisors

Eden Dhaliwal

Partner and Head of Cryptoeconomics Outlier Ventures

Matthew Roszak

Chairman and Co-founder Bloq

Karen Ottoni

Director of Ecosystem Hyperledger

Peter Ball

Senior Licensing Manager Mayo Clinic Ventures

Mohammed Tayeb

Co-founder and COO Medicalchain

Bryan Addeman

Blockchain Market Leader IBM Canada

Selina Brudnicki

MBA, PMP, Program Lead, Digital Patient Experience University Health Network

Chris Pentleton

Vice President Architecture eHealth Ontarios

Annette McKinnon

Patient Advisor University Health Network

Dr. David Jaffray Ph.D

ABMP, Executive Vice President, Technology & Innovation University Health Network

Dr. David Wiljer PhD

Executive Director, Education, Technology & Innovation University Health Network

Patrick South

Vice President of Development Chamber of Digital Commerce

Grant Jones

Vice President, LenderComm Finastra

Bernie Moreno

Chairman Ownum

Shane Bigelow

CEO Ownum

Kenneth Clarke

Project Manager for Blockland Cleveland JumpStart Inc.

Stephen J McHale

Partner Unify Project

Elad Granot

Dean, Dauch College of Business & Economics Ashland University

Jorden Woods

Managing Partner DoubleNova Group, Inc.

Ron Dembo

Director CarbonX

Andrés Assmus

Founder & CEO CityZeen

James Graham

President and CEO Guild One

Katherine Kuzmeskas

CEO SimplyVital Health

Michael R. Nelson

Public Policy Cloudfare Inc.

Mance Harmon

CEO & Co-Founder Hedera Hashgraph

Jason Reynar

CAO Town of Innisfil

Wayne Logan

Partner Miller Thomson

Philip Long

Partner Miller Thomson

Pramod Achanta

Blockchain Services Leader for North America IBM

Ricky Dodds

Head of Institutional Markets ICON

Jai Waterman

CTO, Chief Enterprise Architect, and Founder, Blockstation

Alex Kaplan

Global Leader, Strategic Deals, Member Executive Team IBM Watson Education

Antony Welfare

Managing Director Blockchain Practice, Luxoft

Tim Bouma

Senior Analyst for Digital Identity, Office of Chief Information Officer Government of Canada

David Winterstein

CEO & Co-founder Velocia

Ajith Thekadith

Vice President, Head of B2B Connect Visa Business Solutions

Yorke E. Rhodes III

Cofounder Blockchain @ Microsoft, Principle Program Manager Azure Blockchain Engineering Microsoft

Jillian Friedman

Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets National Bank of Canada

Fahad Shaikh

Director of Emerging Technology CIBC

Hans Schwab

Chief Information Officer WISeKey

Jason Thomson

Master of Ceremonies Blockchain Revolution Global

Ethan Buchman

CEO of Informal Systems

Tuhina Singh

CEO Propine

Eileen Lowry

Global Program Director IBM Blockchain Labs

Oscar Roque

AVP, Innovation, Research & Emerging Solutions Interac Corp

Hadley Stern

Chief Operating Officer Bloq

Nigel Gopie

Global Marketing Leader IBM Food Trust

Eugene Laney

Head of International Government Affairs DHL Express USA

Pat Chaukos

Deputy Director OSC Launchpad

Linda Pawczuk

Principal Deloitte Consulting LLP

Carlos Moreno

Vice President Corporate Alliances & Partnerships WISeKey SA

Andreas Moreira

Product Manager WISeCoin

Usman Sheikh

Partner National Head of the Blockchain & Smart Contracts Group Gowling WLG

Sunny Ray

Cofounder and President Unocoin

Paritosh Gambhir

National Leader for Blockchain Technology Solutions KPMG Canada

Soumak Chatterjee

Payments & Blockchain Leader, Partner, Deloitte Canada

Heather Dahl

Executive Director & CEO Sovrin Foundation

Marta De Stradis

Business Developer QEDIT

Debbie Gamble

Chief Officer, Innovation Labs & New Ventures, Interac

Neetika Sathe

Vice President Advanced Planning Alectra

Mike White

CEO TradeLens

Ravi Durairaj

Managing Director Americas Censof Inc

Oshoma Momoh

Chief Technical Advisor MaRS

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