Cornell Tech, New York • Friday, April 26, 2024
Cornell Blockchain
Conference 2024
2023 Highlights
The third iteration of our annual conference last year attracted over 800 industry leaders, top academics, passionate students, investors, and regulators. This year's conference will once again be held at the wonderful Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.
2022 Highlights
2024 Speakers
Josh Klayman
U.S. Head of Fintech & Head of Blockchain & Digital Assets @ Linklaters
Arthur Breitman
Co-Founder of Tezos
Ari Juels
Chief Scientist @ Chainlink, Professor @ Cornell Tech, Co-Director IC3
Nikil Viswanathan
CEO @ Alchemy
Emin Gün Sirer
Founder @ Ava Labs
Benedikt Bünz
Chief Scientist @ Espresso Systems
Keynote
Asta Li
Co-Founder & CTO @ Privy
John Wu
President @ Ava Labs
Rafael Solari
CTO and Co-Founder @ Tally
Dee Goens
CEO @ Zora
Matt Galligan
CEO @ XMTP Labs
Chase Chapman
Head of Brand @ Uniswap
Jane Lippencott
Partner @ a16z crypto
Permissionless Markets
Jasper Zhang
CEO & Co-Founder @ Hyperbolic Labs
Neil DeSilva
CFO @ PayPal Digital Currencies
Yorke Rhodes
Co-Founder Blockchain @ Microsoft
Matt Stephenson
Head of Research @ Pantera
Alex Lin
Ex-Cornell Tech President
Crypto x AI
Parth Chopra
Principal @ Bain Capital Crypto
Holyn Kanake
Investor @ Kindred Ventures
Carl Vogel
Partner & Head of Research @ 6th Man Ventures
Venture Capital
Kara Miley
SVP of Public Relations @ Serotonin
Jonathan Padilla
CEO @ Snickerdoodle Labs
Marta Cura
Head of BD @ ENS Labs
Kelsey McGuire
Chief Growth Officer @ Shardeum
Web3 Growth
Michelle Tian
Senior Technical PM @ Ava Labs
Jeffery Lewis
Director of Capital Formation @ Pantera Capital
Arun Prasad
CEO @ Block Convey
Oli Harris
Head of Digital Assets, Americas @ Goldman Sachs
Tracy Wang
Head of Special Events @ Framework Ventures
Institutional Adoption
Dr. Youwei Y.
VP of Mining @ Bit Mining Limited
Susan Joseph
CEO and Co-Founder @ HealthTrends.AI
Gina Abrams
Chief of Staff @ Trust Machines
Brian Rudick
BTC Mining Researcher @ GSR
Bitcoin
Todd Chapman
CTO @ Snickerdoodle Labs
Wei Dai
Research Partner @ 1kx
Daniel Shorr
Co-founder and CEO @ Modulus Labs
Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh
Founder @ Lagrange Labs
ZK Panel
Andrew B Samuel
Global Regulatory Policy @ Coinbase
Jason Brett
Senior Regulatory Analyst @ Forbes Digital Assets
Michelle Ann Gitlitz
Managing Partner @ Arktouros
Alexandra Scheibe
Partner @ McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Regulation
Andre Hafner
Sigmanaut @ Ergo
Carlos Noe
Co-founder @ Fyde.fi
Sarah Allen
Research Lead @ Flashbots, Contributer IC3
Katherine Wu
Venture Partner @ Archetype
André Geest
Head of Governance @ Safe
DAOs
Jack Melnick
Head of DeFi @ Polygon
Jon Wong
Head of Ecosystem Eng @ Solana
Luigi DeMeo
Vice President: BD & Ecosystem @ Ava Labs
Battle of the Infrastructure
Wendy Sun
General Partner @ Istari Ventures
Mark Rakhmilevich
VP, Product Management, Blockchain and Mission-Critical Technologies @ Oracle
Digital Currencies & Payments
Biser Dimitrov
Global Head of DLT Center of Excellence @ Citibank
Jackie Berardo
Digital Economy Research @ Meta, Co-Founder SURGE
Nicole Sales Giles
VP, Director, Digital Art @ Christie's
Jaclyn Lavy
Associate Specialist, Sothebys Digital Art Department
Lior Cole
Founder and CEO @ ARI, Cornell Alum
Digital Fashion & NFTs
Belmin Kalkan
Head of Talent @ Offchain Labs
Anuhya Challagundla
Ecosystem Dev Manager @ Stellar
Phil Kwok
Co-Founder @ EasyA
Sam Courtney
Chief of Staff @ DRW, Former COO @ Cumberland Labs
Talent & Recruitment
Jasmine Cooper
Head of DeFi Product @ Ripple
David Uhryniak
Ecosystem Development Leader @ Tron
Christopher Newhouse
DeFi Analyst @ Cumberland Labs
Amaya Neely
Head of Operations @ Perennial Labs
DeFi
Location
Verizon Center - Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island
Due to our size, the conference will primarily be hosted in the large and state-of-art Verizon center. Located in the heart of campus, the center sits just feet away from where cutting-edge research is conducted.
Cornell Tech sits atop Roosevelt Island that separates the mighty East River. Cornell Tech hosts some of Blockchain’s foremost experts and being only minutes from Manhattan makes it the ideal location for our conference.
