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Jerry Li is the co-founder and CEO of Artela Network, an extensible blockchain network enabling developers to build feature rich dApps. Previously, he served as the Chief Architect of AntChain, the blockchain platform of Ant Group. Jerry is also the founder of one of China’s top NFT marketplaces, Jingtan. In addition to his experience in crypto, Jerry has an extensive background in tech as the head of Apple’s engineering team in China.

Dan Hughes is the Founder of Radix DLT, which he has been building for over 11 years. He started his career as a games developer on entertainment titles for PC's and consoles. Games are commonly pushing the boundaries of the hardware that they are running on, and as such developers of titles need to be able to think astutely and "out of the box". This has proved to be his most valuable skill and allowed him to consistently deliver a number of "firsts" within a large number of fields, from mobile services, telecoms, financial systems to distributed ledger technologies. He was one of the first to develop applications for NFC technology and contactless payment services such as mobile wallets. Dan has worked closely with a number of mobile OEM's and operators such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile, Samsung and others via my successful start-up, KDB Technology where he held positions of CEO/CTO and Chief Architect. After exiting KDB, he discovered Bitcoin and the digital currency movement. Bitcoin is great first step, but is not without flaws. After a period of investigation he decided to attempt to develop a more complete solution, thus starting Radix.

Jiahao Sun, the founder and CEO of FLock.io, is an Oxford alumnus and is an expert in AI and blockchain. With previous roles as the Director of AI for the Royal Bank of Canada and an AI Research Fellow at Imperial College London, he founded FLock.io to focus on privacy-centered AI solutions. Through his leadership, FLock.io is pioneering advancements in secure, collaborative AI model training and deployment, showcasing his dedication to using technology for societal advancement.

Karel Kubat is the Founder of Union, the first fully trustless bridge powered by zero-knowledge technology. Karel has been coding smart contracts since 2016, beginning with Solidity and then expanding to Rust and Go in 2018. Drawing from his deep technological expertise and his background in Systems Engineering, Karel developed the IBC Protocol on Substrate (Polkadot) and is now committed to bringing interoperability, security, and trustlessness to Web3 -and the world- through his work at Union.

Alvin Kan is a distinguished figure in the Web3 space. He brings a wealth of development and managerial experience to Bitget Wallet in his current role as the COO. Before joining the Bitget Wallet team, Alvin had worked for over 15 years on different projects, including leading ecosystem growth at BNB Chain and heading up Sei Labs in Asia. Alvin spent eight years with LinkedIn before taking the position of Head of Insights, APAC Talent, and Learning Solutions in his final two years. His high-level management expertise today comes from leading top tech and blockchain companies, where he gained valuable knowledge and skills.

Wei Xie is the COO of ArenaX Labs. Previously, was the Head of Digital Assets at a large Canadian pension fund, focused on investment strategies encompassing digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, as well as machine learning enabled liquid strategies. As COO at AI Arena, Wei takes charge of all business operations, including Finance, Legal, Marketing/Communications, and overall strategy for the company and its products.

Yair Cleper, CEO and co-founder of Magma Devs, the initial core contributor to Lava Network, Yair is an accomplished serial entrepreneur having started his first company at age 21. Prior to focusing on crypto and co-founding Lava, he spent 6 years as the solo founder and CEO of Supersmart—the worlds first cashierless supermarket checkout technology. Supersmart processes $1.5B a year for top retailers in more than 9 countries. Other startups he’s co-founded include Ogmenti (Augmented Reality) and Octopai (Business Intelligence) for which he raised more than $50M, and hired hundreds of employees and had in general 2 exits.

Martin de Rijke is Growth Lead at Syrup, a new protocol unlocking Institutional Yield in DeFi. Syrup is powered by the Maple Finance Secured Lending arm. Go to syrup.fi for more information. 

Kyle "Post Master": Crypto Investor, Karate Combat Up only gaming top earner. Developer and NFT artist at Stickbug.org. Mixed martial arts fighter.

Billy Luedtke is the CEO and Founder of Intuition, an Ethereum-based authentication protocol. Billy previously served as Senior Technology Advisor at EY, a leading global professional services organization providing assurance, tax, audit, strategy and transactions. At EY, Billy created the company’s blockchain consulting practice, leading the technical development of blockchain-enabled distributed systems. Billy later became a Senior Token Engineer at ConsenSys, a leading Ethereum developer (MetaMask, Infura, Linea). Billy continues to serve as an advisor at ConsenSys and MetaMask.