3 Incredible Speakers Not To Miss At The Decentralized 2018 Conference

There have been a lot of blockchain/cryptocurrency conferences happening in this last few weeks. I am really excited to be seeing all these conferences happening now.

In this post, I will talk about Decentralized 2018 one of those conferences you need not miss if you reside in Europe! I will be talking about some exceptional speakers you have to listen to or see live!

It is really great to attend such events, I remember attending of such events in May of this year called the Africa Blockchain Conference where I met several experts in the crypto space like Changpeng Zhao CEO of Binance commonly known as CZ and Llew Claasen(who will be a speaker in this event!).

Decentralized is organized by the University of Nicosia, a global leader in blockchain education and research, as well as providers of the world's first full academic degree in blockchains, the MSc in Digital Currency.

I will be mentioning some notable speakers you have to listen to, I have to admit that all the speakers are top notch.
1.Roger Ver

If you have been in the cryptocurrency space for more than 6 months then I bet you should have heard of Roger Ver! Roger is regarded as the Bitcoin Jesus!

A person must be legendary to be compared or called the of Jesus of anything!
Roger Ver was among the early promoters of Bitcoin. He calls Bitcoin the “the most important invention in the history of the world since the internet.”

Roger Ver discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and made his company(Memorydealers.com) to become the first mainstream company to start accepting bitcoin as payment.

Source: Roger Ver Twitter

He then went on to create Bitcoinstore.com(which now redirects to https://store.bitcoin.com/), the first website in the world to accept bitcoin as payment for hundreds of thousands of items and was the impetus for the future wave of merchant adoption.

In this latest article written today by kryptomoney, Roger Ver is hailed by Erik Voorhees the founder and CEO of Shapeshift as the person who contributed the most for the adoption of Bitcoin.

I could talk and talk about Roger Ver, but I will leave you with a link explaining why he is called the Bitcoin Jesus so that you can read more about him.

Roger has been and is an ardent promoter of Bitcoin cash as can be witnessed in this latest tweet of his.

He is currently involved with several start ups like Bitcoin.com. Blockchain.com, Purse.io, BitPay and others which can found from his Twitter feed

2.Llew Claasen

This is another great figure in the crypto space just like Roger Ver.
He is the Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, the original, the oldest and the largest Bitcoin advocacy organization globally, headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.

The Bitcoin Foundation helps spread awareness about the benefits Bitcoin. The Foundation also teaches people how to use it and all Bitcoin-related stuff.

He is so passionate and he travels around the world spreading the good news about Bitcoin.

As I mentioned in my opening paragraphs, he traveled to Uganda to attend the Africa Blockchain Conference where I watched him talk passionately about Bitcoin!
Let me list below more form his Linkedin Profile

1.Managing Director(2014-Present)- Newman Partners

Newtown Partners is a blockchain investment and advisory services company with teams operating out of offices in San Francisco, U.S. and Cape Town, South Africa.

2.Executive Chairman(Dec 2017-Present)-Dala Foundation

I personally use Dala and it is helping a lot of folks in my country here in Uganda. It registered impressive numbers within a very short time!

The Dala ecosystem expands through partnerships across borders and financial services, enabling consumers and enterprises to transact, save, lend, and invest with Dala. The Dala Foundation’s long-term goal is to maximize the value of the Dala ecosystem.

3.Vice President Marketing-Clickatell

Clickatell is a Sequoia Capital-backed startup that is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

**4.Co-Founder-Clicks2customers **

He Co-Founded Clicks2customers which now rebranded to www.nmpidigital.com) with Vinny Lingham, now a global digital marketing agency with annual billings in excess of $100 million!

You can read more about him from his Linkedin Profile

3.Susanne Tarkowski

This is a great speaker too who owns Bitnation which can be quoted below.

"voluntary nation" that records vital records, identity and other legal events using blockchain technology. Bitnation was founded in 2014 using Ethereum smart contract technology. As of 2018, it has about 15,000 "citizens"

Sourced from Wikipedia.

I have got this information below from her Linkedin page

As an international entrepreneur working primarily in frontier environments, my ambition is to leverage radical technologies and resilient peer-to-peer networks - to create a borderless and voluntary post-nation-state governance alternative.

My work has been featured in Swedish, Russian, Venezuelan and French television, BBC Radio 4, Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Forbes, VICE, TechCrunch, CNN, New York Times, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Independent, NASDAQ.com, Huffington Post, TEDx, Google Solve For X, and many other venues.

She is really doing impressive work and has done a lot in many countries like Libya, Sweden, France, the United States, China, Brazil, Afghanistan, and many other places!

Susanne Tarkowski has worked as the Founder of Bitnation for the last 4 years from July 2014.
She has a lot of experience as can be seen from her Linkedin Profile!

She is also Founder and CEO of Shabakat Cooperation which she started in 2011. It was established in Libya during the revolution that led to the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi!

She is also the Founder and CEO of Wise Strategic Communication. She was leading it from February 2008 to February 2011 in Afghanistan.
There are many things this company did but this below got my attention

Acquiring and implementing contracts for more than 7.4 Million USD within less than 2 years

There are really many things but I cannot expound everything here, I would encourage you to check out more from her Linkedin profile.

I chose just a few speakers from the long list so that you can get a feel of the people to meet in the conference.

You can read more about this Decentralized 2018 event by following this links below.

Website: https://www.decentralized.com/

Speakers: https://www.decentralized.com/speakers-2018/

Promotional Video:

University Of Niscosia: https://www.unic.ac.cy/

Sponsors: https://www.decentralized.com/sponsors2018/

Press Releases: https://www.decentralized.com/blog/category/press/

Buy Tickets: https://www.decentralized.com/conference/register/

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Jarau Moses