Featured speakers on the anticipated Decentralized 2018 summit.
Following last year's success of Decentralized 2017 event, The university of Nicosia hopes to see an exceptional turn up on Decentralized 2018 scheduled on 14th-16th November 2018 at the Divani Caravel Hotel, Athens, Greece.
Over 1000 attendees and about 70 speakers are going to represent in this summit, 50+ sponsors, 20 exhibitors and 30 media partners from more than 50 countries around the world.
Decentralized 2018 is one of the most anticipated event of the year around Europe, it's going to take big steps to approaching some of the major changes that are needed in the blockchain technology today, we shall have speakers talking in depth about, Blockchain and AI integration, speed of bitcoin transactions, Current state of cryptocurrencies and the outlook for 2019, key developments of blockchain in 2018, assuming and enabling trust in blockchain technology, Assessing the realities of blockchain implementation in industries across all sectors, Networking and so on.
some of the Sponsors of this event are;
Microsoft, Bitcoin.com,Shipchain, bitshares, consensys, Pumapay, Stoixman, Advisory International among others.
University of Nicosia is the main Sponsor and organizer of Decentralized 2018 summit. University of Nicosia is the world's first University to offer a fully accredited Masters degree in digital currencies. It was the first University to accept bitcoin as payment and to issue academic certificates onto the bitcoin blockchain. It is the largest University in Cyprus located in Nicosia with both on campus and long distance programmes. For more about the cryptocurrency course at the university of Nicosia go here.
Featured Speakers at Decentralized 2018 summit
The main theme of the event as stated on the official Decentralized site is;
Exchanging knowledge and ideas on the innovative business and political implications of the blockchain technologies.
Which will hold different creative outlook and in depth sharing of knowledge from each speaker in different fields of expertise.
Jameson Lopp
Infrastructure engineer Casa
Casa is a personal key system that secures your data and digital assets.
He is a bitcoin core developer and enthusiast, Studied at University of North Carolina where he majored in computer Science.
Jameson Lopp has worked as an engineer for crypto asset wallets for about 3 years now. He is the creator of Statoshi, a fork of Bitcoin Core that analyzes statistics of Bitcoin nodes, he is the founder of the Triangle Bitcoin & Business meetup.
Roger ver
CEO Bitcoin.com
Bitcoin.com is a cloud bitcoin mining platform with other useful crypto features.
He invested a large amount of money in cryptocurrency-related startups as the industry was beginning to emerge, he was among the first people to start up bitcoin projects while the industry was still in it's infancy. Nicknamed as the Bitcoin Jesus due to his early adoption and voluntary activities of promoting blockchain technology.
He is most well know for his work promoting Bitcoin. In 2011, his company, Memorydealers.com, became the first mainstream company to start accepting bitcoin as payment. He then went on to create Bitcoinstore.com, the first website in the world to accept bitcoin as payment for hundreds of thousands of items.
Garrick Hileman
HEAD OF RESEARCH Blockchain.com and Co-founder Mosaic.io
Blockchain.com is a platform that makes it easy to store, send, recieve and trade cryptocurrencies, Mosaic.io is a decentralized market intelligence network.
Garry Hileman graduated from the London school of economics with a PhD in economic history, He was ranked as one of the 100 most influential economists in the UK and Ireland He is a researcher at the University of Cambridge where he teaches cryptocurrencies.
Garrick is best known for his research particularly cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
Peter Rizun
CHIEF SCIENTIST Bitcoin Unlimited.
Bitcoin Unlimited. is an organization that provides a voice to all stake holders in the bitcoin ecosystem. this organization also provides software used by about 40% of the Bitcoin network's mining power
He graduated from University of British Columbia with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics.he also holds a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of Calgary.
Peter is also the co-founder and co-managing editor of Ledger, the world’s first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrency research, published by the University of Pittsburgh.
Eva Kaili, MEP(Member of European Parliament)
CHAIR OF STOA European Parliament.
She is a Member of the European Parliament since 2014, She is the chair of European Parliament (STOA)Science and Technology Options Assessment body and she has been actively supporting innovations in technology especially the blockchain growth in Europe. She holds Bachelor's Degree in Architecture and Civil engineering plus a master's Degree in European politics.
Susanne Tarkoswki
Founder and CEO Bitnation
Bitnation is a decentralized borderless voluntary nation(DBVN)" that records vital records, identity and other legal events using blockchain technology.
Susanne Tarkoswki is a world class entrepreneur, a crypto activist and writer. She founded Bitnation in 2014 the world first DBVN.
For more about Susanne Tarkoswki checkout her Linkedin
Antonio Polemitis
He is currently on the board of members of EDEX
Mr Polemitis has more than 20 years of experience in private equity, higher education and software development. He is a member of the council of University of Nicosia that serves over 11500 students globally.
He supported the core initiatives of cryptocurrency course on the University of Nicosia and he even Co-taught digital currencies.
Mr Polemitis holds a Mater's degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business school,he also holds a Bachelors science degree in computer information.
More in my next post, These are some of the speakers among the 70 speakers that are going to present on the summit. More about other speakers check out Decentralized 2018 speakers.
This two day summit is blessed by experienced personnels in so many fields that will help in the growth of blockchain technology in Europe and around the world.
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https://www.decentralized.com/
Speakers
https://www.decentralized.com/speakers-2018
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Press Releases
https://www.decentralized.com/blog/category/press/
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