Blockchain Connect Conference: Academic 2019

On Jan. 11, 2019 in San Francisco, the event will gather the most authoritative blockchain professors around the world, the public chain projects with the most advanced technology, and technical experts, to discuss the most cutting-edge blockchain academic research, problems, and solutions. By including keynote speeches and panels covering topics from research to application, the conference will explore the next big opportunity in the blockchain industry.

Speakers include:

• Vitalik Buterin – Creator of Ethereum
• Dawn Song – Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; CEO and Co-founder of Oasis Labs
• Mic Bowman – Principal Engineer at Intel Labs
• Elaine Shi – Associate Professor at Cornell University; Co-founder of IC3 and Thunder Token
• Ronghui Gu – Assistant Professor at Columbia University; Co-founder of CertiK
• David Tennenhouse – Chief Research Officer at VMware
• Raj Jain – Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
• Aniket Kate – Assistant Professor at Purdue university
• Kevin Sekniqi – Chief Protocol Architect of Ava Labs, PhD at Cornell University
• Huining Cao – Professor at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, CEO & Founder of Usechain
• Chunming Rong – Professor at University of Stavanger, Chair of IEEE Computer Society Blockchain
• Adam Goldberg – Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Justin Herzig – Global Blockchain Research Lead at Accenture
• Ashley Lannquist – Project Lead for Blockchain at World Economic Forum
• Mark Rakhmilevich – Senior Director of Blockchain Product Management at Oracle
• and more (new speakers will be added periodically at www.goblockchainconnect.com)