Marguerite deCourcelle
CEO - Neon District

Better known as coin_artist, Marguerite is the lead visionary and founder of Blockade Games. During the summit she will present us their latest game : Neon District. Her contributions to cryptocurrency puzzles and art have been featured in MIT techreview, BBC, and NPR.

​Daniel Kraft
CTO - Xaya

Daniel Kraft studied applied mathematics and theoretical physics in Graz, Austria, where he obtained his PhD from the University of Graz in 2015. After that, he started as a Software Engineer for Google in Zurich, Switzerland. He has been strongly interested in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies since 2011, and involved in Bitcoin development since 2013. Since 2014, he has been the main developer for Namecoin and Huntercoin, and successfully reimplemented both on top of the modern Bitcoin Core codebase. Where possible, Daniel also contributed improvements back to upstream Bitcoin, and is one of the top contributors to Bitcoin Core. He published multiple research articles in peer-reviewed journals, including two directly related to cryptocurrency. Leaving Google, Daniel now works full time as CTO for Autonomous Worlds Ltd where he is the lead blockchain developer for the XAYA Project.

His talk : "Scaling Blockchain for Gaming"

Nicolas Pouard
Blockchain Initiative Manager
Ubisoft

Nicolas leads the Blockchain Initiative within the Ubisoft Strategic Innovation Lab, where he previously managed several projects around games world building, system design or augmented reality. With a 10-year experience as a philosophy teacher prior to joining Ubisoft, his background led him to become one of the company’s brains tasked with the mission to explore how new technologies could reshape the landscape of entertainment, analyzing their potential impact in various areas including governance, economy or even ethics. As such, he very early took an interest in the great potential of Blockchain for the gaming industry and co-founded the Ubisoft Startup Program at Station F, where he helps driving Ubisoft’s open innovation spirit, partnering with startups at the crossroad of Blockchain and gaming. He regularly organizes events to support the ecosystem, like the Blockchain and Gaming meetups or the Blockchain Heroes Hackathon in Paris, Ubisoft’s first Blockchain and gaming rally.

Witek Radomski
​ CTO - Enjin

Witek has overseen the technical engineering of Enjin for nearly a decade. The inventor of the ERC-1155 standard, he champions best-practices in software design, security and testing, and leads Enjin Coin development, implementation and integration.

His keynote : "Enjin and ERC-1155 for Mainstream Games"

Ben Heidorn
​ CTO - Blockade Games

Ben Heidorn is the lead developer for Neon District and Pineapple Arcade, and the CTO for Blockade Games. Before Blockade Games, Ben developed multiple cryptocurrency applications including a Decred wallet explorer, a portfolio application, and a web-based crypto marketplace. Ben also worked on puzzles created by Marguerite deCourcelle (coin_artist) and Zd3n, and he solved a Litecoin puzzle designed by Zd3n and Charlie Lee in 2017.

His Live Demo on Stage :

"Building a AAA-Quality Blockchain Game at an Indie Studio: Demo of Neon District"

​Amy Ngai
UX Designer - Axiom Zen

Amy is our Head of Design, responsible for the growth, well-being, and success of our design teams. She is also a product designer, and remains hands on in all of Axiom Zen’s and Dapper Labs’ major projects, including spin out companies CryptoKitties and ZenHub.
Amy is a master at wrangling unstructured ambition into concrete and achievable objectives. She is driven by spreading knowledge and is constantly seeking ways to educate others, including speaking at conferences on topics like the role of women in design and mobile design best practices, and acting as a mentor, collaborator and previously a teaching assistant with Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts. She’s always asking 'what-if' questions, helping her team build products that are seamless, intuitive, and effective.
Always looking to the future, Amy is currently working on building platform experiences within the blockchain space. She thrives on investigating new experiences, and is always seeking a new paradigm of user centric best practices.

Her talk : “Design for Blockchain”

Kim Cope
​Problem Solver - CryptoKitties

Kim is a Blockchain Product Manager and one of the founding member of CryptoKitties. She leads activation, working to bring the first billion to the blockchain. She works on stabilization aspects of our current and upcoming blockchain projects. Kim successfully ran our first public bounty program to determine the biggest bugs and flaws to our codebase before the CryptoKitties beta launch. Kim has also presented to the Global Bank of International Settlements on blockchain technologies, educating governing leaders from the world’s top 60 banks. Prior to joining Axiom Zen, Kim worked as an Analyst at Raymond James, where she worked on cash management solutions and analyzed stocks for Fortune 500 clients. She then moved on to a product role with a fintech startup, and eventually she founded Startup Skool. The edtech company serves a global audience in North America, Central America, and Asia to educate youth on entrepreneurship, design thinking, and technology.

Kim was a fellow for The Next Big Thing foundation and a Spin Master “Innovators of the Year” recipient. Kim is a TedX Speaker, and listed under Gustavson’s Top 25 Alumni to Watch. Kim is now our in-house expert on everything blockchain, internally developing new products and market strategies and externally helping companies and government bodies develop their own blockchain strategies. She speaks regularly to private audiences on topics including blockchain and distributed ledger technology, innovation and corporate strategy, and entrepreneurship. Kim also focuses on strategic legal direction, fundraising, and stabilization aspects for our upcoming blockchain projects, and is working hard to make blockchain more accessible to the average consumer.

​Robert Falce
Programmer - Ubisoft​

With a 15-year experience in programming, Robert Falce leads the technical direction for the Ubisoft Strategic Innovation Lab. As such, he is able to switch from one tech to another and bring creative vision to any prototyping project. Robert designed the original Hashcraft concept (along with Yann Sarrat) and was responsible for integrating the Blockchain tech into the game’s system. Before joining Ubisoft, Robert was CTO of an indie studio. 

His talk : “Designing Ubisoft’s first Blockchain-based game prototype”

Kendall Cole
Product Manager - Kauri

Kendall is the product manager for the ConsenSys-spoke Kauri, a technical knowledge base for open source software. Prior to Kauri, he cofounded software companies in maritime and technical recruiting, participated in the Startup Chile and Entrepreneur First accelerators, and worked as an engineer for startups in the US and Europe. He believes open source is the best source, and distributed tech like Ethereum can make it even better.

His Live demo: "Trees as Tokens: Representing Real World Objects with NFTs"

Julien Beranger
Head of Communications - Iexec

Julien Béranger is in charge of the communication and content. He graduated in Chinese Studies at the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations and taught Chinese language for five years. He discovered the crypto thing in 2013 and worked as a Community Outreach Officer for an iOS payment app. In June 2014, he joined the OpenClassrooms marketing team, the leading e-learning platform in Europe. He wrote several articles about cryptocurrencies adoption and smart contracts’ design. He’s also the founder of Abie, a crowdfunding tool built on Ethereum.

Wassim Bendella
Business Developer - Iexec

Wassim Bendella is a business developer who has acquired strong expertise in marketing innovation and driving adoption. Wassim holds 3 Master degrees in the fields of Economics, Business Administration and Management of IT, and has lived in many countries among which Morocco, France, Poland, Finland and The Netherlands. After a thesis on blockchain business models, he decided to leave the oil and gas industry to fully engage in the field of blockchain, attracted by its major potential for innovation, freedom, peer-to-peer exchanges, and the removal of useless intermediaries. He has since consulted for a dozen of startups including TenX and Bancor, helping them improve their marketing strategy and successfully raise funds. With iExec, he sees himself as being part of a team that’s participating in the blockchain revolution, and is involved with partnerships management, public relations, business strategy and content creation.

His lecture: "A Decentralized Cloud to Power Decentralized Games"

​Manon Burgel
Co-founder & CEO - B2Expand

Before becoming CEO, Manon Burgel worked in the music business. She joined the blockchain and video game world in 2016 with the launch of a family project: "Beyond the Void". She is in charge of press relations and supervises the fast-growing operations of B2Expand.

Manon Burgel will be the moderator for the panel : “Marketing” She will also present the Nexarium environment during a live demo "One step further toward a seamless blockchain experience"

Romain Gambier
​ CEO - Ghostfrog

Serial businessman fond of computer sciences and gaming, Romain Gambier starts in 2000 with a web agency and has created many companies specialized in new technologies since.
Mixed reality, mobile apps, Blockchain… Like a conductor constantly abreast of latest technological trends, Romain loves exploring boundaries and creates new ways to play.
Since 2017, he is CEO of "GHOST FROG", a new hybrid game studio in Paris : https://www.ghostfrog.net/
Their last game game, HERITAGE, a hybrid game based on VR, won the Imaginove reward 2017.
Convinced by Blockchain technology, "GHOST FROG" is currently working on ETHERUSH, an online mining game based on Ethereum : https://etherush.io

The presale of ETHERUSH started in August and the game will be officialy launched in November 2018.

Gabby Dizon
​ Chairman and Co-Founder - Alto

Gabby is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a blockchain game platform and CEO of Altitude Games, a Manila-based mobile game developer. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby also helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

His keynote : "Blockchain Games and the Item-First Economy"

Georgio Konstantopoulos
Lead Plasma Researcher - LOOM

Georgios holds a MEng degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is researching and implementing Plasma for scaling Ethereum via sidechains with Loom Network. His interests also include information security, internet of things and autonomous vehicles.

​Pierre-Armand Nicq
Tech artist / Programmer - Ubisoft​

Pierre-Armand is a technical artist, gameplay programmer, artistic director and animator at Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab. Specializing in mobile R&D, autodidact, he regularly explores how new technologies could find useful purposes for gaming. As part of the team that developed the first Blockchain-based prototype at Ubisoft, he is the one behind the procedural generation algorithm and creative direction of Hashcraft, tasked with the mission to make Blockchain visually appealing and user-friendly. 

His talk : “Designing Ubisoft’s first Blockchain-based game prototype”

Jérôme de Tychey
​Director / Solutions - Consensys

Jerome the director of ConsenSys Solutions in France which helps organizations across the globe build, test, and deploy public and private blockchain applications. He has a background in economics and was an assistant professor at La Sorbonne and Paris Dauphine.

He jumped into the blockchain space in 2013 and has a particular interest in cryptoeconomics and mining. He founded and is the president of Asseth which is the largest blockchain oriented non-profit in France.

His keynote : "Ethereum Scalability, today and tomorrow"

Mi Sun Cho
​ CSO & Co-founder - Kodebox

Mi Sun Cho is the CSO and co-founder of Kodebox (kodebox.io), a South Korean tech startup that is currently developing CodeChain (codechain.io), an open source blockchain project that lets you easily program multiple transactions for multiple assets. CodeChain is a pluggable and a programmable blockchain technology that allows game developers to easily customize the network according to their needs as well as to program assets and transactions with a very simple script language.

Mi Sun is the producer of GoCryptobot, the first mobile blockchain game that was launched on both the App Store and Play Store last May. The game leverages blockchain technology; the computations of its PvP matches are on-chain transactions, which allows the players to verify the match results transparently in real-time.

Prior to joining Kodebox, she has been in charge of business development at various leading tech companies such as Line, Company100, Sony and Samsung.

Her keynote : "How to launch a blockchain game on mobile platforms"

Tristan Colombet
​CEO - Dombraider

Tristan Colombet, is a successful French entrepreneur. At 18, he founded Prizee, a gaming platform which in a few years became the leader of casual gaming in France. This enabled Tristan to end up number 1 in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50. For a few years after selling Prizee, Tristan dedicated his time to the development of his own investment fund for start-ups.

He also established DomRaider (now known as YouDot) as a leader in the drop catching sector, and more recently turned DomRaider into a group with various innovative projects. The DomRaider Group took the blockchain turn in 2017 by creating its own digital token, the DomRaider token (DRT). This allowed to kickstart the development of a decentralized, real-time, auction platform: Auctionity.

Auctionity’s goal is to revolutionize the auction world thanks to its unique application of blockchain technology. The platform will be the first-ever, 100 % blockchain-based application enabling the sale of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) at auction. The community is at the heart of the project. The platform is interactive and easy to use. For example, live auctions can be run by members called “Auctioneers” who can earn money while having fun animating auction sales!

Yannick Barnel
​ CEO - Enzym

Co-founder - CEO - Serial entrepreneur and cryptocurrency loverYannick has founded several societies, and managed several fundraisings. He is passionate about human relations and the blockchain technological revolution, and convinced he can help formulate the alternative to current social networks. He likes long ideological debates but prefers the fulfilment of concrete objectives.

His keynote : "Between Pokémon Go and Nextdoor, Enzym is a real-world mobile game favoring human interactions (powered by the Ethereum Network)."

Chia Ling Koh
​ Managing Director - OC Queen Street LLC

Chia Ling is a digital business lawyer trained in AI (MTech KE) and Cyber Security (CISSP). He practices IP, IT, Data & Disputes.

Chia Ling is also the Managing Director of OC Queen Street, a ranked Singapore law practice and a member of Osborne Clarke’s international legal practice. He leads a team of digital business lawyers supporting businesses in AI, FinTech, Blockchain, ICO, ePayments, Cyber Security and e-commerce.

OC Queen Street’s core practice areas include IT, Telco, Media, Data Protection, IP, Patent & Copyright Disputes, Investment Funds, M&A, PE, VC, Competition, Banking and Finance and Regulatory.

Chia Ling’s practice has been recognised in Chambers as well as the inaugural FinTech chapter of Who’s Who legal: Banking 2018.

His panel : "Blockchain regulation"

Ronan Sandford
​Blockchain Architect - Etherplay

Ronan has been developing games professionally since 2010. In 2016 he created Etherplay, the first blockchain based skill game platform offering Ether rewards pools on a pay to play model. Ronan has over 2 years experience in blockchain games development.

His Keynote: "Launching a dapp in 2017 and what can we learn from it today."

François Guezengar
​ Ethereum Dapp developper - B2Expand

François is a programming and entrepreneurship aficionado, committed to making new technologies more accessible and more enjoyable for all. He has created a video game studio for learning Web programming, as well as an incubator to help young game designers create their own video game studio.

His panel : "Open standards"

Alexander Casassovici
Co-founder, CEO
Azarus

Alex is the CEO and co-founder of Azarus.io where along with a team of industry veterans and economists he builds the protocols, economics and game mechanics for the next-generation of blockchain-powered games.
He is passionate about using both his tech and marketing abilities to champion fun and innovative products.
He was instrumental in the creation of the first connected children’s toy, Spykee, and has over a decade of experience in building interactive mobile services, cloud services, VR devices, and more recently AI-powered community platforms for the gaming industry.
When he’s not working, you can find him trail running in the Marin headlands, leading the local elementary school’s engineering club, scuba diving in kelp forests, or completing quests, solving puzzles or bush-hiding in PC, console and mobile games.

His Live demo: "Nano-challenges on EOS"

Pascal Jardé
​CTO - Moonify

Pascal has a developer profile and started to code at the age of 6 yrs old. In 1998 he integrates the groupware and collab unit at IBM France, and rapidly becomes a team leader of an european dev team. In 2004 he launches his first company in the multimedia and communication field (web, native apps and video games). In 2015 he cofounds Push Start, and will ensure the presidency for 2 years of what will become the second biggest french cluster regrouping video game professionals in the south of France (about 150 members including Ubisoft). Interested in IT and Blockchain technology he launches NUDL.io an IoT orchestration he co-creates Moonify, a startup incubated at the Business Innovation Center of Montpellier, for which he invests his knowledge as the CTO.

His Keynote: "How to Acquire, Monetize and retain gamers thanks to the Blockchain"

Andrew Campbell
​Managing director - Moonduck Studios & Agency, LLC 

Andrew's journey into esports began in 2010 with the release of StarCraft II as a community event organizer. After sponsoring and producing over 50 tournaments, he transitioned into a full time position at Beyond the Summit as a Dota 2 commentator and project manager. From there, Andrew moved on to create his own studio called MoonduckTV that specializes in delivering interactive event experiences. At MoonduckTV, Andrew leads the company as managing director, overseeing all business development efforts and executing activations for event partners. 

His Keynote: "Esports on the Blockchain"

Oscar Clark
​ Consultant - Fundamentally Games

Oscar has a passion for games and online entertainment and for most of his career he’s been on the bleeding edge of Games As A Service.
As a game designer, product and business strategist he has extensive insight into what makes games successful and how to combine entertainment, community and sustainable businesses. Oscar now focuses on providing design, market suitability and monetisation advice to developers and organisations.

He is the author of Games As A Service: How Free To Play Design Can Make Better Games and contributing author for ‘Mobile Developer’s Guide to The Galaxy. Over his career he has worked with Unity Technologies and nVidia as an Evangelist, PlayStation as Home Architect, Real Networks as marketing manager, Three as Global Lead for Games and led the vision for the Wireplay games initiative at BT. He is a regular speaker, games award judge and writer for games media and events across the world.

​Jon Jacobs
Co-founder & CEO - NeverdieTeleport

Jon was born in England, he is an actor, musician and filmmaker. He is known for his gaming anthems, I Am My Avatar and Gamer Chick and indie movies Hey DJ the Movie, Lucinda’s Spell In 2002 inside Entropia Universe he created the iconic Avatar NEVERDIE and he became the first gamer to make a Million dollars inside a Virtual World. Jon’s Club NEVERDIE made the 2008 Guinness Book of World Records as the most valuable virtual item. Jon founded NEVERDIE Studios and has partnered with Michael Jackson, Lemmy and Universal Studios bringing KING KONG, ZOMBIE KONG and The THING to Virtual Reality. NEVERDIE Studios developed and operates the ROCKtropia Virtual World, the first and only MMORPG to fully disrupt all existing gaming business models by providing Real gamified Jobs that pay any user $10 Per month to play. In 2016 Jon was elected the First President of Virtual Reality with a mission to create a Billion Jobs in VR. In 2017 Jon launched the NEVERDIE Coin (NDC) and the Teleporter Token (TPT)on the Ethereum Blockchain to develop cross platform MMORPG's, Games and DApps to drive the growth of a decentralized trillion dollar Virtual Goods economy.

His talk: "Connecting worlds with NEVERDIE"

Nikita Sychev
CMO - DGD

Nikita Sychev is an experienced marketer and game player, the head of Marketing department of DGD. In his portfolio there are numerous projects in digital marketing worldwide. 30 people is working now under his leadership.

His Live demo: "Blockchain revolution: How NFT will change gaming world
NFT - non refundable tokens"

Iouri Sorokine 
Business Development & Marketing - ​GamerToken

Iouri has worked in gaming for the past 8 years within industry-leading publishing, advertising, and tech solution companies, such as Gameloft, Freenet Digital, SevenGames (Prosieben Sat1 group) and gamigo group. He has built partnerships for distribution and advertising, run analytics and lead teams of account managers. In February 2018, Iouri joined the GamerToken project managing marketing campaigns, as well as building partnerships with game developers and publishers. He strongly believes games are the ideal test lab for new technologies and as a driver in their early adoption.

His talk: "Blockchain adoption in gaming: Enhancing in-game items and economies"

Gabrielle Patrick
CEO - Knabu

Gabrielle Patrick, co-founded the International Bar Association's Online Gaming & Electronic Entertainment Committee in 2014. She leads dialogue on blockchain technology and chairs the multi-disciplinary committee that examines related legal issues. Having worked with blockchain gaming models as a private practitioner since 2012, Gabrielle has co-founded startups that focus on digital asset trade. She is the CEO of Knabu is a DLT company which has started its baking authorisation process in the UK to provide clearing and settlement to blockchain and gaming companies. As a UK & US lawyer with over 18 years of corporate legal experience, se has focused on blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) since 2012. She was part of the UK FCA's Regulatory Sandbox First Cohort, a regulatory test bed for new models. She has set up her own DLT businesses with a view to bringing the benefits of DLT to the masses.

Mati Melchior​
Founder - PapaEconomy

Mati is an Experienced project manager with more than 10 years in Project management, business development, product development, production & construction in the Semiconductor & chemical industry. Graduated with a degree in engineering and an MBA in finance. Founding Papa Economy with clear vision that the “Decentralized Economy in the virtual world” is the new economy for us and next generations. Focusing in the economy in the crypto games & assets market. Working on development of publications, finance analyses, media, courses & consulting services in this field.

Blockchain architect @ConsenSys

Engineer and PhD Student in Computer Science (Orange Labs)

Co-founder of a hackathon festival @LeBlockFest

 Co-founder of a healthcare and blockchain project @KidnerProject

Co-founder of the french blockchain association @lachaintech & president of the eHealth & Blockchain Think Tank

Public Speaker & World Crypto Traveller insta: @lookingforsatoshi 

Her live demo on stage: "ORION - ADVENTURES MAKERS"

Gareth Jenkins
Founder & CEO - Deckbound

A seasoned games developer and technologist, Gareth Jenkins created some of the earliest examples of blockchain games and associated technologies. The Bitbind protocol (2014) addressed and solved the problem of digital asset creation on a transactional blockchain. The Deckbound card system (2015) demonstrated one of the first uses of blockchain for a video game. Lunar Mines (2018) is a massively-multiplayer building/trade/exploration video game built on blockchain technologies and DLOX (2018) brings together the evolution of Bitbind’s digital object creation with a fit-for-purpose transactional ledger free of speculative economic risk. Gareth's background is as a systems architect, developer/designer, studio lead, consultant and adviser for various games, platforms and technologies.

His keynote : "We broke player ownership. Let's fix it."

Dima Raketa
CEO - DGD

Dima Raketa founded his company in Hong-Kong with strong partners in gaming and IT industry. Now they are based in cyberport and develop 3 new games and will make a big marketing campaign from August.

His Live demo: "Blockchain revolution: How NFT will change gaming world
NFT - non refundable tokens"

Rémi Burgel​
CTO - ​​B2Expand

Rémi began to code Ethereum smart contracts in May 2016, where he first developed technical expertise in Blockchain development and implementation. His efforts helped launch B2Expand’s first project: Beyond the Void. Working alongside Eric Burgel, B2Expand’s chairman, he designed the token and product business plan, now focusing his efforts on user experience of using their Blockchain. As CTO, he works within current regulations based on Blockchain’s technical limitations, often participating in legal compliance debates. He’s created a way for users to pay Ethereum transaction fees using Nexium and continues to enhance the end-user experience; the implementation of KYC in the new Nexarium Dapp this summer exhibits that support and is a huge achievement for our team.

His talk: "Changing Smart Contracts to Improve UX"

Benjamin Athuil
Co-founder & CEO - CareGame

Benjamin is 25 years old, has co-founded CareGame in 2016, when he was still a student. He was just coming back from an internship at Ifeelgoods, a digital marketing start-up in PaloAlto. He has graduated from one of the best BusinessSchool in France (ESSEC) where he has followed the Entrepreneurship track. Benjamin has been very committed in the campus life in different student clubs. He was elected president of the Student Union that manages 40+ events a year. He is also a certified crowdfunding expert with Ulule (they succeeded to gather 25 000€ to launch our first game). It had already been downloaded 70k times.

His live demo: "Let's Play for Good thanks to blockchain"

​Kish Hirani
CTO - Terra Virtua

Kish Hirani is the CTO of Terra Virtua, an entertainment-focussed VR world combining Netflix-style subscriptions for VR games with all assets and transactions secured on the blockchain.

He started in the video games industry in 1996 as a programmer the after day after graduating with a Masters from Edinburgh University, moving to technical leadership roles at notable development studios and publisher houses (Acclaim, BBC Multimedia, THQ) for the first half in the industry. He then moved over to platform-holders starting with Microsoft and soon after to Sony as their Head of Developer Services, running the PlayStation developer technology services division.

He has also been the Chair of BAME in Games and a Board member of Women in Games, voluntary positions for two advocacy orgs that exists to encourage more diverse talent working in the games and the wider entertainment industry.
He has recently been listed as the Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech by Diversity UK.

Kish Hirani will be the moderator for the panel : “Open Standard”

​Jean-Baptiste Soufron
Lawyer - FWPA-avocats

Jean-Baptiste Soufron is a Lawyer in Paris. He was Chief Legal Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, head of the Cap Digital Think Tank in Paris, Senior Advisor for Digital Economy at the Office of the French Minister of Finance, General Secretary of the French Digital Council. He is now a Senior Partner at FWPA Avocats where he helps startups, big companies and not for profits to deal with Digital Law, Data, Fundraising, Public Policy, Ethics and Litigation. He’s especially active in the field of cryptocurrencies, ICOS, GDPR, Free Software, Antitrust and Fake News. 

His panel : "Regulation"

Sarah-Diane Eck
​Co-founder & CEO - Sandblock

Sarah-Diane Eck is the CEO and co-founder of Sandblock, the French blockchain startup that revolutionizes customer engagement through gamification. Sandblock is one of the first French startup funded by a successful ICO. Sarah-Diane has been involved in the blockchain and startup community for several years and helped many entrepreneurs to launch and develop their projects. She is a blockchain advisor focused on Privacy and Tokenomics.

Sarah-Diane will take part in the panel: "Business"

Rachel Wolfson
​Journalist for Forbes​

Rachel Wolfson is a blockchain and cryptocurrency journalist who contributes to Forbes, Bitcoin Magazine, Hackernoon and a number of other publications. Rachel is also a co-host on the Bad Crypto Podcast. Additionally, Rachel serves as a board advisor for a blockchain-based supply-chain management company and as a board observer for a number of other blockchain companies. Rachel was recently named by Next Web as one of the top five women working to change the world of crypto and was featured in Entrepreneur Magazine as an influential woman in blockchain.

Rachel Wolfson will be the Business Panel Moderator

Darren Kim
CEO - Rankingball

Darren, a serial entrepreneur and a blockchain evangelist, is an insightful first mover with strong determination and intuition proven from the outstanding accomplishments and robust execution which he has shown engaging in IT and mobile service industry for the last 20 years. In 2002, he founded Key2Net Solution Inc., a mobile payment (FinTech) company in South Korea, which created global first mobile gift certificate and went on to generate over $200 million in annual revenue before its sale in 2008 and IPO in 2009. Prior to Key2Net, Darren worked as a system s/w engineer at LG Electronics in Seoul, South Korea. After graduating from business school in 2010, he founded Friize Networks Inc. in Silicon Valley, a company specialized in developing an AR-based social game like “Pokemon Go”, years before the megahit game hit the market. Now, with RankingBall, Darren is working to disrupt sports/esports gaming industry through blockchain technology.
Darren holds a M.S. in Management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a M.S. in Electronics from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

His live demo: "RankingBall - Live Esports Bingo"

​Tony Pearce
Co-founder & COO - Reality Clash

Tony is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and ICO pioneer and has been involved in gaming, tech and mobile for over 25 years. Tony has raised over $15m in VC funding and in 2017 was one of the first to successfully close an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) raising funding for a new AR mobile combat game called Reality Clash which uses it’s own crytocurrency and Blockchain technology.
Tony previously launched GamesGRABR a social network for gamers, described by BBC Click as ‘like Pinterest for gamers’ and named a top 25 UK company by Mashable.
web site - www.realityclash.com

His live demo: "Reality Clash - The Worlds first AR mobile combat game"

​Dylan Jones
CEO - Refereum

Dylan Jones is the founder and CEO of Refereum, propelling viral growth for themselves and their customers, their solution is the largest blockchain based referral network for the gaming and blockchain industries. Prior to Refereum, Dylan worked across the game industry from designing top grossing mobile games to helping developers at Unity. During this time, he also created an inclusive game developer co-working space, Gamenest, in his hometown of San Francisco.

His panel: "Building communities"

​Kate Baucherel
Digital strategy & emerging tech consultant
​​City Web Consultants

Kate Baucherel BA(Hons) FCMA is a business development and strategy consultant specialising in the application of emerging tech in business, particularly blockchain and distributed ledger technology. She has held senior technical and financial roles in businesses across multiple sectors including utilities, manufacturing, leisure and software, leading several enterprises through their start-up and growth phases. Kate’s first job was with an IBM business partner in Denver, back when the AS/400 was a really cool piece of hardware and the World Wide Web didn’t exist; she has enjoyed the journey to today’s awe-inspiring technical landscape. She is COO of City Web Consultants, a full-stack digital consultancy building and maintaining enterprise-level and innovative web-systems for clients from start-up to blue chip multinationals in the UK, Europe and further afield. Based in the North East of England, CWC specialises in creating novel prototypes and MVPs using appropriate emerging technologies, and delivering the final enterprise solution. Her writing includes sci-fi thrillers Bitcoin Hurricane and Hacked Future, she holds a 2nd Dan black belt in karate, and has two children. www.katebaucherel.com

Her panel: "Building communities"

​Devin Finzer
Co-founder & CEO - OpenSea

Devin Finzer is the co-founder and CEO of OpenSea. Devin has a background in software engineering at Google and Pinterest, and sold his previous company, Claimdog, to Credit Karma. He studied computer science and mathematics at Brown University.
Content outline: OpenSea is the first and largest marketplace for cryptogoods, which includes collectibles, gaming items, and other assets backed by a blockchain. We partner with game developers to build customized marketplaces where users can buy and sell their in-game items, and are currently the primary marketplace for several top blockchain games.

His live demo: "OpenSea, peer-to-peer marketplace for cryptogoods"

Sébastien Borget
COO & Co-founder - Pixowl

Sébastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 7 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times. Sébastien manages the operations of Pixowl's 30 people international team. Together, we are building a Family Mobile Network of social mobile games based on popular Characters IP. He has supervised the production and marketing of the studio's most popular titles: The Sandbox (35+ million players in total) and Snoopy's Town Tale. His work was awarded by the nomination for 2 consecutive years of The Sandbox in App Store Best Games of 2012 and 2013!

Céline Moille
Lawyer Partner - Yellaw

Lawyer, partner at the international law firm YELLAW, and Ph.D in private international law, Céline is today at the heart of her firm’s FinTech department. For many years, Céline has also been lecturer in Lyon’s University. Sure the LegalTech is the new best way to bring legal support to companies, she is one of the founding member of Dodo Bank in 2017 and today she is running YELLAW blockchain’s department. Céline is well-known for her knowledge in blockchain’s legal issues. She regularly participates in national and international conferences as a speaker, she collaborates in these issues’ debates and she writes articles. Lawyers have indeed a central place in this new ecosystem as neither the general public nor political and legal institutions are at ease with the blockchain and its specificities. Rules are not yet perfectly established but risks do already exist from a legal point of view: legal advice is therefore essential. 

Kris Vaivods​
CEO - ​​HASHRUSH

In 2013, Kris built his first Bitcoin mining rig and is now running two mining farms. He feels it has been great journey being a part of the crypto community and seeing how it has grown in the past few years, but we all know that this is just the beginning. It is important to introduce this technological revolution to new people and bigger crowds. He can definitely say that the Hash Rush project is aiming to do just that.

His ICO Pitch of Hashrush

Hilmar Veigar Pétursson 
​ CEO - CCP Games

Hilmar has been leading CCP Games’ ongoing success and growth since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Under Hilmar’s management CCP’s critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online pioneered concepts like player-driven digital economies, democratically elected community governments, and free-to-play mechanics long before they became commonplace in the industry. EVE Online, launched in 2003, celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth and continues to see growth in engagement as it nears its 15th anniversary.

In addition, Hilmar put CCP into the pole position in the VR revolution by embracing the new technology early. The company released virtual-reality arcade shooter Gunjack and its sequel Gunjack 2 on every major VR platform, as well as EVE: Valkyrie, the dogfighting shooter that Wired.com celebrated as “a soaring example of VR as the future of gaming” for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. In 2017, CCP released Sparc, a groundbreaking full-body virtual reality sport for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift with Touch controllers, and PlayStation VR.

Julien Merceron
​ Worldwide technology director - Bandai Namco

Julien started as a programmer on the Atari Jaguar in the early 90s at Shen Technologies in Paris. He then joined Ubisoft Entertainment to work in game and engine teams before becoming the worldwide technical director of Ubisoft Entertainment in 1999. In this role, he played a major part in the studio’s creation, organization, technology, production pipeline design, and multi-platform strategy, as well as in AAA features integration, on brands such as ‘Rayman’, ‘Far Cry’, ‘Splinter Cell’, ‘Prince of Persia’, and ‘Assassin's Creed’. He also took responsibility for middleware and development strategy, communication and cooperation strategy, and hardware manufacturers and middleware relations.

At the end of 2005, after having worked extensively on PS3 / XBox360 / PC, Julien pursued his career at Eidos, where he served as the worldwide CTO working on the technology strategy, as well as leading initiatives like the creation of Eidos Montreal and Eidos Shanghai Studios. Julien became the worldwide technology director for Square Enix Group in 2009, working on a wide variety of engines and franchises including ‘Tomb Raider’, ‘Final Fantasy’, ‘Hitman’, ‘Deus Ex’ and ‘Kingdom Hearts’. In 2013, he joined Konami as the worldwide technology director to oversee Fox Engine, work directly on the acclaimed ‘Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’, and help advance many games in the group including ‘Pro Evolution Soccer’ 2015 and 2016 that - these years - caught up with its competitor Metacritic.. Julien joined Bandai Namco Studios end of 2015, where he now serves as their worldwide technology director.