SPEAKERS

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.

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"

Mickey Maher
Head of Revenue and Gaming Partnerships - CryptoKitties

“As long as I learn I will make mistakes” - Beastie Boys Mickey is our Head of Revenue, responsible for Gaming Partnerships and Revenue with CryptoKitties. His primary goal is to expand CryptoKitties and upcoming blockchain projects into the greater gaming market with our goal of bringing the first billion to the blockchain. CryptoKitties is the fifth venture-backed startup Mickey has worked for in the gaming industry. Two have been acquired, and one is likely to IPO in the near future—with all of them, he has significantly and consistently grown revenue.

Mickey has worked as Head of Global Sales for Unity Technologies where he built a mobile ad business from pre-launch to nearly $300M in revenue. He’s also spent years working with high-level partnerships with startups including Applifier, Sometrics, and Upsight, offering analytics, marketing, advertising, digital good marketplace, and social solutions to gaming companies. Mickey’s time working with CryptoKitties has allowed him to travel to different parts of the world every week. He’s at his best when working on anything and everything by applying his blend of conscientious and entrepreneurial spirit, his tenacious drive, and his ability to thrive in complex environments.

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.

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"

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.

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"

Tonya Evans
Professor of law - New Hampshire School of Law

Tonya M. Evans, J.D., is a Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, Chair of the Intellectual Property & Technology Online Programs. Evans has expertise in the areas of intellectual property, new technologies (including blockchain and distributed ledger technology), entrepreneurship & innovation, entertainment law, trusts & estates, and municipal finance. She writes, speaks, and teaches primarily about the intersections of copyright and new technologies as well as estates law issues. Professor Evans is a member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Focus Group on Digital Currency including Digital Fiat Currency, the ITU Focus Group on Application of Distributed Ledger Technology, and also The Accord Project's IP Working Group, which works to develop best practices and standardization of smart legal contracts.

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"

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. 

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)."

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.

His keynote : "Blockchain Gaming - A Question of Design"

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.