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Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, could soon give rise to a new era of the Internet even more disruptive and transformative than the current one. Blockchain’s ability to generate unprecedented opportunities to create and trade value in society will lead to a generational shift in the Internet’s evolution, from an Internet of Information to a new generation Internet of Value.
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Don Tapscott
Co-Founder and CEO
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Alex Tapscott
Co-Founder
Blockchain Researchers
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Tom Serres
Co-founder Animal Ventures; Host, Tech on Politics
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Bettina Warburg
Co-founder Animal Ventures; Host, Tech on Politics
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Oliver Bussmann
Former CIO, UBS
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Michael Casey
Author, The Age of Cryptocurrency
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Nolan Bauerle
Researcher, Writer and Author, Coindesk
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Primavera de Filippi
TED Speaker; Founding Member, Coala Lex
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Tony Scott
Former CIO, United States Federal Government
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Michele Mosca
Co-Founder and Deputy Director, Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo
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Stefan Hopf
Senior Consultant, The Nunatak Group
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Dominique Guinard
IoT author, CTO and co-founder of EVRYTHNG and webofthings.org
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MIT and Imperial College; VP Emeritus, IBM
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Usman Sheikh
Partner & National Litigation Lead, Gowling WLG
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Jeremy Epstein
CEO, Never Stop Marketing
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Andy Spence
HR & Workforce Advisor; Founder, Glass Bead Consulting
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Marcus O'Dair
Convenor, Blockchain for Creative Industries Research Cluster
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Prema Shrikrishna
Research Assistant, MIT
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Reshma Kamath
Juris Doctor, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
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Soumak Chaterjee
Senior Manager, Deloitte Canada
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Tom Isaacson
Patent Attorney
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Vineet Narula
MIT Sloan Fellow; Operations Executive
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Andreas Park
Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto; FinTech Researcher
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Thomas A. Gardner
CTO, HP Federal; Former CTO, Jacobs
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Alan Wunsche
CEO of TokenFunder Inc.;
Co-founder, Blockchain Canada
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Henry Kim
Associate Professor of Decision Technologies & Blockchain Lab co-founder, York University
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Bill Gillies
Author and Communications Consultant
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Michael Scott
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Chloe Desmonet
Head of Sales & Marketing for MKS (Switzerland) AG