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A Multistakeholder Approach to the Stewardship of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
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

Alex Tapscott
Co-Founder
Blockchain Researchers

Tom Serres
Co-founder Animal Ventures; Host, Tech on Politics

Bettina Warburg
Co-founder Animal Ventures; Host, Tech on Politics

Oliver Bussmann
Former CIO, UBS

Michael Casey
Author, The Age of Cryptocurrency

Nolan Bauerle
Researcher, Writer and Author, Coindesk

Primavera de Filippi
TED Speaker; Founding Member, Coala Lex

Tony Scott
Former CIO, United States Federal Government

Michele Mosca
Co-Founder and Deputy Director, Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo

Stefan Hopf
Senior Consultant, The Nunatak Group

Dominique Guinard
IoT author, CTO and co-founder of EVRYTHNG and webofthings.org

Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MIT and Imperial College; VP Emeritus, IBM

Usman Sheikh
Partner & National Litigation Lead, Gowling WLG

Jeremy Epstein
CEO, Never Stop Marketing

Andy Spence
HR & Workforce Advisor; Founder, Glass Bead Consulting

Marcus O'Dair
Convenor, Blockchain for Creative Industries Research Cluster

Prema Shrikrishna
Research Assistant, MIT

Reshma Kamath
Juris Doctor, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Soumak Chaterjee
Senior Manager, Deloitte Canada

Tom Isaacson
Patent Attorney

Vineet Narula
MIT Sloan Fellow; Operations Executive

Andreas Park
Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto; FinTech Researcher

Thomas A. Gardner
CTO, HP Federal; Former CTO, Jacobs

Alan Wunsche
CEO of TokenFunder Inc.;
Co-founder, Blockchain Canada

Henry Kim
Associate Professor of Decision Technologies & Blockchain Lab co-founder, York University

Bill Gillies
Author and Communications Consultant

Michael Scott
Blockchain Technology & Digital Economy Writer

Chloe Desmonet
Head of Sales & Marketing for MKS (Switzerland) AG