The Bitcoin Foundation’s Llew Claasen and BnkToTheFuture’s Simon Dixon to Join All Star Lineup For TokenMarket 2018
Jun 6, 2018
TokenMarket announces its second phase of speakers in addition to its number of high profile speakers whom will join the already distinguished summit line up.
Gibraltar, Gibraltar - June 6, 2018 /MarketersMedia/ —
TokenMarket, the leading ICO advisory firm, announced today the second round of guest speakers to appear at its debut blockchain event, ‘TokenMarket 2018: Insights into the Token Economy’.
The summit will take place at the Sunborn Yacht Hotel in Gibraltar during 28th-29th of June, hosting a number of industry leading speakers discussing a variety of emerging topics surrounding blockchain. TokenMarket now reveals an additional number of high profile speakers whom will join the already distinguished summit line up.
Second Phase of Speakers
Simon Dixon, an award winning author, CEO and Co-Founder of BnkToTheFuture, will be delivering a keynote on the emerging adoption of VC’s in blockchain technology and crowdfunding. Having had personal endorsements from prominent figures such as Richard Branson, Dixon is considered an industry pioneer for changing the ways in which traditional banking works around the world.
Steven Sprague, CEO of Rivetz Corp, is one of the principle industry evangelists for the application of trusted computing technology and cyber security. Rivetz Corp is a company focused on the use of trusted computing and Trusted Execution TEE to enhance the quality and security of the relationship with the user and their device. Rivetz provides app developers services and tools that enable simple integration of embedded cyber security capabilities of modern devices. Rivetz successfully raised over $19m in ETH during its ICO.
Llew Claasen is the Executive Director of The Bitcoin Foundation, the largest Bitcoin advocacy organisation worldwide headquartered in San Francisco. The Bitcoin Foundation coordinates the efforts of the Bitcoin community to help create awareness of the benefits of Bitcoin to the wider public. Llew Claasen is also the Managing Partner of Newtown Partners, a blockchain investment and advisory services firm, founded by Classen and Vinny Lingham (Civic). Newtown Partners specialise in token economics, token sale design and project management for startups.
In addition to the already announced second phase of speakers; Jouko Salonen (Head of Blockchain at Treasury of Finland), Marco Cuesta (Firstblood), Pavel Kravchenko (Distributed Ledger) , Hartej Singh Sawhney (Hosho) and Wiktor Gromniak (Quedex) all join the roster of thought leaders who will be speaking at the inaugural summit.
‘TokenMarket 2018: Insights into the Token Economy’ will feature a range of industry experts within the blockchain space including: William Mougayar, Simon Dixon, Jon Matonis, David Drake, Ransu Salovaara, Vinay Gupta.
“We are thrilled to have added these industry leading experts to an already extremely experienced and knowledgeable group of speakers. As we are the leading ICO advisory firm, it is pivotal we have speakers who reflect our own experience and industry leading expertise. Our line-up has been curated in order to reflect our own prowess, something we can be proud of.” Ransu Salovaara, CEO of TokenMarket
The TokenMarket 2018: Insights into the Economy summit will cover a wide variety of blockchain and ICO topics, during which we’ll hear from leading VCs, RegTech, Innovators and Legislators. Our speakers will examine the ever changing industry landscape. We would like to invite you to join us for our informative discussions and evening activities.
Find out more at https://tokenmarket.net/conference-2018/home
About TokenMarket
TokenMarket is a premier ICO information portal and advisory firm. It combines its market experience, resources and data assets to create a professionally tailored solution to execute ICOs safely and securely, providing an end-to-end service for token creation, presale and public sale. TokenMarket's ICO advisory service has partnered over 30 token sales including Storj, Populous, Monaco, Civic and Dent, raising over $300 million in total.
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