8:15 AM Registration Opens
8:45 AM Introductory Remarks
- Bill Rockwood, Deputy Legislative Director – Congressmen Darren Soto at U.S. House of Representatives
- Gerard Dache, Executive Director, Government Blockchain Association
9:00 AM Keynote Address
- Scott Stornetta, Co-inventor of blockchain technology
9:30 AM Elections Accessibility & Security Panel
- Susan Eustis, President, WinterGreen Research (Moderator)
- Amelia Powers Gardner, Utah County, UT, Finance, Internal Audit, and Elections Office
- Deak Kersey, General Counsel, Office of the West Virginia Secretary of State
- Carlos Toriello Herrerías, #Fiscal_Digital Organizer, Fundacion Herencia Cultural Guatemalteca
10:10 AM Networking Break
10:35 AM Government Service Delivery, Interoperability, and Integrity Panel
- Radhika Iyengar, Founding Partner, StarChain Ventures(Moderator)
- John Dean Markunas, Government Blockchain Land Titling Working Group Leader
- Philippe Thevoz, Executive Vice-President eGovernment Systems, Integrity Solutions, SICPA SA
- Dr. Ann Ingraham, CEO, Exponential HealthTech Advisors
11:15 PM Global Adoption, Banking, and Regulation Panel
- Chris Snook, Chairman at World Tokenomic Forum and Sandcastle Impact Fund (Moderator)
- Sindhu Bhaskar, Chairman & CEO, EST Capital Switzerland
- Dr. Mihaela Ulieru, President IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy
- Ksenija Cipek, Head of Tax Risk Analysis, Ministry of Finance, Tax Administration, Republic of Croatia
11:55 PM Lunch/Networking
12:55 PM Preparing for the Future Panel
- Bryant Nielson, Executive Director, Blockchain Training Academy (moderator)
- Robert Stewart, CEO, Federal Government Experts
- Thomas Cox, Chief Governance Officer, StrongBlock
- Shiv Aggarwal – Lead, GBA Europe
1:35 PM Protecting Property, People & Communities Panel
- Shawnna Hoffman-Childress, Chair, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Distributed Ledger Tech. & Market Infrastructure Subcommittee (Moderator)
- James McDowell, Senior Securities Analyst, Alabama Securities Commission
- Nadeem Ansari, President & CEO, Forcewave
- Maurice Kuglar, Tenured Chair in Macroeconomics, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
2:15 PM Keynote Address
- Daniel Larimer, Co-founder and lead architect at Block.one.
2:45 PM Networking Break
3:10 PM Economic Security & Competitiveness Panel
- George Pullen, Senior Economist, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission / Professor, University of New Hamshire, Franklin Pierce School of Law (Moderator)
- Mahendra Kumar Bhandari, Professor, Infinity Law Tech Educational Services (India)
- Victor Ji, President, Bitblock Capital
- Carol Van Cleef, CEO, Luminous Group
3:50 PM State & Local Implementation & Regulations Panel
- Russel Castagnaro, Director of Digital Transformation, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology (Moderator)
- Elizabeth Tanner, Director, Business Regulations (Cabinet Member), Rhode Island
- Ron Kim, Member, New York State Assembly
- Albert Forkner, Banking Commissioner, Wyoming Division of Banking
4:30 PM Awards Ceremony
- Robert Levin, Chairman, GBA Awards Committee
5:30 PM Keynote Address
- Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper University, Draper Venture Network, Draper Associates, and Draper Goren Holm
6:30 Networking Reception / After Party (pending venue confirmation)
