Meet the Speakers

Gary Vaynerchuk

Creator & CEO | VeeFriends

Gary Vaynerchuk serves as the Chairman of VaynerX, the CEO of VaynerMedia and the Creator & CEO of VeeFriends. He is a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, Snapchat, Coinbase and Uber.

Gary is also an entrepreneur at heart — he builds businesses. Today, he helps Fortune 1000 brands leverage consumer attention through his full service advertising agency, VaynerMedia which has offices in NY, LA, London, Mexico City, LATAM and Singapore. Gary was recently named to the Fortune list of the Top 50 Influential people in the NFT industry.

Gary documents his life daily as a CEO through his social media channels which has more than 34 million followers and garnishes over 272 million monthly impressions/views across all platforms. His podcast ‘The GaryVee Audio Experience’ ranks among the top podcasts globally. He is a five-time New York Times Best-Selling Author and one of the most highly sought after public speakers.

John Lee

Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor & Speaker | John Lee

John Lee is an internationally renowned Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, Speaker, and best-selling Author. Over the last two decades, John has been generating wealth through multiple streams of income and is highly passionate about helping others do the same. He became a self-made millionaire through real estate investing, building various seven figure businesses, and taking one of his companies public. John currently mentors and advises entrepreneurs on how to take their businesses to the next level in the digital age as well as coaches world-class CEOs, professional athletes, and celebrities on how to preserve and scale their wealth. John is actively involved in various new ventures, partnerships, and company acquisitions. As an investor, his portfolio of companies consists of several of the top tech based companies, some of which have achieved unicorn status. John’s ultimate mission is to transform lives by teaching people how to create financial freedom while building notable businesses and brands.

Jordan Belfort

VIP Guest of Pin-Up | Jordan Belfort

Jordan Belfort is an American author, motivational speaker, and former stockbroker. He was born in 1962 and is best known for his memoir “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which details his rise and fall as a stockbroker in the late 1980s and early 1990s. “The Wolf of Wall Street” pursued his career as a motivational speaker.

Clinton Sparks

Author, Entrepreneur, Gaming and Esports Business Developer & Marketer | Clinton Sparks

Clinton Sparks is a Grammy nominated, multi platinum music producer, songwriter and DJ responsible for over 75 million records sold, and has worked with some of the most recognizable people in the world from Eminem, Lady Gaga, Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg, Pitbull, Akon, Diddy, to discovering and signing mega platinum and billboard charting star, DJ Snake.

Johnny Walker

MMA Fighter | Johnny Walker

Dr Sara Al Madani

The Emirati Entrepreneur | Dr Sara Al Madani

Sara Al Madani is also called “Dr.” Sara Al Madani, owns a restaurant, is a fashion designer, a tech-preneur, and an entrepreneur.

She got the idea to start her own business when she was 15 years old. They chose her because of her success as a young businesswoman and entrepreneur.

Sara was asked to encourage women in the UAE to be more active and confident in order to be successful in business. Sara is a well-known speaker at many universities, colleges, and institutes. She is known for her creativity and hard work.

Sara Al Madani started speaking in public and gave keynote speeches at more than 182 events from 2016 to 2018.

She was recently on the first season of the reality TV show “Real Housewives of Dubai.” On June 1, 2022, her show started.

SiGMA World is the world’s leading industry B2B expo conference focused on online and land-based Gaming. Delegates attend to discuss emerging trends, technology innovation and to do business with each other.

Affiliate Grand Slam is our newest addition to the Digital Marketing & AdTech world and following its success in Dubai last May 2021 and in Malta last November 2021, will now be a permanent vertical within our company.

AIBC is an industry B2B expo conference focused on emerging tech, including Blockchain, AI, Big Data, Quantum Computing, IoT and FinTech.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

H.E Laila Rahhal El Atfani

Goodwill Ambassador | H.E Laila Rahhal El Atfani

H.E. Maria Camilleri Calleja

Ambassador of the Republic of Malta and Permanent Representative of Malta to IRENA Abu Dhabi | Government of Malta

Having joined the Public Service and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000, Ms Camilleri Calleja was assigned to the Protocol and Consular Office until October 2001 when she moved to form part of the team covering Near Eastern Affairs within the Bilateral Affairs Directorate.

In April 2002, she was posted as Deputy Head of Mission and Consul at the Embassy of Malta in Stockholm. In 2005, she was offered the unique opportunity to be the first Maltese female diplomat to serve as Consul-General in Tripoli, Libya, while simultaneously forming part of the Schengen Evaluation team which led to the holistic upgrade of the consulate and eventually the successful assessment and accession of Malta to the Schengen Acquis. During her tenure in Libya, Malta also opened a visa facilitation office in Benghazi which Ms Camilleri Calleja visited on technical missions.

In 2008, she returned to Malta and covered Mediterranean Regional Fora serving also as Senior Official for Malta in the Union for the Mediterranean, on the Board of Governors of the Anna Lindh Foundation and covering 5+5 Western Mediterranean issues. In 2011, she was seconded as Research Analyst with the Standing Committee for Foreign and European Affairs of the Parliament of Malta. Upon concluding her assignment, she returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2013 in the role of Counsellor and Head of Unit for Africa as well as the EU Common Security and Defense Policy, while assisting the directorate-general in the preparation of briefing notes for the monthly Foreign Affairs Council of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels. She was concurrently assigned as Secretary of the Council for Maltese Living Abroad – a government-appointed body – covering diaspora affairs under the chairmanship of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, holding this role from September 2013 till October 2016.

In 2014, Ms Camilleri Calleja was appointed Director (International Development, Economic Affairs and European Institutions) covering sustainable development, commercial issues, relations with the OSCE and the Council of Europe as well as Cultural Diplomacy. Parallel to her directorship duties, she also headed the team preparing the ministry for the 2017 European Union Council Presidency, covering policy, events in Malta, events in Missions, logistics, budgeting and staffing.

In December 2017, she was appointed Director-General (Political and EU Affairs), coordinating inter alia the team that drafts Malta’s positions within the Common Foreign and Security Policy, including other strategic foreign policy positions, as well as covering bilateral relations with all countries in a young and dynamic team of diplomats.

On 23rd November 2020, Ms Camilleri Calleja presented her credentials as first resident Ambassador of the Republic of Malta to the United Araba Emirates, to H.E. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai. During the same week, she also presented her Letters of Credence as first-ever Permanent Representative of Malta to IRENA in Abu Dhabi, to IRENA Director-General Francesco La Camera.

Education: Born on 22 March 1976, Maria Camilleri Calleja graduated cum laude from the University of Malta as Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Contemporary Mediterranean Studies (anthropology, geography and international relations intertwined) in 1999. She went on to graduate once again in 2000 with a Master of Arts in Diplomatic Studies from the Mediterranean Academy for Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta.

She also successfully followed a number of training courses:
École Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in Paris in Diplomatic Practices in 2001;
Spanish Language and Culture proficiency offered by the Institute of Public Service in 2010-11;
Subsidiarity and Proportionality Detection in Legislative Proposals proposed by the European Commission to the Council and the European Parliament with the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier in 2012;
EU Council Presidency Preparation and Management at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht in 2015; and
International Visitors Leadership Programme (IVLP) on Women, Peace and Security in October and November 2019 invited by the State Department of the United States of America as Malta’s participant for 2019
Personal: Speaks Maltese, English, Italian, French, Spanish, with a basic understanding of Arabic and Swedish. She likes travelling and reading. Married and has two sons.

Irina S. Litchfield

Principal | Lumeria

Dr. Marwan Al zarouni

CEO | Dubai Blockchain Center

Marwan Al zarouni CISSP is a Crypto Pioneer and the CEO of Dubai’s Blockchain Center. The center provides crypto training courses and awareness programs for students, entrepreneurs and government departments. On February 2018, Marwan founded the region’s first crypto over the counted desk with the establishment of his company OTC Supply DMCC. Marwan has extensive experience in the areas of information security management, network security and computer forensics. He currently holds the position of Director of Information Services at Dubai Electronic Security Cent.

Nick Spanos

Bitcoin Pioneer | Nick Spanos

Nick Spanos

Nick Spanos is a pioneer in the bitcoin and blockchain technology space. In 2013, Spanos founded Bitcoin Center NYC – the world’s first ever cryptocurrency trading floor – which initially opened directly across from the NYSE in 2013. Spanos is also CEO of Blockchain Technologies Corp., which patented VoteWatcher, the first-ever blockchain voting platform. He is co-founder of Zap.org, which solves one of the biggest challenges for blockchain smart contracts, by allowing real-world data and events to trigger smart contract provisions for the first time. Nick Spanos was featured in the recent Netflix documentary Banking on Bitcoin and is a sought-after speaker at blockchain events worldwide.

Z‍AP 

Nick Spanos is co-founder of Zap.org, which solves one of the biggest challenges for blockchain smart contracts, by allowing real-world data and events to trigger smart contract provisions for the first time. Zap is a cross-chain multifunctional DeFi protocol. Users can swap tokens, earn rewards by validating oracle data feeds, and raise funds on customizable bonding curves on our platform. Spanos was featured in the recent Netflix documentary Banking on Bitcoin and is a sought-after speaker at blockchain events worldwide. He was also Founder of GetaRoom.com in 1997. In 1983 Nick Spanos attended New York Institute of technology where he studied computer science and AeroSpace Engineering.  

His first meeting with the crypto business?  

In 2010, a Nick Spanos’s colleague wanted to buy a website domain name that he owned, and his friend convinced him to accept Bitcoin as payment. That was his first interaction with Bitcoin.
Since then, he becames increasingly involved with the technology.  Near the end of 2013, he rented out a large event space for a Bitcoin-themed Christmas party, and they all decided to keep the place open as a center where people can assemble to learn about Bitcoin.  Bitcoin Center NYC exists today as the first physical representation of this highly decentralized technology.

His motivations

There is 2.5 billion unbanked people in the world who could add to the global economy that are unreachable.  Bitcoin allows them to supply these people with the resources and the support to learn about this technology and send value to someone on the other side of the globe.
What also motivates Nick Spanos is the blockchain, and its ability to independently verify a multitude of transactions that originally required a room full of people to process. Bitcoin operates person to person.  The benefits of a truly decentralized financial system are becoming increasingly apparent.  There is no need of a third party or people in smoke-filled back rooms making decisions with the stored labor of your life. That’s what motivates Nick Spanos.

Nick Spanos, Co-founder at ZAP, did us the honor of speaking at AIBC Summit this November 2021. During the main stage event for DeFi & Emerging Tech, Nick gave a keynote speech to open the event!
AIBC Summit aims to be a pillar in the technological development by uniting tech-leaders, regulators, investors and entrepreneurs from across the world to discuss, share ideas, make partnerships and build the foundation for the industry of tomorrow.

David Meltzer

Founder | David Meltzer Enterprises

In his early 20s, David Meltzer quickly rose to the top of his game in the business world, becoming a millionaire. David lectured around the globe and saw rapid success in every business project he touched. But something was missing, and in his 30s as a multimillionaire, he went on a rapid downward spiral that ended in bankruptcy. It was only then that David realized, in order to revive and thrive, he needed to codify what had made him successful in the first place. He has since emerged to realize even more rewarding heights of success in business and life.

David Meltzer has created a platform that uses four overarching principles—gratitude, empathy, accountability, and effective communication—and these principles have allowed him to communicate and mentor everyone from college students to c-suite executives. These four principles in everyday practice allow David to live by his mission to “make a lot of money, help a lot of people, and have a lot of fun.”

Davinci Jeremie

Crypto Educator | Davinci Codes

Cal Evans

Managing Associate | Gresham International

Cal Evans

Cal Evans is the Managing Associate of Gresham International, a UK & Dubai lawyer and US Securities Consultant with experience working in top law firms in both California and London.

He undertook advanced IT at a junior college and received the top AVCE recognition award before then undertaking his undergraduate in Law. He passed law school in England specializing in business and corporate law. In 2015 Cal Evans undertook his certificate in financial markets with Yale.

Cal Evans is considered one of the leading individuals on Cryptocurrency and Crypto Raise Compliance.

Few people have the technological, legal, and financial expertise needed to tackle the cryptocurrency market and Cal certainly is one of them. And he also has experience working with companies across the globe.

Therefore, including some of the largest tech companies during his time working in California. Current he is the Managing Associate at Gresham International.

Cal Evans spoke at the SIGMA Conference in Toronto 2022, a great keynote at the AIBC Stage about “Making your project internationally compliant”

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Dr Jane Thomason

CHAIR | World Metaverse Council

Gordon Einstein

Founder | CryptoLaw Partners

Gordon Einstein is a hybrid Crypto-Attorney, Technologist, and Enterprise Strategist. Gordon received his undergraduate degree in Politics in 1991 from Brandeis University in Boston and then received his JD in 1995 from the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles.

Initially, Gordon’s law practice centered on startup, venture capital, investment banking, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, and general business law. As an avid computer and programming hobbyist, in 2012 Gordon was intrigued by Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and the related technologies. By 2014, he was providing legal services to several individuals and companies operating in this space. And by 2016 the majority of Gordon’s law practice involved working with crypto, blockchain, and FinTech startups and funds. This was formalized as CryptoLaw Partners in 2017.

Gordon frequently speaks and educates both in the United States and abroad, quite often in Ukraine. Some common themes are issues and developments relating to cryptocurrency, the legal aspects of FinTech, structuring blockchain startups, ICOs, and AML/KYC compliance.

Gordon Einstein is a Dubai based technologist, Crypto-Attorney, and Blockchain educator, passionate about the world of cryptocurrencies and The DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations). Since 2016, he runs his own crypto-based law practice at CryptoLaw Partners working with crypto, blockchain, and FinTech startups around the world. His mission is to help stakeholders with the creation of decentralized protocols to suit the legalities of the broader market.

“At CryptoLaw Partners we are passionate about blockchain and cryptocurrency technology. We believe that these developments can if applied judiciously, propel human civilization forward. Our mission is to enable this revolution through law.”

Since January 2021 he has been working at DEVxDAO as a founding voting partner. The DEVXDAO supports open source and transparent scientific research for emerging technologies.

Gordon frequently speaks and educates both in the United States and abroad, quite often in Ukraine, on cryptocurrency, security, the interaction of law and FinTech, structuring blockchain startups and token transactions, AML and KYC compliance, and other topics.

DAOs & Blockchain: What is the Potential of Ownerless Business? Irina Heaver joins Gordon Einstein for an exclusive interview in the beautiful backdrop of Dubai to get insight into what attracted him to the blockchain and crypto sphere and to discuss the excitement behind the innovative DAOs (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations). Gordon is the Founder of the esteemed law firm, Crypto Law Partners and has also recently been appointed International General Council of the Emerging Technology Association. “The ability to form human organisations on the blockchain without government permission is both massively efficient and liberating”

Jimmy Nguyen

CEO | Blockchain For All

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top advocates for blockchain and its use to power other digital technologies – including FinTech, Metaverse, IoT, and Artificial Intelligence.  His company Blockchain for All provides advisory, education & technology solutions to help enterprises and government entities implement blockchain applications. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and advocate for making blockchain useful as a data technology, rather than just for speculative cryptocurrency investment trading.

Jimmy is a partner in a bold new venture to build “Metaverse ecosystem complexes” across five global regions over the next five years. The multi-use complexes will be anchored by immersive theaters/performance spaces fitted with technology to enable “phygital” (physical + digital) experiences for audience members; they will further house Metaverse and volumetric production studios, educational centre, potentially start-up hub, and even an adjacent hotel/hospitality property.  The first site will be in London, UK and is supported by USD $100 million from a Monaco investment fund; the second site is targeted for the UAE.

Jimmy is also the founding Board member of InvoiceMate, which provides next generation automation of invoicing operations. Its solution uses distributed ledger technology to increase efficiency of invoice processing, provide trusted data, and enhance fraud resilience.  Formed in the UAE, the company also operates in Pakistan and across the MENA & South Asia region – with is partnering with leading banks in Pakistan (and later across the Middle East) to offer invoice financing for SMEs to quickly access cash needed for their operations.

Jimmy led formation of the Switzerland-based BSV Blockchain Association (Bitcoin Association for BSV) and served as its global Founding President until September 2022.  Using the original Bitcoin protocol, BSV is a massively scaled blockchain that efficiently handles high transaction volume and greater data capacity at fast speed for low transaction fees – capabilities needed to deliver distributed ledger applications at enterprise and government levels. Across the world, Jimmy has advanced education on the need for blockchain scaling, real utility, and legal compliance – speaking to government, business and technical leaders across many countries in North America, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Previously, Jimmy served as CEO of nChain Group, a worldwide leader in research and development of blockchain technologies (with one of the industry’s largest patent portfolios), and was Chair of its Strategic Advisory Board.

Jimmy is consistently ranked in Visitory.com’s CryptoLeaders list of top 100 “Crypto & Bitcoin Influencers” in the world.  In January 2020, he was recognized as one of the “Most Influential Individuals in Blockchain” by TurgenSec, an information security research company. SFOX has listed Jimmy as one of “The BSV People You Need to Know.”  In October 2022, he received a BSV Blockchain Global Visionary Award.

Before entering the blockchain industry full time, Jimmy had a 21-year career as an intellectual property, digital media & technology lawyer, and was a partner at three major U.S. law firms – most recently Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.  He served as Chair of the California Bar’s Intellectual Property Section.  In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.”   He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017).

A strong diversity advocate, Jimmy co-chaired the California Minority Counsel Program and was inducted into its “Diversity Leader Hall of Fame” (2015).  Diversity MBA Magazine named him a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015).

Jimmy graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles at the age of 19 (B.A., Communication Studies, specialization in Mass Communication, magna cum laude, 1992) and graduated law school at the age of 22 from the University of Southern California Law Center (Juris Doctor, 1995).

Lucy Chow

Investor and Author | Changing the Game

Lucy is focused on the innovation space, both in terms of supporting founders and as an investor. She is the Secretary General, WBAF Global Women Leaders Committee and General Partner, WBAF Angel Investment Fund. She is also an investor with NextWave Impact Fund, and The Founder Institute and an LP with numerous funds globally. She has a video series targeted at entrepreneurs titled “Down to Business.”

Lucy has garnered a strong reputation as someone who has helped build the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the UAE. She was named one of #LinkedInTopVoices 2020 for MENA, one of CEO Middle East’s Influential Women in the Arab World 2020, Titanium Magazine’s Top 50 Global Inspirational Women to Look Out for in 2022 and was recently recognized by Arabian Business as one of 50 Inspiring Female Business Leaders 2022 and Mojeh’s 100 most Influential women UAE.

She sits on the Board of Trustees for The American School of Dubai, as well as the Solidarity Circle, UNHCR. She has been a contributing author for Life on the Move, an anthology of stories about expat life and The Possibilities Project: A Young Person’s Guide to Career Success. She is pleased to be an Ambassador for Women In Games (WIGJ) and an Ambassador #2022FemaleAngels. She has degrees from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University and HK University of Science &Technology and the University of British Columbia. A future focused thought leader, “Changing the Game” is her first book.

Arvin Khamseh

NFT Marketing Expert | Sold Out NFTs

Arvin Khamseh

Arvin Khamseh has always been on the forefront of new tech trends with an impressive history in biohacking, and internet marketing.

Combining this with his experience in running investor relationship marketing for public companies,  Arvin knows what it takes to attract investors online.

Successfully selling out an Italian artist collection in 2021 was a proof of concept to apply his knowledge in investor relationship marketing into NFT marketing.

Since then, Arvin Khamseh has consulted with 400+ NFT brands and has agency partnership with Reddit, Twitter, Quora and Meta. One of the largest sellouts did +$5m in 20 hours and the other made an astonishing +$10m in 20 hours.

Most recently, Arvin helped a NFT brand hit #1 on Icy.tools and is the #1 trending on Opensea. Arvin is excited to help lead the conversation around NFTs and is a highly sought after guest featured in media around the world (including recent features in USA Today and Entrepreneur).

Some of his appearances include The Nifty Show, New To Crypto and Jordan Belfort’s The Wolf’s Den.

Khamseh is also a featured speaker at high profile blockchain events all over the world including Blockchain Festivals, TMRW Conference, IFPX, Metaverse Week etc

Arvin Khamseh spoke at the SIGMA Conference in Toronto 2022, a great keynote at the AIBC Stage about “How to sell out a NFT collection in 4 week or less”

SiGMA World is the world’s leading industry B2B expo conference focused on online and land-based Gaming. Delegates attend to discuss emerging trends, technology innovation and to do business with each other.

AGS is our newest addition to the Digital Marketing & AdTech world and following its success in Dubai last May 2021 and in Malta last November 2021, will now be a permanent vertical within our company.

AIBC is an industry B2B expo conference focused on emerging tech, including Blockchain, AI, Big Data, Quantum Computing, IoT and FinTech.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

Andres Meneses

Founder & Host | Crypto OG’s

Meet Andres Meneses, a renowned cryptocurrency expert and the host ofthe top-rated podcast, “Crypto OGs”, on the biggest streaming platform in crypto. With a deep understanding ofthe crypto industry,

Andres has established himself as a thoughtleaderin the space. Over the years, Andres has interviewed some of the most prominent figures in the crypto world. The exceptional knowledge of Andres and his unique engaging style has made his podcast a must-listen for anyone interested in the cryptocurrency space For beginners or gurus, Crypto OGs is the perfect place to stay informed and up-to-date on all things crypto.

With almost 2 seasons and numerous episodes, Crypto OGs is growing fasterthan ever and has made its way to Spotify, which
is now globally available.

Agne Linge

Lead Evangelist | DeGate DAO

Prof. Joshua Ellul

Director Centre for Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) | University of Malta

Prof. Joshua Ellul is Director of the Centre for Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Malta. The Centre for DLT developed and runs a world-first multidisciplinary Masters in Blockchain and DLT which takes in students having backgrounds in computer science, law, finance and economics. His research interests span across technological advancements across the blockchain/dApp stack, to techno-regulatory issues of such emerging technologies.

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Darren Yan

Founder | Saeculum

Darren is a veteran entertainment executive and talent manager who formerly served as Chief Talent Officer at FaZe Clan. For four years, he headed FaZe Clan’s talent management group where he oversaw talent signing, development, and career management strategy for FaZe Clan’s esports pros, content creators, streamers, athletes, and music artists.

Before joining FaZe, he served as an Executive at United Talent Agency, where he oversaw operations of UTA Esports, a department created out of the acquisition of Everyday Influencers Management, a talent management firm, and Press X Agency, an influencer marketing agency, both of which Darren was a partner and co-founder.

Paweł Łaskarzewski

Co-Founder | Niftables

Paweł Łaskarzewski

Paweł Łaskarzewski is the Co-founder of one of the largest launchpads in the cryptocurrency sector, and at the same time one of the contenders on top of the podium for the largest technological organization on the market of decentralized finance, the Synapse Network.

In his career, he has already co-created 5 startups active in the international arena to this day. He cooperated with organizations such as Boeing, City Bank, EuroSport, EU and the U.K Government. He was responsible for the implementation of two new banking services in the Polish market from scratch.

His experience in the ​​financial, logistical and technological areas allowed him to acquire the necessary knowledge and perspective to thrive in this field, knowledge used to this day in the development and improvement of the decentralized finance sector to create an ecosystem that is completely safe and accessible to all users from more traditional markets.

His guidance is based on operational, conceptual and advisory work, including finding non-obvious solutions and supporting technology companies in the areas of fundraising, business development strategy, legal and regulatory fields, Web 3.0, cross-chain, Play2Earn and much more. For his actions, he was awarded as one of the Blockchain Experts of The Year in the ranking created by the USA Today portal.

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Obediah Ayton

Director | Dhabi Hold Co.

Dr. Habib Al Mulla

Founder | Habib Al Mulla and Partners

Dr. Habib is one of the UAE’s most highly respected legal authorities. He has over 38 years’ experience in UAE law and has drafted many of the modern legislative structures in place in Dubai today. Dr. Habib is a strong advocate for the improvement and modernization of UAE Laws. He is a frequent commentator on the legislation and economy of the UAE and is often consulted to draft and advise on Federal and Emirate level laws.

Dr. Habib focuses his practice on litigation and arbitration. He is Chairman of the CIArb (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators) UAE Committee and served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC). He is also a member of the Board of the Dubai International Chamber.

He created the concept of financial free zones in the UAE and was the architect of the legal framework establishing the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the first financial free zone in the UAE. Dr. Habib also served as Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA).

Dr. Habib has held numerous prominent government positions over the years, including being a member of the UAE Federal National Council, the federal parliament of the UAE, member of the Legislative Committee, in charge of reviewing federal legislation, member of the Economic Committee, in charge of reviewing fiscal and economic policy of the federation, Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal and Judicial Studies, in charge of training judges and prosecutors in the Emirate of Dubai and Chairman of the UAE Jurists Association.

He has published many books and articles on the UAE law and economy, including a two part book on his life’s work titled Life’s Harvest, a definitive selection of his writings on the laws, politics and economy of the UAE over the last 26 years. He is also a regular commentator in the media and a prominent speaker at many events and conferences within the UAE and internationally.

Dr. Habib holds an LL.B. in Shari’a and Law from the UAE University, a Master of Law from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is fluent in Arabic and English.

Jorge Sebastiao

CBO (Chief Business Officer) | Simba Storage

Simba Storage is an institutional-level cold storage for Bitcoin,
that is based on a multi-signature algorithm and located in four jurisdictions:
Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the UAE and New Zealand. Our company is an accessible, transparent,
confidential and flexible crypto-asset custodial solution designed for individuals and businesses of all sizes.

Alexandra Carvalho

Founder | Alex’s House of Social

Alex is a social media & business creative strategist. Following her performing arts career, she became an early adopter of internet marketing and spent 12 years working across branding, media, advertising agencies in London, Singapore, across the Middle East and Dubai. She ran social media departments and created social media campaigns for many fortune 500 companies.

In 2016 she quit and ventured out on her own to launch Alex’s House of Social initially in the UAE. A consultancy & educational platform to help businesses & personal brands grow and stand out in the social space. Alex’s strong pulse in the current media landscape and big energy make her one of the most passionate hybrid social minds of her generation. She self-funded her business in the UAE, making it to 6 figures, leveraging her personal brand, today she as clients & student’s from all over the world, from small businesses to brands like Hard Rock Café, Dubai Police, Max Factor and others. A large community across her social channels, she calls Rebels were since day one she candidly shares her entrepreneurial journey.

She offers free education with the Rebel Online Academy 7k student’s enrolled and 30+ courses. Her book “ It’s A Good Day To Be a Rebel” 2 nd edition made it to Amazon’s Social Media Best Seller list. She has been featured on Forbes Middle East, Gulf Business Magazine, MBC News, Dubai Eye Radio Station, The National, Thrive Global Magazine and Mashable.

Alex is currently working on her second business venture, watch this space! To learn more about Alex go to to alexhouseofsocial.com follow Alex on Instagram, Tik Tok, You Tube, Linkedin @alexhouseofsocial Listen to her podcast “You Got This With Alex”

Megan Nilsson

Crypto Megan | Megan Nilsson

Megan Nilsson is also known as Crypto Megan on social media.

Megan high-end crypto and NFT portfolio advisor to corporations, investors, and celebrities, as well as an investor and member of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, Doodles, World of Women, and many other top-tier NFTs.

Currently, Megan is on a world tour speaking at all the biggest and highest quality Web 3’s biggest events as a professional speaker, and has launched Instagram and Youtube to help newcomers and advocate for women in crypto.

Megan’s mission is to help bring more people into the space with entertaining, quality information they can trust, as well as to guide companies and brands through the transition to Web 3.

She truly believes there is a need for more women’s representatives as speakers at events around the world.

Megan Nilsson has been a member of the Bored Ape Yacht Club since long before all celebrities got on board and the movement began, she has a very deep passion for cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

Through her private consultancy, Megan is getting more women in space. Even so, she wants to showcase her expertise at quality events for everyone interested in learning, not just people with large portfolios.

Megan’s goal is to touch and inspire many people who are just getting started through her journey and help them understand why this is such a massive cultural and financial revolution, and the beginning of a paradigm shift.

SiGMA World is the world’s leading industry B2B expo conference focused on online and land-based Gaming. Delegates attend to discuss emerging trends, technology innovation and to do business with each other.

Affiliate Grand Slam is our newest addition to the Digital Marketing & AdTech world and following its success in Dubai last May 2021 and in Malta last November 2021, will now be a permanent vertical within our company.

AIBC is an industry B2B expo conference focused on emerging tech, including Blockchain, AI, Big Data, Quantum Computing, IoT and FinTech.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

Nikita Sachdev

Founder | Luna PR

Nikita Sachdev is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor who has built a successful business empire. Despite having a strong interest in a variety of businesses, Nikita discovered her true passion in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space in 2017, while working for the cryptocurrency behemoth Huobi.

Together with her business partner, Nikita Sachdev founded Luna Management in 2015, which serves as a talent management agency and production studio. Nikita became acquainted with the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain industries shortly after, which aroused her curiosity. She began investing in cryptocurrency and collaborating with some of the largest companies in the fintech field, which finally prompted her to leave Luna Management and start her own public relations and marketing agency, Luna PR, which she continues to run today.

Luna PR is a public relations firm with its headquarters in Dubai and a global presence. Nikita has since traveled the world to lecture at institutions and conferences, including Oxford University, and has received numerous honors.

Luna PR went on to receive the prestigious Entrepreneur Magazine award for ‘Best PR and Marketing Agency in Emerging Technology’ in less than a year after its founding.

Nikita’s growth has been phenomenal since then, and she has recently attracted the attention of political authorities all over the world. Today, Luna PR collaborates with the most prominent cryptocurrency and blockchain initiatives in the world, and the company has worked with more than 600 blockchain and cryptocurrency projects to date.

Joseph F. Borg

Partner & Head of Innovative Technology | WH Partners

Joseph F Borg is an advocate and Partner at WH Partners, where he heads the Blockchain Advisory and Gaming and Gambling Advisory sections of the firm.

Joseph is ranked in the prestigious Chambers FinTech 2022 guide in the FinTech Legal practice area in Malta. He is also ranked as a “Leading Individual” in the FinTech practice area in Malta by Legal 500 EMEA 2022 guide, where WH Partners is listed as a Tier 1 law firm in Malta.

Joseph also practices in the areas of Esports, Corporate, IT, Telecoms and Intellectual Property Law. He also lectures Gaming Law at the University of Malta.

Joseph F Borg is a Co-Founder and currently the Vice-President of Bitmalta, which is a non-profit organisation with a mission to promoting and stimulating discussion about blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies in Malta. Before joining WH Partners he occupied the post of Chief Regulatory Officer of the Lotteries and Gaming Authority – Malta. Joseph was also an elected Member on the Board of Trustees of the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR), a position which he held throughout 2012. He had originally joined the Authority in March 2007 as Director Legal and Enforcement and has occupied this position for almost 4 years. Before joining the Authority, Joseph, acted as a Legal Counsel to Vodafone Malta Limited for three years.

Joseph is a general member of the International Masters of Gaming Law and is a lecturer in gaming law at the University of Malta.  He speaks fluent Maltese, English and Italian.

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Zack Ritchie

Co-Founder | NFT Club

Hailing from the picturesque island of Malta, Zack Ritchie’s journey in design and advertising has propelled him to the forefront of contemporary art, design, and branding. His collaborations with industry giants like Red Bull, Martini, and Campari, combined with his deep-rooted love for Maltese culture, have resulted in a unique brand that resonates globally. Each piece, from vibrant illustrations to large-scale public sculptures, tells a story of Maltese heritage transformed into relatable art.

Driven by insatiable curiosity, Ritchie’s explorations span from fashion to the avant-garde world of web3. His adaptability is evident in collaborations with renowned artists and communities, including Dead fellaz, Des Lucrece, Fvck Render, and Lirona’s Boiz. His partnership with fashion icons Charles & Ron birthed a limited edition capsule, blending fashion and art seamlessly. Moreover, his collaboration with architectural legend Zaha Hadid and Mercury Towers led to the creation of five exquisite bronze sculptures, marking another milestone in his illustrious career.

Beyond individual projects, Ritchie’s influence extends to various platforms. His commitment to innovation and intellectual property shines through his endeavors like NFT Club, where he educates and empowers artists in the revolutionary world of NFTs. As boundaries blur between art, technology, and community, Ritchie emerges as a beacon of innovation, creativity, and collaboration.

Francisco Fernandez

Co-founder & Head of Research | TheBit Research

Gabriel Laender

Founder | Auzza Capital

Reem Al Mosabbeh

Serial Entrepreneur | Reem Al Mosabbeh

Reem Al Mosabbeh was titled the youngest female Emirati Tech Entrepreneur that runs an IT solutions house, a startup mentor and speaker who was recently featured in Entrepreneur Middle East, Innovation Arabia 13 MIT, Global Entrepreneurs EOGSEA, Masdar Future Sustainability Leaders, Arab Excellence, TechStars & Dubai Chamber.

She is a serial Entrepreneur the founder of a Tech Firm called Retech, the co-founder of Unipreneur Inc. (An entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship
and leadership development platform for students) and is also a member of the Dubai Youth Council , VP at Al Ghurair Foundation and SDGs Global Council.

Through her work with the Dubai Youth Council and other Govt entities, she is involved in running various youth entrepreneurship and startup
development initiatives, like GITEX YouthX Unipreneur (UAE’s biggest and 1st of it’s kind youth entrepreneurship event), the Young Falcons, Dubai Metavator Challenge, the UAE Hackathon in sustainability and many more.

Cannelle Maricaux

Founder & CEO | Koolute Investments

Onur Altan Tan

CEO | Bitci Teknoloji

Saeed Hareb Al Darmaki

Founder & CEO | Sheesha Finance

Saeed Hareb Al Darmaki is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Sheesha Finance.

Saeed is the Managing Director of Alphabit Digital Currency Fund and formerly served as the Managing Director of Binary Financial. These responsibilities have provided him with unparalleled insight into the crypto/blockchain world and enabled him to build a critical network of contacts, which has allowed him to rapidly expand his market expertise.

Saeed Hareb began his work with ADIA in October 2009 as an Operations specialist and was promoted to Fixed Income & Treasury specialist in May 2013. He left ADIA in June 2018 to pursue a career in the crypto/blockchain industry.

Jitendra Vaswani

CEO | BloggersIdeas.com

Marco Funk

CEO | Decarb.Earth

Let’s decarbonize!

In 2020 I founded decarb.earth, an ecosystem aligning the stakeholders of decarbonization via smart contract financing. To get here was quite the journey… At the initial stage of my career I engrossed myself in learning languages and understanding different cultures while working in international hubs of business and commerce. My academic background lies in Operations Research, Investment Analysis and Economics; culminating in a master’s thesis on effective funding.

After graduating I worked as an analyst for the Nielsen Company, before entering the world of entrepreneurship and moving to Singapore via co-founding a tech start-up. During these two years it became apparent to me how important access to strategic investors is; and after receiving an offer to enter the world of private banking in Dubai, I took the chance to nurture a strong network of high net worth individuals before finding the opportunity I had been searching for.

For decades humankind has been negatively impacting the environment and thereby themselves. Inspired by the versatility of the hemp plant I entered the hemp industry in Switzerland. Paying extra towards hydrogen energy for our facility, I thought “wouldn’t it be great if there was a platform showcasing those enterprises running on renewables?” That line of thinking led me to decarb.earth – where we leverage off the best technology has to offer to optimize the funding of clean energy projects for enterprises of all sizes.

James Bowater

Founder & Editor-at-Large | Crypto AM

James is the founder of the London Blockchain Forum, the GlobalAmbassador for World Mobile, an advisor and member of the Foundation board at MELD, an advisor to the Boson Protocol, an advisor to CUDOS, an investor and advisor to Cornucopias “TheIsland”, ambassador for BEQUANT and consultant for Sheesha.Finance

He is Founder & Editor at Large Crypto AM. Crypto AM was launched nearly three years ago in the renowned London financial newspaper City AM.

The plan was to help showcase new frontier technologies like AI, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, distributed ledger technology and tokenisation to the traditional finance readership. Over time, this platform has expanded to include decentralized finance (DeFi), digital assets, and the internet of things (IoT).

James and City AM have expanded the offering as CryptoAM.io to move content online as printing presses respond to Covid-19 restrictions. As audience and content grow, Crypto AM is expanding the team including Darren Parkin as day to day Editor and launching Crypto AM Quarterly Magazine in the autumn of 2021.

Crypto AM is far more than just a newspaper section or website. James has travelled the world meeting the industry at large and has built a global following and community with the WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal platforms as well as the large number of events pre-Covid including the highly regarded inaugural Crypto AM Awards 2020, attended by the Lord Mayor of the City of London. The Crypto AM London Blockchain Summit incorporating the Crypto AM City of London Roundtable.

He studied business courses at the University of Westminster from 1995 to 1998. Before that time he was at Eton College.

Causes that matter to James: Arts & Culture, Education, Environment, Health and Science & Technology

Bowater skope at the AIBC 2021 Conferencee about: Could Smart Contracts revolutionise Smart Money forever? (At the AIBC Stage Day 2)

James Bowater, Founder & Editor At Large at Crypto AM, did us the honour of speaking at AIBC Summit this November 2021 during the main stage event for Blockchain & The Economy!

James Bowater moderated the panel 🔹 Could Smart Contracts Revolutionise Smart Money Forever? 🔹 with fellow speakers:
🗣 Eric Wall, CIO at Arcane Assets
🗣 Luis Carbajo, Founder & CEO at Vottun

AIBC Summit aims to be a pillar in the technological development by uniting tech-leaders, regulators, investors and entrepreneurs from across the world to discuss, share ideas, make partnerships and build the foundation for the industry of tomorrow.

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Susan Oh

Advisor | Kryptic

Laura K. Inamedinova

Founder & CEO | LKI Consulting

Laura K. Inamedinova is the CEO of London based, Marketing, Design and Web Development agency “LKI Consulting”. The majority of “LKI Consulting” clients are B2B technology-based companies working in the industries such as Software, Mobile, SaaS, Big Data, Fintech, Cybersecurity, etc. LKI Consulting is an international Marketing, Design and Web Development agency based in London. The majority of LKI Consulting clients are B2B technology-based companies working in the industries such as Software, Mobile, SaaS, Big Data, Fintech, Cybersecurity, etc. Its insightful strategic approach to research and audit, developed marketing & PR strategies, honest and transparent digital marketing, creative design and web development speak for themselves. We deliver a personal, passionate and tailored service to each and every one of our clients, big or small.

Laura’s expertise lies in developing bullet-proof and result-driven communications strategies for those companies who want to take their brand to the next level. She takes on companies that work with challenging projects and needs quick yet effective solutions.

She frequently appears in local and international conferences where she touches important issues like advocating for bigger women involvement in the technology sector. She has been quoted in various publications, such as Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, etc.
In 2020, Miss Inamedinova has been named as one of the “10 Women Entrepreneurs Who Are Shattering the Glass Ceiling” by Entrepreneur magazine. Huffington Post has titled her as “Communications Expert” in 2016.

She was Chief Communications Officer (CCO) during one year at CyberNews. It delivers your daily dose of the latest tech trends, editorials, cyber tips, software and product reviews, in-depth research, and eye-opening think pieces. Created a structure and workflow of the Communications Department.

Moreover, she was Head Of Communications at Aurora Cannabis during one year. Aurora Hemp, part of Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB), brings together the cultivars, strategic partners, brands, and distribution networks to service medical, consumer, and wellness markets and further advances Aurora’s entry into the US hemp food and hemp-derived CBD markets.

Laura K. Inamedinova holds a Bachelor of Physics from Vilnius University. During her time in the university, she was a member of Physics faculty-student association.

Martina Åkerlund

CEO | CallsU

Kassem Lahham

Entrepreneur & Angel Investor | Bright Wealth Banking

Armed with deep product knowledge, being fluent in German, Arabic, French, and English languages, and with deep relationships and strategy experiences acquired through his long-term banking relationship for the significant Swiss Banks, he proceeded to advise on Financial- & Private Banking businesses for international banking institutions and financial companies in Asia and the GCC.

Kassem is also a Certified German Banking Teacher and holds many Diploma in Economics and Finance from Germany, the USA, and the UK and guest lecturing today for major Universities regularly on Finance, Due Diligence processes, Cryptocurrencies, ICOs, AI’s and Blockchain themes.

Isabella Händel

CEO | Masterblox Labs

Isabella is an experienced marketing professional with 8 years of industry experience. She has a proven track record of success, having worked with well-known brands such as Siemens and Volkswagen. Two years ago, Isabella transitioned into the blockchain industry, and since then she has been leading Masterblox Labs, a company that is at the forefront of some of the most exciting web3 projects on the market. With her extensive experience and unique growth hacking strategies, Isabella is well-positioned to drive growth and success for these projects, leveraging her prior experience and her new knowledge of the blockchain market.

Chris Smith

Founder | Business In Game

Tejinder Kumar

CCO | FINIXIO

Tejinder Kumar

Gustavo Montero

Founder & Chairman | Carter Capital

Gustavo is Swiss, trained Engineer, MBA, MSc. Over 30 year’s senior Banking/Finance management experience at Chairman, Board of Directors, and CEO level. Solid Corporate- Private Equity Management/ Finance experience, including Fintech – Blockchain, DEFI , Crypto currencies , M & A, IPO, ICO, STO. – Specialist in Company strategy , formation & business development – Inspirational leader with strong entrepreneurial spirit. – Fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

Adel Bhurtun

Co-Founder & CEO | Traders Brawl

Adel’s extensive experience in the cryptoassets world was derived from working for the UK regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Adel acted as the ‘Crypto-asset policeman’ who granted and refused cryptoasset licenses to UK applicants that sought UK registration in order to provide cryptoasset services such as setting up a crypto exchange and/or providing crypto asset custodial services.

Adel’s career took a turn after realizing that working for the government/regulator was tremendously slow at innovating itself, alongside the fact that the FCA’s conservative approach created complex crypto asset application criteria and reporting requirements that stifled innovation.

Adel now manages his own marketing consultancy in Dubai working with start-ups with the aim to educate people about the next evolution of the internet. Adel is also the host of the Traders Brawl podcast, an in-house talk-show that focusses on bridging the gap between fitness and financial freedom, and so-called, ‘GymPreneurs’. Adel’s hobbies include videography, health & fitness weight-training and exploring new countries.

Traders Brawl is a social media agency that provides affordable marketing services for Web3-based start-ups and projects. Traders Brawl devises social media content strategies with diarised calendars of when and what to publish for companies that are in their early stages of starting. The problem that Traders Brawl addresses is providing affordable marketing services to start ups with limited capital.

Vas Modinos

Founder | Blockready

Vas Modinos is an IT professional with over 22 years of experience in technical consulting & sales for enterprise-sized Fortune 500 companies. He spent the last 18 years of his career at Microsoft, leading and orchestrating large-scale, complex cloud solution discussions and driving competitive direction through a relationship-based approach.

He is also a blockchain, crypto, and web3 enthusiast and has been engaged in blockchain and crypto research for more than seven years. He has been a consistent early adopter in this space and learned the hard way! He founded Blockready to help individuals and companies fast-track their blockchain and crypto education and avoid his “early adopter” mistakes!

Alexander Fazel

CPO | SwissBorg

Alexander Mihailovski

Co-Founder & CPO | eComCharge UAB

Alexander Mihailovski is an e-commerce professional with extensive experience in creating and managing online payment processing systems. He is a very effective communicator at all levels with acquiring banks and payment service providers.

He is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at eComCharge UAB – the company, which develops white-label software for payment gateways and online payment processing systems, known as the beGateway WLS platform, designed for payment service providers and acquiring banks to create and operate their own payment gateways customized under their brand names quickly and without internal IT team.

Alexander’s goal is to provide his clients with comprehensive online payment processing software which looks, works, and perceives as their in-house solution but has all the benefits and costs of a SaaS.

With more than 20 years of experience in the software and online payment industry, he has a wide range of contacts across the banking and electronic payments industry but is always open to new business connections. He can advise on many questions about online payment processing, internet acquiring, payment service providers, etc.

Luca Tagliaferro

International SEO Consultant | Tag Digital

Alex Tsepaev

CSO | B2Broker

Alena Zharkovskaya

PR Director | ATMOSFERA

Alena Zharkovskaya is a Head Manager of PR at Atmosfera, Viral Short Content Creator & Influencer and Instagram Public Speaker with 5+ years of experience in building global business relationships in international companies.

H.E. Mr. Zulfiquar Ghadiyali

Member, Commission for Peace | UPEACE Ambassador

H.E. Mr. Zulfiquar Ghadiyali is a multi-facetted technocrat, businessman and entrepreneur donning multiple hats. His business interests and acumen span different countries and diverse sectors across all major continents. He is a social entrepreneur and a social innovator, who aspires to create a significant social impact on countries and their citizens.

H.E. is a seasoned Investment management professional having managed several funds and investment initiatives across sectors worldwide.

H.E.. Ghadiyali’s founding member of United Nations University for peace established Commission for peace under its peace innovation Initiative. H.E. Ghadiyali is also Global Peace Ambassador for the University for peace to support sustainable development in order to establish long term positive peace across the world.

H.E is Executive Director of Business and Investment management office of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Khalifa Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan with over 30 years of experience in Investments and management and has executed deals worth 30 Billion USD across the World across various sectors.

Shafeeq Qureshi

Co-Founder | TheCryptoHub.com

Shafeeq is a serial entrepreneur having previously worked in financial markets in consulting, management & executive search with a focus on Trading & Risk management for leading investment banks and energy companies in London, Brussels & Paris.

He is an LSE alumni with a diverse experience that includes roles with the UN and international NGOs besides his entrepreneurial ventures of the last 15 years in Agritech, Fintech, Energy & Blockchain while living the life of a global citizen in Europe, US, the Middle East, CIS, West Africa & India.

He is the founder of Sollix Consulting, which provides advisory & consulting solutions to clients with a focus on Fintech, AI, Blockchain & Sustainability and is currently building TheCryptoHub.com, a platform to curate early-stage Web3 start-ups and an ecosystem for Crypto & Web3 entrepreneurs and investors.

He is currently based in the UAE and is a passionate traveler, fitness-enthusiast and an aspiring writer.

Kaspar Szymanski

Director | SearchBrothers

Kaspar Szymanski a renowned SEO expert, former senior member of the famed Google Search Quality team and among the select few former Googlers with extensive policy driving, webspam hunting and webmaster outreach expertise.

Nowadays Kaspar applies his skill set to recover websites from Google penalties and help clients to max out the potential of their websites in search engines.

Bailey Dodds

Head of Partnership | Copiosa

Bailey is the Head of Partnerships at Copiosa, where he leads their business development team. His background in education lends itself well to his main passion, explaining the world of cryptocurrency to newcomers in the Web3 space.

Joan de Ramón Brunet

Head of Institutional & Ecosystem Business Development | EthicHub

Entrepreneur soul and DeFi believer. During the past 2 years, Joan has been founding a Private Crypto ReFi investment fund, Cluster, focusing on minimizing entrance barriers for institutional investors. Now, as Head of Growth at EthicHub, the first ReFi protocol founded in 2017, is the time to scale.

Amir Student

CRO | MarketAcross

Amir has been active in the web3 world since 2016 working on major projects such as the first Security token offering Tzero.

At the Marketacross Group, The market leading PR firm in Crypto, Amir works to grow the organization through both internal innovations like Chainwire the industry’s first and leading newswire distribution service, as well as strategic initiatives with our deep network of leading blockchain funds, protocols, and global media partners.

Amna Usman Chaudhry

Consultant with the Blockchain and Web 3.0 team | GIGA

Amna Usman Chaudhry has been involved in the blockchain and Web 3.0 space for quite a few years now, She is the winner of the Global Woman in Web 3.0 Award and has been featured as one of the “Top 100 Women of the Future”.

Amna is also on the list of the “Most Inspirational Women of Web 3 and the Metaverse.”. Amna is a Consultant with the Blockchain and Web 3.0 team at Giga.

Giga is a UNICEF and ITU initiative which aims to connect every school in the world to the internet by 2030 with a focus on inclusion for every child to equal opportunity towards education.

Giga also have the largest ever NFT Collection by the UN called the Patchwork Kingdoms Collection that raised more than $700,000 for the Giga initiative, and now are releasing a revolutionary second collection.

Amna is a graduate level with teaching experience in London and Dubai. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusion.

Ayesha Mubarak Ali

Co-Founder & Creative Director | Metavisionaries

Ayesha is an Internationally acclaimed Visual Tech-Artist and Wearable Art Designer/Researcher, focusing on Fusion-art practices. She is the Founder and CEO of Oshii Brownie Phygital Company and Co-Founder of Metavisionaries. Her work often explores the synergy between humans and machines, the intersection of technology and identity. By combining sci-fi themes, and the hidden mysteries of fractal worlds, she creates interactive and hybrid experiences through her multi-layered visuals and VR concepts.

She has displayed her work at WOW festival, Islington Mill, Mowna Biennale,Karachi Biennale 2022, Be-Fantastic Tech-Art, NFT.NYC, MET-AMS, INNOVATE 100,Women of the Future Book, Forbes Middle East, GEO, SAAMA, Express-News, Independent Urdu, E27, DailyTimes etc. Her research is published in the areas of Digital Fashion,Light Pollution and sustainable art practices in international journals. She has been speaking at leading Web 3 and Nfts events like NFT.NYC London, Decentral Miami, +92Disrupt to name a few.

Dr. Naveen Singh

Founder & CEO | Inery

Nadiia Dvoinos

Marketing Expert | NOS Amigos

Nadiia Dvoinos is a serial entrepreneur, Marketing & PR Strategist, Work-Life Balance Coach. Сo-founder and Marketing Expert at NosAmigos (Kyiv, Dubai).

The company has over 50 successful marketing and PR projects for Tech Startups and Enterprises in blockchain, telecommunications, retail, education, real estate, and medicine.

Ex editor of MC.today (exited in 2018) – online media about tech & entrepreneurship.
Ex co-founder of Quadrate28 (exited in 2021) – marketing agency for SMB`s and startups.

Key Expertise: Business solutions; Marketing strategy; Personal brand; Public relations; Work-Life Balance and Mindfulness.

Nadiia Dvoinos has 10 years of experience in working with both tech startups and large enterprises helping to create a marketing and PR strategy and build a personal brand for company executives and entrepreneurs.

By managing a company and a daughter at the same time, she also learned how to achieve work-life balance and become a coach and advisor for many entrepreneurs.

Amateur swimming athlete (Oceanman 14k, Bosphorus 6.5k, etc) and competitive Wake-surfer.

Andreas Tsindos

CEO | MWAN

Andreas is a Fintech, Digital and Blockchain professional with over 25 years’ experience. Worked and consulted in several multinationals like Vodafone, Siemens and Saudi Telecom Company.

Has been successfully running MWAN for the last 12 years with notable clients like UAE Telecoms Regulator, Abu Dhabi Health Authority, Del Monte Arabia, Vodafone and STC to name a few.

Over the last 7 years has developed a Blockchain Enterprise Infrastructure Enabler solution on top of the decentralised Blockchain protocols delivering real Blockchain technology and solutions enabling NFT Marketplaces, Physical Commodities, Trade finance, Supply chain, Legal Contracts, Health Authorities, Metal Certification and Music Industry payments.

He is a strong advocate gaining practical knowledge in the Blockchain space and is a respected speaker at several industry events and workshops on Fintech and Blockchain technology.

Mario Nawfal

Co-Founder & CEO | NFT Techonologies

Mario Nawfal is the Founder of the Athena Group of Companies, a business conglomerate of 15+ companies that operates in more than 40 countries. He started his first business with $300 in the bank selling blenders door to door which led to Froothie Australia.

Through unconventional marketing techniques, efficient logistical systems, and a team of global contractors, he propelled Froothie to $1m in year one and over $10m in year two, all bootstrapped. Since then Mario launched multiple ventures into the millions, all bootstrapped, including an events business, a FinTech consulting firm, a marketing agency, and multiple e-com businesses all while surviving a massive scam, various black swan events, and all the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.

He continues to launch new companies, is a partner at a law firm, and the founder of a VC fund. In 2020, Mario decided to begin documenting his journey and helping other entrepreneurs at no cost, all while traveling the world pursuing his hobby dancing Bachata. He also launched the world’s largest growth hacking agency, WeAreGrowthHackers.com, and became a partner at NorthEquities.com.

In 2021, Mario stepped up as CEO of NFT Technologies, one of the first companies focusing on NFTs going public, and have the ticker symbol NFT reserved in North America. They are backed by leading personalities in the crypto and business world as well as celebrities and thought leaders.

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Alex J.

CEO | LetsExchange.io

Paula Tavangar

Partner & CIO | Injaz Capital

Paula Tavangar is a seasoned entrepreneur and respected leader in the Fintech, Blockchain, and Quantitative Finance sectors. With a wealth of experience and a proven track record, Paula has taken on the role of Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Injaz Capital – External Asset Management.

Beyond her ventures, Paula actively engages with the World Business Angels Forum (WBAF) Global Startup Committee, where she represented the WBAF as a commissioner in the United Arab Emirates. Paula holds a B.A. in International Finance and an MSc diploma in Financial Engineering, specializing in Automated Trading Systems

Cinderella Amar

Executive Director | MartrixPort

Seasoned expert in the crypto space with 15 years of experience in Capital Markets and a deep understanding of Web3 gained through 4+ years of hands-on experience.

Cindy has a proven track record in building and scaling successful businesses. Implemented AI chatbots to streamline workflow, allowing the trading floor to generate more revenues.

She has advised and partnered with Large Digital Assets Hedge Funds, Market Makers, Asset Managers, Protocols and Crypto related technologies start-ups.

Multilingual and educated in Business, Fintech, and Psychology at top universities. Passionate about extreme sports and driving innovation in the industry. A blockchain evangelist at heart.

Joel Michael

Founder & CEO | Oceans & Us

Joel Michael is a passionate Environmentalist and seasoned Entrepreneur working on Climate Tech and the development of Circular Economy ecosystems.

He helps organizations accomplish Carbon Neutrality by developing and implementing Carbon Offset Projects and working towards a Net Zero future. He specializes in the development and trading of Carbon and Plastic Credits and is actively involved in Circular Economy solutions around Ocean Clean-Up, Waste to Energy, Plastic Recycling, Reforestation, Green Mobility, Food-Wastage Reduction, and Green Crypto Mining.

Joel is skilled in Business Design & Development, Market, Strategic Alliances & Partnerships, Deal Structuring, Fundraising, Corporate Innovation & Change Management.

A student of Six Sigma, PMP, and Design Thinking, Joel began his early career training senior management of Fortune 500 companies on the importance of innovation and corporate culture for continued development and sustainable growth.

Joel hosts a Podcast called ‘Pods Green Earth’, interviewing Thought Leaders and Entrepreneurs in Climate Change and Sustainability.

Kevin Imani

CEO | Sankore 2.0 / near Kenya Hub

Kevin is the Founder and CEO of Sankore 2.0, which operates in Kenya as NEAR Regional Hub, dedicated to blockchain innovation, education and talent development throughout the African continent.

He is also the Director of Open Forest Protocol Hub (Kenya), which uses blockchain to monitor forest projects end-to-end and offers carbon financing to organizations that might otherwise be excluded from the existing accreditation industry.

Kevin holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in African Studies.

José. F. Pereira

Investments | Caerus Ventures

José. F. Pereira is an investment strategy and analysis specialist running NEAR Foundation’s Caerus – a Web3 venture capital fund focused on Culture & Entertainment applications. Before Caerus, he was part of SwissBorg’s investment team, getting SwissBorg Ventures off the ground and leading research and diligence. He is passionate about studying market behaviour and helping startups thrive.

Caerus:

Caerus is a Venture Capital Fund and Lab that sits at the intersection of where creators, talent and IP owners meet capital, technology and change makers. We back and build the next generation of applications which feed our cultural passions and position creators and consumers at the heart of these new enterprises. Our mission is to be a catalyst for innovation that unleashes sports, music, film, TV, fashion, art and gaming Web3 projects that offer greater equity for all.

Paula Hajduczenia

Head of Investments | Masterblox

Paula Hajduczenia is a seasoned Polish-American entrepreneur with extensive global experience in the venture capital industry. She expertly blends her knowledge of high-end blockchain technology with business development and investments to create a unique skillset. As the current Head of Investment for the Masterblox Foundation, Paula helps to rapidly scale onboarding projects.

Dr Andreas Mathikolonis

Senior Investment Analyst | Quonota Investments

Edward Condrat

Senior Esports Lead & Project Manager | Empire Play

Edward is the Senior Esports Lead & Project Manager at Empire Play, an agency based in Abu Dhabi that focuses on producing Arabic Esports content in the MENA region and localizing/distributing international gaming & Esports content.

Edward joined Empire Play at its launch in 2018. Currently, he is responsible for expanding and managing Empire Play`s operations. Empire Play`s services include Esports tournament management, live broadcast & studio content production, broadcast talent/influencers management, marketing campaigns for brands, and NFT/metaverse solutions.

Wadih Al Sayah

eSports Expert | Wadih Al Sayah

Wadih made his way up in the MENA community from coaching, casting and running events to a position where he can impact the region development! His focus now is on sharing insights and guiding individuals and companies that are looking to make their mark on the industry.

Aravind Swaminathan

Co-founder & Bussiness Director | Calyx

An avid gamer since the age of 3 with a semi-professional background in Counter Strike (Source, GO). A 25 year old computer engineer that deviated from the norm and got into the esports and gaming business in the region while still being in University; in turn becoming one of the co-founders of Calyx.

VESA

NFT Artist | VESA

”Vesa’s art is amongst the most integrally advanced in the history of Western abstraction – no small claim, but one backed up by the works themselves. Rather than abstraction as a fleeing from life, his works are a diving into the incarnate mystery of human being — direct celebrations of the fullness of Life.”

Pavlina Papalouka

Branding Strategist / Founder | AwakenSpace Education

Pavlina Papalouka is the founder of AwakenSpace Education, an International Award Winning Speaker, Personal Branding Expert, Video Blogger and Business coach specialising in helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses, through building powerful and influential personal brands.

During the past 12 years, she has collaborated and shared the stage with numerous world-class authorities in the coaching and the speaking world, by speaking internationally and running big seminars and online trainings on the topics of Personal Growth, Entrepreneurship, Social Media and Digital Marketing.

She has also launched he signature best-selling online courses and mentoring programs in Personal Branding, Digital Course Creation, Speaking from Stage, Video Marketing, Presenting and Selling on Webinars and Content Marketing.

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Cordelia Morgan Cooper

Founder | CMC Consulting

Cordelia Morgan Cooper

Paul Dawalibi

CEO | Holodeck Ventures

Leila Hurstel

Founder | AllStarsWomenDAO

Tanja Dimitrijevic

Head of Legal | Red Acre Group

Matthias Mende

Founder | Bonuz Market

Matthias Mende is a German entrepreneur living in Dubai since 2007. In 2016, Mende developed an interest in Bitcoin, which drove him to research further into blockchain technology.

He is a key opinion leader and influencer with followers of more than 300,000 across his social media platforms. Additionally, Mende has considerable experience with crypto-mining and trading. In 2018, he served as Chief Strategic Officer in Block Gemini, the most significant blockchain software developer in the Middle East. He assisted with different enterprise blockchain applications for governments and other major companies.

Mende is also an advisor for the German HYGH AG and the CEO of the Dubai Blockchain Center, which he co-founded. Currently, he is dedicated to building the Bonuz Market Social Engagement Ecosystem – a multi-blockchain socialfi and gamefi web3 platform with its own self-sovereign digital identity and its native currency.

Luca Arrigo

Co-Founder | Metaverse Architects

Aideen Shortt

Advisor to Minister of Finance | Curaçao

Wesley Ellul

CCO | Quizando

Wesley Ellul is an experienced founder and digital marketing professional with a proven track record of working in the entertainment industry. He is skilled in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Ecommerce Consultant, PHP, WordPress, Theater and Event Management. Strong professional with a BA focused on Communication and Media Studies from L-Università ta’ Malta.

Wesley is the co-founder and CCO of Quizando, a state-of-the-art quiz delivery system that gives players the chance to win real cash for taking part in a variety of different trivia games.

For the past 8 years Wesley Ellul has also been co-founder, director, producer of Comedy Knights.

In 2005 he co-founded Findit.com, Malta’s first Online business directory which has been a leader in the market for the past 13 years.

Wesley is also one of the founders of Ticketline.com.mt, Malta’s leading ticketing services provider and Big-Ticket Events, one of Malta’s top large-scale event’s organizers and promoters.

In 2017 he became director of The Comedy Island, a new comedy project.

Michaela Lallouz

Founder & Web3 Strategy Consultant | WEB3 Space

Michaela is a multi-talented creative who has combined her skills in Web3 strategy, Filmmaking, Journalism, Public Speaking, Directing, and Acting. She uses her art and her platform to bring awareness to the importance of mental health, the potential of Web3 technology to create a more equitable world, and to empower young adults to take control of their lives.

Michaela is an avid learner and has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to Web3 technology. She has been able to use her knowledge of web3 and turn it into a successful career as a community strategist. She is a sought-after public speaker and has been featured on multiple podcasts and web3 conventions such as NYC NFT and The Dubai World Trade Center’s METACON convention. She works and travels from New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Dubai, where she is currently based. She is a passionate networker, connecting people from all walks of life to create a better future. Through her strong presence within the web3 space and ability to keep up to date with the latest trends, Michaela started to host her own daily show featuring guests such as Dolce & Gabbana, Ryan Carson, UAE NFT and many more.

In addition to her work in the Web3 space, Michaela is also the director of Mission Bonita, a company devoted to the emotional well-being and empowerment of children around the world. She has brought the Mission Bonita Children’s series to the global stage, gaining the support of famous politicians, presidents, Nobel peace prize winners, the UN, celebrities, athletes, artists, poets, and influencers.

As an early adopter in the Web3 space, she has leveraged her knowledge to provide a secure environment to her community and simplify Web3 concepts for newcomers in the space globally. Through her own self-education and her involvement in the right communities, Michaela has been able to 15X her investments. She utilizes her platform to raise consciousness about the significance of mental health, the opportunities Web3 technology has to offer, and to give young adults the ability to take charge of their lives and achieve financial independence.

Mahiar Afrooz

Co-Founder & CEO | ROYA

Mahiar Afrooz is CEO & Cofounder of ROYA and accomplished entrepreneur with a unique vision for future disruptions.

His dedication and craving for new learning experiences have placed him in the top tier of Scandinavian founders.

His cultural background and strong family values always made him look for sustainable solutions with a strong sense for solidarity.

Over ten years ago, he discovered the disruptive power of the blockchain and used the last decade to study every angle of it to finally build a sustainable blockchain ecosystem.

Patrice Poujol

Founder & CEO | Lumiere Project

Patrice Poujol Founder and CEO of Lumière / ACIM Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong Patrice is the founder and CEO of Lumière (??) which has recently partnered with Finfabrik to create a series of film finance tool aimed to facilitate access to film funding for independent producers, to increase transparency for all the film industry professionals, and to reduce investment risk for film financiers. Their first tokenized film ‘Papicha’ was selected by the Cannes film festival and it is Algeria’s nomination for Best International Feature Film for the Oscars

Mohammad Sear

Digital Government & Public Sector Consulting Leader | EY Africa, India, Middle East

Mohammad J Sear is focused on bringing purpose to digital in government.

He is an explorer of the metaverse, and on a mission to cutting through the noise and hype to make sense of what this new revolution really means for citizens and their governments.

He has obtained his leadership training from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA and holds an MBA from the University of Leicester, UK.

After a successful 12+ years career in the UK government during the premiership of three Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair, Mohammad moved to the private sector and has now for 20+ years been advising government organizations in the UK, Middle East, Australasia and South Asia on strategic challenges and digital transformation.

He is currently working for Ernst & Young (EY) and leading the Digital Government practice efforts across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and is also a Digital Government and Innovation lecturer at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, France.

As a thought-leader some of the articles he has authored include: “Digital is great but exclusion isn’t – make data work for driving better digital inclusion” published in Harvard Business Review, “Holistic Digital Government” published in the MIT Technology Review, “Want To Make Citizens Happy – Put Experience First” published in Forbes Middle East, and others such as “Bringing Purpose to Digital in Government”, “How Digital is Changing the Way We Listen to Customers”, “Driving Citizen Centricity”. “5G is transforming government service delivery”.

Taylor Freeman

Co-Founder & CEO | Axon Park

Daniel Buttigieg

CCO | Apcopay

Daniel has been involved in the industry for two decades initially engaged in the sale and implementation of financial management systems, payroll, stock and POS turnkey solutions to the hospitality, retail and manufacturing industries locally.

Lending himself toward the business development aspects an organization, he was later involved in the internationalization of a regulatory reporting business intelligence platform within the banking sector, dedicating his final dissertation to a case study where he read for his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Malta, awarded with distinction.

Within Apcopay, Daniel is responsible for the commercial and onboarding functions of the company, involving compliance to external as well as internal requirements, development of new business verticals as well as forming strategic alliances with banking and payment processing services with various Partners in the industry.

Tom Busby

Co-Founder | Cryptobusy & Cby Capital

James Far

Founder & CEO | Magiccraft & James Crypto Guru

Josh Moden

Co-Founder | Cryptobusy & Cby Capital

Valerie Hawley

Director of Corporate Partnerships | SCAI

Valerie Hawley is Director of Corporate Partnerships the Sorbonne Centre for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI), in Abu Dhabi, an entity aiming to enhance AI capabilities across the Middle East. SCAI focuses on Healthcare, Financial Services and Climate Change. Her expertise lies in advising companies on their disruptive innovation strategy by developing use cases and competencies in AI related technologies.

Valerie brings over 12 years of experience in disruptive innovation: first as an entrepreneur; second, in her leadership role in setting up the digital innovation and entrepreneurship program at HEC Paris; and third, in her previous role as the head of innovation at Daman, the National Health Insurance Company of Abu Dhabi.

Valerie graduated from Sup’Optique and HEC Paris. Her strategic consulting skills were honed at KPMG where she managed multi-disciplinary teams. Valerie has been working in the UAE for over 12 years and has built a vast network within the innovation and tech ecosystem.

Valerie is passionate about new technologies and especially Web 3 technologies. She is an active investor in the space. She is a General Partner in True Global Ventures VC fund. True Global Ventures (TGV) is a global Venture Capital firm built by a group of serial entrepreneurs with a solid track record of investing their own money together with Limited Partners into ventures run by serial entrepreneurs. Portfolio companies leverage web3 technologies, incorporating blockchain as competitive advantages to drive change with proven products

Marcello Mari

Founder & CEO | SingularityDAO

Marcello Mari is the CEO and co-founder of SingularityDAO, a decentralized finance project that pioneered artificial intelligence. 2x TEDx speaker with extensive knowledge of DeFi and Blockchain Marcello attends the majority of international speaking events on a regular basis. Marcello was also a part of the SingularityNET founding team, working closely with Sophia the Robot.

Maverick Milkowski

Co-Founder & CEO | StarHeroes Game

Jaguar-Adva Gal

CEO | Jaguar Reg&Comp

She spoke at the AIBC conference about : The evolution of Token offerings and regulation across Europe (Day 2)

Megan Easey

Marketing Director | SunContract

Megan Easey’s career focus has always been on connecting human potential with operational methodologies that enable individuals and teams to perform at their best. As Marketing Director for SunContract, Megan holistically believes that SunContract’s blockchain based energy trading platform is news to take the world.

Muneeb Mushtaq

Co-Founder & CEO | Airzai

Muneeb Mushtaq is a Canadian entrepreneur and public speaker with an impressive track record of founding and selling successful startups. At the age of 20, he established his first venture, an online marketing agency, which was acquired just two years later.

He then co-founded AskforTask, an on-demand consumer platform for home services that achieved profitability within 18 months under his leadership and became the second-largest on-demand platform in Canada. AskforTask was awarded the fastest-growing Canadian startup by TechCrunch.

Currently, Muneeb is the co-founder of Airzai, a groundbreaking AI-based wellness startup that has received industry-wide acclaim. With an investor list that includes Grammy-award-winning artist Drake and award-winning industrial designer Fred Bould, who is also Airzai’s chief designer.

Muneeb is also a respected keynote speaker and TEDx speaker, frequently speaking on the topics of entrepreneurship, AI, mindset, and wellness on stages around the world.

Muneeb’s entrepreneurial journey and achievements highlight his commitment to innovation and his expertise in building successful startups. His passion for creating innovative solutions that improve people’s lives continues to inspire and drive his work.

Michael Sung

Chairman & CEO | Freeflow Finance

Michael Sung is a technology venture builder and investor focused on the blockchain, digital finance, and Fintech industries. Prof. Sung is Chairman/CEO of FreeFlow Finance, a leading cross-border payments company developing regulated digital currency interoperability and on-chain FX infrastructure solutions for retail B2B commerce and trade.

Prof. Sung is also founding partner for LucidBlue Ventures, a digital assets venture building fund focused on DeFi, NFT infrastructure, Gamefi, and Metaverse deals. He is the founding Director for both the Institute of Digital Finance Innovation at the Zhejiang International Business School and the Fintech Research Center at the Fanhai International School of Finance at Fudan University.

Prof. Sung is a Global Blockchain Business Council ambassador, Professional Council member for the Global Fintech Institute, and Digital Economy Task Force member for the UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network. Prof. Sung has received various awards for technology entrepreneurship, including MIT Enterprise Forum’s Most Visionary Technology Award and Google’s Solve for X Prize. Prof. Sung received his Ph.D. in EECS at the MIT Media Lab/Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

In general my positioning is on the institutional adoption of digital finance where I have developed a strong expertise in. I am generally recognized as a leading expert on CBDCs and specifically the e-CNY, where I have been interviewed by CNBC, Time, WSJ, etc. on CBDC regulation, technology interoperability related to CBDCs, cross-border payments for CBDC/stablecoins, and how digital currencies will disrupt the international monetary system.

My other emerging topic of expertise is in institutional adoption of Web3/metaverse, where I focus as a venture builder/investor on on the financialization later of Web3. As the current downturn on NFTs/virtual real estate/Meta-style metaverses, real world brands need to find new sustainable business models (such as advertising, IP transactions, etc)

Gregor Novak

Co-Founder & President | SunContract

Cofounder and President of SunContract, Gregor lives and breathes his passion for renewable energy as a highly accomplished and seasoned senior executive who has built a proven platform to take blockchain based energy trading to the world.

Vikas Pandey

WEB3 Advisor & Architect | Byte Holding/Near

Jurgen Hoebarth

Founder | NFT.Art

Vanshika Srivastava

Devrel | Biconomy

Vanshika Srivastava is a tech evangelist, creator and developer. She works at Biconomy. Her expertise happens in developer relations and evangelism. She is plugged into Web3 and Crypto ecosystem.

Alexander Strigin

CEO | Relictum Pro

Alexander Strigin is an active specialist, an expert in information technology, with 13+ years of experience in the industry, who built his career from a junior engineer in applied and web development up to an entrepreneur in IT, a co-founder of the fintech company (startup) Relictum Pro, with 50+ thous. active users.

Since 2019 he has been the CEO of the leading fintech startup engaged in the development of the latest generation blockchain platform operating both publicly and privately, where each device is a node conducting instant and inexpensive transactions, with a throughput of up to 100 thous. transactions per second designed to be used by a wide range of people: from novices to advanced cryptocurrency users.

He believes that his main duty is to adhere to the basics of the blockchain technology based on the principles of openness, transparency, and privacy.

He also often attends various crypto podcasts, meetups, and conferences, intensively popularizing, promoting, and developing himself in this industry.

Akhila Komma

SEO Manager | Growth Leads

Akhila Komma is a highly experienced SEO Manager with a deep understanding of the iGaming industry. She is adept at developing and implementing SEO strategies that help online gaming websites increase their online visibility and drive organic traffic. With a strong background in keyword research, and on-page & off-page optimization, Akhila is dedicated to helping businesses in the iGaming industry to achieve their growth goals through effective SEO practices.

Janet Adams

COO | SingularityNET

Janet Adams, Chief Operating Officer of SingularityNET, is a disruptive tech advocate and decentralized AI expert with published works on Ethics and Regulation of AI. Janet’s leadership role at SingularityNET entails responsibility for decentralization, operations, technology, marketing, strategic partnerships and business development.

Prior to joining SingularityNET in 2021, Janet held global leadership roles in Banking Risk, Regulation and Technology, and she founded the industry’s first Conduct Framework for AI to guide the financial services industry towards use of AI in a way that benefits customers and societies.

Janet is dedicated to positive impact and in 2019 founded a Women in AI informal group of executive female leaders to assess and help to mitigate against the negative impact of AI on women’s jobs particularly in developing markets.

Janet is also passionate about contributing to progress in Africa via AI for speech translation and supporting musicians.

Alex MacDonald Vitale

Founder & CEO | Titan Advisory AG

From early years exploring intellectual property law and setting up a first company in sustainable design, Alex recently returned to his origins and established a Swiss-based advisory platform focused on identifying and accelerating positive impact ventures and technologies that offer genuine potential to support our collective futures.

His long-held belief in the importance of IP as one of humanity’s most powerful enablers and agent of change, along with a passion for adaptable solutions and sustainable growth, inevitably led him to alternative investment and DeFi, which Alex now sees as critically important catalysts of next-generation development.

Alex has benefitted from a uniquely broad career across both public and private sectors, extending from developed to frontier and emerging markets: after a decade in international relations and diplomatic postings that brought him to the Middle East, he tracked the increasing influence of corporates on government policy and by 2008 had pivoted to HSBC Bank and international investment, which in parallel, led to advising capital markets.

As a diplomat, his actions in political representation and crisis response helped improve government and private sector connectivity. In banking, Alex merged benchmarks in institutional corporate access and investor relations. By 2016 these perspectives led to him developing new legislation that would permanently improve regional capital market standards in corporate governance and transparency – with the objective of attracting long-term FDI (foreign direct investment) in support of the economic diversification agenda.

In response to recent turmoil, Alex has worked to develop a globally oriented, high-level perspective that can help clients and stakeholders mitigate risk – the idea is that by anticipating macro economic and geopolitical patterns more accurately, companies and ventures can start to ‘see around corners’ and so position more defensively.

Alex speaks five languages and since 2010 has lived between Dubai, Switzerland and the UK.

Dereck Hoogenkamp

CEO | Yalla Limited

Vineet Budki

CEO & Managing Partner | Cypher Capital

Vineet has led over 100+ investments in the crypto and blockchain space, investing in blockchain startups including Casper Labs, Mysten Labs, Torus, KILT and many more. He has spoken on VC Investments at events like Token 2049 – Singapore, WEF – Davos, DCentral – Austin TX, Nearcon &Nearverse – Lisbon, AIBC- Malta, Future Blockchain Summit – Dubai, Global Blockchain Congress, Agora – Dubai, Blockchain Life – Moscow, among others and is a known opinion leader across publications in the Middle East and South Asia.

David Orban

Managing Partner | Beyond Enterprizes

David is an investor, entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, and thought leader of the global technology landscape. His entrepreneurial accomplishments span several companies founded and grown over more than twenty years.

An early adopter of blockchain technologies and an active Bitcoin investor since 2010, he was the first to own Ether
during the Ethereum launch in 2014. He also led the adoption of Bitcoin and blockchain in start-ups and is an
advisor and investor in numerous blockchain companies and funds,such as Bitnation, Neuromation, Sun Exchange,
Wealth Migrate, Blockchain Capital, Bancor, Swarm Fund, and others. David was the keynote speaker at the first
Ethereal Summit in May 2017 in NewYork with an inspiring vision of how Blockchain technologies will catalyze a
phase change in the socio-economic organization of our societies, and in March 2018 at Blockchain Unbound in
Puerto Rico where he detailed the emancipation and empowerment that non-zero sum technologies are spreading
worldwide.

David is Managing Advisor of Beyond Enterprizes, a strategic advisory firm, providing technical leadership, support capabilities to projects in all stages of blockchain and new technology implementation and development. Beyond’s over 50 clients reached a combined market capitalization of over $14B, as of August 2021.

He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Network SocietyVentures , a seed stage global investment firm focused on innovative startups at the intersection of exponential technologies and decentralized networks. David is the Founder and a Trustee of Network Society Research, a London-based global think tank present in over 40 countries, creating a vision and analytical tools to allow individuals, enterprises and the society at large to deal positively with the unstoppable transformation to a world based on decentralized exponential technologies that are disrupting the traditional centralized and hierarchical functions of governments and corporations.

David is also on the Faculty of and Advisor to the Singularity University, based at the NASA Research Park in Moffett Field, California, an investor in the Singularity University Labs Accelerator Fund (now SUVentures), and was President of SingularityU Italy. SU is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to
address humanity’s grand challenges.

As a sought-after speaker, he has given over 100 keynote addresses and speeches around the world for organizations including Abbvie, Cisco, Oracle, Roche, E&Y,Accenture, Gilead, ENEL, Intesa, Banca Sella, Mediolanum,Alphabet, Internet Advertising Bureau, European Foundation for Management Development, and H-Farm. He is an author of Something New about the role of artificial intelligence in our society.The book is available in
three languages, English, Italian, and Spanish.

David is a mentor for the Thiel Fellowship, a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Lifeboat Foundation, a Founder of the Open Government Data working group, and an Advisor to the Institute of Ethics and EmergentTechnologies and numerous startups. He was the Chairman of the Board, and is an Advisor to Humanity+, an organization dedicated to promoting understanding, interest, and participation in fields of scientific advancement and emerging innovation that benefit the human condition. He was an Adjunct Professor at LUISS Business School in Rome, one of Italy’s leading institutions.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, he studied Physics at the University of Milan and the University of Padua. David’s work cuts across the limits of specialization to contribute to a new renaissance. He explains, “My vision is at the crossroads of technology and society and their co-evolution.” His personal motto is “What is the question I should be asking?” This concept is his vehicle for accelerating cycles of invention and innovation in order to build the
brave new world ahead.

David Orban, Managing Advisor at Beyond Enterprizes, did us the honour of speaking at the AIBC Summit this November 2021! David Orban moderated the panel 🔹 Reinventing The Banking Wheel With DeFi 🔹 with fellow speakers: 🗣 Eloisa Marchesoni, Founder & CEO at Def.Ai Inc. 🗣 Alexander Filatov, CEO & Co-founder at Ton Labs 🗣 Barney Chambers, Co-founder & Co-lead Developer at Umbria Network

Jerry Lopez

Founder & CEO | Philcoin

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Alex Lopez

Founder | Soundpickr

Alex Lopez is a music industry veteran and the founder of Soundpickr, a cutting-edge music blockchain company that focuses on collecting and distributing music royalties. With over 7 years of experience in the music industry, Alex has built an impressive track record of success in various roles ranging from artist management to music licensing.

As an innovator and a visionary, Alex is dedicated to leveraging the power of web3 technology to connect music with the next generation of listeners. He has been building web3 tools and platforms that empower artists to take control of their music and connect with fans on a deeper level.

Alex is passionate about the potential of blockchain technology to revolutionize creative industries, by allowing users to truly own and control their digital items and assets. With Soundpickr, he is leading the charge in creating a fairer, more transparent, and more efficient system for creators.

Anjum Shahzad

CEO BloxBytes | BloxBytes

Anjum is a business leader and Blockchain & Web3.0 enthusiast with 15+ years of work experience in the software development industry. My aim is to create an impact by leveraging the power of blockchain & web3.0 technologies. I’ve been a business strategist in the emerging tech space for more than 5 years and helping businesses in different verticals (Gaming, Art, advertisement and events management) by providing innovative & secure blockchain & web3.0 solutions.

Orel Sror

Co-Founder & CSO | OviO

With extensive experience in the financial industry, I previously worked in a leading investment bank spacific capital markets and credit risk management, overseeing a credit portfolio of over $1 billion.

Now, as a co-founder of OviO, I am focusing on developing a product that offers a seamless transition for web2 users to access and engage with web3 – specifically in the gaming industry. Our product is designed to enable a new model of economic growth for both traditional and token-based games, making it easier for gamers to play great games without the fear of web 3 and crypto. We aim to provide a more intuitive and user-friendly experience for gamers, ultimately bringing the benefits of blockchain technology to a wider audience.

Steve Murray

Co-Founder & CEO | Zogi Labs

Dynamic and dedicated professional with the ability to adapt to changing marketing channels and growth platforms of cryptocurrency to understand the demands of blockchain technology solutions for business product design, technical, business outcomes, and efficiencies. With over 12 years of experience in delivering operational, e-commerce, and market-specific plans, ASO, SEO, China Marketing, startups, Bitcoin, blockchain development, web development, software development, cryptocurrency, NFT development, and gaming.

I am known for my ability to lead the ideation and creative direction strategies for the development of projects, whether it is application development or cryptocurrency gaming that would revolutionize the industry and break barriers. And Maintain a people-centric and encouraging environment for over 24 employees across Pakistan, US, China, and the UK.

I have Successfully led funding strategies and sourced Angel Investors across China, which led to raising USD 350K in the capital to establish and run the business and raised over USD 1M from Investors such as Bluebell Asia. And designed and launched the Zoji’s, which are NFT characters that sold for Ethereum, the number 2 cryptocurrency in the market to 500 community members, setting the foundation to sell the last 100 at 0.16 Ethereum, capitalized on the momentum selling NFT characters to the value of USD 800K.

Mark Grech

Founder | Product Marketer | ProdMark 365

Mark has extensive experience across multiple industries, whether it’s iGaming or emerging technologies, working in various roles covering Product & Marketing Management, and Business Development. Exploring various emerging spaces, including the Blockchain, web3, and Cryptocurrencies, He founded Prodmark 365 with a focus on developing the next generation of immersive products using various tech to provide users with new enhanced experiences.

Priya Ratnam

Founder & CEO | Avisa Games Guild

Priya Ratnam is the Founder & CEO of India’s largest Blockchain Gaming Guild called Avisa Games Guild (AGG), a Venture capitalist and the most influential Woman in the Crypto space from India. She also runs a woman-in crypto group called “Crypto Female Universe” – exclusively for women across the Globe.

About Avisa Games Guild (AGG) is also one of the Top 2 winners in the Metacon Global Multiblockchain web3 gaming esports tournament held in Dubai 2022. AGG leverages nft games to the traditional players, helps them to play the web3 games through their scholarship programs, and helps gamers to level up their skills, encourages them to have the freedom of playing the nft games through ‘ Play2Earn’, ‘Play&Earn’ ‘Learn2Earn’ etc concepts.

DustyBC

Crypto Influencer & VC Investor | DustyBC

DustyBC is a crypto influencer, entrepreneur, and content creator who provides daily insights into finance, entrepreneurship, and the ever-changing world of cryptocurrencies.

Dr. Anish Mohammed

CTO & Chief Scientist | Partner Protocol

Anish, is Co-founder , chief scientist and CTO of Panther protocol, has 20+ years of experience in security and cryptography. He has spend half his career researching cryptographic algorithms and protocols at three different research groups including Microsoft Research. Anish was an early advisor to Ripple and Ocean protocol, he was an early member of Ethereum swarm team and was Ethereum swarm orange paper reviewer. He was also the principle architect for Boson protocol.

Anita Kalergis

PR & Communications Manager | Xprizo

Nurturing investor and company relations and solving problems since 1984 and in the crypto space since 2017. I am an Ambassador for Helsinki Blockchain Centre as well as globally for the AIBC Summit. I am also the Granny Ambassador for the internationally awarded digital artist VESA, and the Web3 Music Visionary, QVANTVM.

I have extensive experience in developing businesses and helping optimize strategic decisions. I am an in-demand public speaker and moderator and my human mission in the business arena is to involve everyone in this technological and financial future today.

Roman Cyganov

Founder & CEO | Antix Company

Roman Cyganov is the Antix company founder, a global technological expert with a solid commitment to bringing innovation excellence to the market, empowering people’s experience in the unfolding era of metaverses.

Throughout his career, Roman was the founder and leader of several technological startups, including a renowned Vivix Studios, which focused on creating immersive visual experiences for the entertainment industry: movie makers, social media influencers, opinion leaders and many others.

In addition, Roman has many years of experience managing complicated technological projects, implementing new business processes and scaling innovative ideas into leading marketing solutions.

Andy Ku

Co-Founder & CEO | Altava Group

As a graduate of architecture and urban planning from Cornell and Harvard, Andy has been involved in startups since 2002, working with some of the world’s most recognizable names in media and gaming. Andy has been a pioneer in social gaming, having created MStar, a 3D-avatar-based fashion app. Andy launched ALTAVA Group to bring brands into the metaverse offering them virtual spaces to share stories. A place where they can feature their digitized collections in a branded and fully customizable environment. In 2014, Andy founded BlueArk, working with Viacom, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, XIX Entertainment to develop and publish games and digital education platforms by converting famous IP such as SpongeBob, Dora the Explorer, Toonix, and American Idol into digital forms. BlueArk Global launched these games and platforms in more than 137 countries.
ALTAVA Group collaborated with Fendi, Balmain, LVMH, and a number of other luxury brands to help them enter the Web3 era.

Muhammad Hamza

Director of Business - MENA | Journee

Muhammad Hamza has over 18 years of experience driving impact across prestigious government entities such as the Emirates & Dnata Group, Wafi Group, Dubai World and Dubai Customs with extensive experience in Web3 Technologies, Metaverse, NFTs and Sustainable Blockchain Solutions. He’s also on the advisory board of several big data, AI, and Venture Capital companies in the region.

M.Hamza is heading Journee operations within MENA. Journee offers innovative, efficient and stylised solutions that not only connect people within virtual space in a revolutionary way but also enables brands & businesses to offer unparalleled show-stopping, immersive and beautiful customer experiences. They are trusted by some leading brands across the globe such BMW, Adidas, H&M, Siemens and Vogue to name a few.

He is the Co-Founder of Masary Capital which supports well-established and regulated corporations around the world seeking to contribute to the regions blockchain and metaverse strategy as well as the ever-growing eco-system to successfully establish their presence in the region. Having partners such as Coinify which is one of the world’s largest Crypto payment providers.

Karl Escritt

CEO | Like Digital & Partners

Karl Escritt has been recently appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Like Digital & Partners. He first joined Like Digital & Partners in 2013 as Creative Director in the London office before moving to Dubai in 2019 to lead the Middle Eastern operation as Executive Creative Director.

With over 20 years of experience in Digital transformation, Karl’s core expertise lies in navigating brands through an ever changing, always-on digital landscape. He is constantly exploring new technologies and trends with the aim of understanding and advising how brands can better adapt to these constantly changing digital consumer needs.

He has proven expertise in delivering Digital Transformation projects for some of the world’s leading brands Including Atlantis the Palm, Atlantis the Royal, One&Only, Vodafone, McLaren, British Airways, LVMH, SoHo House, The Macallan and Majid Al Futtaim.

A regular keynote speaker and panelist with appearances at Dubai Lynx, The British Fashion Council, Karl most recently spoke at Arabian Travel Market where he explored the future of loyalty programs and the power of data in hotels.

As a columnist and thought leader, his articles on future trends and digital transformation have been featured in The Khaleej Times, Campaign Middle East, Entrepreneur magazine, Communicate and TechX.

With Karl at the helm, Like Digital & Partners has taken out many titles for its industry leading digital transformations including:

· 2021 Winner, Sitecore Experience Award (SEA) – Most Intelligent Content Optimisation for One&Only and Atlantis Dubai

· 2020 Best Mobile App –MENA Digital Awards (MDA) for Muse, Chaloub’s loyalty program

· 2019 Winner, Small Agency of the year – Creative Pool

Alessia Baumgartner

Business Development Manager MENA | DWF Labs

Adrian Niculescu

CEO | TOMORROWerse Capital

Adrian Niculescu

Adrian Niculescu is a successful fintech investor and estate entrepreneur, spending more than 20 years building and developing companies. Adrian is the CEO of Meta Description but above all, he is the CMO EMEA of CloudCoin Consortium, a digital currency you can store offline in a PNG or TXT file.

Adrian Niculescu has many competences ; Technical skills ( Blockchain, Blockchain Development, Solidity, Decentralised Finance – DeFi, Smart Contracts, etc. ), People skills ( Managing medium and large teams in person, Remote organizations ), Marketing skills ( Marketing Strategies, Product and Start-up launch strategies ) and Copywritting skills ( Sales Pages, E-mail, Funnels, Facebook Ads & Ads on other platforms).

He is obsessed with self-improvement and wants to keep getting better all the time. He loves to talk at events about things he knows a lot about and that will help the audience.

With his skills, Adrian Niculescu is eager to share his knowledge both as a keynote speaker and by providing marketing and business courses . He has been teaching to over 10 000 students in his online and offline marketing and business courses since 2013. His 20 years of business experience in building and developing companies have allowed over 500 concert, conferences, consultations, coaching, mentoring on all continents since 2010.

Adrian experience include 30 tech start-ups mentored since 2014, 250 real estate transactions completed since 2008 and a long career in senior position.

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Nathan Pearson-Smith

CEO | 18 Ventures

Corinna Reibchen

Co-Founder & CEO | CryptoClue

Corinna Reibchen has demonstrated what many consider impossible: She founded a successful start-up, scaled it in just a few years to become an international giant with several locations, and then sold it at a profit without neglecting her role as a mother and family man and still being the decision-maker in her company. This is only possible with ambition, passion and unconditionality towards her family, as well as her career.

Nevertheless, the path from employee to CEO of an internationally successful company was not without setbacks and hurdles. Corinna has had to make many mistakes, has often fallen down and has paid a lot of apprenticeship money to build up the experience and expertise that she uses today on a daily basis to run her companies. With her online presence and the Entrepreneur Academy, she shares her knowledge and learnings daily so that others don’t have to make these mistakes.

Ian Arden

Co-Founder & CEO | Applicature

Ian Arden has focused on blockchain technology to enable and improve humanity since 2010. He has built or launched over 270 companies as сo-founder of award-winning blockchain innovation agency, venture builder and accelerator – “Applicature”.

The firm provides growth advisory and launch service, including token economics, marketing, investor relations, funding, audit for global innovators in DeFi, NFT, Web 3, Gaming and the Metaverse sectors.

Ian is also сo-founder of “MilestoneBased”, a DAO and smart-contract tech platform for startup-VC funding management currently in Beta launch; he is сo-founded Crypto VC and аdvisory firm, “Mempool Ventures”; and Co-founder of Blockchain Audit Security firm – “Vidma”.

Vladimir Nikitin

Venture Partner (CIS) | Shima Capital

Vladimir Nikitin is the experienced startup founder, Co-founder and CBDO of Liquidifty, and VP of CIS region at Shima Capital. Vladimir has been working in the blockchain field for more than 6 years. Before joining Shima Capital, he worked on ICO bench – World No.1 rating platform for blockchain projects, was CEO of Yield Farming project in 2020, which used a dual token design, while the price of the token increased by more than 500 times (ATH Price) with an organic daily trading volume of $20 million.

Assad Dar

Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Officer | Medieval Empires

Meet Assad Dar, Co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Medieval Empires – helming a cutting-edge mid-core strategy game that’s set to revolutionize the gaming world. With over 15 years of experience in the digital arena, he has been leading organizations into the future with one goal in mind: to drive positive change, profitability, and process improvement.

From implementing global strategies to digital transformation, marketing, and go-to-market strategies, Assad knows how to get results. He’s a master of change, leading teams and departments through transitions with ease, and his areas of expertise are truly mind-blowing. Blockchain technology, game development, information technology, program and project management, leadership and team management, digital transformation and marketing, business and strategy planning, market analysis and research, and change management – Assad has proven experience of delivering results in all of these areas.

He has worked with conglomerates worth multi-billions as well as startups on both global and local levels. His focused approach to drive ROI, attract more customers, and grow revenue is exemplary and we at Medieval Empires are glad to have him at our helm.

Saeed Sharaf

Founder & CEO | eSpots Middle East

Saeed Sharaf is a multi-award-winning gaming professional with over a decade of expertise in esports, publishing services, and more.
An an entrepreneur he has launched three successful gaming companies, including eSports Middle East LLC, one of the official operators of Moonton’s Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League, and the recipient of Tencent Games’ “Excellent Service Provider” award, beside his role as President of the national Syrian Esports Association.

Sabine Roiss

Head of Business Development | FUNToken

Sabine is an Austrian entrepreneur with extensive experience in Communications and Business Development with a demonstrated history of working with startups across Europe, Asia and the MENA region in Blockchain, Crypto, iGaming, Payment Processing, Marketing and Event Management. A creative self-starter skilled in strategic thinking, communication, management and leadership.

With a passion for blockchain and cryptocurrency and having gained extensive experience and knowledge in the industry since 2017. Sabine’s expertise covers a wide range of topics including new developments in blockchain, finance, gaming, crypto, and NFTs.

Currently, she serves as the Head of Business Development for FUNToken, the #1 gaming token with millions of monthly users of the FUN token, XFUN wallet and their related crypto casinos.

Dan Khomenko

Co-Founder & CEO | Sidus Heroes

Towqeer Gilkar

CEO | Emchain and Stalwart Esports

Towqeer is the CEO of Emchain, Stalwart esports, Board of Director for One Broker Group Dubai, Owns Beauty Retail chains in Dubai.
Emchain Currently has largest reach in Web3 media and marketing with 500 million plus Subscriber-base and have worked with 4-5 billion Viewership per month.

Lion Uriel

Commercial Marketing Director | 22Bet

Mark Borg

SiGMA TV Presenter | SiGMA Group

Carl Runefelt

Crypto Entrepreneur & Founder | CryptoJobs.com

Carl Runefelt, also known as ‘The Moon,’ is a serial entrepreneur who has invested in 400+ Web3 start-ups, making him possibly the world’s largest crypto angel investor. The crypto evangelist has featured in Forbes 30 under 30 and in top business publications such as FOX Business, Forbes US, CNBC, Business Insider, and Coin Telegraph.

The Moon is the Co-founder of multiple crypto companies, a well-known speaker, respected philanthropist and blockchain expert who has a massive social media influence. With more than 4 million followers across YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, is well on his way to be a frontrunner in the mass adoption of blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies.

Vasilisa Marinchuk

Co-founder & COO | Meme The Gathering

Vasilisa Marinchuk is dynamic and visionary executive with a solid academic background and more than ten years of diversified work experience with a strong emphasis on operational excellence and process optimization. International MBA from IE Business School, a top-tier program.

Vasilisa has a track record of effectively completing projects of varying magnitude and character, always on time and within budget. She has no industrial borders and adapts fast to changing conditions.

Highly motivated and effective team leader, renowned for fostering an engaging and results-driven culture within global cross-functional teams with a strong customer-first mentality.

Additionally, Vasilisa is noted for her strong analytical and quantitative abilities, as well as her ability to work efficiently in a multi-tasking setting.

Oliver Von Wolff

Founder & CEO | Helion Ventures

Oliver von Wolff is a Venture Capitalist and Venture Builder with experience in architecture and establishing regulated and unregulated investment products.

Oliver is Co-founder and CEO of Helion Ventures a Dubai DIFC licensed investment company for early-stage tokens and fintech-blockchain companies.

Prior, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Crypto Oasis, Managing Director MENA for CV Labs and CVVC Switzerland, an early-stage venture capital investor and blockchain ecosystem builder, headquartered in Dubai. Also, Group CFO & Equity Partner of a global crypto asset management and blockchain-focused venture capital group and Managing Director of a joint venture with a stock listed equity company on the Xetra Frankfurt.

Oliver has over 15 years in management experience, as CFO and Co-Founder responsible for different start-ups and management buy outs. He has a proven track record in company transformations in different industries and is well connected in Dubai and the GCC region.

Oliver holds an MBA in international management, degrees in economics and business and attended New York University to study international corporate finance.oliver@helion-vc.com

Feras Al Sadek

Managing Partner Ghaf Capital | Enya Labs

Feras Al Sadek is an entrepreneur & angel investor who has entered many ventures throughout his career across multiple industries including hospitality, real estate, blockchain & tech – ranging from start-ups to well-established enterprises. He has won various awards for his businesses as well as himself such as the Marketing Professional of the year. He began his career by co-founding 3 award-winning businesses and later joined a family-owned hotel chain & its affiliated brands and a construction conglomerate where he was able to focus on marketing and business development. He currently sits on the board of advisory for a few start-ups and is the head of MENA for Enya Labs.

Saad Ahmad

The Principal Consultant - Emerging Technologies | Decrypted Solutions

Saad Ahmad is an accomplished technology and software industry leader with over 10+ years of experience, specializing in blockchain and web3. As the head of emerging technologies at Bloxbytes, he is responsible for leading the development and implementation of the company’s strategic plans. Saad has a strong track record of driving growth, developing go-to-market strategies, and optimizing existing business models. His deep understanding of the industry landscape enables him to effectively leverage data and insights to inform the strategic direction of the organization.

Saad’s areas of expertise include strategic planning and execution, project planning, scheduling, and tracking, business analysis and financial modeling, process improvement and optimization, contract negotiation and management, market research and analysis, risk assessment and management, resource management and team leadership, as well as stakeholder management and communication. His experience and knowledge in business intelligence and analytics have helped him deliver results that exceed client expectations.

Saad graduated with a Bachelor’s in Software Engineering from the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology. He has also won the APICTA and P@SHA Awards at global conferences and has been invited as a Guest Speaker at the World Blockchain Summit 2022, held in Dubai, UAE. He has conducted several training, seminars, and workshops on business development and product prototyping for startups.

With his expertise in emerging technologies and his ability to create and implement effective strategies, Saad achieved sustainable growth and success in the technology industry which have made him a respected and sought-after leader.

Alexander Kap

Founder | Kaplink and AI for Business

Alexander Kap is an accomplished entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and writer who specializes in blockchain and AI development solutions. As the founder of Kaplink and Lucroom (an online education platform), Alexander has helped startups transform their businesses by leveraging these technologies.

Alexander is a sought-after keynote speaker who has delivered presentations at various conferences and events, sharing his insights on how AI will impact businesses and our daily lives. His talks are always engaging and informative, providing audiences with a deep understanding of the potential of AI in the world of business, including tools that any business can use.

In addition to his work as a speaker, Alexander is also writing articles on the subject of AI and its impact on businesses.

Alexander is passionate about blockchain and artificial intelligence, and he is committed to helping businesses of all sizes and industries leverage these technologies to drive growth and innovation. The work he has done has had a significant impact on the industry, and he continues to play an influential role in the world of blockchain and artificial intelligence.

Oliver De Bono

CEO | Quantum Gaming

Parul Tarang Bhargava

CEO | vCommission Media Private

Alex Ellul

Founder | AE Consulting

Philipp Shayzhanov

CEO | Yoloco

Robert Kopitsch

Secretary General | Blockchain for Europe

Robert Kopitsch is the initiator and co-founder of Blockchain for Europe and acts since its foundation in 2018 as its Secretary General. In parallel, Robert also serves as APCO Worldwide’s European Financial Services, FinTech and Blockchain practice lead.

Besides that, in 2022 he also advised the DeFi Education Fund (DEF). Prior to joining APCO Worldwide, Robert worked for the Austrian Ministry of Finance and the Wirtschaftsrat Deutschland in Vienna, as well as in the European Parliament and the EU office of Raiffeisen Bank International in Brussels. In addition, he is the co-founder of the European Forum for Future Economy (EF4FE).

Robert holds three master’s degrees in public communication and contemporary history (both from the University of Vienna) as well as in European politics and policies (from KU Leuven).

Brendan Mc Kittrick

Chairman & Founder | Aeroband

Brendan McKittrick has worked in leadership roles in two dozen countries, in both large corporations and self-started entrepreneurial ventures. He was global CTO/CIO for world’s largest processor of airline tickets, overseeing the settlement of airline tickets for over 100 countries valued at over $250 billion per annum pre-Covid19.

In 2019 Brendan co-founded Aeroband Ltd. with his business partner, David Galea Sammut from Malta. Aeroband is creating smart solutions for the aviation industry leveraging key technologies such as Smart Contracts/Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence to drive significant improvements over current processes. Aeroband will launch the world’s first multi-utility token for aviation in 2023.

Brendan is an executive advisor to the CEO of RIPPEY.ai, a company using artificial intelligence to automate the maritime logistics industry and earmarked as a potential future unicorn. He is currently Chairman of Halo Business Angel Network [HBAN] of Dubai, an executive advisor to the Enterprise Ireland office in Dubai and a member of the invitation only 20 Group of HNW senior executives based in Dubai.

Oleg Ivanov

Venture Investor & Co-founder | Weezi.io

Snir Ambar

General Manager of GDAI | GlobalDots

A computer scientist turned people scientist. With over a decade of leading strategic business initiatives, Snir became an expert at rapidly matching clients’ needs with disruptive solutions. His extensive knowledge of various industries empowers him to develop customized IT strategies for enterprises worldwide, utilizing the latest technology to get a tangible, measurable improvement of core business objectives.

Faraj Abutalibov

Founder & CEO | Daofund VC

Faraj Abutalibov – The Founder & CEO of the crypto fund (Daofund VC) (10 years in Dubai, 15 years in Oil & Gas, BSc, MSc of eng, MBA, Harvard business school executive education, advising 10+ crypto projects). Co-founder and CBDO of crosschain data and liquidity protocol (http://EYWA.fi/). Founder of the Crypto Executives community – a largest networking group of  1800+ C-Level Executives from crypto companies.

Alex Andryunin

CEO & Founder | Gotbit Hedge Fund

Rene Darmos

CEO | Moonhill Capital

René has 14 years of experience in management roles, including transnational corporations such as Red Bull and Unilever. He has more than 8 years of experience as an entrepreneur and 7 years of experience as a crypto investor with an extensive network of contacts and partnerships, built also thanks to hosting a crypto podcast. René manages the day-to-day operations at Moonhill Capital, overseeing its growth and making key strategic and administrative decisions.

Elias Ahonen

Author | Cointelegraph/University of Turku

Elias Ahonen is a Finnish-Canadian blockchain and legal expert based in Dubai and described in 2016  as “one of the first Bitcoin historians” in 2016 for his ethnographic book Physical Bitcoins, which was followed by Blockland (2020). His doctoral research at the University of Turku Law School concerns the intersection of blockchain and international law. A columnist for Cointelegraph, his expertise is acknowledged by international media including The Wall Street Journal. Involved in the industry since 2013, he launched consulting firm Token Valley in 2017 and is a Director for Roqqu, a cryptocurrency exchange with 1.4 million users.

Ekin Tuna

Head of Business Development | Waves Labs

Amrita Sethi

NFT Artist | Art.by.Amrita

Amrita Sethi is the first NFT artist in the UAE, a pioneer and thought leader in the web 3 space and an award-winning UAE golden visa holder.

As her art is about story telling she wants to encourage people to go inwards find their own voice and then come out and tell their story or re write it to inspire others.

Fred Antunes

CEO | RealFevr

Dr Deeban Ratneswaran

CEO | GD10 Capital

Co-founder of GD10 Capital (VC with a string of successes in blockchain, Web3 and gaming) and Marketing10 (marketing subsidiary which supported many successful projects including CrossTheAges.com, ChainGuardians.io, Cryowar.com) and others. Currently launching a gaming incubator and centralised exchange. Dr Deeban has advised on over $50mill worth of funding 2019-22 and developed an impressive investment portfolio with an outstanding asset growth, with a focus now on metaverse and sports (portfolio: https://www.gd10.ventures/portfolio/). He previously co-founded ed-tech platforms for institutions, and manages a team of 30+ across the VC and marketing subsidiary.

He is a former medical doctor and university lecturer, with a number of international awards and accolades including a prestigious American Thoracic Society assembly award for public health research. Over 30+ awards in academia and health. An educationalist whose educational courses and ed tech platform drew a global attendance (Europe, India, States). He has been cited in policy papers, published book chapters and many academic papers, currently completing a PhD programme. Now based in Dubai. 

Accreditations: BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCP (UK) AMInstLM PGCert (MMed) FHEA

Darrach Campbell

Management Director | Esports Management Group (EMG)

Darrach has years of international experience within investment banking, family offices, legal, gaming, esports and entertainment. As management director of the Dubai born entity “Esports Management Group”, Darrach has a vision to make Dubai a global powerhouse when it comes to all things gaming and esports. Through strategic investments, festival and league IP’s, a commitment to education and grassroots and finalising plans for thew worlds first esports city, EMG has grown from a start-up to a constructor of an unrivalled gaming ecosystem provider in the Middle East.

Iosif Peterfi

Founder & CEO | Ethernity CLOUD

Meet Iosif Peterfi, the innovative Founder and CEO of Ethernity CLOUD.With a remarkable 20-year track record in key tech infrastructure positions, including roles at the US Department of Defense and Max Planck Digital Library, Iosif is a true visionary in the industry. As a distinguished speaker at AIBC panel, he is set to share his wealth of knowledge and expertise with attendees, providing also insights into the cutting-edge technology driving Ethernity CLOUD’s success.

Nikola Tchakarov

Head of Sales | NODA

Mahmoud El Sidani

Founder | Mr.Moudz

Dr. Nisheta Sachdev

Managing Director | Luna PR

With her medical background, Nisheta is passionate and heavily involved in the med-tech and blockchain industries, including cryptocurrency, NFTs, the metaverse, and AI. She aims to increase mass adoption through awareness and education. She also speaks at various universities to educate medical professionals on the potential of blockchain in their industry.

Nish has worked with the largest companies within the blockchain space, including TON Labs, Huobi Exchange, WEMIX, World Mobile, XinFin, Kadena, and several more.

About Luna PR: 

Luna PR, launched in 2020, is an award-winning PR and Marketing agency headquartered in Dubai (UAE) with offices in Miami and Singapore. Luna PR focuses on the Fintech and Web3 industry, with expertise in NFTs, Crypto, and Blockchain. Having worked with over 600 ventures, their tailored strategies and hands-on approach have contributed to the success of several leading projects. Luna PR, led by an executive team of women, has a team of over 100 employees and won “Best PR Agency in Fintech” in 2021 and the “Best Web3 Consultancy” in 2022. 

Dr Somdutta Singh

Founder & CEO | Assiduus Global Inc.

Dr Somdutta Singh is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor operating her third venture,
Assiduus Global Inc., a leading cross-border, cross-marketplace E-commerce accelerator
generating $300 million in GMV. Dr Som has had two highly successful multi-million dollar
exits before she founded Assiduus Global.
An MIT alumna, Dr Som has been conferred the prestigious Woman Entrepreneur of the Year
Award by IAF in association with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
She has also been bestowed with the coveted Times 40 Under 40 honour. She has served as the
youngest and only woman Vice-Chairperson of NASSCOM Product Council and has been the
first woman of Indian origin on the Board of Philip Kotler’s Kotler Impact. She has facilitated
the Government of India to form the visionary Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) by
NITI Aayog.
Dr Som has been presented with Impact Entrepreneur Award for Social Innovation, presented
by IEEE in association with UN Women and Amity University, London. She has also been
bestowed with the 2017 Digital Leadership Award for Social Innovation by Times of India and
the 2017 Women Leadership Award by Economic Times.
Dr Som’s not-for-profit organisation that invests in the youth and empowers them with skills
to thrive in a technologically driven era. She works closely with Ramakrishna Mission to impart
digital marketing knowledge to their students and prepare them for the ever-evolving
ecosystem.
She has authored the best-selling books – Decoding Digital: Unlocking Digital Barriers and
Stories from New India: Policies, Hope And Change. She is at present writing her third book.
She is a Global Mentor at Google Launchpad and a Mentor of Change at Atal Innovation
Mission (AIM), Govt of India.

Euni Wong

Web 3 Advisor, Crypto Trader, Investor | Euni Wong

Mikheil Didebulidze

Founder & CEO | Arena Games

An entrepreneur, and an investor with extensive experience in crypto and blockchain fields. 

Mikheil Didebulidze joined the industry back in 2017 and became one of the pioneers in the development of industrial mining in Georgia. Mikheil Didebulidze is an entrepreneur and an investor with experience in incubating, launching and scaling start-ups.

Being passionate about building business from the scratch and the crypto world, Mikheil co-founded Arena Games, an EU-based cryptocurrency exchange platform and WEB3 gaming gateway. He is also partner in VC firm concentrated on DEFI and GameFi startups.

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Stase Blitz

CMO | PIN-UP Partners

Mouloukou Sanoh

Co-founder | Cassava Network

Mouloukou Sanoh is the Co-founder of Cassava Network, a Web3 platform focused on entertainment, gaming and rewards for the African continent. He is keenly interested in driving Web3 adoption in Africa. Mouloukou is also an Investment Manager at Adaverse, a $100 million fund backed by Emurgo, and a Vice President Emerging Markets at Everest Ventures Group, a global venture studio.

Additionally, he previously ran Mansa Capital, an investment advisory firm helping African startups raise funding. Past deals completed by Mr. Mouloukou include Crowdforce, Skygarden, Omnisient, Kwara and more.

As a global character who has lived in four countries, namely; China, Guinea, Netherlands and Belgium, Mouloukou has cultivated a culture of adaptability and an open minded nature.

He speaks in varying degrees of fluency, French, English, Mandarin Chinese and Mandingo.

Jayden Sage

CEO | Global Crypto Council

Jayden Sage is the Founder & CEO of Global Crypto Council (GCC). He is a Wall Street Mathematician who has been in the Blockchain space since 2011. He serves as a Speaker & Advisor to startups, universities, governments, and industry in the upcoming transformation to distributed value creation. His particular emphasis is on humanity’s navigation through decentralization, Web 3, and Generative AI. Jayden Sage is an Angel Investor in the Blockchain industry and also runs an investment fund in the Space industry called Celestial Ventures.

Andrew Matushkin

Head of Global Business Development | B2Broker

Andrew Matushkin is a Head of Global Business Development at B2Broker Group of Companies. Bachelor degree in Economics and Master degree  in International Business Strategy. With substantial experience in the financial market, including fintech, brokerage and payment business. Andrew has been a part of the B2Broker group from early stages and has an extensive knowledge about the FinTech industry.

Michelle Crawford

Managing Partner | TrustedOne.Global

Abdallah Al Ghifari

Senior Esports Manager, Level Infinite MENA | Tencent Global Games

Arman Babaian

Growth Expert | Zorka Agency

Tim Mangnall

Founder & CEO | Capital Block

Tim Mangnall is CEO and Founder of Capital Block, Europe’s leading web3 consultancy dedicated to sports and entertainment. Capital Block is an evolution of Capital Sports Media, which owns and manages Sports inventory and general media activity across football clubs in Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.

Tim began personally investing in cryptocurrency around seven years ago, and has successfully built Capital Block over the past two years into the most trusted consultancy in Europe for sports teams looking to enter the web3 space. Capital Block represents Tim’s two major passions: sports and cryptocurrency.

Tim also has the same role at Capital Sports Media, which he joined in 2017 before carving out Capital Block. Prior to that he was Commercial Director at Premier Sports Network, the specialist sports and commercial agency to the sports and entertainment industries. Tim also counts leading the Retail Division at Clear Channel and Agency Sales at Amscreen Group as past roles.

Tim and his team at Capital Block help sports clubs, brands, production houses, artists, celebrities and entertainers navigate the web3 space, taking in NFTs, the Metaverse, cryptocurrencies, and more.

Tim personally advises a host of top European football teams, and his agency is the official NFT agency of major football clubs Galatasaray, AS Monaco, Trabzonspor, and Legia Warsaw. Sports teams look to Capital Block for NFT strategies, crypto consultancy, and blockchain partner guidance. For example, Tim has brokered sponsorship deals between BitGet and Galatasaray, and was trusted by Trabzonspor to advise them on which cryptocurrency marketplace to partner with.

Tim is consistently used by the world’s most trusted media as a thought leader, commentator, and educator on issues that intersect the cryptocurrency and sports world. You can view some of his highlights in Reuters, the i (UK), Washington Post (US), and sports business-focused Off The Pitch.

Seva Krutsko

CEO, Member of the Board | Vondel Digital

Karan G

Senior Investment Associate | Cypher Capital

Karan Gandhi is a Senior Investment Associate at Cypher Capital – a $100m blockchain-focused venture capital fund based out of Dubai, UAE. Prior to working in Blockchain, Karan worked as a senior venture architect building tech startups for the largest licensing authority in the UAE.

He has vast experience scaling startups and has previously advised numerous tech startups in areas related to fundraising, business models, and market
strategy.

Karan is a crypto evangelist and has been investing in blockchain projects since 2017. Academically, he is a CFA charter holder and has over 9 years of experience spread across Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Banking.

Marko Balac

CEO | DexStar

Marko Balac is the founder and CEO of DexStar, a blockchain platform aimed at bridging the financing gap for real world sustainable projects. Prior to DexStar, he was involved with startups, multinationals, and government organizations. His experience spans Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Marko holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Bentley University in Massachusetts.

Antoine Kanaan

Founder | Lebanon Law Review

Antoine Kanaan founded and runs the Lebanon Law Review in 2020, an academic research institution meant to enlighten, reform, and inspire the Lebanon Legal Community.

The Law Reveals has since grown to over 90 members, and has partnered up with renowned international legal actors like LexisNexis and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
The Law Review has organized international legal conferences with attendance in excess of the hundreds, and has initiated media projects with expert local partners.

Antoine’s writings have been translated into multiple languages and published in newspapers across the Middle East and Europe, most notably, the National News, where his writings revolve around the politics of Bitcoin.
He has given workshops in the Lebanese American University, The University of St. Joseph, and the Notre Dame University of Lebanon.

HAQQ was borne of Antoine’s activities in the Lebanon Law Review as an international platform that digitizes access to legal services.

Launched in June 2022, it currently operates in over 30 countries, has driven value to its users in excess of 8 digits, and is advised by an experienced and international board.

Uliana Protashchuk

COO | Pin-up Global

Vít Jedlička

President | Liberland

Vit received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Economics, Prague, the Czech Republic, in 2009. His thesis was on central banking and monetary policy.

At the same time, he became the founding member of the Czech Libertarian Free Citizens Party. He started a libertarian educational NGO, Reformy.cz, whose video channels have had more than 18 million views since then. 

He received his Master’s degree in political science from CEVRO Institute in 2014. His final thesis concentrated on the dangers of an ever-bigger government and its strangling influence on global free markets.
On 13th April 2015, Vit Jedlicka led several Libertarian enthusiasts to Gornja Siga. Together, they founded the Free Republic of Liberland. The first Liberlanders elected Vit to be their first President. 

More than half a million individuals registered for citizenship nearly seven years after the country’s founding.  Vit has proven a competent and well-loved leader, respected by his people and the international community. 

Vit conducted hundreds of mainstream media interviews, including New York Times Magazine, the Daily Telegraph, and USA Today. He also appeared in dozens of TV interviews, notably for Fox Business, Bloomberg, and Euronews. Since the foundation of Liberland, he has continuously traveled and promoted Liberland as a speaker internationally on international diplomatic and business, such as St Gallen Symposium, FreedomFest, or Horasis.org. 

He led a delegation to Somaliland to ensure the first recognition of Liberland. He has nominated representatives of Liberland in almost a hundred countries. His goal is to create the freest country on the planet where Swiss democracy meets the best of corporate governance. Liberland strives to be the change by setting a positive example for others and providing a modern, classically liberal solution to the current problems of statehood.

Mariya Spartalis

Partner | Terreus Capital

Mariya Spartalis, a highly accomplished financial influencer and industry expert. With a remarkable career spanning over 25 years, Mariya has held prestigious positions in the banking sector, making significant contributions to the financial landscape.

With her vast knowledge and experience, Mariya Spartalis continues to make significant contributions to the financial industry, both as a leader and an influencer. Her dedication to innovation and her ability to navigate the ever-evolving world of finance make her a true expert in her field.

Eric Barbier

Founder & CEO | TripleA

Eric Barbier is a serial entrepreneur who has built and scaled multiple payments companies globally. This includes TransferTo (now Thunes and DT One) and Mobile 365 (acquired by SAP).

Today, he is the CEO and founder of TripleA, the first cryptocurrency payments gateway to be licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). TripleA empowers more than 15,000 businesses across 120+ countries to make and accept payments in digital currencies, building towards his vision of greater global financial inclusion. With over 17 years of experience in mobile and payments, Eric Barbier is also a board member of global companies such as AMEEX, STC pay and Sleek.

Jan Robert Schutte

Co-Founder, Crypto Trader & Coach | CryptoAcademy

Jan Robert is CEO & Co-founder of CryptoAcademy The Netherlands, which acts as a bridge to the Crypto market for investors and traders. As a crypto trader & coach, Jan Robert helps investors be successful and profitable in the crypto market. He is also a well-known and respected international keynote speaker and media partner of several crypto and blockchain events.

Jan Robert co-authored and published together with Jelle Peters Crypto Trading for Ambitious Beginners in Dutch and English, of which more than 8,000 books have been sold by now.

Thanks to his enormous sales and networking skills, he has an extensive international professional network ranging from crypto currencies, Blockchain and ICOs/projects.

Jan Robert is also a member of several Advisory Boards and regularly organizes Meetups and Seminars to introduce people to interesting Blockchain Projects. Jan Robert is also an internationally sought after keynote speaker/moderator on Crypto Currency Trading and ICOs and blockchain.

A key influencer on Social Media with over 10,000 followers on LinkedIn, Jan Robert helps projects expand their global branding, gain recognition and strengthen their position.

CryptoAcademy is perfect for projects and crypto event organizers and projects to connect with our crypto community.

Przemysław Kral

CEO | Zonda Global

Przemyslaw has 20 years of experience in the legal field as the founder of a law firm specializing in cryptocurrencies, due diligence, criminal economic matters, and setting up and running companies in the EU. As CEO of Zonda exchange, Przemysław is determining the vision and growth trajectory of the company by efficiently managing the leadership team

Yuriy Dvoinos

Chief Innovation Officer | Aura.com

Bruce Porter Jr.

Founder | Washington Elite

Bruce Porter Jr. has brought together world leaders developing the digital landscape from blockchain to the metaverse. Porter brings a solid track record. His name is synonymous with the Bitcoin monetary revolution.

Bruce is the CEO at GlobalBoost, a decentralized communications company based in Washington, DC. Their blockchain produces BSTY coins via mining have been traded on the open market for over 5 years. They are one of the original blockchain companies and bringing forward some of the most exciting new communication technology in the space.

He is the Founder at Washington Elite, a worldwide media and events agency.

Bruce is also a member of the advisory board of the Global Blockchain Organization. “We envision the Global Blockchain Organization as an association of Blockchain experts, corporations, and government bodies to shape the future of the Blockchain environment through universal compliance, regulation, and process.”

He is a consultant at PO8, a blockchain ecosystem democratizing and decentralizing the marine archaeology industry. Their scalable technologies take ocean exploration to new heights in search of historical artifacts and treasures, and provide decentralized solutions for the registration, authentication, and transfer of the world’s most prized artifacts.

In addition, Bruce is also a senior partner at DC Translation. DC Translation is a Language company that offers translation, interpretation, online teaching services, and foreign media analysis.

“We are dedicated to providing elite language services to government agencies, the medical field, small businesses, media companies, international companies as well as personal clients.”

Located in the Capitol DC Translation prides itself on offering services for any language in the world.

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Rizwan Mughal

Senior Legal Consultant | Mezzlelaw

Rizwan is a UK qualified lawyer with over 10 years’ of legal experience. He has High Court, Appeals Court, and Technology and Construction Courts experience, together with non-contentious commercial contracts experience, and has represented clients across a range of sectors, most notably in sports, construction, trade, and emerging technology.

Rizwan lives in Dubai and he currently focuses on clients in the FinTech and Blockchain sector, providing commercial legal advice to those clients when it comes to incorporating, registering ownership, seeking investment, negotiating contracts, and managing projects. He also provides consultancy services for new clients looking to enter Web3 and helps clients recognise the commercial opportunities within Web3.

Rizwan has written a number of insightful articles on blockchain and dispute resolution, and continues to make valuable contributions to this nascent and constantly evolving sector. He is an advocate for developing a unified framework for crypto, having been involved in the recovery of lost and stolen crypto assets for clients and seeing first-hand the damage fraudsters have caused to the industry, by taking advantage of vulnerable investors and the lack of governance.

Mark Thorne

CMO | Centurion FC

Zulqarnain Javaid

CEO | UAE Trade Connect

Zul Javaid was appointed as CEO of UAE Trade Connect in the year 2020. He has been a part of Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telco and digital group spanning over a decade in various senior leadership roles.
Prior to this, Zul has been CEO and CFO in various telecommunication and IT businesses and has lived in five countries. His wealth of experiences in Middle East, Africa and Asia have shaped his views on how digitization can enable economies to leapfrog over the normal evolutionary cycle. Thus bringing rapid benefits to actors throughout the valuation and in the population in general.

Roberto Gallo

CEO and Founder | Centurion FC

Mr. Gallo Roberto is the CEO and Founder of CENTURION FC. Mr. Gallo was an early advocate of Mixed Martial Arts and has a distinguished 26-year history of contributions to the industry. Mr. Gallo was a MMA fighter training and competing all over the world in the very beginning of the Mixed Martial Arts. Mr. Gallo has continued involved with the sports industry as a promoter. In 2007 Mr. Gallo produced the first eight-man tournament in Europe, in Belfast, after that he has continued on the promoting side until Centurion FC in 20217, after that, is all Centurion FC.

Jorge Carrasco

Managing Director. Blockchain & Digital Assets | FTI Consulting

Jorge Carrasco is a Blockchain and Web3 expert and enthusiast, with more than 15 years of experience building and developing lines of business related to emerging technologies. Mr. Carrasco supports clients in developing strategies for enterprise blockchain implementation across multiple sectors, and has supported nationwide consortium implementations

Mr. Carrasco has played a key role in some of the leading enterprise blockchain projects in the Middle East region, creating consortiums in the financial, education and retail industries from the ground up. He has a deep understanding of the goals, challenges and technical nuances corporate and government entities face, and can translate them into innovative solutions that leverage the unique properties of blockchain technology and smart contracts. He advises clients spanning the spectrum from multi-national enterprises to start-ups on their value proposition and product-market fit in the Middle East region.

As a prominent member of the Middle East blockchain industry, Mr. Carrasco is involved with numerous organizations, events and endeavors across blockchain, NFT and Web3.

Before joining FTI Consulting , Mr. Carrasco was Director of Emerging Technologies at e&, formerly Etisalat , where he designed and implemented innovative solutions in fields such as blockchain, robotics, 5G, digital twins and metaverse for enterprise customers in the private and public sector, acquiring vast experience on driving business in the Middle East. He has also held senior roles at Fon, Telefonica and Ericsson.

With strong technical background and previous work with a wide range of technologies, Mr. Carrasco’s depth of expertise provides clients with innovative and actionable insights and guidance while implementing emerging technologies, particularly blockchain.

Niraj Kumar

Head of Global Transaction Banking | United Arab Bank

Niraj presently heads Global Transaction Banking at United Arab Bank. He is a seasoned banker experienced in conventional and Islamic banking and has previously worked with Emirates NBD and Noor Bank in the UAE. His experience in India includes working with HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank having managed regional roles. His interests lie in Supply Chain Finance solutions, Blockchain technologies and Credit Insurance amongst others.

Kamran Ahsan

Senior Director, AI and Smart Data | e& enterprise

With professional experience of 25 years in ICT, Kamran Ahsan brings demonstrated achievements in building, transforming and accelerating business plans by propelling technological, financial and people performance. He offers a unique combination of technology and business acumen with a credible track-record in serving public and private sectors and service provider organizations in the Middle East, North America and Pakistan. He specializes in strategic planning, product development, GTM execution, curating synergy through partnerships, customer advocacy and acquisitions for multi-fold growth.

A senior leader of e& enterprise (formerly Etisalat Digital), Kamran built the Cybersecurity business from ground-up, commercially grew the practice in six years with 20X revenue, architected one of the most strategic acquisitions of cybersecurity in the region and successfully
led the M&A integration process resulting in 25% market share. In his interim management assignment in 2020, he served as a CTO of UAE Trade Connect (UTC), UAE’s first and only national trade finance network powered by Blockchain (Distributed Ledger Technology – DLT)
and AI.

Under this responsibility, he and his team built technology, security and operations units and successfully industrialized the platform.
In his current role, Kamran is tasked with establishing and running the AI & Smart Data Business managing product development, GTM, data science and technical architecture teams. He is building AI capabilities around people, platforms, portfolio and partnerships – an ecosystem
powered by a unique service stack and geared for delivering verticalized AI Solutions with faster time to value and measurable ROI.

Kamran earned a Masters in Applied Science degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Toronto, Canada. He has been a frequent keynote speaker on Digital Transformation with emphasis on Cyber Security and AI in local and international summits.

Kamran is a Certified CISO, a Certified Payment Card Industry Security Implementer and holds professional certifications in ISO 27001 and IT Governance (COBIT).

Jean-Michel Azzopardi

Chief Strategy Officer | Proofme.ID

Jean Michel is an accomplished tech and business professional with a strong background in blockchain and startups. With over a decade of experience, he excels in driving partnerships, sales, and innovation. Jean has secured significant funding, pioneered groundbreaking blockchain technology, and built top-performing remote teams. As a public speaker and content creator, he showcases his passion for the evolving Web3 ecosystem. Jean Michel’s leadership as Head of APAC Channel resulted in substantial revenue growth, while his role as a blockchain architect for a Web3VC fund demonstrates his strategic expertise. http://jeanmichelazzopardi.com

Yanislav Malahov

Founder | æternity Blockchain

Yanislav Malahov, a veritable veteran of the game, is an expert innovator with more than a decade’s worth of experience in the fields of crypto and blockchain.
The “Godfather of Ethereum,” who has for a long time been considered a foremost blockchain expert and pioneer, has (co)created and launched seven wallets — including the premiere Dogecoin browser wallet. Envisaging powerful algorithms on blockchains since 2013, Yanislav has also facilitated the registration of what was most likely the world’s first company with crypto as base capital.
Over the past five years, Yanislav has been relentlessly spearheading blockchain space forward, working tirelessly on the æternity Blockchain — a more scalable smart contract platform with advanced built-in features, such as state channels for smart contracts, a human-readable naming system, built-in oracles, and a hugely efficient virtual machine — FATE. With the æternity Blockchain, Yanislav’s vision of facilitating fast transactions without forfeiting decentralization and rich functionality — is becoming a reality.
Additionally, Yanislav has founded Crypto Castle — a blockchain castle of the future that hosted a plethora of crypto events, including the first Crypto Castle Symposium. With the incoming hyperchain consensus close to coming to fruition, Yanislav continues to envision and design a superior way of scaling blockchains.

Sean Ellul

Co-Founder | Metaverse Architects

Faisal Alshehhi

Manager - Digital Economy Acceleration | Dubai Chambers

Amina Methi

Founder & Creative Director | KRWN studio

An Azeri-American founder, serial entrepreneur, multidisciplinary creative, advisor and consultant with a career that spans across Dubai, Baku, Milan and New York City. As an alumni of Bocconi University, Amina is also a keynote speaker, Web 3.0 strategist, panelist, and podcast guest on topics pertaining to digital self-identity, creative and tech innovation, and sustainability. From her participation in NFT.NYC, New York Fashion Week, ReA! Art Fair Milan, GMWeb3 Dubai, NFT.London, WEIFT podcast and many others, she is on a mission to bring about a digital revolution in creative fields, including fashion and technology.

Amina Mehti is a founder of KRWN Studio, a digital fashion factory creating gamified luxury streetwear for the Metaverse. Simultaneously, KRWN offers services to other brands, designers and creators to enter the NFT space by offering 3D design, tech development, NFC, Marketing and phygital solutions.

For the last few years, she has worked with multiple designers, brands and companies to create a cohesive web 3 strategy in a long-term perspective. Coming into tech with a business mind and artistic spirit, Amina is driving mass adoption of immersive technologies by offering next-gen experiences in partnership with emerging brands and creators.

Melanie Dow

Content Manager | BGA

Shawn Chong

Head of Business | Salusec

Fernando Martinho

Co-founder & CEO | Relayz.io

Nick Bahl

Co-Founder | ReelStar

Nick Bahl is the founder of ReelStar and a business magnate with companies ranging from media and entertainment to property development.

Having found Sizzlen Productions – an award-winning media and entertainment company specializing in arranging live concerts, film productions, and film distribution in Australia – Mr. Bahl brings with him 13 years of experience in media and entertainment.

During his time in the media and entertainment industry, Mr. Bahl noticed how artists were not given enough opportunities to showcase their talent. As a result, ReelStar was created to give artists a voice and a chance to make their own mark in the crypto and NFT markets.

Christian Ribeiro

CEO | SulPayments

Amit Singh Rathore

Founder & CEO | Football Fan app & FanCoin®

Amit is the Founder & CEO of leading Web 3.0 social sports and media app called “Football Fan”.

Football Fan app empowers fans to create revenue streams for themselves by collecting FanCoin® cryptocurrency for posting content (e.g., videos, photos, podcasts, chat rooms etc.), engagement or playing games. Once fans collect FanCoin® they can then convert their content into NFTs to trade on the app or redeem FanCoin® on the app’s FanCoin® marketplace or simply cash out on a cryptocurrency exchange.

Amit is a serial entrepreneur with a previous exit from the live-streaming business. He is an expert in DLT from Oxford University and has two patents in the US patent office. He has worked across the world in technology as well as the financial industry.

Ivan Navodniy

Chief Product Officer | B2Broker

Ivan Navodniy is a Chief Product Officer at B2Broker, graduated from American University in Bulgaria, majoring in Business Administration and Information Systems. With 6 years of IT product management experience, Ivan has been a part of the company since the very beginning and has an outstanding knowledge about building a cutting-edge products in the fintech industry, leading into launches of such products as B2Core, MarksMan.

Xena Kash

CEO | NOWPayments

Crypto Kid (Efe Kelemci)

The Youngest Crypto Influencer | Crypto Kid (Efe Kelemci)

‘I’m 15! And I am an Angel Investor, Crypto Content Creator, Technical Analyst and Speaker. My mission is to educate my generation about disruptive technology and prepare them for the real world.’

David Palmer

Co-Founder & CPO | Vodafone’s Digital Asset Broker (DAB)

David Palmer is a digital visionary and global platform innovator. He is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Vodafone’s Digital Asset Broker (DAB) platform, and one of the leaders in blockchain technology for Vodafone Business.

David is a recognized thought leader in blockchain, Web3 and the application of these technologies to telecoms and wider enterprise business. David is an expert on the convergence of digital technologies and new business models, and he is currently exploring the opportunities associated with IoT, Blockchain, DeFi, Digital Identity and the Metaverse.

Josef Holm

Founding Partner | Draper Goren Holm

Draper Goren Holm est un studio et un fonds de capital-risque blockchain créé par Tim Draper, Alon Goren et Josef Holm avec pour objectif d’incuber et d’accélérer les meilleures startups en démarrage du monde entier.
Josef et Alon sont la même équipe qui a organisé certaines des meilleures conférences sur la blockchain telles que le LA Blockchain Summit (FKA Crypto Invest Summit), le Global DeFi Summit, le Security Token Summit et d’autres événements. En 2019, ils se sont associés à l’investisseur milliardaire Tim Draper pour construire le studio de capital-risque blockchain de nouvelle génération et financer avec une orientation mondiale.

DDr. Davorin Kralj

Founder & CEO | Institute for Creative Management

Vadim Dyakov

Head of Strategy | Bidease

Lotta Vainio

Co-Founder | VESA Digital

Alice Stork

Co-Founder | Incryptoland PR & Marketing

Klaus Kajetski

Founder & CEO | YaLLa Esports

Klaus Kajetski, Middle East esports trailblazer and serial entrepreneur with 20 years of gaming experience, founder and CEO of YaLLa Esports. 

Finnish-born now Dubai based since 2011, paving the way for regional esports ecosystem to thrive with a legacy of nurturing local talent and creating champions. Today, YaLLa Esports has grown into a household name building effective campaigns, enabling brands to unlock the untapped gaming market.

Ripul Mahajan

CEO | Cillionaire.com

Ripul Mahajan is a seasoned veteran in the world of crypto. With his early entry into the industry in 2017, he has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and expertise that has made him a sought-after keynote speaker at some of the most prestigious blockchain conferences around the world. His speaking engagements include the Bitcoin & Blockchain Conference in Moscow and Gitex Dubai, among others.

Over the years, Ripul has leveraged his expertise to help hundreds of blockchain projects market themselves and achieve success. His extensive experience spans across multiple industries, including fintech and real estate, and his clients range from startups to established businesses.

Now, Ripul is focused on building a web3 media platform that will empower the next generation of blockchain entrepreneurs and investors. With his extensive knowledge and experience, there’s no doubt that Ripul will continue to be a driving force in the world of crypto for years to come.

Miguel Francis-Santiago

Founder & CEO | The Future is Now DAO

Eran Elhanani

Co-Founder | BullPerks and GamesPad

Arsenii Miakotnikov

Managing Partner | Input PR & Marketing

Pati Murtazalieva

VP Global Sales Operations | Sumsub

Alex Meurer

Founder | AMCrypto

Mariangel Garcia

Community Lead | BNB Chain

Mariangel Garcia is a versatile leader with a passion for digital marketing and promoting the adoption of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. She has been working with leadership programs since 2013 as Venezuelan Youth Ambassador by the U.S. Department of State and Partners of the Americas.

She has been part of the crypto ecosystem since 2017, has been working within the Binance ecosystem since 2018 and it’s recognized as the first Venezuelan woman to promote cryptocurrencies in Latin America as a solution to economic challenges in the region, contributing to their increased adoption. As a TEDx speaker, she’s also is known for her inspiring talks and thought leadership in the field. Currently, she has relocated to Dubai with the mission to drive the adoption of web3.

Bruno Sanmartin

Web3 Investor & Co-Founder | Mediacrypto

Bruno is a profesional investor and trader, he also grew a community of +20.000 investors in less than a year

He is the co-founder of Mediacrypto, a marketing company specialized on blockchains.

He is also the CMO at Prime Numbers, an ecosystem composed of different protocols that generate revenue for its community on the XDC blockchain.

Matteo Gamberale

Founder & CEO | Zappy

Arushi Goel

Specialist, Data Policy and Blockchain, Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution India | World Economic Forum

Arushi Goel is a specialist for data policy and blockchain at World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India. She leads work on strategic and governance issues relating to data sharing through data exchanges and technology policy for blockchain and digital assets to drive innovation and sustainable development, in collaboration with international organization, government and industry stakeholders. With a background in law, she earlier served as a Judge in India. Prior to joining the Forum, she was a legal advisor to emerging technology companies in India and Middle East.

Pavel Dergachev

Advisor | 4H.agency

Pavel Dergachev

Pavel Dergachev is one of the founders of 4H Agency and a visionary.
He has 7+ years’ experience in the gambling and tech sector (including the most significant international gambling operators and media giants). This experience allows him to bring a business-oriented approach to Agency’s operations.

At 4H Agency Pavel Dergachev is responsible for creating the business value to consultancy matters at 4H as well as for utilizing 360 approach to the Agency’s projects.

4H Agency

4H Agency is a boutique consulting firm fully dedicated to serving members of the gambling business ecosystem to enable their growth and expansion in multiple jurisdictions.

Their team offers experts in law, regulations, banking & payments rapidly available to support your efforts in establishing operations in virtually any gambling jurisdiction across the globe.

4H Agency has access to government officials responsible for gambling regulations and retains high relevancy of analysis and insight into a multitude of jurisdictions around the world.

They act through a network of thoroughly selected local partners (law firms, HR agencies, experts in marketing, banking & payments, data & business analytics) that enable 4H to serve as a “one-stop-shop” for international gambling operators entering new jurisdictions.

Their ongoing projects are currently in Europe, LatAm, Asia, Africa, and countries of the former Soviet Union (CIS countries).

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Elena Kupriianova

Chief Marketing Officer, Creative Director | Currency.com

Salah Eddine Mimouni

Co-Founder | Richmedia

Salah Eddine Mimouni

Salah Eddine Mimouni is a serial entrepreneur, public speaker, digital marketing expert, and the founder of Richmedia Digital Agency and Massinart.ma.

Salah Eddine Mimouni is from the Moroccan city of Casablanca-Settat. Salah Eddine works in “Marketing & Advertising,” “Higher Education,” “Information Technology & Services,” “Fine Art,” and “Professional Training & Coaching.”

Salah Eddine is currently a Formateur at HEM in Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco. Salah Eddine is also the Co-founder of Massinart.ma. He has had this job since January 2017. Salah Eddine is also the Formateur en Marketing Digital at Digital Marketing Experts.

Salah Eddine worked at Kindy Info Maroc as Head of Information Technology until February 2016. Salah Eddine was the Head of IT & E-Commerce at Prestigia before he joined Kindy Info Maroc.

Before that, Salah Eddine worked at Time Earning Solutions in Casablanca. He was the Chef de projects specialising in ERP from February 2012 to December 2012.

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Pavel Jakovlev

Founder & Managing Partner | ANCORE Strategy

Zavier Murtza

COO | Xprizo

Nikolett Vilmos

Founder | CRX Media

Milan Novaković

CEO | HIREQUARTERS

Milan Novaković established the marketing agency ‘HIREQUARTERS’ in 2017, with the mission of bringing value, quality, and authenticity to the field of digital marketing.

Milan Novaković believes that communication is critical to conducting business successfully, and as such, he is always available and prompt to react to any queries you may have during the time together.

Sabitov Daniil

COO | Marlerino Group

Julian Goffin

Executive Director & CEO | Finductive

With over two decades of experience in relevant industry sectors, Julian Goffin is a true visionary and continually strives to take ideas and make them a reality.  His enthusiasm for work and life is contagious, he continually inspires and coaches his team encouraging them to be the best version of themselves both professionally and in their personal life.

SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.

Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.

AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.

Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.

The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.

Arshiya “xArshyy” Faraghat

Streamer & Esports Host | Four04 Esports

Passionate about transforming the e-sports industry in the MENA region, I have several years of experience in gaming and content creation. With a background in dentistry, I made the bold decision to follow my true passion for gaming, starting as a streamer and growing a dedicated following. Since then, I have expanded my skills and network, serving as a dynamic host for e-sports events and as a Content and Community Manager for Four04 Esports. I am committed to driving growth, innovation, and inclusivity in the e-sports community, leveraging my expertise and collaborative approach to deliver impactful results.