Tim Draper is an American venture capital investor, and in 1985, he founded the company that would become Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). He also founded Draper Associates and Draper University. In July 2014, Draper received wide coverage for his purchase at a US Marshals Service auction of seized Bitcoins from the Silk Road marketplace website. He also spent in excess of $5 million to push a ballot initiative to divide California into three smaller states, which has met the signature threshold but was removed from the ballot by a decision in the Supreme Court of California.

Draper studied at Phillips Academy, he obtained High School General. Then, he holds a bachelor’s degree of science focused on Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Then he obtained a master’s degree of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

While at Stanford, Draper interned at Hewlett-Packard as a marketing engineer. Draper made national headlines as a student when he created the popular campus board game “Stanford – The Game” alongside Heidi Roizen, who was a student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business at the time.

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Since thirty-seven years, he is the founding partner of DFJ. DFJ is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world. Since 1985, DFJ’s core funds have raised $4B, which has been deployed in more than 300 portfolio companies, including AdMob, Baidu, Box, Hotmail, Skype, Solarcity, SpaceX, Tesla Motors, Tumblr, Twitter and Yammer. DFJ works with companies at seed, early and growth stages, with the goal of partnering with entrepreneurs to build iconic and lasting businesses. DFJ Growth is the later stage investment practice that focuses on investing in private technology companies that are addressing huge market opportunities, scaling very rapidly, and poised for category leadership.

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He is also the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that encourages entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness, to transform industries with new technologies, and to build platforms for extraordinary growth, jobs, and wealth creation. In 2016, the firm raised a $190M fund to invest in the foremost technology companies. Draper Associates’ portfolio includes Tesla, Skype, Baidu, Twitch, Cruise Automation among others. The firm’s partners are Tim Draper, Billy Draper and Andy Tang.

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Moreover, he is Headmaster of Draper University since fourteen years. Draper University is the leading program in Silicon Valley for building founders. Our innovative, immersive Residential Programs in Entrepreneurship offer: essential startup skills, exposure to industry experts, a network of like-minded entrepreneurs, & mentorship from experienced venture capitalists (VCs).

In 2006, Draper through DFJ was an investor in the Series C venture round of Tesla In 2007, Draper again invested in Tesla’s Series D venture round through Draper Associates.

On June 27, 2014, Draper paid about USD $19 million for nearly 30,000 bitcoins which had been seized from the Silk Road by the US Marshals service and auctioned to the public.

On September 23, 2014, Draper told Fox Business that he predicted that one bitcoin would reach $10,000 “in three years”; on January 27, 2015, Draper wagered about $400,000 (which is 2000 bitcoins with $200 price) that the bitcoin will rebound from a recent plunge. The price of a bitcoin crossed $10,000 on November 29, 2017.

In December 2019, he predicted that bitcoin would reach USD $250,000 in 2023.

In 2017, he wrote a book “How to be The Startup Hero.” A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs.

Draper’s recent investments include Robinhood (company), Coinbase, eShares, Tezos, DefiMoneyMarket, and OpenGov. Draper’s recent investments are centered around companies who use artificial intelligence, Bitcoin, blockchain, smart contracts, and computational genomics to apply to industries like finance, health care, and government.

Draper has spoken out for free markets and entrepreneurship globally, and against Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, stating that they limit the viability of taking companies public. In 2000, Draper spent $20 million on a failed measure to support school vouchers.

These days were brimming with insightful content, top-tier networking opportunities, and hot topics tabled by leading speakers in a festival-like atmosphere!

Check out the highlights from the mother of all conferences. With greetings from the Prime Minister of Malta himself, several other ministers, celebrities, industry giants, over 600 investors, and c level executives!

This truly has been a marvelous few days seeing the synergy of multiple industries under one roof!

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J. Alejandro Regojo (Regox) is a young entrepreneur, crypto influencer and Hodler developing services and products around Bitcoin since 2016. Trained in traditional companies and markets, he co-created the well-known Bitcoin GPU (BTG) Fork in 2017 and is currently one of the most powerful members of its community. In 2019 he founded BITPOP as a goal to create a milestone in Bitcoin local adoption. As an economist, Alejandro is also a top consultant for Blockchain firms, especially interested in using those technologies to help developing countries to resolve the different conflicts that occur in them.

Herbert R. Sim, is the Head of Business Development at Broctagon FinTech Group. Herbert is the founder of TheBitcoinMan.com and Crypto Chain University, established in 2010, the oldest repository for compilation of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency research papers.

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).

Brock Pierce is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with an extensive track record of founding, advising and investing in disruptive businesses. He’s been credited with pioneering the market for digital currency and has raised more than $5B for companies he has founded. Pierce is the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of EOS Alliance, Block.one, Blockchain Capital, Tether, and Mastercoin (first ICO). Block.one was created in 2017 and has sold over $4B tokens in the EOS crowdsale making it the largest ever. Blockchain Capital was founded in 2013 and is the first sector-focused venture fund that invests solely in Blockchain technology companies. Blockchain Capital has made more than 100 investments in the sector across its four funds

Expert in digital marketing, Amelia began working in the fintech sector in 2014 after writing her thesis on Bitcoin technology. She has previously been an author for Cointelegraph and the Eidoo CMO. Now she is the Editor in Chief and co-founder of The Cryptonomist, a magazine about cryptocurrencies and fintech

Charles is COO of neurothink and part of the ADX Labs R&D team. He is an accomplished executive, physicist, and engineer and holds patents related to underwater sea exploration. Prior to his work with neurothink, Charles built and led Seagate’s Data4Good initiative to develop technology projects to combat the spread of Covid with Ford, the Journal of Aerosol Science and Folding@Home. Before this, Charles led the work on nuclear power design for aircraft carriers and submarines. When not running with his huskies, Charles enjoys discovering small production vineyards around the globe and taking a variety of cooking classes.

Current Occupation   – COO Neurothink.io

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neurothinkNeurothink.io was founded to eliminate the frustrations existing on large cloud service provider platforms (fragmented data science interfaces and inefficient GPU access). We are focused on an efficient user experience, we choose and own our hardware, and we have partnered with the best leaders in the industry.  Our vision is to make powerful and secure machine learning tools accessible to students, data scientists, companies with and without data science departments and universities or labs needing intermittent and dependable access to horsepower to push the boundaries of science and analysis

Participation in Previous Summits of SiGMA, AIBC, AGS or MED-TECH

May 2021 – Dubai – keynote speaker AIBC

November 2021 – Malta

Med-Tech, Ai in Diagnostics panel

AIBC – finance and quantum computing  panel

He spoke at the SIGMA conference about The Future Of Betting And Payments In The Quantum Computing Era (Day 3)

Mickael Marceau, Head of Payments at Kindred Group, did us the honour of speaking at the AIBC Summit this November 2021! MODERATOR moderated the panel ? The Future Of Betting Payments In The Quantum Computing Era ? with fellow speakers: ? Adriaan Brink ? Bryan Blake, Founder at Hexopay ? Charles Donly, COO at ADX Labs ? Dmitry Nazarov, CEO at Pion Finance 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. ? Check out what AIBC has lined up for 2022 ➡ https://aibc.world/

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Daniele Marinelli, 46 years old of Roman origins, twenty-three years of freelance as an accountant and business consultant in the Prati district of Rome. In 2010 he took on the position of corporate advisor and was among the first in Italy to buy Bitcoin, sensing the potential of the emerging blockchain technology. In 2016 he dedicated himself to the analysis of the usage of cryptocurrencies to leverage big data and AI while fighting for privacy and user protection, taking the path that led to the creation of Ushare DT Circle.

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”

Stefania Barbaglio is a London-based entrepreneur, business strategist and PR expert focused on new technologies and high-impact projects. As the founder and CEO of the boutique Investor & Public Relations agency Cassiopeia Services, she has worked with a range of private and listed companies across numerous sectors, and facilitated multiple deals globally.

In the technology space, she has advised a variety of international blockchain application focused companies on their ground-breaking projects, leading on business strategies and marketing activities. In addition to advising blockchain leader IOHK on fashion and luxury tech developments, her input has been pivotal in the development of the DeFi project Umbria Network. Stefania has also guided various firms in business development, fundraising and organisational dynamics, as well as leading large-scale tech and investment events.

 

An influencer with a large investor following, Stefania is considered one of the top British female opinion leaders in the crypto sphere. She is also the creator and host of the financial + crypto focused YouTube channel and podcast FinancialFox.

 

Stefania has 10 years’ experience in financial markets; and is a board member of London-listed Spinnaker Acquisitions PLC, a London-listed SPAC investing in the sustainability and renewable energy sector.

 

She is also a columnist for the UK online financial newspaper City AM, as well as hosting regular symposia for public companies and start-ups: investor presentations and networking evenings in exclusive private venues. She is a fellow and alumna of Oxford University and has two MAs: International Journalism from Westminster University (UK) and TV Production from IULM University (Italy), as well as ten years’ previous experience as a freelance financial journalist and producer for mainstream TV channels including Bloomberg, BBC & leading in-house Investor Relations & PR departments.

 

Entrepreneur and disruptor: Stefania never stops honing her keen eye for investment and innovation.

Stefania Barbaglio, Founder and Director of Cassiopeia Services, sits down and speaks about how NFTs are revolutionising and disrupting the Fashion Industry. Stefania Barbaglio is an entrepreneur, business strategist, reputation specialist, and well-recognized PR and Investor Relations expert who has advised a range of private and listed companies across many sectors, including new technologies such as blockchain, energy and natural resources, finance, fashion, and healthcare with a focus on innovation and sustainability.

 

Jonathan Galea is a Maltese lawyer specialising in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). He has been deeply involved in the area since 2013, and complements his legal knowledge with technical certification as a C developer. Jonathan’s LL.D. (Doctorate of Laws) thesis was titled “The Effect of Bitcoin on Money Laundering Law”, and being completed in May 2015, it was one of the first ever legal theses on the subject. He was one of the first blockchain evangelists in Malta, having organised various meetups and conferences for consecutive years, and moreover has also participated as a keynote speaker in several conferences both in Malta and abroad, covering the legal, technical and economic aspects of this novel technology. Jonathan has also contributed towards the structuring of the DLT Regulatory Framework launched in Malta in 2018.

David Orban is a global technological thought leader, investor, entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, and author. He has created and grown a number of businesses over the course of more than two decades. Also, the first to acquire Ether upon the Ethereum debut in 2014. He was an early adopter of blockchain technologies and an avid Bitcoin investor since 2010.

Davin Orban is also an advisor and investor in a number of blockchain firms and funds, including Bitnation, Neuromation, Sun Exchange, Wealth Migrate, Blockchain Capital, Bancor, Swarm Fund, and others. Furthermore, has spearheaded the adoption of Bitcoin and blockchain in start-ups. At the first Ethereal Summit in May 2017 in New York, and Blockchain Unbound in March 2018 in Puerto Rico, David explained the emancipation and empowerment that non-zero sum technologies are spreading worldwide.

His company, Beyond Enterprizes, is a strategic advisory firm that helps projects with all stages of blockchain and new technology implementation and development. David is the Managing Advisor for Beyond Enterprizes. At the end of August 2021, Beyond’s more than 50 clients had a combined value of more than $14B. Also, he is the founder and manager of Network SocietyVentures. A company that invests in startups that employ exponential technology and decentralized networks.

Moreover, David is the founder and a trustee of Network Society Research. Is a global think tank with offices in London and more than 40 countries. Its goal is to help people, businesses, and society as a whole. Thus, to deal with the unstoppable transformation to a world based on decentralized exponential technologies. They are changing the traditional centralized and hierarchical functions of governments and corporations.

Singularity University, based at the NASA Research Park in California, is also where he is a faculty member and advisor. An investor in the Singularity University Labs Accelerator Fund, which is now called SUVentures. He was also the President of SingularityU Italy. SU is an interdisciplinary university that aims to bring together, teach, and inspire leaders who want to understand and help develop exponentially growing technologies so to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.

A popular speaker, gave over 100 keynote addresses and speeches around the world for companies like Abbvie, Cisco, Oracle and Roche. Also, for companies like Gilead, ENEL and Banca Sella, Alphabet, the Internet Advertising Bureau, the European Foundation for Management Development and H-Farm. When it comes to artificial intelligence, he wrote a book called “Something New.” A Thiel Fellowship mentor and an Advisor to the Institute of Ethics and EmergentTechnologies, as well as a number of businesses.

Furthermore, David Orban was the Chairman of the Board and Advisor to Humanity+. This is a group that wants to make people more aware of scientific progress and new technologies that help the human condition. He worked as an Adjunct Professor at LUISS Business School in Rome, one of Italy’s best schools. David’s work cuts across the limits of specialization to contribute to a new renaissance.

David Orban did us the honor of speaking at the AIBC Summit this November 2021!

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.