The founder and CEO of SPACE, Batis Samadian founded the company in 2021 with a goal to build a fair and equal economy for creators and businesses. Previously, Batis was the product lead at Zapp, and as a serial entrepreneur and investor, he also worked for Saffron, a venture builder that was involved with early VR startups and was an angel in a number of successful projects. Batis has been in crypto since 2013, initially mining with his friends from their college dorms. Today, he brings all his entrepreneurial and crypto knowledge to create the largest commerce virtual world owned by the comm ..read more

As a former Senior Investigative Counsel, federal prosecutor, and Chainalysis alum, Amanda Wick has been in nearly every corner of the crypto ecosystem. After nearly a decade in government service and working at a startup, she grew passionate about the need for increased inclusion of women in the future of digital assets. She recently founded a non-profit called the Association for Women In Crypto to provide networking and education opportunities that will help promote and advance women in the space.  Cryptocurrency has existed for more than a decade, but countless people still don't know ..read more

Tegan Kline, Co-Founder and Head of Business at Edge & Node (the initial team behind The Graph), helping to ensure a vibrant decentralized future. The Graph is Edge & Node’s first protocol, an indexing and query protocol organizing the world’s open blockchain data and making open data a public good. Tegan helps leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem. Tegan made Forbes 30 under 30’s class of 2022. Tegan Kline is the former International Business Development Manager and OXT Relations Lead for Orchid, an A16z and Sequoia backed blockch ..read more

Kimberly Almeida - Director of Programs, Levi Strauss Foundation Kim is a corporate philanthropy, CSR and international development professional. She joined the Levi Strauss Foundation in 2012 and leads the Foundation’s learning and analysis efforts across its three giving areas. Previously, she oversaw the design and implementation of Levi Strauss & Co.’s Worker Well-being initiative, which aims to improve apparel workers’ lives through partnerships with the Company’s vendors and community organizations. Kim led efforts to measure the impact of WWB in partnership with the Sustainability a ..read more

Jeremy Nau is a founding member and Director in Armanino's Blockchain and Digital Assets practice. A CPA, Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP), Jeremy acts as a subject matter expert for Armanino's clients across all industries. In this capacity, Jeremy leads the digital asset portions of audit, SOC, SOX and tax engagements for many types of industry clients such as exchanges, custodians, miners, stakers, token projects, wallets, payment processors and stablecoins. Additionally, Jeremy is a co-founder and product manager of Armanino's TrustExplorer sui ..read more

Neeraj Kashyap is the founder and CEO of Moonstream. Moonstream is a one of a kind web3 game engine with tools to build on-chain game economies. There are tens of thousands of players already participating in game economies built with Moonstream. The company has secured over $3b in transaction volume to date. Neeraj is a mathematician with a Ph.D. in Number Theory. He spent his late twenties in Japan, using mathematics and Machine Learning to build algorithms to diagnose Parkinson’s disease and other similar disorders. He worked at Google on TensorFlow, and built knowledge graphs that are bein ..read more

Brian Schuster is a Software Developer, Technical Manager and Entrepreneur building devMint School to close the talent gap in the Web3 industry. Brian started his career non-technical, graduating with a Business Degree from UNC. After studying entrepreneurship at MIT and realizing that the best opportunities were in technology, Brian started a rigourous self-study practice to learn software development. These practices eventually led him to roles including Infrastructure Developer, Solution Architect and DevOps Engineer. Brian now uses his dual background in business and technology to help peo ..read more

Michele Benedetto Neitz is a Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law and the Founding Director of the Blockchain Law for Social Good Center, the first of its kind in the United States.  She teaches Blockchain and the Law, Business Associations, Legal Ethics, and other classes. She has been voted “Most Outstanding Professor” by the graduating class of GGU Law six times, most recently in 2022. Professor Neitz was appointed to advise the California legislature as a member of the California Blockchain Working Group in 2019.  She researches and lectures on ethical, regula ..read more

Kadeem Clarke is an entrepreneur, blockchain expert, and venture capitalist investing in the top cryptocurrency companies of the future. In addition to being a freelance digital consultant for tech startups and small businesses, Kadeem is Head of Labs of Momentum 6, a value-add-focused VC fund in the crypto space. Momentum 6 invests in early-stage cryptocurrency startups and provides incubation services, from marketing to tokenomics, to help grow portfolio companies. At Momentum 6, Kadeem leads a research team that publishes educational content about blockchain projects and related topics. Kad ..read more

Lewis Cohen is the co-founder of DLx Law, a law firm founded in 2018 to serve the needs of a new, technology-driven economy.  Lewis and the DLx Law team provide in-depth legal counsel to startups, growth companies, major enterprises, and governmental entities on a broad range of matters involving the use of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and other disruptive technologies.  Passionate about the ability of innovative technologies to change the way businesses and individuals work together, Lewis has become a major advocate for the potential of emerging technologies to benefit and transfor ..read more