VIRTUAL EVENT

18-19 JULY 2020 | 3 PM - 8:30 PM BST

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch the Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S. In 2008, Lawdragon named him (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). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).

Dr. Wright is the world-renowned Chief Scientist at nChain. He works full-time to foster the wide-scale adoption of Bitcoin, both as a system of electronic cash and commodity money, as well as a transformative technology platform.

Steve Shadders has been involved in Bitcoin infrastructure since early 2011. As one of the first authors of open-source mining pool software “PoolServerJ,” he was at the forefront of driving scaling concerns from day one. Today, Steve is the CTO at nChain and is the Technical Director of the BSV Infrastructure Team. In this role, he contributes his ecosystem-wide perspective to support building the mining and UX infrastructure of Bitcoin SV and making it accessible as an enterprise business tool offering immutable audit features at scale that only a public blockchain can provide.

Owen is the Director of Research at nChain, where he leads a diverse and talented team dedicated to improving our technical and theoretical understanding of blockchain technology. His own research at nChain focuses on graph theory and its applications for the Bitcoin SV network.

Jad has been working in the Bitcoin industry full time for 4 years and is passionate about the value that sound money, global instant nano-payments, and a single worldwide immutable ledger can bring to the world. A computer engineer who deepened his technical Bitcoin expertise with an MSc in information security emphasising on applied cryptography, Jad currently focuses primarily on building Bitcoin infrastructure.

Brendan is the Training and Development Manager at Bitcoin Association, a role in which he oversees the development of the Bitcoin SV developer curriculum. An engineer by trade, Brendan has been involved in a number of initiatives in the digital asset space, including working with Tokenized and Coinstorage.

Joshua joined Bitcoin Association as a Content Contributor following a successful career spent working as a software and ERP consultant, an outlook he applies to bridge the gap between the commercial and development spheres of Bitcoin.

Evan is a Curriculum Specialist at Bitcoin Association, working to create and deliver a wide range of resources designed to educate developers working on the Bitcoin SV blockchain. An experienced educator, Evan joined Bitcoin Association having spent five years working with an array of blockchain technology businesses.

Software engineer and full-stack developer. Combining edge technology, agile methodologies and lean startup to lead teams building the right products, maximise ROI and minimise risks.

Brenton is the developer behind Run, a platform to build apps and tokens on the Bitcoin SV blockchain which is already powering several apps today. Having previously worked at Microsoft and Snapchat, Brenton has a diversified technical skillset which he is using to deliver solutions built to enhance data interactivity on the blockchain.

Xiaohui Liu is the founder and CEO of sCrypt Inc., a company dedicated to providing integrated on-chain smart contracting solutions on BSV. Previously, he was a Co-Founder and the Chief Scientist at blockchain startup ContentBox. Before that, he was a Research Scientist at Facebook in the Connectivity Lab, conducting fundamental research to make internet access available throughout the world. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, specialised in peer-to-peer distributed networking. He has published multiple papers in premier conferences and journals. He also has one international patent.

Shashank is the CEO and Co-Founder of Codugh, a BSV-powered API marketplace that won 1st prize at the second BSV Hackathon. An experienced product manager, Shashank is passionate about capitalising on the unique advantages of the Bitcoin SV blockchain in an effort to deliver world-changing technologies.

Ryan is the founder of Money Button, a simple but powerful interface to the Bitcoin SV blockchain that makes integrating transaction-based functions into websites and applications a cinch. Prior to his work on Money Button, Ryan founded social networking platform yours.org and held engineering roles with reddit, BitGo and BitPay.