DeFi Toronto - June Meetup (online via Zoom)

Agenda

1. HOPR: Why web3 needs full stack privacy more than decentralization.
2. Frontier: Keeping DeFi safe for everyone
3. OMNIA: a decentralized infrastructure protocol for securely accessing the blockchain

Speaker Bios

Dhawal Shah is the co-founder and CBDO at Frontier, a multi-chain, non-custodial DeFi and GameFi. He is also the Founding Partner at Bison, a Web3 venture fund.

Cristian Lupascu, Co-founder & CEO OMNIA Protocol

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristian-lupascu-phd-6675a463/

Cristian is the Co-founder and CEO of OMNIA and is recognized globally for his academic research and work in privacy, distributed ledger technologies, encryption algorithms, cloud security, and cryptography. He earned his Ph.D. in privacy-enhancing technologies from the Military Technical Academy in Bucharest. Before founding OMNIA Protocol, Cristian worked at the Ministry of Defense in Romania as a cybersecurity expert at the Advanced Cyber Security Technologies CoE division. He later trained members of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) on cybersecurity and related topics. At CertSIGN, Cristian designed remote signing solutions and key management systems for PKI systems. He is a speaker, mentor, privacy advocate and angel investor in the Web3 space.

Alex Lupascu, Co-founder & CTO OMNIA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandru-lupascu/

Alex is the Co-founder and CTO of OMNIA. Before founding Omnia, Alex leveraged a decade of cybersecurity and blockchain expertise. Alex was a subject matter expert for IT security and cryptography at the Military Technical Academy in Bucharest and later joined Romania’s Ministry of National Defence in their elite Advanced Cyber Security Technologies Centre of Excellence division. He held a leadership role at certSIGN, where he co-founded certME and has a patent pending for secure generation, exchange, and management of user identity data using blockchain. He is actively involved in community efforts to advance secure computation techniques. He is a sought-after speaker with notable engagements at Eurocrypt, Romania Blockchain Summit, Cluj Tech Society, and MindChain. Recently, Alex received global recognition from Metamask for identifying a critical vulnerability potentially impacting 21 million users.