The Blockchain Future - Shaping Tomorrow

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"Blockchain is technology to power open finance. At the heart of digital currency is powerful, decentralized technology that is revolutionizing the way people around the world exchange value."

• Blockchain.com

SPEAKERS:

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Brock Pierce is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur with an extensive track record of founding, advising and investing in disruptive businesses. He pioneered the market for digital currency in games and has raised more than $200 million for companies he founded. Mr. Pierce is the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Capital.

Blockchain Capital is the first sector focused venture fund that invests in Blockchain technology companies and the Bitcoin ecosystem. The firm has invested in more than 45 companies in the space. Blockchain Capital was recently named the most active FinTech Venture Fund by Pitchbook.

Mr. Pierce is the founder of IMI Exchange, the world’s leading digital currency marketplace for games, with annual sales exceeding $1 billion and investors such as Goldman Sachs and Oak Investment Partners, which was sold in 2016 for more than $100 million. He founded ZAM, one of the world’s largest media properties for gamers, which was acquired by Tencent in 2012. Mr. Pierce founded IGE, the pioneer of digital currency in online games, achieving revenues exceeding $100 million in 2006 and sold in 2007. Mr. Pierce is a is an early investor in Bitcoin and one of the largest investors in the Ethereum crowd sale. He's also a founding board member of the Omni Foundation, GoCoin, Tether (sold), Xfire 2.0, Playsino, Five Delta (sold to SCRI), Evertune, GamesTV, and Digital Entertainment Network.

Mr. Pierce is faculty at the Singularity University and has spoken at the Milken Global Conference, Wired, INK, Stanford, USC, and UCLA. He attended the University of Southern California.

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Mr. Morgan graduated with a BS in Computer Engineering followed by graduate studies at George Washington University. He began his employment career working for the CIA / Logicon in Langley, Virginia followed by Microsoft Corporation in the late 1980s where he had 3 careers over his 8 years there. He first retired with his wife in 1996 just prior to his daughter being born followed by his son two years later. In 1997, he co-founded Hudson Morgan Investments, a private equity company with his partner, Arthur Hudson. Hudson Morgan Investments has made considerable investments in Technology, Real Estate Holdings, High End home construction, Real Estate Development, Residential Real Estate Sales, Global Repair Parts distribution, Aviation, Staffing, Sports and more. Hudson Morgan Investments formed QubeChain, LLC. in its focus around the BlockChain ecosystem and is currently working in the Healthcare space. He currently, and has in the past, held positions on several Board of Directors and Board of Advisors and has been the CIO of 2 publicly traded companies. He has been a sought-after speaker at conferences & events for over 30 years.

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Mr. Kang Hsu leads the QubeChain Healthcare vertical. He is a graduate of Harvard with a Master of Arts (MA), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors and earned a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree in the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology (CDB), with a Specialization in Neuroscience. Conducted research at Massachusetts Mental Hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School and at Enders Pediatric Research Laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital. He was a Temporary Consultant to the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A University of California Regent Scholar.

He currently is working on a secure viral sequencing matching application for doctors and research scientist that will be the basis of QubeChain Health IT Platform.

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Kurt Kumar is QubeChain’s blockchain Consulting Practice Lead.

He is a Business Architect, entrepreneur and process transformation specialist with proven ability in bringing to life custom enterprise strength applications with features/functions and agility that cannot be matched by big firms. He has lead small guerilla teams to rapidly create prototypes of conceptual designs while applying best-of-breed, enterprise system and application solutions to meet business objectives on large-scale projects at Universal, DTV, Warner, Fox, Allianz, ESRI et al.

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Jay Berg, founded Protoblock (formerly Satoshi Fantasy) in 2013 combining his four key passions: fantasy football, coding, Algorithmic Trading and Blockchain Technology. Prior to founding Protoblock

, Jay spent 20+ years developing, designing and delivering complex software solutions with a focus on electronic exchanges, high-frequency trading, alpha-modeling, cryptocurrency exchanges and proprietary trading groups. Jay was a Quant Developer at Fortress Investment Group, a Senior Developer of the Bloomberg Terminal, an Advisor and Core Developer for Factom, as well as other Blockchain startups. Jay holds a Masters of Financial Engineering from Baruch College of the City University of New York, is a former NASD Registered Series 7 Representative, as well as a former NFA Registered Series 3 Commodity Pool Operator. He has been a passionate Fantasy Football player for over 15 years, and a 2013 FFPC-Footballguys Players Championships, League Champion.

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Pre-show networking

6:00 PM - 6:10 PM: Ryan Foland Announces start, opening remarks from Lee Decker

6:10 PM - 6:40 PM: Alicia Introduces Rees then Rees Morgan Presentation

6:40 PM - 6:50 PM: Rees Morgan Q & A

6:50 PM - 7:00 PM: Sponsors

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Brock Pierce Presentation

7:30 PM - 7:40 PM: Brock Pierce Q & A

7:40 PM - 7:50 PM: Sponsors

7:50 PM - 8:20 (could be longers) PM: Expert Panel

8:20 PM - 8:30 PM: Closing Remarks

8:30 PM - 9:15 PM: Networking

Sponsored by

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http://qubechain.com

COMPANIES PRESENT:

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AIRBITZ

Airbitz aims to provide the Single Sign On Security Platform for Bitcoin and blockchain applications. Our goal is to bring cryptographically secure digital assets and blockchain technology to the next billion users through amazingly simple yet feature rich applications focused on ease of use and ease of security. Our focus is to deliver software, services, and products with an amazing user experience, both visually and functionally, simplfying this advanced technology and deliveryin it to the masses while still retaining Bitcoin's core principles of decentralization and privacy.

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Proof-Of-Skill Blockchain Technology

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Gem's blockchain application platform transforms how companies connect to solve industry wide problems. By connecting companies to shared infrastructure, industries can eliminate data silos and orchestrate cross-industry workflows. Gem's platform applies to blockchain technology to identify, data, logic and network management across multiple industries including finance and healthcare. The result is GemOS, an operating system for global computers.

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