Private Investing in Web3 Panel Session on DeFi & CeFi - Risks & Opportunities

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During this panel session we will have the opportunity to discuss major differences between DeFi & CeFi as well as which risks and opportunities to be aware of in both areas. Join our session to learn more about this field, ask questions and network with our web3 community. Food and drinks will be provided by our sponsors.

Agenda:

6.30pm - meet and greet while having food and drinks

7.15pm - panel discussion

8.15pm - audience Q&A

8:30pm - networking with more food and drinks

Sponsored by:

Searce (https://www.searce.com/)

Searce is a global technology consulting organisation, system integrator and Advanced AWS Partner. They are infrastructure experts trusted by unicorns, digital natives and web3 projects to help them migrate and build on AWS.

AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

Our panel guests

Sherry Jiang - Co-Founder & CEO of Bluejay Finance

(https://bluejay.finance/)

Sherry is the co-founder and CEO of Bluejay Finance, a platform revolutionizing private credit investments. Bluejay Finance has successfully raised $4M USD in venture funding and launched its platform in Q1 of this year. Notably, their inaugural opportunity was fully funded within a remarkable 8-hour span.

Prior to founding Bluejay, Sherry built a career in the tech industry, having worked at world-class companies like Amazon and Google. During her time at Google, she had a pivotal role as the growth product marketing lead in driving the exponential growth of Google Pay in India from 13M to over 120M+ monthly active users. Sherry's belief in the power of technology to foster financial inclusion, particularly in emerging markets, has fueled her dedication to advancing this mission within web3.

Sherry graduated with a degree in Business Administration from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. In her free time, she is an avid poker player, aerial artist, snowboarder, and singer.

Lawrence Linker - Founder & CEO of XD Academy

(https://xd.academy/)

Lawrence is Founder and CEO of XD Academy, a web3 enabled e-learning platform designed to onboard the next billion crypto users. Prior to XD Academy Lawrence was Chief of Staff to the Founder/CEO at BitMEX while they were the largest crypto exchange in the world by trading volume.

Raks Sondhi - Chief Operating Officer at Upbit Singapore

(https://upbit.com/)

Raks Sondhi serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Upbit Singapore. Upbit is a prominent centralised cryptocurrency exchange established in South Korea and also has operations spanning Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore.

Previously, Raks held the position of e Managing Director and Singapore Country Head at Independent Reserve, the first crypto exchange to obtain licensing in Singapore for all investors.

Daniel Lee - Head of Web3 at Banking Circle

(https://www.bankingcircle.com/)

I am the Head of Web3 for Banking Circle, a B2B Bank licensed in Luxembourg with branches in Denmark, Germany and the UK. I am responsible for the Web3 initiatives in Banking Circle and relationships with the digital asset community. Banking Circle is regulated by the CSSF in Luxembourg and supervised as branches in UK by FCA, in Germany by BAFIN and in Denmark by the Danish FSA.

I left DBS in Dec 2021 after 22 years of service to set up a Digital Asset Custody and Prime Services Business in Europe. Together with Calvin Cheng, the former Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore, we set up Damoon Technology Holdings AG, Damoon Technology (Europe) AG and Calvin Cheng Web 3.0 Holdings FZE (provisional licence from the DVARA). I am also an adviser in TechstormTV, an e-sports media company which has over 92 million subscribers.

Moderated by

Stan Kosyakov - Co-founder & CEO of Renora Technologies

(https://renora.io/)

Stan Kosyakov is co-founder and CEO of Renora Technologies, a platform that helps investors automate investment strategies for digital assets and make web3 investing simple and systematic.

Prior to that Stan has built multiple ventures across various industries including his previous data intelligence company Mantheos.