Blockchain Futurist Conference 2025 | Toronto, CA

Sponsor & Exhibit

Sponsor & Exhibit

Sponsor & Exhibit

Sponsor & Exhibit

FULL 2025 SCHEDULE

TUESDAY MAY 13, 2025

Explore sessions, panels, and events across two stages:
The Main Stage on the historic Old Toronto Stock Exchange trading floor, and the Upper Stage in the Gallery Room.

8:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Registration
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM
Opening & Welcoming Remarks
Mahyar Akhbari
Co-Founder of Futurist Conference
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Virtual Welcoming from Justin Sun from TRON
Justin Sun
Founder, TRON
9:10 AM - 9:35 AM
PANEL: The Future of Global Regulation: A Cross-Border Web3 Conversation
SPEAKERS
Itai Elizur
COO & Managing Partner, MarketAcross
Cody Carbone
CEO, The Digital Chamber
Roger Huang
Contributor, Forbes, Author, Bitcoin Magazine Books
Koleya Karringten
Executive Director, Canadian Blockchain Consortium
Anson Law
Chief Representative (New York & London Office), Hong Kong Monetary Authority
9:35 AM - 10:45 AM
The Future Of Tokenization. Presented by IHodlLife
Tristan Schroeder
Founder & CEO, IHodlLife
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Fireside Chat: Leading the Charge: WonderFi and the Future of Fintech In Canada
SPEAKERS
Charlie Aikenhead
SVP Communications, WonderFi (TSX: WNDR)
Dean Skurka
President & CEO, WonderFI (TSX: WNDR)
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Keynote Presentation by Anthony Di Iorio, Founder of Ethereum & Decentral
Anthony Di Iorio
Founder, Ethereum, Decentral, Andiami
10:20 AM - 10:30 AM
Powering Token Utility IRL. Presented by Snaplii
Spencer Xu
Founder & CEO, Snaplii & SnapPay
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Scaling What Matters: Building Sustainably with Arbitrum
Abdulkareem Oyeneye
Growth Strategist, Arbitrum DAO
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
PANEL: Canadian Web3 Regulation: Hearing from Different Perspectives on Building a Thriving Web3 Economy
SPEAKERS
Stephen Sargeant
Founder, Airdropd
Mo Yang
Founding Partner & CFO, Convoy Finance
Suzanne Lazrado
Vice-President, Member Services & Innovation, Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO)
Tanim Rasul
Chief Operating Officer, NDAX
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Striking the Balance: UX vs Security in Crypto Exchanges. Presented by Bitget
Vugar Usi Zade
COO, Bitget
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
Presentation by Evan Kuhn from DeLorean Labs
Evan Kuhn
President, DeLorean Labs
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
Fireside Chat with Lucas Matheson from Coinbase Canada
Lucas Matheson
CEO, Coinbase Canada
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Tokenization: Unlocking Liquidity & Transforming Capital Markets. Presented by Polymath
Vincent Kadar
CEO, Polymath
12:15 PM - 12:40 PM
PANEL: Why Tokenize? Unlocking the Future of Asset Ownership
SPEAKERS
Natalie Hirsch
Chief Financial Officer, Polymath
Hunter Milborne
CEO, Milborne Group
Bilal Hammoud
CEO, NDAX
Kirill Soloviev
CEO & Co-Founder, ContentQuo
12:40 PM - 12:55 PM
Inflation Isn’t a Number—It’s Alpha. Stream It. Presented by Truflation
Stefan Rust
CEO, Truflation
12:55 PM - 1:15 PM
Fireside Chat: Regulating Emerging Technologies with Marta Belcher, Hosted by Morva Rohani
SPEAKERS
Marta Belcher
President & Chair, Filecoin Foundation
Morva Rohani
Executive Director, Canadian Web3 Council
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Fireside Chat with Eric Chen from Injective Foundation, Hosted by Stephen Sargeant
SPEAKERS
Stephen Sargeant
Founder, Airdropd
Eric Chen
CEO, Injective Foundation
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Privacy 2.0: The AI Revolution

Exploring the intersection of AI and privacy — 2 hours of expert insights followed by networking. Sponsored by Secret Network and Silent Swap

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3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
NETWORKING: Privacy 2.0 – The AI Revolution

Take a break from the main stage presentations and connect with industry leaders during the networking portion of the AI & Privacy event, sponsored by Secret Network and Silent Swap

4:30 PM - 4:35 PM
Opening for Afternoon Sessions Begins
Mahyar Akhbari
Co-Founder of Futurist Conference
4:35 PM - 4:40 PM
Presentation by Kumutha Ramanathan from The Summit Group
Kumutha Ramanathan
Founder & CEO, The Summit Group
4:40 PM - 5:10 PM
PANEL: Can AI agents save crypto? Optimal solvers or a flash in the pan? Going beyond the hype and exploring an AI-driven future. Brought to you by Kuvi.ai
SPEAKERS
Shaw Walters
Founder, Eliza Labs
Dylan Dewdney
CEO & Co-Founder, Kuvi.ai
Warren Calove
Co-Founder & CEO, Go Arlo
Trevor Koverko
Co-Founder, Sapien
Kumutha Ramanathan
Founder & CEO, The Summit Group
5:10 PM - 5:20 PM
Boundless: The Missing Piece. Presented by Boundless by RISC Zero
Jacob Everly
Product Lead, Boundless by RISC Zero
5:20 PM - 5:40 PM
Fireside Chat: The Future of Global Payments - How ZDKL is Making Web-3 Commerce Easy For All
SPEAKERS
Sam Bourgi
Senior News Editor, Cointelegraph
Erai Beckmann
Founding Partner, ZDKL COIN & PTT Blockchain
5:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Presentation by Brock Pierce
Brock Pierce
Bitcoin Pioneer
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM
10,000 Exchange-traded cryptos :
Why Nexa? Presented by Nexa: Bitcoin Unlimited
Andrew Clifford
President, Nexa: Bitcoin Unlimited
6:10 PM - 6:25 PM
Presentation by Silvina Moschini from Unicorns and Unicoin
Silvina Moschini
Co-Founder & CEO, Unicorns, Co-Founder, Unicoin
6:25 PM - 6:45 PM
Welcome to the Fourth Generation by Charles Hoskinson from Input | Output
Charles Hoskinson
CEO & Founder, Input | Output
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM
A new age of on-ramping. Presented by Onchain Labs
Jason Dominique
Co-Founder & CEO, Onchain Labs
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
PANEL: TradFi to DeFi: The Future of Finance is Decentralized
SPEAKERS
Claire Brownell
Reporter, The Logic
Wesley Crook
CEO, FP Block
Chen Fang
Chief Revenue Officer, BitGo
Paul Brody
Global Blockchain Leader, EY
Mike Silagadze
Founder & CEO, ether.fi
7:30 PM - 7:45 PM
Justice for All! Diving into Jstz, a Native JavaScript Environment for Web3 Development. Presented by Tezos
Arthur Breitman
Co-Founder, Tezos

7:45 PM - 8:00 PM
Presentation by Ethan Buchman from Informal Systems, Cycles
Ethan Buchman
CEO, Informal Systems | Cycles
8:00 PM - 8:10 PM
Presentation by Anvil
8:10 PM - 8:35 PM
PANEL: The Future of Web3: Powering the Next Wave: Builders, Blockchains, and the Future of Web3
SPEAKERS
Ty Smith
Founder & CEO, Coinbound
Tamara Haasen
President, Input | Output (IO)
Simon
Superteam Canada Lead
Javier Arroyo Ferrer
Co-Founder, ICP HUB Canada & US, Partner, Quantum Leap Labs
J.D. Seraphine
Founder & CEO,Raiinmaker
8:35 PM - 8:40 PM
Closing Remarks on The Main Stage Trading Floor
Mahyar Akhbari
Co-Founder of Futurist Conference
8:40 PM - 12:00 AM
NETWORKING PARTY on the Old Toronto Stock Exchange Trading Floor! Where Past meets the Future!
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Upper Stage & Upstairs Expo Hall Opens
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Opening & Welcoming Remarks
Graeme Moore
Author of "B is for Bitcoin"
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM
Presentation by Debbie Deer from Orion Digital Inc.
Debbie Deer
CEO, Orion Digital Inc.
9:25 AM - 9:40 AM
Presentation by Emmet Robins from Robins and Coleman®
Emmet Robins
Co-Founder & Director, Robins and Coleman®
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
The Light Side Of Crypto. Presented by Zach Humphries
Zach Humphries
President, ZH Media
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Workshop by Invest HK: Hong Kong: Becoming a fintech superpower. Building a stable environment for web3/blockchain/crypto through regulation and incentives.
SPEAKERS
Christopher Chen
Head, InvestHK (Canada)

Anson Law
Chief Representative (New York & London Office), Hong Kong Monetary Authority
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
PANEL: Crypto in Your Cart: The New Way to Pay
SPEAKERS
Florent Thévenin
Founder & CEO, Blockchain North
Girish Kulkarni
Founder & Director, Cryptoshopi Inc.
Charles-André Bergeron
Founder & CEO, EZO.APP
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM
Presentation by Regan McGrath from Metrics CPA
Regan McGrath
Founding Partner & CEO, Metrics Chartered Professional Accounting
11:00 AM - 11:05 AM
Introductions to ETHWomen
MC
Julie Lamb
Founder, NFT VIP
SPEAKERS
Tracy Leparulo
Founder, Blockchain Futurist Conference
Elena Sinelnikova
Co-Founder, CryptoChicks & Metis
11:05 AM - 11:20 AM
Presentation by Silvina Moshini from Unicoins Inc.
Silvina Moschini
Co-Founder & CEO, Unicorns,
Co-Founder, Unicoin
11:20 AM - 11:40 PM
Why We Gather: The Importance of Women-Led Conversations in Web3
Featuring Untold Stories and Unfiltered Moments from the Frontlines of Crypto
SPEAKERS
Ashley Wright
Founder, FemT3ch
Amanda Wick
Founder & CEO, Association for Women in Cryptocurrency
Laura Scarlett Martin
Venture Partner, Scarlett Venture

11:40 AM - 12:05 PM
Code Meets Community: Building Teams That Scale Tech and Strategy
SPEAKERS
Justyna Osowska
Founder, Women in Blockchain Canada
Eve Lam
Chief Information Security Officer, Trust Wallet
Leyla Yazdan
Sr. Software Development Manager, WonderFi
Shanice
Ecosystem and Business Development, Nexa
Celyn Brown
Business Development Lead, Superteam Canada
12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
The Weight of the Crown: What It’s Really Like to Be the Boss
SPEAKERS
Audrey Nesbitt
CMO, Spirit Blockchain Capital, Global Web3 Marketing Advisor, Invincible GG

Kyleigha Beckmann
Founding Partner, ZDKL COIN & PTT Blockchain
Emma Todd
CEO, MMH Technology Group
Maggi Xu
VP, Partnerships and Ecosystem, OnchainX Labs
Elena Sinelnikova
Co-Founder, CryptoChicks & Metis
12:30 PM - 12:55 PM
KEYNOTE PANEL: Web3 Powerhouses: Women Who Lead the Industry
SPEAKERS
Amber Scott
Co-Founder & Chairperson, Outlier Compliance Group
Silvina Moschini
Co-Founder & CEO, Unicorns,Co-Founder, Unicoin
Jelena Djuric
Co-Founder & CEO, Noble
Annelise Osborne
Chief Business Officer, Kadena
Lisa Loud
Executive Director, Secret Network
12:55 PM - 1:00 PM
Virtual Message from the CEO of Bitget and Founder of Blockchain4Her Initiative
Gracy Chen
CEO, Bitget
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Blockchain4Her Happy Hour @ ETHWomen

Join us for an inspiring and empowering Happy Hour hosted by Blockchain4Her, a global initiative led by Bitget dedicated to uplifting women in blockchain.

Register Here
2:30 PM - 2:35 PM
Introductions to ETHToronto
Graeme Moore
Author of "B is for Bitcoin"
2:35 PM - 3:00 PM
PANEL: Where Intelligence Meets Decentralization: Founders at the AI x Web3 Frontier
SPEAKERS
Zachary Nelson
Founder & CEO, Genzio Media
Albert Sarong
Founder & CEO, Siastes AI
J.D. Seraphine
Founder & CEO, Raiinmaker
3:00 PM - 3:25 PM
PANEL: Leading with Code: Developers Building the Web3 Future
3:25 PM - 4:15 PM
OFFICIAL HACKATHON OF ETHToronto: Wonder To The Future Hackathon
Register Here
Workshop by WonderFi Labs: Bridging the Gap: Web2 Meets Web3
SPEAKERS
Kartik Bajaj
VP of Engineering, WonderFi Labs
Gobi Nadesh
Senior Product Manager, WonderFi Labs
4:25 PM - 4:55 PM
PANEL: Beyond the JPEG: The Real Future of NFTs
SPEAKERS
Julie Lamb
Founder, NFT VIP
Anwuli Okeke
Founder, Ilunafriq
Kenn Bosak
Host, #NotAnotherBitcoinPodcast
Maheen Aqeel
Founder, Journey Studio
Anthony Peltier
CEO, Pantheon TCG
4:55 PM - 5:00 PM
ETHToronto Closing
Graeme Moore
Author of "B is for Bitcoin"
5:00 PM
Upper Stage Officially Closes
6:00 PM
Expo Hall on 3rd Floor Gallery Officially Closes
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Bitget Wallet Mixer Night

Register for an evening of cocktails and hordervers at the Bitget Wallet Mixer Night. You must RSVP and be accepted to join.

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