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Futurist Conference brings together 100+ speakers every year to discuss and debate how future technologies impact the social, economic, environmental and political landscape of our global economy.
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2022 Speaker Line Up
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Vitalik Buterin
Founder, ETHEREUM
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Anthony Di Iorio
Founder, Decentral, Jaxx, and Ethereum

Ethan Buchman
Co-Founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems

Honourable Michelle Rempel Garner, P.C.
Member of Parliament for Calgary Nose Hill

Robbie Amell
Producer & Actor, Collective Pictures

Alex Dominguez
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Unicorn Hunters

Raine Maida
Founder & CEO, Drrops Inc. | Lead Vocalist, Our Lady Peace

Elena Sinelnikova
Co-Founder & CEO, CryptoChicks and MetisDAO

Christie Harkin
Managing Editor, Technology CoinDesk

Boris Alergant
Head of DeFi Markets, Ripple Labs

Greg Gopman
CMO, Ankr

Som Seif
CEO, Purpose Unlimited & Purpose Investments

Arthur Camara
Director of Product, Dapper Labs

Paolo Ardoino
CTO, Tether
Attending Virtually

Andrew Gastwirth
Chief Innovation Officer, DLA Piper

Sergey Metelin
Developer Advocate, Executive Director Americas, Swirlds Labs

Abigail Castro
Developer Evangelist, Swirlds Labs

Tanim Rasul
Chief Operating Officer, NDAX

Tyler Spalding
FOUNDER, FLEXA AND AMP

Sergey Gorbunov
Co-Founder & CEO, Axelar

Adam Cai
CEO, Virgo Group

Dr. Nataliya Hearn
Director, CryptoChicks

David Shafrir
Co-Founder & CEO, Secure Digital Markets

Nora Anwar
Marketing Manager, VirgoCX

Andrew Weiner
Vice President, MEXC Global

Vincent Kadar
CEO, Polymath

Daniel Shakhmundes
Chief Technology Officer, Secure Digital Markets

Charlene Cieslik
Chief Compliance Officer & Head of Customer Success, Localcoin

Clayton Hartford
Director, Brave Software

Kevin Hobbs
Founder & CEO, Aventus Ventures

David Cormican
Head of Production Oversight, Mogul Productions

Ben Armstrong
Founder, BitBoy Crypto

Josh Stein
Developer Advocate, Ankr

Pamela Draper
President & CEO, Bitvo Inc.

Josh Neuroth
VP Product, Ankr

Keith Grossman
President, TIME
Attending Virtually

Ego Huang
FOUNDER & CEO, DEEPCOIN EXCHANGE

Brian Mosoff
CEO, Ether Capital

Eric Richmond
Chief Operating Officer, Coinsquare
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Roger Ver
Founder, Bitcoin.com

Kate Goldman
Senior Policy Associate, Elliptic

Eric Rodriguez
Director of Strategy and Operations, Unstoppable Domains
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Lin Dai
Co-Founder & CEO, OneOf

Fred Pye
Founder & CEO, 3iQ

Jon Monahan
Vice President of Sales, Splinterlands

Matt Marino
Co-Founder, TapiocaDAO

Kimberly Adams
Co-Founder, Bridge Network

Mark Connors
Head of Research, 3iQ

David Wachsman
Founder & CEO, Wachsman

Ben Kurrek
Developer Relations Engineer, Pagoda | Co-Founder of Fayyr

Aqeel Mohammad
Product Strategy / Design, Ethereum Foundation

Tracy Molino
Counsel, Dentons Canada LLP

Austin Baggio
Product Manager, Pagoda

Bin Zhu
Founder & CEO, Stratos

Patrick Dunlop
Co-Founder & CEO, Jackal Labs

Ashley Stanhope
Director of Communications, Ether Capital

Sukhveer Sanghera
CEO, Earth Wallet

Igor Denisov
CEO, Squirrel Wallet

Kyle Fry
CEO, DIGTL

Dean Skurka
Head of Exchanges, WonderFi

Dina Mainville
Founder & Principal, Collisionless

David Gokhshtein
President, Gokhshtein Media

IllaDaProducer
Technologist & Producer, WhoWho’s TreeHouse

Tracy Leparulo
Founder & CEO, Untraceable

Warren Paul Anderson
CEO, Discreet Labs

Larry O'Brien
Co-Founder of DGOV3 | member of Prior Art | former Mayor of Ottawa | founder of Calian Group

Ross Macdonald
COO, Gokhshtein Media

Stephanie Hughes
Finance Reporter, Financial Post

Chua Kok Tung
Lead Game Designer, Project SEED

Ehsan Shariati
Co-Founder & CTO, Functionland

Tanya Lindsay
Co-Founder, CryptoMibs

Jeff Chan
Producer & Director, Collective Pictures

Fazil Mohamed Jabar
Co-Founder & CEO, NUGEN UNIVERSE

Andile Ndlovu
Artist Manager, Electric Feel Entertainment

Chris Pace
Chief Technology Advocate, Coincover

Pavel Sinelnikov
Integrations Lead, Metis

Toufic Adlouni
Managing Director, Renno & Co

Eunika Sot
Co-Founder, COO & CMO, Yuser

Alex McDougall
CEO, Stablecorp Inc.

Leon Marshall
Managing Director, Head of Institutional Sales, Genesis

Michael Sanders
Co-Founder & Chief Storyteller, Horizon

Viveik Vivekananthan
Founder & CEO, Swing.xyz

Tian Lim
Senior Project Manager, Metamask, ConsenSys

Hash
Co-Founder, Dx, DxSale

Graeme Moore
Head of Tokenization, Polymesh

MK Marsden
Co-Founder of Prior Art DAO | Managing Partner of Touchpoint Strategies

Jean Yves Martineau
Co-Founder of Prior Art | DAO EVP of Technology SimWin

Weso
Lead Developer & Strategic Partnership Coordinator, Beefy

Wayne Chen
CEO, EukaPay

Milena M.
CTO, āut Protocol

Alex P.
CEO & Product Architect, āut Protocol

Kevin Neilson
Developer Relations Engineer, Moonbeam

Mawadda Basir
Co-Founder & CEO, Hunt Analytics

Denys Ivanov
COO, Hacken.io

Brian Keogh
Director, Gemini Fund Solutions

Maggi Xu
Co-Founder, GMGN DAO

Louisa Bai
Crypto Strategy and Partnerships, Stellar.org

Justyna Osowska
Founder, Women in Blockchain Canada

Ameer Rosic
Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor

Jessica Levesque
Executive Director, C4

Ryan Berkun
Founder & CEO, Teller Finance

Pieter Vanhove
Program Manager, Microsoft

Ashley Wright
Founder & CEO, The Wright Success

Russell Castagnaro
Entrepreneur in Residence, Bufficorn Ventures
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Austin Davis
Co-Founder, Crownbits Rewards

Joshua "0xJoshua.eth" Lapidus
Executive Steward for Partnerships and Ecosystem at Opolis, Merch Steward of ETHDenver + Treasurer of SporkDAO
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Tanya Woods
Strategic Advisor, Chamber of Digital Commerce Canada

Eduardo Vivas
CO-FOUNDER, STLR GROUP
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Corey Herscu
Growth & Media Expert (no company)

Randy Marusyk
Managing Partner, MBM Intellectual Property Law

Mary Sorrenti
Vice President, Game Pill

Sam Bourgi
Business Editor, Cointelegraph

Justin Hartzman
Co-Founder & CEO, Coinsmart

Amber Scott
Founder & CEO, Outlier Compliance Group

Cristian Lupascu
Co-founder & CEO, OMNIA Protocol

Steve Ngok
Partner, DoraHacks

Majd Hailat
Founder & CEO, Altura

Jia Ling Yang
Founder & CEO, Playground

Amer Ameen
VP of Product & Project Management, ChainSafe

Kwame Bryan
Software Developer Gaming, ChainSafe

Shannon Wells
Head of Growth, Livepeer

Stanley Szeniawski
Customer Success, QuickNode

Stephen Sargeant
Founder, airdropd

Pratik Gauri
Co-Founder & CEO, 5ire

Emma Todd
CEO, MMH Data Systems

David Yi
Chief Commercial Officer, Aspen Creek Digital Corporation

Kunal Bhasin
Director & Co-Leader, Cryptoassets & Blockchain, KPMG Canada

Jesse Abramowitz
Lead Blockchain and Protocol Developer, Entropy

Pico Velasquez
Metaverse Visionary, Architect & Entrepreneur | CEO, VIIRA

Soushiant Zanganehpour
CEO, Swae.io

Wael Rajab
Founder, Blockchain Academics

Dilesha Williams Stelmach
Director of Business Development, Empowered EDI

Marc Lijour
Co-Founder, DeFi Toronto

Shagufta Sayani
Blockchain Leader, EY

Pramod Gopalakrishna
Blockchain Leader, EY

Anu Bhardwaj
Founder & CTO, SHEQONOMI

Taras Kulyk
VP, Digital Strategy & Growth, Validus Power

Ronnie Levi
Senior Account Director, MarketAcross

Maxim Sindall
COO, Altura
A Few Past Speaker

Larry King
CNN LEGEND , TV & RADIO HOST

Charles Hoskinson
FOUNDER, CARDANO

Brock Pierce
Crypto Pioneer, Philanthropist

Cindy Cowan
Founder, Cindy Cowan Entertainment Emmy Winning, Oscar & Golden Globe Nominated Producer
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Robert Leshner
Founder, Compound

Zac Prince
FOUNDER, BLOCK FI

Adrienne Batra
Editor In Chief, Toronto Sun

Mickey Maher
Senior Vice President, Dapper Labs

Itamar Lesuisse
Co-Founder & CEO, Argent
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Alexia Hefti
Former Head of Global Blockchain, Deloitte

Artur Sychov
Founder & CEO, Somnium Space VR

Bradley Kam
Co-founder, Unstoppable Domains,

Dr. Jesse “aggroed” Reich
CEO, Splinterlands

Rachel Wolfson
Reporter, Cointelegraph

Alex Mashinsky
FOUNDER & CEO, Celcius

Charlie Shrem
Bitcoin Pioneer

Anatoly Yakovenko
FOUNDER, Solana

Rune Christensen
CO-FOUNDER, MAKER DAO

Ben Goertzel
CEO, SingularityNET

Tone Vays
BITCOIN PIONEER

Steve Wand
CMO, GAME Credits | Co-Founder, Digitible

Zack Seward
Managing Editor, CoinDesk

Sebastien Borget
Co-Founder & COO, The Sandbox Game President, Blockchain Game Alliance

Edward Nwokedi
Founder & CEO, RedSwan CRE

Leonardo Real
Chief Compliance Officer, Tether
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MAIN STAGE PRESENTATIONS
We bring together world-class speakers to discuss the future of emerging technologies. Speakers provide insights on the latest industries that are being transformed and disrupted.
Frequently our speakers and presenting companies launch products on-stage, make major announcements, and showcase their innovative solutions for the first time.
Most presentations are bundled with panel discussions and similar industry keynotes to create themed segments on-stage throughout the 2 day conference.
Don't miss out on hearing the future first. Applications for main stage presentations are now open.
PURPLE STAGE
TRAINING WORKSHOPS

Blockchain Bootcamp: An Overview
20 Minute Sessions
- What is blockchain technology?
- Blockchain vs. Cryptocurrency.
- What is Ethereum? How this Toronto born technology has changed the world.
- An overview of digital collectables and one-of-a-kind tokens.
- The non-fungible token revolution.
- How to future-proof your profession and the new career opportunities ahead.
- Real-world use cases: How blockchain technology is changing every industry.
Apply to be a speaker. Suggest your own topic or put your own spin on one of the above.
Speakers Announced June 1, 2022. Apply Today!
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Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency For Beginners
20 Minute Sessions
-What is bitcoin & cryptocurrency?
-The benefits of coins, tokens, and programmable digital currency.
-What is a wallet? How to get started.
-What is an exchange? How to get started.
- What is mining? How to get started.
- A refresher for everyone: Security, passwords, keys, and privacy.
- How to accept cryptocurrency for your business.
- Fundraising for charity with cryptocurrency.- Receive free cryptocurrency and airdrops!
- Hands-on workshop on how to send, receive and store cryptocurrency.
Apply to be a speaker. Suggest your own topic or put your own spin on one of the above.
Speakers Announced June 1, 2022
Accommodations
There are hundreds of great options for hotels and Airbnbs in the City of Toronto. Below are the top three hotels we recommend for the conference based on location, transportation, and value. There are no official discounted hotel rates.

WESTIN HARBOUR
CASTLE
7 Minutes From Venue
The closest hotel to the venue directly on the water. Footsteps away from taking a water taxi directly to the conference.

THE RADISSON
TORONTO
12 Minutes From Venue
The second closest hotel to the venue. This is next door to Toronto's Harbourfront boardwalk.

CAMBRIDGE SUITES TORONTO
16 Minutes From Venue
This is a budget conscience hotel located in the heart of the city. The suites provide great value and flexibility for your team.