California Agenda 24

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California Agenda 24

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Innovation Showcase Stage

Main Stage

Day 1
Day 2

May 21, 2024

08:00

Registration and Refreshments

May 21, 2024

09:15

Conference Welcome and Opening Remarks

Speakers:

Abradat Kamalpour
Partner, Jones Day
Michael Barrell
Founder & CEO, Juliet Media & Digital Assets Week

May 21, 2024

09:30

Fireside

Speakers:

Katherine Dowling
General Counsel & Chief Compliance Office, Bitwise Asset Management
Mike Belshe
CEO, BitGo

May 21, 2024

09:50

Is Back-Office Efficiency Todays’ Number One Driver of Asset Digitization?

Speakers:

Alexander Green
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Globacap
Simon Barnby
CMO, Archax
Sanjay Vatsa
Regional Managing Director - North America & Member of the Group Executive Committee, Apex Group
Daniel Coheur
Co-Founder & CCO, Tokeny

May 21, 2024

10:20

Fireside: Institutional DeFi

Speakers:

Avtar Sehra
CEO, Libre
Allan Pedersen
CEO, Eurodollar
Jasmine Burgess
COO/CRO, Coinbase Asset Management
Bruce Jackson
Chief of Digital Assets, Apex Group

May 21, 2024

10:40

Opportunities for Asset Digitization within the Current Regulatory Environment

Speakers:

Chris Brummer
Faculty Director, Institute of International Economic Law; Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Financial Technology, Georgetown University Law Center
Stephan Dreyer
Managing Director, ANNA/DTIF
Ryan Louvar
Chief Legal Officer and Head of Business and Legal Affairs, Digital Assets, WisdomTree Asset Management
Abradat Kamalpour
Partner, Jones Day

May 21, 2024

11:10

Keynote

Speakers:

Dr. Adrian Cheng
Chairman, Arta TechFin Corporation Limited

May 21, 2024

11:30

Rapidfire Catalyst Introduction

Afternoon Chair Welcome

Speakers:

Elise Soucie
Executive Director, Policy & Regulation - Board Member, GDF

May 21, 2024

13:45

Does the New ETF Regulatory Environment act as a Catalyst to Allow the Industry to Grow Faster?

Speakers:

Gerry O’Shea
Head of Global Insights, Hashdex
Eric M. Pollackov
Global Head of ETF Capital Markets, Invesco
Laura Pruitt
Partner, Jones Day
Ryan Louvar
Chief Legal Officer and Head of Business and Legal Affairs, Digital Assets, WisdomTree Asset Management
Rajeev Bamra
Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Economy Strategy, Moody's Ratings

May 21, 2024

14:15

Fireside

Speakers:

Chris Larsen
Chairman, Ripple
Abradat Kamalpour
Partner, Jones Day

May 21, 2024

14:35

US Case Studies to Overcome Regulatory Barriers to Asset Digitization

Speakers:

Katherine Dowling
General Counsel & Chief Compliance Office, Bitwise Asset Management
Nathan Brownback
Of Counsel, Jones Day
Jeff Schenk
Criminal and Investigations Partner, Jones Day
Laura Pruitt
Partner, Jones Day
Alexander Wilson
Partner, Jones Day

May 21, 2024

15:05

The CBDC and Stablecoin 2024 Evolution

Speakers:

Christina Frankopan
Consultant, Financial Services and Technology Advisory, Lazard
Eddie Lau
CEO, Arta Global Markets (A wholly owned subsidiary of ARTA TechFin Corporation Limited)
Denis Dounaev
Product Owner, Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF)
David Tax
Payments, Strategy & Innovation, Toronto-Dominion Bank
Biswarup Chatterjee
Head of Partnerships & Innovation, Citigroup’s Services group

May 21, 2024

15:35

Custody and Settlement in the Context of Asset Digitization

Speakers:

Sanchit Pande
Head of Electronic Trading & Financing, BitGo
Katherine Dowling
General Counsel & Chief Compliance Office, Bitwise Asset Management
May Michelson
Director of Global Sales, GK8
Arijit Das
Senior Vice President, Digital Asset Innovation, Digital Assets and Financial Markets, Northern Trust
Emmanuel Vallod
Venture Capitalist

May 21, 2024

16:05

Use Cases for Realising the Benefits of Digitized Assets Through P2P

Speakers:

Anthony Bassili
Head of Allocators, Cap Intro, & Tokenization, Coinbase Institutional
Sudhir Upadhyay
Head of Engineering, Onyx, J.P. Morgan
Madeleine Boys
Head of Programmes and Innovation, Global Digital Finance
Maredith Hannon
Head of Business Development, Digital Assets, WisdomTree
Emmanuel Aidoo
Chair of the Ownera Advisory Board,Ownera

May 21, 2024

16:35

Fireside: The Building Blocks for Digital Alternative Markets

Speakers:

Jon Nieman
Head of Investments, G42
Patrick O’Meara
President & CEO, Inveniam

May 21, 2024

16:55

AI as an Accelerator for Digitization of Financial Services

Speakers:

Christina Frankopan
Consultant, Financial Services and Technology Advisory, Lazard
David Schwed
Chief Operating Officer, Halborn
Arijit Das
Senior Vice President, Digital Asset Innovation, Digital Assets and Financial Markets, Northern Trust
Matthieu Soule
Head of BNP Paribas C.Lab Americas, BNP Paribas Group
Biswarup Chatterjee
Head of Partnerships & Innovation, Citigroup’s Services group

May 21, 2024

17:25

Closing Chair Remarks

May 21, 2024

17:30

Drinks and Networking

May 22, 2024

08:00

Registration and Refreshments

May 22, 2024

09:15

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Speakers:

Abradat Kamalpour
Partner, Jones Day
Michael Barrell
Founder & CEO, Juliet Media & Digital Assets Week

May 22, 2024

09:30

Presentation - INX

Speakers:

Nadav Moskovitch
VP Business Development, INX

May 22, 2024

09:50

Fireside: Exploring the Benefits of Tokenizing Money Market Funds

Speakers:

Jasmine Burgess
COO/CRO, Coinbase Asset Management
Daniel Coheur
Co-Founder & CCO, Tokeny

May 22, 2024

10:10

Fireside: Is Proof of Reserve and Real-Time Valuation Achievable with all Asset Classes

Speakers:

Eddie Lau
CEO, Arta Global Markets (A wholly owned subsidiary of ARTA TechFin Corporation Limited)
Stephen MacKenzie
Managing Director, Koch Disruptive Technologies

May 22, 2024

10:30

Private vs Public? - for Digitization of Assets

Speakers:

Lisa Fridman
Co-Founder, President, Quadrata
Violet Abtahi
Founder & CEO, Platonic
Rajeev Sambyal
Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets Platform, BNY Mellon
Ryan Lovell
Director Of Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs
Maredith Hannon
Head of Business Development, Digital Assets, WisdomTree

May 22, 2024

11:00

Fireside: Interoperability, connectivity and all things DeFi in an institutional world

Speakers:

Ryan Lovell
Director Of Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs
Simon Barnby
CMO, Archax

May 22, 2024

11:20

Bridging the Gap Between Legacy and Digital Systems

Speakers:

Cynthia A Jackson
Vice President, Enterprise Innovation, Digital Assets & Blockchain Practice, US Bank
Thomas Sullivan
Managing Director – Head of Digital Asset Business Development, Societe Generale
Arijit Das
Senior Vice President, Digital Asset Innovation, Digital Assets and Financial Markets, Northern Trust
Aaron Sears
SVP of Global Customer Success, Ripple
Milena Kohlhofer
Head of Sales, U.S. & LATAM, Ownera

Afternoon Chair Opening Remarks

Speakers:

Stephen MacKenzie
Managing Director, Koch Disruptive Technologies

May 22, 2024

13:45

Fireside - Navigating The Complexities of Digital Asset Accounting - including IFRS, FASB

Speakers:

Rob Massey
Partner, Global & US Tax Blockchain & Digital Assets leader, Deloitte
Aaron Jacob
VP Accounting, TaxBit

May 22, 2024

14:05

The Business Case for Investment in Asset Digitisation Infrastructure

Speakers:

Cynthia A Jackson
Vice President, Enterprise Innovation, Digital Assets & Blockchain Practice, US Bank
David Hornik
Founder, Lobby Capital
Elliot Han
Partner, PGP Capital
Stephen MacKenzie
Managing Director, Koch Disruptive Technologies
Maximillian Jungreis
Head of Crypto & Digital Assets, Plug and Play Ventures
Adam Carson
Crypto Investor, Point72 Ventures