A brief overview of the Keynote Speakers at the Southeast Asia Blockchain 2018 Summit from 3rd-4th November 2018

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The Southeast Asia Blockchain 2018 Summit is a conference that will be the largest ever held in Indonesia and it will take place at Pullman Hotel Central Park in Jakarta, Indonesia from 3rd to 4th November 2018. Source.

Some of the keynote speakers include;

Bobby Lee(Co-Founder, BTCC & Member, Bitcoin Foundation)

Bobby Lee is the CEO and Co-Founder of BTCC which is formerly known as BTCChina. BTCC is the leading Bitcoin financial tribune worldwide and the first ever Bitcoin exchange in China.

Mr. Lee was the Vice president of technology at Walmart's E-commerce business in China before he became the CEO and Co-Founder of BTCC, he moved to Shangai in 2017 where he started off at EMC's China center of excellence and acted as the Director of Software Engineering responsible for Cloud Computing and Cloud storage.

At the moment, Mr.Lee serves a non-profit organization that nurtures the adoption of Bitcoin worldwide and he works on the board of Bitcoin Foundation.

Alex Liu (CEO, MAX)

Alex Liu is the CEO at Maicoin, Ltd located in Taipei city, Taiwan.

Mr. Liu was born in Taiwan but was raised from Southern California where he completed his studies from Stanford University and got his first job where he worked for 10 years. Exceptional of North Korea, he has worked and lived in all the main countries of East Asia and previously managed a small product line at Qualcomm which was quite profitable.

Mr. Liu is currently an Asia-based technology entrepreneur and economics, history buff and current affairs.

Daniel Chang (CSO, COBINHOOD)

Daniel Chang is the CSO of Cobinhood, Ltd. He is from Taipei City, Taiwan where he completed his studies from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.

Mr. Chang is currently the chief strategist at Cobinhood which is believed to be the next generation cryptocurrency exchange that solves the present puzzling circumstances of cryptocurrency exchanges by providing spot trading and margin trading with no fees to increase on the profit and market liquidity.

Danny Baskara (Founder, Vexanium)

Danny Baskara is the Founder of Vexanium. Mr. Baskara graduated from the Universitas Bina Nusantara (Bina) where he studied Bachelor of Information Technology from 200-2005.

From July 2006 to July 2009, he was the Co-Founder of Deltamusik where he served for 3 years and thereafter he founded and acted as the CEO of PT EVoucher in Indonesia from September 2010 until to date.

John Yeh (Founder, IDRIP & Chairman, TESA)

John Yeh is the Founder of IDRIP and the Chairman of TESA.

Mr. Yeh completed his studies from National Chiao Tung University and he is the acting CEO and Co-Founder of Hiiir.com in Taipei, Taiwan for approximately 10 years from July 2018 until to date which major in Mobile Commerce and Mobile Agency.

Some of the skills Mr. Yeh is gifted with is in Mobile Applications and Entrepreneurship.

Matt Starkey (CEO, Oracle-D)

Matt Starkey is the CEO at Oracle-D. He went to the University of Sheffield in 2002 to 2006 where he studied Mechanical Engineering. He also studied Italian language for the summer of 2002 as a Socrates ERASMUS student.

Mr. Starkey has lived and worked all over the world directing multi-billion dollar industrial projects. In April 2013, he became a blockchain and cryptocurrency investor and enthusiast.

He is also a Co-Founder of Promo-Steem from May 2017 up to date which is the first decentralized promotion and voluntaryist network and helps re-compensate the people who help in the growth of the Steem Blockchain.

Dylan Leighton (Co-Founder & CTO, Oracle-D)

In 1992-1994, Mr. Leighton went to Sheffield University and in 1999-2001; he went to Leeds Metropolitan University.

He has been the Managing Director of Fast-forward Training and Development for approximately 2 years from January 2008 to April 2010 and in June 2010 he became the owner of Evolve Training until present date.

Some of the skills he majors in are; Blockchain technology, Cryptocurrency, and Motivational Speaking. Currently, Mr. Leighton is the Co-Founder and CTO of Oracle-D.

Mark Tan (Head of SEA Business Development of WANCHAIN)

Mr. Tan went to Victoria University in Melbourne, Victoria where he studied a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting. In March 2018, he became the SE Asia Business Development Director where he has managed business development roles which include PR, Marketing, Partnerships, engaging ICOs, enrolling developers, communicating and managing media and their networks.

He also became the Advisor of TokenLoan in July 2018, located in Beijing city, China and in May 2018 he became the Project Advisor of WanLabs which manages and advises Wanchain's projects from Asia region.

Seth Melamed (Head of Business Development, QUOINE).

In 1993-1996, Mr. Melamed went to the University of California, Davis and in January 2005 to September 2006 he was an associate of Barclays Investment Bank which supported clients using FX electronic trading platform.

He later became Sr. Vice President and Head of Operations of QUOINE from September 2017 until to date and he is currently the Head of Operations for QUOINE which is the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange and liquidity provider.

Dylan Sharkey (Venture Partner, Blochchain Open Fund)

In 2006-2009, Mr. Sharkey went to Trinity College, Dublin where he studied Bachelor of Art(B.A), Business and Political Science specializing in International Business, International Relations, Marketing Management, and Political theory.

He became the Chief Revenue Officer of Photochain in Estonia from December 2017 until to date, he also became the Senior Advisor-Strategic Accounts and Investor Relations of Hodl Finance in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates from July 2018 until to date which is the leading financial institution for the age of the new digital economy and in November 2017, he started serving and a Venture Partner of Blockchain Open Fund in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Shunsuke Murasaki (Vice President Director at EMURGO, Indonesia)

Mr. Murasaki is currently working on business development at EMURGO in the sector of Southeast Asia. He has 7 years of experience working in Asian markets specializing in BtoB overseas sales.

Miko Matsumura (Founder of EVERCOIN)

In 1986-1990, Mr. Miko studied BS, Psychology from the University of Michigan and later went to Yale University where he did his Masters in Neuroscience from 1990-1991.

He serves as a general partner Gumi Ventures at Gumi cryptos from June 2018 which is a $30M blockchain investment fund based in Tokyo and San Francisco.

Currently, he is the Co-Founder of Evercoin from January 2017 until to date in San Francisco which is a Silicon Valley-based cryptocurrency exchange founded and led by Talip Ozturk.

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