A brief overview of the featured speakers on the scheduled Decentralized 2018 summit.
It is really amazing to see various blockchain/cryptocurrency conferences happen because it shows how blockchain technology and cryptocurrency are advancing worldwide.
After the success of Decentralized 2017, it is hoped for a successful event of Decentralized 2018. This is a summit scheduled to take place for 3 days from 14th — 16th November at the Divani Caravel Hotels, Athens, Greece.
The University of Nicosia is the main sponsor of Decentralized 2018. It is the largest university in Cyprus, with its main branch located in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus and the first university to offer a Master’s degree in digital currency. It is also the first university to issue academic certificates on the Bitcoin blockchain and it accepts tuition payments in Bitcoin.
You can explore more about the digital currency course at the university from here.
Decentralized 2018 is one of the scheduled summits this year which is expected to have over 70 speakers who will be presenting to over 1000 attendees from more than 50 different countries, over 20 exhibitors and 30 media partners.
Decentralized 2018 is a life-changing event in the crypto universe. There will be various topics covered during the summit by the speakers who are experts in cryptocurrency and blockchain enthusiasts. Some topics that will be presented include; the current state of cryptocurrencies, the advancement of blockchain technology, industries set to be disrupted by blockchain technology, among others.
Some Sponsors of Decentralized 2018 include; Bitcoin.com, PumaPay, Shipchain, Microsoft, Consensys, among others.
The featured Speakers at Decentralized 2018 summit include;
Jameson Lopp (Infrastructure Engineer of Casa)
In 2003-2007, Mr. Lopp went to the University of North Carolina at Cape Hill where he studied a bachelor in Computer science.
He is an enthusiast and a bitcoin core developer.
Mr. Lopp came up with Statoshi which is a fork of Bitcoin Core that monitors statistics of Bitcoin nodes. He has worked for 3 years as an Engineer for crypto asset wallets.
Roger Ver (CEO of Bitcoin.com)
January 1999 – July 2012, Mr. Ver became the CEO of Memory Dealers. This company offers the largest selection of discounted and custom memory, hardware, and transceivers. It helps in manufacturing, designing, and market memory modules to be used in Juniper, laptops, legacy devices, Cisco, among others.
In January 2011, Mr. Ver became the bitcoin evangelist and angel investor whereby he funded the seed rounds for bitcoin start-ups like https://www.bitpay.com, https://www.ripple.com, among others.
July 2012 until the present, he became a founding member and board advisor of Bitcoin Foundation. The Bitcoin Foundation is majorly to protect, standardize and promote the use of Bitcoin cryptographic money to benefit its users around the world.
January 2014, Mr. Ver became the Business Development of blockchain; that is to say, this is one of the most popular bitcoin related websites in the world in terms of the number of users and the traffic.
Late in 2016, he became the CEO of Bitcoin.com until present.
Garrick Hileman (Head of Research Blockchain.com and the Co-Founder of Mosaic.io)
Mr. Hileman went to the University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business where he studied a bachelor in accounting, International Political Economy Activities, and Society and financed his own education by working 25+ hours per week.
In 2015, he studied Doctor of Philosophy(PhD.) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In October 2016, he became a Research Associate at the Wolfson College Cambridge until present.
Mr. Hileman later became the Co-Founder of Mosaic in September 2017.
May 2018, he then became the head of research of Blockchain until present.
Peter Rizun (Chief Scientist of Bitcoin Unlimited)
Mr. Rizun is a physicist and an entrepreneur who lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Currently, he is the Chief scientist of bitcoin unlimited. His research is majorly aimed at developing the analytical theory that explains the properties of the bitcoin network.
Bitcoin unlimited is an organization that provides software used by 40% of bitcoin network's mining power.
Eva A. Kaili (Member of the European Parliament)
In 1998-2003, Ms. Kaili went to Aristotle University of Thessaloniki(AUTH) where she studied a bachelor of Architecture. In 2006-2007, Ms. Kaili studied Master of Arts in International European Affairs from the University of Piraeus and later in 2014, she went to the University of Piraeus where she studied Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.D.), International Affairs.
September 2012 – February 2013, she became the International Affairs Director of Demco for 6 months.
January 2013 – June 2014, she became the Exports and Communication Strategy consultant of Greek Pharmaceutical industry.
Later, in January 2015 – March 2015, she became the spokeswoman for Democratic Party in S & D Greece for 3 months.
Currently, she is a member of the European Parliament from 2014 until present.
Matt Starkey (CEO of Oracle-D)
In 2002 to 2006, Mr. Starkey studied Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield. He also studied the Italian language in 2002 as a Socrates ERASMUS student.
Mr. Starkey has managed and directed multi-billion dollar industrial projects around the world.
In April 2013, he became a blockchain and cryptocurrency enthusiast and investor. Later, in May 2017, he became a Co-Founder of Promo-steem 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.
Susanne Tarkowski (Founder at Bitnation)
In 2006, Ms. Tarkaswki became the art director of Cetena Group. This was an art direction for nationwide PSYOP campaigns in Kabul, Afghanistan.
February 2008 – February 2011, she became the Founder and CEO of wise Strategic communication in Kabul, Afghanistan. This was aimed to provide governmental and military clients with strategic communication solutions including IO.
In March 2011, she became the Founder and CEO of Shabakat Corporation for leveraging Grassroots networks across the world.
July 2014 until the present, she became the Chief Unicorn and Founder of Bitnation which is the world's first Decentralized border less virtual nation.
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