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Can the Blockchain survi
ve without Bitcoin?
Silicon Valley, CA - February 18, 2016
WHERE
Exponent Office
149 Commonwealth Dr,
Men
lo Park, CA
WHEN
Thursday
February 18, 2016
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
CONTACT
DESCRIPTION
We have done many events in the last few
years on cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and the Blockchain. If you came to all
of these events, you are not well versed in the technology, the ecosystem a
nd some of the business opportunities.
Last yea r was a reality check for the Bitcoin aficionados. The value of Bitcoin wen t from almost $1,200 in 2014 down to $177 (now at a little less than $400). Many of the early startups with no funding or seed funding disappeared to leave room for larger and better funded companies.
Recently, banks found finally a way to get involved with the technology without compromising the regulated side of their business and some signifi cant money was poured into promising teams around the Blockchain.
In this new event, we have invited senior executives to discuss particularly the opportunities associated with the Blockchain as a technology without necessarily tying it to the Bitcoin. We all know that id entity management is a big issue not limited to payments and banking so cou ld a general ledger solve the problem and what would be the rules of contro l? We will discuss also the potential “privatization” of the Blockchain or the Sidechains as it may be a way for banks and card schemes to leverage th e technology appropriating its attributes but keeping it under regulated en tities control.
Surely, comments will be made o n the departure of Mike Hearn, his comments while leaving (read https://www.baypayforum .com/news-from-the-industry/coin-news/entry/is-bitcoin-for-the-masses-or-ag ainst-the-state) or the future of Bitcoin as an unregulated global curr ency (Check this list of pages that will give a sense of the price history).
We look forw
ard to seeing you and network with your peers if you want to get an update
or even learn of these new business opportunities.
Feel free to inform colleagues abo
ut this event who may be interested.
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AGENDA
6:00 pm: | Reception and Networking |
7:00 pm: | Introduction of the session |
7:05 pm: | Panel moderated by Daniel Chatelain, Managing Director at the BayPay Forum and with audience participation |
Tiana Laurence, Chief Marketing Officer a t Factom Inc | |
Armin Ebrahim i, CEO and Founder at ShoCard Inc | |
td> | Chris Sweis, Investor and Team Airbitz Shareholder |
Scott Bambacigno, Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Alphapoint | |
8:30 pm: | Wrap up and Networking |
PANELIST
Tiana Laurence
Chief Marketing Officer at Factom Inc.
Tiana is the Chief M arketing Officer at Factom Inc and the Factom Foundation, the first usable blockchain technology to solve real world business problems by providing an unalterable record keeping system.
Her passion is growing great comp anies. A serial entrepreneur, Tiana started her first business at 16. Earli er this year, Tianasold her company, Digital Aptitude, which handled multi- million dollar marketing accounts.
Tiana was introduced to Bitcoin th rough her agency, were she lead a team that sold over 34 million dollars in bitcoin miners in 2013 and 2014. After selling her agency,Tiana co-founded Factom Inc. with other members from the Factom Foundation.
She loves helping young inspiring entrepreneurs learn about business. Tiana has spen t time volunteering with Rotary, Young Entrepreneurs Business Week, and The Portland State Entrepreneurs Club.
Tiana also sits on the board for the Nayariva Foundation, whose mission is to empower women entrepreneurs ar ound the world. Tiana has a BA in Business and Leadership from Portland Sta te University. When Tiana is not working on businesses, she can be found ru nning or rock climbing in Austin TX.
Armin Ebrahimi
CEO and Founder at ShoCard Inc
Ebrahimi is a well known industry veteran and has a n extensive background in advertising and online services. Most recently, h e was CEO of Advertising.com Dynamic Retargeting (formerly Buysight), and A OL company. Prior to that he was Senior Vice President of Platform Engineer ing at Yahoo!, with engineering responsibility for Yahoo!’s registration an d anti-fraud platform services, as well as premium services including Yahoo ! Small Business, large partnerships including AT&T and Verizon, Yahoo! front doors, including My Yahoo! and Yahoo! front page. Armin founded and was CEO of TRIicon Solutions, Inc, acquired by Tandem Computers. Armin has a Ph.D. in Organizational Management from Capella University and B.S. and M .S. in Computer Science from California State University – Chico.
Chris Sweis
Investor and Team Airbitz Shareholder
A startup veteran who has been involved in Bitcoin since 2012 and belie ves in the freedoms behind bitcoin and the blockchain. Has founded and exit ed multiple startups with the last being JunoWallet which had over 4MM regi stered users and was a top 4 app in the app store. Honored to be invited to the DCC top 30 people in bitcoin and a servant to all entrepreneurs with a dream. A shareholder in Airbitz and working with the team to deliver the k iller app for bitcoin to become mainstream. Airbitz has strong tech and lea dership that is impressive. Managing partner of Nvstor a seed stage only fu nd that allows individuals to invest into startups utilizing Title III from the Jobs Act.
Scot t Bambacigno
Vice President, Worldwide Sales at AlphaPoint
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MODERATOR
Daniel Chatelain
Managing Director at the BayPay Forum
Daniel Chatelain is a payment industry executive focused on innovation in commerce and sitting on the board of directors or advisors of emerging companies. He started The BayPay Forum to help foster innovation in payment and commerce.
The organization gathers today ov er 8,000 executives from over 2,800 different companies and organizes event s for senior executives to understand new trends and network with peers. Pr ior to that, Daniel was CEO, President & COO of companies he started as an entrepreneur or within the Lagardere (Elle, Woman’s Day, Car & Driv er, Hachette, Canal Satellite) and EADS group (Airbus, Ariane, Eurocopter) and Vice President of a VC backed companies giving him a wide experience of growing companies domestically and internationally in the banking, telecom and interactive media industries as an entrepreneur, corporate or VC backe d senior executive.
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