TACC 2025Fall Edition

Conference Speakers

Visionaries, builders and researchers shaping the future of Web3.

Aisha Deshmukh

Game economist designing sustainable play-to-earn ecosystems.

Alberto Gutiérrez

CTO of Madrid-based tooling start-up Buildify.

Alejandro Vega

Founder of yield-aggregator protocol AndesDeFi.

Amara Okonkwo

Telecom entrepreneur building decentralised internet infrastructure in Africa.

Ananya Sharma

Smart-contract security auditor at Trail of Bits.

Andrés Cuevas

MEV researcher at Flashbots.

Anna Lewandowska

Product manager crafting privacy-preserving insight tools.

Betty McCormick

Technology journalist and moderator.

Boris Kuznetsov

Cross-chain liquidity analyst at HashBridge.

Camille Dubois

Starknet educator and Cairo developer.

Cécile Bernard

Fintech consultant and frequent panel moderator.

Chen Wei

Founder of DevTool DAO building open-source blockchain IDE plugins.

Chiara Russo

Layer-3 protocol designer at StarkNet Italia.

Chloe Nguyen

Legal scholar dissecting token-holder voting models.

Claire Dubois

Climate-tech entrepreneur exploring on-chain carbon markets.

Daniel Harris

On-chain governance consultant and moderator.

Daniel Park

Core contributor to the IPFS bandwidth marketplace.

David Chen

Environmental tech journalist and moderator.

Diego Martins

Founder of the carbon-credit marketplace TerraLedger.

Dr. Abdul Okeke

Professor of Applied Cryptography at University of Abuja.

Dr. Carlos Mendez

Professor of Tokenomics at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Dr. Elena Nakamori

Director of Research at Kyoto Institute of Technology; her work bridges financial cryptography and public policy.

Dr. Farah Haddad

Professor studying gender diversity in Web3.

Dr. Helena Bergström

Sustainability researcher focused on blockchain energy impacts.

Dr. Hiroshi Tanaka

Co-author of multiple zk-SNARK libraries and maintainer of the Halo2 playground.

Dr. Ingrid Nyman

Privacy researcher at Chalmers University of Technology.

Dr. Jonathan Hayes

CBDC advisor to the Bank of England.

Dr. Kai Huang

AI researcher combining generative models with on-chain provenance.

Dr. Keisha O'Hara

Cyber-security lecturer at Trinity College Dublin focused on cryptographic audits.

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

Advisor to West-African central banks on crypto-led financial inclusion.

Dr. Michael Zhang

Economist at Peking University analysing crypto-asset cycles.

Dr. Nikos Andreadis

Researcher on decentralised infrastructure economics.

Dr. Noah Peterson

Cryptography professor exploring zero-knowledge privacy solutions.

Dr. Patrice Nguyen

Corporate lawyer specialising in DAO structures.

Efe Demir

Interoperability researcher at Informal Systems.

Elena Marquez

DAO legal strategist at LexDAO.

Elisa Bianchi

IoT engineer integrating physical assets with Web3.

Emily McAllister

Rust developer and Solana educator.

Emma Rodrigue

Infrastructure researcher and panel moderator.

Ethan Morales

Smart-contract engineer pioneering composable DeFi “lego”.

Fabio Ricci

Asset-tokenisation lead at RealChain.

Felipe Silva

UX researcher focusing on Ethereum account abstraction.

Felix Nordström

Infrastructure engineer at DWeb Foundation.

Giulia Conti

Bitcoin Core contributor pioneering Ordinals as an on-chain data layer.

Grace Harrington

Product head for institutional custody at Anchorage Digital.

Grace Okeke

Policy analyst and panel moderator.

Harvey Khan

Hardware decentralisation advocate building DePIN networks.

Hassan Khaled

zk-rollup architect at zkLabs.

Helena Vu

Distributed-storage engineer at Protocol Labs working on IPFS adoption.

Hiro Mori

CEO of Tokyo-based PayChain.

Isabella Moretti

NFT strategist who helped Gucci, Disney and FIFA launch record-breaking collections.

Isidora Stojanović

Researcher in post-quantum cryptography for blockchains.

Ivy Chen

Product lead and diversity advocate within DeFi.

Jackie Nguyen

Marketing strategist behind viral NFT campaigns.

James Wilson

Enterprise blockchain architect at Accenture.

Jared Thompson

Economist at MemeMetrics researching the lifecycle of viral token markets.

Jin Young-ho

Risk analyst at StableLabs focused on collateral volatility.

Jonas Meier

Developer advocate and conference moderator on Web3 tooling.

Joonas Korhonen

Data scientist at ChainAnalytics specialising in fraud detection.

Julian Fischer

Tokenisation specialist at EuroProp enabling fractional real-estate.

Konstantinos Papadakis

PhD researcher on proof-of-space-and-time protocols.

Kwame Adeyemi

Founder of AfroID - decentralised identity network for the African market.

Lara Schmidt

Payments product lead at EuroPay Stable driving cross-border settlements.

Larissa Wong

Token engineer focusing on liquid staking derivatives.

Lars van Dijk

Chair of the Dutch Blockchain Association, promoting open-source standards.

Laura van der Meer

Climate policy advisor assessing blockchain carbon accounting.

Leila Al-Hassan

Payments innovation lead at MenaPay.

Leo D'Angelo

Privacy advocate and frequent conference moderator.

Liam Donovan

Policy strategist and sought-after moderator of global fintech forums.

Louise Grant

Environmental panel moderator.

Lucas Fitzgerald

Lead smart-contract engineer at OpenZeppelin evangelising proxy patterns.

Lucas Mehta

Ethical hacker and capture-the-flag organiser.

Marco Rossi

DAO governance advisor and chief strategist at GovLab.

Marcus Johansson

Former head of Sweden's FSA crypto task-force, now advising start-ups on compliance-by-design.

Maria Gonzalez

Developer-relations lead for Layer-2 solutions at Offchain Labs.

Marta Kowalczyk

DAO treasury manager at FlamingoDAO.

Marta Silveira

Founder of Women in Web3 Lisbon.

Megan Li

Research fellow at Singapore DeFi Labs studying emerging-market adoption.

Mikhail Sorokin

Research engineer developing “green” proof-of-stake metrics.

Mikkel Sørensen

Public-policy advisor guiding EU innovation sandboxes for Web3.

Nadia Petrov

Lead identity architect at ID3, working on verifiable credentials.

Natalie Björk

Security engineer analysing flash-loan exploits.

Natalie Karpov

Senior engineer at Parity Technologies focussed on Substrate runtimes.

Nina Petrova

Lead compliance engineer at ChainTrust, automating smart-contract conformity.

Olga Petrescu

Blockchain lawyer and panel moderator.

Oliver Gruber

Core developer at The Graph protocol.

Olivia Blackwell

Tech reporter and interviewer for global blockchain media.

Oluwatobi Adesina

Security researcher dissecting phishing campaigns in crypto ecosystems.

Omar Farouk

Open-source maintainer of WalletJS.

Oskar Szulc

Quant researcher building leveraged yield strategies.

Pablo Mendoza

DAO lead at Aztec Labs focusing on privacy-enabled governance.

Pedro Álvarez

Reg-tech entrepreneur and founder of LexChain.

Priya Mohan

Fintech journalist and panel moderator.

Prof. Antoine Leblanc

Sorbonne Université professor specialising in post-quantum signatures and secure multi-party computation.

Raj Patel

Energy economist at GreenBlock.

Renee Durand

UX designer specialising in gamified governance.

Robert Mitchell

E-commerce executive integrating crypto payments for global brands.

Robert Okafor

General counsel at Lagos-based exchange GreenMint and advocate for harmonised African regulation.

Samuel Riley

Founder of DAOlegal Toolkit.

Santiago Pereira

Data engineer at PrivacyNet building analytics with differential privacy.

Sarah Lindgren

Cyber-policy journalist and panel moderator.

Sergey Novak

Ethereum core developer working on account abstraction EIPs.

Seun Ogundipe

Environmental auditor leveraging blockchain transparency.

Silvia Esposito

Community builder and panel moderator.

Silvia Rossi

Data scientist exploring non-fungible data applications beyond art NFTs.

Sophia Chen

Venture partner at Dragonfly Capital, backing DeFi infrastructure across APAC.

Sophia Williams

Community strategist for open-source projects.

Sven Lund

Operations lead at Nordic Custody.

Svetlana Ivanova

AML specialist for privacy coins.

Tanisha Kapoor

Supply-chain blockchain consultant at IBM India.

Thomas Weber

Contributor to the European Digital Identity Framework.

Tomás Herrera

Privacy-coin maintainer at Zano.

Victor Huang

Core oracle engineer at Chainlink Labs.

Victoria Reynolds

Portfolio manager at Falkirk Digital overseeing a $1.2 B liquid staking fund.

Yara Sultan

Governance researcher at Aragon Labs.

Yuki Tanaka

Bridge engineer at LayerZero Labs.

Zara Coleman

Smart-contract engineer optimising gas for energy efficiency.