Speakers

Participate in work sessions with many of the leading DAO visionaries and operators.

Robert Leshner

Robert Leshner is the founder of Compound, advocates for DeFi, and is an investor at Robot Ventures.

Marta Belcher

Marta Belcher is the General Counsel and Head of Policy at Protocol Labs and the Board Chair of the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. She also serves as special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Marta is a pioneer in cryptocurrency law and has spoken on the topic around the world, including in U.S. Congress, European Parliament, the New York Senate, the OECD, and in Davos during the World Economic Forum.

Dan Boneh

Dan Boneh is the co-director of the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, and a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University

Joel Monegro

Joel Monegro is a partner at Placeholder VC, a venture capital firm that invests in decentralized information networks and web3 infrastructure. He is focused on blockchain-based solutions that help reshape capitalism by creating and distributing digital capital over the internet.

David Hoffman

David Hoffman is a co-founder of Bankless, a leading crypto content studio with a newsletter, podcast and YouTube channel focused on education on how to live a life without banks.

Amy Jung

Amy Jung is an operator bridging design, strategic operations, and community. Previously, she headed Community Development at Maker Foundation, Design Ops at Consensys and co-founded Raw Haus, an organization supporting emerging creatives in design and technology.

Connor Spelliscy

Connor Spelliscy is the founder of the DAO Research Cooperative, which leverages group buying power to accelerate DAO functionality by procuring and open-sourcing research foundational to effective DAO operation, and a co-founder of the Blockchain Association.

Derek Hsue

Derek Hsue is co-founder of Reverie, a company that helps DAOs scale. Prior to founding Reverie, he was an investor at Blockchain Capital.

Marc Boiron

Marc Boiron is the General Counsel of dydx, an open crypto trading platform. Prior to joining dydx, Mark was a blockchain and securities attorney at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

Mario Laul

Mario Laul works as a researcher for Placeholder VC, focusing on blockchain-based financial and governance innovation and more broadly the interplay between technological change and societal development. He also teaches an introductory course on the sociology of culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Marvin Ammori

Marvin Ammori is the Chief Legal Officer at Uniswap, and a civil liberties advocate and scholar best known for his work on network neutrality and internet freedom issues.

Jonathan Dotan

Jonathan Dotan is a Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Blockchain Research and the Stanford Compression Forum. He researches and lectures on applied strategy and policy for the decentralized web and co-founded the Starling Lab, which is innovating with the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols to meet the technical and ethical challenges of establishing trust in our most sensitive digital records, such as the documentation of human rights violations, war crimes and testimony of genocide.

Julia Rosenberg

Julia Rosenberg is the co-founder and chiefess at Orca, an organization focused on governance for DAOs.

Kinjal Shah

Kinjal Shah is an investor at Blockchain Capital, investing in the future of crypto assets and blockchains. She is also the co-founder of Komorebi, a DAO investing in female / non-binary crypto founders.

Larry Sukernik

Larry Sukernik is the cofounder of Reverie, a company that helps DAOs scale. Previously, he led investments at DCG.

Matthew Graham

Matthew manages the treasury working group at Index Coop and is a core contributor at Llama helping protocols like Aave with treasury management.

Raf Solari

Raf Solari is a co-founder at Tally. Tally is building a homepage for DeFi DAO governance. Previously, he was the first engineer at Namebase and an organizer at Crypto NYC.

Shreyas Hariharan

Shreyas Hariharan is the founder of Llama, which provides treasury management as a service for DAOs and DeFi protocols. He also leads Aave Grants DAO.

Scott Moore

Scott is a co-founder and the developer relations lead for Gitcoin, a platform and DAO for building and sustaining web3 public goods. He's also previously played a supporting role in a variety of other organizations focused on this mission including the Digital Public Goods Alliance, Ethereum Foundation Grants, and SustainOSS. To date, Gitcoin has distributed over $20M to open source developers around the world.

Kevin Nielsen

Kevin is the founder of Boardroom, a platform that facilitates simple and transparent stakeholder oversight and management of DAOs and crypto networks. He grew up in Spain and attended Cornell University, before working at Oracle, Blockfolio, and TQ Tezos. He’s an avid music enthusiast and is fascinated by economic and human coordination problems.