Ethan Wilding is co-founder of L4 Ventures, co-founder of Ledger Labs, and a founding team member of Ethereum. He has a doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Waterloo. Ethan Wilding est cofondateur de L4 Ventures, cofondateur de Ledger Labs et membre de l'équipe fondatrice du projet de blockchain Ethereum. Il est titulaire d'un doctorat en philosophie de l'Université de Waterloo.

Isaac is a Partner at Real Ventures where he focuses on early stage investments into Montreal based companies. He is also General Manager of FounderFuel, Real's accelerator program. Prior to joining Real, Isaac built a career as a product leader with a passion for company building and ecosystem creation. Past roles have spanned high growth startups like Sonder and Frank + Oak and large technology companies like Yahoo and Scholastic. A husband and father of two, Isaac believes Montreal is the perfect place to raise a family while building a world-class startup ecosystem.

Brian Leiberman is the Director of Operations at MLG Blockchain, an enterprise blockchain and ICO consulting and development firm. Brian is a member of the Blockchain Education Network, a robust global network of blockchain enthusiasts and a Bitcoin Certified Professional.

Prior to joining MLG Blockchain, Brian served as Head of Operations and Business Development at Guiker.com. Prior to working at Guiker, Brian was the Head of Operations for Sonder.com, a Montreal based Hospitality start-up that has expanded internationally.

Brian holds a degree in Finance and International Business from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

Aidan Hyman is the co-Founder and CEO at ChainSafe Systems. We are a team of developers and nerds from Toronto, ON - who met at a local Ethereum Developer Meetup. At ChainSafe our focus is working with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, from opcodes to solidity and everything in between.

Scott has been actively involved in the blockchain ecosystem since 2015, co-founding and experimenting with Ethereum projects including Venture Equity Exchange, a DAV (DAO) management ecosystem, and GitToken, an open source incentivization protocol. Scott serves on the investment committee of Astronaut Capital, a Singapore based blockchain investment firm; as an advisor to the C-Lab blockchain incubator program at York University; and as a selective consultant for several blockchain projects.

Sam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Corl, the world’s first revenue-sharing, and equity token designed to support and participate in the growth of emerging companies.Sam has close to a decade of experience in leading the creation of FinTech products and solutions in the payments and lending industry from startup to IPO.

Manu is a result oriented executive with a demonstrated history of product development & software delivery delivery across large corporations primarily in the Financial Services Industry including Morgan Stanley, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland PLC etc. He has an extensive blockchain industry experience as an advisor and architect for leading industry stakeholders including enterprise customers, blockchain development teams and solution providers, regulatory and industry bodies and investors.Manu currently heads the product development at Greenstream Technologies, an enterprise blockchain solution for the upcoming Cannabis industry in Canada. He is a Certified Scrum Master and holds a Masters in Technology specializing in Computer Network Engineering.

Our world is changing, and I believe finance, through improved methods of trust and value creation, can ensure it's for the better. I have a decade of finance experience, with a specialty in tech startups. I've led or supported 20 startups in raising +$15 million in early stage financing, and last year alone I worked with +40 fintechs. Prior to founding FormFintech, I worked at District 3 as Director of Finance & Corporate Partnerships, as well as Bus.Com as head of finance while they went from pre-incorporation to Series A. I've received an MBA from HEC Montreal, BCom Finance from the University of Ottawa, and passed 2 levels of the CFA.

Laurent Féral-Pierssens a business leader specializing in emerging technologies. He has been focusing on the blockchain industry and crypto-economy since 2016, when he took on the leadership for KPMG Canada’s Emerging Technologies practice.Since then, he has been actively advising blockchain companies across the value chain, including financial services companies, blockchain mining organizations, energy provider and distributors.With a unique combination of business, scientific and technical skills, and 20 years of experience leading tech companies in Canada, the United States and Europe as a founder and CEO, Laurent has anchored himself as an early investor and advisor to blockchain companies.Today, Laurent is one of Canada’s thought leaders on blockchain and cryptoassets, he is co-founder and partner of Inception Block Ventures, a Montreal-based venture capital firm dedicated to supporting the blockchain industry and leads the Blockchain Advisory practice at KPMG Canada.