Boom, boom, boom! We’re announcing another big name
for our upcoming blockchain event in Zug ,
Switzerland
The event — TC: Sessions Blockchain — will be TechCrunch’s first
show dedicated to blockchain, it takes place in the world’s “Crypto Valley” and
we’ll be joined by a host of top names. Some of those include Ethereum creator
Vitalik Buterin, Roham Gharegozlou, the founder of smash-hit blockchain
game CryptoKitties, Brian Behlendorf, executive director of the
Hyperledger Project, and OmiseGo CEO Jun Hasegawa.
Don’t miss it! Tickets are priced at 495 Swiss Francs — or
around $500 — and they’re available from the event website here.
Fresh from announcing Buterin’s participation, we’re excited to
host Srinivasan, who is another massively-respected thinker and visionary in
the blockchain space.
Srinivasan became the first-ever CEO at Coinbase, the U.S. crypto giant that is
now reportedly valued as high as $8 billion, in April after it bought Earn.com,
where he had been CEO, in a deal priced at over $100 million.
Beyond the day job, Srinivasan is a board member at influential
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz — which is planning its first dedicated crypto fund
— and he holds a BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and an MS in
Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He previously founded genetic
testing company Counsyl, and occasionally teaches at Stanford.
TechCrunch will sit down for a one-on-one interview
with Srinivasan, a long-time blockchain advocate in Silicon Valley, to
discuss a multitude of topics, some of which may include his plans for
Coinbase, the blockchain talent war, blockchain adoption among Silicon Valley ’s tech community, how he turned Earn.com around from a debt-plagued
business into a Coinbase acquisition and more.
One thing we do know is he is charged with bringing more
innovation to Coinbase, a company that only trades four cryptocurrencies — so
he is keeping a keen eye on what is happening on the blockchain space.
“There’s a lot of amazing stuff happening,” he said in a recent
interview with TechCrunch. “Atomic swaps, sharding, plasma, proof of stake,
etc, and a big part of my job will be to take all of that stuff, and rank it
based on whether we can use it to create new products for our users.”
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, pictured below at TechCrunch
Disrupt London in 2014, called Srinavasan “one of the most respected
technologists in the crypto field and… one of the technology industry’s few
true originalists.”
Blockchain is the most disruptive new technology in technology
today, and we’re excited to host our first show that is solely dedicated
to the blockchain. The event takes place in the Swiss city of Zug — widely
known as “Crypto Valley” due to its sizable number of crypto companies and a
progressive approach to regulation — and it will bring together top figures
from the blockchain space, developer community and business and startup worlds.
Other prominent speakers confirmed for the July 6 event include:
·
Roham Gharegozlou, the founder of
smash-hit blockchain game CryptoKitties
·
Brian Behlendorf, executive director
of the Hyperledger Project
·
Leanne Kemp, founder and CEO of
Everledger
·
Jun Hasegawa, CEO and founder of
Omise and OmiseGo
·
Mona El Isa, CEO and co-founder of
Melonport
·
Colin Hanna, associate at Balderton
Capital
·
Galia Benartzi, co-founder and head
of Business Development at Bancor
·
Gert Sylvest, co-founder of
Tradeshift and GM of Tradeshift Frontiers
You can get your hands on tickets now — they’re priced at 495
Swiss Francs, or around $500 — from the event website here.
If you’re interested in sponsoring the event, please contact
us via this link.
Note: The author owns a small
amount of cryptocurrency. Enough to gain an understanding, not enough to change
a life.
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