Tobie van der Spuy

Tobie is a passionate advocate for the regulation and adoption of blockchain applications in the central and commercial banking sector. He currently leads Block Markets Africa’s engagement as service provider to the South African Reserve Bank on Project Khokha 2 where market participants are exploring the impact of decentralisation on financial markets. With over 20

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Simon Dingle

Simon was on the founding teams of 22seven, Luno, Curve, and used to host Tech 5 on 5FM. He heads up Inves which developes the ZARP Stablecoin, Lettuce portfolio management app, and Venox. He is author of In Math We Trust and co-author of Beyond Bitcoin.

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Jan Hendrik Viljoen aka Portchie

Born 23 November 1963 in Pietersburg. After living in Tweeling in the Freestate as the son of a vegetable farmer and shop owner, Portchie matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch and also got his B-Com degree in Stellenbosch. In 1991 he began painting as a hobby and later did some in house art exhibitions.

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Steven Boykey Sidley

Steve has over 35 years experience in diverse areas of business, media production, technology, artificial intelligence telecommunications, information management, mobile development, blockchain/crypto development and private equity. He has worked at operational, executive and board levels. Having qualified with an MSc (Computer Science) from UCLA in 1979, Steve spent 17 years in California. This was the

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Stephen Young

Stephen is a token engineer, smart contract developer and designer in the blockchain industry. He is passionate about the potential that public, open, decentralised blockchains have to improve our society. His current focus is on token engineering, Solidity and DApp development but he is also passionate about design. Stephen has experience in all aspects of

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Norbert Amankwaa Adomako

Norbert is the Communications and Community lead at Metis and Founder of the KNUST Blockchain Hub, which is a student blockchain club in Africa providing free blockchain education to students in Ghana. Norbert is also a member of the Blockchain Education Network (BEN), which is also the largest and longest running network of students, professors

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Badi Sudhakaran

Badi Sudhakaran is a dynamic and visionary entrepreneur with a remarkable journey spanning over two decades in the technology and finance sectors. He is the Co-Founder of VALR.com, a crypto exchange that has positioned itself as the largest in South Africa in terms of trade volume. Badi’s multifaceted expertise, spanning blockchain technology, software engineering, product

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Rikki Barnes

Rikki Barnes has been with FirstRand for 12 years, predominantly in Foreign Exchange and Commercial Banking. He has recently taken on assumed a lead role in the group’s Crypto & DLT Centre of Expertise. Rikki holds a Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) in Actuarial Science and Finance, and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Financial

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Modibe Matsepane

Modibe Matsepane is the Community and Education Manager for Africa at Paxful. He has extensive experience in online and offline community building, partnerships and marketing, amongst other roles. His key focus is on Bitcoin education, with specific focus on day-to-day use cases. Modibe has been featured on media publications all over Africa, such as CNBC

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