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13 - 14TH OF AUGUST 2024

HILTON BOMONTI HOTEL

Empowering the Future

Unveiling the Potential of Web3 in Turkey

IstanBlock is the flagship event of Istanbul Blockchain Week. Spread over two action-packed days, speakers, and businesses from all over the world will unite to discuss the future of DeFi, Trading, Regulation, Mining, Venture Capital, and much more. Expect talks, panels, fireside chats, and informative debates with many leaders in the Web3 industry.

What you will experience

Being a part of the largest blockchain conference in Turkey
Distinguished government, business and blockchain speakers
Building relationships with the Turkish blockchain community
Meeting with premier media and influencers of the industry
Attending a week’s worth of side events from major projects
Exclusive networking opportunities focused on fostering new partnerships between projects and attendees.
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Engage with thought leaders in carefully curated keynotes and panels from industry leading minds

Veteran technology entrepreneur/investor Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a global leader in blockchain and gaming with the goal to provide property rights for virtual assets. Yat began his career at Atari Germany, then established Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation, the first free web page and email provider in Asia. In 1998 he set up Outblaze, an award-winning pioneer of multilingual white label web services. After selling one of its business units to IBM, he pivoted Outblaze to incubate digital entertainment projects. One of those projects is Animoca Brands. Yat has numerous accolades, including Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the DHL/SCMP Awards, and recognition as one of Cointelegraph’s top 100 notable people in blockchain. A classically trained musician, Yat is a member of the advisory board of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and a director of the Asian Youth Orchestra.

Yat Siu
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Animoca Brands

Sergej Kunz is the co-founder of the 1inch Network, a distributed network of decentralized protocols that enable the fastest, most lucrative and protected operations in major blockchain ecosystems.From 2015 to 2019, Sergej worked for Mimacom consultancy, running projects for major customers, such as Bosch, Siemens and Porsche. After joining Porsche on a full-time basis, he gradually shifted towards cybersecurity.Sergej’s first introduction to the crypto space dates back to 2012. After mining Ethereum for years, he launched a YouTube show, CryptoManiacs, in which he did live security audits of smart contracts. Anton Bukov, the 1inch Network’s eventual co-founder, soon joined him as a co-host.At a May 2019 hackathon in New York City, over the course of 36 hours, Sergej and Anton developed a prototype crypto exchange aggregator that became the basis of the 1inch Network.

Sergej Kunz
Co-Founder
1inch

Heading up PSGs activities within Web3 and Metaverse. Broad and deep experience of Metaverse, Web3, Crypto Successfully listed a crypto exchange on the Nasdaq First North. Advising national, global law and military agencies on IT, crypto and blockchain Advising national banks and EU regulatory bodies on crypto currencies for sound legal framework (MiCA) Writing books about Web3, Metaverse as well as how Tesla and SpaceX is doing Agile at Scale.

Pär Helgosson
Head Of Web3 &
Metaverse at PSG

I have 15+ years of strategy consulting experience across 20+ countries in Europe, Middle East and APAC. I’m currently leading a team of 120 consultants in 4 markets: Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Moldova. Throughout my consulting career, I’ve managed 120+ projects with primary focus on financial services; including growth strategy, loyalty, portfolio optimization, digital transformation, customer lifecycle management & analytics, organizational design.

Eren Ozkan
Senior Principal / Vice President
Mastercard

Vineet has led over 100+ investments in the crypto and blockchain space, investing in blockchain startups including Casper Labs, Mysten Labs, Torus, KILT and many more. He has spoken on VC Investments at events like Token 2049 – Singapore, WEF – Davos, DCentral – Austin TX, Nearcon &Nearverse – Lisbon, AIBC- Malta, Future Blockchain Summit – Dubai, Global Blockchain Congress, Agora – Dubai, Blockchain Life – Moscow, among others and is a known opinion leader across publications in the Middle East and South Asia.

Vineet Budki
CEO & Managing Partner
Cypher Capital

After completing his high school education, Şant Manukyan received his undergraduate degree in English Business Administration from Istanbul University, followed by completing his master’s program in the MBA field at Cornell University. He started his career in 2002 at İş Investment International Markets department. As a Global Strategist, Şant Manukyan has been serving as the Director of International Markets since June 2019. He is responsible for reflecting the global economic situation to investors, determining foreign equity and commodity strategies, and creating investor recommendations based on these strategies.

Şant Manukyan
Manager
IS Investment

At Circle, Cem is working with a multidisciplinary team responsible for building awareness, affinity, and scale on the Circle platform, supporting existing and future developers and alliances, including exchanges and wallet partnerships, blockchain integrations, multi-chain programs, and fintech partnerships. Previously, Cem was the Ecosystem Lead at Stellar Development Foundation. At SDF, Cem was leading the relationships with key ecosystem stakeholders. He worked with entrepreneurs and enterprises of all sizes to support them to grow their business while increasing the network activity. Prior to SDF, Cem worked in strategy, operations, and compliance roles for companies like Coinsquare and HSBC, and also worked as consultant at PwC.

Cem Arcan
Ecosystem Director
Circle

In 2017, frustrated by the lack of media coverage, he created and hosted CNBC CRYPTOTRADER, the world’s first televised crypto show. The show quickly became the highest viewed show on the network. He founded Crypto Banter in 2020 with a single minded objective of bringing 24/7, live, credible, crypto content to the community. He is also the founder of Banter Capital a $200m crypto fund. He is a Harvard Alumni , CFA and member of The Young Presidents Organization.

Ran Nuener
Founder
Cryptobanter
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