Melonport presents
The first Swiss blockchain conference for asset management
The Melon ecosystem brings together a diverse range of developers, portfolio managers, investors and lawyers to visualise the future of asset management using a technology that is fast becoming impossible to ignore; blockchain.
M-0 provides an excellent opportunity to meet with pioneering groups and individuals who are working on game-changing technologies that will change the asset management world we know today.
The event will run for two days on the 17th/18th of October, 2017. It will cover broad swathes of the technical, financial and legal aspects that surround digital asset management.
08:30
Registration
09:00
Keynote: The Rise of Digital Assets as an Asset Class and Why They are Relevant to You
Johann Gevers, CEO Monetas
09:40
Melonport - A Progress Update
Mona El Isa, CEO & Co-Founder Melonport
09:55
Next Generation Solidity Development
Travis Jacobs, Developer Melonport
10:10
Oyente Demo
Joey Krug, Co-Founder Augur
10:20
Building a Trading Bot With Melon.js
Simon Emanuel Schmid, Developer Melonport
10:40
Unveiling the New Melon Front-end
Jenna Zenk, Developer Melonport
10:50
Morning Coffee Break
11:20
Introducing Melon Mail
Andrej Cvoro, Founder Decenter
11:40
Governance: The Main Challenges in Governance & Three Models Aragon Proposes in Solving Them
Luis Cuende, CEO Aragon
11:55
Lendroid: Smart Contract Controlled Leverage
Vignesh Sundaresan, Founder Lendroid
12:10
Panel - Digital Asset Universes
Moderator: George Hallam
Panelists: Joey Krug (Augur/Pantera), Hadi Kabalan (Otonomos), Jorge Izquierdo (Aragon), Zoe Adamovicz (Neufund)
13:00
Lunch
14:15
Many Tokens, Many Chains, One Ecosystem
Sunny Aggarwal, Researcher Cosmos
14:30
Financial Services for the Next Generation of the Global Economy
Andrew Keys, Co-Founder ConsenSys Capital
15:00
Panel - Asset Managers - What Will the Future of Asset Management Look Like?
Moderator: Sean Park, Anthemis
Panelists: Ryan Zurrer (Polychain Capital), Keld van Schreven (Kryptonite1), Andrew Keys (ConsenSys), Joey Krug (Augur/Pantera Capital), Zoe Adamovicz (Neufund), Satoshi Kobayashi (SmartContractJapan)
15:45
uPort: Self Sovereign Identity in Zug
Paul Kohlhaas, Business Development Manager ConsenSys
16:05
Afternoon Coffee Break
16:35
Panel - Blockchain Funds & Regulatory Environment
Moderator: Mike Butcher, TechCrunch
Panelists: Dr. Luka Müller-Studer (MME), Michele Hess (PWC), Jeremy Millar (ConsenSys), Tina Balzli (PWC), William Mougayar (Business Blockchain), James Slazas (ConsenSys)
17:20
MAMA Announcement
Mona El Isa, CEO and Co-Founder Melonport
17:30
Light Pre-Dinner Entertainment: Unveiling of the First Ethereum Financed Movie
Tony Caranna
17:45
Optional Drinks And Dinner
08:30
Registration
09:00
Connecting the Dots Between Financial Data, Computations and the Blockchain
Thomas Bertani, Founder and CEO Oraclize
09:15
Bringing Data to Blockchains
Sam Chadwick, Director: Risk & Innovation Thomson Reuters
09:35
Energy Web: Blockchain as an Oracle for Green Bonds Performance
Ewald Hesse, Vice President Energy Web Foundation
09:50
Transparency and Partnerships In The New Financial Ecosystem
Will Harborne, Project Lead Ethfinex
10:05
Bitcoin Suisse and the Swiss Journey
Niklas Nikolajsen, CEO Bitcoin Suisse
10:20
0x: An Open Protocol Approach to Decentralised Exchange
Fabio Berger, Senior Engineer 0x
10:35
Morning Coffee Break
11:05
Panel - Decentralized Exchange Pioneers
Moderator: Reto Trinkler, Melonport
Panelists: Alex Gordon-Brander (Omega One), Will Harborne (Ethfinex), Fabio Berger (0x), Anton Golub (Lykke)
11:50
Preventing Decentralized Exchange Frontrunning by Design
Matthew Di Ferrante, Security Engineer Ethereum Foundation
12:20
Lunch
13:35
Surprise Announcement
Mona El Isa, CEO and Co-Founder Melonport
13:45
Bringing the Melon Protocol to Retail Investors
Adrian Javier Gallo, CEO Midas
14:00
Cyber Fund 2.0
Marina Guryeva, CEO Cyber Fund
14:15
Keynote: The Journey to Web 3
Dr. Gavin Wood, Founder and CEO Parity Technologies
15:00
Afternoon Coffee Break
15:30
Melon - The Outlook
Reto Trinkler, Chairman, CTO & Co-Founder Melonport
15:50
Optional Drinks And Dinner