Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) is an affiliated side conference to the Sciences of Blockchain Conference (SBC).
The conference is organized by the Stanford Blockchain Club with the support of Stanford Center of Blockchain Research.
While the SBC conference is more academic and research driven, BASS aims to be complementary and focuses more on the application, engineering and entrepreneurship aspects of the blockchain technology.
In addition, BASS aims to highlight the top blockchain startups from the Stanford ecosystem.
Speakers include:
- Ari Juels, Professor at Cornell Tech, Co-Director at IC3, Co-chair of SBC
- Tomasz Stanczak, Co-Executive Director, Ethereum Foundation
- David Schwartz, CTO of Ripple and Co-Creator of the XRP Ledger
- Oren Katz, COO, StarkWare
- Sreeram Kannan, Founder, EigenLayer
- Roger Watternhofer, Head of Research, Anza (Solana core dev)
- Gordon Liao, Chief Economist and Head of Research, Circle
- Austin Bennett, Research Engineer, Circle (Stanford alumni)
- Grant Hummer, Co-Founder, Etherealize
- Teddy Pornprinya, Co-Founder, Plume Network
- Noah Levine, Strategy & Data Lead, Visa Crypto (Stanford alumni)
- Ahmed Zifzaf, Head of Crypto Partnership, Worldpay (Stanford alumni)
- Sean Ren, Co-Founder, Sahara AI (Stanford post-doc)
- Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder & CEO, 0G (SBA)
- Daniel Marin, Co-Founder & CEO, Nexus (SBA)
- Bayley Wang, Co-Founder, PrismaX (SBA)
- Ed Roman, Managing Partner, Hack VC
- Elizabeth Harkavy, Investment Partner, a16z
- Avichal Garg, Co-Founder & General Partner, Electric Capital (Stanford alumni)
- Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner, Dragonfly
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