Final Agenda, Panels & Speakers
Friday, March 3, 2017 (Caribe Hilton)
5-8 pm, Registration for all attendees (at poolside)
6-10 pm, Sponsor booth set-up
6-8 pm, Opening cocktail party, Caribar (poolside restaurant, Caribe Hilton)
Saturday, March 4, 2017 (Caribe Hilton, San Geronimo Ballroom)
Morning Sessions: Family Offices & Institutional Investors Track
Time
8:00 – 9:00 am
9:00 – 9:15 am
9:15 – 9:35 am
9:35 – 10:15 am
10:15 – 11:00 am
11:00 – 11:15 am
11:00 – 11:15 am
11:15 – 11:45 pm
11:45 am – 12:30
pm
12:30 – 1:00 pm
Description
Breakfast (hot breakfast buffet)
Opening remarks: Michael Terpin, Founder/CEO,
Transform Group/CoinAgenda
Keynote: The Bitcoin Big Picture, Bruce Fenton,
Atlantic Financial/Satoshi Roundtable/ Bitcoin
Foundation
Family Offices, Institutional Investors, Sovereign
Wealth Funds: How Will the Big Money Move Digital
Assets? Bruce Fenton, Tania Modic, Western
Investments Capital; Saeed Darmaki, AlphaBit
Digital Currency Fund; Chris Kitze, Flying Disc
Partners & Flashnet Technologies; moderated by Matt
McKibbin, Family Office Venture Capital
Panel: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Dash: What are
the Most Promising Public Blockchains? Anthony Di
Iorio, co-founder, Ethereum; CEO, Decentral, Jaxx;
Vincent Zhou, FinTech Blockchain Group; Jason
King, Flashnet Technologies; Daniel Barugh,
London Link
Break
Bitcoin 101: Understanding Bitcoin and Digital
Currencies (concurrent with break), Brad Mills,
digital asset strategist & algorithmic trader
Fireside chat: Brock Pierce, chairman, Bitcoin
Foundation; managing director, Blockchain Capital
Panel: Managing a Digital Asset Portfolio, Brock
Pierce; Liam Robertson, Alphabit Digital Currency
Fund; Jani Valjavec, ICONOMI; Brad Mills;
moderated by Matt McKibbin
AlphaBit Digital Currency Fund presentation
Place
Exhibit Area
San Geronimo
Ballroom
Caribe Hilton
Exhibit Area
San Geronimo
Ballroom
Caribe Hilton
Saturday, March 4, 2017 (Caribe Hilton, San Geronimo Ballroom)
Afternoon Sessions: International Track
Time
1:00 – 2:15 pm
2:15 – 2:35 pm
2:35 – 3:00 pm
3:00 – 3:15 pm
3:15 – 3:45 pm
3:45 – 4:00 pm
4:00 – 4:20 pm
4:20 – 5:00 pm
5:00 – 5:15 pm
5:15 – 5:30 pm
5:30 – 6:00 pm
6:00
6:30 – 10:00 pm
Description
Lunch, featuring Fireside Chat with Bancor
Network co-founders Galia Ben-Artzi and
Eyal Hertzog
KEYNOTE: Jose Castro-Segarra, Puerto
Rico Industrial Development Company
(PRIDCO), Blockchain and Puerto Rico for
Blockchain Companies and Investors
Panel: Developing a “Blockchain Island” in
Puerto Rico, Jose Castro-Segarra; Pedro
Giner Dapena, UFG; Enrique Martinez,
WebCapitalists, Israel Menchaca Dobal,
Tokken
BDO Puerto Rico presentation
Panel: Taxes & Employment Considerations
for Blockchain Companies, Denisse Flores,
Partner – Tax Division, BDO Puerto Rico;
Jose Castro-Segarra; Pedro Giner Dapena
Break
Keynote: Tax-Free Appreciation of Bitcoins
Using an IRA, Chris Kline, COO,
BitcoinIRA.com
Public Blockchains in 2017: Bull Run or
Bubble, Chris Kline, Gordon Chen,
FinTech Blockchain Group, Yonatan Ben
Shimon, Matchpool; Jake Vartanian,
Blockchain Partners
FinTech Blockchain Group presentation
Bitproperty presentation
New Models in Token Crowdsales and
Public Blockchains, Dave Carlson, Giga
Watt; Yanislav “Yani” Malahov, Aeternity;
Galia Ben-Artzi, Bancor; Jim Blasko,
bCommerce Labs
Shuttles leave to Miramar district for dinner
CoinAgenda Caribbean Cocktail Party
and Banquet, La Jaquita Baya,
801 Ave Fernandez Juncos, San Juan
(historic Miramar district)
Place
Exhibit & Break Area
San Geronimo
Ballroom
Caribe Hilton
Exhibit & Break Area
Sunday, March 5, 2017 (Caribe Hilton, San Geronimo Ballroom)
Morning Sessions: Startup Competition
Time
9:00 – 10:30 am
Description
Breakfast (hot breakfast buffet)
Place
Exhibit & Break Area
10:00 – 11:30 am
Startup Presentations
11:30 – 11:45 am
11:15 am – 1:00 pm
Break
Startup Presentations
San Geronimo
Ballroom
Exhibit & Break Area
San Geronimo
Ballroom
1:00 – 2:15 pm
Lunch (fireside chat with Chris Kitze,
Flashnet Technologies)
Exhibit & Break Area
Afternoon Sessions: “CryptoCaribbean”
2:15 – 2:35 pm
2:35 – 3:00 pm
3:00 – 3:30 pm
3:30 – 4:15 pm
4:15 – 4:30 pm
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Keynote: Gabriel Abed, CEO, Bitt; Why the
Caribbean Will Lead the Digital Currency
Revolution
Fireside Chat with Gabriel Abed,
announcement of Caribbean Blockchain
initiatives
Panel: Blockchain comes to the Caribbean:
show us the jobs! Gabriel Abed, Pedro
Giner Dapena, Enrique Martinez
Old-timers panel: Anthony Di Iorio, Jason
King, Jim Blasko, Dave Carlson, Brad
Mills
Startup winners announced
Closing party, Caribbean Style!
Get out of those fancy conference clothes
and put on your tank tops, shorts and
swimwear. We’ll be serving pina coladas
and nibbles by the pool and jacuzzi to wrap
up a great networking day!
San Geronimo
Ballroom
Caribe Hilton
Atlantic Bar
(poolside)