Alex is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation, a non-profit that promotes civil liberties and challenges authoritarianism across the world. He also lectures at Singularity University on Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and governance.

Timi Ajiboye is a software developer and entrepreneur based in Lagos, Nigeria. He co-founded and currently runs BuyCoins (buycoins.africa), an exchange that lets Africans easily buy and sell bitcoin with their local currency.

Luis Buenaventura started working in the Bitcoin space in 2014 and, with his startup BloomX, focuses on creating practical crypto solutions for the developing world. In 2017, he authored the book “Reinventing Remittances with Bitcoin,” which collects strategies and stories about the fast-growing Bitcoin remittance industry.

He’s presented at venues that include the United Nations, the Brookings Blum Roundtable, and is a regular speaker at the International Money Transfer Conference series.

Luis has been building tech startups in the Philippines for over a decade, and is a prolific illustrator at CRYPTOPOP.net.

Alejandro has led product teams that focus on improving financial access for people, leveraging bitcoin, stablecoins and other technologies.

Alena Vranova is a serial entrepreneur and strategist. She develops early stage ideas into successful products and services. Her track record includes several startups in traditional finance and technology as well as Bitcoin.

In 2013, she left the financial industry to join the Bitcoin revolution and founded SatoshiLabs, one of the most renowned Bitcoin companies in the world creating the first ever hardware wallet called the Trezor.

Today, Alena helps many companies across different industries building profitable businesses and partnerships, but her passion stays with Bitcoin. At Casa, a "Sovereignty as a Service" company, she currently leads strategy.

A polyglot who speaks seven languages, Alena graduated in Economic Diplomacy from University College of International and Public Relations Prague where she has studied international economy and monetary system. Alena has also earned a Master’s Degree in Marketing Communication and a Master in German from Comenius University Bratislava.

Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin Educator, Developer and Entrepreneur. Jimmy is the author of Programming Bitcoin and The Little Bitcoin Book. In addition, he’s a Bitcoin Fellow at Blockchain Capital, a lecturer at the University of Texas, a speaker at Bitcoin conferences, an avid open source contributor, mostly in Bitcoin, and the instructor of a 2-day workshop for programmers, Programming Blockchain.

Jimmy once bought about $100 worth of beef jerky with Bitcoin back in 2013 for 0.25 BTC. Good beef jerky, but not THAT good. That's one major regret. He also got scammed out of 2.5 BTC when he bought a Alitin Mint Adam Smith 2 BTC coin. Those guys had a copy of the private key and the bitcoins on the coin got stolen a few years ago. Another major regret.

Jimmy's goal is to bring sound money to the world. Bitcoin is the one chance at defunding and decentralizing the power of the oligarchy. Making more developers for the ecosystem is his passion.

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Alexander Lloyd is the founder and managing partner of Accelerator Ventures, a venture fund focused on seed-stage investments. Alexander has over 20 years experience investing in early stage companies. He has invested in the first round of over 100 startups, 5 of which had an enterprise value of over $1B including at exit: Zapos, Zynga, Nutanix and others.

Prior to founding Accelerator Ventures, Alexander was a venture partner at Rustic Canyon Partners, where he oversaw the development of their seed-stage investment strategy. Before working in Venture Capital, Alexander was the Business Development Manager in Microsoft's Silicon Valley office responsible for Microsoft's relationships with the West Coast venture capital and startup community. Alexander has also worked as a Product Manager in SGI's workstation division and has held marketing positions at Activision and Apple Computer. Alexander began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent three years as a financial analyst. Born in New York City, Alexander was raised in Paris, France, and is fluent in French. Alexander earned a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School.

Alexander has also been focused on intersection of Art & Technology. In 1998 he founded the San Francisco Media Arts Council (SMAC) and for 3 years he served as a Commissioner on San Francisco Art Commission. He sat on the board SlideLuck, SF Camerawork, and Black Rock Arts Foundation (Burning Man) advisory board. He currently is board member of Grey Area.

In 2016 he joined the board of the Human Rights Foundation after founding their North Korea effort in 2015. His works focuses on working with defectors to bring global information back to the people of North Korea.