SPEAKER SESSIONS for 2023 will open soon!
Tom Anderson
Speaker
DEVViO CEO Global President
Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of building early-stage tech companies. Skilled in Entrepreneurship, Business Planning and Strategy, Fundraising, Negotiation, and Intellectual Property. One of the earliest pioneers in the field of Haptics (adding the sense of touch to Virtual Reality). Experienced in Virtual Reality, Computational Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms, App Development, and Blockchain. Developed a blockchain protocol from scratch that addresses all of blockchain’s biggest challenges: scalability, stability, fraud/theft/loss, and privacy.
Mel Marsollier
Speaker
SPLUNK> Sr. Product Manager of Blockchain
Melanie Marsollier is a senior blockchain product manager at Splunk and serves on the board of the Baseline Protocol. Melanie is currently overseeing the development of Splunk Connectors and Apps for public and private blockchains.
Before Splunk, Melanie was a manager of blockchain product engineering at Ernst and Young. She contributed to Ethereum-based protocols, namely Baseline and NightFall.
In 2018, Melanie operated validator nodes in a proof of authority blockchain, POA. Melanie developed an interest in the Bitcoin and blockchain community in 2015 when she joined a start-up, ChangeTip, which specializes in using Bitcoin for micropayments.
Melanie earned a master’s in management from the London School of Economics, a master’s in international management from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa.
Ray Quintana
Speaker and Mcee
DEVViO Global President
Ray won’t talk about himself, but he spreads the word about one of the most advanced blockchain protocols in the world right in our backyard. DEVViO, a pioneer in blockchain protocols, has achieved benchmarking results of over 8,000,000 transactions per second, processed on-chain. The benchmarking test refers to transactions validated within the blocks of a public blockchain. These results let us build a business upon the most scalable blockchain protocol in existence. When you combine this level of scalability with our stability solution, our fraud/theft/loss protections, and our privacy approach, our protocol represents a viable solution for the future of financial transactions across the world, including areas such as payment processing and Forex trading.
DEVViO uses a multi-tier sharding algorithm, and smart contracts can be implemented with a compositional programming strategy to create digital assets for use in any industry. It is rare to come across a company that has the potential to impact the world.
Belem Tamayo
Speaker
DEVViO Director of International Sales
Before joining Devvio, she spent three years working with one of the USA’s top early-stage venture capital firms. She has developed international strategies for several companies and startups in Europe, focused on expanding their markets within Europe and exploring new markets in the USA and Latin America. She earned her bachelor’s degree in International Business and Management in The Netherlands, with minors in sustainable business and circular economy.
Matt Bouillon
Speaker
Law Office of Mathew J. Bouillon Mascarenas- Attorney
Matt focuses his law practice primarily on applying securities law to the digital asset space. He also represents clients in litigation and in an advisory capacity to manage the full array of issues that ecosystem participants encounter in the course of running their business, DAO, dApp, token issuance, etc. This recent experience has helped him stay on top of latest developments across an unsettled legal landscape, and he believes he could offer a nuanced take on current legal and practical issues affecting blockchain technology, that would be helpful to conference participants.
His previous experience includes former Director, NM Securities Division; Assistant Attorney General, CO Dept of Law, assigned to represent the CO Division of Securities and Division of Banking; Associate, Marrs Griebel Ltd., securities litigation.
Jason Merkoski
Speaker
Jason Merkoski is an MIT-educated technologist with a passion for building software and hardware products. One of the early inventors and innovators of the Amazon Kindle, he’s managed product and technology teams at companies like Amazon and Intel and thrived at startups. Jason brings world-class practical expertise in Data Science and AI; Jason has run large teams of PhDs at Amazon for AI R&D initiatives and has built his own algorithms for image, text, speech, and video AI processing. As an example, one of Jason’s initiatives at Amazon was to invent and launch a large-scale AI initiative which yielded over time a $100M+ savings to the company. Jason is currently innovating in the NFT and blockchain space by building the world’s fastest and most secure marketplace for NFTs.
Tucker Blue
Speaker
Blockchain Engineer & Consultant
CNM Alumni
Tucker Blue started coding when he was ten, began working for SAIC when he was eighteen, and joined the federal sector in 2017. Since then, he gained both Q (DoE) and TS SCI (DoD) clearances, pushed code to Air Force 1, helped federate US HPC resources while at Gitlab, scale highly available, distributed systems via k8s at Rancher, led federal blockchain opportunities to the finish line with SimbaChain, and consulted to startups, enterprises, and universities such as Notre Dame and Central New Mexico on blockchain architecture and integration.
Bill Halverson
Speaker and Host
CNM Ingenuity- Sr Advisor
Bill oversees CNM Ingenuity’s programs and partnerships involving advanced technologies. He brings an extensive background in Web2 and Web3 technology advancements to the CNM team. He works with technology companies to create innovative collaborations benefiting CNM Ingenuity and the community. He is now charged with getting the Blockchain Center of Excellence online for the state to share ideas, designs, and prototypes.
Additionally, he’s worked to help partner with the leading blockchain education partners to help students re-invent their skills and shape their future. “We’re here to help learners invest in their future. “
He recently worked with organizations nationwide to publish “A National Learning and Employment Records Infrastructure.” A path forward to connect learners to employers in real-time, giving learners complete control over what credentials they share and with whom. All while providing Employers with a talent pool of validated and verified employees of the future.
Luciano Pesci Luciano is a economist and data scientist. He has a passion for Tokenomics called “Agent-Based INET” that combines the simplicity of Chris Burniske’s crypto asset valuation model with agent-based simulation methods from behavioral economics. |
Chamisa Edmo
Speaker
NM Community Capital- Technical Program Manager
Chamisa is a Technical Program Manager at New Mexico Community Capital and a Deep Dive Alum! NMCC is a nonprofit in Albuquerque with a mission to advance and uplift the next generation of emerging Indigenous entrepreneurs.
In response to significant shifts in how people do business, NMCC pivoted to provide entrepreneurs exciting opportunities to adapt and grow their businesses online. Our technical training and upskilling goal are to bridge the digital divide and create training opportunities for our entrepreneurs and their communities.
We’ll discuss how web3 technology can be leveraged by groups of people that would otherwise typically be excluded from these emerging tech environments