DC Digital Asset Investment Forum
Ronald Reagan Building, Oceanic Room
1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW,
Washington, DC 20004
February 20, 2018
13:00-13:10 Opening Remarks: Global Digital Economy Council and DAIF
Xiaochen Zhang, President, FinTech4Good
12:30-13:00 Registration
13:10-13:40 Plenary Session 1: Bitcoin, Blockchain and Digital Assets
Moderator: Xiaochen Zhang, President, FinTech4Good
Ed Maguire, Principal Partner, Momenta
Jim Liew, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Bryant Nielson, Founder, The Blockchain Academy
Zhijun Zhang, Lead Security Architect, The World Bank Group
15:10-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:10 Plenary Session 5: Investing in Digital Asset
Moderator: Xiaochen Zhang, President, FinTech4Good
Jian Sun, Managing Partner, Jiuding Capital (600053.SH), Founder, JLab
Blockchain Fund
Michael A. Kapoor, COO, WishKnish
Tong Gao, Founder, Token Club
Reggie Middleton, Founder and CEO, Veritaseum
16:10-17:00 Blockchain Shark Tank
Sharks/ Judges
Xiaochen Zhang, President, FinTech4Good
William Wong, ICO Strategist, Expert Dojo Blockchain Accelerator
Jian Sun, Jiuding Capital
Melissa Frakman, FinTech and Blockchain Investor
Start-up Stars
WishKnish
SuperFin
Kora
Abele Group
17:00-17:15 Back to the Future: A Recap and Asia Blockchain Acceleration
Program
Xiaochen Zhang, President, FinTech4Good
14:40-15: 10 Plenary Session 4: Blockchain-based Digital Asset Solutions
Moderator: Xiaochen Zhang, President, FinTech4Good
Jason Dispenza, Co-Founder, EnLedger.io
Katherine Foster, Director, FinTech4Good
Heather Flannery, CEO at Obesity PPM
Maomao Hu, COO, Kora Network
13:40-14:10 Plenary Session 2: DC Blockchain Incubator Launch Roundtable
Moderator: Xiaochen Zhang, President, FinTech4Good
Arjun Raman, Managing Director at Mooti
Samson Williams, Partner, Axes And Eggs
Ken Huang, CEO & Founder, Distributed Business Applications
Neil Wasserman, Co-founder, Managing Partner, Timewave Analytics, LLC
14:10-14:40 Plenary Session 3: Good, Bad and Evil about ICOs and How to Do it Right?
Moderator: Xiaochen Zhang, President, FinTech4Good
Wallace Lynch, Founder, Alpha Token
Dan Spuller, Director, Chamber of Digital Commerce
Gabriel Zanko, Partner, BlockchainA3
Dror Futter | Partner, RIMÔN, Law Firm Evolved
18:00-20:00 Dinner and Keynote Speech (By Invitation Only)
GDEC will bring together top blockchain leaders from academic, policy, business, investment and technology background to provide thought leadership, mobilize resources and implement powerful initiatives in advancing global digital transform.
The council aims to:
• Launch and implement ambitious collaborative digital economy initiatives to create and sustain blockchain and other digital technology related momentum;
• Drive policy innovations to accelerate blockchain economy;
• Mobilize $1 trillion to invest in impactful blockchain and other digital technolocy innovations to address $100 trillion worth of market challenges.
 MELISSA C. FRAKMAN |  Xiaochen Zhang |  Reggie Middleton |  Kaikai (Nichole) Yang |  Ed Maguire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Tong Gao |  Bryant Nielson |  Dror Futter |  MICHAEL KAPOOR |  Samson Williams |
 Zhijun Zhang |  Katherine Foster |  Ken Huang |  Arjun Raman |  Jian Sun |
 Lisa Gus |  Jim Kyung-Soo Liew |  Liliana Reasor |  Maomao Hu |  Dan Spuller |
 Wallace Lynch |  Heather Flannery |  William Wong |  Neil Wasserman |  Jason Dispenza |
 Gabriel Zanko |