9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 9:40 Opening Remark
9:40 – 10:10 Keynote 1: Digital Currencies by Wilfred Daye
10:10 – 10:40 Keynote 2: The Parallel World on Blockchain by Huining (Henry) Cao
10:40 – 11:10 Keynote 3: Unblocking Blockchain – Chainablement for Trade Finance and Emerging Fintech Systems by Hyman (Hy) Chantz
11:10 – 11:50 Q&A session
11:50 – 12:00 Thank you session
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch and networking

Wilfred Daye

Wilfred Daye is a leading expert in digital currencies with extensive experience in research, trading and risk management. Currently, Wilfred is a portfolio manager and head quant for an alternative investments organization in NYC, specializing in fiat and digital currencies, and their derivatives.

Previously, Wilfred worked at UBS as an Executive Director in Structured Financing Trading, where he was responsible for portfolio construction and risk management of securitized product collaterals. Wilfred has also worked for Deutsche Bank as a Quant Risk Manager. Prior to DB, Wilfred was a senior portfolio market risk manager for D.B. Zwirn, specializing in both cash and synthetic structured credit derivatives. Prior to that, Wilfred led the Client Valuation Group for Lehman Brothers and was part of CDO management team at Barclays Capital. He began his career at Lehman Brothers’ CMBS desk.

Prior to joining the financial industry, He was a NSF translational research scientist specializing in breast cancer gene therapy.

Keynote Topic: Digital Currencies

Huining Cao

Dr. Cao Huining (Henry) is a Professor of Finance, Chair of the Finance Department and the Academic Director of the Finance MBA at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). He holds a PhD in Finance from UCLA and a PhD in Pathology from Yale University.

Before joining CKGSB, Dr. Cao taught at UC Berkeley, UCSD, Ohio State University, Carnegie Mellon and UNC Chapel Hill.

Dr. Cao’s research has been published in various journals including Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Financial Economics.

Dr. Cao has also received numerous awards for teaching and research excellence, including nominations for the Smith-Breeden Award in 1998 and 2000 for the best paper published in the Journal of Finance.

Keynote Topic: The Parallel World on Blockchain

Hyman (Hy) Chantz 

Hyman David (Hy) Chantz is an Associate Partner – Blockchain Solutions in IBM’s Global Banking and Financial Markets Center of Competency, and is an IBM Master Inventor.

Hy enables, optimizes and transforms the business outcomes of clients via innovative, cost-effective and appropriate use of blockchain, cognitive computing, cloud, and other advanced fintech technologies.

Hy has over twenty years’ experience implementing and managing high-technology financial projects throughout North America, Asia, and Europe.

Hy is a member of the New York, Florida, and Patent bars, and is a Registered Professional Engineer (Electrical and Computers) in New York State. Hy is a multi-badged Certified IBM Consultant, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, and a Certified Bitcoin Professional. Hy presently holds nine individual and two team U.S. patents.

Keynote Topic: Unblocking Blockchain – Chainablement for Trade Finance and Emerging Fintech Systems

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