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Event Date:
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Event Date:
08:00
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17:00
Event Location:
East-TLV
Meitav 13, Tel-Aviv
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The Blockchain Summit
Bank Hapoalim & BNY Mellon invite you to the The Blockchain Summit in Tel-Aviv
Blockchain technologies harbor tremendous potential to transform a broad scope of areas in the financial markets and beyond.
The Blockchain Summit in Tel-Aviv is intended to advance the dialogue between global market participants, the local innovation ecosystem and regulators.
All interested in understanding the use of blockchain technology in practical applications, key trends, challenges, and notable innovation work.
Agenda
08:00
THE BLOCKCHAIN SUMMIT
08:00
Breakfast + Receptions
09:00
Opening remarks / introductions
Global Head of Emerging Business & Technology and Global Blockchain Lead
BNY Mellon (UK)
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
BNY Mellon
Chief Technology Officer
Bank Hapoalim(Israel)09:45
Objective: Expose the regulatory, legal, compliance challenges, and solutions that global regulatory bodies were and still facing in enabling Blockchain solutions in their markets
Secretary (Cabinet Member)
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation(US)10:05
Moderator: Dr. Yoav Intrator
Chief Technology Officer
Bank Hapoalim(Israel)
Head of
EDCAB European Digital Currency & Blockchain(UK)
Partner
Herzog Fox & Neeman(Israel)
Vice President of Corporate and Public Policy
Start-Up Nation Central(Israel)
Deputy Director at the Monitary Authority of Singapore
10:35
Q&A
10:45
Break
11:10
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Global Head of Emerging Business & Technology and Global Blockchain Lead
BNY Mellon (UK)11:30
Moderator: Shahar Markovitch
Chief Digital Officer
Bank Hapoalim(Israel)
Deputy Global Head, North American Lead Emerging Business & Technology
BNY Mellon(US)
Chief Technology Officer
Traiana(Israel)
Global Lead Lawyer for FinTech Innovation Lab
UBS (UK)
Director of Innovation
Banco Santander(Spain) 12:00
Q&A
12:10
Objective: examine key challenges in designing, developing, deploying and maintaining Blockchain solutions.
Global Financial Services Consulting Blockchain Leader
Deloitte(US)12:30
Jared Harwayne-Gidansky
Deputy Global Head, North American Lead Emerging Business & Technology
BNY Mellon(US)
Chief Executive Officer
QED-it(Israel)
Director in Microsoft’s Applied Innovation team
Microsoft(US)
Chief Executive Officer
Wave™ (by OGYDocs)(Israel) 
Founder SigmaLabs Accelerator and Partner at
Entrée Capital(UK)13:00
Q&A
13:10
Lunch
14:15
Objective: examine different uses of Blockchain to help governments, municipalities, local businesses and communities develop new business models, transform, or further automate their value chain
Director in Microsoft’s Applied Innovation team
Microsoft(US)14:35
Moderator: Alex Batlin
Global Head of Emerging Business & Technology and Global Blockchain Lead
BNY Mellon (UK)
CEO
Estonian Cryptocurrency Association(Estonia)
Senior Manager, EMEA Grid Blockchain Lab Business Development Lead
Deloitte(Ireland)
Head of Dutch Government Blockchain Pilots
Dutch Government(The Netherlands)
Cross Products and Market Innovation
D+H(Israel)15:05
Q&A
15:15
Closing remarks
15:30
Networking Cocktail Reception
Speakers & Panelists
Alex Batlin
Global Head of Emerging Business & Technology and Global Blockchain Lead
BNY Mellon (UK)
Eric Piscini
Global Financial Services Consulting Blockchain Leader
Deloitte(US)
Dr. Yoav Intrator
Chief Technology Officer
Bank Hapoalim(Israel)
Suresh Kumar
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
BNY Mellon
Marc Mercuri
Director in Microsoft’s Applied Innovation team
Microsoft(US)
Bryan Schneider
Secretary (Cabinet Member)
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation(US)
Elad Wieder
Partner
Herzog Fox & Neeman(Israel)
Joel Baris
Vice President of Corporate and Public Policy
Start-Up Nation Central(Israel)
Jared Harwayne-Gidansky
Deputy Global Head, North American Lead Emerging Business & Technology
BNY Mellon(US)
Guy Naor
Chief Technology Officer
Traiana(Israel)
Gary Chu
Global Lead Lawyer for FinTech Innovation Lab
UBS (UK)
Siân Jones
Head of
EDCAB European Digital Currency & Blockchain(UK)
Eran Vitkon
Cross Products and Market Innovation
D+H(Israel)
Gadi Ruschin
Chief Executive Officer
Wave™ (by OGYDocs)(Israel) 
Asse Sauga
CEO
Estonian Cryptocurrency Association(Estonia)
Marloes Pomp
Head of Dutch Government Blockchain Pilots
Dutch Government(The Netherlands)
John Whelan
Director of Innovation
Banco Santander(Spain) 
Stanley Yong
Deputy Director at the Monitary Authority of Singapore
Jonathan Rouach
Chief Executive Officer
QED-it(Israel)
Shahar Markovitch
Chief Digital Officer
Bank Hapoalim(Israel)
Avi Eyal
Founder SigmaLabs Accelerator and Partner at
Entrée Capital(UK)
Cillian Leonowicz
Senior Manager, EMEA Grid Blockchain Lab Business Development Lead
Deloitte(Ireland)Register
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