World Business StrategiesServing the Global Financial Community since 2000

Conference Stream

08.00 - 09.00
Registration and Morning Welcome Coffee
09.00 - 09.30
Conference Opening
  • Introductions, level setting the day &the day’s agenda
  • Modern Capital markets, bubbles, anomalies, & drivers of crypto demand
  • ETH & BTC: a call option on future technology & positive steps towards institutionalization
  • 2019 forecasts for all markets: blockchain, cryptocurrency, and payments

Key Questions the CFTC Wants Answered About Ether:

  • How do the functionalities and capabilities of Ether and the Ethereum Network differ from those of Bitcoin?
  • How is the technology underlying Ethereum different from technology underlying Bitcoin?
  • How is the governance of the Ethereum Network similar to that of the Bitcoin network?
  • How could trading derivatives on Ether impact the underlying currency and the Ethereum Network?

Sol Steinberg:

Founding Principal, OTC Partners

09.30 - 10.15
Crypto Market Dynamics and Currents
  • Crypto coin offers, volume, and trading
  • Markets , exchanges, derivatives, and regions
  • Strategies and future use cases

Robert Savage:

CEO, CCTrack Solutions, LLC

10.15 - 11.00
Blockchain + Tokenization = Intellectual Property Liquidity 
  • History of IP market & legacy monetization opportunities for investors
  • Blockchain & tokenization & Where we see this market heading

Patrick Woloveck:

Founder, Knowledge Base Capital

11.00 - 11.30
Morning Break and Networking Opportunities
11.30 - 12.15
Crypto Investment Dynamics and Strategies
  • Exploring the Futures Market: CME and CBOE and others
  • Crypto Options Markets: Ledger X and the OTC options markets
  • How to use these to replicate, or hedge crypto exposure

Brandon Elsasser:

CIO of Victoria Capital Management

12.15 - 13.00
Security Token Platforms and Securitization
  • Stable coins & Token economics

David J. Namdar:

Crypto Investment Professional

13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.45
KEYNOTE: Crypto Factor Models & Statistical Arbitrage
  • Factor models for cryptoasset returns
  • Cross-sectional statistical arbitrage trading of cryptoassets.

Zura Kakushadze (Guest Lecturer):

Ph.D. CEO, Quantigic® Solutions. Author, “151 Trading Strategies”.

14.45 - 15.30
Topic to be confirmed

Topic to be confirmed

Raakhee Miller:

Chief Executive Officer at Bitsian

15.30 - 16.00
Afternoon Break and Networking Opportunities
16.00 - 16.45
The Chicken and the Egg: How Cryptocurrency Derivatives Proliferation Has Spurred Liquidity and Reduced Volatility in the Spot Markets
  • How market makers transfer liquidity among markets through instantaneous cross-asset price discovery
  • Introduce the evolution/timeline of crypto spot and derivatives markets
  • BitMEX & the trading landscape monopoly, exploring other markets

Michael Del Casino:

Portfolio Manager, Profluent Trading

16.45 - 17.30
Settlement for Digital Assets: Present and Future. 
  • Risks and limitations of the existing model
  • What can be adopted from FX/Equity world?
  • What should be changed in order to leverage digital assets advantages?
  • Pitfalls and future steps

Serg Gulko:

CTO of XTRD

  • Discount Structure
  • Special Offer
    When two colleagues attend the 3rd goes free!

  • 50% Academic Discount
    (FULL-TIME Students Only)

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