Compiled by: Golden Finance
From May 29 to May 31, 2024, the Consensus 2024 conference will be held at the Austin Convention Center in Texas. This conference will bring together many industry leaders, and Golden Finance has compiled a conference guide to help you attend the conference with peace of mind.
I. Speakers
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., U.S. presidential candidate
Chris Dixon, founder and managing partner of a16z
Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest
Mike Novogratz, CEO of Galaxy
Anthony Pompliano, investor of Pomp Investments
Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink
Lynn Martin, president of New York Stock Exchange
Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca
Jenny Johnson, president and CEO of Franklin Templeton
Casey Johnson, founder of Ordinals Rodarmor
Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee
Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Majority Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives
Hester M. Peirce, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Brian Nelson, Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
Summer Mersinger, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple
Rune Christensen, Co-founder of MakerDAO
John Adler, Co-founder and CRO of Celestia Labs
Daniel Albert, Executive Director of the Solana Foundation
Muneeb Ali, Co-creator of Stacks
Uniswap Marvin Ammori, CLO of Labs
Joao Paulo Aragao Pereira, Senior Technology and Innovation Expert of Microsoft FSI
Craig Bewick, Senior Director of Client Development and Sales of CME Group
Umar Farooq, Co-Head and CEO of Global Payment Sales of Onyx, JPMorgan Chase
Brad Feinstein, Head of Web3, North America, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
II. Meeting Agenda
The meeting will last for three days.
May 29 (Wednesday)
10:00-10:45:
Location:ACC: Spotlight Stage
Roundtable Discussion:"Risk-Weighted Assets (RWA) and Tokenization - Evolution or Revolution of Traditional Finance? 》
Guests:
Securitize co-founder and CEO Carlos Domingo, MANTRA CEO and co-founder John Patrick Mullin, Ondo Finance head Justin Schmidt, RWA.xyz CEO and co-founder Adam Lawrence
10:35-11:05:
Venue:ACC: Gen C Stage
Roundtable Discussion:《Web3 Opening Moment》
Guests:
Mith / Range Media Partners co-founder Natalie Bruss, Mattel Inc. Future Lab Senior Product Manager Christina Lee, a16z Crypto GTM Head Maggie Hsu
10:45-11:15:
Location: ACC: Mainstage
Topic:"Cathie Wood on Bitcoin's Rubicon Moment"
Guests:
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood, "What Bitcoin Did" Podcast Host Peter McCormack
11:15-11:45:
Location:ACC: Mainstage
Topic:"Tom Emmer: Congressional Views"
Guests:
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), former Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Matt Murray
11:35-12:00:
Location: ACC: Money Reimagined Stage
Topic:"How does a 150-year-old Wall Street giant think about this technology?"
Guests:
Mathew McDermott, global head of digital assets at Goldman Sachs, Kevin Reynolds, editor-in-chief of CoinDesk
11:45-12:15:
Location: ACC: Gen C Stage
Roundtable discussion:"Cutting down Cookies: Can Web3 fill the marketing data gap? 》
Guests:
Magic co-founder and chief product officer Jaemin Jin, Edge & Node CEO Tegan Kline, Publicis executive vice president and blockchain director Christopher Outram, Forbes Web3 vice president Mani Patel, Blokhaus emerging sector engagement director Marissa Trew
12:00-12:30:
Location: ACC: Money Reimagined Stage
Roundtable discussion: 《How ETFs Reshape the Bitcoin Market》
Guests:
21Shares president Ophelia Snyder, Wintermute co-founder Yoann Turpin, Cumberland DRW
12:30-13:15:
Venue:ACC: Community Stage
Roundtable Discussion:"Maturity and Manipulation: Predictions for the Evolution, Regulation and Investigation of Digital Assets"
Panelists:
U.S. Secret Service Supervisory Special Agent Todd Bratz,Terranet Ventures Executive in Residence Carole House,TRM Labs Vice President and Global Policy Director Ari Redbord,FTI Consulting Managing Director Jeremy Sheridan
12:30-13:00:
Venue:ACC: Money Reimagined
Roundtable discussion:"When Cash Must Rush: Fast Payments Through Tokenization and Stablecoins"
Guests:
Umar Farooq, Co-Head and CEO of Onyx Global Payment Sales at JPMorgan Chase, Jose Fernandez da Ponte, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Digital Currency at PayPal, Ryan Rugg, Head of TTS Digital Assets at Citibank, Ian Allison, CoinDesk
13:00-13:30:
Location:ACC: Money Reimagined Stage
Roundtable discussion:"A Journey to Wall Street: Bringing Financial Markets to the Chain"
Guests:
DTCC Nadine Chakar, Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Assets at DTCC, Jonathan Steinberg, Founder and CEO of WisdomTree, Nick Baker, Deputy Editor of CoinDesk
14:00-14:45:
Venue: ACC: Spotlight Stage
Roundtable Discussion:"Industry Insiders' Views on Navigating the Changing Regulatory and Enforcement Environment"
Guests:
Ribbit Capital GC Jessi Brooks, Anchorage Digital General Counsel TuongVy Le, Polygon Labs Chief Legal and Policy Officer Rebecca Rettig, White & Case LLP Partner Ladan Stewart
16:15-16:45:
Location: ACC: Money Reimagined Stage
Roundtable Discussion:"Without These, There Would Be No ETFs: How Indices Change Cryptocurrency Investing"
Guests:
Grayscale's Head of Distribution and Partnerships and Managing Director John Hoffman, Franklin Templeton's U.S. ETF Product Strategy and Development Todd Mathias, Hashnote's Founder and CEO Leo Mizuhara, CoinDesk Indices's Head of Product Andy Baehr, CFA
May 30 (Thursday)
10:10-10:45:
Location: ACC: Mainstage
Roundtable Discussion:"Cryptocurrency, the US Election and the Next Administration"
Guests:
Polygon Labs Chief Legal and Policy Officer Rebecca Rettig, MessariFounder and CEO Ryan Selkis, Blockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith, CoinDesk Deputy Editor for Global Policy and Regulation Jesse Hamilton
10:45-11:05:
Location: ACC: Mainstage
Roundtable Discussion:"A New Internet Vision Based on Blockchain"
Guests:
a16z crypto founder and managing partner Chris Dixon, CoinDesk 2024 Consensus Chairman Michael Casey
11:00-11:45:
Location:ACC: Spotlight Stage
Roundtable Discussion:"The Role of Crypto Derivatives in Future Markets"
Guests:
CME Senior Director of Customer Development and Sales Craig Bewick, TradingView General Manager Pierce Crosby, TJM Institutional Services Managing Director Jim Iuorio, CME Global Head of Crypto Products Giovanni Vicioso
11:15-11:45:
Location:ACC: Gen C Stage
Roundtable Discussion:《Why Asia Continues to Lead in Gaming Diversification》
Guests:
Animoca Brands Group President Evan Auyang, Sky Mavis Business Development Director Kathleen Osgood, Galaxy Interactive Partner Ryan You, Emfarsis Director Leah Callon-Butler
12:00-12:45:
Location:ACC: Mainstage
Roundtable Discussion:《Digital Asset ETFs: A New Field, After 10 Years of Development》
Years in the Making
Guests:
BNY Mellon’s Global Head of Digital Assets Caroline Butler, BlackRock’s Managing Director and Head of Strategic Partnerships Joseph Chalom, Bitwise Asset Management’s Executive Management, General Counsel and CCO Katherine Dowling, Fidelity Investments’s Head of Digital Asset Management Cynthia Lo Bessette, Bloomberg Intelligence’s Research Analyst James Seyffart
16:00-16:20:
Venue:ACC: The Town Square
Roundtable Discussion:The Debate on Scaling: Monolithic vs. Modular
Guests:
Celestia Labs’s Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer John Adler, Solana
16:30-17:00:
Location: ACC: Mainstage
Topic: 《Galaxy Collision: Novo Talks about the Intersection of Crypto and TradFi》
Guests:
Galaxy Founder and CEO Mike Novogratz, CNBC Correspondent MacKenzie Sigalos
Friday, May 31
11:00-11:20:
Location: ACC: Gen C
Topic: "Crypto + Artificial Intelligence: Hype and Reality"
Guests:
Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos, Allison Duettmann, CEO of Foresight Institute
11:00-11:30:
Location: ACC: Protocol Village
Roundtable Discussion: "The Platform Dilemma Faced by Today's Web3 Developers"
Guests:
John Liu, Head of Web3 Service Products at Amazon, Chirag Dhull, Head of Product and Platform Development at Chainlink Labs, Humayun Sheikh, Founder of Fetch.ai, Kate, CEO of Bloccelerate VC Laurence
13:00-13:30:
Location:ACC: Mainstage
Roundtable Discussion:The Explosive Growth of Liquid Staking (and Re-staking)
Guests:
EigenLayer Founder Sreeram Kannan, ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze, Stanford University Electrical Engineering Professor David Tse, RedStone Oracles Co-founder Marcin Kazmierczak
14:00-14:30:
Location:ACC: Mainstage
Roundtable discussion:"Building a bridge between the virtual world and consumer products"
Guests:
Simon Baksys, Vice President of Business Development at LayerZero Labs, Brad Feinstein, Head of North American Web3 at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jess Houlgrave, CEO of WalletConnect, Marc Mercuri, Chief Blockchain Officer at Shrapnel, Carra Wu, Cryptocurrency Investment Partner at a16z
III. Peripheral activities
May 25-30
Theme:RWA + DEFI =
Time: 15:00 — 17:00
Location: Austin
May 28
Theme: LATOKEN Investor Breakfast
Time:7:45-9:45
Location:Austin
Topic:RWA Summit
Time:14:00-19:00
Location:Austin
Topic:Connecting the World: ATX Tokenization Talk and Happy Hour
Time:14:00-20:00
Location:Register to view address
Theme:Consensus’ Enterprise Happy Hour
Time:17:00-19:00
Location:Register to view address
Theme:RWA Party: Assets at Risk
Time:18:00-21:00
Location:Register to view the address
Theme:WEB3 and AI Summit
Time:18:00-21:00
Location:Austin
May 29
Theme:Hackathon | Consensus 2024
Time:9:00-18:00
Location:Austin
Theme:Cowboy Hat Party —— Consensus Conference Opening Party
Time:19:30-22:30
Location:Austin
Theme:Crypto Policy Bootcamp
Time:8:00-16:30
Location:Austin
Theme:WEB3 Social Discussion: Pros and Cons Debate
Time:11:00-18:00
Location:Austin
Theme:Mobile Blockchain Summit
Time:11:00-18:00
Location:Austin
May 30
Theme:COINDESK PITCHFEST Semifinals
Time:10:00-17:00
Location:Austin
Theme:PlayFrame: Blockchain Crowdfunding for Films and Games
Time:18:00 - 20:30
Location:Mort Subite Belgian Beer Bar
Theme: Bitcoin Ordinals and Friends Evening Consensus
Time:19:00-01:00
Location: Austin
Theme:Meme Coin Party
Time:22:00 - 2:00
Location:Register to view address
May 31
Theme: href="https://walkin.events/explore_events/new?eid=1716480898233x445669039464251400" target="_blank">Take Me to TULUM
Time:18:00 - 02:00
Location:Austin
Theme:Tokenization ConferenceTime:13:30-18:00
Location:Austin
June 1
Theme:Crypto Week End Party
Time:20:00-01:00
Location:Austin