Crypto Assets Conference 2019

The Frankfurt School Blockchain Center together with KI Group and financial.com jointly organize the second edition of the Crypto Assets Conference from February 25 to February 26, 2019, in Frankfurt. The blockchain technology, borne through the invention of Bitcoin, has created hundreds of digital assets and spurred the development of new business models building on a decentralized network. In the framework of the conference topics such as DLT in financial industries, cryptocurrencies, ICOs, crypto funds, and tokens of decentral business models will be discussed. The 2-day conference features key speakers from the German and European blockchain ecosystems.

Schedule

Day 1, 8 February 2019

Opening Session (Crypto Stage)
08:45	Arrival of the guests
09:30 – 09:40	Prof. Dr. Nils Stieglitz President of Frankfurt School	Welcome Keynote
09:45 – 10:00	Welcome address of organizers	Moderation by Celine Flores Willers, Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner, Dr. Alexis Eisenhofer & Andrei Martchouk
10:15 – 10:45	Emily Hurd Head of Business Development, Coinmarketcap	Observations and Insights from Crypto's Most Trafficked Site
10:50 – 11:10	Marjan Delatinne Head of Global Banking, Ripple	Enabling the Internet of Value - in-depth look at XRP, xRapid and blockchain breaktroughs
11:15 – 11:30	Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner Head of Frankfurt School Blockchain Center	International Token Standardization Association
11:30 – 12:00	Q&A with audience
12:00 – 13:00	LUNCH BREAK

Crypto Regulation (Crypto Stage)
13:05 – 13:25	Christoph Kreiterling Senior Advisor, BaFin	Crypto token and supervision - potential pitfalls and further developments
13:30 – 13:55	Nina Seidler Partner, DWF Germany	What the EU is thinking about Blockchain
13:55 – 14:15	Thomas Dünser Senior Advisor, Government of Liechtenstein	Beyond Crypto Assets - why Token Economy needs regulation
14:20 – 14:40	Donald Day Senior Manager, Securities and Futes Commission of Hongkong	Regulatory framwork in Hong Kong
14:40 – 15:10	Q&A with audience and Christoph Iwaniez CFO, Bitwala

Crypto Startup (Enterprise Stage)
13:05 – 13:25	Alex von Frankenberg Managing Director, High-Tech Gründerfond	Blockchain - The next Internet!
13:30 – 13:55	Peter Grosskopf CTO R&D, Solarisbank	Problems of the industry - about STO, exchanges and regulations
13:55 – 14:15	Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andranik Tumasjan International Token Standardization Association	Old wine in new bottles? Analyzing blockchain-based business models
14:20 – 14:40	Nikola Stojanow Chief Business Development Officer, Aeternity	How the bearmarket affects crypto startups - insides from the first row
14:40 – 15:10	Q&A with audience and Kerstin Eichmann Managing Director, Innogy Innovation Berlin

Crypto Topics (Forum Stage)
13:00 – 13:20	Hansjörg Hettich Executive Director, Multichain Asset Managers Association
13:25 – 13:45	Andreas Schemm Founder & CEO, Gateway & Vreo	Blockchain is bringing back trust for digital advertising
13:50 – 14:10	Philipp Cottier Chairman, L1 Digital	Investing in blockchain and cryptos - a diversified and institutional approach
14:15 – 14:35	Konstantin Richter CEO, BlockDaemon	State of Blockchain technology
14:40 – 15:00	Klaus Himmer CEO, CryptoTax	Standortbestimmung und aktuelle Entwicklungen bei der steuerlichen Behandlung von Kryptoassets
15:05 – 15:25	Kai Kuljurgis CEO, Coindex	coindex® - first mover for index-based crypto investment products
15:30 – 15:50	Break
15:55 – 16:15	Patrick Neulinger CEO, Leaf Systems	How Hospitality Is Revolutionized Through a Digital Currency
16:20 – 16:40	Oliver Nägele CEO, BlockchainHelix	HELIX ID - Identity Services for Citizens and Enterprises

Crypto Law (Crypto Stage)
15:05 – 15:25	Christian Storck Partner Capital Markets & Co-Head of Innovation, Linklaters
15:30 – 15:50	Daniel Resas Associated Partner, Schnittker Möllmann Partners
15:55 – 16:15	Dr. Sebastian Keding Lawyer, McDermott Will & Emery LLP	Legal issues associated with blockain based business models
16:35 – 16:55	Q&A with audience
17:10 – 17:30	Marc Taverner Global Ambassador & Market Development, Bitfury Group
	Get together

Crypto Technology & Solutions (Enterprise Stage)
15:05 – 15:25	Stefan Teis Managing Director, Brainbot Technologies	Token Transfer with Payment Channels and Overview
15:30 – 15:50	Prof. Dr. Sebastian Faust Technische Universität Darmstadt	Perun: Building Scalable and Secure Blockchains
15:55 – 16:15	Dominique Schröder Applied Cryptography Department, University Erlangen-Nürnberg	Security of Privacy-Preserving Crypto-Currencies and Wallets
16:35 – 16:55	Q&A with audience

Day 2, February 9 2019

Opening Session (Crypto Stage)
08:45	Arrival of the guests
09:00	Welcome address of organizers
09:15 – 09:35	Austin Alexander Office ot the CEO at Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange	Bitcoin, not Blockchain
09:35 – 09:50	Q&A Panel

Crypto & Finance (Crypto Stage)
10:00 – 10:20	Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner Head of Frankfurt School Blockchain Center	The Future of Asset Management
10:25 – 10:45	Andrea Pinna European Central Bank	Crypto-assets: the perspective of the central bank
10:50 – 11:10	Martin Diehl Head of Section Payment System Analysis, Bundesbank	Die Rolle von Krypto-Token aus Sicht eines Zentralbänkers
11:15 – 11:35	Michael Spitz Director Main Incubator, Commerzbank	Blockchain-Use Cases for Capital Markets, Trade Finance, ID und Cash on Ledger
11:40 – 12:00	Joachim Erdle Managing Director, Corporate Finance LBBW	Transform Blockchain Use-Cases into Business-Cases
12:05 – 12:25	Alexander Höptner CEO Börse Stuttgart	Back to the Roots? The Future of Exchange
12:25 – 12:50	Q&A with audience and Nahiomy Alvarez Federal Reserve bank of Chicago
12:30 – 13:30	LUNCH BREAK

Crypto & Tokenization (Enterprise Stage)
10:00 – 10:20	Andrei Martchouk Managing Director, KI deventralized	Tokenization of Value
10:25 – 10:45	David Nicol Associate Director, R3	Digital Assets and the Internet of Value
10:50 – 11:10	Michael Duttlinger CEO, Cashlink	Tokenizing Venture Capital: How to increase investor security of STOs
11:15 – 11:35	Meinhard Benn CEO, Satoshipay	Scalable Blockchain Payments
11:40 – 12:00	Friederike Ernst COO, Gnosis	The dxDAO - a DAO to govern decentralized applications
12:05 – 12:25	Sven Laepple CEO, Astratum	TIRACY: Sustainability in Textile and the rise of the Staking Economy
12:25 – 12:50	Q&A with audience

Crypto Topics (Forum Stage)
10:25 – 10:45	Kai Schmidt Co-Founder, Crypto Development Fund	How blockchain changes fundraising in frontier markets
10:50 – 11:10	Arno Pfefferling Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Horizen	Privacy on transparent databases - how we do it?
11:15 – 11:35	Dennis Wohlfarth Accointing	How to save on taxes (time & money) - Product demo
11:40 – 12:00	Katharina Gehra Immtuable Insight GmbH	How to turn advanced analytics in investment success
12:05 – 12:25	Patrick Lowry CEO, Iconiq Lab	A $500 Trillion Tokenized Global Financial Market
12:30 – 12:50	Nils Bundi Business Lead, Actus Financial Protocol	Digital financial assets, the interoperability premium, and how to unlock it
12:55 – 13:15	Benjamin Robson Head of Business Development, Blockescene	Blockescence DLT: Enhancing Existing Business with Blockchain
13:20 – 13:40	Niall Murray CEO, Salamantex	Cryptocurrencies - A Great Future Ahead or an Even Bigger Failure?
13:45 – 14:05	Philipp Pieper CEO, Swarm Fund	Open Infrastructure for Digital Securities Issuance and Trading
14:10 – 14:30	Marcel Kuhs CEO, Azhos	How to successfully implement blockchain use cases in non-digitized industries
14:35 – 14:55	Freddy Zwanzger Chief Data Officer, Anyblock Analytics	Blockchain data for enterprises, now available in SQL!
15:00 – 15:20	Phong Dao CEO, Agora Innovation	Tokenization of assets and the truth about the secondary market
15:25 – 15:45	Paul Claudius CEO, BlockStateo	Tokenize equity in Switzerland - a how-to-guide for SMEs

Crypto & Value (Crypto Stage)
13:40 – 14:00	Dr. Pakorn Peetathawatchai President, Thailand Stock Exchange	Digital assets: A enabler of global possibilities
14:00 – 14:20	Dr. Matthias Hirtschulz Senior Manager, d-fine	Enabling crypto assets on open blockchains
14:20 – 14:40	Christian Labetzsch Managing Director, Micobo	Security Tokenisation - the emergence of a new asset class
14:40 – 15:00	Radoslav Albrecht CEO, Bitbond	Use cases of stable coins
15:00 – 15:20	Gregory Klumov CEO, STASIS	Euro on Ethereum: How EURS will bring stability into the European crypto market
15:20 – 15:40	Christoph Impekoven Founder, Blocksize Capital
15:40 – 16:10	Q&A with audience
16:20 – 16:45	Pavel Kravchenko CEO, Distributed Labs	An effective approach to asset tokenization
16:50 – 17:00	Remarks and Summary of Conference Conference End and Farwell

Crypto Capital (Enterprise Stage)
13:40 – 14:00	Demelza Hays Junior Fund Manager, Incrementum	Die Rolle der Kryptowährung in der Vermögensverwaltung
14:00 – 14:20	Dr. Ulli Spankowski CEO, Bison App	Cryptocurrency trading for everybody - simple, smart & secure
14:20 – 14:40	Jakob Drzezga Co-Founder, Brickblock	Driving digital innovation for real estate funds
14:40 – 15:00	Jannis Heinitz Platform Management, Solactive	Passive is massive - building crypto indices
15:00 – 15:20	Martin Schmitt Co-Founder, Postera Capital	Cryptoasset investing in 2019 – status quo and outlook
15:20 – 15:40	Jörg Hansen COO, Blocksize Capital	The Evolution of Crypto Funds
15:40 – 16:10	Q&A with audience