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March 26, 2026 · live webcast
events
Blockchain by Women events and events with our partners.
upcoming
December 10, 2026
Blockchain by Women in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. · details to come
January 14, 2027
Congressional Briefing
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past events
December 10, 2025 · Washington, D.C.
6th Annual Congressional Briefing: Women of Color in Blockchain
November 2025
Blockchain Futurist Conference / ETHWOMEN — Building Together: The Power of Women-Led Communities
Blockchain Futurist Conference / ETHWOMEN November 2025 - Building Together: The Power of Women-Led Communities
September 23, 2025 · Redwood City
Fintech & Cybersecurity: Perspectives and Best Practices
May 8, 2025 · San Francisco
Online Safety for Women in the Age of AI
December 4, 2024
Role of AI in Finance in 2025
As AI continues to redefine the financial sector, new opportunities—and challenges—are emerging at an unprecedented pace. In this session, leaders from Stripe, Ramp, Crypto Conexion come together to explore the transformative impact of AI on finance in 2025. From improving transaction security and fraud detection to stabilizing the value of digital assets and stablecoins, AI’s role in shaping a resilient and inclusive financial future is just beginning.
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Join us for an in-depth panel discussion covering:
- AI and Financial Security: Discover how cutting-edge AI solutions are enhancing cybersecurity in payments, lending, and transactions while introducing new challenges in fraud prevention and data privacy.
- Stablecoins and Digital Currencies: Examine AI's potential to bolster the reliability and security of stablecoins, paving the way for increased adoption across traditional and decentralized finance.
- Responsible AI Implementation: Delve into the ethical and regulatory considerations surrounding AI in finance, from data transparency to responsible AI deployment for financial inclusion.
Panelists:
- Stacey Wong, Stripe
- Amanda Carroccio, Ramp
- Karen Hsu, Appdome and Blockchain by Women
- Monica Talan, CryptoConnection
May 2024 · webinar
Mobile Privacy Unveiled: Fortifying Your Mobile Frontiers
May 2024: Mobile Privacy Unveiled - Fortifying Your Mobile Frontiers
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Description:
Join us as we explore the pivotal role of Mobile Privacy in securing your mobile applications. Learn why protecting user data and maintaining privacy integrity on mobile devices is crucial in today's digital landscape. Get insights into potential risks and discover effective strategies to fortify your mobile app security.
Speakers:
Cleve Mesidor – Executive Director at Blockchain Foundation
Rena Shah – VP of Product and Operations at Trust Machines
Karen Hsu – SVP of Mobile DevOps & Security Solutions at Appdome
Sandeep Kamble – Founder & CTO at SecureLayer7
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPQ7pcfhbVQ
2024
2024 Web3, Crypto and Blockchain Projects and Investments
Speakers:
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Cleve Mesidor, Founder, Blockchain Foundation
Nisa Amolis, Managing Partner, A100x Partners
Emma Todd, Chief Executive Officer, MMH Data Systems
Karen Hsu, Co-Founder, Blockchain by Women and SVP Mobile DevOps and Security, Appdome
Topics:
Market Trends:
What major trends do you anticipate shaping the crypto, NFT, and blockchain landscapes in 2024?
Which sectors within blockchain (e.g. DeFi, DAOs, GameFi) do you see holding the most promise for growth in 2024? Why?
Investment Areas:
What do you think are the top 3 investment areas for 2024?
What are your thoughts on investing in "Layer 2" scaling solutions for Ethereum and other blockchains?
Regulation and Security:
What regulatory developments in 2024 could significantly impact the crypto industry, both positively and negatively?
How can companies protect their customers from hacks, scams, and other security threats? End consumers?
Specific Project Insights:
Beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum, which specific cryptocurrency projects do you believe have strong potential for significant growth in 2024?
What advice would you give to companies looking for funding in 2024?
Are there any blockchain-based companies or protocols you think are particularly undervalued right now?
Aprio LLP's Inaugural Blockchain & Crypto Meetup: Investing in Change
Data Driven Investments: Blockchain Companies and Protocols
Hear experts discuss the data and metrics they consider when investing in blockchain companies and networks.
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Our panelists: Maria Shen, Partner, Electric Capital
Matthew Merle, Partner, Fifth Era
Brynly Llyr, General Counsel, Celo
Sinhae Lee, Partner, GBIC
Moderator: Karen Hsu, Founder, BlockchainIntel & Founder, Blockchain by Women
Data Driven Investments and Execution
Hear experts discuss data and execution options to consider when investing in blockchain assets
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Panelists: Ambre Soubiran, CEO Kaiko
Christine Sandler, Head of Sales and Marketing, Fidelity
Beatrice O'Carroll, Co-Founder Reciprocity Trading / Prycto
Angela Dalton, CEO Signum Capital Growth
Fireside chat: CBDC Technology and Retail Use Cases
2020
Weighing the Risks and Opportunities of DeFi and Crypto
For a summary of the panel with Satis Group, Idex, FalconX, LedgerPrime, and BlockchainIntel, see: https://www.blockchainintel.com/blog/weighing-the-opportunities-and-risks-in-defi-and-crypto
2020
Lending, Derivatives and Reducing Credit and Regulatory Risk
Hear from LedgerPrime, FalconX, Digital Gamma and BlockchainIntel on reducing credit and regulatory risk in digital currencies.
May 20, 2020
Mitigating Liquidity and Regulatory Risk
Hear from Gemini, Coinfloor, Dash and BlockchainIntel on how investors and regulated/deregulated exchanges address liquidity in light of the bitcoin halving and new regulations.
February 18, 2020
Blockchain Use Cases: Stablecoins in 2020
There are now over 200 stablecoins. In 2020, we will continue to see new stable coins launched. Hear from experts from OKCoin, Binance and Celo with Stablecoins. These experts will break down the differences between stablecoins and share their thoughts for stablecoins in 2020. They’ll answer questions such as:
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- What are the different types of stable coins? How do they work?
- What new stable coins are coming out in 2020 and how are they different
- How and where are stablecoins being used?
- Are stable coins the onramps so that blockchains will become more widely adopted?
- What challenges do stablecoins face, such as addressing anti-money laundering concerns and regulatory issues?
- What role will CBDC’s (Central Bank Digital Currencies) have?
Our speakers:
Catherine Coley, CEO Binance
Miranda Ma, Head of Legal and Regulatory OKCoin
Brynly Llyr, Chief Counsel, Celo
Moderator: Karen Hsu, CEO BlockchainIntel and Co-Founder Blockchain by Women
2019 archive
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October 30, 2019
Protocol Battle: Enabling Rapid Application Development & Adoption
While there are thousands of protocols, few have significant traction in terms of number of applications built on top and users. What are the characteristics that make it easier for developers to build applications on top of a protocol? In this session, we’ll hear from the developers at these protocols talk about what they’ve found through interacting with their communities and what the protocols have built to enable rapid application development and user adoption.
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Many thanks to Dash Core Group and K&L Gates for sponsoring this event!
- Do you need to have smart contracts?
- What tools are needed for developers or what tools have developers found most useful when building new applications?
- How important are additional privacy features for users?
- How does the protocol scale? How are issues like the one XRP is facing now addressed?
- How is the network resistant to attacks?
August 28, 2019
From Blockchain Pilot to Production: Real Estate, Health, Media
To continue our series on Blockchain Pilot to Production, we’ll take a deeper look at companies using the blockchain to track transactions and assets. We’ll hear from entrepreneurs and advisors in Healthcare, Real Estate and Media on their journeys pilot to production. We’ll discuss the industry specific issues, organizational alignment, and partner and customer communication needed to make blockchain deployments successful. Thank you to our sponsor for this event, Target!
June 27, 2019
From Blockchain Pilot to Production: A Financial Services Perspective
As blockchain projects and deployments continue to proliferate across industries, questions on how to get from pilot to production are coming up. Let’s take a look at the first industry to gain significant traction with blockchain technology -- financial services. In this session, we’ll discuss the challenges financial services companies have faced and addressed, including scalability, security and compliance. We’ll hear from Coinbase, OKCoin, Anchorage and BlockchainIntel about their lessons learned and discuss applications to other industries.
May 14, 2019 · New York
Proof of Happy Hour
Proof of Happy Hour is an event to celebrate Consensus 2019 in NYC! May 14th, 2019
Our community joined Kadena, Republic, Quantstamp, and Blockchain by Women at Haswell Green's and experienced the old-time New York atmosphere. Set right in the heart of the theatre district, we enjoyed an evening with appetizers and an open bar connecting with teams and other Blockchain enthusiast within the space. A BIG thanks to everyone who joined! Cheers to a successful event! 🥂🍾
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At Haswell Green’s during #NYBlockchainWeek
March 2019
What's Working? What's Not?
You've heard the blockchain buzz and potential of smart contracts. What is actually working? What still needs work?
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Blockchain entrepeneurs and experts shared how they developed their respective companies and got adoption. Thank you to our panelists sharing their insight: Alexa Beaver, leads BASF’s Blockchain Lab, Allison Berke, Executive Director of the Stanford Cyber Initiative, Saritta Jones, CEO of Trustabit, and Olga Mack, VP of Strategy at Quantstamp.
February 2019
Blockchain in Energy: Use Cases and Projects
Karen Hsu, co-founder of Blockchain By Women, kicked off the event by giving us an overview of the current market trends moving from centralized to decentralized, with DERs penetration. She shared a P2P transaction test example for enabling distributed energy markets and facilitating increased penetration of DER in the retail utility market.
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On our panelist, we heard from Lydia Kreft on how they're using the blockchain to give people using EV charging stations the credits they are due based on time of day of charging and other factors. Sherry Li, from GE, gave her perspective on the blockchain opportunity in Energy, while Rena Shah shared with us her experience using the blockchain to address energy crises during national disasters in California and other parts of the U.S. View the livestream here.
Resources on topics of discussion:
- NREL and BlockCypher P2P/Transactive Energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPAm44p3iSg
- GE: https://www.ge.com/reports/trading-neighbors-new-study-will-look-blockchains-potential-power-local-energy-markets/ AND https://www.genewsroom.com/press-releases/ge-power-joins-study-blockchain-284541
Thank you to our sponsors K&L Gates and GE.
January 2019
Why Blockchain in 2019
We started off the new year with fresh perspectives of promising blockchain/cryptocurrency companies and projects in the face of new regulation. We heard from Lily Liu (co-founder of Earn.com) about the exciting projects and companies she has been working with, investment trends and criteria for a good investment strategy. Michelle Sabins, SVP at Silvergate, shared about the companies Silvergate has banked, their path to IPO and why they continue to focus on digital currencies since 2013. We got great insight from Wendy Walker at Sovos on taxes and tax considerations with her experience in tax compliance and business-to-government reporting software. Monica Quaintance, leading engineering and adoption at Kadena, and Jeremy McLaughlin, Attorney at K&L Gates LLP, brought their respective insights on the blockchain industry and trends they are seeing in the blockchain space.
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Thank you to our sponsors: Blockchain Capital, BlockCypher, Kadena, Silvergate Bank, and Protocol Labs.
