Event Recordings

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.

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

Previous Panels

Data Driven Investments: Blockchain Companies and Protocols

Hear experts discuss the data and metrics they consider when investing in blockchain companies and networks.

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

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

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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

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.

Mitigating Liquidity and Regulatory Risk (May 20) -

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

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:

• 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

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. 

Many thanks to Dash Core Group and K&L Gates for sponsoring this event! Please let us know questions you'd like to have answered-- join our telegram group https://bit.ly/2Q8Ktwd

• 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 27th, 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. 

Past Events

May Event

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! 🥂🍾

March Event

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? 

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 Event

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.

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 event

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.

Thank you to our sponsors: Blockchain Capital, BlockCypher, Kadena, Silvergate Bank, and Protocol Labs.