Latin American Bitcoin Conference Sneak Peek: Who's Who?

The third annual Latin American Bitcoin Conference — or LABitConf — will be held in Mexico City on December 4th and 5th, 2015. Forty speakers have confirmed thus far, scheduled to discuss technical analysis, startup advice, global Bitcoin adoption, merchant tools, nation state-related compliance, and more. Who’s who in the lineup? Bitcoin.com has done the homework for you.

Also read: How Restaurants Like Waffle House Could Accept Bitcoin Today

Circuit Regulars

Andreas Antonopoulos
— author of Mastering Bitcoin, security consultant, entrepreneur, and lecturer

Erik Voorhees
— founder of SatoshiDice, Coinapult, and ShapeShift; promoter of pledge site Please Protect Consumers

Trace Mayer
— Bitcoin and gold investment advisor; host of Bitcoin Knowledge podcast

Nicolas Cary
— co-founder of Bitcoin wallet and block explorer Blockchain.info

Past Latin American Bitcoin Conference event

Research/Development

Evan Duffield
— lead developer of Dash; designed first blockchain protocol layer which pays cryptocurrency full nodes in addition to miners

Tuur Demeester
— economist, investor, and Editor-in-Chief of Adamant Research

Ira Miller
— lead developer of Deginner, a complement to the Swagger API framework

Security

Sergio Lerner
— security consultant, cryptocurrency designer, advocate of Bitcoin smart contract protocol layer RootStock

Pamela Morgan
— CEO of Third Key Solutions, a firm which assists in key management for acceptance, processing, and storing of high volume cryptocurrency sales

Thomas France
— co-founder of Ledger, a security company specializing in smartcard-embedded hardware wallets and HSM/TEE integration

Finance

Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar
— CEO of cryptocurrency investment fund Koibanx

Hugo Cuevas-Mohr
— Lead consultant of money transfer consulting firm Mohr World

Christian Aguirre
— senior analyst at venture capital firm Alta Ventures

Paul Veradittakit
— venture capitalist at Pantera Capital.

Agustin Aramburu Sierra
— representative of AXA, an investment bank, insurance provider, and IT services provider

Gabriel Kurman
— COO of the cryptocurrency investment fund Koibanx

Michael Terpin
— co-founder of BitAngels, the first cryptocurrency-specific angel investment fund

Juan Carlos Arroyo Torres
— Innovation and Entrepreneurship Director of digital banking at BBVA Bancomer, a fiat bank

Business

Justin Blincoe
— COO at email/SMS Bitcoin transferrer, payment processor, and exchange Coinapult

Matias Bari
— CEO of SatoshiTango, the Argentinian Bitcoin exchange and debit card provider

Marcus Dantus
— founder at Startup Mexico, a meeting hub for entrepreneurs

Joel Cano
— COO of meXBT exchange, which accepts both U.S. dollars and pesos for Bitcoin

Tomas Alvarez Melabit
— co-founder and CEO of Volabit, a peso-to-Bitcoin exchange and Mexico-to-Argentina money transmitter

Tuur Demeester's previous presentation — Tuur Demeester’s previous presentation

Alberto Vega
— regional manager for Latin American at BitPay, a Bitcoin payment processor

Safiri Felix
— CEO of coinBR, an exchange and operator of a Paraguayan mining plant

Sebastian Serrano
— CEO of BitPagos, a merchant Bitcoin payment processor

Jose Rodriguez
— vice president of payments at Bitso, a pesos to Bitcoin exchange

Franco Amati
— co-founder of BitCourt, which assists individuals and businesses in justice alternatives through embedding contracts in blockchain and creating multisignature addresses for arbitration

Juan Francisco Salviolo
— founder of Wayniloans, Latin America’s first peer-to-peer Bitcoin lending service

Outreach

Rodolfo Andragnes
— member of Bitcoin Argentina and co-founder of the Argentinean Bitcoin Foundation, the Buenos Aires Bitcoin Center, Latin American Bitcoin Conferences and the Global Bitcoin Alliance

Connie Gallippi
— founder of BitGive, a charitable foundation

Alexandre Linhares
— director of the Brazilian chapter of Club of Rome, a think tank

Pablo Prieto
— director of operations at Catapulta, a Mexican festival and satellite conference for innovators

Nation State-Related Compliance

Juan Llanos
— compliance advisor and writer at Contrarian Compliance

Marco Santorian
— lead attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman legal firm

Andrew Ittleman
— founder and partner at Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph legal firm

Manuel Hintze
— compliance advisor at Bitso, a peso-to-Bitcoin exchange and payment processor

The two day conference will take place on the campus of EBC Dinamarca in the heart of Mexico City. The Bitcoin Comic Book “Multisig Project” — hand-signed by over 80 crypto pioneers — will be auctioned during the conference. The auction money will be bestowed to BitGive for distribution.

What other interesting crypto-projects in Latin America aren’t mentioned here? Share below!

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