Cynthia Lo Bessette
Fidelity Investments
Head of Digital Asset Management
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DA@D 2026 Speakers
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Bo Hines
Digital Assets & U.S. Strategy
Strategic Advisor
Rodney Hood
Zest AI
Zest AI Board Member
Johann Kerbrat
Robinhood
SVP & GM of Crypto
Jesse Pollak
Coinbase
Creator, Base
Mark T. Uyeda
Commissioner
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Salman Banaei
Plume
General Counsel
Cynthia Lo Bessette
Fidelity Investments
Head of Digital Asset Management
Katie Bosken
NC Office of the Commissioner of Banks
Commissioner of Banks
Daniel A. Casanas
Stellar Development Foundation
Head of Investments
Zack Chestnut
Kinexys by J.P. Morgan
Global Head of Business Development, Kinexys Digital Payments & Kinexys Liink
John Church
Nethermind
Product Lead
Ryan Clements
Alberta Securities Commission
Director of Advanced Research and Knowledge Management
Johanna Collins-Wood
Bitwise Asset Management
General Counsel and Head of Compliance
Ali Comolli
TRM Labs
Global Capacity Building Lead
Laurian Cristea
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Partner
Charles DeSimone
SIFMA
Managing Director, Deputy Head of Technology, Operations, and BCP Group
Katherine Dowling
Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company
President
Sam Elfarra
TRON DAO
Community Spokesperson
Jason Emery
DTCC
Managing Director, Digital Assets
Brett Falk
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor
Olivier Fines
CFA Institute
Head of Advocacy and Policy Research, EMEA
Gerald Gallagher
Sei Labs
General Counsel
Stephen Gardner
Zerohash
Chief Legal Officer
Carleton Goss
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Partner
Bo Hines
Digital Assets & U.S. Strategy
Strategic Advisor
Rodney Hood
Zest AI
Zest AI Board Member
Julia Hueckel
Coinbase
Director of Regulatory Policy
Jon Fink Isaksen
Stellar Development Foundation
Head of International Government Affairs
Linda Jeng
Digital Self Labs
Founder & CEO
Alison Jimenez
Dynamic Securities Analytics, Inc.
President
Kristin Johnson
George Washington University Law School
Former Commissioner, US CFTC
Jessica Jonas
Evernorth
Chief Legal Officer
Aaron Kaplan
Prometheum Inc.
Founder and co-CEO
Jeff Kelly
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Partner
Johann Kerbrat
Robinhood
SVP & GM of Crypto
Tim Kotzman
Bitcoin Treasuries Media Inc.
Founder
Andrea Kramer
ASKramer Law LLC
Founding Member
Jimmie Lenz
Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
Director, Master of Engineering in FinTech
Richard B. Levin
Taft
Chair, FinTech Practice
Joe Medioli
Anchorage Digital
Head of Financial Institutions Group
Carlos Moreira
Anchorage Digital
Government Solutions Architect
Sulolit Raj Mukherjee
Bodin Advisory LLC
Founder & CEO
Colin Payne
FCA
Head of Innovation at UK FCA / GFIN Chair
Jesse Pollak
Coinbase
Creator, Base
Brian Quintenz
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Former Commissioner
Ari Redbord
TRM Labs
Head of Legal and Government Affairs
Lee Reiners
Duke University
Lecturing Fellow, Duke Financial Economics Center
Daniel Spuller
Blockchain Association
Executive Vice President of Industry Affairs
Jason Straker
Federated Hermes
Senior Sales Representative, Institutional Cash
Thomas Sullivan
DTCC
Managing Director, Digital Assets
Sam Swartz
Stripe
Head of Central Public Policy
Ellie Terrett
Crypto In America podcast
Co-host and Co-founder
Corey Then
Circle
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Global Policy
Reid Tymcio
Duke University
Adjunct Professor
Mark T. Uyeda
Commissioner
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Ekene Uzoma
State Street
Product Delivery Manager, Emerging Technologies Group
Ryan VanGrack
Coinbase
Vice President of Legal and Global Head of Litigation
Jason Ward
Fidelity Investments
SVP, Head of Blockchain & Crypto at FCAT
Ben Werkman
Strive
Chief Investment Officer
Seth Wilks
Deloitte Tax LLP
Tax Managing Director, Blockchain & Digital Assets
Tyler Williams
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Counselor to the Secretary, Digital Assets
Tom Zschach
Swift
Chief Innovation Officer
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