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WELCOME TO THENORTH AMERICANBITCOIN CONFERENCE
Right now is a critical moment for Bitcoin.
The worlds most independent currency has
just turned ve and is entering a crucial
phase in its development.
In the last six months the currency has
dramatically increased in visibility and
experienced both the good and bad sides of
the limelight: rising acceptance with vendors
and shoppers, alongside more regulatory
scrutiny, and wild uctuations in value.
Its at this time, more than ever before, thatthe Bitcoin community is needed to ensure
a prosperous and well-balanced future for
the currency. The NABC has been created to
draw this community together, now
ranging from enthusiasts to nancial
institutions, and to provide an open and
hard-hitting forum for moving the currencyforward.
OVERVIEW 2
AGENDA 3
VENUE & MAP 5
THE SPEAKERS 6THE SPONSORS 14
THE EXHIBITORS 16
During the conferences short, but action
packed two-day agenda, you will meet and
hear from the biggest names in the
industry and powerful newcomers like
regulators and bankers. Be sure to take
advantage of the unique opportunity to
make new friends, grow your network and
seek out synergies. And last, but not least,
make your voice heard.
Yours sincerely,
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OVERVIEW
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
FRIDAY NIGHT
7:00 - 8:30
Exhibitor Setup
8:30 - 9:00
Registration
Pre-party reception at theClevelander Hotel1020 Ocean Drive.
12:30 - 13:30
LUNCH
12:30 - 13:30
LUNCH
9:00 - 12:30
Speakers & Panels inHalls 1 & 2
15:00 - 16:30
Speakers & Panels inHalls 1 & 2
13:30 - 14:30
Speakers in Halls 1 & 2
14:30 - 15:00
NETWORKING BREAK
16:30 until Late
Bitshares SaturdayEvening Reception
8:30 - 9:20
Registration
9:20 - 9:30
Hall 2: Opening Address
13:30 - 16:30
Hall 2: Speakers & Panels
9:30 - 12:30
Hall 2: Speakers
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AGENDA Saturday
1 2
Hall Hall
Merchant VendorWorkshops
by
8:30 - 9:30Ken Metral
10:30 - 10:50Chris Odom
11:00 - 11:25Eric Benz
13:30 - 13:50
Jacob Farber9:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
15:30 - 15:50Bitcoin Startup Panel:Wendell Davis, Steve Beauregard,Dan Held, Oleh Zadoretskyy,Paul Vernon. Mod: Paul Buitink
14:00 - 14:20Jeffrey Tucker
16:00 - 16:20
George Papageorgiou
14:30 - 14:50Anthony Gallippi
16:30 - 16:50Roger Ver
11:35 - 12:30Venture Capitalist Panel:Roger Ver, Marc van der Chijs,Matthew Roszak, William Quigley &Rik Willard.Mod: Michael Terpin
9:50 - 10:20David Aylor
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AGENDA Sunday
1 2Hall Hall
Ryan Charleston
Xavier Hawk
Joseph Vaughn Perling
Jason King
Wendell Davis
Malcolm Cassalle
Brock Pierce
Nicolas Cary
Closing remarks by Moe Levin
Andrs Bzurovski
Regulation Panel
Vitalik Buterin
Eric Spano
Carlos Tapang
Elizabeth Ploshay
Charlie Lee
Charlie Shrem
Adrian Wyllie
Latin American Panel
Diego Gutirrez, Andres Junge,Pelle Braendgaard, Joaquin Moreno
Mod:Saul Lustarten
Mystery Speaker
Charles Evans
9:00 - 9:25
9:55 - 10:20
10:30 - 10:55
11:00 - 11:25
13:30 - 13:50
15:00 - 15:25
15:30 - 16:30 15:30 - 15:55
16:00 - 16:25
16:30 - 16:55
13:55 - 14:20
11:30 - 12:30
Carol van Cleef, Jacob Farber, David Aylor,Gabriel Caballero, Emilio Disanluciano. Mod: Paul Buitink
9:30 - 9:50
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CONFERENCE MAP
Location:
Miami Beach Convention centre, level two. Enter from the corner of
Washington Avenue and Jackie Gleason Drive.
Parking:
Main parking for the venue is accessed from Convention Center Drive, on the
western side of the complex. Valet parking parking is available for $15 for the
day from the entrance of Hall B on Washington Avenue.
Alternative entrance
from level 1
Entrance via Hall Bon Washington Ave
B214 & B215
B216 & B217
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SPEAKERS & PANELISTS
Charlie Shrem
Marc van der Chijs
Michael Terpin
Matthew Roszak
Charlie Shrem is co-founder and vice chairman of BitcoinFoundation and CEO and co-founder of BitInstant, one of the worldslargest alternative payment companies. Drawing on his experiences in
the old banking world, as well as in the new alternative currency world, Shrem pavedthe way for the Bitcoin economy when he found the need for a more secure, fast, andconvenient way of transferring funds between and within payment networks aroundthe world.
Marc van der Chijs is a partner at CrossPacic Capital in Vancouver(xpcp.ca), where he focuses on Financial and Health Tech investments..His latest investment was in white-label exchange Bex.io where he led
the round. Before becoming a VC Marc was a serial entrepreneur in China where heamong others co-founded online videosite Tudou.com (the Youtube of China, listed onthe NYSE) and where he set up the Asian operations for game company Spil Games.
Michael Terpin co-founded BitAngels (www.bitangels.co), the worldsrst angel network for digital currency startups, in May, 2013, with
Engine CEO David Johnston and four other founding members. The
Mr. Roszak is co-founder and vice chairman of SilkRoad Equity, a globalprivate investment rm. Mr. Roszak has spent over 18 years in private
equity and venture capital and invested in excess of $1 billion ofcapital in a broad range of industries, with experience in executing a broad scope
of transactions including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; corporate andtransactional nancing, including private equity, venture capital, mezzanine and
conventional nancings; public offerings, private placements and nancialrestructurings.
distributed angel network currently has more than 300 members, and it hasmade more than a dozen investments in bitcoin and cryptocurrency
companies in its rst six months.
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Jeffrey Tucker
Carol Van Cleef
Charles Evans
Jacob S Farber
Jeffrey Tucker is founder and CEO of Liberty.me, distinguished fellowof the Foundation for Economic Education, Executive Editor of LaissezFaire Books, and research fellow of the Acton Institute. He is the
founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, serves as economic consultant Lets TalkBitcoin, and writes a fortnightly column for The Freeman and Crisis Magazine.
Carol Van Cleef represents nancial services companies and otherclients in federal and state regulatory, compliance, and enforcementmatters, including anti-money laundering (AML), electronic payments,
Dr. Evans is Co-Organizer of Miami International Bitcoin, where headvises several Bitcoin startups based in South Florida, and CFO ofBitcountant, an accounting and compliance practice that focuses on
federal deposit insurance, and other bank regulatory issues. She counsels bankingorganizations, credit unions, securities rms, insurance companies, nance
companies, money service businesses (MSB), and hedge funds, among others.
Jacob is a senior counsel at the Washington, D.C. ofce of Perkins Coieand a member of the Technology Transactions & Privacy practice. Jacobrepresents clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 20 companies in a
Bitcoin startups. He has been teaching Finance and Economics for more than adecade, and has been involved with virtual currencies since the rst wave ofmoneypunk projects during the 1990s Dot.Com Era.
wide variety of IT and technology-focused transactional and counseling matters.
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Jason King
Anthony Gallipi
Diego Gutirrez
Gabriel Caballero
Roger Ver
Jason King is a homeless advocate from Pensacola, Fl. He is bestknown as the founder of Seans Outpost/Satoshi Forest(seansoutpost.com) and feeding tens of thousands of meals to the
homeless all paid for with Crypto-Currency.
Anthony Gallippi saw a need for bitcoin payment processing andfounded BitPay in 2011. As a start-up, Mr. Gallippi is involved in all of theday-to-day operations including new business development, marketing,
Diego descibes himself as a zealot of decentralized digital currencies.He is the co-founder of projects such as Restocoins.com and Arraigaand is the president of Fundacin Bitcoin Argentina.
and customer service. Mr. Gallippi has 15 years of experience in sales and marketing
working in the Robotics industry.
Gabriel has been an associate at Gunster Law since 2011. Prior tojoining Gunster, Gabriel served as Associate General Counsel of Banco
Santander International, a subsidiary of one of the worlds largestbanks by market capitalization. His practice areas include Banking and Financial
Services, Licensing, Regulatory and Compliance Matters and Bank Secrecy Act/
Anti-Money Laundering/Ofce of Foreign Assets Control .
Roger has served as the full time CEO of MemoryDealers.com, directlyemploying about 30 people, and serving happy customers around theworld. Over the last decade, under Rogers leadership, Memory Dealers
has grown to become a world leader in the used Cisco memory and networking
equipment industry. In early 2011 Roger discovered Bitcoin, the most importantinvention in the history of the world since the internet. MemoryDealers became therst mainstream business to accept bitcoins as payment, and Roger has since become
the most prolic Bitcoin related startup investor.
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Chris Odom
Eric Spano
Eric Benz
Paul Vernon
Chris Odom is Co-Founder and CTO of Monetas, the worlds rstdecentralized system for nancial and legal transactions, and thecreator of the Open-Transactions digital nance suite that Monetas is
based on. Open-Transactions features industry-leading innovations that solve criticalproblems in digital nance, and addresses urgent needs in the Bitcoin economy.
Eric holds a Bachelors in Commerce and is a public accountant at Ernst& Young LLP. He is actively involved in Canadas Bitcoin community,serving as the Treasurer of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada as well as the
VP of Global Business Development at Zipzap, Eric has been involved inthe payments technology sector for the best part of a decade and has
delivered retail payment solutions for the worlds largest merchant
brands transforming the way in which they sell and ship to their worldwidecustomers.Erics tenure at ZipZap began in 2012 to lead their rapid global expansionplans based from their London ofce. He remains instrumental in helping to build
brand awareness and establish needs for product development.
Paul Vernon is the CEO and founder of Project Investors Inc. andCryptsy.com. Paul is a long-time veteran of technology implementation
with extensive experience in e-commerce and enterprise-leveltechnology and coding.
Director of Finance for the Bitcoin Embassy. In addition to overseeing the nancial
activity of these organizations, Eric is also the Founder & CEO of Bylls a web-basedservice that enables users to pay their everyday bills using Bitcoin.
George PapageorgiouGeorge is Operations Director at Neo and Bee and has a wealth oftechnology and operations management experience in a variety of
security/safety/mission critical environments including a plethora ofcutting edge technology elds. He has been very actively involved in many aspects ofBitcoins economy and ecology over the last two years, and has written a researchpaper focused on Bitcoin for his MBA dissertation at the University of Greenwich.
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Ryan Charleston
Vitalik Buterin
David Aylor
Ryan Charleston is a multi-disciplinary professional with experience indigital marketing, web development, ad tech, research and webanalytics. His previous start-up Adpressive.com, a native advertising
Vitalik is Head Writer at Bitcoin Magazine. He is a computer science
student at the University of Waterloo, but is currently taking time off topursue Bitcoinrelated projects in Europe. His interests are diverse,
business inspired by BuzzFeed, was successfully sold in December 2013. Ryan left hismost recent position at eBay in late 2013 to launch Bitcorati.com, a global directoryand rating system for the people and business involved in Bitcoin.
ranging from computer science to economics to linguistics, and he rmly believes inthe power of the internet, from P2P networks to social networking to Bitcoin, to lay thefoundation for a new, bottomup, 21st century information economy.
For nearly a decade David Aylor has been practicing law in Charleston,South Carolina. David is well versed in various criminal aspects related
to the bitcoin industry. Most recently, he has been representing theindividual alleged to be involved with what is believed to be the rst US GovernmentFederal seizure of Bitcoins. He is also the acting Prosecutor for the City of Hanahan,
and formerly served as an Assistant Solicitor for the Ninth Circuit.
Elizabeth Ploshay
Elizabeth serves as Manager of Communications for Bitcoin Magazineand recently got elected to serve on the Bitcoin Foundation Board ofDirectors. She additionally serves as Chair of the Bitcoin Foundation
Education Committee. Having previously served as the Scheduler and Policy Assistantfor a US Member of Congress, she has a background in public policy, grassrootsactivism, and a keen desire to promote decentralization and individual liberties.
Elizabeth is fascinated with Bitcoin and the multiple opportunities for this peer to peerdisruptive technology and movement to empower individuals around the world.
Elizabeth holds a BA in Political Science from Wheaton College (IL).
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Xavier Hawk
Oleh Zadoretskyy
Malcolm Casselle
Carlos Tapang
Xavier Hawk has cracked the code for ridiculously protable EcoDevelopments that make Biodynamic living easy, safe, affordable, andsexy. He runs an Eco Development in Western North Carolina called
Nicolas is the CEO of Blockchain.info, Bitcoins most popular bitcoinwallet and block explorer. As of January 2013 the site has over 110,000registered users.
Colony Earth which is basedondigitalcurrencies. Xavier envisions highlyprotable,selfsufcient, clean powered, membership basedeco developmentsaroundthe world
that runoncryptocurrencies.
Oleh is a software developer hailing from Latvia, best known as thefounder and lead developer of BTC Robot. He has a background in the
development of algorithmic trading applications for leveraged futuresand options trading, successfully servicing several large private equity rms. Two
years ago he began development of BTC Robot - an automated Bitcoin trading robotwhich launched in 2013 to wide success.
Malcolm is serial entrepreneur and has played almost every role in atraditional startup: nance, sales, marketing, PR, legal, R&D,
production, manufacture and distribution. Over the years he has helped
Carlos C Tapang is the president of Centerus Inc, a Washington Statecorporation for the construction and marketing of condo mining
systems. A condo mining unit currently has a capacity of 15 Giga Hashesper second, and is priced at $199. Condo-style ownership means that Centerus hoststhe units, and there is a xed recurring cost of $5 per month which includes everything
(electricity and all).
raise billions of dollars for startups. His industry focus is ecommerce, internet video,wireless games, and interactive mobile content.
Nicolas Cary
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Adrian Wyllie
Moe Levin
Andrs Bzurovski
Brock Pierce
Steve Beauregard
Adrian is Florida radio personality, small business owner andLibertarian candidate for Governor of Florida. Wyllie is known as aconstitutional activist for challenges to the Real ID Act and the
Moe Levin is a tech-adventurer and futurist interested in the growth andfuture of what is probably the greatest innovation since the industrialrevolution. Prior to The North American Bitcoin Conference, Moe
organized the most successful European bitcoin convention in his hometown ofAmsterdam. Inspired by the results, Moe will continue to create internationalconferences to truly unite the bitcoin community.
Andres is a co-founder of Astro-pay, over the last seven years, Andrshas worked in multiple capacities: as VP of Latin Americas largestonline casino, 888.com, as Regional President of Pocket Kings, and as
an independent consultant and angel investor in companies such as Paganza.com andHomeDine.com.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and as an investigative journalist.
Brock is a 15-time entrepreneur best known for pioneering the marketfor digital currency. He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of
his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Prior to his Bitcoin
For two plus decades, Steve has been a pillar of the LA startupcommunity leading innovations in Internet, mobile, social media, appdevelopment, eCommerce, and now, digital currency technologies. Now
the Founder and CEO of GoCoin, Steve is actively speaking at International Bitcoinconferences on digital currency and next generation merchant payment solutions.
activities, Pierce launched his rst of many digital and virtual currency startups in1998, which have collectively processed billions of dollars in sales. Sitting on the board
for multiple virtual currency companies, he is also BitAngels Los Angeles City Leaderand an angel investor in numerous Bitcoin related startups such as BTC China.
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Kenneth Metral
Joseph Vaughn Perling
Kenneth Metral is the Co-Founder and CEO of the popular bitcoinmarketplace Coingig.com. He is a Miami local and currently holds hisBachelor in Information Technology, Master in Management
Joseph Vaughn Perling has been involved in security, privacy, identitymanagement, forensics, law and business development spanning threedecades. His involvement in alternative currencies bridges the physical
Information Systems, and his Master in Business Administration from FloridaInternational University. He has been involved with Bitcoin for over a year now afterrst being introduced to it by a friend in the online marketing industry. Having aninfatuation with this revolutionary currency, he felt the need to open a business in thisspace and provide a platform that allows users to exchange goods and/or services withbitcoin.
and the virtual as the Managing Director the New Liberty Dollar LLC, producers ofthe New Liberty Dollar and as project lead of the Bitcoin Specie project. The BitcoinSpecie project is the effort to provide the pocket change of Bitcoin, the hard money offblock-chain mechanism for true anonymous (rather than pseudononymous) point of
sale transactions using bitcoin bullion coins.
Wendell DavisWendell is the founder and principal creative force behind Hive, an
easy-to-use Bitcoin wallet and merchant discovery platform. Beforending himself in the impassable clutches of cryptocurrency addiction,
Wendell wore the hats of both game developer and Internet entrepreneur. He ispassionate about decentralization, operational security, and, paradoxically, excellent
user experience design.
Charlie LeeCharlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternativecurrency to Bitcoin. He is a software engineer at Coinbase. Prior tojoining Coinbase, he spent 6 years at Google working on YouTube
Mobile, Chrome OS, and the Google Play Games platform. Charlie earned a Bachelorsand Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.
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SPONSORS
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SPONSORS
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Exclusive Bitcoin Mining Hardware Sponsor
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EXHIBITORS
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EXHIBITORS
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NOTES
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