InnovateDenver 2024
On Wednesday, February 28th, 2024, The Tie hosted our inaugural Innovate event, InnovateDenver. Innovate is an event series presented by The Tie at crypto’s major conferences, where investors and builders come together to engage in discussions that strengthen the industry’s momentum and increase interest in digital assets. The event series features three key pillars: networking with top-tier industry professionals, expert-led panels, and opportunities for 1:1 meetings with blockchain innovators. InnovateDenver was the first of these invitation-only events at ETHDenver 2024.
2024 Agenda
febraury 28, 2024
Main Stage
Breakfast
10:00 AM
Welcome to InnovateDenver presented by The Tie
10:20-10:25 AM
Signal vs. Noise: How to Identify Opportunities On and Off-Chain
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Is Bootstrapping a Community Sustainable
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Crypto Investment Themes in 2024
11:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Lunch
12:10-1:00 pm
Scaling Thousands of Blockchains
12:30 - 12:50 PM
Keynote: Is the Future Monolithic L1s or Modular L2s?
1:00 - 1:40 PM
Trading on Chain. Will DeFi go Mainstream?
1:45 - 2:15 PM
Value Accrual Mechanisms for Digital Assets
2:15 - 2:45 PM
Managing Crypto-Specific Risk
2:45 - 3:15 PM
The Tie Labs Presentation
3:15 - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 - 3:50 PM
Is GameFi Real and How Does it Go Mainstream?
3:50 - 4:30 PM
If Tokenization Is Here, What Does that Mean for Crypto?
4:30 - 5:00 PM
Going Cross-Chain
5:00 5:30 PM
Happy Hour
5:30 - 8:30 PM
2024 InnovateDenver Speakers
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Larry Wu
Cube Group, Inc.
CTO
Nick White
Celestia Labs
COO
Irene Wu
Layerzero Labs
Head of Strategy
Nate Zou
Trust Wallet
VP of Products
Sylvia To
Bullish
Head of Token Partnerships & Research
Wes Tang-Wymer
Room40
Co-Founder
Nicolas Streschinsky
Trilitech
Head of DeFi
Ryan Silva
Blocktower
Head of Trading
Elaine Song
The HBAR Foundation
VP, Strategy
Dean Skurka
Wonderfi
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mo Shaikh
Aptos Labs
Co-Founder & CEO
David Schwed
Halborn
Chief Operating Officer
Josh Rosenthal
Polychain Capital
Partner
David Schwartz
Ripple
Chief Technology Officer
Joshua Rivera
Blockchain Capital
Operating Partner & General Counsel
Ryan Rasmussen
Bitwise
Senior Crypto Research Analyst
Jenna Pilgrim
Coinfund
Head of Platform
Heidi Pickett
The Tie
Chief of Staff & SVP of Strategic Initiatives
Michael Pennella
The Tie
VP of Institutional Sales
Roshun Patel
Hack VC
Partner
James Newman
Webn Group
Global Head of Business Development
Anirudh Pai
Dragonfly
Partner
Sunny Parikh
Reflexive Capital
Co-Founder & Partner
David Nage
ARCA
Portfolio Manager, Venture
Jackson Moss
The Tie
VP of Labs
Fernando Martinez
NONCO
CEO
Antony Lewis
Teasek
Director, Investment (Blockchain)
Chris Newhouse
Cumberland Labs
DeFi Analyst
Prakash Neelakantan
Broadridge
Vice President, Blockchain and Digital Asset Strategy
Jacqueline Kwok
Digital Currency Group
Director of Growth
Daniel Kim
FBG Capital / Volta Circuit
Partner / Co-Founder
Matthew Klein
Nascent
Strategy Lead
Morgan Krupetsky
Ava Labs
Senior Director of Business Development, Institutions & Capital Markets
Anton Katz
Talos
Co-Founder & CEO
Pranav Kanade
Vaneck
Portfolio Manager
Keone Hon
Monad Labs
Co-Founder & CEO
Omar Kanji
Dragonfly
Partner
Brian Johnson
Republic Capital
Senior Director
David Gogel
DYDX Foundation
Vice President, Strategy & Operations
Sacha Ghebali
The Tie
SVP of Strategy & BD
Jason Guthrie
Wisdomtree
Head of Product, Digital Assets
Elie Galam
Cubist
Head of Digital Assets
Jonathan Han
The Tie
SVP of Business Development and Partnerships
Seth Ginns
Coinfund
Managing Partner & Head of Liquid Investments
Paul Codjoe
Franklin Templeton
Crypto Venture Investor
Alexandre Elkrief
August (Prev. Fractal)
Co-Founder, Co-CEO
David Duong
Coinbase
Head of Research
Stephen Fluin
Axelar
Head of Developer Relations
Joshua Frank
The Tie
Co-Founder & CEO
Marc Boiron
Polygon Labs
CEO
Matthew Blumberg
Polygon Labs
VP Institutional Capital
Keli Callaghan
Arrington Capital
Partner
Joe Bruzzesi
RW3 Ventures
General Partner
Hassan Bassiri
Nima Capital
Portfolio Manager
Robinson Burkey
Wormhole Foundation
Co-Founder & CCO
