After the Bell Panel Discussion: Cryptocurrencies

After the Bell Panel Discussion: Cryptocurrencies - Opportunities, Challenges and Profitability in the Migration from Main Street to Golden Gate: Looking at the Long Game
Wednesday, July 30, 2013 – Golden Gate University – San Francisco, CA

These panel discussions address the movement of trade of cryptocurrencies from individual hackers to traditional financial institutions. But how do you gain on these opportunities? Is it just a bubble, another speculative commodity or something more? What regulation will be instituted and how will that affect trading? If you're thinking of investing—where do you focus? On the currency or on the technologies surrounding it? From our panels of leaders in this burgeoning industry and geared towards those in hedge funds, portfolio management and asset management firms, banks and traders, hear the latest on the issues and how to best maximize the market.

Event Program:

3:45 Registration

4:00 pm Panel I: Regulation and Regulatory Impact
• Latest initiatives by regulatory bodies
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/ ABL ("Anti-Bitcoin Laundering") and know-your-customer rules
• Storage issues/security/anti-hacking
• Will it become a legitimate currency? Will it interface with banking systems? And how will it be taxed?
Panelists include:
Karsten Behrend, Chief Compliance Officer, Xapo & Executive Board Member, Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists
Jake Benson, CEO/Founder, Libra Services Inc
Brian Stoeckert, Managing Director, Chief Strategy Officer, CoinComply

4:45 pm Panel II. Steps to Becoming a Cryptocurrency Trader
• What is the potential of the crypto market?
• Evaluating the volatility: How it differs from traditional arbitrage and understanding how to handle it
• Is it another asset class? An ECN? A commodity like gold?
• Trading on exchanges
• Identifying current and future opportunities
• Clearing and settlement issues; Counterparty risk
Panelists include:
Emmanuel Abiodun, President & CCO, PeerNova
Michael Moro, Director, Trading Team, SecondMarket
Matt Wreford, President & CCO, Vernier Partners

5:30 pm Panel III. Investment in Cryptocurrencies and bitcoin companies
• What makes it a good or bad investment?
• Investing in bitcoin companies: What makes them valuable?
• What are the technologies available? Being developed? And how will they be advance the move from the retail to institutional trader? What about the block chain protocol?
Panelists include:
Emmanuel Abiodun, President & CCO, PeerNova
David Chen, Venture Investor, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Dan Held, Director of Product, Blockchain & Co-Founder, ZeroBlock
Ethan Kurzweil, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners

6:15 pm Networking Reception
Following the conclusion of the Roundtable Panel Sessions join us for a Networking Reception to further discuss the most top of mind issues of those involved in the financial markets.

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To Register: http://www.themankoffcompany.com/CryptocurrenciesSFSummer2014/index.php