Moscow to host annual Blockchain and Bitcoin Conference Russia

On November 10, 2016 Moscow will host annual Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia.

According to the conference website, the conference will split up in two halls for financiers and entrepreneurs respectively. The stream for financiers will focus on the implementation of blockchain applications in banking, preparation of bill on cryptocurrency regulations and formation of Russian blockchain consortium. On the other hand, the stream for entrepreneurs will discuss on the distributed ledger applications in telecommunications, insurance, notary, the Internet of things and asset management.

Key speakers of the Finance stream are Wall Street analyst and ex-VP of JPMorgan Chase Tone Vays, representative of the working group at the State Duma Elina Sidorenko, co-founder of Cyber.Fund and representative of NRU Marina Guryeva, managing director for technology innovation center at Sberbank Ekaterina Frolovicheva and other experts. They will talk about blockchain in banking system, state management, as well as about application of cryptocurrencies in terms of legislation.

Pro stream will bring together developers and entrepreneurs – those working with blockchain manually. They include authors of Golos blockchain platform, members of cyber.Fund team Valeriy Litvin and Dmitriy Starodubcev, Microsoft technology evangelist Konstantin Goldstein and Head of Fintech division at Skolkovo Pavel Novikov. The main topic of their discussion is technical aspect of projects: code writing, launch, entry into market.

This Moscow event is a part of a network of blockchain conferences, organized by the event company Smile-Expo. Its latest event dedicated to this topic was held in Kiev on the 23rd September and became an unprecedented one in terms of the number of participants and attendees in Eastern Europe.