The event in Zürich takes place on January 30, 2020
Start: 5pm (CET)
Location: The offices of our partner CMS
CMS von Erlach Poncet Ltd.
Dreikönigstrasse 7 | PO Box | 8022 Zurich | Switzerland
This event provides comprehensive insights on applying blockchain technology to the entire process of tokenizing a real-world asset and the creation of a security token. Tokenizing assets means lowering costs for issuers, but also improving transparency, efficiency and liquidity of real-world assets
SPEAKERS
Dr Dirk Spacek
LL.M., Partner at CMS
Switzerland
Dirk is partner and in charge of the practice groups TMC and IP, and also co-head of the FinTech practice group. He primarily deals with new business models arising in the media/internet/and technology-sector, data protection and intellectual property law
Topic: Terms of use for blockchain-related offerings
Ryan Hanley
Managing Director at TokenMarket
United Kingdom
Since 2016, the TokenMarket platform has raised over $315 million for more than 30 blockchain start-ups. Ryan is going to start our day with a quick overview of the changes in the token landscape as he’s been seeing them evolve over the last 12 – 18 months.
Topic: Path to Tokenized Assets
Nils Veenstra
CEO at New Alchemy
USA
Over the last three years, New Alchemy has managed tokenization projects with more than 60 clients world-wide, and has secured billions of dollars in transactions, and having worked with clients that include Bittrex and Deloitte. Together, their teams have advised clients and portfolio companies—ranging from startups to government regulators—on strategy and technology in blockchain-related innovation.
Daniel Coheur
CCO at Tokeny
Luxembourg
Daniel is co-founder and CCO of Tokeny. In this role he can lever the experience of his corporate background, which centered around global growth of transactional based enterprises in banking (Clearstream Banking owned by Deutsche Boerse) and telecommunication (Syniverse owned by The Carlyle Group). He is a genuine entrepreneur who mentored and funded several start-ups before creating his own investment boutique. Daniel is also an adviser for StartUp42, a non-profit startup accelerator part of the EPITA, the Paris based Graduate School of Computer Engineering.
Topic: Moving from Analogue to Digital
Martin Kassing
CEO at Upvest
Germany
Martin is the Founder and CEO of Upvest. After some years in Venture Capital and Private Equity he moved in the entrepreneurial space working as COO for Shop.co (exited to Klarna in 2017) and as CPO for Finleap. In 2017, he met Jesper Noehr and together they founded Upvest, with the aim of making it easier for everybody to build blockchain applications.
Olga Feldmeier
CEO at Smart Valor
Switzerland
Olga Feldmeier is CEO of SMART VALOR, a Swiss-based blockchain company building a decentralized marketplace for tokenized alternative investments. Olga has extensive experience working in financial services sector for leading institutions such as Barclays Capital, UBS Wealth Management and Boston Consulting Group. Prior to founding SMART VALOR, Olga held the position of Commercial Managing Partner at Xapo, one of the largest Bitcoin custodians today.
Dr Matthias Kuert
LL.M., Senior Associate at CMS
Switzerland
Matthias advises clients in general contract, commercial and financial law matters (including capital markets law). In these fields, he also handles proceedings, be it in front of state courts, arbitral tribunals or regulatory authorities. A particular focus of his work concerns the FinTech field and he is co-head of the FinTech practice group.
Topic: The Swiss regulatory framework for security token offerings
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