Blockchain Conference

Jason is the Global Director of Partnerships and Strategic Alliances with NEM.io Foundation based in Melbourne, Australia. NEM.io Foundation is embarking on a global expansion plan and Jason will focus on driving partnerships to increase the adoption of the NEM blockchain technology.

He is also affiliated with Next Money, Blockchain Centre and is a founding member of the FinTech Association of Malaysia. Apart from that, Jason is the co-founder Consortio, a commercialisation consulting firm, InsurTech startup PolicyStreet (which raised USD500k) and Finnext Capital, a smart city accelerator programme based out of Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

He is a deal-maker, community-builder and entrepreneur with a background in business development, client proposition, digital enablement and innovation & commercialisation consulting. He started his career with Standard Chartered Bank’s international programme having worked in front line customer-facing roles, Wealth Management, CEO’s Office, Commercial & Retail Banking with business exposure in Singapore, Dubai and Kuala Lumpur. He has been a speaker, judge, mentor, consultant and investor in startups and is familiar with working with the private and public sector including regulators and incubator & accelerator programmes. Jason's thoughts on FinTech has been featured on Bloomberg TV Malaysia and various mainstream and online media publications.

Jason is currently enrolled in the Emerging Leaders Development Programme with Eagles Leadership Institute and holds a Masters of International Business and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tasmania, Australia and had attended executive programmes in strategy and management with Cambridge Judge Business School.

My passions revolve around bringing technology, people, capital and ideas together to create massive value. 

At present, I am focused on the power of blockchain and smart contracts to disrupt business models and create powerful new ways of exchanging assets. While it is early days for blockchain, I believe strongly that now is the time for businesses to understand the implications for them and their industry of disintermediation, decentralisation and devolved trust. I’m committed to helping businesses understand and make advantage of these dynamics. 

I am also involved with developing and funding a number of mining projects in Far North Queensland. Getting early stage mining projects going is a significant challenge but the rewards for chasing a vision to fruition can be extraordinary. 

My skillset includes capital-raising, marketing and communications, strategy and planning, digital and technology strategy and implementation, sales, account management, consulting, problem solving, story telling, presentation and - probably most importantly - communicating complex technological issues to ordinary mortals. 

I am always open to opportunities to help passionate business leaders to make advantage of blockchain and other emerging technologies and business models to win.

Kunal Binivale is a Strategy Lead at “Sharenergy”, a start-up developing a Blockchain based P2P energy trading platform.  Along with this, he also manages Risk & Compliance for a global financial services organisation.

He has acquired a wide range of skills and expertise over a decade of experience spread across Finance, Energy, Retail, IT and Human resources. Hence, with his unique perspective encompassing diverse disciplines he has been instrumental in conceptualising and developing many use cases for Blockchain Smart contracts.

Awards & Recognition

-    Govhack: Winner of Victorian Government Environment Protection Award 2017

-    RegHack: Winner of Australia’s first Regulatory Hackathon, Melbourne 2017

Simon Wilson is Director and co-founder of Digital Value PTY LTD. A Financial Services Technology expert Simon has over ten years’ experience working for and with leading Australian banks in both a global and domestic capacity. His role has spanned many areas of Technology including a position with a major domestic bank as joint working group lead for Distributed Ledger (DLT)Technology and strategy.
This role comprised; group education, evangelising of the technology opportunity and threats, development of business opportunities as well as contribution, establishment and execution of many Blockchain related experiments, PoC’s, Pilots, collaborations and partnerships.
Outside of this role Simon is also a passionate and active leader in the Blockchain community both locally and abroad having hosted several of the Blockchain Melbourne meetups, and facilitating and hosting a workshop at the Blockchain Summit 2017. He has also previously been invited to host workshops on DLT in Dubai, Malaysia, and India.
Simon is also an active member of the ASEAN Association of Crypto-currency Enterprises and Start-ups (ACCESS), the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, and the MIT FinTech community. Simon holds MIT ‘Future of Commerce’ certification where his project ‘Crowdwise’ for which he was CEO was voted in the top 20 of over 1000 FinTech start-ups.
Additionally, he holds certification with Stanford for ‘Economics - Game Theory’ and has achieved certifications in discrete Mathematics, Computer Science Data Structures, programming and JavaScript, along with other Blockchain relevant fields.
Simon has been an active crypto-currency investor since 2013 and in 2016 Simon co-founded Digital Value with Steve Daws. Simon is known by clients for his pragmatic, strategic and structured approach to distilling and solving complex problems as well as his passion for Blockchain technologies and investing.

Sohag is a Management Consultant in Strategy & Operations with close to 12 years of advisory experience in Telecom, Technology, Govt & Regulatory, FS and Sports industries. 
• Adept experience of leading large-scale Digital & Customer Experience Transformations of value US$ 70-100+ million
• Successfully led complex, strategic and multi-geography Program Management initiatives of value US$ 1-2 billion
• Led multiple international engagements: Globe Telecom (Philippines), Omantel (Oman), Nigerian Communications Commission (Nigeria) & KPMG (Qatar, Sri Lanka & South Africa)
• Experience of working on new-age technology and business areas: Customer Experience Management, Digital, Multi-channel customer experience, Business Analytics and Social CRM 
• Established prowess in high-value business development by means of delivery excellence and building trust-based relationships with C-level executives of marquee clients
• Regularly contributed to Thought leadership publications or point-of-views on contemporary industry topics.

Steve is a highly motivated and outcome driven technology leader with over 17 years’ experience in senior roles at Telstra and SingTel Optus successfully leading the commercial definition, technical design and project execution of information systems for leading Asian organisations. 

He possess excellent communication skills, an intrinsic understanding of technology and the ability to negotiate successful commercially focused outcomes. He has built his career on being a generalist, but is also very capable of drilling deep into and resolving complex technology and business challenges. 

In 2016, he cofounded Digital Value. At Digital Value, we believe cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin are just the beginning of one of the most profound changes in human history. Blockchain technology will impact nearly every aspect of our lives and Digital Value's goal is to help remove the frictions between people and this newly forming Internet of value.

Steve began his journey into this blockchain world in 2013, initially mining for bitcoin and then as a founding investor in Ethereum. He has hands on experience developing smart contracts, and is a successful cryptocurrency trader, having combined an intrinsic understanding of blockchain technology, up-to-date knowledge of industry developments, and ability to determine the validity of cryptocurrency core business propositions to successfully build crypto portfolios. 

Steve possess extensive expertise and experience in business and IT security, with a specialization in cryptography. He has gained post graduate qualifications in Information Systems Security, and is a Certified Information’s Systems Security Professional (CISSP), the most globally recognized standard of achievement and objective measure of excellence in IT security. He also possess excellent commercial acumen, is completing an MBA and in 2016 completed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Future of Commerce certificate.

Working on launching a cryptocurrency and a world-first, blockchain-based shopper marketing platform.

Also deeply invested in helping the people around me to accelerate their skills, amplify their potential and fulfil all of their aspirations. If you like to work at the edge of uncertainty, we’ll get along famously.