2025 Speakers

Michael Ellis

Deputy Director of the CIA

Bo Hines

Executive Director, White House Council on Digital Assets

Tom Emmer

U.S. Congressman and Majority Whip (R-MN)

Hester Peirce

Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission

Marsha Blackburn

U.S. Senator (R-TN)

Ritchie Torres

U.S. Congressman (D-NY)

Josh Gottheimer

U.S. Congressman (D-NJ)

Andrew Hohns

CEO, Newmarket Capital and Battery Finance

Alex Gladstein

Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation

Nick Begich

U.S. Congressman (R-AK)

Cynthia Lummis

U.S. Senator (R-WY)

Jim Justice

U.S. Senator (R-WV)

Warren Davidson

U.S. Congressman (R-OH)

Zach Nunn

U.S. Congressman (R-IA)

Max Miller

U.S. Congressman (R-OH)

Earl L. "Buddy" Carter

U.S. Congressman (R-GA)

Patrick Witt

Deputy Director, White House Council on Digital Assets

Berta Valle

Nicaraguan Journalist and Human Rights Activist

Anaïse Kanimba

Rwandan Human Rights Advocate and Bitcoin Educator

Leopoldo López

Venezuelan Opposition Leader

Anna Chekhovich

Financial Director, Anti-Corruption Foundation

Roya Mahboob

Afghan Tech Entrepreneur

Fadi Elsalameen

Adjunct Senior Fellow, American Security Project

Conner Brown

Counsel, Senator Lummis

Matthew Pines

Executive Director, Bitcoin Policy Institute

Matt Corallo

Bitcoin Developer

Zack Shapiro

Head of Policy, Bitcoin Policy Institute

Faryar Shirzad

Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase

Fred Thiel

CEO, MARA

Joe Kelly

CEO, Unchained

Brent Buchanan

CEO, Cygnal

Rob Hamilton

CEO and Co-Founder, AnchorWatch

Alex Leishman

CEO and CTO, River

Alex Thorn

Head of Firmwide Research, Galaxy Digital

Pippa Malmgren

Former White House Advisor and Economist

Brendan Pedersen

Financial Services Reporter, Punchbowl News

Eleanor Terrett

Journalist, Crypto in America

Miranda Nazzaro

Reporter, The Hill

Pierre Rochard

CEO, Bitcoin Bond Company

Brian Morgenstern

Head of Public Policy, Riot Platforms

Jayson Browder

SVP of Government Affairs, MARA

Seth Hertlein

Global Head of Policy, Ledger

Margeaux Plaisted

VP of Policy and Government Relations, CleanSpark

Michael Enright

Senior Vice President, TeraWulf

Tim Hite

Director of Policy, Exodus

Theodora Dcruz

Director of Government Relations, Bitdeer

Troy Cross

Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College

Margot Paez

Fellow, Bitcoin Policy Institute

Sarah Kreps

Director, Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute

Peter Van Valkenburgh

Executive Director, Coin Center

Michael Mosier

Partner, Arktouros

John Arnold

Principal, Ten31

Andrew Bailey

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Yale-NUS College

Ken Egan

Director of Government Affairs, Bitcoin Policy Institute

Bradley Rettler

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Wyoming

Josh Hendrickson

Professor and Chair of Economics Department, University of Mississippi

William Luther

Associate Professor and Graduate Director of Economics, Florida Atlantic University

Avik Roy

President, FREOPP

Craig Warmke

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University

Yaël Ossowski

Deputy Director, Consumer Choice Center

Jake Langenkamp

CEO and Co-Founder, Bridger

Grant McCarty

Co-President, Bitcoin Policy Institute

David Zell

Co-President, Bitcoin Policy Institute

Renee Sorchik

VP of Research, Bitcoin Policy Institute

Zack Cohen

Associate, Bitcoin Policy Institute