Suzana Moreno leads blockchain strategy and a set of humanitarian projects at the WFP/UN Innovation Accelerator. She co-founded the Blockchain Lab at the Brazilian Development Bank in 2017, where she developed decentralized solutions to increase trust and transparency of the bank. She is also pursuing a PhD at the University of Geneva, focusing on innovative solutions for KYC/AML and decentralized apps/DeFi.

Suzana Maranhao Moreno

This workshop will explore how Ethereum and EVM-based environments are becoming the critical intersection between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). It will focus on Ethereum’s maturity for real-world use cases, the role of EVM in regulated environments, and how  institutions, governments, and central banks can foster innovation by leveraging permissionless blockchains while maintaining compliance with regulations.

Classroom D

Hart Montgomery is the CTO of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and serves as the ED of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance. Hart previously worked in blockchain and cryptography research at Fujitsu where he helped lead Fujitsu’s efforts in Hyperledger. Prior to Fujitsu, Hart received a Ph.D. in cryptography at Stanford. Hart has numerous academic publications and patents in cryptography and blockchain and brings a wealth of experience in these areas to the LF.

Hart Montgomery

Italo Borssatto is a technology adviser at the BIS Innovation Hub HKC, specializing in blockchain and decentralized identity. With 25+ years in tech, he co-founded Brazil’s first mobile trading platform, MobileBroker, and launched the CRM Velis. As CTO of a credit card firm, he led key tech initiatives, then joined ConsenSys to further blockchain and identity solutions. A Computer Science graduate, Italo is dedicated to advancing decentralized technologies to transform traditional systems.

Italo Borssatto

Luca leads Ecosystem Development at OpenZeppelin, focusing on expanding OpenZeppelin Contracts for Solidity and new execution environments. His first full-time job, while at university, was building products on Ethereum. Passionate about the Ethereum community, Luca was part of the organizing team for the first Devconnect in Amsterdam. He now organizes Latin America’s largest Ethereum hackathons as a Co-Founder of ETHSamba and founded Bamba, a physical hub for crypto projects in Rio de Janeiro.

Luca Cosivi

Bruno Batavia is the Director of Emerging Technologies at Valor Capital Group, a venture capital firm based in New York focused on Latam and US-Brazil cross-border opportunities.

He also brings more than 13 years of experience working with innovation at Brazil’s Central Bank (BCB), where he led studies and initiatives with a particular focus on emerging technologies. Most recently, he served as the Deputy Head for the Digital Real (Drex) Project, Brazil’s CBDC initiative.

Bruno Batavia

Abhinav is currently based in Singapore and leads Client solutions and Presales for Partior. In this capacity, he oversees clients' journeys including commercial and central banks, from defining use cases to product integration
Before taking on this role, Abhinav gained extensive experience working with both global and local banks. He spearheaded transformative initiatives in Payments and Core Banking, requiring him to coordinate efforts across business units, technology and regulatory bodies

Abhinav Goel

Qin En Looi is a Partner at Saison Capital where he actively leads pre-seed and seed investments in startups across fintech, B2B commerce and web3.

Qin En

Daniel, an MIT alumnus, has spent the past three years investing with Koyamaki Ventures, focusing on high-potential startups across Latin America. With a portfolio where one-third of investments are in Brazil, Daniel is passionate about showcasing Brazilian innovation on the global stage.

Daniel Marquez

Thiago is the CEO and cofounder of Tanssi Foundation, one of the core contributors of the Tanssi Network, an appchain infrastructure protocol designed to make deploying an appchain as simple as deploying a smart contract.

Thiago holds a degree in Computer Science from UFRJ. He spent the first five years of his career at Visagio consultancy and then over nine years as the head of operations at Squadra Investimentos, one of Brazil's leading independent equity funds.

Thiago Rudiger

Founder of Plexos Institute, an initiative focused on democratising access to the benefits of emerging technology to the regeneration of economies and communities. Co-Idealizer of Celatam, supporting the Celo community in Latin America (Prev. cLabs/Celo). Lawyer by trade in her previous life and with a Postgraduate Diploma in Economics by King's College London (10y experience in economics law and compliance), Camila found her path on technology through Legal Hacking and Computational Law. She is

Camila Rioja

I’m deeply fascinated by the intersection of technology and economics—Ethereum captures this perfectly. I work as a Blockchain Engineer on the Emerging Technologies team at Inter, diving into blockchain projects and playing a role in the DREX pilot, Brazil’s CBDC initiative. Also a proud founding member of Bankless Brasil. Plant-based, training for a triathlon, and an avid climber.

Bruno Moniz

Sophia Lopez is Founder and President of Kaleido, an award-winning blockchain, digital assets and tokenization platform that provides scalable and secure infrastructure to enterprises globally. Its clients include the world’s largest private transaction banks, over a dozen central banks, payments processors, top insurance and healthcare networks, the world’s supply chain leaders, top retail companies, organizations such as Swift, World Bank, IMF, along with 100s of global enterprise networks.

Sophia Lopez

Shukyee Ma, currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Plume Network, is leading strategic planning initiatives in the RWAfi arena, with a focus on the integration of real-world assets. Prior to this, she was a founding member and Chief Marketing Officer at Polyhedra.

Shukyee Ma

Wee Kee is Executive Director and Global Head of Business Architecture for Kinexys Digital Payments at J.P. Morgan, where he is responsible for architecting business capabilities and developing strategies to address current needs and capture future opportunities. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2022, Wee Kee led CBDC projects like Project Ubin at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and Project Dunbar at the  BIS Innovation Hub.

WeeKee Toh

Bridging TradFi and DeFi through Ethereum and EVM: A Pathway to Innovation

WFP has the largest blockchain projects focused on cash-based assistance: (a) It promotes a private EVM net since 2017 as a coordination mechanism to connect orgs providing humanitarian assistance (size: 4M ppl/month); (b) It is also scaling cash assistance in Afghanistan backed by public blockchain/100k people.  
Come to see some of our challenges and learnings of the last years consolidated in a model and engage to shape the future of this field.