Elastos in a New Era of BlockChain
The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA) and Elastos Foundation will jointly host a symposium titled “Elastos in a New Era of BlockChain”, on the Saturday of May 12, 2018, in New York City.
As the world’s largest association of Chinese finance professionals and scholars, TCFA is collaborating with Elastos, the world’s first Internet operating system focusing on re-decentralizing Internet with blockchain, to bring to the Elastos community and TCFA members worldwide in-depth exchanges on the State-of-the-Art of Blockchain and the unique contribution Elastos is bringing to this space.
Time: 2:00PM – 6:00PM, Saturday, May 12, 2018
Location: E. Gerald Corrigan Conference Center, Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023 (12th Floor)
Dress Code: Business Casual
Program:
1:30PM – 2:00PM: Registration
2:00PM – 2:05PM: Welcome remarks
2:05PM – 2.25PM: Speech by Rong Chen, Elastos Foundation
2:25PM – 2:45PM: Speech by Feng Han, Elastos Foundation
2:45PM – 3:45PM: Panel discussion 1
· Rong Chen, Elastos Foundation
· Feng Han, Elastos Foundation
· Lianjin Huang, Distributed Business Applications, TheKey
· Jinlong Wang (moderator), Haitou Global
3:45PM – 4:00PM: Coffee break
4:00PM – 5:00PM: Panel discussion 2
· Henry Cao, CKGSB Americas
· Stephen Rutenberg, Polsinelli
· Lou Kerner, CryptoOracle
· Roy Huang, FRESCO
· Chenyang Wei (moderator), Zenity Holdings
5:00PM – 6:00PM: Networking reception
*Hosted by Stephen Turban, McKinsey & Company
Registration:
To register, please fill out the registration form available at:
https://goo.gl/forms/1glcS0Zxn1YhOEzw2
Due to space limit and high demand, we strongly encourage you to register ASAP. We look forward to seeing you on May 12.
About Elastos Foundation
Elastos is the world’s first Internet operating system focusing on re-decentralizing Internet with blockchain to secure identity. Utilizing the Internet as the base-layer infrastructure rather than as an application, the Elastos approach emphasizes that network communications should be separated from application computing, and prohibits apps from direct access to the network to prevent viruses and other malicious attacks such as DDoS.
Elastos is an open source system with over 4 million lines of original source code, and has received significant investment from the Foxconn Group, NEO, and other industry giants for its R&D. Supporting programming in C/C++, Java, and HTML/JS, Elastos facilitates the new generation of universal apps running anywhere, including AR/VR headsets, IoT gateways, PCs, and cloud servers.
In summary, Elastos focuses on a new Internet that is secure, credible, and smart. Apps cannot connect directly to the foundational internet layer or endanger it in any way. Blockchain disruption of third parties enables transparency for apps, IoT participants, and IP. Lastly, this blockchain-powered internet creates a smart economy enabling data rights and secured through ELA token & Bitcoin merge mining.
About The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA)
Founded in 1994 in the U.S., the Chinese Finance Association (TCFA, www.tcfaglobal.org ) is a government registered non-profit organization aimed at facilitating the exchange of ideas, knowledge and information on education, research and practice in finance and related areas between the US and China. Headquartered in New York City, TCFA has more than 15 regional chapters with +6000 members worldwide. Through its global network, TCFA organizes and sponsors a broad range of activities on a regular basis, including annual conferences, the Best Paper Awards, seminars and career development workshops.
About Dr. Rong Chen, Board Member of Elastos. Rong is a professor for postgraduate modules in Cyber Intelligent Economy and Blockchain at Tsinghua University. As one of the most respected Tsinghua alumni, Rong worked at Microsoft from 1992 to 2000, during which he led the teams of Microsoft Research OS, IE3 ActiveX, Ole Automation, .COM, and .NET. He proposed various new ideas on the technology of Operating Systems 30 years ago, and waited three decades to start initiating real progress by combining the technology behind Windows 10 and the development of blockchain. It is now possible to make an OS environment safer and more efficient. When he left Microsoft, Rong started working on the Elastos OS. Over the years, Elastos was financially supported by Foxconn, the Chinese Central Government, Tsinghua University, and most recently, a pre-ICO. Rong had been invited by the former Premier of China to speak at the Great Hall of the People about his work on Operating Systems.
About Dr. Feng (Sunny) Han, Board Member of Elastos. Feng is one of the most reputable blockchain thinkers in China, respected and recognized by tens of thousands of blockchain and cryptocurrency enthusiasts. At Tsinghua University, he initiated the postgraduate modules on Cyber Intelligent Economy and Blockchain. Feng’s book “Blockchain: On Quantum Wealth” was a 2017 best-seller on Amazon China. He also led the translation and editing of “Blockchain, Blue Print of a New Economy” in 2014, which was the first book about blockchain in China. Feng is an advisor to the Huawei Research Institute, blockchain development at Alibaba, and is also a member of the Tencent Talent Pool.
About Lianjin (Ken) Huang, Founder and CEO of DBA, President of TheKey. Ken is the Founder and CEO of Distributed Business Applications, President of TheKey Foundation, Conference Committee Member of ACM Practitioner Board, and Chinese Institute of Electronics Blockchain Expert Committee Member. He is also well known as a Blockchain Expert formerly from Huawei and CISSP. Before joining Huawei in December 2015, he worked for CGI federal office in USA for 18 years and served as its Director of Cyber Security and Director of Cloud Security. He has established CGI Federal Identity Management Practice. While working for CGI as Executive Consultant, he has consulted the United States Federal Government, financial institutions, and utility companies and provided expertise in Finance, Blockchain, and Cyber Security. He graduated from Zhejiang Normal University, Xian Jiaotong University in China and University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
About Jinlong (Jerry) Wang, Founder and CEO of Haitou Global. Jerry is the Founder and CEO of Haitou Global, a leading online global asset allocation platform, headquartered in New York with over $500 million global alternative assets. Previously as Investment Manager at University of Notre Dame's Investments Office, Jerry managed a portfolio of over $1billion global investments. Jerry holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Tsinghua University, as well as a Master’s Degree in Engineering and Business Administration from University of Notre Dame. Jerry is also a CFA and CAIA charter holder.
About Dr. Henry Cao, Chair of Finance Department at CKGSB. Henry earned a PhD in Finance in 1995 from UCLA and a PhD in Pathology in 1991 from Yale University. In 2016, he was on the list of “China’s Most Cited Researchers” unveiled by Elsevier, the world’s famous provider of scientific, technical, and medical information. Before joining CKGSB, he taught at UC Berkeley, UCSD, Ohio State University, Carnegie Mellon and UNC Chapel Hill. Henry's research has been published in journals including Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Business, Review of Finance and Marketing Science. Henry is the co-editor of International Financial Review and sits on the editorial board of Annals of Economics and Finance and China Financial Review. Henry has been speaking about blockchain technology globally, his speech topics include “A New Paradigm of Blockchain”, “The Parallel World on Blockchian”, etc.
About Stephen Rutenberg, Partner at Polsinelli. Stephen’s practice focuses on the intersection of special situations investing and FinTech including cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Together with the other lawyers in Polsinelli’s renowned FinTech and Regulation practice, Stephen represents investors, issuers, and underwriters looking for market leading perspectives, on cutting edge utilization of blockchain technology including investing in cryptocurrency and initial coin offerings (ICO’s). Admitted to practice in New York and as a solicitor in England and Wales, Stephen has significant experience advising on cross-border distressed trading matters and is recognized for this in the 2016 edition of IFLR1000 as a Rising Star. In February 2017, Stephen received the UJA-Federation of New York’s James H. Fogelson Emerging Leadership Award for his contributions to the New York legal and philanthropic communities. Stephen is recognized as a thought leader frequently writing and speaking on the FinTech and distressed loan trading.
About Lou Kerner, Founding Partner of CryptoOracle. Lou is a Founding Partner of CryptoOracle, a Crypto VC and Advisory firm focused exclusively on investing and advising entities leveraging, blockchain, cryptocurrency, smart contracts and decentralization. CryptoOracle Co-Host’s BlockFin, the largest Crypto Focused FinTech Conference in the world. Lou has been a Crypto enthusiast, investor, public speaker and thought leader since 2013, when the Wall Street Journal called Lou “Wall Street’s Bitcoin Expert”. Lou is currently ranked among the Top 5 most influential Crypto bloggers on Medium, regularly keynotes major Crypto industry events, and often appears on TV or in print talking about Crypto. Lou has a B.A. from U.C.L.A. and an MBA from The Stanford Graduate School of Business.
About Roy Huang, Co-Founder of FRESCO. Roy is the co-founder of FRESCO, the world’s first blockchain art asset network. Coming from a collector family, Roy has formed an appreciation for art since the very beginning. And he clearly sees how blockchain can help improve the provenance, promotion, liquidation of artwork at a global scale, so he decides to create FRESCO with a team of passionate art & blockchain people. FRESCO is doing the world’s first ICD by distributing 300 million FRESCO tokens to its global community for free. So far FRESCO has gathered substantial attention & support from the art & blockchain world: renowned artists, collectors along with Director of Bitcoin Foundation & Co-Founder of Ethereum have been openly supporting the tokenization of the art world led by FRESCO.
About Dr. Chenyang (Jason) Wei, Senior Managing Director of Zenity Holdings and Head of Zenity Holdings NY. Jason is a Senior Managing Director of Zenity Holdings and Head of Zenity Holdings New York. Zenity holds under its umbrella a number of innovation-driven public companies in China, including China Fortune Land Development (CFLD). Prior to Zenity, he was Head of Credit Research at American International Group (AIG), reporting to AIG’s Chief Credit Officer. Before AIG, he was a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and earlier an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has published in top-tier academic or policy journals including Review of Financial Studies and Economic Policy Review. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor/advisor at People’s Bank of China School of Finance (PBCSF) at Tsinghua University. Dr. Wei is also Chairman of Board of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA). He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Stern School of Business at New York University, a M.S. in Economics from University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. (Finance) from Tsinghua University.
About Stephen Turban, Blockchain Researcher and Host, Analytics Fellow at Mckinsey & Company. Stephen Turban is a well-known US-China blockchain host. In the past year, he has hosted events ranging from the US-China BlockInvest Summit to Harvard’s Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Summit. Outside of blockchain, he has been invited to host shows such as Who’s Still Standing (江苏卫视《一站到底》), the Ivy-League Spring Festival Gala, and the Harvard-China Film Festival. Stephen is an all-star contributor to the Tech in Asia media platform and is the author of the Amazon bestseller Your Relationship GPA. Stephen graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College, as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He currently works for McKinsey & Company in Boston. Stephen is fluent in Mandarin.