Hong Kong Hackathon

Andrew is a financial professional, investor and entrepreneur and has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Block.one since its inception. Prior to joining Block.one, Andrew held several financial and accounting positions with global avionics and technology multinational Rockwell Collins, where he worked for just under a decade. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Iowa.

Larry Sanger is an American Internet project developer and is best known as co-founder of Wikipedia. He is now Chief Information Officer for Everipedia​, responsible for planning a new encyclopedia​ blockchain​ network. He has been involved with various online encyclopedia and educational projects. He is the former editor-in-chief of Nupedia, chief organizer (2001–02) of its successor, Wikipedia, and founding editor-in-chief of Citizendium. At Nupedia, Sanger assembled a process for article development. He proposed implementing a wiki, which led directly to the creation of Wikipedia, and led the project’s community as for its first 14 months and established many of its original policies.

Dr Jane Thomason is a thought leader, and a frequent global commentator, speaker and blogger on the application of blockchain technology for social impact. In 2017, she published peer-reviewed articles  on: blockchain, climate finance and the poor; and on blockchain as an accelerator for women’s and children’s health. Jane is an adviser to several blockchain startups with applications that solve global problems, and is currently working with collaborators to co-develop blockchain POCs in several emerging economies. She was a hackathon judge and mentor at London Blockchain Week, London Fintech Week and the Consensys Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition Hackathon. She is an advocate for the education and empowerment of women generally and #WomeninBlockchain. Dr Thomason is a Global Ambassador and  Advisory Board member of the British Blockchain Association, and was awarded the Global Quantum Impact Champion Award at the launch of the UN Decade of Women, where she was also named on Top 10 Digital Frontier Women list.

Sam Kazemian is an Iranian-American​ software engineer who co-founded Everipedia, a decentralized, blockchain-based version of Wikipedia, in 2015. Sam graduated from UCLA the same year, double majoring in Neuroscience and Philosophy. During his tenure as a UCLA student, he put together a homemade CPU+GPU mining rig using old desktop computers in his dorm to mine cryptocurrencies in 2014.

Theodor Mauritz Forselius, known as “Tedde,” is a Swedish Internet entrepreneur and programmer who co-founded Everipedia in 2015 with Sam Kazemian. Prior to working on Everipedia, he was the creator of several online gaming projects and companies, including the social gaming network “HELLO” and the MOBA-game focused community website Mobafy. Theodor also worked as a web developer at the advertising agency NOGA, in Sweden, from 2011-2014.

Eric Kuhn is a successful entrepreneur sitting at the intersection of media, entertainment and technology. He helped start and run Layer3 TV, a next generation cable provider that was recently sold to T-Mobile, where he is now part of their Home & Entertainment division. Previously Eric was Hollywood’s first “social media agent” at United Talent Agency, where he represented some of the industry’s top writers, directors, actors and producers with regard to investments, digital strategy and social media. In 2009, Eric became CNN’s Audience Interaction Producer, running social media and producing some of the first television programs that integrated digital platforms. He also is responsible for launching the National Basketball Association and CBS News on social media. Eric is an advisor to numerous startups in the media and entertainment space, including TrackMaven, Happy Not Perfect, Niche (acquired by Twitter) and This Technology (acquired by Comcast).