Full Schedule Released for Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2024

Following the success of its record-breaking 2023 event, HK Web3 Festival is returning for its second edition from 6 to 9, April at Hall3FG, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, the Festival will convene over 160 game-changing projects, 100 media and 300+ notable speakers to exchange up-to-date knowledge, experiences, and views that are expected to shape the narrative around Web3 and blockchain.

With the event taking place in the innovation-rich city of Hong Kong, the Web3 Festival 2024 converges East and West ideologies. It sets four regular conference areas and an open stage, providing an avenue for eclectic discussions around Web3, idol performance, Web3 professional esports tournament, and more!

We’re proud to present our distinguished sponsors and exhibitors:

• Title Sponsors: DWF Labs, Internet Computer, MEET48, OKX Web3, TON Foundation, ZA Bank
• Strategic Partner: Cyberport, Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), InvestHK
• Platinum Sponsors: Chainlink, Cregis, Deepcoin Labs, Gate.io, Gunzilla Games, NEAR Protocol, Neo, Polkadot, Qtum, SlowMist, Telos Foundation, Victory Securities, Zetrix, Zircuit
• Co-organizers: Arkreen, AWS, Bitcoin Magazine, Nervos CKB, PlatON, SNZ, 香港虚拟资产行业协会, ZAN
• Side Event Partners: ABGA, Animoca Brands & Chromia, Aptos, DRK Lab, Filecoin Foundation, GoPlus, HashKey Exchange, SlowMist, TON Foundation, UOVABOX
• Gold Sponsors: AltLayer, Cards Ahoy!, CESS, Kaspa, Kava, 鲲KUN, Mask Network, PortUS, Roam, Rollux, X-mint
• Primary Exhibition Sponsors: Alfa1, Alibaba Cloud, 百道数据, BNB Chain, CertiK, EMC, Google Cloud, Hotcoin, MicrovisionChain, OneKey, XT.com
• Secondary Exhibition Sponsors: Alchemy Pay, Bitget Wallet, Bitroo, CE Innovation Capital, Cell Studio, Conflux, Digital Reserve, Initiate Capital, Japan Open Chain, Nervape, NovaX Finance, OceanFi, PIN Labs, TynmoSpace, VoiceStreet, W3SA-HK

• Tertiary Exhibition Sponsors: 100x, Akamai, Alaya AI, Bit.Store, Bullish, ChainUp, Cloud Ace, Daling Research, dappOS, Dexpert.io, ELLIPAL, EngageLab, Hacken, ICG Trading, imToken, Keyblock Solutions, Landlord, MoreLogin, MuskEX, Notifi, OpenSand, PingCAP, PrivateAI, 山海坞, StaFi, TaxDAO, Tencent Cloud, TokenPocket, TruBit, UD Blockchain, WatchX, 伊克罗德信息+IOST, zCloak Network
• Knowledge Partners: Brevis, CoinMarketCap, Flow Traders
• Coffee Bar Sponsor: Zetrix
• Open Stage Sponsors: KongGold, 玛特宇宙, MATR1X & GEDA Esports, NovaX Finance, NuLink, OceanFi, The Sandbox
• Welcome Bag Sponsor: d.id, VIP3
• Exclusive Video Partner: Spinor

April 6^th – FIRST DAY

The opening ceremony will kick off at the Main Stage on the morning of April 6^th. Speakers of the ceremony will include: 

Dr. Xiao Feng, Chairman, Wanxiang Blockchain; Chairman and CEO, HashKey Group

Michael Wong Wai-lun, GBS, JP, Deputy Financial Secretary, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Deng Chao, Head, HashKey Singapore, CEO, HashKey Capital

Cathie Wood, Founder, CEO and CIO, ARK Invest

Duncan Chiu, Legislative Council Member (Technology & Innovation Constituency), Hong Kong

Simon CHAN, Chairman, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited

Genki Oda, Chairman, Japan Virtual and Crypto assets Exchange Association

David Lee, Chairman, Global FinTech Institute

Yang Jinyan, Secretary General, Hong Kong Virtual Assets Industry Association

Dominic Williams, Founder and Chief Scientist, DFINITY Foundation

Steve Yun, President, TON Foundation

John Hyman, Chief Investment Officer, Telegram APP

On the afternoon of April 6, intriguing sessions will take place concurrently at the Main Stage, Stage 1-4, and Open Stage. 

• Main Stage – Journey to Building Hong Kong into a Digital Economic Hub

Focusing on Hong Kong policies, regulation and fintech development, this session will gather professionals and project leaders including: 

Livio Weng, COO, HashKey Group; CEO, HashKey Exchange

Eugene Ng, Founding Partner, DWF Labs

Hong, President, OKX, 

Charlie Chen, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Archblock

Rita Liu, CEO, RD Technologies

Raagulan Pathy, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Circle

Paul Kremsky, Head of Business Development, Cumberland

Jordan Dunne, Head of DeFi, TON Wallet in Telegram

Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder, Chainlink

Alice Liu, Research Lead, CoinMarketCap

Devon Sin, Alternate Chief Executive, ZA Bank

Frank Zhang, Executive Director, OKX Hong Kong

Paolo Chen, CSO, VDX

Darshan Vaidya, CEO & Co-Founder, Credora

Richard Teng, Chief Excutive Officer, Binance

Anna Liu, General Manager of Tokenisation, HashKey Group

Emily Parker, Former CoinDesk and US State Department

Jupiter Zheng, Partner, HashKey Capital

Deborah FUHR, ETFGI, Managing Partner, Founder, Owner

Giovanni Vicioso, Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products, CME Group

Giselle Lai, Associate Investment Director of Digital Assets, Fidelity International

Jean-Francois MESNARD-SENSE, Senior Vice President & Head of Exchange Traded Products, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited

Derek Wang, Head of Sales & Client Service, Bosera International

Chen Yu, Chief Advisor, KUN

• Stage 1 – GameFi New Paradigm

Co-organized by Gunzilla Game, this session will dive into the magic of Web3 games, as well as user behaviors in Web2 and Web3 games. It will feature an eclectic lineup of speakers from across the globe: 

Yat Siu, Co-Founder and Chairman, Animoca Brands

Kevin Shao, Co-Founder of Bitrise Capital, Executive Chairman of ABGA, Advisor to ICC Group 

Jerry Liu, Gunzilla Games

Arron Goolsbey, COO, Mythical Games

Jason Gu, CEO, NetEase Chain; Game Advisor, Cards Ahoy!

Andy Dan, Head, HashKey Japan

Ryo Matsubara, Representative Director, Oasys Pte. Ltd.

Seihaku Yoshida, CEO, HashPort

YASUSHI TERAMURA, Head of Blockchain Business, gumi Inc.

Yoshiaki Harai, Director, Brilliant Crypto

Pär Helgosson, Head of Web3 and Metaverse, PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN

Leo, CGO, CARV

Anthony Blackburn, Growth Lead, Gunzilla Games

Ellidan Cober, SMILECOBRA PTE. LTD. O-Principal 

Ann Chien, Partner, IVC

Riccardo Sibani, CPO, My Neighbor Alice

Michael Tong, Founder, Xterio; CSO, Funplus

Viola Lee, COO, Metalist Game; Operation Manager, Cards Ahoy! 

• Stage 2  – Web3+AI

Co-organized by AWS, the “Web3+AI” forum will be held at Stage 2, discussing trending topics around the integration of Web3 and AI. Confirmed speakers of this session include: 

John Liu, Head of Products for Blockchain and Web3, AWS

Yike Guo, Provost, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Yu Du, General Manager, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs; Initiator, Future3 Campus

Seth Ginns, Managing Partner and Head of Liquid Investments, CoinFund

Yilin Hu, Associate Professor of Department of the History of Science, Tsinghua University; Founder, HuawenDao

SY Lee, CEO and Co-founder, Story Protocol

Ethan Sun, Co-Founder, Myshell

Yu Hu, CEO, Kaito.ai

Saneel Sreeni, Founding Member, Ritual.net

Amber, Co-Founder, No Capital

Akina Ho, Co-Founder, AllStarsWomen DAO

Annie Hui, COO and Co-Founder, Custonomy Company Limited

Megan, CEO, Regtank

Tess Hau, Founder, Tess Ventures

The “Web3+AI” forum will also feature a special session, where Dr. Xiao Feng and John Liu will announce the projects selected into Future3 Campus Cohort III, powered by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and partnered with HashKey Capital.

• Stage 3 – Digital Asset Custody and Blockchain Security

Sessions on Stage 3 will feature a wide range of topics on digital asset custody and blockchain security, joined by professionals and experts including: 

Pauline Fan, Senior Vice President, Fintech, InvestHK

Kang Li, Chief Security Officer, CertiK

Anthony Chung, Chief Product Executive, Cregis

Keywolf, Partner and CPO, SlowMist

Eskil, Co-Founder, GoPlus

Yiqun, Product Lead, imToken

Xiao Zhang, Founder, zCloak Network

Zack Yang, Co-Founder, FOMO Pay

Christoph Simmchen, Co-Founder, Safe Ecosystem Foundation

YQ, Founder, AltLayer

Michael Chen, Head, HashKey Wealth

Lily Z. King, COO, Cobo

TRUNG BANH, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, HOLDSTATION

Michael Lau, Senior Vice President & Global Head of Sales, Bullish

Matthew Le Merle, Managing Partner and CEO, Blockchain Coinvestors

• Open Stage

The Open Stage will feature various trending topics around Web3, bringing together bigwigs like: 

Tim Yang, Founder and CEO, .bit

Charles, Co-founder, VIP3

Viola Lee, COO, Metalist Game, Operation Manager, Cards Ahoy!

Yilin Hu, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, Tsinghua University

Bo Chen, CEO, 玛特宇宙

April 7^th – Day II

• Main Stage – Layer1 + Layer2

The “Layer1+Layer2” Forum will be held on April 7^th at the Main Stage, focusing on trending topics such as the latest landscape of Layer1, sustainable public chain, successful applications, Layer2 development, uses cases, ecosystem service and applications, best practice, investment trend, BTC Layer2, and more. Confirmed speakers of this forum include:

Avery Ching, Co-Founder and CTO, Aptos Labs

Dato Fadzli Shah, Co-Founder, Zetrix

Lily Liu, President, Solana Foundation

Scott Stuart, Co-Founder, Kava

Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner, Dragonfly Capital

Kai Xu, COO, MEET48

Eli Ben Sasson, CEO and Co-founder, StarkWare

Smokey, Co-Founder, Berachain

Ross Zhang, Managing Partner, SNZ Capital

Tom Ngo, Executive Lead, Metis

Terence Lam, COO, Taiko

Sergei Medvedev, CMO, IntMax

Leo Fan, Founder, Cysic

YQ, Founder, AltLayer

Angel Xu, Co-founder, Zircuit

Sam Seo, Representative Director, Klaytn Foundation

Sreeram Kannan, CEO, EigenLabs

Keith Chen, Managing Director, SNZ Capital

Mo Dong, Co-founder, Brevis

Daniel Marin, CEO, Nexus

Georgi Koreli, Founder, Hinkal

Fubiao Xia, Co-founder, PADO Labs

Dennis Song, Chief Security Officer, Mind Network

Ryan Chen, Managing Partner, HashKey Capital

Lasse Clausen, Founding Partner, 1kx

Alexander Pack, Managing Partner, HackVC

Vineet Budki, Managing Partner and CEO, Cypher Capital

Gavin Wang, CIO, SNZ Capital

Emma Cui, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Longhash Ventures

Rena Shah, VP of Product & Operations (stacks ecosystem), Trust Machines

Cipher, Co-founder, Cell Studio

Eason, CEO, TerpLayer

Blue, Partner and CTO, Slowmist

Jan Camenisch, CTO, DFINITY Foundation

• Stage 1 – DePIN

DePIN represents a new paradigm for building and managing physical infrastructure, and is undoubtedly a game changer for the crypto sector. Get ready to explore the current DePIN landscape and RWA at this forum co-organized by arkreen Stage 1, where you’ve got the chance to connect with an all-star lineup of guest speakers, top DePIN project founders, investors, and visionaries.

Abhay Kumar, CEO, Helium Foundation

Andy Chatham, Co-Founder, DIMO

Sal Gala, Founder, EV3

Ivy Peng, Founder, Open Infra Capital

Yu Du, General Manager, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs; Initiator, Future3 Campus

Leo Lin, Founder, arkreen

Yuan Gao, Head of Growth, Helium Foundation

Kuleen Nimkar, Head of DePIN, Solana Foundation

Henrique Centieiro, Research Manager, Hashkey Capital

Adrian Clevenot, Digital Assets Markets Lead, PwC HK

Yves La Rose, CEO, EOS Network Foundation

Richard Liu, Co-founder & Co-CEO, Huma Finance

Henry Zhang, Founder & CEO, DigiFT

Kazuhiro Sudo, COO, BOOSTRY

Abba Garba, Head of Product and Partnership, arkreen Network

Fredrik Ahlgren, CEO and Co-founder, Srcful.io

Dayon Elings, Business Developer, bloXmove

Ting, Founder, PowerPod

Sascha Kubisch, Co-Founder & CTO, Penomo

Alex, Co-Founder, EMC

Diana Biggs, Partner, 1kx

Kang Shen, Founder, Hash Global

Ray Xiao, Senior Director, IOSG Ventures

Eo Hao, Co-Founder, Future Money Group

Dexter Luo, General Manager of Ecosystem Partnership, Fibocom Wireless

Jose Marcelino, Solutions Architect, RAKwireless

Joey Jiang, VP, Seeedstudio

Yiming Wang, Partner, JDI

Yuning Liang, Founder & CEO, Xcalibyte & DeepComputing

Daniel Andrade, CTO & Co-Founder, Hotspotty

Nico Burkart, Partnerships & Business Development, Streamr Network

Luis Gruson, Co-Founder and BD Lead, Kwil

Chess, CEO, GMNetwork

Andrew Law, Research Scientist, IoTeX

• Stage 2 – The Future of Web3 & Web3 Payment Re-imagined

The morning session at Stage 2 will convene Web3 bigwigs across the globe to explore the next big thing that’s shaping the future of Web3.

Chae Ho Shin, CFO, 1inch

Akif, Regional Growth Lead, Deepcoin Labs

Kevin Lee, CEO, Gate.HK

Jehan Chu, Founder, Kenetic Capital;

Uri Ferruccio, CEO, Concordia

Augie, Head of Asia, CMT

Stanley Huo, Partner & Head of Asia, Hivemind Capital

Steve Lee, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Neoclassic Capital

Balal Khan, Co-founder, ZKEX.com

Adrian Wang, Founder and CEO, Metalpha

Shawn Lim, Founder & Partner, Artichoke Capital

Paul Kim, Notifi CEO 

Smokey, Co-Founder, Berachain

Tim Wang, COO, Elixir Network 

Rushi Manche, CEO, Movement Labs 

The spotlight will be on Web3 payment at the afternoon session co-organized by PlatON, discussing topics like “Innovative use cases in Stablecoins”, “Global Regulatory Focus Trends Discussion in Web3 Payment”, and more. It will bring together esteemed speakers including:  

Abdallah Abu-Sheikh, Co-Founder of Astra Tech & CEO of Botim

Charles Huang, Chairman of DCS Fintech Holdings

Anson Zeall, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Compliance at dtcpay

Adam Farhat, Director of Partnerships, Alchemy Pay

Helen Chen, Senior Director, Payment Asia

Li Hui, CEO, Fatpay

Ceridwen Choo, CEO, DCS Innov

Daniel Lee, Head of Web3, Banking Circle

Laurence Yuan, Partner, Fangda Partners 

Paul Li, President, Hong Kong Fintech Industry Association

Emil Chan, Co-Chair, Hong Kong Digital Finance Association

Chen Yu, Chief Consultant, KUN

Jason Gu, CEO, NetEase Chain

Amor Maclang, Convenor, International Digital Economies Association

• Stage 3 – Web3 Infrastructure & Web3 Mass Adoption

At the morning session at Stage 3, a wide range of topics will be discussed around Web3 infrastructure. Intriguing discussions will surely ignite the stage with the participation of world-leading projects like Qtum, Polygon Labs, Conflux, Neo, Google Cloud, Kaspa, Avail, ChainIDE, BNBChain, Astar, Ripple, Manta, and more. Confirmed speakers of this session include: 

Marc Boiron, Chief Executive Officer, Polygon Labs

Miguel Palencia, Co-Founder, Qtum

Ming Wu, Co-Founder & CTO, Conflux

Da Hongfei, Founder, NEO

Rishi Ramchandani, Head of APAC Web3 GTM, Google Cloud

Jagdeep Sidhu, CEO/President, SYS Labs/SYS Foundation

Shai Wyborski, Core Researcher, GHOSTDAG coauthor, Kaspa

Anurag Arjun, Co-Founder, Avail

Ling, Founder of ChainIDE, Executive Committee Member of ETH Riyadh

Sarah, APAC BD Lead, BNBChain

Mingshi Song, Head of Strategy, Astar Network

Emi Yoshikawa, VP, Strategic Initiatives, Ripple

Kenny Li, Co-Founder, Manta Network

The afternoon session aims to delve deep into the transformative concepts and technologies that are driving the mass adoption of Web3. Co-organized by ZAN, this forum will gather professionals and visionaries exchange insights and shed light on solutions towards Web3 mass adoption. It will feature an all-star lineup of speakers including: 

Bin Chen, General Manager, Shanghai Wanxiang Blockchain Inc

Victor Zhou, CEO of Namefi, Ethereum EIP Editor

HUI ZHANG, CEO, ZAN

Yisi Liu, Co-Founder and CTO, Mask Network

Dongliang Guo, VP, Product & Solutions, Alibaba Cloud International

Rich Rines, Initial Contributor, Core DAO

Zheming Lin, Co-Founder and CEO, Mempool and DotWallet

Cobe Zhang, Head of Web3 and AI products, ZAN

Cipher, Co-founder, Nervos; Founder, Cell Studio

Jerry Li, CEO, Artela Network

Peet, Co-Founder, Trusta Labs

Kai Xu, COO, MEET48

Ken, Partner & Head of APAC Investment, Web3Port Foundation

Sam, Operation Manager, TokenPocket

Shier, Co-Founder, NFTScan Labs

Charles, Co-Founder, VIP3

Rene Z, Founder, CharacterX

Daniel Dai, Partner, LFG

Eva Beylin, Director, The Graph

Tegan Kline, CEO, Edge & Node

• Open Stage

Notable speakers worldwide will be gathered at the Open Stage for ground-breaking discussions on Web3 and blockchain:

Jason Runyon, CEO, NovaX

Olaf Niggemann, CEO, OceanFi

Kathy Qu, Research Manager, HashKey Cloud

Jason Choi, Head of Strategy, Cointelegraph

Sreeram Kannan, Founder, Eigenlayer

David Tse, Co-Founder, BabylonChain

Dorothy Liu, Head of Growth, Altlayer.io

Lucas Kozinski, Founding Contributor, Renzo Protocol

Ranvir Rana, Co-Founder, WitnessChain

Erich Wong, Head of Growth of, The Sandbox Hong Kong

Rachel Lee, Senior Manager, FinTech, Cyberport

Also enjoy an excellent idol performance like no other given by SNH48 Group!

April 8^th – DAY III

Get yourself immersed in a crypto journey on April 8^th with side-event partners as they take the center stage at the Festival. 

Main Stage: TON At Web3 Festival

Stage 1 (Morning): Only On Aptos

Stage 1 (Afternoon): Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2024 Official GameFi Side Event

Stage 2 (Morning): HashKey Exchange: New Era for Compliant Trading

Stage 2 (Afternoon): GoPlus User Security Summit HongKong

Stage 3 (Morning): FIL Hong Kong

Stage 3 (Afternoon): Hacking Time: Web3 Security and Compliance

• Web3 Festival Side-events 

An exciting Web3 professional esports tournament will kick off at the Open Stage from April 8 to 9, hosted by Matr1x and GEDA Esports. Get prepared!

April 9^th – LAST DAY

The last day of the event will see exciting side-events organized by Animoca Brands & Chromia, DRK Lab, and UOVABOX, alongside two forums held by the hosts and co-organizers.

Forum – BTC Technology Development and Ecosystem Construction

This forum will take place at the Main Stage (morning) and Stage 3 (afternoon), with a special focus on the Bitcoin ecosystem. It will invite:

Jan, Architect, Nervos

John Lilic, Executive Director, Telos

John Riggins, Partner, BTC Inc

Jeff Ren, Partner, OKX Venture

Xing Kong, Founder, Bixin Group

Shen Yu, Co-Founder & CEO, Cobo

DU JUN, CEO, SINOHOPE

Jeffrey Hu, Head of Investment Research, HashKey Capital

Ben, Founder, Discoco labs

Arthur, Creator, Atomicals 

Cipher, Co-founder, Nervos; Founder, Cell Studio

Rena Shah, VP Products & Operations, Trust Machines

David Tse, Founder, Babylon

Jeff, Founder, Merlin Chain

Han Tang, Founder, SeeDAO

Yunwen, Researcher, Cryptape 

Zhao Zhang, CTO, OneKey 

Shawn, Head of Incubator, SeeDAO

Forest, Founder, Foresight Ventures; Chairman of The Block

Jianping Kong, Founder, Nano Labs

Wang Feng, CEO & Founder, Element

Brutoshi, Co-Founder, Wizz Wallet

Zhixiong Pan, Co-Founder, ChainFeeds

Keith Chen, Managing Partner, SNZ Capital

Jerry Liu, Founding Partner, Waterdrip Capital

Audrey Tang, Founder, DRK Lab

BMAN, Co-Founder, ABCDE

Forum- Restaking & DeFi

This forum will take place at the Stage 1 (morning). It will invite:

Arisa Toyosaki, Co-Founder and CEO, Cega

Philip Forte, CEO, Elixir

Charles d’Haussy, CEO, dYdX Foundation

Joseph Poon, CEO, Warp

Fiona Ma, Senior Associate, DWF Ventures

Jacob Ko, Founding Partner, Superscrypt

Min Teo, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Ethereal

Adam, Founding Partner, Finality

Alan Curtis, CEO, Rio Network

Tina Haibodi, External Strategy Lead, Eigen Labs

Forum- Tokenization

This forum will mark an official end to this incredible journey, where you’ve got the chance to connect with:

Yike Guo, Provost, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Duncan Chiu, Legislative Council Member (Technology & Innovation Constituency), Hong Kong

Dr. XIAO Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain, Chairman and CEO of HashKey Group

Leo Lin, Founder, arkreen

Cao Meiying, Co-Initiator, ThreeDAO

Leo, Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer, Moore Finance

Alex, Co-Founder, VIP3

Leo Li, CEO, HashKey Cloud

Loong Pui Fung Andrew, Principal Consultant, Cascade Capital Limited

Kennix Chan, Executive Director, Victory Securities Company Limited

Merida PAN, COO, Magic Circle Technology Limited

Hannah Cassidy, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills; Asia Head, Financial Services Regulatory

Jong-Goo Yi, Senior Foreign Attorney, Kim & Chang

Jay Lee, Partner, K&L Gates

About Web3 Festival 

Hong Kong Web3 Festival is a premier Web3 event hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, and organized by W3ME. Hong Kong Web3 Festival provides an open stage to foster collaboration, explore the Web3 landscape and establish a shared vision of the digital future. Learn more at web3festival.org