Last week, on May 31, an online conference Crypto | Verse Conference organized by UAFIK. The event was dedicated to the prospects of the crypto-currency industry and the benefits it brings for business in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Association of Fintech and Innovative Companies (UAFIC) noted that the main reason for organizing the event was the growing interest in the industry. If a few years earlier the cryptocurrency segment remained the lot of futurists and innovators, now this sector is gaining popularity among ordinary users and contractors.
“For us, this conference was the first of its kind. We decided to carry it out despite the rocket attacks, because we are sure that Crypto | Verse Conference will help create a solid foundation for integrating digital assets into our economy, which will benefit the state, its citizens and businesses.” – Head of the Board of UAFIK Rostyslav Dyuk.
The conference was attended by representatives of IT, government agencies, the banking segment. In total, there were more than 700 guests and 30 speakers, both from Ukraine and from abroad.
Among them were:
- Diederik van Meersch – Sales Director for the Mid-Segment of Chainalysis;
- Maria Stashkevich – President of the European Digital Finance Association (EDFA);
- Yigal Nevo – Member of the OECD Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board;
- Ruslan Magomedov – head of the NCCPF;
- Katerina Zhabskaya is a financial expert in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department;
- Genson Orser – CEO Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA);
- Igor Ivanyuk – Solutions Architect, Ukraine / CEE / EMEA Amazon Web Services;
- Arsen Makarchuk – Director of the Department of Strategy and Development of the NBU;
- Yulia Parkhomenko – Head of the Digital Economy Directorate of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine;
- Andrey Kirilenko is Professor of Finance at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge;
- Mikhail Chobanyan – founder of KUNA;
- Maria Kolganova – Executive Director of NABU;
- Vadim Grusha – CEO and co-founder of Сrypto Neobank Trustee Plus;
- Ivan Pavlovsky – CEO and co-founder of Incrypted;
- Yulia Fedosyuk – CEO of UAPAY;
- Gleb Udovichenko – CEO of Whitepay;
- Pavel Kravchenko – CEO Distributed Lab;
- Oleksiy Bobok is co-founder and CEO of weld.money.
It should be noted that the conference was organized by UAFIK. Support in the media space was provided by: FinTech Insider, First Business and the largest crypto media in the country Incrypted. Among the information partners of the event were: the Independent Association of Banks of Ukraine and the international financial club Bankir.