Agenda at a ibw2025
Agenda at a ibw2025
| 08:30 AM - 10:30 AM IST | Registration & Networking | Add to Calendar |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM IST | Welcome to IBW Irshad Ahmed, Vice President Platform, Hashed Emergent | Add to Calendar |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM IST | How India(n) wins big in web3 Tak Lee, CEO, Hashed Emergent | Add to Calendar |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST | India Landscape Report 2025 Sharanya Sahai, Vice President Investment, Hashed Emergent | Add to Calendar |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM IST | Aptos - Scaling Blockchain to a Billion people Avery Ching, CEO & Co-Founder, Aptos Labs MODERATOR : Shankar Jayaraman, SVP, Jio | Add to Calendar |
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM IST | EigenCloud: Democratizing the Agentic Economy Sreeram Kannan, CEO, Eigen Labs | Add to Calendar |
| 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM IST | Binance Keynote SB Seker, Head of Apac, Binance | Add to Calendar |
| 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM IST | Lunch Break Networking Opportunities, Exhibition Booth Visits, One-to-one meetings | Add to Calendar |
| 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM IST | Emerging Markets Are Emerging on Polygon Sandeep Nailwal, Founder & CEO, Polygon Foundation | Add to Calendar |
| 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM IST | The Role of Crypto Platforms in Empowering Local Innovation Sumit Gupta, Co-founder, CoinDCX | SB Seker, Head of Apac, Binance | Ashish Singhal, Co-founder, CoinSwitch MODERATOR : Debangana Ghosh, Principal Correspondent, Moneycontrol | Add to Calendar |
| 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM IST | How Does the Next Trillion Come Through Institutional Adoption Nikhil Joshi, COO, EMURGO | Siddarth Bharwani, JMD & CFO, Jetking Infotrain limited | Ignacio Franco, CMO, Bitget MODERATOR : Vikram Barandwal, Investment Analyst, Hashed Emergent | Add to Calendar |
| 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM IST | Building Sustainable Game Economies Sebastien Borget, Co-Founder & Ambassador, The Sandbox and SANDchain | Yusuf Goolamabbas, CKO, Animoca Brands | Vishal Gondal, Founder, NCORE Games & GOQii | Vinayak Rao, Head of BD & Investments, Aptos MODERATOR: Avishay Litani, Account Director / Team Leader, MarketAcross | Add to Calendar |
| 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM IST | NPCI's Open Source Journey and Payments System Landscape Balamurugan Veeraswamy, Head Blockchain, National Payments Corporation of India | Rahul Sanskrityayan, Specialist Consultant Blockchain, National Payments Corporation of India | Sanchit Johari, Lead Blockchain Developer, National Payment Corporation of India | Add to Calendar |
| 08:30 AM - 10:30 AM IST | Registration & Networking | Add to Calendar |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM IST | Welcome sessions on MainStage | Add to Calendar |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST | India’s Path to a Stable Regulatory Framework Jaideep Reddy, Partner, Trilegal | Dilip Chenoy, Chairman, Bharat Web3 Association | Suril Desai, Leader - Disruptive Technologies Practice, Nishith Desai Associates MODERATOR : Vidisha Mukherjee, Legal and Compliance Specialist, CoinSwitch | Add to Calendar |
| 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM IST | Building Infrastructure Through Communities in the DePIN Wave Mike Horton, CEO GEODNET | Dr. Prakash Kamaraj, Co- founder & Chief of Growth, DeCharge | Markus Levin, Co-Founder, XYO | Gaurav Sharma, CEO, io.net MODERATOR : Pratik Magar, Partner, Levitate labs | Add to Calendar |
| 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM IST | Expansion of Non-Dollar Stablecoins in the Modern World Oleg Ogienko, Director for Regulatory and Overseas Affairs, A7A5 | Add to Calendar |
| 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM IST | Accessing the best yields in crypto requires secure self custody Michael Louzado, EVP Strategy & M&A, Ledger | Add to Calendar |
| 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM IST | Lunch Break Networking Opportunities, Exhibition Booth Visits, One-to-one meetings | Add to Calendar |
| 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM IST | Sustainable Yields: Balancing Risk, Coverage & Institutional Capital Shashank Chauhan, DevRel Manager, Ton Foundation | Dhruv Bhodani, Co-Founder & CTO, Catalysis Network | Rohit Aggarwal, Founder, Raga Finance MODERATOR : Tanuj Behl, Co-founder, Yodl | Add to Calendar |
| 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM IST | Stablecoins in Everyday Life: From On-Ramp to Real World Usage Sanjeev Rao, Founder, LeapWallet | Queenie Le, Regional Expansion Lead APAC, Tether | Sadiq Ahamed, CEO, Lysto | Edul Patel, Mudrex MODERATOR : Sachin Marya, Editorial Director, Entrepreneur India & APAC | Add to Calendar |
| 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM IST | COINS Act 2025: The Law That Could Shape India's Crypto Future Nishtha Upadhyay, Legal Counsel, Hashed Emergent | Mandar Kagade, Founder-Principa, BlackDot | Add to Calendar |
| 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM IST | Inside the Minds Onboarding a Generation Aditya Singh, Co-Founder, Crypto India | Kashif Raza, Founder, Bitinning | Add to Calendar |
| 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM IST | The GTM Overlay Reset for Grwoth Rachit Agarwal, Head of Global Expansion, Wormhole Foundation | Ashwath Balakrishnan, Head of Advisory, Delphi Digital | Kunal Gandhi, CMO, HeyElsaAI MODERATOR : Kashvi Parekh, Marketing Lead, Boundless | Add to Calendar |
| 08:30 AM - 10:30 AM IST | Registration & Networking | Add to Calendar |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM IST | Building with Regulations Global Trust for India John O'Loghlen, APAC Managing Director, Coinbase MODERATOR : Saumya Saxena, India Lead, Base | Add to Calendar |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST | The Future of the Data Economy Pranav Raval, Head of Infrastructure, Aptos Labs / Shelby | Add to Calendar |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM IST | AI x Web3 - The Emerging Value Story Ishank Gupta, Elder Council Member, KGEN | Gaurav Sharma, CEO, io.net | Prasanna Sankar, Founder, 0xPPL MODERATOR : Ivan Mehta, Reporter, TechCrunch | Add to Calendar |
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM IST | Keynote Devika MIttal, Head of South Asia, Ava Labs MODERATOR : Sadiq Ahamed, Founder, Growth Protocol | Add to Calendar |
| 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM IST | Money in the New Digital Era Kanny Lee, CEO & Co-founder, SecondSwap | Aishwary Gupta, Global Head of Payments and RWA, Polygon Labs | Akshay Thakur, Director of Product Management, BitGo. MODERATOR : Aritra, COO, ANQ | Add to Calendar |
| 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM IST | Lunch Break Networking Opportunities, Exhibition Booth Visits, One-to-one meetings | Add to Calendar |
| 02:15 PM - 02:30 PM IST | Special Act: Mentalist Performance 0x Mentalist | Add to Calendar |
| 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM IST | Finding Real Value in a Volatile Market Augie Ilag, Investment Partner and Head of Asia, CMT Digital | Amit Mehra, General Partner, Borderless Capital | Nitin Sharma, Partner, Antler MODERATOR : Sharanya Sahai, VP Investment, HEM | Add to Calendar |
| 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM IST | Securing the Next Trillion in On-chain Value Mikhail Kirillov, Founder, Hito wallet | Manhar Garegrat, SVP, Country Head - India & Global Partnerships Liminal Custody MODERATOR: Rajat Gahlot, Co-Founder, QuillAudits | Add to Calendar |
| 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM IST | How Wallets Will Shape Consumer Onboarding in 2026 Rik Krieger, COO, Trust Wallet | Jamie Ek, CMO, Bitget Wallet MODERATOR : Sachin Marya, Editorial Director, Entrepreneur India & APAC | Add to Calendar |
| 08:30 AM - 10:30 AM IST | Registration & Networking | Add to Calendar |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST | Tokenising India’s Assets and IP Siddharth Shetty, CEO, Finternet Labs | Vipul Agrawal, Founder & CEO, Mugafi | Parth Chaturvedi, Director, Canton Foundation MODERATOR : Swapnil, Founder and CEO, NEWRL | Add to Calendar |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM IST | DeFi’s Next Growth Curve Harshit Tiwari, Head of Ecosystem Strategy, NEAR | Avinash Shekhar, Co-Founder & CEO, Pi42 | Rajesh, Chief Commercial Officer, Liminal Custody Bibhu Pattnaik, Digital Media Editor, Writer & Strategist, Benzinga | Add to Calendar |
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM IST | The Stablecoin Shift in African Commerce Amar Odedra, Head of Investments & Capital Markets, Algorand Foundation | Sitashwa Srivastava, Founder & CEO, BRNX | Shishir Gupta, Managing Director, Sorted Wallet MODERATOR : Amit Mehra, Partner, Borderless Capital | Add to Calendar |
| 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM IST | Inside the Engine Room of DEXes Kunal Goel, Investor Relations Specialist, LayerZero | George Anthony, CEO, BullBit | Piyush Deshpande, Growth, Avantis MODERATOR: Sumedha, Growth, Base | Add to Calendar |
| 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM IST | Lunch Break Networking Opportunities, Exhibition Booth Visits, One-to-one meetings | Add to Calendar |
| 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM IST | Why Layer 2 Is Becoming the Enterprise Standard ? Aditi Chopra, Regional Growth, India, Arbitrum Foundation | Gnana Lakshmi TC, Ecosystem Director, Starknet Foundation | Ronak Jethava, Head of Ecosystem Growth, Startale Labs/ Soneium MODERATOR: Ahaan Raizaada, Growth, Base | Add to Calendar |
| 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM IST | From 0 to 1: How Communities Build Winning Products Pareen Lathi, Founder Initiatives Lead, Monad | Denver Dsouza, CEO, Devfolio | DV, CEO, Zo House MODERATOR : Kashvi Parekh, Marketing Lead, Boundless | Add to Calendar |
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM IST | Keynote by 0G Labs Will Riches, Developer Relations Lead, 0G Labs | Add to Calendar |
| 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM IST | What It Takes to Make Zero Knowledge Consumer - Ready Deepthi Kumar, Co-CEO, o1Labs | Add to Calendar |
