Prysm Group and thought partner McKinsey & Company welcome you to the
First-Mover Web3 Summit
A global event in the metaverse
welcome message
Academic Director Prof. Kevin Werbach
Bringing the latest in Web3 case studies, learning and development highlights, and industry career trends.
our speakers
Leaders across government and industry
Guido Molinari
Managing Partner
Prysm Group
Guido is the Managing Partner of Prysm Group, an Inc. 500 member. He leads the firm's operations and relationships with academic institutions, enterprises, investment funds, and government entities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Matt is a Partner and a leader in McKinsey’s Financial Services and Risk Practices. He leads McKinsey’s Web3 efforts globally, working with executives around the world to help them craft strategies to engage with Web3 and build new businesses utilizing its core technologies of blockchain, smart contracts and digital assets.
Guido is the Managing Partner of Prysm Group, an Inc. 500 member. He leads the firm's operations and relationships with academic institutions, enterprises, investment funds, and government entities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Matt is a Partner and a leader in McKinsey’s Financial Services and Risk Practices. He leads McKinsey’s Web3 efforts globally, working with executives around the world to help them craft strategies to engage with Web3 and build new businesses utilizing its core technologies of blockchain, smart contracts and digital assets.
Director, Product Management (Agile Lead), Fidelity Digital Assets
Fidelity Investments
Ololade Babalola is an experienced digital transformation professional across multiple industries such as Fintech, Healthcare, Blockchain & Digital Assets. His work and passions are focused on crypto, blockchain, web3 & the digital assets ecosystem.
Dr. Cathy Barrera is a Partner and Founding Economist of Prysm Group. Dr. Barrera holds a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. She is an academic advisor to the World Economic Forum and an Opinion Columnist for CoinDesk.
Chris Deans is a blockchain and digital asset specialist with deep knowledge of NFTs, mining/staking, exchanges, and enterprise adoption. Chris regularly speaks and co-authors publications on blockchain topics and has over nine years of experience serving clients from start-ups through large multi-nationals including Coinbase, Gemini, GameStop and more.
As global head of digital asset & technology design, Nitin's aim is to transition part of State Street’s financial market infrastructure and that of its clients to the new digital economy to promote State Street Digital’s aspiration to build the digital bank of tomorrow.
As global head of product strategy, Grubb's is responsible for developing and driving end-to-end product strategy for State Street Digital. He is focused on management, innovation, strategic business development, investment strategy, and marketing in fields including global finance, metals, mining, exchanges, and blockchain.
William leads engineering vision, strategy, and execution of Toyota's Data, Safety, Connectivity and TechOps teams on top of its IoT, Cloud & DevOps, and Data platforms. Among his projects includes the launch of the Lexus Performance Driving School NFT.
Oli is part of the Digital Assets team at Goldman Sachs. Previously, he was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan where he created the Corporate & Investment Bank’s Digital Strategy & FinTech team, including their InResidence incubation programme, before becoming Head of Digital-Assets Strategy & Quorum.
Dr. Stephanie Hurder is a Partner and Founding Economist of Prysm Group. Her work leverages tools from cutting-edge economics research with emerging technologies expertise to design successful incentive-compatible digital economies. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University, where she was advised by Professors Claudia Goldin and Nobel Laureate Al Roth.
Sankar is Executive Vice President & Head of Digital Assets with Capgemini, where he is responsible for the global go-to-market for Capgemini’s Digital Assets capabilities.
Shai is the Global Tech Lead for Blockchain at Amazon Web Services, who for the last 15 years has been focusing on helping enterprise and public sector organizations modernize IT. He is passionate about transforming traditional enterprise IT thinking and pushing the boundaries of conventional technology usage.
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and President, Healthcare
Mastercard
At Mastercard, Raja is responsible for successfully leading the company’s marketing transformation from being a support function to becoming a vital business driver and from being a cost center to being a significant net direct revenue generator. Some of the key initiatives under his stewardship include the development of Priceless experiential marketing platform, breakthrough multi-sensory marketing strategy, the highly acknowledged symbol brand launch and a cutting-edge sonic branding, recognized as the best in the world for three years in a row, and Mastercard’s entry into Web3, covering metaverse, NFTs, blockchains, and cryptocurrencies.
Head of Alpha Engineering and Digital Assets Lab, Managing Director, Aladdin Product Group
BlackRock
Adam Salvatori is the Head of Alpha Engineering and Digital Assets Lab in the Aladdin Product Group (APG). Alpha Engineering designs and builds the platforms that power both systematic and fundamental alpha research solutions for the firm and the Aladdin community. The Digital Asset Lab is a team of Aladdin product experts, blockchain engineers, and researchers that co-build with 1Aladdin and 1BLK investors teams to deliver commercial solutions for clients.
Julian Sevillano brings over 20 years of experience in banking and payments, having advised financial institutions, digital assets firms, and regulatory agencies in the US and abroad on the risk and compliance implications of launching, scaling, and supervising digital assets businesses. He also advises banks on launching new digital assets businesses and helps digital assets firms obtain Federal and State banking licenses.
Global Vice President - Emerging Technologies and Digital Assets Solutions
IBM
Saket Sinha is the Global Vice President for emerging technologies and digital assets solutions at IBM for financial services industry. In this role, Mr. Sinha is responsible for FSS focused offerings and solutions development encompassing Data, AI, Automation, Blockchain, Digital Assets, IoT, Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, and partner solutions.
David is a senior managing director and co-lead of the metaverse continuum business group at Accenture. He leads Accenture's Tech Incubation Group, which includes its blockchain and multi-party systems, extended reality, quantum computing, and robotics businesses.
Ian Zhang is the Founder and CEO of Geno Group and a board member of Concordium Foundation. His work focuses on Web3 applications for the automotive industry in establishing traceability, transforming sales funnel to ensure D2C with better customer experience, and improving financial servicing to stakeholders.
Guido is the Managing Partner of Prysm Group, an Inc. 500 member. He leads the firm's operations and relationships with academic institutions, enterprises, investment funds, and government entities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Matt is a Partner and a leader in McKinsey’s Financial Services and Risk Practices. He leads McKinsey’s Web3 efforts globally, working with executives around the world to help them craft strategies to engage with Web3 and build new businesses utilizing its core technologies of blockchain, smart contracts and digital assets.
Johnny Antos is a Senior Associate at Prysm Group, where he works at the forefront of economics, advising firms on projects relating to blockchain, digital assets, and metaverse technologies.
As the Head of PreSales Engineering at SAP SuccessFactors, Siddhartha is responsible for leading teams of talented individuals in the design and implementation of innovative solutions and demos that help its customers achieve their business goals.
Shaping the future of finance as a Director in the Financial Services Advisory practice at PwC with over 10 years of consulting experience, including front to back-office related roles. Matt is focused on helping bring more people into crypto through educating, upskilling and demonstrating the benefits of the ecosystem.
Ian De Bode is a Partner with McKinsey & Company’s San Francisco office. He leads McKinsey’s web3 and digital assets service line in North America. He has distinctive experience working with financial institutions and investment funds, including building and bringing new blockchain-based products to market and defining their strategy
Vice President, Streaming Strategy and Corporate Development
TelevisaUnivision
Mariano manages TelevisaUnivision's portfolio of assets and businesses across the US, Mexico and rest of Latam, including streaming, broadcast and pay TV, audio, sports, live events, etc, driving TelevisaUnivision's vision to become the #1 Spanish Language streaming platform in the world.
Edwina is EY's Global Chief Customer Success Officer, and leads the metaverse community across EY globally, including EY wavespace, which expands to the metaverse for fully immersive experiences, and EY metaverse lab, which helps enable rapid testing and scaling of new ideas, business models.
Program Manager, Information Innovation Office (I2O)
DARPA
Dr. Mark Flood joined DARPA as a program manager in the Information Innovation Office (I2O) in June 2020. His research interests include computational finance, financial intelligence, and financial system resilience.
Dr. Rod Fontecilla is a partner and the Chief Innovation Officer. He oversees the firm’s strategic research and development efforts, advances initiatives to expand corporate technical competencies and capabilities, and fosters the development of innovative solutions for current and prospective clients.
Product Lead - Digital Payments / FinTech Innovation
Walmart
Joseph Hayes own the payments innovation strategy and FinTech partnerships for Walmart. His responsibilities include creating and driving the innovation product vision for the company, building the capabilities roadmap in support of technology and customer trends, and identifying and driving FinTech investment and partnerships.
Vid Hribar is part of the Blockchain Hub at Raiffeisen Bank International AG. His responsibilities include initiating, managing, and steering blockchain projects and PoCs and collaborating with different business lines in order to prepare blockchain strategy for the group.
Rob Hurd is a Foreign Affairs Officer at the Department of State. Rob serves in the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary, where his portfolio of emerging technologies includes Distributed Ledger Technologies, AR/XR/VR and Digital Assets. Rob was formerly an infantry officer in the U.S. Army, and he holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and a Master in Advanced Global Studies from Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA).
Sunil focuses on supporting in digital transformation for businesses and supporting functions through Infosys' digital strategy, transformation, and managed services frameworks which promote cost reduction, improved business agility, innovation, reduced risks, and better ROI by way of blockchain, IoT, cloud, and big data.
Vice President & Assistant General Counsel - Emerging Technology
JPMorgan
As Assistant General Counsel on the firm’s Tech Legal team, Krystin Kopen advises on projects relating to blockchain, digital assets, and other emerging technologies. She is a strategic advisor to the firm’s blockchain team helping to guide innovation across a range of client bases and banking products in connection with development of new blockchain-based initiatives.
Rita is the Head of FinTech Partnerships, for Global Functions, at HSBC, where she builds and manages relationships with high-potential startups and drives collaboration between fintechs, decentralized finance, and traditional financial services.
As Global Head - Blockchain, Business & Technology Services at TCS, Poulose provides advisory and consulting support to c-suite professionals on ecosystem business models, sustainability solutions, blockchain, and metaverse and leads analyst relations and capability briefings for blockchain technology.
Yorke is Director of Strategy & Transformation, Blockchain at Microsoft where he leads company efforts in blockchain and web3. In 2015 he cofounded Blockchain @Microsoft and set the company on a course from enterprise blockchain to its current day curiosity in web3.
Ben Schreckinger covers the intersection of technology, politics and policy for POLITICO, where he is co-author of the Digital Future Daily newsletter.
Chris holds bank-wide responsibility for Customer Bank's marketing, product development/management, payments, technology/dev, mobile and online banking, crypto industry products and services, including Customers Bank Instant Token™️ (CBIT™️).
Craig Swanson is a leader in Booz Allen’s Strategic Innovation Group, with a focus on digital transformation for civil government agencies. Craig applies more than 20 years of experience in commercial and federal technology modernization to drive mission value through modern, experience-driven digital ecosystems.
Rich Widmann is a senior operator and lawyer with extensive experience in blockchain and cryptocurrency. Rich serves as the Global Head of Strategy for Web3 at Google Cloud, where he cofounded Google’s first Web3 efforts and oversees the ongoing execution of Google Cloud’s vision for Web3.
Web3 is all about collaboration. Web3 leadership from Prysm Group and McKinsey welcome you to this exciting two-day global event. Hear about some of the highlights in both our Business Applications and Learning & Development days.
Large technology companies are embracing Web3 at different speeds. Heard from leadership from three of the largest players in tech on what they see in terms of business challenges and opportunities.
A C-Suite View on Web3: Fireside Chat between Dr. Cathy Barrera and Raja Rajamannar
Join Mastercard Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and President, Healthcare Business Raja Rajamannar and Prysm Group Founding Economist Dr. Cathy Barrera for a fireside chat about Web3 view from the top.
Wall Street is increasingly looking at providing access and exposure to Web3 products to their customers. Hear from leaders at companies that are taking active steps in this journey to see what the constraints and opportunities are.
NFTs are experiencing a down open market while there is a surge of activity among enterprises. Hear from a few on why or why not yet companies should look at incorporating these unique digital assets into their business models.
Asset tokenization is becoming a reality thanks to the innovative steps by various new and existing players. Hear from a few of them on where the opportunities lie and what might be possible in the near future.
Welcome to the Learning & Development and Web3 Career Day
A welcome from your summit co-hosts to a day rich of panels and discussions around the role of Web3 in learning and development, organizational transformation and the exciting job opportunities in the space.
Financial players discuss how Web3 is increasing in interest among their workforce and what learning and development needs have arisen within their organizations.
Government agencies at all levels are upskilling on Web3 topics. Hear from leaders across different branches of government on how they are training their workforce to meet the needs and challenges of these emerging technologies.
Looking for a career change into Web3? Hear from leading companies across sectors on the growing opportunities for professional growth focused on this emering technologies.
Following completing the registration form linked below, Wharton Web3 certificate holders will receive confirmation of their registration and Summit access information.
