This year at SWITCH 2020, OpenNodes – powered by Tribe will be hosting the Singapore Blockchain Village in a virtual building alongside our blockchain ecosystem partners to bring you 5 days of exciting tech and blockchain events, panels, fireside chats and more!
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Program Highlights
Tribe Accelerator
Global Demo Day 2020
7 Dec, Monday
Tribe’s flagship event has been reworked to bring you a whole new experience. Tribe Accelerator Global Demo Day: Reimagined will bring together a diverse range of startups from our Batches III & IV to showcase some exciting blockchain ideas being applied across different industries.
Industry Day
8 Dec, Tuesday
In collaboration with some of our partners such as Dutch Blockchain Coalition, IBM, Pfizer and Alibaba Cloud, we will be co-hosting a series of industry-focused panels that will dive into the latest trends and provide insights into blockchain applications across sectors ranging from sustainability to healthcare.
Tune in to learn more from these industry experts.
OpenNodes Day
9 Dec, Wednesday
An exciting day filled with launches of OpenNodes intiatives including OpenNodes Campus Collective and Industry Practicums showcasing projects with WeBank, IBM and Cargill.
OpenNodes day will be wrapped up with ZILHive’s Demo Day, featuring 8 startups looking to push blockchain to the next frontier.
Global Partners Day
10 Dec, Thursday
Moving beyond the local landscape, we bring together thought leaders from different ecosystems across the world to provide insights into the various blockchain landscapes, and engage in deep discussions on how we can enhance blockchain adoption on a global scale.
Tune in to learn more from these industry experts.
Singapore Blockchain Village Event Schedule
Our Auditorium will also be broadcasting various events from Tribe demo day, to various webinars and so on, more info on the schedule below. All timings are displayed in GMT +8.
10:00 | Opening Welcome Address of Singapore Blockchain Village
10:05 | Opening Address by Guest-of-Honour
Mr Peter Ong, Chairman, Enterprise Singapore
10:10 | Opening Address for Singapore Blockchain Innovation Programme and Singapore Blockchain Ecosystem Report 2020
Mr Lew Chuen Hong, Chief Executive, IMDA
10:15 | Introduction Highlights of the Singapore Blockchain Ecosystem Report
10:16 | Blockchain Trade & Connectivity Network MOU Signing
10:30 | Panel: What is the Future of Digital Identity?
Junius Ho, Chief Product Officer, Affinidi (Moderator)
Quek Sin Kwok, Senior Director, National Digital Identity Platform and Products, GovTech
Meng Hui Ng, Senior Director, Connected Secured Systems, Infineon
Arnaud Brolly, Blockchain Lead, SITA
11:30 | Panel: It’s 2020… Are we live with Track and Trace yet?
Jonathan Chan, Digital Advisor, APAC, Cargill
Sachin Gupta, Global Agribusiness Offering Leader, IBM (Moderator)
Ashok Venkateswaran, Blockchain and Digital Assets Lead, Mastercard
12:45 | Panel: Blockchain in Government Digital Services
Fatma Elsafty, Manager, Blockchain Technology, du (Moderator)
Tomicah Tillemann, Founder and Director, Digital Impact and Governance Initiative (DIGI) at New America
Intermission
14:00 | Tribe Accelerator Global Demo Day: Reimagined
14:05 | Guest-of-Honour Address
Mr Ted Tan, Deputy CEO, Enterprise Singapore
14:10 | Tribe Accelerator Startup Pitches 1-5
Nerovtec, dltledgers, Accredify, Sentient.io, Merkle Science
14:45 | Tribe Accelerator Startup Pitches 6 – 9
STACS, veriTag, Xfers, Electrify
15:10 | Tribe Accelerator Startup Pitches-10 – 14
OMNi, Trames, FOMO Pay, Chektec, Evercomm
15:45 | Tribe Accelerator Startup Pitches 15 – 18
T-RECs, Chainstack, Navozyme, Sign.net
16:15 | End of Day 1
10:00 | Opening of Industry Day
10:00 | Panel: The Importance of Verifiable Sustainability Data
(Co-hosted by Dutch Blockchain Coalition)
Arno Laeven, SSI Lead, Dutch Blockchain Coalition (Moderator)
Tobias Disse, CEO, Kryha
Sabine Brink, Blockchain Lead, Shell
Walter Kok, CEO, Energy Web Foundation
11:00 | Panel: Blockchain for Circularity: Leveraging Blockchain to Help Solve the Global Plastic Waste Problem
(Co-hosted by Dutch Blockchain Coalition & Kryha)
Alice MacNeil, DLT4EU Programme Manager, Metabolic Institute (Moderator)
Regula Schegg, Managing Director, Asia, Circulate Capital
Anthony DiPrinzio, Head of BASF Blockchain Lab, Digital Innovation Manager, BASF
Tobias Disse, CEO, Kryha
12:00 | Panel: Digital Adoption in Trade – How can blockchain accelerate this outcome?
(Co-hosted by GTR Ventures)
Eleanor Wragg, Senior Reporter, Global Trade Review (GTR) (Moderator)
Oswald Kuyler, Managing Director Digital Standards Initiative (DSI), ICC
Raj Uttamchandani, Executive Director, Trade Finance Market
Iain Morrison, Head of Global Trade and Receivables Finance, HSBC
12:45 | Panel: Healthcare 4.0: Towards Transparency, Accessibility and Beyond
(co-hosted by Pfizer & Alibaba Cloud)
Belle Lim, Business Development Manager, Tribe (Moderator)
Flora Nanda, Senior Manager, Blockchain CoE, Pfizer
Jonathan Lau, Founder, Nervotec
Kenny Tan, Head of International Business, AntChain
13:45 | Panel: Ensuring near Real-Time Traceability – a Necessity in Agri-Food Safety
(co-hosted by IBM)
Raj Rao, General Manager, IBM Food Trust, IBM (Moderator)
Tejas Bhatt, Senior Director, US & Global Food Safety Innovation, Walmart
Bob Wolpert, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Golden State Foods
14:3045 | Panel: It’s 2020… Are we live with Track and Trace yet?
Jonathan Chan, Digital Advisor, APAC, Cargill
Sachin Gupta, Global Agribusiness Offering Leader, IBM (Moderator)
Ashok Venkateswaran, Blockchain and Digital Assets Lead, Mastercard
15:30 | Panel: What is the Future of Digital Identity?
Junius Ho, Chief Product Officer, Affinidi (Moderator)
Quek Sin Kwok, Senior Director, National Digital Identity Platform and Products, GovTech
Meng Hui Ng, Senior Director, Connected Secured Systems, Infineon
Arnaud Brolly, Blockchain Lead, SITA
16:15 | End of Day
10:00 | Opening of OpenNodes Day
10:00 | Panel: Leveraging Blockchain for Good
Joseph Lim, Head of Global Business Development (Moderator)
Peter Zhou, Business Solutions Officer of IT/Finance, World Bank
Herve Tourpe, Chief Digital Advisor, IMF
Alejandro Pardo Vegezzi, Principal Specialist & Leader of LACCChain, IDB Lab
10:30 | Panel: From 1 to 100 – The Future of Blockchain Consortium Building
(Co-hosted by IMDA)
Veronica Tan, Director, Next Generation Platforms, IMDA (Moderator)
Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger
Henry Ma, CIO & Executive Vice President, WeBank
Carl Wegner, Contour, CEO
11:00 | Panel: Readiness for Enterprise Blockchain at Scale
(Co-hosted by IBM)
Parm Sangha, Global Blockchain Leader for Trade and Trade Finance, IBM (moderator)
Junius Ho, Chief Product Officer, Affinidi
Alessandro Spadoni, Chief Architect B3i
Jimmy Ong, APAC Blockchain Lead & Partner, EY
11:30 | Panel: Blockchain Investment Landscape 2020
(Co-hosted by SGInnovate)
Victor Tan, Director, Venture Investing, SGInnovate (Moderator)
Paul Veradittakit, Partner, Pantera Capital
Genping Liu, Partner, Vertex Ventures
Edith Yeung, General Partner, RaceCapital
12:15 | Panel: Blockchain 2025 – Where Are We Headed?(Innovation, Startups, Talents)
(Co-hosted by Temasek)
Kevin Lim, Associate Director, Blockchain, Temasek (Moderator)
Anoop Nannra, Global Blockchain Segment Leader, Amazon Web Services
Amit Ghosh, Head of Asia Pacific, R3
Patrick Yeo, Venture Hub Leader and Partner, PwC Venture Hub
13:00 | Introduction of OpenNodes Campus Collective (ONCC)
13:20 | ONCC’s Industry Practicums (in collaboration with WeBank, IBM and Cargill)
Intermission
15:00 | ZILHive Demo Day
15:05 | ZILHive Demo Day Welcome Address
15:10 | Startup Pitches
16:00 | End of Day 3
10:00 | Opening of Global Partners Day
10:00 | Panel: Uniting the Global Ecosystem Through Collaboration
(Hosted by SingEx in collaboration with Tribe)
Joseph Lim, Head of Global Business Development (Moderator)
Nadia Hewett, Blockchain Lead, World Economic Forum
Richard Teng, CEO, FSRA, Abu Dhabi Global Markets
Marloes Pomp, Head of International Strategy, Dutch Blockchain Coalition
10:30 | Panel: Understanding the LATAM Blockchain Landscape
Mauricio Tovar, Co-Founder and CEO, TRU (Moderator)
Martin Hagelstrom, Blockchain Leader Latin America, IBM
Ignacio Plaza, Managing Partner, Draper Cygnus
Diego Gutiérrez, CEO RSK
11:30 | Panel: Will The Internet of Value influence China’s next frontier?
Betty Ling, Senior Fintech Specialist, WeBank (Moderator)
Lucy Gazmararian, Associate Director, FinTech Advisory, PwC
Daniel Chan, Head of Blockchain Innovation Lab, FORMS HK
Michael Sung, Co-Director of the Fudan Fanhai Fintech Research Center, Fudan University and Chairman of CarbonBlue Innovations
12:15 | Panel: China’s Push for Web 3.0 – Privacy, Regulations
Wei Shi Khai, COO, Longhash Ventures (Moderator)
Ben El-Baz, Head of Ecosystems, Hashkey Digital Asset Group
Dr Peter Zhou, Chief Scientist, VeChain
Sean Lee, CEO, Algorand Foundation
13:15 | Panel: Gleaning into Understanding the European Blockchain Landscape
(Co-Hosted by Dutch Blockchain Coalition)
Peter Verkoulen, Director, Dutch Blockchain Coalition (Moderator)
Pēteris Zilgalvis, J.D.Head of Unit, Digital Innovation and Blockchain
Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner Frankfurt School Blockchain Center
Daniel Du Seuil, Convenor European Self Sovereign Identity Framework (EBSI) at European Blockchain Partnership
14:00 | Panel: Understanding the US Blockchain Landscape
Jules Miller, Partner, Mindset Ventures (Moderator)
Greg Kidd, Co-Founder, GlobaliD and Hard Yaka
Jalak Jobanputra, Founding Partner, Future\Perfect Ventures
Jonathan Levi, CEO, HACERA
14:45 | Panel: Understanding China’s Blockchain Landscape
Richard Wang, Partner, DraperDragon Fund (Moderator)
Jack Lee, Founding Managing Partner, HCM Capital
Tony Sun, Deputy Director, Blockchain Products & Solutions, Ant Group
15:30 | End of Day 4
10:0009:50 | Opening of Ecosystem Partners Day
10:00 | Temasek Showcase
11:00 | CIC Showcase
12:00 | WeBank Showcase
13:00 | IBM Showcase
14:00 | R3 Showcase
15:00 | GovTech x Accredify Showcase
16:00 | STACS Showcase
17:00 | Closing of Singapore Blockchain Village
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Village Partners
The Blockchain Ecosystem Village will consist of 9 buildings – CIC, Dutch Blockchain Coalition, IBM, IMDA, R3, Temasek, Tribe, WeBank, and Zilliqa. Feel free to explore and navigate around in the virtual buildings.
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