Panel: RealFi – opening up opportunity for everyone

Peter globally leads IBM Systems crypto asset solutions that power institutional custody, exchange wallets, and tokenization solutions requiring advanced secure private key management. Peter is responsible for market development, technology roadmaps, and building sales and services infrastructure. As a certified design thinking facilitator, Peter also helps clients enhance their solution's capabilities by leveraging IBM's Hyper Protect Services on premise and on the IBM Cloud. Peter is a regular speaker at blockchain conferences. Prior to his relocation to Asia Pacific from Washington DC in 2013, he was practice leader for Enterprise Architecture, including the divisions large scale software development efforts and IT strategy consulting for US Federal clients including the Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Depository and Trust Corporation, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security. He was also a contributing author to enterprise architecture publication: Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance (2009).

Charles Hoskinson is a Colorado-based technology entrepreneur and mathematician. He attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado Boulder to study analytic number theory before moving into cryptography through industry exposure. His professional experience includes founding three cryptocurrency-related start-ups – Invictus Innovations, Ethereum and IOHK – and he has held a variety of posts in both the public and private sectors. He was the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation’s education committee and established the Cryptocurrency Research Group in 2013. His current projects focus on educating people about cryptocurrency, being an evangelist for decentralization and making cryptographic tools easier to use for the mainstream. This includes leading the research, design and development of Cardano, a third-generation cryptocurrency that launched in September 2017, which now has hundreds of projects being built on the Cardano network.

I am an entrepreneur specialized in research, conception and development, and applications of innovative software platforms (distributed systems, blockchain, IOT). During my PhD, I explored distributed systems and defined a set of middleware solutions dedicated to ubiquitous multi-user interactive applications engineering. In 2020, I joined IOHK as a CTO, a blockchain technology company operating worldwide. We design a provably secure, decentralized, and open social finance system. Between 2017-2019, I worked on several Blockchain projects for banking and telecommunication industries and implemented both infrastructure and relevant use cases for them. I launched a blockchain-based platform dedicated to people who are introducing others for business and job opportunities, and worked on a multi-blockchain overlay network to boost enterprise adoption and reduce costs.