IEEE Canada Blockchain Forum 2025 (3rd edition)

Speaker Announcements – (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rameshramadoss/), Chair, IEEE Blockchain Technical Community, Author, Speaker – (https://www.linkedin.com/in/weekeetoh/), Global Head of Business Architecture for Digital Payments, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan – (https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrmacdonald/), EY Global Lead Partner, Public Financial Management; Lead Partner, Government & Public Sector (Ontario) – (https://www.ece.utoronto.ca/people/veneris-a/), Professor at the University of Toronto – (https://www.cigionline.org/people/paul-samson/), President of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) – (https://www.bankofcanada.ca/profile/scott-hendry/), Senior Research Officer at the Bank of Canada – (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nassib-kazoun/), Director, Advisors Client Services at Mastercard Data & Services – (https://www.linkedin.com/in/soosan-naderi-mighan/), Innovation Lead in Blockchain and Cybersecurity at Exaion – (https://www.linkedin.com/in/redwanmeslem/), Executive Director at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) – More speakers to be announced (see below) And researchers from the University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Waterloo, York University, as well as startup founders from (https://creativedestructionlab.com/streams/blockchain-web3/) (Web3 Stream in partnership with University of Toronto and HEC Montréal). Main Themes – Finance: Global Payments, CBDC vs Stablecoins 💸, DeFi – Cybersecurity 🔒 – Energy Distribution ⚡ Gold Sponsor – CredShields Silver Sponsor – Starknet Foundation Sponsors – Compass360 Consulting – Basket – BDATA – Pando Law Co-sponsored by: Exaion Speaker(s): Mark MacDonald, Wee Kee Toh, Andreas Veneris, Paul Samson, Scott Hendry, Nassib Kazoun, Douglas Heintzman, Henry Kim, Steven Karpenko, Peter Liber, Marc Lijour, Maharshi Patel, Shashank, Peyman Momeni, Soosan Naderi, Prateek Saxena, Mujtaba Khan, Adit Patel, Jonathan Chang, Ruairi Hanafin, Chinmay Patel, Victor Li, David Barreto, Syed Bari, Colton Dillion, Mike Silagadze, Deborah (Deb) Clark-Forster, Jeremy Black, Dr. Zehua Wang, Mori Zihayat, Rami Karam, Dr. Mohamad S. Sangari, Zhiyang Chen Agenda: Latest Agenda MAIN ROOM (aka Theatre Room) 9 am – Registration 9:30 am – Welcome and introduction – Chair Marc Lijour (IEEE Toronto) & Co-chair Monica Tsang (IEEE Waterloo) Welcome and Land Acknowledgement – Michael Boni, Senior Sector Advisor, Ontario Blockchain Cluster Lead, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade 9:45 am – Welcome from Dr. Ramesh Ramadoss, Co-founder and Global Chair IEEE Blockchain Technical Community 10 am – Redwan Meslem, Executive DIrector, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) 10:20 am – Designing Payment Tokens for Open Blockchains presented by Wee Kee Toh, Global Head of Business Architecture for Digital Payments, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan 10: 40 am – Driving Value in Public Financial Management by Mark R MacDonald, EY Global Lead Partner, Public Financial Management; Lead Partner, Government & Public Sector (Ontario) 11 am – Small 10 min Break and Room Setup for the panel – 11:10 am – Environics Research Group presents “Crypto curious: What Canadians Think About Investing in Bitcoin” featuring Bernice Cheung 11:15 am – 12:30 pm – CBDCs vs Stablecoins vs Tokenized Deposit: What are they and who is right? a panel moderated by Andreas Veneris, with Paul Samson, Scott Hendry, Wee Kee Toh, Nassib Kazoun LUNCH Break 1 pm – Panel on the Ontario Blockchain ecosystem moderated by Steven Karpenko with Peter Liber, Douglas Heintzman, Dr. Henry Kim 1:50 pm – An overview of the Cybersecurity landscape in Ontario by Deborah Clark-Forster, Sr. Account Executive, MEDJCT, Ontario Government. 2 pm – Panel on Blockchain and Cybersecurity moderated by Marc Lijour with Maharshi Patel, Shashank, Peyman Momeni 2:45 pm – Short Break 3 pm – Panel on Blockchain and Energy moderated by Marc Lijour with Soosan Naderi, Prateek Saxena, Mujtaba Khan 4 pm – Networking 5 pm – Closing SEMINAR ROOM Tables will be set to network and to eat lunch. Sessions will take a pause for lunch. 10 am – Exploring the Latest in Layer 1 Technical Developments and Ecosystem Building with Nibiru, Jonathan Chang 10:30 am – A Methodology for Replicating Historical Exploits on EVM-Compatible Blockchains with Zhiyang Chen 11 am – Modern tools for custody with Rami Karam 11:30 am – Breaking Through the Blocks: The pursuit of blockchain-enabled trade and supply chain finance with Dr. Mohamad S. Sangari …LUNCH… 1 pm – Decentralized machine learning with blockchain: the AI x Carbon project with Zehua Wang 1:30 pm – Decentralized Context: The Missing Layer for Scalable AI Agents with Mori Zihayat 2 pm – Quantum Attacks! Q-Day Vulnerabilities in Classical Blockchains with Colton Dillion 2 :30 pm – Blockscope Tutorial with Adit Patel 3 pm – Scaling Smart Contract Security with AI Automation with Shashank 3:30 pm – QuantLayer: Redefining Cybersecurity with a Patented Multilayer Zero Trust Framework with Syed Bari 4 pm – Networking 5 pm – Closing DEMO ROOM (aka Multimedia Boardroom) Poster presentations from college and university students from Ontario and beyond, student projects, and more. LUNCH will be made available in this room for pick up between 11 am and 1 pm. Tables are available next door in the Seminar room. Presentations of student projects: 1 pm – WujuPay with Godfrey Jonas 1:30 pm – TBD GALLERIA ROOM 2:30 pm – Starknet: Scaling Bitcoin and Ethereum by David Barreto 3 pm – DeFi Toronto Panel: “DeFi’s Second Act: Will ‘DeFi Summer’ Return With a Vengeance?” moderated by Victor Li with Ruairi Hanafin, Chinmay Patel, Mike Silagadze, and Jeremy Black 4 pm – Networking 5 pm – Closing ROUNDTABLE ROOM (aka Roundtable Boardroom) Dedicated space for conversations and networking during and outside the sessions. Ontario Investment and Trade Centre, 250 Yonge Street, 35th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 2L7