BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250516T170402Z UID:439ABDA0-BEC9-4772-BBC7-4E4FD0A07C18 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250513T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250513T170000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker Announcements\n\n- [Ramesh Ramadoss](https://www.linked in.com/in/rameshramadoss/)\, Chair\, IEEE Blockchain Technical Community\, Author\, Speaker\n- [Wee Kee Toh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/weekeetoh/) \, Global Head of Business Architecture for Digital Payments\, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan\n- [Mark R MacDonald](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrmacdona ld/)\, EY Global Lead Partner\, Public Financial Management\; Lead Partner \, Government & Public Sector (Ontario)\n- [Dr. Andreas Veneris](https://w ww.ece.utoronto.ca/people/veneris-a/)\, Professor at the University of Tor onto\n- [Paul Samson](https://www.cigionline.org/people/paul-samson/)\, Pr esident of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)\n- [S cott Hendry](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/profile/scott-hendry/)\, Senior R esearch Officer at the Bank of Canada\n- [Nassib Kazoun](https://www.linke din.com/in/nassib-kazoun/)\, Director\, Advisors Client Services at Master card Data & Services\n- [Dr. Soosan Naderi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/so osan-naderi-mighan/)\, Innovation Lead in Blockchain and Cybersecurity at Exaion\n- [Redwan Meslem](https://www.linkedin.com/in/redwanmeslem/)\, Exe cutive Director at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)\n- [Shashank](ht tps://www.linkedin.com/in/shashank-in/)\, Co-founder & CEO at [CredShields ](https://credshields.com/)\n- [David Barreto](https://www.linkedin.com/in /davidbarretollano/)\, Developer Advocate at [Starknet Foundation](https:/ /starknet.io/)\n- [Syed Bari](https://www.linkedin.com/in/syedbari/)\, Fou nder and CTO at [BDATA](http://bdata.ca/)\n- [Chinmay Patel](https://www.l inkedin.com/in/patelchinmay/)\, CEO at Basket\n- More speakers to be annou nced (see below)\n\nAnd researchers from the University of Toronto\, Toron to Metropolitan University\, the University of Waterloo\, York University\ , as well as startup founders from [Creative Destruction Lab](https://crea tivedestructionlab.com/streams/blockchain-web3/) (Web3 Stream in partnersh ip with University of Toronto and HEC Montréal).\n\nMain Themes\n\n- Fina nce: Global Payments\, CBDC vs Stablecoins 💸\, DeFi\n- Cybersecurity 🔒\n- Energy Distribution ⚡\n\nGold Sponsor\n\n- CredShields\n\nSilver Sponsor\n\n- Starknet Foundation\n\nSponsors\n\n- Compass360 Consulting\n - Basket\n- BDATA\n- Pando Law\n\nCo-sponsored by: Exaion\n\nSpeaker(s): M ark 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\, Rua iri Hanafin\, Chinmay Patel\, Victor Li\, David Barreto\, Syed Bari\, Colt on Dillion\, Mike Silagadze\, Deborah (Deb) Clark-Forster\, Jeremy Black\, Dr. Zehua Wang\, Mori Zihayat\, Rami Karam\, Dr. Mohamad S. Sangari\, Zh iyang Chen\, Bernice Cheung\, Godfrey Jonas\, Elena Sinelnikova\n\nAgenda: \nLatest Agenda\n\nMAIN ROOM (aka Theatre Room)\n\n9 am – Registration\ n\n9:30 am - Welcome and introduction - Chair Marc Lijour (IEEE Toronto) & Co-chair Monica Tsang (IEEE Waterloo)\nWelcome and Land Acknowledgement - Michael Boni\, Senior Sector Advisor\, Ontario Blockchain Cluster Lead\, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development\, Job Creation and Trade\n\n9:45 am - Welcome from Dr. Ramesh Ramadoss\, Co-founder and Global Chair IEEE B lockchain Technical Community\n\n10 am - Redwan Meslem\, Executive DIrecto r\, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)\n\n10:20 am - Designing Payment Tok ens for Open Blockchains presented by Wee Kee Toh\, Global Head of Busines s Architecture for Digital Payments\, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan\n\n10: 40 am - Driving Value in Public Financial Management by Mark R MacDonald\, EY Gl obal Lead Partner\, Public Financial Management\; Lead Partner\, Governmen t & Public Sector (Ontario)\n\n11 am - Small 10 min Break and Room Setup f or the panel -\n\n11:10 am - Environics Research Group presents “Crypto curious: What Canadians Think About Investing in Bitcoin” featuring Bern ice Cheung\n\n11:15 am - 12:30 pm - CBDCs vs Stablecoins vs Tokenized Depo sit: What are they and who is right? a panel moderated by Andreas Veneris\ , with Paul Samson\, Scott Hendry\, Wee Kee Toh\, Nassib Kazoun\n\nLUNCH B reak\n\n1 pm - Panel on the Ontario Blockchain ecosystem moderated by Stev en Karpenko with Peter Liber\, Douglas Heintzman\, Dr. Henry Kim\n\n1:50 p m - An overview of the Cybersecurity landscape in Ontario by Deborah Clark -Forster\, Sr. Account Executive\, MEDJCT\, Ontario Government.\n\n2 pm - Panel on Blockchain and Cybersecurity moderated by Marc Lijour with Mahars hi Patel\, Shashank\, Peyman Momeni\n\n2:45 pm - Short Break\n\n3 pm - Pan el on Blockchain and Energy moderated by Marc Lijour with Soosan Naderi\, Prateek Saxena\, Mujtaba Khan\n\n4 pm - Networking\n\n5 pm - Closing\n\nSE MINAR ROOM\n\nTables will be set to network and to eat lunch. Lunch can be picked up in the neighbouring room (multimedia) as early as 11 am.\n\n10 am - Exploring the Latest in Layer 1 Technical Developments and Ecosystem Building with Nibiru\, Jonathan Chang\n\n10:30 am - A Methodology for Repl icating Historical Exploits on EVM-Compatible Blockchains with Zhiyang Che n\n\n11 am - Modern tools for custody with Rami Karam\n\n11:30 am - Breaki ng Through the Blocks: The pursuit of blockchain-enabled trade and supply chain finance with Dr. Mohamad S. Sangari\n\nNoon - Blockchain and AI with Douglas Heintzman\n\n12:30 pm - A Blockchain for the AI Era with Elena Si nelnikova\n\n...LUNCH…\n\n1 pm - Decentralized machine learning with blo ckchain: the AI x Carbon project with Zehua Wang\n\n1:30 pm - Decentralize d Context: The Missing Layer for Scalable AI Agents with Mori Zihayat\n\n2 pm - Quantum Attacks! Q-Day Vulnerabilities in Classical Blockchains with Colton Dillion\n\n2 :30 pm - Blockscope Tutorial with Adit Patel\n\n3 pm - Scaling Smart Contract Security with AI Automation with Shashank\n\n3:30 pm - QuantLayer: Redefining Cybersecurity with a Patented Multilayer Zero Trust Framework with Syed Bari\n\n4 pm - Networking\n\n5 pm - Closing\n\n DEMO ROOM (aka Multimedia Boardroom)\n\nPoster presentations from college and university students from Ontario and beyond\, student projects\, and m ore.\n\nLUNCH will be made available in this room for pick up between 11 a m and 1 pm. Tables are available next door in the Seminar room.\n\nPresent ations of student projects:\n\n1 pm - WujuPay with Godfrey Jonas\n\n1:30 p m - TBD\n\nGALLERIA ROOM\n\n2:30 pm - Starknet: Scaling Bitcoin and Ethere um by David Barreto\n\n3 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\n\ n4 pm - Networking\n\n5 pm - Closing\n\nROUNDTABLE ROOM (aka Roundtable Bo ardroom)\n\nDedicated space for conversations and networking during and ou tside the sessions.\n\nOntario Investment and Trade Centre\, 250 Yonge Str eet\, 35th Floor\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada\, M5B 2L7 LOCATION:Ontario Investment and Trade Centre\, 250 Yonge Street\, 35th Floo r\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada\, M5B 2L7 ORGANIZER:marclijour@ieee.org SEQUENCE:52 SUMMARY:IEEE Canada Blockchain Forum 2025 (3rd edition) URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/469545 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>Speaker Announcements</strong></p> \n<ul>\n<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rameshramadoss/">Ramesh R amadoss</a>\, Chair\, IEEE Blockchain Technical Community\, Author\, Speak er</li>\n<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/weekeetoh/">Wee Kee Toh< /a>\, Global Head of Business Architecture for Digital Payments\, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan</li>\n<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrmacdona ld/">Mark R MacDonald</a>\, EY Global Lead Partner\, Public Financial Mana gement\; Lead Partner\, Government &amp\; Public Sector (Ontario)</li>\n<l i><a href="https://www.ece.utoronto.ca/people/veneris-a/">Dr. Andreas Vene ris</a>\, Professor at the University of Toronto</li>\n<li><a href="https: //www.cigionline.org/people/paul-samson/">Paul Samson</a>\, President of t he Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)</li>\n<li><a href ="https://www.bankofcanada.ca/profile/scott-hendry/">Scott Hendry</a>\, Se nior Research Officer at the Bank of Canada</li>\n<li><a href="https://www .linkedin.com/in/nassib-kazoun/">Nassib Kazoun</a>\, Director\, Advisors C lient Services at Mastercard Data &amp\; Services</li>\n<li><a href="https ://www.linkedin.com/in/soosan-naderi-mighan/">Dr. Soosan Naderi</a>\, Inno vation Lead in Blockchain and Cybersecurity at Exaion</li>\n<li><a href="h ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/redwanmeslem/">Redwan Meslem</a>\, Executive Di rector at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)</li>\n<li><a href="https: //www.linkedin.com/in/shashank-in/">Shashank</a>\, Co-founder &amp\; CEO a t <a href="https://credshields.com/">CredShields</a></li>\n<li><a href="ht tps://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbarretollano/">David Barreto</a>\, Develope r Advocate at <a href="https://starknet.io/">Starknet Foundation</a></li>\ n<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/syedbari/">Syed Bari</a>\, Found er and CTO at <a href="http://bdata.ca/">BDATA</a></li>\n<li><a href="http s://www.linkedin.com/in/patelchinmay/">Chinmay Patel</a>\, CEO at Basket</ li>\n<li>More speakers to be announced (see below)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>And res earchers from the University of Toronto\, Toronto Metropolitan University\ , the University of Waterloo\, York University\, as well as startup founde rs from <a href="https://creativedestructionlab.com/streams/blockchain-web 3/">Creative Destruction Lab</a> (Web3 Stream in partnership with Universi ty of Toronto and HEC Montr&eacute\;al).</p>\n<p><strong>Main Themes</stro ng></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finance: Global Payments\, CBDC vs Stablecoins 💸\, D eFi</li>\n<li>Cybersecurity 🔒</li>\n<li>Energy Distribution ⚡</li>\n< /ul>\n<p><strong>Gold Sponsor</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>CredShields</li>\n</ ul>\n<p><strong>Silver Sponsor</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starknet Foundation </li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Sponsors</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compass360 Consu lting</li>\n<li>Basket&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>BDATA</li>\n<li>Pando Law</li>\n</ ul>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p><strong>Latest Agenda</str ong></p>\n<p dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgb(194\, 224\, 244) \;">MAIN ROOM</span>&nbsp\;<em>(aka Theatre Room)</em></p>\n<p dir="ltr">9 am &ndash\; Registration</p>\n<p dir="ltr">9:30 am - Welcome and introduc tion - Chair Marc Lijour (IEEE Toronto) &amp\; Co-chair Monica Tsang (IEEE Waterloo)&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<br>&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\ ; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; Welcome and Land Acknowledgement - Michael Boni\ , Senior Sector Advisor\, Ontario Blockchain&nbsp\;Cluster Lead\, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development\,&nbsp\;Job Creation and Trade</p>\n<p di r="ltr">9:45 am - Welcome from Dr. Ramesh Ramadoss\, Co-founder and Global Chair IEEE Blockchain Technical Community</p>\n<p dir="ltr">10 am - Redwa n Meslem\, Executive DIrector\, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)</p>\n<p dir="ltr">10:20 am - <strong>Designing Payment Tokens for Open Blockchain s</strong> presented by Wee Kee Toh\, Global Head of Business Architecture for Digital Payments\, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan</p>\n<p dir="ltr">10: 40 am - <strong>Driving Value in Public Financial Management </strong>by Mark R MacDonald\, EY Global Lead Partner\, Public Financial Management\; Lead P artner\, Government &amp\; Public Sector (Ontario)</p>\n<p dir="ltr">11 am <em>- Small 10 min Break and Room Setup for the panel -</em></p>\n<p dir= "ltr">11:10 am - Environics Research Group presents &ldquo\;<strong>Crypto curious: What Canadians Think&nbsp\;About Investing in Bitcoin</strong>&r dquo\; featuring Bernice Cheung</p>\n<p dir="ltr">11:15 am - 12:30 pm -&nb sp\;<strong>CBDCs vs Stablecoins vs Tokenized Deposit: What are they and w ho is right?</strong> a panel moderated by Andreas Veneris\, with Paul Sam son\, Scott Hendry\, Wee Kee Toh\, Nassib Kazoun</p>\n<p dir="ltr"><em>LUN CH Break</em></p>\n<p dir="ltr">1 pm - <strong>Panel on the Ontario Blockc hain ecosystem</strong> moderated by Steven Karpenko&nbsp\;with Peter Libe r\, Douglas Heintzman\, Dr. Henry Kim</p>\n<p dir="ltr">1:50 pm - <strong> An overview of the Cybersecurity landscape in Ontario</strong> by Deborah Clark-Forster\,&nbsp\;Sr. Account Executive\, MEDJCT\, Ontario Government. </p>\n<p dir="ltr">2 pm - <strong>Panel on Blockchain and Cybersecurity</s trong>&nbsp\;moderated by Marc Lijour&nbsp\;with Maharshi Patel\, Shashank \, Peyman Momeni<strong id="docs-internal-guid-40ec96fb-7fff-63de-cb76-2c0 3afa3016d"></strong></p>\n<p dir="ltr">2:45 pm - <em>Short Break</em></p>\ n<p dir="ltr">3 pm&nbsp\; - <strong>Panel on Blockchain and Energy</strong > moderated by Marc Lijour with Soosan Naderi\, Prateek Saxena\, Mujtaba K han</p>\n<p dir="ltr">4 pm - Networking&nbsp\;</p>\n<p dir="ltr">5 pm - Cl osing</p>\n<p dir="ltr">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p dir="ltr"><span style="background- color: rgb(248\, 202\, 198)\;">SEMINAR ROOM</span></p>\n<p dir="ltr">Table s will be set to network and to eat lunch. Lunch can be picked up in the n eighbouring room (multimedia) as early as 11 am.</p>\n<p dir="ltr">10 am - <strong>Exploring the Latest in Layer 1 Technical Developments and Ecosys tem&nbsp\;Building</strong> with Nibiru\, Jonathan Chang</p>\n<p dir="ltr" >10:30 am - <strong>A Methodology for Replicating Historical Exploits on E VM-Compatible&nbsp\;Blockchains</strong> with Zhiyang Chen</p>\n<p dir="lt r">11 am - <strong>Modern tools for custody</strong> with Rami Karam<br><b r>11:30 am - <strong>Breaking Through the Blocks: The pursuit of blockchai n-enabled trade and&nbsp\;supply chain finance</strong> with Dr. Mohamad S . Sangari</p>\n<p dir="ltr">Noon - <strong>Blockchain and AI</strong> with Douglas Heintzman</p>\n<p dir="ltr">12:30 pm - <strong>A Blockchain for t he AI Era</strong> with Elena Sinelnikova</p>\n<p dir="ltr">...LUNCH&helli p\;</p>\n<p dir="ltr">1 pm - <strong>Decentralized machine learning with b lockchain: the AI x Carbon project</strong> with Zehua Wang</p>\n<p dir="l tr">1:30 pm - <strong>Decentralized Context: The Missing Layer for Scalabl e AI Agents </strong>with Mori Zihayat</p>\n<p dir="ltr">2 pm - <strong>Qu antum Attacks! Q-Day Vulnerabilities in Classical Blockchains</strong>&nbs p\;with Colton Dillion</p>\n<p dir="ltr">2 :30 pm - <strong>Blockscope Tut orial </strong>with Adit Patel</p>\n<p dir="ltr">3 pm - <strong>Scaling Sm art Contract Security with AI Automation</strong> with Shashank</p>\n<p di r="ltr">3:30 pm - <strong>QuantLayer: Redefining Cybersecurity with a Pate nted Multilayer Zero Trust&nbsp\;Framework</strong> with Syed Bari&nbsp\;< /p>\n<p dir="ltr">4 pm - Networking&nbsp\;</p>\n<p dir="ltr">5 pm - Closin g</p>\n<p dir="ltr">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p dir="ltr"><span style="background-colo r: rgb(191\, 237\, 210)\;">DEMO ROOM</span><em>&nbsp\;(aka Multimedia Boar droom)</em></p>\n<p dir="ltr">Poster presentations from college and univer sity students from Ontario and beyond\, student projects\, and more.</p>\n <p dir="ltr"><strong>LUNCH</strong> will be made available in this room fo r pick up between 11 am and 1 pm. Tables are available next door in the Se minar room.</p>\n<p dir="ltr">Presentations of student projects:</p>\n<p d ir="ltr">1 pm - <strong>WujuPay</strong> with Godfrey Jonas</p>\n<p dir="l tr">1:30 pm - TBD</p>\n<p dir="ltr">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p dir="ltr"><span style= "background-color: rgb(236\, 202\, 250)\;">GALLERIA ROOM&nbsp\;</span></p> \n<p dir="ltr">2:30 pm - <strong>Starknet: Scaling Bitcoin and Ethereum</s trong> by David Barreto</p>\n<p dir="ltr">3 pm - DeFi Toronto Panel: <stro ng>&ldquo\;DeFi&rsquo\;s Second Act: Will &lsquo\;DeFi Summer&rsquo\; Retu rn With a Vengeance?&rdquo\; </strong>moderated by Victor Li&nbsp\;with Ru airi Hanafin\, Chinmay Patel\, Mike Silagadze\, and Jeremy Black</p>\n<p d ir="ltr">4 pm - Networking&nbsp\;</p>\n<p dir="ltr">5 pm - Closing<br><br> <br><span style="background-color: rgb(206\, 212\, 217)\;">ROUNDTABLE ROOM </span> <em>(aka Roundtable Boardroom)</em></p>\n<p dir="ltr">Dedicated sp ace for conversations and networking during and outside the sessions.</p>\ n<p dir="ltr">&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR