How to start a Blockchain Business

This is a joint event by USI Writing Smart Contracts (WSC) winter school and USI Startup Centre

Program:
- Welcome and introduction by USI Startup Centre (Francesco Lurati)
- Introduction (Peter Gruber)
- Podium discussion "How to start a Blockchain Business – experience and outlook"

• Benedetto Biondi, co-founder and CEO of Folks.Finance
• Andrej Majcen, Chief Clients Officer of Bitcoin Suisse
• Bear Matthews, co-founder and COO of blockparty (formerly Vylto)

- Q&A
- Small reception

Speakers:

Benedetto Biondi is the co-founder and CEO of Folks.Finance, a leading DeFi project on Algorand. Benedetto has accrued 3 years of experience as a Blockchain Project Manager. He is a mentor and advisor in several blockchain projects and a lecturer for DeFi at the University of Florence. Benedetto has deep experience in Web3 and has navigated the DeFi space for half a decade.

Andrej Majcen is Chief Clients Officer of Bitcoin Suisse, which he co-founded in autumn 2013 and helped scaling from 3 to over 300 employees ever since. He is responsible for all client and sales activities at Bitcoin Suisse. Andrej Majcen holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration as well as a master’s degree in accounting and finance from the University of St. Gallen.

Bear Matthews is the co-founder and COO of blockparty (Vylto) — a venture-funded startup building Web3 fan infrastructure. Over the past five years, he has developed products for over a million users that amplify voices, increase efficiency and promote equality.

Moderator:
Peter Gruber is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at USI. He has a dual background in Economics and Engineering. Peter’s research interests include asset pricing, blockchain economics, data science with non‐traditional data sets, and data visualization. He has advised several student startups.

Places are limited, please register via https://forms.gle/RGGe7GFRwywkqZgi7