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Blockchain Futurist Conference Toronto · July 21–22, 2026 · Business Development VIP · compiled 2026-07-19 from a 4-agent research sweep. Full source files in ~/Desktop/Blockchain-Futurist-Conference/research/.

01Top 15 BD Targets

Ranked for the METAVENTIONS thesis: sovereign AI · AI × crypto convergence · cognitive equity / UCW · partnership products · media ventures. AI targets cluster on Day 2 Main Stage — anchor there (see below); the AI Futurist track is the fallback.

⚡ DAY 2 MAIN STAGE IS A TARGET CONVEYOR BELT. Six targets walk this one stage: 9:20 Saliba (#2) + Khamitova (#14) → 10:50 Adams (#1) + McMullen (#8) → 11:20 Koverko (#6) → 11:45 Stornetta → 4:15 Sachdev (#13). Take an aisle seat at 9:15 and do not move until 12:10 — that single stretch outranks any amount of booth-walking. Intercept as they come off stage, not before they go on.
⚡ DAY 1 MAIN STAGE IS ALSO A CONVEYOR BELT — AND IT STARTS AT 9:00. 9:00 Tapscott (#9) opening keynote → 10:25 Boiron (#4) → 12:50 Sinclair (#11) → 1:30 Vaughan (#10) + Labcir (#13) on one panel → 3:30 SafeBets/Antoniello (the warm route to Stornetta) → 5:30 Eric Turner (#5) with JPMorgan/Mastercard/Bloomberg. Six targets, one stage, today. Everything else on the floor is a fallback.
🎯 3:05 PM TODAY — YOUR THESIS IS THE PANEL TITLE. Agentic Day's 3:05–3:30 session is "When agents shop, negotiate & pay — and who they pay through." That is the attribution gap, stated as a question, on the stage of a room you are already confirmed for. Do not network through this one. Ask the question from the floor: "Everyone here has solved whether value moves. Who is solving whose cognition caused it? AWS's own x402 docs say agents can't split fees dynamically — they hardcode partner splits. What replaces that guess?" One question asked in that room reaches every person you would otherwise chase individually — and it makes /attribution-gap the thing you send afterwards.
📉 WHERE THIS ROOM IS WRONG — ARK Big Ideas 2026 vs. the agenda. Three panels are repeating things the data contradicts. Each is a way to be the most interesting person in a Q&A.

1 · The "$16 Trillion Migration" panel overstates it. ARK models $11T tokenised by 2030 (1.38% of global assets). And the deeper point: 90%+ of Ethereum's $400B value is monetary premium, not transaction utility — Solana is the inverse, ~90% utility-driven. Volume of assets migrating on-chain is not what scales protocol value. ★ Eric Turner (#5) is on "Institutional Adoption" TONIGHT 5:30 Main Stage with JPMorgan, Mastercard and Bloomberg — this is the question to ask.

2 · The Q-Day panic is mistimed by decades. Google doubled physical qubits once in four years. RSA-2048 falls in the 2040s aggressive-case, 2063 at status-quo scaling. The room is treating a 20–40 year hardware bottleneck as an imminent emergency (Day 1, 10:50, Main Stage).

3 · Bitcoin is losing the emerging-market safe-haven story. ARK cut its BTC EM penetration forecast by 80%, specifically because USD stablecoins are being adopted faster on the ground. Panels still pitch BTC as the sovereign alternative.
⚠ WED 3:00–3:30 IS A HARD COLLISION. Moghadam (#12) hosts the Agentic Commerce Workshop in the Purple Room at the same minutes Anil Nadiminti (#15, AWS) gives "x402 Apps for Agentic Commerce" on the Upper Stage. THE CALL: take Agnic. Moghadam is hosting — he is captive in that room for 30 minutes and you are already registered. Nadiminti is on a stage where you cannot reach him mid-talk anyway. Leave Purple Room at ~3:25 and intercept Nadiminti at the Upper Stage exit as he comes off. You get both; you just get Nadiminti standing up instead of sitting down.
#1 · PRIORITY

Janet Adams

COO, SingularityNET & ASI Alliance
ARK NUMBER: max reliable agent task duration grew 5× in 2025 — 6 minutes to 31 minutes at 80% success, while hyperscaler datacentre spend triples to $1.4T by 2030. She is also actively sourcing contributions for SingularityNET's DEEP Funding grants. ⚠ GOERTZEL IS NOT ON THE PROGRAM — the official in-app agenda has no Vitalik and no Goertzel; SingularityNET is represented by Adams. WHERE: PANEL "Trust in the Machine: Web3, Data Ownership & AI Governance", DAY 2, 10:50–11:20 am, MAIN STAGE — and Evin McMullen (#8) is on the same panel. Two targets, one room. Most on-thesis conversation at the event: decentralized AGI, agent economies, value capture from AI. Direct parallel to UCW.
"Your ASI Alliance work on agent-to-agent value exchange is the closest thing I've seen to what I call cognitive equity — capturing value from every AI interaction. How are you handling attribution across agents?"
#2 · PRIORITY

Toufi Saliba

CEO, HyperCycle.AI
ARK NUMBER: same $3.5T/30-day stablecoin figure, 2.3× Visa+PayPal+remittances. Do NOT pitch your thesis as new — he launched Mosaic on Jul 16 for cryptographic identity. Frame UCW metering as the monetary complement to his identity end, not a competing idea. WHERE: PANEL "The Global Brain: AI + Web3" — DAY 2, 9:20–9:45 am, MAIN STAGE. First target on stage that morning; be there at 9:15 and take the aisle. Building the "internet of AI" — machine-to-machine micro-transaction ledger. Nearly a direct analog to UCW's value-capture layer. Fresh hooks: Google's A2A protocol validated agent-interop (ask how HyperCycle positions against it) · $1.1B Korea subsidiary · new node factory enclosures.
"HyperCycle's per-inference settlement is the rail I've been thinking about for cognitive rent. Where does node economics break at scale?"
#3 · PRIORITY

Lalla Asmaa Alaoui

CEO, HelloAgentic.ai · Founder, Agentic Day
WHERE (4 windows): Agentic Day host Day 1, 3–6 pm, UPSTAIRS LEVEL 2 (Upper Stage) · SheFi/BACI breakfast Day 2, 9–10:30 am (she invited you) · SheFi Cayman panel Day 2, 9:30–10 am, ETHWomen · Innovation to Execution Day 2, 11:05–11:30 am, ETHWomen. Agentic AI convener — partnership + co-event play. Runs Agentic Day (Tue 3–6P, Upstairs Level 2). Fresh hooks: Agentic Day is a traveling series (Tesla Miami Design District → Amsterdam → Toronto; NVIDIA/Mastercard/Visa crowd in Miami). Two-way intro play: she runs Miami AI events, David Acosta runs E11EVEN Miami partnerships — offer the connection, give-first for both.
"I run sovereign AI systems at METAVENTIONS — agentic infra is exactly our lane. What does Agentic Day need from infra partners?"
#4

Marc Boiron

CEO, Polygon Labs
WHERE: "The Real Experience of Money" — DAY 1 (TODAY), 10:25–10:40 am, MAIN STAGE. 15 minutes solo, no panel to share him with. Top-tier infra distribution — the chain + ecosystem funnel relationship.
"Where does Polygon want AI-native apps to plug in — is there an ecosystem track for agent/AI infra teams?"
#5

Eric Turner

CEO, Messari
WHERE: PANEL "Institutional Adoption: What's Next for Digital Assets" — DAY 1 (TODAY), 5:30–6:00 pm, MAIN STAGE, alongside JPMorgan, Mastercard, Bloomberg and ZKsync. ⚠ Collides with the AWS × Yat Siu fireside (5–6 pm) — Turner is on your board and definitely in the building; the AWS room is still unregistered. Research distribution; Messari coverage = credibility for the AI × crypto thesis.
"Messari's AI-sector coverage is thin on the value-capture layer. I've got a cognitive-equity framework — worth a briefing?"
#6

Trevor Koverko

Co-Founder, Sapien
WHERE: 10-min solo, DAY 2, 11:20–11:30 am, MAIN STAGE — lands between the Adams panel and Stornetta, so you are already in that seat. Decentralized data-labeling / human-in-the-loop — supply-side partner; serial founder — he CO-FOUNDED POLYMATH, which built Polymesh: the purpose-built permissioned L1 where identity, compliance and settlement sit at the protocol layer rather than in contracts on top. ⚡ FREE OPENER: Polymath ran the "$16 Trillion Migration" panel on Day 1 Main Stage (Richard Dolan, Natalie Hirsch) plus two Halford keynotes — "I sat through the Polymath tokenisation panel yesterday…" costs nothing and lands instantly. ⚡ THE REAL QUESTION: Polymesh requires every on-chain actor to be a verified identity — they already answered "who is the legal person" for humans and institutions. "So what happens when the actor is an autonomous agent? Does it inherit the deployer's identity, or need its own? Inheriting breaks the moment six agents from four firms co-produce one settlement." That is your entity question aimed at the one team who may actually have an answer.
"Sapien's data layer + a sovereign inference layer is a natural stack. How are you thinking about downstream value-share to labelers?"
#7

Evin McMullen

Co-Founder & CEO, Billions Network
WHERE: PANEL "Trust in the Machine" — DAY 2, 10:50–11:20 am, MAIN STAGE, sharing the panel with Janet Adams (#1). Catch them together as they come off. Identity/reputation for humans + AI agents — the identity primitive UCW needs.
"Cognitive equity needs verifiable attribution of who — or what agent — did the work. How does Billions handle agent identity?"
#8

Michael Terpin

Founder & CEO, Transform Ventures
⚠ NOT in the official in-app agenda — no session, no stage, no room. Treat as "may be in the building" only; do not budget floor time hunting him. Veteran investor/connector — one warm Terpin intro opens many doors on the floor.
"I'm building sovereign AI infrastructure with a token-adjacent value-capture model — who in your network should I be talking to here?"
#9

Don Tapscott

Exec Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute
WHERE: OPENING KEYNOTE — DAY 1 (TODAY), 9:00–9:40 am, MAIN STAGE, "Rebuilding Canada for the New Technology Order". First session of the conference; be seated 8:55 — nobody swarms the opener. Thought-leadership platform that can legitimize the cognitive-equity narrative.
"Your digital-ownership thesis extends cleanly into AI — people should own the value of their cognitive footprint. Would BRI look at that?"
#10

Ada Vaughan

Sr. Director DeFi Partnerships, Stellar Development Foundation
ARK NUMBER: adjusted stablecoin volume hit $3.5T in 30 days (Dec 2025) — 2.3× Visa, PayPal and all global remittances combined. Line: "the bottleneck isn't payment execution, it's the attribution axis — how does Stellar handle splits when agents route that volume through x402?" WHERE: PANEL "The Future of Finance & Payments" — DAY 1 (TODAY), 1:30–2:00 pm, MAIN STAGE. Only confirmed Day-1 stage sighting on the target board. Payments rails + an active partnerships desk = real path to embed value-capture flows.
"For micro-settlement of AI-interaction value, Stellar's cost profile is compelling. Is your partnerships team looking at AI-native use cases?"
#11

Colin Sinclair · Jaime Leverton

CBO, MAYFLOWER · CEO, ReserveOne (ex-Hut 8)
WHERE (Sinclair): "Mayflower: Solving Trust at the Market Layer" — DAY 1 (TODAY), 12:50–1:00 pm, MAIN STAGE, 10 min solo immediately before the Vaughan panel. Senior Canadian operators — local network, capital, infra credibility.
"As a Toronto-based founder in sovereign AI, I'm mapping the Canadian infra/capital scene — where do you see AI × crypto going institutional here?"
#12

Alix Moghadam · Ash Datsiuk

CEO, Agnic.AI · Head of Growth, Theoriq
ARK NUMBER: agents will facilitate $8T of online spend by 2030 — 25% of global transactions, up from 2% in 2025; the consumer journey compresses from an hour to ~90 seconds. Ask: "how is your transaction infra prepping for 40× compression?" Peer agentic-AI builders — integration and shared-GTM candidates, not customers. WHERE TO FIND HIM: Moghadam hosts the Agentic Commerce Workshop WED 3:00–3:30 PM, PURPLE ROOM (luma.com/Agentic_Workshop) — RSVP submitted, pending host approval — guaranteed location, 30-minute window, best shot all week.
"We're both building the agent economy from different angles — worth comparing notes on attribution and monetization?"
#13

Nikita Sachdev · Nisrine Labcir

CEO, Luna Media · Innovation Lead, Interac
WHERE (Labcir): PANEL "The Future of Finance & Payments" — DAY 1 (TODAY), 1:30–2:00 pm, MAIN STAGE, same panel as Ada Vaughan (#10) — two targets, one intercept. Luna = narrative amplification for the media venture; Interac = Canadian payments-innovation door.
"I have a film/media venture plus a sovereign-AI story that needs the right narrative push — what's Luna's sweet spot?"
#14

Fatima Khamitova

Director, Startups & Scaleups, Vector Institute
Canada's flagship AI institute — talent, research credibility, home-turf ecosystem access.
"METAVENTIONS is a Toronto sovereign-AI company — how does Vector work with startups on the applied-research side?"
#15

AWS + OVHcloud teams

Anil Nadiminti (AWS) · Gregor / Sekhraoui / Affatica (OVHcloud)
ARK NUMBER + THE OPENING: $8T agent-facilitated spend by 2030, 25% of all transactions. And AWS's own x402 docs admit agents cannot dynamically split fees — they rely on hardcoded partner splits. That gap is exactly what a cognitive-metering layer resolves. Compute partners + possible credits — unglamorous but load-bearing. OVHcloud runs the Poolside cabana activation. WHERE TO FIND THEM: TWO SHOTS. (1) Anil Nadiminti speaks: "x402 Apps for Agentic Commerce on AWS" — DAY 2, 3:05–3:25 pm, UPPER STAGE. This is in the conference program — no RSVP needed, so it survives the blocked Luma form. ⚠ It collides with the Agnic.AI workshop (#12) at 3:00–3:30 in the Purple Room — pick one. (2) AWS hosts a 30-min fireside with YAT SIU (Animoca), TUE 5:00–6:00 pm (luma.com/1fa499w7) — registration still blocked on your Telegram handle.
"Sovereign AI still needs someone's silicon. What do your startup/infra programs look like for AI-heavy workloads?"
Backstage/cabana pass-bys: Vitalik Buterin (not on the 2026 program — do not wait for him) · Brock Pierce · Iggy Azalea / Tristan Thompson (media crossover) · W. Scott Stornetta (SafeBets chair, TITLE sponsor) — his new SafeBets mandate is cryptographically verifiable prediction records: who forecast what, when. That is literally the attribution problem cognitive equity solves; his 1991 timestamping paper is its ancestor. Opener: "your timestamping problem and my attribution problem are the same problem." Your BD VIP badge covers backstage — speakers cycle through between sessions.

1BRooms today — who is actually in them

People, not events. Pulled from the official agenda rosters so you can put a name to a face while you are standing there.

🥃 VIP RUM BAR — ⛔ RAINED OUT TUE, MOVED TO WED 1:00–2:30 · VIP CABANA. ✅ CLOSED (Tue night): the whole chain ran in one day. Haymond met at the panel ~12:45 → he raised Michael Bacina unprompted → Cayman-Canada Summit attended → drove Bacina to the after-event. A referral converted to a car ride inside ten hours. Bacina was on the four-person agent-to-agent transaction law panel — he owns the legal half of the entity question the whole thesis opens with, and NXT Law co-hosts Agentic Day. Nothing left to hunt here; the work is now the follow-up.
These five just came off Main Stage together ("Why Canadians Are Choosing Cayman", 11:40–12:10) — same five, no substitutions. You are pending on tonight's Cayman-Canada Summit (6:00–10:00), which is your honest reason for being there: "I'm registered for tonight and still pending — I'd rather meet you here first."

THE ANGLE — do not go in as a customer. You are not raising, not issuing, not moving domicile. They will see through it. Go in as the shape of demand they have not structured yet:
"When an autonomous agent holds a wallet, transacts and settles — who is the legal person? Today the answer is 'whoever deployed it', and that breaks the moment six agents from four companies co-produce one outcome and the value has to split."
That is a jurisdictional design question, not a services request. Nobody else on this floor is asking it.

THE ASK: not "can you help me structure" — it is "I'd like to keep talking as this gets closer. Who should I be sending this to?" A name, not a commitment.
DO NOT lead with $META / UCW / cognitive equity as branded terms — they land as a pitch. Lead with the entity problem, let them ask, then open /attribution-gap.
NameOrgWhy them
Michael BacinaNXT LawLEAD HERE. Digital-asset lawyer — the agent-as-legal-person problem is live and unsolved in his field. He will actually engage.
Haymond RankinCayman FinanceThe trade body itself — the door to everything else Cayman. Frame it as market intelligence: "the entity type your members get asked for in 18 months doesn't exist yet."
Anna MuheimShoreLabs SEZCSEZC = a Cayman Enterprise City company. The cheap landing path if any of this becomes real — and your warm line into Friday's DMZ × Cayman Enterprise City founder breakfast (9:30).
Samuel Jacques-CloutierHash DirectorsFund / entity directorship services — the operational layer.
Dion DegrandRawlinson & HunterTrust and corporate services, Cayman.
🎤 1:30–2:00 · MAIN STAGE · "The Future of Finance & Payments" — leave the Rum Bar at 1:28, come back after 2:00, it runs to 2:30.
NameOrgWhy them
Ada Vaughan #10Stellar Development FoundationStellar is implementing x402 for native HTTP agent payments. Line: "the bottleneck isn't payment execution, it's the attribution axis — how does Stellar handle splits?"
Nisrine Labcir #13InteracSame panel — two board targets, one intercept. Canadian rails incumbent.
Jan GorznyZircuit—
Brian FordATB FinancialAlso on the 4:00 banking-access panel.
Armando Pantoja—Book signing 4:30–5:30 if useful.
🤖 AGENTIC DAY — FULL PROGRAM · TUE 3–6 PM · UPPER STAGE · you are confirmed in. From the GlobeNewswire release published 07:43 this morning — not on the in-app agenda. Powered by HelloAgentic (Alaoui), presented by Mel, the agentic terminal. Co-hosts: Binaxity · BACI · NXT LAW · 0G Labs. Community partners: SheFi · Miami Fintech Club. Third stop in a 2026 series — Miami (Tesla Design District, 400+, Consensus Week) → Amsterdam (Dutch Blockchain Week, presented by WEEX) → Toronto.

⚡ NXT LAW IS A CO-HOST, NOT A GUEST. Bacina's firm is behind this event — so Haymond's Cayman referral and this room are the same thread.
⚡ MIAMI FINTECH CLUB IS A PARTNER and the series opened in Miami. Your E11EVEN recognition is structural here, not a coincidence — let it surface with Alaoui.
SessionWhoPlay
Agentic Commerce
~3:05		Solana Foundation · Coala Pay (Mastercard Start Path alum) · CapgeminiASK YOUR QUESTION HERE. Payments infrastructure people, not philosophers — the split problem is their actual job. "You've solved whether value moves. Who's solving whose cognition caused it? AWS's own x402 docs say agents can't split fees dynamically — they hardcode partner splits. What replaces that guess when the buyer is software?"
Agentic Finance
~3:35		Michael Bacina (NXT Law) · Nick Zhu (Binaxity) · Jordan Kerridge "That Martini Guy" · mod. Andrew Weiner (WEEX COO)BACINA — GUARANTEED LOCATION. Haymond referred you this morning. Stage exit, open with "Haymond said I should talk to you." Then the entity question.
AI Infrastructure / Physical AI
~4:45		Jeffrey Gregor — GM, OVHcloud USThis is the other half of target #15. OVHcloud also runs the poolside activation. Compute-partner conversation without booth-hunting.
Where AI Meets Capital
~5:15		Stanley Diao — Cyberport DraperDragon Accelerator · Vahid Fakhr (VC → building AI that reads pitch decks)SAME-DAY CONVERSION FROM INVESTHK. Cyberport is Hong Kong government-backed; Christopher Chen's job is routing founders there. ⚠ Collides with Turner 5:30 — Turner wins, catch Diao before he goes on.
Mel — live demoHelloAgenticPlain-English task → a team of agents writes, runs and verifies before it ships. Watch this one properly — it is the closest thing in the building to what you actually built.
☀ TOMORROW 9:00 · SheFi × BACI Institutional Breakfast — you are IN, Lalla invited you. Headline is a fireside: "Cayman and the Future of Tokenised Finance" — Kristy-Anne Leith (partner, Campbells — Cayman digital assets) with Danielle Pienaar (Verdant Management, Chair of Women in Blockchain at BACI). This is the direct continuation of the Haymond conversation. You will have spoken to Cayman Finance, met NXT Law, and then walk into a Cayman tokenisation fireside — arrive with the entity question already road-tested.

02Speaker Map (~205 named of 250+ claimed)

⚠ This roster came from pre-event marketing copy and the conference's all-time speaker page — it is NOT the 2026 program. The official in-app agenda has no Vitalik Buterin and no Ben Goertzel; Charles Hoskinson is a 5-minute remote welcome (Day 2, 9:05). Treat names below as "may be in the building", never as "is on a stage". Verified stage times live on the target cards above.

Institutions, Banks & Payments (21)
  • Marc Boiron — CEO, Polygon Labs
  • Eve Lam — Exec Director, Morgan Stanley
  • Roy E. Ben-Hur — MD Blockchain & Digital Assets, Deloitte
  • Chaddy Hussin — Exec Director, JPMorgan
  • Alejandra Dito — Director Global Partnerships Digital Assets, Mastercard
  • Elena Litani — Head of VAS Canada, Visa
  • Davies Beller / Elizabeth St-Onge / Francis Guttridge — TD Securities digital assets
  • Eric Richmond — CEO, Coinbase Canada
  • Peyman Pardis — COO, Kraken Canada
  • Naveen Maher — CCO, Robinhood Canada
  • Rachel Lam-Denisov — Wealthsimple
  • Brian Ford — VP Digital Assets, ATB Financial
  • Nisrine Labcir — Innovation Lead, Interac
  • James Emerson — Digital Assets CoE, KPMG Canada
Protocol / Infrastructure / Foundations (27)
  • Charles St. Louis — DeFi, Ethereum Foundation
  • Philippe Noelting — Tokenization Lead, ZKsync
  • Ben Greenberg — DevRel Lead, Arbitrum Foundation
  • Ada Vaughan — Stellar Development Foundation
  • Elizabeth McFaul — Solana Foundation
  • Ingamar Ramirez — Starknet Foundation
  • Jorrin Bruns — Algorand Foundation
  • Noah Marconi — Head of Security, Monad Foundation
  • Ethan Buchman — Co-Founder, Cosmos
  • Chad Barraford — THORChain
  • Jan Gorzny / Martin Derka — Zircuit
  • Phil Davis — Ledger
  • Drew Potter — Brave
  • Arman Mamyan — Animoca Brands
  • Anil Nadiminti — AWS
  • OVHcloud — Gregor, Sekhraoui, Affatica
AI × Crypto / Agentic (13) — your lane
  • Janet Adams — COO SingularityNET, Board ASI Alliance
  • Toufi Saliba — CEO, HyperCycle.AI
  • Lalla Asmaa Alaoui — CEO HelloAgentic.ai, Founder Agentic Day
  • Alix Moghadam — CEO, Agnic.AI
  • Vaishal Shah — Agentic AI Labs, CGI Canada
  • Ash Datsiuk — Head of Growth, Theoriq
  • Chris Champion — Founder, Champion AI (also hosts Podcast Stage)
  • Marina Flat PhD — CEO, Maplewise AI
  • Fatima Khamitova — Vector Institute
  • Armando Pantoja — Financial Futurist
RWA, Tokenization & Identity (32)
  • W. Scott Stornetta — blockchain co-inventor, SafeBets
  • Don Tapscott — Blockchain Research Institute
  • Nick Spanos — Bitcoin Center NYC
  • Trevor Koverko — Sapien
  • Evin McMullen — Billions Network
  • Natalie Hirsch / Martin Halford / Richard Dolan — Polymath
  • Kesem Frank / Ahad Ahmed — Stablecorp
  • Jaime Leverton — ReserveOne
  • Andrei Poliakov — APX Lending (Main Stage announcement Tue)
  • Jonathan Han — Eratree / AiraPay demo
  • Mo Ali Yusuf — Fuze Finance
Funds & Capital (8) · Media (15) · Policy & Legal (24)
  • Michael Terpin — Transform Ventures
  • Erik LaPaglia — NextTech Ventures
  • Marc Lafleur — DB8 Labs, Dragon's Den guest
  • Eric Turner — CEO, Messari
  • Aoyon Ashraf — Global Head of News, CoinDesk
  • Monique Mulima — Bloomberg News
  • Roger Huang / Jason Brett — Forbes
  • Jasraj Hallan — Shadow Minister for Finance (MP)
  • Richard Carleton — CEO, Canadian Securities Exchange
  • Tanya Woods — Questrade Gov't Affairs
  • Amanda Wick — VerifyVASP (+ book signing)
  • Christopher Chen — Invest Hong Kong Canada
Organizers & Community
  • Tracy Leparulo — Co-Founder, Futurist Conference (Untraceable)
  • Laura Leparulo — Head of Marketing
  • Landon Gardner — CEO, Web3 Toronto
  • Simon — Lead, Superteam Canada
  • Justyna Osowska — Women in Blockchain Canada
  • Bobby Gray — Founder, TEXITcoin (Gold Sponsor keynote)
  • Zachary Nelson — CEO, Genzio (GM Podcast)

03Stages & Tracks

Per-session times were NOT published as of July 19 — recheck futuristconference.com/schedule the morning of.

StagesMain · Upper · Purple · ETHWomen · AI Futurist · ETHToronto (all included with badge)
TracksRWA & Tokenization · DeFi/Payments/Stablecoins · Artificial Intelligence · Regulation & Compliance · Creator Economy
Known slotsAPX Lending announcement — Main Stage Tue Jul 21 · AiraPay live demo — Main Stage Tue Jul 21 · Bobby Gray (TEXITcoin) keynote · Agentic Day Canada — Tue 3–6 PM, Upstairs Level 2 (confirmed via RSVP)
Locked-in RSVPsMon: VNTR breakfast 8–10a (pending) · Proof of Buckets 2p · CryptoMonday 6–9p Tulum ✓ · Tue: Pre-IPO talk 10:30a ✓ · Wellness Lounge 11–3 ✓ · Rum Bar 1–2:30 VIP (pending; InvestHK 1–1:30 overlaps) · Agentic Day 3–6 · Both days: Backstage interviews (pending) · AI Futurist track · OVHcloud poolside · Blast Wheels · podcasts (GM + Podcast Stage)
RoutingAnchor at DAY 2 MAIN STAGE 9:20–12:10 — Saliba → Adams+McMullen → Stornetta come to you there (Goertzel is not on the program). AI Futurist track is the fallback cluster (Alaoui, Moghadam, Datsiuk, Shah) → work Upper for institutional + infra targets → Cabana for afternoon relationship time.

04David Acosta — Your Host confirmed

David Saul Acosta — Strategic Partnerships & Web3 Lead, E11EVEN Miami. Verified on the Futurist Florida speaker roster + LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/davidsaulacosta). He comped your $2,500 BD VIP via code BDTO26 read: "BD Toronto 26" partner allocation

The E11EVEN Web3 orbit

E11EVEN Crypto = Web3 division of the Miami ultraclub (launched 2022 w/ Horizen Labs — the BAYC infra firm). First major US nightclub to accept crypto; $5M+ processed. 11 Captain's Club: 1,111 NFTs @ 3 ETH — token-gated IRL membership (priority access, Captains-only events, Captain's Quarters). Parent: 11USA Group (DeGori, Simkins, Roberts) — club, hotel & residences, apparel, sound.

Read on the relationship

He's on the sponsor/BD side of the conference (E11EVEN ties to the Florida edition venue, DAER at Seminole Hard Rock). The comp is a relationship-opening gesture, not a sale — he's cultivating you as a potential collaborator in the E11EVEN Web3 orbit. Give back before asking big.

The natural pitch surface

A token-gated members' club (1,111 holders) is a natural home for a sovereign-AI concierge / member-intelligence layer. Frame everything as his world, not your product: "where does an AI layer fit a token-gated membership?" The artifact is ready: concierge one-pager — pull it up on your phone at the meeting.

Ask ladder

comp → coffee (15-min at Toronto) → artifact (AI-concierge one-pager/demo) → intro (E11EVEN Crypto / 11USA partnerships) → Miami (Futurist Florida, Nov). Florida dates CONFIRMED Nov 17–18, Fort Lauderdale (organizer IG bio, checked Jul 19).
Walk in aware: (1) No public evidence of an "11USD stablecoin" — don't reference it; E11EVEN's on-chain footprint is NFT membership + payments. (2) E11EVEN hosted the May 2026 Consensus afterparty that drew industry backlash — know the discourse, don't raise it.

05Sponsors — 2026 Confirmed

17 named in July 2026 press releases (organizer claims 60+). IG intel (Jul 19): 95% sold out · Kraken stage activation spotted · check @untraceableinc Stories each morning for day-of logistics. The site's big-brand logo wall (Google/Apple/BlackRock/OpenAI etc.) is aspirational — NOT exhibitors.

SponsorWhat / Why
SafeBets TITLECrypto betting/gaming — the Title Sponsor of the whole event (per IG Jul 13). Stornetta + Antoniello speak.
TEXITcoin goldTexas L1, Scrypt PoW, no premine. Bobby Gray keynote "The Future of Money Won't Build Itself."
APX LendingOfficial Crypto-Backed Lending Partner of Canada Crypto Week · Main Stage company announcement Tue.
AiraPayDigital payments · live demo Main Stage Tue.
Deloitte · KPMGBig Four digital-asset advisory — institutional credibility + the newly-regulated market play.
Wealthsimple gold · RobinhoodRetail investing/crypto — consumer on/off-ramps. Wealthsimple confirmed GOLD tier (IG).
Polymath goldSecurity-token infra (Polymesh) — regulated tokenization rails. "$16T migration" campaign.
KPMG · Tetra Digital · Spinnovate silverSilver tier — KPMG badge verified on IG poster (visual read).
Deloitte · nGRND · Via Easy bronze — APX, Newton, BVC Pay, Nominis, Transactix copperFull ladder from IG sponsor posters, badges verified visually Jul 19.
DEFI MEDIAOfficial Media Partner (IG poster) — another podcast/coverage surface to pitch.
ATB FinancialAlberta crown bank openly engaging Web3 — institutional banking rails.
FTS CaymanRegulatory advisory · launching Cayman Ledger magazine at the event · runs the VIP Rum Bar.
Anvil.xyz · Krown NetworkWeb3 infra/tooling — developer distribution.
Stand with CryptoAdvocacy nonprofit — live policy mobilization during the Bill C-15 window.
Travls.io · UrVote · SafeBets · Digital Spenders ClubTravel partner · governance tooling · crypto gaming · payments community.

06Booth Walk — 10 Stops

Do priority booths early — the expo floor (two levels) gets crowded midday. Set up the gamified conference app profile before Day 1.

#StopOpener
1Agentic Day / Hello Agentic"If agents hold value and act autonomously, who owns the wallet — the agent or the human behind it? That's the seam we build on."
2SingularityNET / Janet Adams"You've argued AI value should accrue to a network, not a platform. We build the cognitive-wallet layer that captures it per interaction — where's the overlap?"
3Deloitte"When tokenization and AI risk collide — agents transacting on-chain — who's your reference architecture for identity and value ownership?"
4KPMG"If every AI interaction becomes a metered value-bearing event, that's a new assurance surface. Are clients asking about auditing agent-level activity yet?"
5Polymath"We think cognitive output is an asset class. What does issuing a compliance-native token on Polymesh look like for a non-financial asset?"
6APX Lending"As wallets start holding AI-generated value, do you see lending against non-traditional on-chain assets?"
7Wealthsimple"You made crypto boring-simple. If a wallet also held a user's AI-interaction value, does that fit your product surface?"
8Anvil.xyz / Krown (infra)"What breaks in your stack when the 'user' is a software agent, not a person?"
9UrVote"We map partnership graphs; you run on-chain governance — both are about who has standing to act. Agent/delegate voting?"
10Stand with Crypto"Sovereign AI and self-custody are the same argument — user ownership. Room for a 'sovereign AI' plank in the Canadian advocacy?"

07Regulatory Backdrop — Conversation Fuel

08Venue & VIP Intel

Rebel Entertainment Complex

Main stage, two levels of expo booths, workshops, bootcamps, roundtables, NFT galleries. Multi-level nightclub on Polson Pier (waterfront, east of downtown). Rideshare only — no subway. Or take the Pirate Taxi water taxi across the waterfront (IG-promoted, skips Lake Shore traffic).

Cabana Pool Bar

Outdoor waterfront: private branded cabanas, VIP cabana zone (your all-day access), closing/networking party. Deal-making happens here after floor hours. Same pier — walk between venues.

VIP surfaces yours

Dedicated VIP entrance (skip GA lines) · all-day VIP cabana · VIP Backstage Roundtable Interviews — speakers are reachable here between sessions · VIP Rum Bar by Cayman Finance (both days).

Media zones

Genzio Media · World Boss Media interview area · W3BC Media · Live Podcast Stage (Chris Champion). SLOT SECURED-IF-CONFIRMED: Champion offered the Tue 4 PM interview slot (Sun-night Luma msg) — reply to lock, prep the METAVENTIONS story as a 12-min arc. A recorded hit is a reusable artifact for the media venture.
Files: research sources with citations live in ~/Desktop/Blockchain-Futurist-Conference/research/ · NotebookLM: conference notebook