Chief Medical Information Officer, Assistant Medical Director,
Kaiser Permanente

John Mattison, MD, is the chief medical information officer and assistant medical director for Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest not-for-profit health plan and health care provider, with annual operating revenue of more than $50 billion.

John began his medical career at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Scripps Clinic, where he practiced in many clinical settings, including primary care, preventive medicine, emergency services, critical care, hyperbaric medicine, trauma and helicopter medicine. He has dedicated his more recent career to transforming care delivery with information technology, through convergence of data liquidity through HIE, big data analytics, advanced decision support, multi-omics, personalized consumer-directed healthcare, mobile, social, behavioral economics, predictive modeling, health mentor avatars, visualization tools and UX.

He has published in a variety of disciplines, teaches at various universities on these topics, including the Future Med section at Singularity University, in addition to health policy and leadership courses at UCSD, and delivers keynote addresses at numerous national and international conferences.

Global Blockchain Offering Director,
IBM

John Wolpert is IBM’s block chain offering director, with responsibility for engineering, products and open source initiatives. Prior to that, John was head of products for IBM’s Watson Ecosystem.

John is a three-time entrepreneur and founder of the popular taxi service, Flywheel. He has created new lines of business for several Fortune 100 companies, ran an international consortium of research labs, and has been an IBMer three times — in the past running the ground-breaking alphaWorks organization and the Extreme Blue incubator lab.

CEO & Architect,
Coin Sciences Ltd.

Coin Sciences Ltd. is the developer of the MultiChain private blockchain platform. Gideon started coding as a child and selling his software in high school. He conceived and built many successful websites, including Copyscape, the leading plagiarism search engine, and Web Sudoku, the most popular sudoku online. Gideon has a BA and PhD in Computer Science (Cambridge + Technion) and an MA in Philosophy (London). He teaches software entrepreneurship at two universities in his home town of Tel Aviv.

Coin Sciences provides a popular private blockchain platform called MultiChain, which is being used by a ton of companies, large and small, for their blockchain pilots and beyond. MultiChain’s key selling points are: (a) it’s actually available and works (no small thing in the blockchain world!), (b) it’s very easy to install and use, (c) maximal technical compatibility with bitcoin, which makes developers’ lives much easier. In less than a year they’ve seen very rapid growth in every metric, and are about to hit 10,000 downloads.

Co-founder & CEO,
Filament

Filament lets you build a connected business without becoming an expert on security, scalability, or network stacks. Prior to Filament, Eric held technology roles for startups in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. Eric holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Nevada, Reno, and is a member of the UNR College of Engineering CSE advisory board. His personal interests lie in systems theory, permaculture, and analog music synthesizers.

Filament has created two new terms for some of what it does. 
Blockname is a technique for decentralized resolution of endpoint addresses in electronic communication using the Bitcoin blockchain and public notaries to verify the authenticity of name/address bindings. Blocklet is an electronic accounting system that builds upon the blockchain to provide autonomous, decentralized equivalents of traditional methods for commercial transactions, including contracts, agreements, receipts, and escrow arrangements.

Founder & CSO,
Skuchain

Mr. Zaki Manian Founded Skuchain, Inc. in 2014 and serves as its Chief Scientific Officer. Mr. Manian has been System Integration Engineer at ReaMetrix since May 2009. He served as The Sorcerer’s Apprentice at ReaMetrix from 2005 to August 2010. He holds a BA in History and Sociology of Science from University of Pennsylvania since 2005.

SKUChain is dedicated to bringing cryptographic trust to the supply chain. SKUChain uses cryptographic ledger technology similar to BitCoin and similar cryptocurrencies to ensure that trust can be computationally assured from manufacturers to end consumers.

Founder & CEO,
Tierion

Wayne Vaughan is the CEO of Tierion, a cloud-based storage system that allows for trustless verification of data on the Bitcoin blockchain. Wayne has been creating innovative software products and growing businesses since the dawn of the dotcom era. He has a longstanding passion for UI design and disruptive technology.

Consultant and Author

Jeff Brandt is a recognized leader and author on mobile innovation and security in the financial and healthcare domains.  As Digital Mobility Manager of Connected Healthcare IoT at Accenture, Jeff researched and evaluated Blockchain for sharing and securing medical records and device provenance.

Jeff’s career has been focused around mobile and data, i.e.,  moving, transforming, retrieving, storing and securing.  Jeff was appointed to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Transport and Security Platform 2014 and has served on multiple HL7 workgroups   He also co-authored three books on mHealth and security and has spoken on the national level.

His undergrad degree is in Computer Science and his post-graduate is in Bio-medical Informatics at Oregon Health Science University, School of Medicine.

Co-Founder & COO,
YouBase, Inc.

Leonard Kish is the Co-founder and COO of YouBase, Inc. which provides a personal information exchange on a blockchain framework. He is also Co-founder and Principal of VivaPhi a creative agency providing services which enable health care communications, digital strategy, consumer engagement, and organizational design. Prior to VivaPhi, Leonard was was the Vice President of Business Development at Capitis Healthcare International.

Leonard is also a writer, blogger, and regular contributor to HL7standards.com and The Health Care Blog. His thoughts on patient and consumer engagement have been quoted numerous times in Forbes and other top-tier publications. He recently co-authored an article with Dr. Eric Topol in Nature Biotech on the need for patient ownership of medical data with blockchain as a possible solution.

Mr. Kish received his undergraduate degree in Zoology from Miami University, a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science dual degree in Information Systems and a Master of Biomedical Sciences from the University of Colorado in Denver.

Venture Associate,
Blockchain Capital LLC

Jeremy Gardner is a Venture Associate at Blockchain Capital LLC. Jeremy began at the firm as an entrepreneur-in-residence, but now he invests in the best ideas in the bitcoin/blockchain space full-time. Blockchain Capital has a portfolio of 42 blockchain companies in which it has invested. Several of these are in non-financial areas.

Jeremy previously founded and served as Executive Director of the Blockchain Education Network, where he remains Chairman. Additionally, he cofounded and oversaw operations, including the crowdfunding, of Augur, a decentralized prediction market platform on Ethereum. Gardner attended both Bard College and the University of Michigan.

CEO,
Blockchain Health Co.

Ryan is an accomplished entrepreneur and leader in Bitcoin, the broader open source ecosystem, academia and the non-profit sector. He is currently building a platform for Personal Health Information and medical records secured by the blockchain and working with major healthcare institutions. He is also the CEO of Blockchain Clearing Corporation.

Ryan was Co-Founder and COO of the largest American Bitcoin exchange, Tradehill, Inc. Before Tradehill, Ryan co-founded Peace Markets, a marketplace for cross-conflict peace building, a project of the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab. Other ventures included The OpenDocument Foundation, The OpenDocument Fellowship, OpenOffice.org and stints working for Sun Microsystems, Starbucks and the State of Georgia. Ryan enjoys reading science fiction, studying economics and building the future.

President,
42Tek, Inc.

Mr. Snyder helps implement product innovations in healthcare technology and electronic payments. This means working with providers, vendors, and other ecosystem organizations to help them understand technology, plan steps to fit new technology into existing work flows, and execute on this vision. In other cases, he helps crystallize a concept into a design and requirements, helps navigate regulatory and security constraints, and brings the innovation out of development and into an integration and deployment program.

David started out as a Respiratory Therapist in Intensive Care Units, worked as an environmental engineer for over 20 years, earned a MBA, and has held technology and financial management roles at Kaiser Permanente, Apple, and PayPal. His interests include digital health, electronic payments systems, and information security.

Located in Silicon Valley, Mr. Snyder lead the SVForum Healthcare IT SIG from 2011 to 2014, where he brought in speakers on topics like mobile health, medical devices, safety, security, and related subjects. In February 2013, he was part of the Grand Prize winning team at the StartX Med Innovation Challenge at Stanford Medical Center. He organized the Mobile Health Track for the GMIC-SV mobile conference on October 23, 2013 at Moscone Center in San Francisco and has presented or moderated at numerous conferences, including the Wireless Medical Devices West 2013 conference in San Jose. Mr. Snyder is a Registered Civil Engineer and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.