April 9-10, 2024 @ Cyberport, Hong Kong

Conference + Hackathons

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Co-HostS

Partners

Organizer

Media

  • Ed Roman

    Founder of Hack.Summit() & Founding Partner of Hack VC

  • Justin Drake

    Justin Drake

    Ethereum Foundation (Virtual)

  • Joseph H. L. Chan, JP

    Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, The Government of Hong Kong SAR

  • Sandeep Nailwal

    Founder of Polygon

  • Smokey

    Co-Founder of Berachain

  • YQ

    Founder of AltLayer

  • David Tse

    Co-Founder of Babylon

  • Lily Liu

    The President of the Management of the Solana Foundation

  • Philip Forte

    Founder of Elixir

  • Michael Heinrich

    Founder of 0G

  • Asa Li

    Lead in APAC of io.net

  • Potter Li

    Co-Founder of EthSign

  • Rushi Manche

    Co-Founder of Movement Labs

  • Zon

    Founding Member of Initia

  • Hilmar Orth

    Founder of Gelato

  • Omer Ozden

    Chairman, RockTree Capital

  • Robert Chen

    Founder of OtterSec

  • Ryan Zhang

    CPO of MYX

  • Arisa Toyosaki

    Co-Founder & CEO of Cega

  • Terrace

    Jesse Beller

    Co-Founder & CEO of Terrace

  • Terry Chung

    Strategy Lead of Eclipse

  • Haifeng Bai

    Co Head of Asset Management Managing Director of CMBI

  • Akersh Srivastava

    VP Product & Head of Developer Relations of Chainlink

  • Sandy Peng

    Co-Founder of Scroll

  • Dr. Kang Li

    Chief Security Officer of CertiK

  • Kenny Li

    Co-Founder of Manta Network

  • Annabelle Huang

    Managing Partner of Amber Group

  • Rodney Yesep

    Partner of Hack VC

  • Herbie Fu

    Partner of Hack VC

  • Chichi Hong

    Partner of Hack VC

  • Dr. Li Hua Xi

    Director of Web3 Product, Huawei Cloud

  • Daniel

    Head of Solana Foundation MCM

  • Laura Shi

    Head of International Expansion of Consensys

  • Sky Lai

    Partner of J17 Capital

  • Ken Zhang

    Head of Security of Google Cloud Greater China

  • Yi Wang

    Managing Director of CSOP Asset Management

  • Henry Chen

    Managing Director of Summer Capital

  • Cecilia Hsueh

    CEO of Morph

  • Josie Leung

    Co-Founder of MilkyWay

  • Jordi Alexander

    Chief Alchemist of Mantle

  • Anthony Zhang

    Community & Ecosystem Lead (APAC) of The Graph

  • Ezra Wong

    BD & Partnerships Director of Auros

  • SJ Park

    Head of Strategy of Vertex Protocol

  • Taylor Harris

    Head of Community of dappOS

  • Sia Khazamipour

    Odao5

  • Forest

    Founder of Foresight Ventures; Chairman of The Block

  • Gavin Wang

    CIO of SNZ

  • Eva Lian

    Chief Investment Officer of EM Investment

  • Kun Peng

    Partner of Stanford Blockchain Acclerator

  • Yemu Xu

    Co-Founder of ARPA Network and Penrose Ventures

  • Georgina CHU

    Chief Corporate Development Officer of Cyberport

  • Rachel Lee

    Fintech Senior Manager of Cyberport

  • Maxim Ermilov

    Founder at Overnight.Fi

  • Luke Wang

    Co-Founder & CEO of Chakra & Web3MQ

  • Trevor Aron

    Founder of Doormat.xyz

  • Gigi Cho

    Investment Manager of HTX Ventures

  • Vince Yang

    Co-Founder of zkLink

  • Chao Lyu

    Partner of Withzard Flow

  • Feng Han

    Co-Founder of BeL2

  • Daksh Joshi

    Product Partner of PublicAI

  • JQ

    Founder & CEO of Jasper Vault

  • Ken Kitahara

    Decima

  • Yiming Wang

    Chairman of JDI

  • Gokhan Er

    Managing Director of IOSG Ventures

  • Alex Rawitz

    Co-Founder of Dimo

  • Alma Li

    Founder of Techub News; Partner of Web3Labs

  • Moshe Shen

    BD & Partnership Director of Wintermute

  • Anurag Arjun

    Co-Founder of Avail

  • Ganesh Swami

    Co-Founder and CEO of Covalent

  • Hakan Sezikli

    CMO of BEVM

  • Balal Khan

    CMO of ZKEX

  • Regan Bozman

    Co-Founder of Lattice Capital

  • Rock Lau

    Chief Community Officer of Axiomesh

  • Ranvir Rana

    Co-founder of Witness Chain

  • Prof. WaiShun Lo

    CUHK

  • Prof. Kani Chen

    Financial Mathematics at HKUST

  • Prof. Jack Poon

    School of Accounting and Finance at PolyU

  • Prof. Zhicong Lu

    Department of Computer Science at CityU

  • Ryan Park

    Founder of Exponents

  • Ben Law

    STO of Tabi

  • Kevin

    Founder of Ooga Booga

  • Sami

    Co-Founder of Redacted

  • Raito

    Co-Founder of Infrared

  • Umeshu

    Head of BD at The Honey Jar

Agenda

Day 1

9:30 am 

Ed Roman (Founder of Hack.Summit() & Founding Partner of Hack VC) Opening Remarks

9:55 am

Mr Joseph H. L. Chan, JP (Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, The Government of Hong Kong SAR)

10:05 am

Smokey (Co-Founder of Berachain) Keynote

10:30 am

Rushi Manche (Co-Founder of Movement Labs) Keynote

10:45 am

Sandeep Nailwal (Founder of Polygon) Keynote

11:15 am

Akersh Srivastava (VP Product & Head of Developer Relations of Chainlink) Keynote

11:45 am

VC Panel: When Western and Eastern VCs Meet

Annabelle Huang (Managing Partner of Amber Group), Sia Khazamipour (dao5), Sky Lai (Partner of J17 Capital), Kun Peng (Partner of Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

ModeratorRodney Yesep (Partner of Hack VC)

12:25 pm

Building the Next Generation Decentralized Ecosystem:

Philip Forte (Founder of Elixir), Hilmar Orth (Founder of Gelato), Anuray Arjun (Avail)

Moderator: Gokhan Er (Managing Director, IOSG Ventures)

1:05 pm

Securing the Digital Frontier:

Robert Chen (Founder of OtterSec), Alex Rawitz (Co-Founder of Dimo), Ranvir Rana (Co-founder of Witness Chain)

Moderator: Ken Zhang (Head of Security of Google Cloud Greater China)

1:30 pm

David Tse (Co-Founder of Babylon) Keynote

2:05 pm

Feng Han (Co-Founder of BeL2) Keynote

2:20 pm

Panel: Zero Knowledge Proof and Re-Staking Vyas Krishnan (Strategy of EigenLayer), Federico Carrone (Co-Founder of Aligned Layer)

Moderator: Nicole Sun (Zuzalu Core)

2:40 pm

Panel: Exponential Value Creation with Data & Infra

Shawn Lim (Head of APAC of Axelar), Ganesh Swami (Co-Founder and CEO of Covalent), Hakan Sezikli (CMO of BEVM), Balal Khan (CMO of ZKEX), Pavel Burylichev (Director of Engineering at GGx)

Moderator: Omer Ozden (Chairman, RockTree Capital)

3:10 pm 

VC Panel: Smart Money Trends & Predictions

Omer Ozden (Chairman, RockTree Capital), BMAN (ABCDE), Gavin Wang (CIO of SNZ), Yi Wang (Managing Director of CSOP Asset Management), Yiming Wang (Chairman of JDI)

Moderator: Yolanda Chung (Partner of PANONY & PANews)

3:55 pm 

Justin Drake (Ethereum Foundation) Keynote (Virtual)

4:25m

Rock Lau (Chief Community Officer of Axiomesh) Keynote

4:40 pm 

Zon (Funding Member of Initia) Keynote

5:00 pm

Daksh Joshi (Product Partner of PublicAI) Keynote

5:20 pm 

Hackathon Panel:

Daniel (Head of Solana Foundation MCM), Nezha (APAC BD of Berachain), Anthony Zhang (Community & Ecosystem Lead APAC of The Graph)

Moderator: Herbie Fu (Partner of Hack VC)

6:05 pm 

Closing Remarks

Day 2

9:30 am

Michael Heinrich (Founder of 0G) - Introducing The First Modular AI Chain

10:00 am

Asa Li (Lead in APAC of io.net) Keynote

10:30 am

Empowering Startups from a Venture Capital Perspective:

Yemu Xu (Co-Founder of ARPA Network and Penrose Ventures), Rodney Yesep (Partner of Hack VC), Gigi Cho (Investment Manager of Houbi Ventures), Ken Kitahara (Decima)

Moderator: Eva Lian (Chief Investment Officer of EM Investment)

11:15 am

Dr. Li Hua Xi (Director of Web3 Product, Huawei Keynote)

11:30 am

DeFi:

DR. Kang Li (Chief Security Officer of CertiK), Arisa Toyosaki (Co-Founder & CEO of Cega), Jesse Beller (Co-Founder & CEO of Terrace), Ryan Zhang (CPO of MYX), SJ (Head of Strategy of Vertex protocol)

Moderator: Moshe Shen (BD & Partnership Director of Wintermute)

12:15 pm

YQ (Founder of AltLayer) Keynote

12:45 pm

JQ (Founder & CEO of Jasper Vault) keynote

1:05 pm

Transforming Industries Through Innovation:

Potter Li (Co-Founder of Ethsign), Josie Leung (Co-Founder of MilkyWay), Trevor Aron (Founder of Doormat), Maxim Ermilov (Founder of Overnight.Fi)

Moderator: Regan Bozman (Co-Founder of Lattice Capital)

1:50 pm

TradFi:

Haifeng Bai (Co Head of Asset Management Managing Director of CMBI), Laura Shi (Head of International Expansion of Consensys), Chao Lyu (Partner of Withzard Flow)

Moderator: Rachel Lee (Fintech Senior Manager of Cyberport)

2:00 pm

Firechat between Ed Roman & Niraj Pant

2:25 pm

Georgina Chu (Chief Corporate Development Officer of Cyberport) Speech

2:35pm

Scaling:

Ed Roman (Founder of Hack.Summit() & Founding Partner of Hack VC), Taylor Harris (Head of Community of dappOS), Luke Wang (Co-Founder & CEO of Chakra & Web3MQ)

Moderator: Henry Chen (Managing Director of Summer Capital)

3:20 pm

ETH Panel:

Sandy Peng (Co-Founder of Scroll), Kenny Li (Co-Founder of Manta Network), Jordi Alexander (Chief Alchemist of Mantle), Vince Yang (Co-Founder of zkLink)

Moderator: Chichi Hong (Partner of Hack VC)

4:05 pm

Berachain Ecosystem Showcase

Ryan Park (Founder of Exponents), Ben Law (CTO of Tabi), Kevin (Founder of Ooga Booga), Sami (Co-Founder of Redacted), Infrared, Umeshu (Head of BD at The Honey Jar)

Moderator: Nezha (APAC BD of Berachain)

4:50 pm

Modularity:

YQ (Founder of AltLayer), Terry Chung (Strategy Lead of Eclipse), Rushi Manche (Co-Founder of Movement Labs), Zon (Founding Member of Initia)

Moderator: Evie Yan (Senior Consultant of TechFlow)

5:35 pm

Hackathon Panel:

Forest (Founder, Foresight Ventures; Chairman of The Block), Cecilia Hsueh (CEO of Morph), Ezra Wong (BD & Partnerships Director of Auros)

Moderator: Alma Li (Founder of Techub News)

6:10 pm

Hackathon Demo Day Award Ceremony

It’s a two-day and one-night Hacker House with over 20k grants event will not only strengthen the close connections within the community but also bring unprecedented new trends and opportunities to the blockchain industry.

20,000 $USD prize pool

Co-HostS

Hackathon Agenda

- located in the Hackathon room

Day 1

10:00 am 

Check-in

10:30 am

Why Web3 takes place in Hong Kong

Rachael Lee (Cyberport)

10:40 am

Morph Ecosystem Introduction

  • Cecilia Hsueh (Morph)

11:00 am

Solana Ecosystem Round Table

11:40 am

Berachain Ecosystem Round Table

Nezha (Berachain)

12:10 pm

The Graph Workshop (building Sub-graph)

Pranav Maheshwari (The Graph Sr Solutions Architect)

12:40 pm

Lunch and Learn

14:00 pm

Solana Technical Workshop and Office Hour

Dean (MCM Dev Rel Solana Foundation)

15:30 pm

Berachain Technical Dive-in and Office Hour

Nezha (Berachain)

17:00 pm

Morph Technical Dive-in and Office Hour

Luka (Morph Deve Rel)

Day 2

10:00 am

Check-in

10:30 am

Web3 in HK Round Table

Blockchain Academy, Chichi (ScalingX), Adam (Solana), Anthony (The Graph), Nezha (Berachain), Cecilia Hsueh (Morph CEO)

11:30 am

Panel: Why build in Asia?

Openbuild, Tintinland, Moonshoot Commons

12:30 pm

Prof Panel: Education of Web3 of HK

Andy (Blockchain Academy), Prof Lo (CUHK), Prof Kani Chen (HKUST), Prof Jack Poon (PolyU), Prof Lu (CityU)

14:00 pm

Hackathon House Demo Day

14:00 - 14:40 pm Morph

14:30 - 15:30 pm Berachain

15:30 - 18:00 pm Solona

18:00 pm

Hackathon Award Ceremony (at the main conference room)

Previous Hack Summits

Hack.summit() 2023             Hack.summit() 2022

Hack.Summit() 2018             Hack.Summit() 2016

Hack.Summit() 2014