SPEAKERS
Industry Leaders | MIT Bitcoin Expo 2026
2026 Speakers
More speakers to be announced soon
Previous Year Speakers
MIT Bitcoin Expo 2025
Adam Jonas
CEO, Chaincode Labs
Anna Chekhovich
Nonprofit Bitcoin Adoption Lead
Antoine Poinsot
Engineer, Chaincode Labs
Arsh Molu
Operations Lead, Human Rights Foundation
Bradley Rettler
Director, Bitcoin Research Institute, University of Wyoming
Brian Abely
Investment Strategist, Fidelity Digital Asset Management
Cory Fields
Bitcoin Core Developer - MIT DCI
Dylan LeClair
Director of Bitcoin Strategy at Metaplanet
Eric Semler
Chairman, Semler Scientific
Ethan Heilman
Research Fellow MIT DCI
Evan Mawarire
Human Rights and Freedom Activist
Farida Nabourema
Convener, Africa Bitcoin Conference
Femi Longe
Global Bitcoin Development Lead, Human Rights Foundation
Frank Corva
Political Correspondent at Bitcoin Magazine
Gloria Zhao
Bitcoin Core Developer
Hunter Beast
Protocol Engineer for Anduro, Project Lead at Surmount Systems
Jameson Lopp
Chief Security Officer at Casa
Janusz
Lead Maintainer @ Bitcoin Layers
Jeff Walton
MSTR True North Founder
Jeremy Rubin
Char Network
Jorge Jraissati
President, Economic Inclusion Group
Matt Odell
Partner, Ten31, CoFounder, OpenSats
Mauricio Di Bartolomeo
Co-founder & CSO at Ledn
Mikhail Komarov
Co-Founder @[[alloc] init]
Neha Narula
Director, Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab
Nico Lechuga
Founding Partner, Ego Death Capital
Paul Giordano
VP of Digital Asset Management, MARA
Phong Le
President and CEO, Strategy
Ren Crypto Fish
Partner, Electric Capital
Robin Linus
PhD Student at Stanford
Roger Dingledine
Co-founder, The Tor Project
Roger Huang
Author, Would Mao Hold Bitcoin
Satsie
The Bitcoin Dev Project
Sjors Provoost
Bitcoin Core Developer
Steven Roose
CEO @ Second
Tadge Dryja
Bitcoin Programmer
Timothy Massad
Director, Digital Assets Policy Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Vitor Pamplona
Creator of Amethyst
Weikeng Chen
Research Partner, L2 Iterative
William Casarin
Damus Founder & CEO
Notable Past Speakers
Michael Saylor
Executive Chairman, MicroStrategy
Andreas Antonopoulos
Bitcoin Educator and Author, Mastering Bitcoin
Charlie Lee
Creator of Litecoin
Jameson Lopp
CTO, Casa
Peter McCormack
Podcast Host
Elizabeth Stark
CEO, Lightning Labs
Jimmy Song
Author, Programming Bitcoin
Dylan LeClair
Bitcoin Analyst and Researcher
Jason Lowery
US Space Force; Author, Softwar
ODELL
Host, Citadel Dispatch
Peter Todd
Bitcoin Core Developer
Gavin Andresen
Former Chief Scientist, Bitcoin Foundation
Gary Gensler
Former Chair, SEC; Professor, MIT Sloan
Arvind Narayanan
Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Neha Narula
Director, MIT Digital Currency Initiative
Matt Corallo
Bitcoin Core Developer; Engineer, Spiral
Evan Mawarire
Pastor and Pro-Democracy Activist
Farida Nabourema
Executive Director, Togolese Civil League
Robin Linus
Creator of BitVM
Pieter Wuille
Bitcoin Core Developer
Jeremy Rubin
CEO, Judica; Bitcoin Core Contributor
John Newbery
Bitcoin Core Contributor; Co-founder, Brink
Gloria Zhao
Bitcoin Core Developer; Engineer, Chaincode Labs
Sjors Provoost
Bitcoin Core Developer; Author
Tadge Dryja
Co-creator of the Lightning Network; Researcher, MIT DCI
Antoine Poinsot
Co-founder, Chaincode Labs
Christian Catalini
Co-creator of Diem; Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
Joseph Poon
Co-creator of the Lightning Network
Elaine Shi
Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Timothy Massad
Former Chair, CFTC; Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Andrew Poelstra
Director of Research, Blockstream
Jeff Walton
Chief Risk Officer and CTO, True North