Angela leads Asia Pacific public policy and regulatory affairs for TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses and public agencies detect and investigate crypto-related fraud and financial crime.

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A former regulator, Angela spent over a decade at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), where she was most recently Deputy Director in charge of licensing for payment service providers. As part of the pioneering team for Singapore’s payments regulatory regime, she oversaw the development and implementation of the licensing framework as well as the assessment of several hundred payments and digital asset license applications. Prior to this, Angela held a diverse range of roles at MAS including in regulatory policy, business development and consumer education, giving her deep insight into the full gamut of policymaking considerations for global financial regulators.

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Angela was recently named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices for Asian finance. Follow her at

https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelaajl.

Ann Brickley is a Senior Associate General Counsel in NASDAQ’s Enforcement group where she handles all manner of securities-related legal issues, including trading in crypto. Ann works on AML, Compliance, and Banking issues, too.  Prior to joining Nasdaq, Ann was a senior prosecutor at the Department of Justice for many years. Ann prosecuted complex white collar crimes involving domestic and foreign bribery and money laundering.  Ann is an experienced litigator and loves speaking about emerging legal issues.

Ann Stefan is Co-Founder & COO at Cubist, a key management infrastructure provider. She is an accomplished strategy executive who spent seven years as a fintech COO in a high-risk consumer segment. For the majority of her career, she has focused on new market expansion, product development, and rapid scaling in early-stage SaaS and fintech companies. She has a rare breadth of technical and management experience spanning risk, product, sales, marketing, customer support, and government contracts.Her core expertise centers around payment processing, online payments fraud prevention, and anti-money laundering programs, gained from years of building and running a fintech risk team and product in-house. She has a BS in Chemical-Biological Engineering from MIT.

Dr. Anna Wolf is the lead researcher on blockchain economics at the ifo Institute for Economic Research, where she provides expert analysis on the evolving blockchain economy. With a focus on advising policymakers, including members of the German parliament, Anna Wolf is actively shaping the regulatory landscape for integrating blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) into the European economy and public administration. Before focusing on blockchain and cryptocurrency, Anna Wolf gained extensive experience in industry analysis, data-driven forecasting, and branch analysis, becoming a recognized voice in media for her insights. Additionally, she served as a personal assistant to former President of the German Parliament, Dr. Wolfgang Thierse, where she organized and moderated political debate clubs on a wide range of policy issues.Anna Wolf's academic background includes a PhD in econometrics and a certification in Blockchain Technologies from the MIT Sloan School of Management. With deep expertise in econometrics and a passion for technology, she is dedicated to understanding the broader implications of blockchain technology on the real economy.As a speaker, Anna Wolf covers a range of topics, including: Blockchain and DLT applications in the economy, EU regulatory trends for digital assets, the intersection of technology and public policy, as well as NFTs and blockchain applications in creative economy. She has spoken at conferences, industry forums, and academic institutions, including participation in blockchain-focused policy discussions within the German parliament. Beyond  her professional expertise, Anna Wolf is an active member of the generative art community, curating, collecting, and writing about art created through code.

Annelise Osborne is Chief Business Officer at Kadena, a POW Layer 1 blockchain technology company, where she is focused on upgrading finance. Annelise has over 20 years of experience in finance, credit, real estate, family office, risk, structuring, governance, and digital assets. She was previously Head of Institutional for Arca Labs, working with companies to drive blockchain innovation through strategic partnerships and advisory services as well as COO of Propellr, a broker dealer in digital assets. Annelise spent 12 years at Moody's Investor Service running teams in structured finance. She is a thought leader, board advisor, university lecturer and author. Her bestselling book, From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets in Traditional Finance, hits shelves in June. Annelise holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in Economics from The College of William and Mary.

Anrike Visser is an independent policy advisor with The Sentry and the founder of Global Ground Consulting. She has 12 years of experience investigating financial crime, money laundering and corruption across Europe, Asia, and Africa. In addition, she advises European governments, EU institutions, international financial institutions and private companies on AML/CFT policies including for digital assets. Previously, she worked for the Dutch government at the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets assessing banks, insurers and investment companies.

Arianna Trozze is the Cryptocurrency Intelligence Scientist at Elliptic, where her work focuses on mixers and obfuscation services. She holds a PhD in Cybersecurity; her doctoral research leveraged data science, machine learning, and legal expertise to examine cryptocurrency crime investigations and prosecutions. With professional and academic experience in financial criminal law and tech policy, her professional background includes roles at the UK Home Office, the United Nations, and a global litigation firm. She has previously spoken at the Europol Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies, at the Royal Society, and at several academic and government conferences.

Audrey is a prominent speaker in the crypto, Web3, and tech domains, focusing on topics such as digital asset strategies, the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs), and technological innovation. She has spoken at leading conferences, including the Blockchain Futurist Conference, ETHWomen, and the FIC North America InCyber Forum, as well as at institutions like the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. Audrey shares insights on Web3 marketing strategies, launching startups, tokenization, digital assets, and the future of Web3 technologies, inspiring and educating audiences with her expertise.

Ayana Murphy is a Managing Director at Ankura based in New York. She has nearly 20 years of experience in regulatory compliance work, with a focus on Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance for the past 15 years. Ayana is a subject matter expert in BSA/AML compliance and has spent the bulk of her career at major international and domestic banks providing guidance on compliance with BSA/AML rules and regulations and collaborating with senior stakeholders to enhance AML controls, policies, and procedures. She holds a law degree from NYU and a BA from the University of Chicago.

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EXPERIENCE

Ayana has extensive experience in all facets of an institution-wide financial crime and sanctions compliance program, including BSA/AML and KYC program review, compliance testing, lookback reviews, quality assurance, policy and procedure reviews, risk assessments, and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) drafting and review.

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More recently, Ayana has performed BSA/AML work in the digital assets and cryptocurrencies space, helping blockchain platforms review and enhance their BSA/AML program compliance.

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Ayana’s professional experience includes:

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Conducting an end-to-end BSA/AML program review utilizing the five pillars of BSA/AML model of compliance, including an evaluation of the Know Your Customer, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity reporting processes, as well as a policy/procedure review.

Leading multiple projects for financial institutions with enforcement actions or regulatory concerns, performing various aspects of anti-money laundering work where she has created and refined materials positioned for federal and state regulators, the board of directors, and internal audit functions, including the presentation of demonstrated testing capabilities and the strengthening of the bank’s control environment.

Performing independent testing of a bank’s sanctions screening systems and advising the bank with respect to the effectiveness of those controls considering the bank’s risk profile as well as developing targeted trainings based on identified areas of risk in the BSA/AML compliance program, as well as industry best practice and new developments in BSA/AML compliance.

Ayana was a compliance senior manager for an international bank, where she built out the independent controls and testing program and managed the day-to-day operations of the compliance testing program. In this role, she managed a team of experienced compliance professionals and oversaw the execution of independent testing of every Business-as-Usual (“BAU”) workstream of the BSA/AML compliance program.

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Ayana also spent four years working as an attorney, predominantly as a lawyer for the city of New York, with the Department of Investigations/Department of Buildings, where she prepared and argued administrative cases on behalf of the Department of Buildings at the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. She worked extensively with New York City’s Department of Investigation in cases involving fraud and other forms of corruption.

Beth Bisbee is currently the Director of Government Customer Growth and Strategy at Chainalysis Government Solutions (CGS). Beth has been designated as an expert witness in cryptocurrency and blockchain analysis in multiple district courts. Prior to that, Beth established the foremost cryptocurrency investigative program within Chainalysis in support of public sector. Before Chainalysis, she was an Intelligence Research Specialist at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) where she served as a nationally-recognized subject matter expert (SME) on cryptocurrencies, tracing the flow of illicit funds in criminal cases, and identifying transactional behavior occurring on the blockchain. As DEA's lead SME, Beth trained hundreds of agents and analysts at DEA and other law enforcement agencies, assisted in more than 400 investigations involving cryptocurrencies and served as a testifying witness. She has been researching cryptocurrencies and their illicit use, and actively working cases in that area, since 2014.

Beth Haddock is an independent board director and chief legal officer with over 25 years’ experience leading the design and successful implementation of modern governance programs. With a focus on accelerating safe and sustainable growth, Beth fosters a culture of risk ownership, partnership and creative problem-solving re-positioning governance and compliance as powerful business drivers at notable companies including Brown Brothers Harriman, Guggenheim Investments and AXA Advisors. She is an active board member and advisor, sharing her expertise and guidance on cutting-edge topics related to compliance, blockchain, and emerging technology. Beth currently serves as an Independent Board Member and Chair of the Compliance Committee at GMO-Z.com Trust Company, a yen and USD-backed stablecoin, a member of the advisory board for the Stablecoin Standard, a current Co-Chair for Web3, Digital Tech Taskforce Subcommittee for the New York City Bar Association, and an active member of the Regulatory Advisory Committee for the National Society of Compliance Professionals. As a founder of Warburton Advisers, Beth has advised clients since 2016 including T-Rowe Price, Franklin Templeton subsidiary Advisor Engine, World Gold Council’s ETF, GLD, as well as many blockchain companies notably Balancer, Grayscale and Orca. Beth also developed a patented technology to measure compliance ROI, she is the author of “Triple Bottom-line Compliance: How to Deliver Protection, Productivity and Impact,” and podcast host for “What’s Ethical?”