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John Nahas is the Chief Business Officer at Ava Labs, the company behind the Avalanche blockchain. At Ava Labs, he drives strategic partnerships and international expansion in key markets including Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. With a strong fintech background—having raised $18M and secured 43 licences at Onsa—he blends regulatory insight with innovation.
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00:00 - 09:26 Introduction
09:26- 11:43 Buying First Bitcoin 2012
11:44- 20:38 What Is Avalanche?
20:39- 27:48 Context of Avalanche Ecosystem
27:49- 37:56 Avalanche Use Cases
37:57 - 46:18 DeFi: A Means of Financial literacy and inclusion
46:19- 47:53 Avalanche Challenges and Opportunities
47:54 - 53:20 AI and Blockchain Crossover
53:19- 53:26 Closure
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J. Baylor Myers is the Vice President for Corporate Development at BitGo, a premiere leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, offering custody, wallets, trading, and financing for institutional clients globally.
Baylor has led the closure of BitGo’s $100 million Series C funding round with a valuation of $1.75 billion. During his tenure, he led two successful acquisitions that expanded BitGo’s product suite and services.
Baylor also launched BitGo Ventures, a proprietary investment vehicle aimed at catalysing the digital asset ecosystem.
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Baylor Myers Key interview highlights
00:00 - 01:10 Key highlights
01:11 - 03:42 Introduction
03:43 - 06:37 Baylor’s Career Journey
09:15 - 12:48 Journey into the Crypto world
12:49 - 16:20 Treasury at the White House
16:21 - 19:16 The Blockchain Exploration
19:17 - 22:08 BitGo: Revolutionising Digital Assets
22:09 - 24:14 Global Institutional Network
24:15 - 27:58 BitGo's Growth
27:59 - 27:57 Digital Asset Adoption
27:58 - 31:57 Regulation Challenges in Crypto
31:58 - 35:04 Digital Assets and Tokenisation
35:05 - 40:20 Financial Inclusion and Literacy
40:21 - 42:56 Stablecoins & Crypto Innovation
42:57 - 44:35 Institutional Crypto Adoption
44:36 - 46:13 Governments Exploring Bitcoin Reserves
46:14 - 48:00 AI, Blockchain, and Crypto
48:01 - 48:21 Closure
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Larry Yang is a technology leader with over 30 years of experience in engineering and product management. He currently serves as the Chief Product Officer at Phononic, a company revolutionising solid-state cooling solutions for industries like data centres, pharmaceuticals, and HVAC. Larry has previously held senior leadership roles at global giants such as Google, Fitbit, Cisco, and Microsoft, where he led key product portfolios, including Fitbit's wearables division, which generated over $1 billion in annual revenue.
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Ben Goertzel is a computer scientist, AI researcher, speaker, author, and entrepreneur who coined the term AGI in 2003 and has contributed significantly to the field.
He is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a decentralised AI platform that leverages blockchain technology to provide open access to AI services, fostering collaboration across industries. With its AI marketplace, developers can monetise their innovations using the AGIX token.
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Alex Grimshaw is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Microsoft Azure in the United Kingdom, where he supports customers and partners across sectors to drive digital transformation using Microsoft Azure Cloud. Prior to this, Alex served as Microsoft UK Public Sector CTO, working with the UK’s largest Public Administration organisations, HM Revenue & Customs, and the Department for Work & Pensions. During this time, he focused on tech intensity, human excellence, and industrial empathy as core pillars of cultural change to impact customers, partners, and colleagues.
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J. Baylor Myers is the Vice President for Corporate Development at BitGo. Baylor has led the closure of BitGo’s $100 million Series C funding round with a valuation of $1.75 billion. During his tenure, he led two successful acquisitions that expanded BitGo’s product suite and services.
Baylor also launched BitGo Ventures, a proprietary investment vehicle aimed at catalysing the digital asset ecosystem.
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Ariel Assaraf is an entrepreneur and technology leader with over 15 years of experience helping companies unlock the power of their observability data. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coralogix, a leading in-stream data platform for full observability for logs, metrics, tracing, RUM, and security data. Ariel served in Israel’s elite intelligence unit, 8200, where he developed a data extraction platform and created unique intelligence tools by connecting intelligence and tech units.
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00:00- 05:57 Introduction
05:58- 09:12 Israel's Tech & Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
09:13- 11:36 Career Journey
11:37- 19:14 About Coralogix
19:15- 31:06 Data Analytics & AI Integration
31:07- 35:25 AI & Data Optimisation
35:26- 41:04 AI Transparency, Safety, & Consumer Responsibility
41:05- 44:49 Decision-Making with AI & Data Analytics
44:50- 45:55 Closure
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Coralogix, founded in 2014, graduated from the Microsoft Accelerator in 2016 in Tel Aviv and is now headquartered in California, United States. The company serves over 2,000 global customers, monitors more than 500,000 applications, and processes over 3 million events per second. It uses stateful streaming technology to analyse pre-indexed data. In December 2024, Coralogix acquired Aporia in a $50 million deal to enhance AI system transparency. The company also launched its AI Centre, which offers real-time observability for AI applications.
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Andrew Kiguel is a Canadian entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in investment banking, blockchain, AI, and robotics. He is the Chairman and CEO of Realbotix Corp., a company that creates AI-based human-like robots for companionship and social interaction. Realbotix is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and OTCQB.
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00:00- 02:07 Key highlights
02:08- 06:41 Introduction
06:42- 09:30 The Power of Delayed Gratification
09:31- 13:16 Andrew: The Entrepreneur
13:17- 18:10 Andrew's Crypto Journey
18:11- 20:51 Andrew in Metaverse Real Estate
20:52- 23:14 Navigating Risks
23:15- 25:34 Making Bitcoin Mainstream
25:35- 27:26 Building and Letting Go
27:27- 30:40 Realbotix: Robots for Human Interaction
30:41- 35:35 A Revolution in Human-Robot Interaction
35:36 - 41:21 Use Cases: Humanoid Robots
41:22 - 42:43 Robots and Accessibility
42:43 - 48:32 Humanlike Robots: Built to Scale
48:33 - 53:36 The Humanoid Robotics Tech
53:37 - 56:11 Realbotix’s Vision
54:03 - 59:14 Realbotix and Blockchain Integration
59:15 - 01:01:34 Closure
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Brian Evergreen is a recognised expert in artificial intelligence (AI) and strategy. He is the author of ‘Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of AI’.
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