IEEE CANADA BLOCKCHAIN FORUM 2025 (3rd Edition)
The IEEE Blockchain Forum is the official Province of Ontario event at Canada Crypto Week 2025! This tech-centric one-day event congregates BUIDLers, researchers, academics, and engineers building blockchain protocols, infrastructure, and decentralized software applications.
Speaker Announcements
Ramesh Ramadoss, Chair, IEEE Blockchain Technical Community, Author, Speaker
Wee Kee Toh, Global Head of Business Architecture for Digital Payments, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan
Mark R MacDonald, EY Global Lead Partner, Public Financial Management; Lead Partner, Government & Public Sector (Ontario)
Dr. Andreas Veneris, Professor at the University of Toronto
Paul Samson, President of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Scott Hendry, Senior Research Officer at the Bank of Canada
Nassib Kazoun, Director, Advisors Client Services at Mastercard Data & Services
Dr. Soosan Naderi, Innovation Lead in Blockchain and Cybersecurity at Exaion
Redwan Meslem, Executive Director at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
More speakers to be announced
And researchers from the University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Waterloo, York University, as well as startup founders from Creative Destruction Lab (Web3 Stream in partnership with University of Toronto and HEC Montréal).
Main Themes
Finance: Global Payments, CBDC vs Stablecoins 💸
Cybersecurity 🔒
Energy Distribution ⚡