BASS SBC 2025

​We are excited to share the upcoming Blockchain Application Stanford Summit on August 3rd at Berkeley during SBC. This event is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors:

Starkware, Story Protocol, Mirana, PublicAI
Blockchain Builders, Draper, PrismaX, 0G, PIN AI
Tristero, Twine, Cambrian, Vishwa,
Gradient, Openledger, & Subzero

BASS is a collaboration of the Crypto Blockchain Alumni of Stanford, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, and Stanford Blockchain Club; aggregating perspectives from industry thought leaders, and highlighting promising new founders from the Stanford ecosystem.

​Please find the complete agenda for BASS SBC 25 below:

​9:00 AM Check-in
9:30 AM Opening

​Blockchain Infrastructure
9:35 AM Dahlia Malkhi, Professor at UC Santa Barbara and Advisor, SpaceComputer
9:50 AM Tomasz Stanczak, Co-Executive Director, Ethereum Foundation
10:10 AM Sreeram Kannan, Founder, EigenLayer
10:25 AM Rachin Kalakheti, Founder, Twine (SBA)
10:35 AM Solomon Ponomarev, Head of Protocol, Solana Foundation, Lei Yang, Co-founder & CTO of MegaETH, Ade Adepoju, Founder & CEO, Subzero Labs, Moderator: Gil Rosen, GP, Blockchain Builders (Stanford Alum)
11:05 AM Oren Katz, COO, Starkware

​Blockchain AI
11:25 AM Jordan Gray, Cofounder, PublicAI (SBA), Bill Sun, Cofounder, PIN AI (SBA), Eric Yang, Cofounder, Gradient, Moderator: Guy Wuollet, Partner, a16z crypto (Stanford Alum)
11:55 AM Sam Green, Founder, Cambrian Network (SBA)
12:05 PM Sandeep Chinchali, Chief AI Officer, Story

​12:25 PM Lunch Break

​1:20 PM Daniel Marin, Co-Founder & CEO, Nexus (SBA) & Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner, Dragonfly
1:40 PM Sean Ren, Co-Founder, Sahara AI (Stanford postdoc) &
Franklin Bi, General Partner, Pantera

​Blockchain & Robotics
2:00 PM Bailey Wang, CEO, PrismaX (SBA) & Elizabeth Harkavy, Deal Partner, a16z
2:20 PM Luffy Yu, Cofounder & CEO at Reborn & Mavis Xu, General Partner, Mirana
2:35 PM Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder, 0G (SBA) & Ed Roman, Managing Partner, Hack VC

​Blockchain DeFi, Fintech, & Finance
2:50 PM David Schwartz, CTO, Ripple
3:10 PM Sam Trautwein, Founder, Tristero (SBA)
3:20 PM Ahmed Zifzaf, Head of Crypto Partnership, Worldpay (Stanford Alum), Erbil Karaman, Cofounder, Huma Finance
Moderator: Nathan Liang, Cofounder, Vishwa (Stanford Alum)
3:40 PM Sankha Banerjee, ex Chief Defi Architect, Thorchain, Babylon
3:50 PM Grant Hummer, Co-Founder, Etherealize & Avichal Garg, Co-Founder, Electric Capital (Stanford Alum)
4:10 PM Max Segall, COO, Privy (Stanford Alum)
4:25 PM Nemil Dalal, Head of Coinbase Developer Platform, Coinbase (Stanford Alum)
4:45 PM Gordon Liao, Chief Economist, Circle & Austin Bennett, Research, Circle (Stanford Alum)
5:05 PM Chirag Narang, Head of Growth & Protocol Lead, Uniswap, Teddy Pornprinya, Cofounder, Plume Network, Amir Bandeali, Co-CEO, 0X Moderator: Steven Willinger, GP, Blockchain Builders (Stanford Alum)

​BASS (Blockchain Application Stanford Summit) is the in-person focal point of Stanford’s Blockchain entrepreneurial ecosystem; an event series gathering our global community of researchers, engineers, and thought leaders; to connect and explore blockchain's latest topics in depth. 

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