2024 Speakers

Dan Proft is the co-host of the radio program, “Chicago’s Morning Answer” on AM 560in Chicago and the host of the “Counterculture” podcast at AmGreatness.com and the usual podcast platforms.

I lead a highly skilled team dedicated to surpassing business goals and objectives. Prioritizing customer satisfaction, we focus on Data & AI, Hybrid Cloud, and Data Resilience strategies. Supporting team engagements, career growth, and expertise reinforcement, we ensure trusted advisory […]

Allison is a Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners and has been with the firm since 2019. Prior to HPVP, Allison ran business operations for Civis Analytics, a Chicago-based data science software startup. She also Co-Founded Flag Analytics, a predictive […]

Kathleen Wrynn is an Executive Director within the Global Technology Strategy Team at J.P. Morgan focusing on Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT). With 15+ years of financial industry experience, Kathleen is a fervent advocate for using blockchain and web3 technologies to […]

Katherine Kirkpatrick is the Chief Legal Officer of Cboe Digital. Prior to joining Cboe Digital, Katherine was General Counsel of Maple Finance, a capital-efficient corporate debt marketplace which facilitates crypto institutional borrowing via liquidity pools funded by the DeFi ecosystem. […]

Richard’s practice focuses on the representation of early stage and publicly traded companies in the FinTech space, including investment banks, broker-dealers, investment advisers, peer-to-peer lending platforms, digital currency trading platforms, ATSs, exchanges, and custodians. He represents these firms before the […]

Florian Huchedé is a Senior Director at Cboe Labs, the innovation arm of Cboe Global Markets. He works towards improving the Cboe’s current services as well as designing and implementing new products and solutions for the Exchange. Prior to this […]

Oscar A. Jofre is the co-founder, president, and CEO of the Kore group of companies that include KoreConX, KoreTransfer USA, KorePlatforms, KoreIssuance, and KoreChain, two of the most innovative companies empowering the private capital markets.  Oscar is currently one of […]