BELAL JASSOMA
Director, Ecosystems,
DMCC
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BELAL JASSOMA
Director, Ecosystems,DMCC
Belal Jassoma is Director of Ecosystems at DMCC, the world’s leading business district and authority on international commodities trade and enterprise.
Belal joined DMCC in 2011 and has been instrumental in scaling up DMCC’s ecosystems and commercial offering, including new products, services and member engagement programmes. In his current capacity as Director for Ecosystems, Belal is responsible for developing key strategic relationships, partnerships and product functions as well as overseeing ecosystem development across several of DMCC’s industry verticals such as crypto, gaming, AI, energy and financial services.
Belal holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the American University of Sharjah and brings over 18 years of experience in real estate, investment, and government administration.
Anoosheh Kalantari
Co-Founder,
Crimson Founders
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Anoosheh Kalantari
Co-Founder,Crimson Founders
John D'Agostino
Head of Strategy,
Coinbase Institutional
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John D'Agostino
Head of Strategy,Coinbase Institutional
John D'Agostino is Head of Strategy for Coinbase Institutional. He is the Former Head of Strategy of the New York Mercantile Exchange. John is the subject of two NY Times bestselling books, and lectures in Fintech at Oxford, MIT and Columbia Universities. John is Chair of the UK Consulate Financial Services Working Group, an AIF Global Financial Innovation Institute Fellow, Research Affiliate at MIT CSAIL, and the co-founder of the AIMA Digital Asset Working Group.
Prof. Manolis Kellis
Lab lead,
Kellis Lab (MIT)
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Prof. Manolis Kellis
Lab lead,Kellis Lab (MIT)
Manolis Kellis is a professor of Computer Science at MIT, head of the MIT Computational Biology Group, and an associate member of the Broad Institute. His research focuses on understanding the human genome through computational biology, integrating large-scale functional and comparative genomics data. He has led key projects such as ENCODE, Roadmap Epigenomics, and GTEx, advancing insights into gene regulation, disease mechanisms, and evolutionary genomics.
Kellis has received numerous awards, including the US Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. His work spans epigenomics, regulatory networks, and machine learning applications in genomics, with groundbreaking contributions to understanding obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer.