FEATURED SPEAKERS

RAY DALIO
Founder of Bridgewater Associates

TIM DRAPER
Founder of Draper Associates/DFJ/Draper University

GLENN HUTCHINS
Chairman of North Island and North Island Ventures and Co-founder of Silver Lake Partners

ROB KAPLAN
President and CEO at Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

BILL MILLER
Founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Miller Value Partners

PETE BRIGER
Principal and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Fortress Investment Group

MICHAEL DAFFEY
Chairman of the Global Markets at Goldman Sachs

MICHAEL SAYLOR
Chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy

DAWN STUMP
Commissioner of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission

WENCES CASARES
CEO of XAPO

ALBERT WENGER
Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures

ERIC MASKIN
Professor of Economics at Harvard and Nobel Laureate
Friday and Saturday, April 16 - 17, 2021
Virtual Conference with a Saturday in-person option
WHY TEXAS A&M'S BITCOIN CONFERENCE
The Texas A&M Bitcoin Conference speaks to a broad community of students, faculty, former students, and the general public about Bitcoin. Featuring speakers from academia and industry, the conference will engage audiences at all levels – from freshman to faculty and beyond.
Discussions will organize into areas including:
- economic foundations
- underlying technology
- business and finance
- law/policy/regulatory landscape
Presented by the Mays Innovation Research Center, this conference lives into the center’s mission to understand innovation and how it benefits society, and to distribute this knowledge broadly to students, scholars, policymakers, and the public. The conference aims to host a healthy debate on the current state and future of Bitcoin.
PLUS
Jesse Proudman
Joel Revill
Jimmy Song
Abraham Sutherland
Parker White
Britt Harris
Hagen Kim
J. Maurice Rojas
Tom Saving
Anthony Pompliano
Gideon Powell
Albert Wenger
Brent Whitehead
Michael Flaxman
Juan Garay
Dan Held
James Hutchins
David Kinitsky
Travis Kling
Cory Klippsten
Parker Lewis
Matt Lohstroh
Caitlin Long
Clark Moody
Rob Morris
SCHEDULE AND AGENDA
Download the Agenda - Schedule and speakers subject to change
Friday, April 16 (All virtual) 9:00 a.m. - 5:10 p.m. Central
Topics: Investment Case for bitcoin, Store of Value, BTC vs Gold, BTC and Wall Street, VC and Crypto
Morning
Introduction: Korok Ray and Grant Weston
Bitcoin 101: Dan Held
Bitcoin and Corporate America: Michael Saylor
Bitcoin as an Asset Class: Ray Dalio, Joe Dowling, and Britt Harris
Crypto: Views from the Fed and Silicon Valley: Tim Draper and Rob Kaplan
Lunchtime Keynote: Nobel Laureate Eric Maskin
Afternoon
Past, Present, Future of Bitcoin: Pete Briger, Wences Casares, Michael Daffey, Bill Miller, and Chen Zhao moderated by Britt Harris
The New Venture Capital of Bitcoin: Albert Wenger, Glenn Hutchins, and James Hutchins, moderated by Britt Harris
Regulation of Bitcoin: Dawn Stump
Bitcoin Exchanges, Security, Hackathons: Cory Klippsten, Juan Garay, and Caitlin Long moderated by Anthony Pompliano
Saturday, April 17 (Virtual and/or In-Person) 8:50 a.m. - 5:10 p.m. Central
In-Person: Texas A&M Hotel & Conference Center
Book your room now.
Morning
Economics of Bitcoin
Hagen Kim: Bitcoin Fundamentals and Finance.
Parker Lewis: Bitcoin and Austrian Economics
Crypto Hedge Funds
Travis Kling: Bitcoin in The Context of The Global Macro Environment
Jesse Proudman: View from Strix Leviathan
The Bitcoin Protocol
Jimmy Song: Programming Bitcoin
Michael Flaxman: MultiSig
Parker White: Lightning Pool
J. Maurice Rojas: An Introduction to Bitcoin and the Importance of Pseudo-Randomness
Afternoon
Tom Saving: Can Crypto Currencies Successfully Compete in the Money Market?
Bitcoin Mining
Clark Moody: Mining --- A Harmony of Incentives
Brent Whitehead: Capturing Natural Gas for BTC
Gideon Powell: View from Cholla Petroleum
Rob Morris: View from Skybox Datacenters
Bitcoin Law, Policy, Taxation
Joel Revill: BTC and Wealth Management
David Kinitsky: The View from Kraken
Abraham Sutherland: Taxation of Bitcoin
Aggies in Bitcoin
Travis Kling
Clark Moody
Brent Whitehead
Matthew Lohstroh
Rob Morris
Happy Hour
Now that you're caught up on the details, join us at the event!
April 16-17, 2021
Media inquiries: Blake Parrish, Mays Business School, blake05+bitcoin@tamu.edu