Kuowei CHENG

Chief Knowledge Officer of PanSci Knowledge

Cheng was always obsessed with the need for knowledge and continuously asked questions. Not only so, Cheng was extremely confident in his stupidity and was overly curious about the world. Cheng is currently the Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) and co-founder of PanSci and Cheng hopes to work together with his employees, so that there won't be any knowledge that's too difficult to acquire!

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Benji ROGERS

CEO of dotBlockchain Music

Benji Rogers is a British-born, New York-based entrepreneur, technologist, musician, and the CEO and co-founder of the dotBlockchain Music Project. A pioneer of the direct artist-to-fan model of music distribution, Rogers founded PledgeMusic in 2009, which is now one of leading artist-to-fan platforms online with more than 4 million users and over 50,000 artists. In his current role heading dotBlockchain, Rogers is working to revolutionize the commercialization and movement of music in the digital economy. The project aims to create a decentralized global registry of music rights through a new music format by leveraging blockchain technology and to forge meaningful industry partnerships to overhaul how artists get paid.

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Jesse GRUSHACK

Co-Founder of Ujo Music

Jesse is a graduate of Union College where he majored in Computer Science and Economics. Going completely off the fixed path, Jesse worked at SFX Entertainment specializing in RFID payment technologies and live-event management. In 2012, Jesse found a love for bitcoin and decentralized technologies, he realized their importance and continued learning when writing his thesis on Cryptocurrency. He continues his passion for music and technology by directing Ujo at Consensys and looks forward to reshaping the future.

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Turo PEKARI

Senior advisor, innovation & discovery, Teosto; Co-founder, Teosto Futures Lab

Turo Pekari co-founded Teosto Futures Lab, the innovation platform of Teosto in 2016. His work focuses in partnering Teosto with global music innovation ecosystems and collaborating with startups and universities to create new value, business models and a sustainable future for music creators.
TFL has recently been exploring affective technologies to create new innovations to music festivals and launching Pigeon, a blockchain prototype for music copyright organisations, opening music data and developing an educational export concept combining tech and music. Turo is also a member of The Nemo Project, award winning science project organizing Emotion Hack Day events and he has been contributing to music industry initiatives like Open Music Initiative and MTF Blockchain Labs.
Teosto is the society of musical authors and publishers in Finland.
Twitter: @s1truuna

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