Emi Yoshikawa Senior Director Global Operations Ripple #blockchainwomen

Emi Yoshikawa Senior Director Global Operations Ripple: Emi is responsible for expanding Ripple’s businesses into strategic international markets and managing joint venture partnership. Prior to Ripple, she led the product development of quants investment analytics at MSCI, which was previously part of Morgan Stanley, and ran a cross-border business consulting firm based in Silicon Valley. In 2017, she was selected as a top-50 “Women in Fintech” Influencer by Onalytica in 2017. Emi holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is also a CFA charterholder.

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Blockchain: Bridging the Chains: Practical considerations in working with multiple Blockchains

Jae Yang, CEO Tacen Inc. #bridgingblockchains Interoperability is a multisyllabic word for a multi-faceted problem. How do you get blockchains to communicate with one another? Until recently, there’s been no easy way to achieve this, leaving assets isolated and smart contract-powered dapps siloed on their respective protocols. Before crypto assets can take over the world, first they need to escape the valley where they originated, a task which calls for building bridges. Jae Yang CEO Tacen Inc, a startup working on non-custodial solution to cryptocurrency exchange. Jae previously worked at Metal Pay as Director of Engineering, helping to build Metal Pay’s market infrastructure, graph-based AML and anti-fraud system, and other systems. Before that Jae worked in defense sector, helping to build high-fidelity engineering simulations. Jae started out as an aerospace engineer, but he found his passion in writing software. He is passionate about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. He is active in the cryptocurrency community, often explaining technical details to newcomers. In his spare time, Jae develops various open source softwares in Node.js and is an avid reader.

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