Austin

City Leaders

Irina Litchfield

Founder/CEO of BlockchainCubed

BlockchainCubed / LinkedIn / Twitter / Facebook

Irina S. Litchfield is the Founder/CEO at BlockchainCubed, boutique consulting firm. She is an advisor at SpaceFund, ProChain Capital and founding advisor at ABE, global securities exchange. An entrepreneur at heart, she founded her first company in her early 20's, in the gaming industry. Early to the blockchain space, she also co-founded a bitcoin exchange in 2013 and later helped build an online bank. Passionate about innovation, community leadership and bettering, Irina often speaks as a subject matter expert. She is a co lead of BitAngelsTexas, columnist at CoinRivet and contributor at BloxLive TV. You can reach her on her LinkedIn.

Matt McKibbin

Blockchain evangelist and Founder of Decentranet

Decentranet / LinkedIn / Twitter

Matt is the Founder of Decentranet. Matt has been a blockchain evangelist since 2013 when he coordinated the DC Blockchain Meetup and was heavily involved in the BitAngels investment group. Matt is the former Co-Founder and Chief Decentralization Officer at d10e, the world’s leading conference on decentralized technologies, philosophies and social organization. He serves as an advisor to Dispatch Labs, ImpactPPA, Humaniq, Securrency, and Loci and has been involved in several early-stage blockchain startups, including Ubiquity and Trive.news. Matt is a prolific and sought-after speaker as an expert on decentralization at leading conferences worldwide. He has been featured in dozens of media publications, including Bloomberg, Nasdaq, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, and more. Matt received his Bachelor’s of Arts in Physics from West Virginia University.