SANTA CLARA, Calif.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–29. September 2022–
CasperLabs, a leading enterprise blockchain software company, today announced that Co-Founder and CTO Medha Parlikar and Senior Business Development Manager Niamh O’Connell will be keynote speakers at Blockchain Expo North America conference that takes place 5.-6. October 2022 in Santa Clara, California. Parlikar will speak on “The Blockchain Scalability Challenge” on October 5, while O’Connell will participate in a keynote panel “The Future of Digital Assets” on October 6. Blockchain Expo North America is a technology conference and exhibition, with thought-leading discussions and top-level content, covering all recent developments in the Blockchain ecosystem.
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CasperLabs is tackling the Blockchain Scalability Challenge at Blockchain Expo North America on October 5th and 6th with co-founder and CTO Medha Parlikar delivering the keynote; Senior Business Development Manager Niamh O’Connell addresses ‘The Future of Digital Assets’ (Graphic: Business Wire)
MEDHA PARLIKAR KEYNOTE DETAILS
WHAT: Keynote Address: “The Blockchain Scalability Challenge”
WHOSE: Medha Parlikar, CasperLabs
WHEN: 5 October 2022 at 1:30 p.m. PDT
WHERE: Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California.
“While initially tailored for the financial industry, blockchain has unlimited potential to be implemented across businesses and industries of all types,” said Medha Parlikar, Co-Founder and CTO, CasperLabs. “A key obstacle to blockchain adoption surrounds scalability, and I look forward to discussing these challenges as well as the solutions that will accelerate widespread adoption of blockchain into the future.”
NIAMH O’CONNELLKEYNOTE DETAILS
WHAT: Keynote Panel: “The Future of Digital Assets”
WHOSE: Niamh O’Connell, CasperLabs; Zack Chang, WonderPals; Alex Dominguez, Unicoin; Flora Nanda, Pfizer; Sachin Rege, Wells Fargo; Moderator: Alex Nascimento, 7CC Blockchain
WHEN: 6 October 2022 at 11:15 a.m. PDT
WHERE: Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California.
“From cryptocurrencies to NFTs, the popularity of digital assets has exploded and shows no signs of slowing down,” said Niamh O’Connell, Senior Business Development Manager, CasperLabs. “At Blockchain Expo, we will take a deep dive into how these digital assets are already impacting multiple industries and changing the world we live in.”
About Medha Parlikar
Medha Parlikar is co-founder and technology manager at CasperLabs. Medha has more than 30 years of technical experience and is considered one of the top women in blockchain. As CasperLab’s CTO, Medha is on a mission to make blockchain the platform for doing business in the future. “It’s not a scary technology,” says Medha. “We are reducing the risk of blockchain to the enterprise. The time is now for enterprises to adopt and not be left behind.” Medha started working with blockchain in 2017 as a program manager at Pyrofex, where she led the development of an open source blockchain platform. When she realized that the blockchain technology platform she needed didn’t actually exist, she decided to build it herself and CasperLabs was born. Beyond blockchain, Medha’s specialties include Ethereum, SaaS, Product Engineering and Cloud technologies. Medha started working with technology in the early 1980s, building computers in the basement. For the past two decades, she has delivered SaaS software for major companies, including Adobe, Omniture and Avalara. Medha excels at building and mentoring high-performing technical teams, inspiring them to deliver solutions that solve customer problems. She is a prolific speaker, having spoken at several global conferences, including Davos, the LA Blockchain Summit, and NFT.NYC, among others. Medha is a mentor and has worked with organizations including Strongurl to elevate and encourage women in blockchain/tech. In her personal life, Medha is a wife and mother of three children, and holds a black belt in karate. Medha graduated summa cum laude from Coleman College with a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems and programming.
About Niamh O’Connell
Niamh (N Eve ) O’Connell is senior business development manager at CasperLabs. Niamh is a blockchain expert and has been at the forefront of the blockchain evolution since 2016. She is one of the founders of BlockW, a women-led initiative that provides a platform for communication, education and discussion of ideas related to careers in blockchain. . Earlier in her career (2016), Niamh served at Deloitte and was a founding team member that set up and scaled the company’s blockchain lab for Europe, Middle East and South Africa. She was also part of a small team that set up ConsenSys Ireland in 2018 and joined ConsenSys US in 2020, working with Treum to build out a SaaS blockchain supply chain platform and co-lead the company’s customer adoption department. In addition, Niamh worked in 2018 on the first blockchain applications in production grade for consumer packaged goods and in the food and agriculture industry. Niamh was named 2018 “Blockchain Leader of the Year” at the Dublin Tech Summit and has co-authored a number of blockchain studies. Niamh holds a Bachelor of Business Studies from Trinity College Dublin and a Master of Science in Management Consultancy from University College Dublin.
For more information about CasperLabs, visit www.casperlabs.io.
About CasperLabs
CasperLabs, a leading blockchain software company for the enterprise market, re-imagines blockchain for the enterprise with a future-proof solution. The company also provides development, support and advisory services for organizations that build on the Casper network. Guided by open source principles, CasperLabs is committed to supporting the next wave of blockchain adoption among enterprises and providing developers with a reliable and secure framework to build private, public and hybrid blockchain applications. The team has deep enterprise technology experience with a cumulative 100 years of enterprise experience, coming from organizations including Google, Adobe, AWS, Dropbox and Microsoft. To learn more, visit www.casperlabs.io.
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