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Karen Chang

SDF

Karen Chang is the Vice President of Engineering at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world's financial infrastructure. She directs and manages the engineering teams, responsible for delivering Stellar SDKs and APIs, full stack product, partner engagement and infrastructure, aligning with SDF’s overall mission. Karen has been a software engineer and worked in engineering management over the course of her career. She started learning programming on her first personal computer, a HP-150 building small applications in BASIC. She started her professional career as a Unix Systems Programmer at Netscape where she worked on scaling up the Netscape.com websites. She then spent some time at Goldman Sachs as a software engineer working on a variety of high throughput, low latency systems, including the core SecDB team working on Goldman’s risk management system for the asset management business.

Tuesday, October 11

1:00 pm - 1:40 pm

Stellar: A Native Platform for Asset Issuance

The rise of digital assets is re-imagining how value is managed and moved, democratizing investments with fractionalization of real assets. It brings ownership to a new level providing more liquidity, faster settlement, and lower costs. Learn how two technology companies are working to facilitate asset issuance in Brazil and how these assets can transform the Brazilian financial markets. Get a technical perspective on the key features that makes Stellar a unique and ideal blockchain for asset issuance and how Mercado Bitcoin is doing it.

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Tuesday, October 11

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Crypto, We Have a Diversity Problem

If there’s one weakness crypto and tradfi have in common, equity and inclusivity. As we find ourselves in the early days of Web3, how can we ensure that women and minorities are building it, leading it, and able to access everything it has to offer?

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