Borneo Blockchain 2025 Speakers
Distinguished experts leading the conversation on blockchain innovation. Click on any speaker card to view their detailed poster.
Belinda Lim
Community Lead (SG) | Animoca Mosaic
Belinda is Blacklassmity lead, SG for Animoca Mosaic. She's previously SEA Regional General Manager (BI) at The Sandbox, a serial entrepreneur and speaker. A seven-year blockchain veteran and Singapore Representative of Women in Blockchain Asia (WIBA), she has previously co-founded a blockchain startup that raised USD$2M from prominent investors.
Ben Chan
Managing Director | UKISS
Ben is a computer science expert with over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, where he successfully developed businesses for multiple MNCs, including Hewlett Packard. He is also leading the WOLOT Foundation who supports the growth of enterprises on the TOOL Global blockchain ecosystem.
Benjamin Chuang
Senior Manager | Luno Malaysia
Benjamin is the Senior Manager at Luno Malaysia, leading strategic partnerships and digital asset initiatives. With past leadership roles at Lazada and Shopee, he brings global experience in e-commerce and strategy. He also co-founded Hyperliquid Malaysia and is an active Web3 speaker and emcee.
Colbert Low
Program Manager | SOVEREIGN WEALTH MANAGEMENT PTE LTD
Colbert Low is a seasoned technology executive with over 15 years of leadership in IT and operations across industries. He founded BitcoinMalaysia.com, growing it into Malaysia's largest cryptocurrency community with over 140,000 members, as the country's first Certified Bitcoin Professional (2015).
Dato Ir. Ts. Sudarnoto Osman
Chief Executive Officer | Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation
Dato Sudarnoto, a Tohoku University graduate, built his career across Matsushita, Celcom, and Maxis before becoming CEO of SACOFA in 2015, where he drove major network expansions and international ventures. Appointed CEO of Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation (SDEC) in 2020, he has since led Sarawak's digital transformation, pioneering the world's first e-KYC 4D NRIC, establishing Digital Innovation Hubs, and expanding rural broadband access through MySRBN.
David Owen Morris
CoFounder/Advisor | RTM/Tortuga Advisory
One of the first users of Bitcoin, Forbes interviewee 2011 about BTC in China. Worked on BtcChina as a start up, later transitioning to a partnership with crypto micro payments in faucets and advertising.
Has contributed code and translations on 8 current top 100 projects. Daily life consists of helping projects go to market, get market making and constructing solid business plans and surviving the current new dynamics.
Has contributed code and translations on 8 current top 100 projects. Daily life consists of helping projects go to market, get market making and constructing solid business plans and surviving the current new dynamics.
Dr. Jinlong Li
Vice-president | Canaan (Singapore)
Dr. Jinlong Li is the vice-president of Canaan and responsible for Government Affairs, public relations and marketing since Sep.2023. Before Canaan, he was working in AWS, NXP, and General Motors etc. as GR and PR senior leadership. Jinlong Li obtained his PhD of semiconductor physics and chemistry in China with decades years of R&D, sales & marketing experiences in semiconductor, automotive and ICT industries.
Ethan Chung
CEO | BLOX
Ethan Chung is the Co-Founder of BLOX, the issuer of MYRC, Malaysia's first stablecoin infrastructure, driving practical blockchain adoption through secure and compliant digital asset solutions.
Jacob Wong
Lead Trainer & Digital Transformation | Metadise sdn bhd
Jacob Wong brings over 20 years of real-life experience in bringing in the best practices and practical strategies in the inception, adoption, and sustainment of digitalisation across various industries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Jason Chew
Founder | BTC Education Hub
Jason Chew is Malaysia's go-to Bitcoin educator, recognized for helping businesses and policymakers adopt Bitcoin responsibly and securely. As Founder of BTC Education Hub and Co-Founder of Bitcoin Malaysia, he has delivered Bitcoin talks and training to more than 10,000 people across Southeast Asia. His mission is to cultivate a new generation of high-quality Bitcoin experts, ensuring Malaysia's transition into a globally recognized hub for Bitcoin adoption is grounded in transparency, resilience, and integrity.
Jessica Chuah
Vice President Growth (APAC) | Crystal Intelligence
Jessica Chuah, Vice President of Growth (APAC) at Crystal Intelligence, specializes in financial services, fintech, and risk management. She collaborates with regulators to fight financial crime using advanced technologies and advocates for distributed ledger innovation. Holding an LL.B, FCCA, and CAMS, she is strongly committed to compliance and financial integrity.
Mark Pui
General Partner | Cambrian Labs
Mark Pui is a veteran investor focused on public and private investments in equities and other instruments across a wide range of geographic regions. Pui is known in the investment arena as one of the early investors in blockchain space. Pui is started his career in corporate finance and management consulting where he gained invaluable strategic, financial and operational perspective. This early experience helps Pui to help companies accomplish more.
Nat Lai
Founder and Executive Director | A11Yverse
Nat Lim, Founder and Executive Director of A11Yverse, is a creative technologist and disability arts practitioner dedicated to accessibility. With an MA from ColArts and extensive festival experience, she pioneers barrier-free ecosystems merging disability arts and Web3. She leads the ATY Impact Academy to empower D/deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent creators through metaverse training.
Peter Lim
Founder | DONGLUO DATA SDN BHD (bityou)
Peter Lim is the co-founder of DongLuo Data Sdn. Bhd., a leading crypto mining hosting company in Sarawak. With deep expertise in cryptocurrency markets, he oversees the company's investment strategies and drives operational efficiency to strengthen its position in the industry.
Poramin Insom
Co-founder | Firo (Zcoin)
Poramin Insom founded Zcoin (now Firo) in 2016 to advance financial privacy and inclusive mining through ASIC-resistant proof of work. He holds a master's in Information Security from Johns Hopkins University, where he proposed a practical Zerocoin protocol. Poramin built the first Zerocoin implementation and spearheaded development of the MTP mining algorithm. In 2018, he helped the Thai Democrat Party run the world's first large-scale political election on blockchain using Firo. He also served in the Thai military, overseeing cyberwarfare.
Rene F. Bernard
Community Lead | Morpheus Asia
Rene is the lead of the Morpheus community in Asia. Morpheus (mor.org) is an open-source AI infrastructure and builder project with a fair token launch model that uses latest smart contract blockchain tech.
Previously, he co-founded the blockchain startup LuxTag.io, acted as founding president of the ACCESS Blockchain Association (Malaysia) and he is an active member of the Bitcoin Malaysia ecosystem. His focus is on DeFi, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency technology, as well as the intersection of AI with the aforementioned technologies.
Previously, he co-founded the blockchain startup LuxTag.io, acted as founding president of the ACCESS Blockchain Association (Malaysia) and he is an active member of the Bitcoin Malaysia ecosystem. His focus is on DeFi, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency technology, as well as the intersection of AI with the aforementioned technologies.
Reuben Yap
Co-Founder & Project Steward | Firo (Zcoin)
Reuben Yap has led Firo's strategy, development, and research for several years and remains a core team member. Joining shortly after its inception, he has been pivotal in shaping Firo's direction. A strong advocate for online freedom and digital privacy, he founded one of SE Asia's earliest VPN services against censorship and is a respected speaker featured by BBC, Nasdaq, Forbes, Coindesk, Reuters, and Cheddar News. Before Firo, Reuben was a law firm partner with over a decade of experience in legal and institutional environments.
Sal Selamat-Sim
Growth Lead | Bitcoin.com
Sal leads growth marketing at Bitcoin.com, driving global strategies to expand adoption of Web3 and self-custody solutions. With experience across fintech and blockchain, he brings insights on how regions like Borneo can harness Web3 to build future-ready digital infrastructure and empower local communities.
Steffany Raymond
Landong Manager - Project, Research & Development | TEGAS
With involvement in project management and research and development, Steffany is currently a Manager at Projects, Research & Development section in TEGAS, where she focuses on empowering creative entrepreneurs and the creative industry, formerly in Executive at DG TEGAS Digital Village & Digital Innovation Hub. She specialises in entrepreneurship upskilling programmes, blockchain technology, digital innovation and fostering creativity to uplift the creative economy.
Steve Rao
CEO | Janjilah
Steve Rao is an experienced venture builder in the emerging technology space, focusing on secure documentation, Fintech, Regtech and Border Control. He's currently the Co-Founder & CEO of Janji Online Sdn Bhd (Janjilah), a Digital Agreements platform on the Blockchain offering simple agreements for B2B, B2C and C2C.
Suhanna Husein
CEO / Co-Founder | CoKeeps
Suhanna is the Co-founder and CEO of CoKeeps, Malaysia's first Securities Commission-approved Digital Asset Custodian. With a background in both engineering and finance, she launched CoKeeps to provide secure, institutional-grade custody, tokenization and staking solutions. She also serves as an ELITE Fellow at the University of Malaya, advancing blockchain adoption in Malaysia.
Zakaria Polit
Head of Technology Services | Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation
Zakaria Polit, a UTP IT graduate, is Head of Technology Services at SDEC, specialising in infrastructure, digital services, and cloud adoption. With career experience spanning Telekom Malaysia, ATOS, Northgate Arinso, and SACOFA, he has led major IT projects locally and internationally, and now drives Sarawak's digital transformation.
Speaker Application
Great speakers and content are critical to the success of Borneo Blockchain 2025. All of our speakers are C-levels or founders that are shaping the future of the digital asset economy.
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