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Jan Camenisch
Chief Technology Officer & Vice President of Research & Crypto
DFINITY
Jan is one of cryptography's most consequential builders, a researcher who doesn't just advance theory but drives it into the real world. Based in Zurich, he is globally recognized for foundational contributions spanning anonymous credentials, secure multi-party computation, privacy-preserving identity, verifiable computation, and trusted hardware security. His fingerprints are on infrastructure billions of people rely on: the Direct Anonymous Attestation protocol he pioneered in 2004 became a Trusted Computing Group standard and is embedded in TPM chips worldwide. After nearly two decades leading privacy and cryptography research at IBM Research, Jan brought that same ambition to the DFINITY Foundation, where as CTO he and his team designed, built, launched, and evolved the Internet Computer Protocol, rethinking blockchain and secure distributed computing from the ground up. Now, after a brief chapter at Subzero Labs, Jan joins Category Labs to push the boundaries of cryptography, privacy, and blockchain once more.
Speaking At
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2:00–3:00pmMon 16 NovWorkshopWorkshop Room 3Open
Others
From Promise to Production: What It Takes to Bring Finance Onchain - Powered by Monad Foundation
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Aymeric SalleyHead of Digital Assets PlatformBanking Circle
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Daniel OonHead of EcosystemStraitsX
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Jan CamenischChief Technology Officer & Vice President of Research & CryptoDFINITY
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Nick SnowGeneral CounselMonad Foundation
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Tim WaySenior Director, Global BankingFireblocks
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Nischint SanghaviHead of Digital Currencies, APVisa
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Sagar SarbhaiHead of Institutions, APACMonad FoundationModerator
About this session
Public blockchains are fundamentally changing how financial markets operate, bringing money, assets, liquidity and settlement onto shared, programmable infrastructure. The opportunity? To create more open and fairer financial markets, with broader access to liquidity, more competitive pricing and better outcomes for participants.
But the ambition goes beyond moving existing financial products onchain. It's about creating productive economies where assets can be traded, financed and put to work across connected markets. Getting there requires more than speed and efficiency. Institutions need security, operational resilience, confidentiality, fair and predictable execution, and regulatory clarity, without sacrificing the openness and connectivity that make public blockchains valuable.
Bringing together leaders across finance, technology and policy, this programme explores what it takes to bring financial services onchain and build the infrastructure for open, connected global markets.
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