SPEAKERS

Joe McCann is the Founder, CEO, and CIO of Asymmetric, a modern-day crypto fund. Asymmetric is backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, and Circle Inc., as well as the founders of Solana, Multicoin, CoinFund and many other reputable investors and entrepreneurs.

With over 24 years of experience working on Wall Street to Silicon Valley and with skills ranging from systematic and quantitative trading to fundraising and running a venture-backed, open-source enterprise software company, McCann's perspective on technology and finance is rather unique. McCann is a frequent speaker on the global conference circuit, actively promoting emerging technologies and relevant business use cases to bring pragmatism to futurism.  

Most recently, McCann was a Senior Director at Microsoft in the Cloud and AI organization, focusing on incubations, M&A, and startups. McCann also ran Quantitative and Systematic Trading for Cryptocurrencies at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund.  Before that, McCann was the Founder and CEO of NodeSource, The Node.js Company, the most popular and widely adopted open source project of the last decade.  

McCann is also an advisor to a handful of companies like Dharma (a decentralized finance app on Ethereum, acquired by OpenSea), Voltage (Bitcoin lightning nodes-as-a-service), and Zebec (a money-streaming protocol on Solana) and is frequently mentioned in publications ranging from TechCrunch to Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.