Alim Khamisa
Toronto, Canada
Alim leads Product Management at DELV (formerly Element Finance), an R&D company focused on DeFi infrastructure and products. He is a co-founder of the DeFi Toronto meetup (2,400+ members) and an advisor to several early-stage startups. As a part-time Professor in the Blockchain Development Program at George Brown College and a member of the Program’s Advisory Committee, he is deeply committed to inspiring the next wave of Web3 innovators.
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀:
🔹Author – Token Economies (chapter 8) in The Emerald Handbook of Blockchain for Business (March 2021)
🔹Contributor – Building Canadian Consensus: Our Maturing Blockchain Ecosystem (Nov. 2019; ICTC Canada)
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:
🔹Consensus (Austin) – panel speaker: DAOs and Network States – Apr. 2023
🔹International Tech Summit (Bermuda) – panel speaker: DeFi & Regulations – Apr. 2023
🔹Devcon (Bogotá) – speaker: A Playbook for Product Development in DeFi – Oct. 2022
🔹TechConnex – panelist: The Future of Fintech – June 2022
🔹FedEx Institute of Technology (U. Memphis) and Blockchain901 – speaker: Decentralized Finance – Aug. 2021
🔹ApplyBoard's Careers of Tomorrow Workshop – Blockchain: Decentralizing the Future – July 2021
🔹Hofstra University, Conference on Emerging Tech in Real Estate & Finance – speaker: Decentralized Finance – Apr. 2021
🔹General Assembly, Tech Week – panelist: Cryptocurrency and the Future of Consumer Adoption – Feb. 2021
🔹BitAngels Investor Event, hosted by Dentons (Toronto) – keynote speaker: Open Finance & Canada's Blockchain Ecosystem – Feb. 2020
🔹Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (Toronto) – opening speaker: DLT & Blockchain – Feb. 2020
🔹Diffusion DevCon (Berlin) – speaker: Decentralized Liquidity / Hackathon Mentor & Judge – Oct. 2019
🔹Blockchain Futurist Conference (Toronto) – panelist: The Future is Collaborative / Decentralized Systems – Aug. 2019
🔹Hofstra University, Blockchain Symposium (New York) – speaker: DeFi & Liquidity – Apr. 2019
🔹U. of Waterloo – presentation to MBET grad students on Blockchain Fundamentals and Careers – Jan. 2019
🔹CryptoCamp/Deloitte (Toronto) – speaker: Decentralized Applications (dApps) – Nov. 2018
🔹Luminari (Toronto) – podcast on my foray into crypto-mining – Nov. 2018
🔹StartWell (Toronto) – panel: Economics of Crypto-Mining – July 2018
🔹CPPIB (Toronto) – Cryptocurrency Mining – May 2018
🔹Blockchain Ryerson (Toronto) – Crypto-Mining – April 2018
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀:
🔹Author – Token Economies (chapter 8) in The Emerald Handbook of Blockchain for Business (March 2021)
🔹Contributor – Building Canadian Consensus: Our Maturing Blockchain Ecosystem (Nov. 2019; ICTC Canada)
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:
🔹Consensus (Austin) – panel speaker: DAOs and Network States – Apr. 2023
🔹International Tech Summit (Bermuda) – panel speaker: DeFi & Regulations – Apr. 2023
🔹Devcon (Bogotá) – speaker: A Playbook for Product Development in DeFi – Oct. 2022
🔹TechConnex – panelist: The Future of Fintech – June 2022
🔹FedEx Institute of Technology (U. Memphis) and Blockchain901 – speaker: Decentralized Finance – Aug. 2021
🔹ApplyBoard's Careers of Tomorrow Workshop – Blockchain: Decentralizing the Future – July 2021
🔹Hofstra University, Conference on Emerging Tech in Real Estate & Finance – speaker: Decentralized Finance – Apr. 2021
🔹General Assembly, Tech Week – panelist: Cryptocurrency and the Future of Consumer Adoption – Feb. 2021
🔹BitAngels Investor Event, hosted by Dentons (Toronto) – keynote speaker: Open Finance & Canada's Blockchain Ecosystem – Feb. 2020
🔹Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (Toronto) – opening speaker: DLT & Blockchain – Feb. 2020
🔹Diffusion DevCon (Berlin) – speaker: Decentralized Liquidity / Hackathon Mentor & Judge – Oct. 2019
🔹Blockchain Futurist Conference (Toronto) – panelist: The Future is Collaborative / Decentralized Systems – Aug. 2019
🔹Hofstra University, Blockchain Symposium (New York) – speaker: DeFi & Liquidity – Apr. 2019
🔹U. of Waterloo – presentation to MBET grad students on Blockchain Fundamentals and Careers – Jan. 2019
🔹CryptoCamp/Deloitte (Toronto) – speaker: Decentralized Applications (dApps) – Nov. 2018
🔹Luminari (Toronto) – podcast on my foray into crypto-mining – Nov. 2018
🔹StartWell (Toronto) – panel: Economics of Crypto-Mining – July 2018
🔹CPPIB (Toronto) – Cryptocurrency Mining – May 2018
🔹Blockchain Ryerson (Toronto) – Crypto-Mining – April 2018
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