Blockchain Expo North America 2019 will be held from November 13-14 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the Silicon Valley. Murphy & McGonigle is excited to serve as Track Sponsor of the Expo for the second consecutive year. Co-Founder and Chairman James Murphy will be delivering a Keynote Speech. Other presenters include Justin Schmidt, Vice President & Head of Digital Asset Markets at Goldman Sachs, and Jessica Reiner, Senior Counselor & Advisor of US Department of the Treasury. Topics to be discussed at the Expo will include Blockchain for Enterprise, Blockchain Platforms and Strategies, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services, Developing Blockchain Applications, Blockchain for Business, Blockchain Technologies, Blockchain Workshops, and Innovation & Investors Zone.

Elizabeth Lan Davis, a former trial attorney at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a shareholder at Murphy & McGonigle, is a featured speaker at Synchronize 2019. Ms. Davis is speaking on the panel, "Crypto: Are Regulators Ready?" Other speakers on the panel include: Amir Zaidi, Director, Division of Market Oversight, CFTC; Alex Khachaturian, Director, Office of Emerging Regulatory Issues, FINRA; and Perianne Boring, Founder & President, Chamber of Digital Commerce.

Blockchain technology has tremendous potential. Amidst a dramatically evolving and escalating landscape for blockchain companies, crypto assets and business potential, many of the legal parameters and regulatory guidelines impacting this growing market sector remain undefined, vague and/or in the throes of a turf battle by government regulatory bodies.