FOSS Asia 2015 — Building Browser-Based Blockchain Applications
Presented at FOSS Asia in Singapore, one of the region's largest open-source conferences. The talk demonstrated how BlockStrap's open-source SDK enabled developers to build Bitcoin applications entirely in the browser, no server required. This was the technical foundation of everything Neuroware shipped: wallet infrastructure that ran client-side, accessible to any web developer.
Bitcoin World Conference KL 2014 — Bitcoin is Still Technology
One of the earliest Bitcoin conferences in Malaysia. The talk pushed back against the prevailing narrative of Bitcoin as purely a financial instrument, arguing that the protocol layer (the technology itself) was the thing worth paying attention to. This was 2014: the developer community needed reminding that Bitcoin was a programmable system, not just a price ticker.
MDEC FinTech Conference — Banking on the Future of Blockchains
Presented at MDEC's (Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation) FinTech Conference, addressing institutional adoption of blockchain infrastructure for financial services. The audience was primarily bankers, regulators, and FinTech executives, a fundamentally different communication challenge than developer meetups. The 80-slide deck (the longest in this collection) reflects the depth required for institutional audiences who need to understand business implications, not just technical architecture.
Islamic FinTech Dialogue 2019
Participated in panel discussions at Sasana Kijang (February 2019) on "Competing vs Collaborating" in blockchain financial services, addressing how traditional Islamic Finance institutions and blockchain infrastructure providers can work together rather than viewing each other as threats.
Applying Blockchains to Financial Services (2019)
Presented at a REDmoney Events conference in Kuala Lumpur (February 2019) on the technical foundations and real-world use cases of blockchain in financial services, covering trade finance, escrow, and compliance.
DBS Singapore Blockchain Hackathon (2015)
Provided the infrastructure for what was described as the world's first bank-backed blockchain hackathon, run by DBS Bank Singapore. The Neuroware/BlockStrap SDK powered the event: 7 of 15 participating teams built on our stack, processing over 1 million API requests across the hackathon. This was enterprise adoption at its most tangible: a Tier 1 bank trusting open-source blockchain tooling we built for their developer event.
Also Created: StartingBlock Tour Materials (2015)
In 2015, I designed and authored all workshop materials for the StartingBlock Tour, a blockchain developer workshop delivered across 6 European cities in 8 days (Istanbul, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Prague, Berlin, London). Over 100 developer "hack-pack" USB drives were distributed, pre-loaded with blockchain tooling and tutorial content I created. While I didn't present these sessions personally, the curriculum, code examples, and documentation were entirely my work. The tour is documented by Bitcoin Embassy NL and CoinGecko.