>MEET< THE SPEAKERS
Chris is an accomplished investor and a China and crypto/AI specialist, having published several books and invested widely across AI, deep tech, digital assets, and sustainability. As Chairman of Umanitek, Chris is leading efforts to combat harmful content and the risks posed by AI with trusted AI technologies.
Dave Young is a founder of Cooley's Santa Monica office and leads the firm's corporate practice across its Los Angeles offices. He advises growth companies and the investors that support them through every stage of growth, from formation and financing to liquidity events and beyond. With more than 30 years of experience, Dave counsels clients on venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, corporate governance, and other transformative transactions.
CrediBULL is a crypto analyst and trader who publishes market analysis and investing education on X and YouTube. He spent years fighting accounts impersonating him, with no real remedy available — until his own profile became the field test for Umanitek Guardian, which identified and removed more than 190 fake CrediBULL accounts in a single week, every takedown anchored as evidence to the OriginTrail DKG. He is now a Umanitek product ambassador.
Richard serves as Partner and Head of EMEA at G Squared, a global venture capital firm that partners with dynamic companies throughout their life cycles as a complete capital solutions provider. He joined the firm in 2015 and leads G Squared’s Europe-based team. G Squared partners directly with portfolio company management teams and offers a full suite of liquidity services, invests in primaries and direct secondaries, and leads and structures employee tenders.
As a co-inventor of the OriginTrail DKG, Tomaž drives OriginTrail's strategic development and adoption across supply chains, transport, life sciences, and more — advancing trusted, ownership-centric, censorship-resistant AI infrastructure.
With deep experience in decentralized and semantic networks, Branimir is the leading architect and creator of the OriginTrail DKG, building technology for discoverable, verifiable, AI-ready knowledge to power decentralized and trusted AI.
With over a decade of experience in building custom solutions for trusted knowledge sharing, Žiga has been driving global OriginTrail DKG growth, multi-chain innovation, and enterprise adoption across leading organizations, including the British Standards Institution, the SCAN association, Oracle, Swiss Federal Railways, and many others.
Kim applies semantic technologies, including knowledge graphs, natural language processing, and LLMs to accelerate biomedical research, drawing on his deep knowledge in neuroscience, genetics, bioinformatics, target validation, drug discovery, and evidence synthesis.
Karin is an expert in semantic technologies with 12+ years of academic and industry experience. Her specialties are in biomedical ontology, knowledge graphs, machine learning, and algorithm development. Her work hinges around the use of conceptual knowledge models for transformative approaches to machine learning, with the goal of developing practical methods for discerning actionable insights from data. She has worked across applications spanning healthcare, medical communications, drug discovery, patient advocacy, and radiation biology. She also holds the position of Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.
Courtney advises global family offices with over $1B in AUM on curating investment opportunities across private markets and focusing on strategic partnerships and business development within their operating and portfolio companies. She is known for her extensive, curated network within the global family office ecosystem, having formed relationships with more than 1,500 families worldwide. She holds an undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Jonathan is a legal, operations, and strategy executive with a track record of scaling high-growth companies at the intersection of technology, media, and entertainment. Notably, he served as General Counsel of VICE Media, building its legal department from scratch into a 50-lawyer global team while helping raise over $1 billion in investment toward a $5.7B+ valuation. As General Counsel of UnitedMasters, he worked alongside the founder to launch a tech platform that enables millions of musicians to distribute music globally. He was honored by the Primetime Emmy Awards for his contribution to the Emmy-Award-winning television show “Vice on HBO”.
Nic is based in Zurich and works closely with Umanitek’s European team on business development, strategic partnerships, and fundraising. He joined Umanitek from G Squared, where he worked with growth-stage technology companies and investors. At Umanitek, Nic focuses on building relationships with enterprise partners across Europe, particularly in private banking and other sectors exposed to executive impersonation, deepfake fraud, and digital identity threats. He also supports the company’s fundraising efforts by connecting Umanitek with European investors across his network.
With a passion for Web3 and AI, and supply chain expertise from DHL, Jurij leads key OriginTrail-powered projects with global partners across diverse industries — from supply chains to healthcare, construction, and assurance — helping them unlock value through the OriginTrail trusted knowledge foundation for the AI era.
Hailing from the vibrant Caribbean shores of Trinidad and Tobago, Amos has been dedicated to educating the public and his community on cutting-edge Web3 and AI technologies via his YouTube channel, Trini Zone. With a primary focus on the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph, Amos blends expertise as an IT Specialist, Webmaster, and Network Administrator. Currently, Amos is channeling this passion and knowledge into building Umoja Ark (formerly Tracverse), a Christian community platform that gives the Body of Christ its own independent digital infrastructure.
>EXPLORE< THE AGENDA
The DKGcon 2026 agenda: from the scale of the problem to the infrastructure that answers it.
Zurich · CH · from 15:00 CEST
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15:00
Scaling Trust in the Age of AI
Welcome: Scaling Trust in the Age of AI
Speaker
Žiga Drev — Founder @OriginTrail
Opening keynote: The Internet's Immune System
Speaker
Chris Rynning — Chairman @Umanitek
Decentralization & the Fight Against AI Harms
In conversation
Chris Rynning — Chairman @Umanitek
CrediBULL — Crypto Analyst & Trader -
15:55
Break
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16:00
Information Integrity
Truth Under Fire: Will the Democratic Societies Bend or Break?
In conversation
Richard Harris — Partner and Head of EMEA @G Squared
Chris Rynning — Chairman @Umanitek
Tomaž Levak — Founder @OriginTrailSouth America Votes: What's the Influence of Synthetic Media?
Moderator
Jonathan Lutzky — Former General Counsel @VICE Media
Speakers
Ricardo Silva — Founder @Viva AI
Christian Cieplik — Founder @Cieplik Investment Center & CEO @CBpayWho Protects the Artist?
In conversation
Tomaž Levak — Founder @OriginTrail
Jonathan Lutzky — Former General Counsel @VICE Media -
17:10
Break
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17:15
Trusted AI in Regulated Industries
When Your Client Is the Target of AI Harms
Moderator
Tomaž Levak — Founder @OriginTrail
Speakers
Nic Hayek — Head of Enterprises @Umanitek
Dave Young — Partner @CooleyWho Signs Off on the Science?
Moderator
Jurij Škornik — General Manager @Trace Labs — OriginTrail Core Developers
Speakers
Dr. Kim Wager — Scientific Director — Global AI and Technology @Oxford PharmaGenesis
Dr. Karin Slater — Senior Data Scientist @Oxford PharmaGenesisAgents Protecting Agents — Guardian Agent Blackbox
Speakers
Tomaž Levak — Founder @OriginTrail
Amos Thomas — Web3/DKG Educator and Founder @Umoja Ark -
18:25
Break
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18:30
Sovereign Context & Reasoning
The OriginTrail Vision: Roadmap to Sovereign Context & Reasoning Infrastructure
Speakers
Branimir Rakić — Founder & CTO @OriginTrail
Tomaž Levak — Founder @OriginTrail
Žiga Drev — Founder @OriginTrail
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