Morgan Stanley’s Deer Valley Summit Welcomes Mavatar CEO Susan Akbarpour

Last weekend, a group of CEOs, board members and senior executives from over 140 top public and private technology companies gathered for the Annual Morgan Stanley Deer Valley Technology Leaders’ Summit. Each year, the three-day, invitation-only event — which has been called the Davos of the tech world — brings together the best minds in technology to network and brainstorm and on critical topics like bringing diversity to boardrooms, regulations and new paradigm shifts.

Both CEO Susan Akbarpour and Emmanuel Abiodun, mCart adviser and Oracle Blockchain Architect (VP), were in attendance.

Susan Akbarpour, Emmanuel Abiodun and other panelists

Who Was There

This year, Mavatar CEO Susan Akbarpour was one of 15 speakers on an impressive list that featured Mark Cuban, Marissa Mayer and Arianna Huffington. Akbarpour joined an Executive Interactive Roundtable, “Blockchain and Crypto: What it Means for Tech Companies” with one of Oracle’s lead Blockchain Architects, Emmanuel Abiodun and Bain Capital Ventures Managing Director Enrique Salem. The event was moderated by Tiffany Luck, Investment Banking Associate — Technology Group at Morgan Stanley.

Susan with Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO at Thrive Global and Founder of Huffington Post — Photo/Credit @pocarophoto (FB and IG)

Susan Akbarpour & Mark Cuban

Pegah Ebrahimi, COO of Morgan Stanley, Global Blockchain Technology; Marissa Mayer, COO of Yahoo and with Susan Akbarpour

Can Blockchain Disrupt Wall Street?

On Saturday panel, Susan and Emmanuel gave a fresh perspective on how blockchain can affect the wall street world by removing bottlenecks of micro payments, middlemen, unnecessary layers of communication and fees in a fast, transparent and secure way.

Emmanuel and Susan before the discussion.

To learn more about how Mavatar is using blockchain to disrupt retail,click here.