Robert Schwentker is a blockchain technology educator based in Silicon Valley. He has extensive training, startup relations, programming & systems experience at financial service organizations like PayPal, American Express & Citigroup. As Founding President of Blockchain University & DLT Education, Robert has delivered blockchain education to entrepreneurs, attorneys, bankers, regulators, students and engineers, and has worked with dozens of blockchain projects in the US, Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Singapore & Japan. Since 2015 he has organized 15 blockchain hackathons which created over 200 projects. He serves as adviser to several blockchain startups, and evangelist for bgin-global.org blockchain governance initiative.