SPEAKERS
Michael Steuer
Michael is a co-founder of the Casper project, and was originally responsible for laying out the product vision for the protocol back in 2018. After stepping back from this operational role in 2019, Michael and his team at MAKE have been one of the most dedicated supporters of the Casper project, responsible for contributing much of the core infrastructure that exists in the ecosystem, including CSPR.live, Casper Wallet, developer platforms such as CSPR.cloud and CSPR.click, and many of the developer libraries and SDK. In 2024, Michael rejoined the Casper project in the roles of President and CTO of the Casper Association, overseeing the growth of the Casper technology and network.
Prior to Casper, Michael has been a well-respected founder and technology executive in various industries for 25+ years, and has a provable track record of delivering value and execution from the forefront of innovation. In the late nineties, he oversaw the establishment of an interoperable Premium SMS network across Europe and North America, connecting over 100 mobile network operators in order to enable use cases that persist to this day.
In the early 2000s, Michael was the CTO for Mobile for THQ, a top-3 video game publisher globally at the time, and oversaw the team that created the first downloadable mobile games, heralding in the age of mobile gaming and the now-prevalent app-economy. Subsequently, he oversaw the roll out of the first mobile-skill gaming platform in North America and Europe, which became a category-defining genre of video gaming.
During the 2010s, Michael was the CTO of Playsino, a leading social and mobile casino game publisher that serviced tens of millions of players worldwide. Active in the blockchain industry since 2013, he has been involved with many of the early participants in the Web3 industry in various capacities.
With MAKE, he and his team have developed public health technology platforms that are in use by 80% of the top pharmaceutical companies worldwide, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, helped governments on the national, state and local level manage their pandemic response. Finally, Michael has been an open-source contributor since the late nineties.
