Joon Ian directs programming at Consensus, the industry’s most important conference, which he started in 2015. He has covered the cryptocurrency world’s biggest stories since 2013, when he was an early employee at CoinDesk. Previously he was European technology correspondent at Quartz. Besides Consensus, he develops CoinDesk’s products that fall at the intersection of editorial, events and technology. He was selected to Business Insider’s Tech 100 in 2018.