European Blockchain Convention

EUROPEAN BLOCKCHAIN
CONVENTION

Building the foundation of Blockchain
and the Digital Economy

Barcelona │ November 29, 2018

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Join the leading European Blockchain Convention and meet 500+ industry leaders, regulators, politicians, investors, developers, CTOs, lawyers and entrepreneurs building the foundation of the Blockchain and the Digital Economy

With 15 different panels exploring the current state of blockchain

The convention will give you more than 5 hours of potential networking opportunities

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The Conference

#EBlockchainConvention is a must-attend conference for industry leaders, regulators, politicians, investors, developers, CTOs, lawyers and entrepreneurs in the Blockchain and the Digital Economy sphere.

Considered as one of the greatest and most spectacular specialized conferences on a 100% European level.

Our mission is to provide important and inspiring content in collaboration with the brightest experts from the global Blockchain scene, while also facilitating an exclusive networking environment so that all participants meet to form business relationships and seek potential partners for ventures.

Unique opportunity to build a strong foundation of Blockchain for your business.

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Blockchain regulation
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FinTech

RegTech

Security & Identity

Bitcoin Blockchain Barcelona
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Interoperability

Blockchain Architecture

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Interchain Mediators

The Conference

#EBlockchainConvention is a must-attend conference for industry leaders, regulators, politicians, investors, developers, CTOs, lawyers and entrepreneurs in the Blockchain and the Digital Economy sphere.

Considered as one of the greatest and most spectacular specialized conferences on a 100% European level.

Our mission is to provide important and inspiring content in collaboration with the brightest experts from the global Blockchain scene, while also facilitating an exclusive networking environment so that all participants meet to form business relationships and seek potential partners for ventures.

Unique opportunity to build a strong foundation of Blockchain for your business.

European Blockchain Convention Spain
Blockchain regulation

FinTech

RegTech

Bitcoin Blockchain Barcelona
Shipping Logistics

Blockchain Architecture

Shipping Logistics

Lock blockchain
Interoperability

Interchain Mediators

Interchain Mediators

The Conference

#EBlockchainConvention is a must-attend conference for industry leaders, regulators, politicians, investors, developers, CTOs, lawyers and entrepreneurs in the Blockchain and the Digital Economy sphere.

Considered as one of the greatest and most spectacular specialized conferences on a 100% European level.

Our mission is to provide important and inspiring content in collaboration with the brightest experts from the global Blockchain scene, while also facilitating an exclusive networking environment so that all participants meet to form business relationships and seek potential partners for ventures.

Unique opportunity to build a strong foundation of Blockchain for your business.

European Blockchain Convention Spain

FinTech

Lock blockchain

Security & Identity

Bitcoin Blockchain Barcelona

Blockchain Architecture

Interoperability

Interchain Mediators

Blockchain regulation

RegTech

Shipping Logistics

Shipping Logistics

Speakers

European Blockchain Convention is your opportunity to hear from and connect with industry thought leaders from all around Europe

Lory Kehoe
Lory Kehoe

Managing Director at ConsenSys

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Cătălin Sorin Ivan
Cătălin Sorin Ivan

Member of the European Parliament

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Marta Piekarska
Marta Piekarska

Director of Ecosystem at Hyperledger

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Renato
Renato Lucio de Castro

Smart Cities Expert

Founder and CEO of SmartUp Consulting Firm

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Lewis Freiberg
Lewis Freiberg

Director of Ecosystem at IOTA Foundation

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Joshua Ashley Klayman
Joshua Ashley Klayman

Founder of Klayman LLC

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Stephanie Ramezan
Stephanie Ramezan

Co-Founder of Quince Capital

Partner at DAG Global

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Thomas Moser
Thomas Moser

Member of the Board of the Swiss National Bank 

Former Executive Director at the IMF

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Sergio Gorjón Rivas
Sergio Gorjón Rivas

Financial Innovations Division at Banco de España

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Joey Garcia
Joey García

Partner at ISOLAS LLP

Top 12 Lawyers in Blockchain (Chamber and Partners)

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Marius Jurgilas
Marius Jurgilas

Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania

Former Researcher at the European Central Bank

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Victoria Gago
Victoria Gago

Co-Founder of the European Blockchain Convention

Associate at AddVANTE M&A

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Virginia Cram Martos
Virginia Cram Martos

Project Leader at United Nations

CEO of Triangularity

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Michael Kumhof
Michael Kumhof

Senior Research Advisor at Bank of England

Former Deputy Division Chief of the IMF Modelling Unit

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Dr. Stefan Junestrand
Dr. Stefan Junestrand

Member of the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum

CEO and Co-Founder of Grupo Tecma Red

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Guenther Dobrauz-Saldapenna

Partner & Leader PWC Legal Switzerland

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Xavier Simo
Xavier Simó

President & Founder of INLEA Foundation

Founder of OpeningChain

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Shawnna Hoffman
Shawnna M. Hoffman
Global Co-Leader of the IBM Cognitive Legal Practice
Member of the IBM Global Center of Competency
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Victor Escudero Rubio
Victor Escudero Rubio

Global Head of Integration of Cybersecurity at S21sec

Co-author of “Blockchain: the Industrial Revolution of the Internet” 

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Teresa Alarco
Teresa Alarcos Tamayo

CEO and Founder of Madrid Startup Community Forum

Board Advisor of SolidQ

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Xavier Gasia
Xavier Gasia

Partner and Head of Blockchain at AddVANTE

Lawyer

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Ismael Arribas
Ismael Arribas

Global Entrepreneur

Country Manager at Government Blockchain Association Spain

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Jorge Lesmes
Jorge Lesmes

EMEA Head of the Blockchain Banking Practice at Everis

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Montse Guardia
Montse Guardia

Vicepresident of Alastria

Digital Transformation & Innovation at Banco Sabadell

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James Muscat Azzopardi
James Muscat Azzopardi

Partner at Muscat Azzopardi & Associates

Partner at Credence Corporate and Advisory Services

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Eneko Knörr
Eneko Knörr

Founder of Pheidon.capital

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Ripple
Marjan Delatinne

Global Head of Banking at Ripple

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Cristina Carrascosa
Cristina Carrascosa

Member of the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum

Expert in Tax Law

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Jose Parra Moyano
Jose Parra Moyano

PhD Candidate (Blockchain), University of Zurich

Forbes 30 Under 30

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Marina Niforos
Marina Niforos

Member of the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum

Commissioner at the US National Commission for the UNESCO

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Corinna Scatenna
Corinna Scatenna

Head of Legal FerratumBank

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Marc Rocas
Marc Rocas

Founding Board member of the Blockchain Catalonia Association

Co-Founder at Raay, Blockchain Education & Consultancy

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Karl Schranz
Karl Schranz

Co-Founder of E&S Group

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Henrik
Henrik Hvid Jensen

Digital Ecosystem Advisor – Trustworks

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Manel Medina
Manel Medina

Blockchain and Cyberintelligence Management at Politecnic University of Catalunya (UPC)

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Pernille Enggaard
Pernille Enggaard

Host of the Daily Financial magazine “Millionærklubben”

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Alex Sicart
Alex Sicart

Founder of Shasta

Forbes 30 Under 30

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Flavio Soares
Flavio Soares

Lawyer and Partner at Soares & Vacite

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Magnus Jones Portrett
Magnus Jones Portrett

Tax Technologist at Ernst & Young

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Startup Panel

3-5 promising startups will have the opportunity to present their projects to a panel of investors and an influential audience filled with tech insiders, lawyers, media and company directors.
Pitch to multiple investors 
Build strategic partnerships 
Valuable Media Exposure 
Receive expert feedback 

Meet the Start Ups presenting at the European Blockchain Convention 2018 Edition

 

  

 

 

 

ENERGY one

The Energy one blockchain is a commercial, field- proven energy blockchain, which has been serving thousands of households since 2017 in Germany.

 

 

  

 

 

 

WIBSON

Wibson is a blockchain-based, decentralized data marketplace that provides individuals a way to securely and anonymously sell validated private information in a trusted environment.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

SURVEY EXPERT

At Survey Expert we design and build beautiful tools on blockchain for you to analyze your market. Digital Surveying made easy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out some of the investors and business leaders that will be in the Jury this year:

Guillem Serra
Guillem Serra

CEO and CoFounder, MediQuo

David Tomas
David Tomas

CEO and CoFounder, CyberClick

Carlota Lasierra Herreros
Carlota Lasierra Herreros

Startup Mentor, Advisor and Investor. 

Serial Founder

Marc Serra
Marc Serra

Startup Mentor, Advisor and Investor. 

Serial Founder

Vicent Rosso
Vincent Rosso

CoFounder, Consentio.co

CoFounder, BlaBlaCar

Marc Serra Majem
Marc Serra Majem

Independent Advisor & Consultant

Mario Grande Abascal
Mario Grande Abascal

Founding Partner, XtartCube Capital

Pascual Ripoll
Pascual Ripoll
Startup Mentor & Independent Advisor
Eneko Knörr
Eneko Knörr

Founder of Pheidon.capital

Business Angel

Maria Iturriagagoitia
Maria Iturriagagoitia

Consultant Partner at NEMINEM

Business Angel

David Boronat
David Boronat

Founder at Multiplica, Metriplica, Puntolab, Uncommon.People, Jaque, Beabloo…

Venue

The Conference

The conference will be held at the luxurious 5-star Hotel NH Collection Barcelona Tower, located in Barcelona’s new business and financial district, between the airport and the city center.

The building is a real city landmark, designed by British architect, Richard Rogers – the man behind the Pompidou Center in Paris.


Gran Via, 144, Hospitalet de Llobregat
08907 Barcelona - Spain

NH Barcelona Tower

The Conference

The conference will be held at the luxurious 5-star Hotel NH Collection Barcelona Tower, located in Barcelona’s new business and financial district, between the airport and the city center. The building is a real city landmark, designed by British architect, Richard Rogers – the man behind the Pompidou Center in Paris.


Gran Via, 144, Hospitalet de Llobregat
08907 Barcelona - Spain

NH Barcelona Tower

The Conference

The conference will be held at the luxurious 5-star Hotel NH Collection Barcelona Tower, located in Barcelona’s new business and financial district, between the airport and the city center.

The building is a real city landmark, designed by British architect, Richard Rogers – the man behind the Pompidou Center in Paris.


Gran Via, 144, Hospitalet de Llobregat
08907 Barcelona - Spain

NH Barcelona Tower

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Lory Kehoe

Lory leads ConsenSys’ Ireland hub. He is passionate about Ethereum enabling a decentralised world.
Prior to ConsenSys, Lory was a Director with Deloitte where he founded, set up and led Deloitte’s Europe Middle East and Africa blockchain Lab. Prior to Deloitte, Lory worked as a management consultant with Accenture. He has over 11 years of consulting experience.

Lory has led blockchain corporate and governmental strategy projects, delivered a number of blockchain PoCs and pilots and implemented a blockchain enabled solution in a production environment.Lory is a Qualified Financial Advisor, registered stockbroker and is currently (and has been for the past 12+ years) an adjunct assistant professor in Strategic Management and Information Systems Strategy with the Department of Computer Science & Statistics in Trinity College Dublin.

Cătălin Sorin Ivan

MEP for the last 9 years, with 15 years of political experience. Blockchain advocate with a Master’s in International Business. Cătălin is one of the youngest members to ever grace the halls of Brussels and he aims to spearhead blockchain and deregulation efforts in the heart of the EU. 

Before getting into politics, he studied and earned a Masters degree in International Business - a solid background for blockchain and deregulation advocacy. He has been a member of 14 Special committees and has held two vice-chair positions during his time as MEP: the vice-chair of the delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2011-2014), and the vice-chair of the committee on Budgetary Control (2017).

Marta Piekarska

Marta serves as the Director of Ecosystem at Hyperledger. Marta obtained her BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology and a double Master from Computer Science and Informatics at Technical University of Berlin and Warsaw University of Technology.

Marta received PhD in User-Informed Design of Privacy Tools while working at one of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley - Blockstream. Marta also taught at Technical University of Berlin as a Post-doc. As part of her role in Hyperledger Marta evangelizes the technology and Open Source at conferences around the world and helps enterprises with applying permissioned Blockchains to their use-cases. Marta is passionate about how Blockchain can help in non traditional spaces, such as identity, last mile aid and education delivery and sustainability.

Renato de Castro

Renato de Castro is a Smart City Expert. He is the ambassador of Smart Cities at the TM Forum from London, a member of the board directors at the NGO Leading Cities from Boston, and Volunteer Senior Adviser at International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations information and telecommunications agency.

He has accumulated over two decades of experience as a global executive within Asia, the Americas and Europe. He is fluent in 4 languages, and is a PhD candidate in Global Law at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Renato has visited more than 30 countries, lecturing about smart cities and advising governments on urban projects. Currently, he is based in Barcelona where he serves as CEO in a disruptive spinoff related to Smart Cities.

Lewis Freiberg

Lewis Freiberg is the IOTA Foundation’s Director of Ecosystem where he works to educate and co-create with governments, corporates and the wider community. He bridges the gap between the cutting-edge academic research & development and industrial / governmental application of Distributed Ledger Technologies.

Lewis has worked in the commercial software industry for the last 6 years working with insurance, telecommunications and retail leaders in Australia. He has had a passion for Distributed Ledger Technologies since 2013 and sees the transformative nature of the technology. Today he works with some of the largest organizations around the globe to educate and co-innovate with DTLs

Joshua Ashley Klayman

Joshua Ashley Klayman is one of the best known Blockchain and Cryptocurrency lawyers in the world. Recognized by Chambers and Partners as one of the top 12 Blockchain and Cryptocurrency lawyers globally, Ms. Klayman is the Managing Member of Klayman LLC, a boutique blockchain law firm based in New York, and the CEO of Inflection Point Blockchain Advisors, LLC, a blockchain consulting firm.  Previously, she co-founded, and led for over two years, a prestigious global law firm's Blockchain + Smart Contracts Group, which included well over 70 lawyers worldwide.

Ms. Klayman is the Chair of the prominent Wall Street Blockchain Alliance Legal Working Group and is a member of the global Wharton RegTech think tank. In addition, she has been appointed by the Delaware Secretary of State to serve on Delaware’s Blockchain Strategy Committee, founded the Blockchain Legislation Project and frequently speaks with regulators from around the world regarding Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Cryptocurrency matters. Ms. Klayman also is a founding member of the Digital Future Council, a co-founder of Diversity in Blockchain, Inc. and a founding member of Collective Future.  Ms. Klayman works collaboratively with Blockchain leaders from other law firms, clients and the broader community to advance the industry, anticipate and address regulatory concerns and seize strategic opportunities.

Stephanie Ramezan

Co-Founder of Quince Capital and Partner at Digital Asset Group, Stephanie is working to revolutionise the market by marrying-up traditional financial services with the digital world.  Digital Asset Group is working to become the world’s first fully-regulated B2B Blockchain bank and will include a variety of services including but not limited to crypto fund of funds, wealth management, crypto stock-exchange and a direct market investment platform.  

Stephanie started her career in the City of London and has spent the past 14 years across a variety of front-office Sales/Trading/Corporate Finance roles. 

Thomas Moser

Thomas Moser is an Alternate Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (Central Bank of Switzerland). He is also a member of the Managing Committee of the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and a member of the Executive Committee of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland.

From 2006 to 2010 Thomas Moser was Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., USA. He has a doctorate in economics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Sergio Gorjón Rivas

Sergio Gorjón serves as manager in the newly created Financial Innovations Division at Banco de España. His team is in charge of monitoring and analysing the nature and potential implications of emerging financial service providers. Their tasks further include assessing the regulatory challenges deriving from the digital transformation of the financial industry and advising on future legal reforms.

Prior to moving to this area, Mr. Gorjón spent 20 years at the Payment Systems Department where the headed the Policy and Oversight Division and dealt with many topics around innovation such as blockchain, cryptoassets, instant payments, artificial intelligence, etc. Mr Gorjón also worked for the World Bank as a Financial Sector Specialist and remains an external consultant to this institution.

Joey Garcia

Joey Garcia is the financial services and fintech partner at ISOLAS LLP, Gibraltar’s longest established law firm (1892). He has co-chaired the Gibraltar Government working group on distributed ledger technology and blockchain technology for a number of years and is ranked by Chamber and Partners as one of the top 12 lawyers in the world in the space, as well as by the Legal 500 as an accomplished financial services expert. With the working group Joey has worked alongside the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission in the introduction of a new regulatory framework to cover operators in Blockchain and distributed ledger technology space which came into effect in January.

He acts for a number of very well-known groups including Xapo, Gnosis, RSK, Coinfloor, GBX and Huobi and is also a member of the global Wharton RegTech think tank bringing together practitioners and regulators from around the world. Joey is also RSK’s ambassador for Gibraltar, contributes to the US Chamber of Digital Commerce as part of the groups lawyers committee, and also contributed to first publication covering Global Legal Insights on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Regulation. He is a regular speaker and contributor to initiatives around the world in the space.

Marius Jurgilas

Prior to joining the Bank of Lithuania, Marius Jurgilas worked as Economist at Norges Bank and the Bank of England, Researcher at the European Central Bank, and gained academic experience in the US.

As Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, he is in charge of payment services and their development, FinTech, research and cash, as well as units performing related functions. To address related issues, he participates in meetings of the ECB Governing Council and committees, scientific conferences, as well as represents the central bank of the Republic of Lithuania at various international economic fora and organisations.

Victoria Gago
Victoria Gago is the Co-Founder of the European Blockchain Convention and Associate at AddVANTE M&A where she advises tech, retail and industrial companies. Prior to that she worked as an Investment Analyst at Black Toro Capital.

She is a blockchain guest speaker at Millionaire’s Club (Millionærklubben), Denmark’s leading financial radio show. 
 

In 2016 Victoria founded Accelerate Network, an association for young female professionals, whose objective is to inspire young women to reach their full potential, empower upcoming talents and future female leaders.

Victoria has roots in Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe and a global mindset, having lived in Malaysia, Australia, United Kingdom, Spain, Luxembourg and Denmark.

Virginia Cram Martos

Ms. Virginia S. CRAM-MARTOS is the CEO of Triangularity SàRL which supports economic development through Innovation, eCommerce and Trade.

She is also Project Leader for the Blockchain Whitepaper Project of the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT); the liaison expert from UN/CEFACT to ISO/TC 307 (Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies); and is an expert member of the International Telecommunication Unions Focus Group on Distributed Ledger Technologies (FGDLT).

Prior to moving to Triangularity she worked for 25 years for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, Switzerland. For the last 11 years of her UN career she was responsible, as a Director, for: trade facilitation, global UN electronic business standards, regulatory cooperation, national innovation frameworks and public-private partnerships.

She holds an MBA degree in International Business from the University of Chicago and a Masters in Finance from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

Michael Kumhof

Michael Kumhof is a German researcher and economist. He is Senior Research Advisor at the Bank of England, where he co-leads and helps to formulate its research agenda. In his previous work at the IMF, he was responsible for developing the IMF’s Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model (a Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model). The model is used for IMF policy and scenario analyses in multilateral and bilateral surveillance, for the World Economic Outlook and for G20 work.

He taught economics at Stanford University from 1998 to 2004 and worked in corporate banking for Barclays Bank from 1988 to 1993.

Dr. Kumhof is co-author of the paper "Macroeconomics of central bank issued digital currencies", where he discusses the consequences of issuing central bank digital currency (CBDC). The paper is based on a complex economic model in which anyone can hold money at the central bank, fully risk-free, as an alternative to bank deposits (money created by banks).

Dr. Stefan Junestrand

Stefan Junestrand holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and is considered a leading international expert and speaker in areas related to Smart Cities, Intelligent Buildings, Sustainability and Blockchain, and a member of the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum. 

Junestrand is the CEO and Co-Founder of Grupo Tecma Red, Spain’s leading Media Company in the areas of Sustainability, Energy and New Technologies for Buildings and Cities. He has written several books and published more than a dozen scientific papers, and is also a founding member of the research group Blockchain4Cities.net.

Guenther Dobrauz-Saldapenna

Considered to be one of the leading European Banking, Investment and Blockchain/Crypto Law specialists, Guenther is also passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, rock music, custom bratstyle motorcycles, obstacle course racing and vinyl records.

Guenther is a Partner at PwC Zurich and Leader of PwC Legal Switzerland as well as a Member of PwC’s Global Legal Leadership Team. Prior to this he was a successful Venture Capitalist, served as in-house counsel at an international hedge fund and practised in court and with a leading business law firm. Guenther holds a PhD in law from Johannes Kepler University (Austria), an MBA from the University of Strathclyde (Scotland) and has completed an Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School. He is the author of 10 books mostly on investment law and regulation. 

Xavier Simó

He is the President & Founder of INLEA, an international company specialized in creating, mentoring and supporting international sales and technical remote human teams for global corporations.

As part of its Social Corporate Responsibility, in 2007 he founded the INLEA Foundation to support ICT entrepreneurs and investors and he launched in 2009 a pre-acceleration program in Barcelona, called linktoStart. It supported 1,500 entrepreneurs for 7 years.

He has recently launched a new program called Opening Chain, openingchain.org, to promote and broadcast the blockchain technology.

He is full passionate at technology and education, and supports educators by a project called Welcome IT, welcome-it.com, where they can join updated content and technology from worldwide vendors; and Xavier holds conferences in schools promoting good practices in the entrepreneurial and business culture.

SHAWNNA M. HOFFMAN-CHILDRESS

Ms. Hoffman serves as the Global Co-Leader of the IBM Cognitive Legal Practice and is a member of the IBM Global Center of Competency. She was certified as an IBM Thought Leader in 2015 and has two patents pending for Detecting Clusters and Relationships in Large Data Sets (END920160377US1) and Method and System for Pattern Based Home Network Configuration (END820160894). She also co-authored the book "eDiscovery Plain & Simple" (ISBN-13:97814394079), is the Co-Founder of Women in eDiscovery (Founded in 2007) and the Co-Founder of Diversity in Blockchain (Founded in 2017). In 2017, Ms. Hoffman-Childress became an Advisory Board Member for Integra Ledger and became a pioneering member of the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium and the MIT Legal Forum for AI & Blockchain. Recently, she spoke at the United Nations at the Blockchain for Impact Summit and GlobalMinded on the subject “Blockchain, Financial Fuel for Sustainable Development”. In September 2018, she was appointed to the U.S. Commodity Future Trading Commission's Distributed Ledger Technology and Market Infrastructure Subcommittee for the 2018 - 2019 term.

As her give back to her local community, Ms. Hoffman-Childress co-founded and serves on the Board of Directors of the Community Hope Center of Osceola County which has helped over 27,000 homeless families since its inception. The Community Hope Center has received multiple awards and most recently was presented with the Bob Allen Award from the Walt Disney Company and the Good Neighbor Award from Bank of America for the fight against homelessness. The Community Hope Center was an inspiration and was featured in the Oscar Winning Movie, The Florida Project.

Victor Escudero Rubio

Victor Escudero is Global Head of Integration of Cybersecurity Solutions at S21sec and co-author of the book "Blockchain: the Industrial Revolution of the Internet" 

Escudero is passionate about Free Software. He  has lived and breathed Bitcoin since its inception and since then he actively shares his knowledge about protocols based on Blockchain. He frequently publishes content in the media and through his Blog https://www.vescudero.net. Escudero was organizer of the first Bitcoin Party in Spain. 

Teresa Alarcos Tamayo

Teresa Alarcos has significance experience in Good Governance and Compliance.  She has been serving several boards as Non Executive Director of the Nominations & Remunerations Committees, and Audit, Control & Compliance, in different industries: tech, biotech, educational, cultural institutions and foundations.
She is currently Board member at Lukso (Fashion Blockchain in Berlin), Advisor at SolidQ Golden Partner at Microsoft, Founder and President of Madrid Startup Community Forum, Vicepresident of Esade Cultural, Innovation Alumni Club, and is a member of the Diversity and University Commissions at Alastria Blockchain Consorcium.
She is a member of the international network of Non Executive Directors "Women Corporate Directors" supported by KPMG and Spencer Stuart globally.
20-years experience as Executive Vivendi group, Lycos Europe, Yoigo, Eli Lilly and Ono-Vodafone as head of the Business to Business Unit.
Graduated at IC-A, Institute of Directors and Administrators and with a grant from Banco Santander studied board management at UCLA-Anderson, and IESE.

Lately Teresa enrolled at Singularity University to better understand disrupted technologies, and “moonshot” long term strategy approach.
Key-note speaker and Business Angel at EsadeBan, Esade's Business Angels network and advisory board on the Harvard Club Business Angels network, GoBeyond Swiss women investors platform advisor.
She was born in Valladolid, Spain, and studied and worked in France, England and the USA., Latin America and Escandinavian countries. Medical Doctor, Graduated from Harvard Business School in General Management, and International MBA at Esade, PhD Cum laude.
Happily married and mother of two children, Juan and Íñigo.
A very important part of my life is inspiring women leadership in digital and robotics (Hamburg University of Technology Camps) as well as fundraising for different purposes (Ronald McDonald Foundation) to help and build together a better society.

Xavier Gasia

Xavier is a lawyer and financial consultant who specialises in the structuring of Cryptocurrency algorithm mining projects and in Blockchain and DLT projects, particularly in the international, legal structuring of Securities Coin Offering (SCO), Initial Coin Offering (ICO)/Token Generating Event (TGE), Exchange, Alternative Trading System, Cryptocurrency and e-Money projects.

He is regularly involved in complex project tokenisation and cryptocurrency mining project operations, offering advice from their design and structuring to their planning, development and implementation, from both a legal and financial viewpoint.

He is also an expert in international project funding, M&A, Appraisals and Restructuring. He has provided advice for many different SCO/ICO/TGE operations and has great experience in International Project Finance, regulated sectors and Corporate.

Ismael Arribas

Nacido en Valladolid el 19 de mayo de 1975, estudié en Nuestra Señora de Lourdes. Mi
emprendimiento me hizo combinar los estudios en la Universidad de Derecho para elegir mi
profesión. Mientras estudiaba emprendí varios negocios en organización de eventos
deportivos y catering, continué mi formación en la Universidad Domingo de Soto en Segovia
donde pasé dos cursos en derecho mercantil y derecho internacional humanitario, volví a
Valladolid donde mientras terminaba mis estudios fui contratado por Citigroup en su división
de banca corporativa para Citibank España S.A. como Director Regional de la zona norte en
Bankcards.

Fue durante mis años en la banca donde fundé Kunfud® en 2006.
Kunfud® es una marca registrada en la OEPM que se especializó en cumplimiento normativo
como una Agencia de Seguridad Mercantil, donde me dediqué ejercer tercería de buena fe
para el registro y acomodo multi-jurisdiccional de documentos. La especialidad es que
Kunfud® persigue la veracidad del contenido de los documentos que registra, esta tarea de
“compliance” me ha permitido incorporar protocolos de transparencia y anticorrupción en las
administraciones de los clientes que nos pedían el servicio de registro documental.

En 2011 encontré la tecnología Blockchain en un encuentro de ciberseguridad que me hizo
transformar el modelo de negocio y probar la tecnología incipiente para ejercer un
“compliance” irrefutable donde después de un programa comercial que duró cinco años, ya
en 2016 incorporé API a nuestro sistema de registro lo que me ha llevado a estar en
contacto con más de 100 países en estos doce años de vida de nuestra empresa. Especialicé
la marca en “compliance” internacional independiente. www.kunfud.com
Pertenezco a varios comités de estandarización internacional representando a España para la
elaboración de un estándar sobre Blockchain y Tecnologías distribuidas donde soy experto
acreditado en ISO TC307, CEN-CENELEC e ITU-T en sus respectivos comités para esta
norma.
En 2017 fui confirmado como Presidente para el capítulo español dentro de Government
Blockchain Association https://www.gbaglobal.org
Soy profesor técnico del proyecto TIMMIS de la Cátedra de Comercio Exterior de la
Universidad de Valladolid, para la asignatura de Compliance y Governance en Blockchain y
DLTs.

Como emprendedor viajo y absorbo la riqueza de las diferentes culturas y soy proactivo para
un mejor mundo. Soy creador del Codex Kunfud®, la seguridad mercantil como concepto, su
certificación e implementación. Codex Kunfud® es un manifestó no publicado para la
aplicación de seguridad mercantil en las relaciones multi-jurisdiccionales y. Buen Gobierno de
las empresas y organizaciones.
Personal web site: www.ismaelarribas.wix.com/kunfud

Jorge Lesmes

Jorge (MSc Comp Sci) is in charge of leading and defining the group's strategic direction and value proposition for the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology initiative for the banking sector, overseeing industry projects the group is participating in. With over 10 years’ experience in the area of Banking Consulting (Corporate & Retail), he has acquired an expert knowledge in critical banking infrastructure and regulatory transformation including CMA Open Banking, GDPR and PSD2 having led implementations for multiple Tier 1 global banks.

His current focus is on how the Internet of Value will improve our ability to make payments as quickly and efficiently as data transfers, as well as inter-ledger infrastructure to improve connectivity between different DLT platforms.

Montse Guardia

Montse Guardia is an expert in digital transformation and works at Banco Sabadell. During the last few years he has been closely following the evolution of the cryptocurrency and the blockchain.

James Muscat Azzopardi

James is a lawyer by profession and is a Partner at Muscat Azzopardi & Associates, one of Malta’s leading commercial law firms, as well as a founding shareholder and a Director on the Credence group of advisory and corporate services companies.

James advises a wide portfolio of multinational corporations, international law firms, banks, asset management companies and high net worth individuals. He is currently advising on ICOs, cryptocurrency exchanges and related issues, particularly in relation to Malta and Maltese structures. James is the First Vice President of the Maltese-Spanish Chamber of Commerce and speaks five languages including fluent Spanish and Italian.

Eneko Knörr

Eneko Knorr is the founder of Pheidon.capital, a cryptocurrency fund and lab. He previously started Ludei (San Francisco) and the Spanish top 5 hosting company Hostalia (sold to Telefonica).

Angel investor in companies such as Ticketbis (sold to eBay), Habitissimo (sold to Homeserve), Petcoach (sold to Petco), Chicisimo, Housers and Cabify, among others. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of the Basque Country, and an AMP in Business Administration & Management from IE Business School (Madrid). Public speaker at conferences around the world such as New York Summit (NYC, USA9, 4YFN-Mobile World Congress (Shangai, China and Barcelona, Spain), Venture Days Barranquilla (Colombia), South Summit (Madrid), etc.

Marjan Delatinne

Marjan is an entrepreneurial business developer who enjoys establishing effective strategies and directing major initiatives from conceptual to implementation. With more than two decades of experience in various commercial positions (mainly big, complex and new product commercialisation), Marjan has gained valuable insights into the financial industry and the market infrastructures globally. Since joining Ripple in 2017, she has been responsible for the definition and execution of the go to market strategy and sales of Ripple product and services.

Previously, Marjan worked for SWIFT and was responsible for the commercialization of large scale projects both in securities and payments, namely Target 2 Securities & resiliency solutions for national central banks. She also led the EMEA customer engagement for the global payments innovation initiative (gpi). Marjan worked for Eurocelar, BNY Mellon and held various positions in sales & network management divisions. Marjan has a university degree in Business Administration and research master degree in Experimental & Clinical Psychology. In addition to English, she is fluent in French and Scandinavian languages.

Cristina Carrascosa

Cristina is a lawyer specialized in taxation and tax law. After starting in international firms such as Cuatrecasas or Broseta, for the past six years she has developed her career working with decentralized business models based on blockchain technology, as well as advising large estates with investments in cryptoactives. 

Associate professor at IE business school, in Blockchain, Academic Director of the Blockchain Program at IE Law School, and co-author of the book Blockchain: the industrial revolution of the Internet, has been invited by public administrations such as the Ministry of Interior to discuss the use of this technology in the cyber security environment. She’s the only Spanish woman appointed as permanent member of the Working Group “Blockchain Observatory Forum”, set up by the European Commission for regulatory purposes.

Jose Parra Moyano

José Parra Moyano is an economist, researcher and entrepreneur using blockchain technology to solve open problems in society.

He is researching as a PhD Student in the field of Blockchain Mechanism Design at the University of Zurich. During his PhD he has published several academic papers on the topic of Blockchain in peer-reviewed journals.

In 2016 he won the Nordic Blockchain Summit Prize for his project on “Improving Banking KYC thanks to Blockchain Technology”. He is the Head of the newly-created Blockchain Research Lab of the Chair of Quantitative Business Administration of the University of Zurich. Further, he has been appointed as one of Forbes 30 UNDER 30 and is member of the Global Shapers Community of the World Economic Forum.

Corinna Scatena

A lawyer passionate about Fintech and innovative retail banking solutions. Currently based in Malta, she has been following the Maltese milestones on blockchain regulation. She works as Head of Legal for the mobile bank FerratumBank, dealing with the legal challenges beyond European and local rules in the financial services sector, AML and compliance. She loves travelling, knowing new cultures and languages. She lived in Roma, Bruxelles, Berlin, Barcelona, Cambridge and Malta.

Marc Rocas

Marc is a researcher, professor, and management consultant. His research, as a Ph.D. candidate at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), is focused on the fields of the blockchain, the sharing economy, and the Commons. As a management consultant, he is an expert on strategy and the governance of distributed systems. He is a founding board member of the Blockchain Catalonia Association, and a co-founder at Raay, a private firm that provides blockchain education and consultancy services.

Karl Schranz

Karl Schranz co-founded E&S Group in 2010, offering a wide range of financial and legal consultancy services particularly to ICOs. He has over 15 years of experience in the financial and audit sector.

His expertise includes financial engineering, ICO strategy, Tokenomics and Crypto Assets. As one of the directors and founders of E&S Group, he has been involved in structuring, advising and assisting more than 40+ICOs projects to date.

Karl co-founded ESTS Initiative in 2018, leading to the tokenisation of E&S Group’s services, becoming the first corporate and legal firm to do so.

Henrik Hvid Jensen

Henrik Hvid Jensen has a unique combination of knowledge with the digitization of global trade, leading understanding of blockchains real possibilities and limitations, and practical experience in designing and realizing digital platforms and blockchain solutions for global trade ecosystems and government organizations.

Henrik is the innovator and designer of the Maersk/IBM Blockchain initiative to digitalize global trade. He has designed Blockshipping’s blockchain platform  for container sharing and is currently working with  World Economic Forum on distributed digital identifiers and Inter American Development Bank on blockchain based framework for import/export processes in South America

Manel Medina

Currently: full Professor (1992…) and director of the MsC Cybersecurity Management (2001…),
Blockchain (2018…) and Cyber-Intelligence (2018…) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
(UPC), Head of esCERT-UPC, Spanish Computer Emergency Response Team (1994…). Advisor of:
ISMS Forum Spain (2013…), ENISA (2014…), Stop.Think.Connect (2015…).
Previous: Stakeholder Relations Advisor and Senior NIS expert, and former Head of CERT relations
Unit and Deputy Head of TCD at ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency)
(2011-2014).
Coordinator of the Scientific activities of the European Chapter of the AntiPhishing WG (APWG)
(2014-2017),
Advisor of CyberGreen (2015..2016), Security Projects Scientific Advisor of Barcelona Digital
Technological Center (2008-2010).
Head of the Internet Applications research centre (cANet-UPC).
He has been full Member of ESRIF (European Security Research & Innovative Forum) and ESRAB
(2006 - 2009) to advise European Commission about security research topics in the R&D funding
programmes.
Founder of several spin-off companies:
- Safelayer Secure Communications, leading European PKI software provider.
- InetSecur and tb-security, information security management and auditing.
- SeMarket, Company offered PKI enabled security solutions, PKI certificate validation and
biometric identification.
- Adda Documental: developed solutions to digitalise, manage and search documents in multi
lingual environments.
- Ready People, provided tools to manage mobile user attributes, including geolocation for web
service providers.
He also created non-profit associations to promote security in information systems and digital
document management (e-invoice):
Education:
Dr. Eng. Telecommunication since 1981 (Univ. Polit. Catalunya)
Eng. Telecommunication since 1974 (Univ. Polit. Madrid)

Pernille Enggaard

Alex Sicart

Alex Sicart is the Founder of Shasta,  a fundamental free energy market embedded into code.

He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 and Imagine Silicon Valley scholar 2016. Prior to creating Shasta, he created FileNation, with it you can easily share your files around the world through a new P2P technology called IPFS(InterPlanetary File System).

Sicart had already dabbled in energy prior to this new project he’s now embarking on: he won an Audi scholarship to spend a summer in Silicon Valley with two colleagues, where they developed the Sharge app — an app which connected owners of electric car charging stations with electric vehicle-owners wanting to recharge their cars.

Flavio Soares

Flavio Soares has spent more than two decades as a trusted advisor to small and midsized Catalan, Brazilian and Spanish companies and entrepreneurs on matters related to intellectual property, trademark registration, unfair competition, civil litigation, company formation and compliance, and international investment structures.

He has developed a broad contact base throughout the intellectual property and tech start-up sectors since establishing the Barcelona branch of Ávila Pereira & Torres in 1993.

Flavio began practicing law in Rio de Janeiro in 1986 under the mentorship of his Commercial Law professor Kléber Pereira Ávila in the law firm of Ávila Pereira & Torres. The firm provided advice regarding trademark and intellectual property law to a broad array of international clients and was the springboard for the development of Flavio’s legal practice.

Upon relocating to Barcelona, Flavio earned a master’s degree in International Law from the University of Barcelona in 1993 specializing in software licensing in the European Union while working for the Spanish law firm of Ribas & Rodríguez and qualifying to practice as a Spanish lawyer.

In 1993, Flavio established the Barcelona office of Ávila Pereira & Torres under the name of Soares & Ávila, focusing on intellectual property and trademark law. The practice has expanded over the years to incorporate Flavio’s expertise in new technologies and advising innovators throughout the business lifecycle, including licensing, technology transfer, protection of know-how, dispute resolution (including litigation), and unfair competition.

As a result of his long term relationships with his clients, the globalization of technology companies, and his qualifications as a Brazilian lawyer, Flavio’s practice has expanded to advising European companies on their expansion to Brazil and other countries where he manages a network of affiliated offices such as the United States, Colombia, and Peru.

Flavio has been in the blockchain industry since 2014.

Education:

Candido Mendes Law School – Rio de Janeiro: 1983-1987
LLM at University of Barcelona (then the doctorate program): 1991-1993
Dispute Resolution – Mediation – New Hampshire: 1999
Arbtitration and Mediation – WIPO/Geneva: 2008

Magnus Jones Portrett

Magnus Jones is a Tax Technologist at the law firm of EY. In addition, he is also leading the Norwegian Blockchain & DLT group. Within this area he works close together with authorities and key stakeholders, and assist clients with everything from regulatory challenges to technical implementations.

Magnus is an experienced international speaker within digital trends and technology, covering many different areas through some of his roles as a board member of the Norwegian Computer Society Group for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Norwegian Ambassador of European Legal Technology Association, and a lecturer at EMBA classes at BI Norwegian Business School.