Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania
Former Researcher at the European Central Bank
Global Head of Integration of Cybersecurity at S21sec
Co-author of “Blockchain: the Industrial Revolution of the Internet”
CEO and Founder of Madrid Startup Community Forum
Board Advisor of SolidQ
Member of the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum
Commissioner at the US National Commission for the UNESCO
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Meet the Start Ups presenting at the European Blockchain Convention 2018 Edition
The Energy one blockchain is a commercial, field- proven energy blockchain, which has been serving thousands of households since 2017 in Germany.
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.
At Survey Expert we design and build beautiful tools on blockchain for you to analyze your market. Digital Surveying made easy!
Truly autonomous system invented by Hibryda. 3d Lattice Structure, Quantum Resistant, Scalable to infinity.
Such network can potentially act as neural network.
Check out some of the investors and business leaders that will be in the Jury this year:
CEO and CoFounder, MediQuo
CEO and CoFounder, CyberClick
Startup Mentor, Advisor and Investor.
Serial Founder
Startup Mentor, Advisor and Investor.
Serial Founder
CoFounder, Consentio.co
CoFounder, BlaBlaCar
Independent Advisor & Consultant
Founding Partner, XtartCube Capital
Founder of Pheidon.capital
Business Angel
Consultant Partner at NEMINEM
Business Angel
Founder at Multiplica, Metriplica, Puntolab, Uncommon.People, Jaque, Beabloo…
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-
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.
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.
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.
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.
Martin is a partner in our Danish International Tech and Comms Group.
He is one of Denmark’s leading IT lawyers with almost 20 years’ experience of advising Danish and international organisations, including large blue chip companies, on legal and commercial matters in connection with IT in a wide sense. He is considered a pioneer with respect to the legal aspects of Online Technology Solutions (Ecommerce, internet and web services), Cyber and IT security, open source and open data and the use of other open licence forms such as Creative Commons.
Martin works with clients on the legal aspects related to emergent areas and industries such as 3D Printing, Robotics, Smart networks and smart cities, wearable tech, IoT, FinTech, Bitcoin and blockchain technologies.
He advises technology start-ups and SMEs within the IT and media sectors on fundraising, M&A and transactions, corporate matters and more general commercial contracts.
Martin is a co-founder of the Danish E-commerce Association (FDIH), Internet Society DK, Creative Commons DK, Danish Open Source Vendors Association, Danish Entrepreneurs Association, Quantified Self DK and the tech start-up community CPHFTW.
By virtue of his extensive and broad experience serving IT companies, Martin is also able to give integrated advice which combines commercial understanding, technological insight and legal expertise.
He is a certified IT attorney (certified by the Association of Danish IT Attorneys), and has been admitted to the Danish High Court.
Martin is the co-author on the first thesis on Danish Internet Law and a frequent speaker at conferences on IT law, ecommerce and open source and Creative Commons.
He blogs from www.vonhaller.dk, twitter.com/vonhaller, www.computerworld.dk and www.version2.dk.
He speaks Danish and English and understands the Scandinavian languages.
Dr. Stefan Junestrand
Stefan Junestrand holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and is considered a leading international expert in areas related to Smart Cities, Intelligent Buildings, Sustainability and Blockchain.
He is the CEO and co-founder of Grupo Tecma Red, Spain’s leading Media Company specialized in providing information and knowledge about Sustainability, Energy and New Technologies for the Built Environment.
Junestrand is also a member of the "EU Blockchain Observatory” and a main contributor to the “Blockchain 4 Cities” report by U4SSC (United Nations / ITU).
He is a futurist who has written more than a dozen books and scientific papers, hundreds of articles, and is also a frequent Speaker at Conferences and Events in Europe, America and Asia.
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.
Susana Esteban
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
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
Marc Rocas
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.
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
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.
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.
Christoph Harks
Christoph co-founded ENERGY one an energy company using a cost-cutting, game-changing blockchain technology and uncompromising customer orientation to disrupt the energy market.
Christoph has nearly two decades of diverse industrial and leadership experience. He has lived out and fostered his entrepreneurial spirit, and has an unblemished track record in identifying or creating business opportunities. Having achieved two IPOs for companies he co-owned and prepared a third one, Christoph has proven his unique expertise at creating shareholder value.
Adrian Ertorteguy
Adrian is the Head of Business Development at Wibson with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Adrian began his career in Digital Marketing and move on to work with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence technologies. He always continued working with new technologies that are transforming the world in which we live.
He is currently part of the Wibson team, a decentralized data marketplace based on blockchain. In 2018 he was part of "Own Your Data World Tour" giving conferences in Spain, Rome, Brussels, Japan, China, Hong Kong and Argentina among others
Joselit Ramírez
Nació en la ciudad de Mérida, estado Mérida, el 23 de septiembre de 1986 (32 años). Es Criminólogo egresado de la Universidad de Los Andes en el año 2010.
Desarrolló una amplia experiencia dentro del Poder Judicial venezolano, habiéndose desempeñado en diferentes niveles, desde escribiente, alguacil, archivista y asistente de tribunal, hasta llegar a detentar el cargo de Secretario Judicial del Juzgado Superior Segundo en lo Civil, Mercantil, Tránsito y Protección de Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes de la Circunscripción Judicial del estado Mérida. En el año 2011 pasó a desempeñarse como Coordinador del Consejo Superior Penitenciario y Coordinador de Línea de Investigación de la Comisión Presidencial para el Control de Armas, Municiones y Desarme, dependiente del entonces Viceministerio para el Servicio Penitenciario.
Para el año 2012 ingresó al Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Interiores, Justicia y Paz, donde ocupó los cargos de asistente y Director General del Despacho del Ministro. Entre los años 2013 y 2016 fungió como Secretario Privado del Gobernador y posteriormente Secretario del Despacho del Gobernador en la Gobernación del estado Aragua. Al servicio del Ejecutivo Regional de Aragua, asumió también la tarea de Director de la Oficina de Atención al Pueblo de Aragua y Coordinador del Puesto de Comando Regional de Aragua.
A escala gremial, el 16 de octubre de 2016 asumió la responsabilidad de presidir la Federación Venezolana de Criminólogos (FEVECRIM), fundada en esa misma fecha, cargo que ocupa en los actuales momentos. Asimismo, ha publicado artículos de investigación en revistas arbitradas nacionales e internacionales, en materia de violencia criminal, administración pública, y seguridad ciudadana en Venezuela; siendo invitado además, a dictar diferentes talleres y conferencias en eventos académicos dentro y fuera de Venezuela. El 16 de enero de 2017 fue designado Director General de la Vicepresidencia de la República, y el 24 de enero de 2018 el Presidente Nicolás Maduro lo designa Presidente de la Fundación Patria, responsabilidad que ocupó hasta el 04 de septiembre de 2018, poniendo en marcha la “Plataforma Tecnológica Patria”, que cuenta con más de 18 millones de usuarios, logrando consolidarse como una de las plataformas más sólidas del país, con un sistema robusto y seguro, permitiéndole adelantar al Ejecutivo Nacional las políticas sociales, relativas al Sistema de Protección
Social del pueblo venezolano. Actualmente, ocupa el cargo de Viceministro de Desarrollo Industrial, adscrito al Ministerio del Poder Popular de Industrias y Producción Nacional y el 21 de junio de 2018 el Presidente de la República, Nicolás Maduro, lo nombró Superintendente Nacional de Criptoactivos y Actividades Conexas de Venezuela, cargo que le ha permitido establecer las bases legales y jurídicas de la actividad Cripto en Venezuela, desarrollar ampliamente el Ecosistema del Petro, e implementar la “Plataforma Petro”, basada en una Blockchain “made in Venezuela”, la cual, a menos de dos meses de su puesta en marcha, ha logrado la captación de más de 120.000 usuarios registrados, además de la promoción y comercialización de la Criptomoneda Nacional El Petro.
Es importante resaltar que ambas plataformas tecnológicas, Patria y Petro, se encuentran interconectadas, a fin de ejecutar el “Plan de Ahorro en Petros”, política de Estado destinada a incentivar el ahorro en las venezolanas y venezolanos. Así mismo, desde la Superintendencia Nacional de Criptoactivos, ha hecho grandes esfuerzos por el acercamiento del gobierno bolivariano con los mineros digitales, promocionando esta actividad, con la realización de dos Encuentros Nacionales de Minería Digital, con más de 500 participantes; y un Encuentro Internacional de Tecnología Blockchain, con la participación de 15 ponentes internacionales y una asistencia superior a las 4.000 personas.
