Speakers

• Albi Rodriguez Jaramillo Head of Ecosystems and Communities, LACChain
  

  Albi Rodriguez Jaramillo

  Head of Ecosystems and Communities, LACChain
• Alexandra Schneiders Senior Research Fellow, UCL Energy Institute
  

  Alexandra Schneiders

  Senior Research Fellow, UCL Energy Institute
• Andrea Caccia Chair, CEN/CENELEC Joint Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (CEN/CLC/JTC 19)
  

  Andrea Caccia

  Chair, CEN/CENELEC Joint Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (CEN/CLC/JTC 19)

  Senior consultant on compliance and standards in relation to security and digital transformation.
  Involved in standardization since 20 years, more recently on eIDAS, blockchain technologies and circular economy.
  In addition to CEN/CLC/JWG 19 he chairs CEN/TC 434 on electronic invoicing and is member of the Task Force Rolling Plan of the EC Multi-stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardization, the ETSI Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures Technical Board and the CEN eBusiness Coordination Group.
  He chairs the Italian UNI/CT 532, the national committee on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies that mirrors ISO/TC 307 and CEN/CLC/JWG 19, and UNI/CT 501/GL 1 a coordination group on ICT aspects on Circular Economy.

• Anna Gorbatcheva Research Assistant GO-P2P, UCL Energy Institute
  

  Anna Gorbatcheva

  Research Assistant GO-P2P, UCL Energy Institute
• Belén Suárez Lopez Director, Go To Innovation
  

  Belén Suárez Lopez

  Director, Go To Innovation
• Chaals Nevile OASIS, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
  

  Chaals Nevile

  OASIS, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

  Chaals Nevile is the Technical Program Director at Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, seconded as part of his role as Standards Architect at ConsenSys Software. He is a member of the EEA Community Projects Governing Board, a minor contributor to the Baseline specifications, and an Editor of several EEA specifications.

  Chaals has been involved in Ethereum since 2018, having worked since last century in standards for the Web. He was a staff member at W3C in the 90s and early 2000s, and subsequently while working at Opera and Yandex was a member of W3C’s Advisory Board 2008-2019, co-chair of the Web Applications Working Group, and has participated in dozens of W3C Working Groups, from Accessibility to Semantic Web. An Australian living in Madrid for the last dozen years, he has also been involved in work at IETF, ISO, IGF, and other standards organisations.

  Photo: ©Mike Tomshinsky (Михаил Томшинский)

• Claudio Lima IEEE Blockchain Transactive Energy, BCTE, Chair
  

  Claudio Lima

  IEEE Blockchain Transactive Energy, BCTE, Chair

  Claudio Lima, Ph.D., is a global executive and thought leader in advanced digital transformation technologies (artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), with expertise in energy (utilities, oil & gas), renewable/solar energy, electric vehicle (EV), cybersecurity, smart city, and telecom/IT.

  He is co-founder of the BEC Blockchain Engineering Council, chair of the IEEE Blockchain Energy Standards WG, and chair of the IEEE Blockchain Transactive Energy Initiative (BCTE). He headed the Sprint Advanced Technology Labs Digital Media Initiative (DMI) in Sili­con Valley, California, for almost 10yrs.

  He is currently leading global efforts on Blockchain/DLT standardization, interoperability and smart contracts cybersecurity in government and corporate enterprise blockchain initiatives. Dr. Lima earned a PhD in Electronic Engineering at the University of Kent (UKC/UK, 1995).
  He can be reached at clima@blockchain-eng.org.

• Diego Lopez ETSI ISG PDL
  

  Diego Lopez

  ETSI ISG PDL

  Dr Diego R. Lopez joined Telefonica I+D in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert, and is currently in charge of the Technology Exploration activities within the GCTIO Unit. Before joining Telefónica he spent some years in the academic sector, dedicated to research on network services, and was appointed member of the High-Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Infrastructures by the European Commission.

  Diego is currently focused on applied research in network infrastructures, with a special emphasis on virtualization, data-driven management, new architectures, and security. Diego chairs the ETSI ISG on Permissioned Distributed Ledgers and the Network Operator Council ETSI ISG on Network Function Virtualization.
  Apart from this, Diego is a more than acceptable Iberian ham carver, and extremely fond of seeking and enjoying comics, and good discussions on any (in)appropriate matter.

• Emilio Dávila-Gonzalez Head of ICT Standardisation Sector, EC Directorate General CONNECT
  

  Emilio Dávila-Gonzalez

  Head of ICT Standardisation Sector, EC Directorate General CONNECT
• Emmanuelle Ganne Senior Analyst, World Trade Organization
  

  Emmanuelle Ganne

  Senior Analyst, World Trade Organization
• Geoffrey Goodell Deputy Executive Director, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies
  

  Geoffrey Goodell

  Deputy Executive Director, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies
• Gilbert Verdian CEO, Quant Network
  

  Gilbert Verdian

  CEO, Quant Network
• Giulia Ragosa Research Assistant, UCL Energy Institute
  

  Giulia Ragosa

  Research Assistant, UCL Energy Institute
• Helen Köpman Deputy Head of Unit, Digital Innovation & Blockchain at the European Commission
  

  Helen Köpman

  Deputy Head of Unit, Digital Innovation & Blockchain at the European Commission

  Helen Köpman is Acting Head of Unit for Digital Innovation & Blockchain, at DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission in Brussels. The unit elaborates policy initiatives under the Single Market to support digital innovation, blockchain and growth of startups. Initiatives include the European Blockchain Partnership, Startup Europe, ICT standardisation and Innovation Procurement. The unit also leads along with DG FISMA, the European Commission Task Force on Financial Technology. Previously, Ms Köpman held the position of Deputy Head of Unit, managing EC supported research and innovation in the area of ICT applied to mobility. She also worked in the area of International Scientific Cooperation. She has a M.Sc. in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, from the University of Linköping, Sweden. Ms Köpman joined the European Commission in 2003 following thorough industrial experience in the management of ICT service development in international companies that include Infonet, AT&T Unisource and Cap Gemini.

• Ismael Arribas CEO of KUNFUD and Co-Chair of INATBA Standards Committee
  

  Ismael Arribas

  CEO of KUNFUD and Co-Chair of INATBA Standards Committee

  Collective entrepreneur, Cofounder and CEO at KUNFUD founding member of INATBA, Liaison officer between CEN-CENELEC and ETSI ISG PDL, Convenor at WG3 Smart Contracts and their applications in ISO TC 307.

• Joao Rodrigues Frade Head of Sector, DG DIGIT
  

  Joao Rodrigues Frade

  Head of Sector, DG DIGIT
• Jovan Glavonjic Backend Team Lead & Blockchain Engineer, VizLore
  

  Jovan Glavonjic

  Backend Team Lead & Blockchain Engineer, VizLore
• Kai Wagner INATBA Identity Working Group Co-Chair, INATBA Board of Directors Member, Partnership Development & Regulatory Affairs at Jolocom
  

  Kai Wagner

  INATBA Identity Working Group Co-Chair, INATBA Board of Directors Member, Partnership Development & Regulatory Affairs at Jolocom
• Kory Eguino Executive Secretary, Pan American Standards Commission COPANT
  

  Kory Eguino

  Executive Secretary, Pan American Standards Commission COPANT

  Industrial Food Technologist and MBA. Specialized in standardization, conformity assessment and international negotiations.

  Currently Executive Secretary of the Pan American Standards Commission – COPANT.

  She served as Executive Director of the Bolivian Institute of Standardization and Quality – IBNORCA.

  She has participated as national negotiator in several international and regional agreements in subjects related to Technical Barriers to Trade.

  Previously she served at the Ministry of Industry as the Coordinator of the Bolivian Quality Infrastructure System, organizing the Accreditation Body and the Metrology Institute, among other tasks.

  Co-author of the book: “Conformity Assessment System in Bolivia”.

  She has experience working for food industries in Bolivia.

• Lucian Cernat Head of Global Regulatory Cooperation and International Procurement Negotiations, DG TRADE
  

  Lucian Cernat

  Head of Global Regulatory Cooperation and International Procurement Negotiations, DG TRADE
• Marcos Allende Tech Leader of LACChain
  

  Marcos Allende

  Tech Leader of LACChain

  Tech Leader of LACChain and IT Specialist in Blockchain, Quantum Technologies, and SSI at Inter-American Development Bank.
  Quantum physicist specialized in the application of emerging technologies for social impact and financial inclusion.

• Monique Bachner Legal, Regulatory and Governance Advisory, thinkBLOCKtank
  

  Monique Bachner

  Legal, Regulatory and Governance Advisory, thinkBLOCKtank

  Having started her career as a “magic circle” lawyer, Monique now focuses on governance and innovation, and in particular their intersection with ethical, legal and regulatory frameworks. She sits as Independent Director on the boards of a renewable energy company as well as several mutual funds.

  She is active in several international working groups related to digitisation, decentralisation, governance and regulations, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and training programmes around the world. She was a co-founder of LëtzBlock (the Luxembourg Blockchain and DLT Association), sits on the Board of ILA (the Luxembourg Institute of Directors), and is both an ILA Certified Director and INSEAD IDP-C.

• Mr. Wei Kai TBI-Vice Director of Cloud and Big Data Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) China
  

  Mr. Wei Kai

  TBI-Vice Director of Cloud and Big Data Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) China
• Nacho Alamillo Advisor, Logalty
  

  Nacho Alamillo

  Advisor, Logalty
• Nick Pope Director, Security & Standards Associates
  

  Nick Pope

  Director, Security & Standards Associates
• Paul Jackson Senior Director, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
  

  Paul Jackson

  Senior Director, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

  Paul Jackson has worked at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for nearly 3 years, and is currently the Senior Director responsible for key initiatives related to digital credentials, digital identity, Tell-us-once and service management. Before that, Paul worked at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat for 12 years on numerous key initiatives, including leading the migration of more than a dozen federal departments to the Managed Web Service for Canada.ca, as part of the Web Renewal Initiative; leading development and maintenance of the Web Experience Toolkit, an open source front-end framework for building websites that is deployed across Canada.ca and much of the Government of Canada web presence; and co-authoring and supporting implementation of the Government of Canada web standards.

• Pierre Marro EBP/EBSI
  

  Pierre Marro

  EBP/EBSI

  Pierre Marro is Policy Officer at the Directorate General Communication Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) of the European Commission. Within the unit “Digital Innovation and Blockchain”, he is a team leader for the files concerning Blockchain. He is notably in charge of the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP) where 29 European countries and the EC cooperate for building a European Blockchain Services Infrastructure.

• Ramesh Ramadoss Co-chair, IEEE Blockchain Initiative
  

  Ramesh Ramadoss

  Co-chair, IEEE Blockchain Initiative

  Ramesh Ramadoss is an entrepreneur, author, researcher, and international speaker. He is a co-chair of the IEEE Blockchain Initiative. He leads the IEEE Blockchain Standards Committee. He also serves on the Expert Panel of the European Union Blockchain Observatory and Forum (EUBOF). He received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA in 2003. Between 2003 and 2007, he was employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University, Alabama, USA. In 2008, he moved to Silicon Valley and has over a decade of industrial experience in technology companies. He has conducted projects for DARPA, NASA, US Army, US Air Force, Sandia National Labs, and Motorola Labs. He is the author or co-author of 1 book, 3 book chapters and 55 research papers (Google Scholar Citations: 960). He has delivered talks at over 90 international conferences in 40 countries. He has been a member of IEEE since 1999. He was elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member in 2013.

• Rapolas Lakavičius Policy Officer, Digital Innovation & Blockchain, European Commission
  

  Rapolas Lakavičius

  Policy Officer, Digital Innovation & Blockchain, European Commission

  Rapolas LAKAVIČIUS is Policy Officer at the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT) of the European Commission. Work responsibilities are mainly focused on blockchain standardisation. Previously, Rapolas worked with European Research Framework (H2020, FP7) projects and Broadband internet policies.
  Prior to joining the European Commission, Rapolas worked with credit risk analysis at SEB Bank in Vilnius and as a consultant preparing economic and finance feasibility studies for the EU funding.
  Rapolas holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Vilnius University.

• Ray Walshe Professor of Emerging Technology Standards
  

  Ray Walshe

  Professor of Emerging Technology Standards

  Ray is Senior Researcher in the ADAPT Research Centre in Dublin City University (DCU), IRELAND. He began his career in industry as a software engineer, software consultant and project manager with LM Ericsson, Software and Systems Engineering Limited and Siemens. Joining the School of Computing DCU in 1995 he delivers AI, IoT and Data Governance modules on Undergraduate, Masters, and PhD Programmes and is current (2021) Chair of the Graduate Diploma in Web Technologies. Ray is Chair of Big Data Value Association Standards Task Force, Chair of Network Development @ Gender Responsive Standards at the United Nations Economic Committee for Europe, Chair of the External Advisory Board of StandICT.eu, Chair of the Foresight Committee for the EUOS, Research Partner in StandICT2023.eu and Co-Lead on ELITE S Fellowship Programme for Emerging Technologies Standardization (Elite-Fellowships.eu). Ray has been a Digital Leader
  with World Economic Forum since 2016 and was appointed to the IEEE European Public Policy Committee on ICT in 2019 as the AI WG Lead for IEEE EPPC. Ray is since 2020 a member of the OECD Network of Experts (ONE AI) and appointed Technology Standards Working Group Member on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council in 2021. He is currently Government Advisor on National Digital Strategy and is the National Coordinator of the GAIA-X Hub Ireland.

• Ricardo Simões Executive Director, INATBA
  

  Ricardo Simões

  Executive Director, INATBA
• Riccardo Genghini Chairman, ETSI ESI
  

  Riccardo Genghini

  Chairman, ETSI ESI
• Thomas Hardjono IRTF/IETF
  

  Thomas Hardjono

  IRTF/IETF

  Dr Thomas Hardjono is currently the CTO of Connection Science and Technical Director of the MIT Trust-Data Consortium, located at MIT in Cambridge, MA. For several years prior to this he was the Executive Director of the MIT Kerberos Consortium, helping make the Kerberos protocol to become the most ubiquitously deployed authentication protocol in world today. Over the past two decades Thomas he has held various industry technical leadership roles, including Distinguished Engineer at Bay Networks, Principal Scientist at VeriSign PKI, and CTO roles at several start-ups. He has been at the forefront of several industry initiatives around identity, data privacy, trust, applied cryptography, and cybersecurity.

  Aside from various open source software projects, he has held leadership roles in various standards organizations (as specifications editor; working group chair; board member): Trusted Computing Group (cybersecurity of systems); Open Music Initiative (smart contracts for music licensing); Internet Engineering Task Force (public-key certificates, multicast authentication, Kerberos, DLT interop); Kantara Initiative (decentralized identity management); Open Interconnect Forum (IoT security); OASIS Security Services Task Force (Security Assertions Mark-Up Language); IEEE 802 TGi (for WiFi Security).

• Tom De Block Solution architect | Chairman of the AIOTI WG DLT
  

  Tom De Block

  Solution architect | Chairman of the AIOTI WG DLT

  Tom is a serial entrepreneur, with 20 years of experience in ‘IT quality and governance’, specializing in the validation of complex software systems.
  Amongst his impressive list of clients are institutions such as SWIFT, the National Bank of Belgium and the SCHENGEN Homeland security system.

  Tom is a driving force at the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) where he is chairing the working group on Distributed Ledger Technologies.
  More recent he was also asked to chair the EU-OS TWG ‘Data Interoperability’ under the StandICT initiative.

  With is driver mentality, Tom does lots of efforts around proof-of-technology especially around DLT and Blockchain convergence with IoT and other emerging technologies.
  Over 11 DLT Use case Demonstrators have been registered in the recently published AIOTI Test beds catalog. While AIOTI WG DLT itself operates two big Test bed initiatives to benchmark different DLT protocols in terms of Performance and Energy efficiency. Comparative reporting is announced for 2022.

  Tom presents another angle to DLT and Blockchain standarisation.