Blockchain Valley Conference
SOLD OUT – Understanding the Revolution and What Comes Next
Speakers
Alessandro Curioni
Switzerland
IBM Fellow, Vice President Europe & Africa and Director of the IBM Research Lab, Zurich. Curioni is an internationally recognized leader in the area of high-performance computing and computational science. He was a member of the winning team recognized with the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in 2013 and 2015. His research interests include AI, Big Data and quantum computing.
Guido Fürer
Switzerland
Group Chief Investment Officer and Member of the Group Executive Committee at Swiss Re. Before joining Swiss Re in 1997, Fürer worked for eight years in leading positions for the Swiss Bank Corporation/O’Connor & Associates in option trading and structured capital markets transactions. He is a member of the World Bank Global Infrastructure Facility, the WEF Global Future Council and of the OECD long-term investment network.
Alex Tapscott
Canada
CEO and founder of Northwest Passage Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in companies in the blockchain market. An advocate for the disruptive potential of new technology, he is also the co-author with Don Tapscott of the bestseller "Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World".
Joshua Cooper Ramo
USA
Co-CEO von Kissinger Associates, der Beratungsfirma des ehemaligen US-Aussenministers Henry Kissinger und Autor des Bestsellers «The Seventh Sense». Ramo ist Vorstandsmitglied von Starbucks und Fedex, das World Economic Forum nannte ihn «einer von Chinas führenden ausländischen Gelehrten». Artikel von ihm erschienen im Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, Foreign Policy und Fortune.
Primavera De Filippi
France
Permanent researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and faculty associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, where she is investigating the concept of governance-by-design as it relates to blockchain technologies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. De Filippi is a member of the Global Future Council on Blockchain Technologies at the World Economic Forum, as well as the founder of the Internet Governance Forum’s dynamic coalitions on Blockchain Technology.
Jags Rao
Switzerland
Blockchain Workstream Lead at Swiss Re. In his role Rao is currently focused on driving Swiss Re's strategic agenda on blockchain. Prior to Swiss Re, he founded and served as executive management for InCH Info Solutions GmbH, a Swiss consultancy firm. Rao had served in various management roles for Teksels SA, an IT services firm focused on financial services.
Aet Rahe
Estonia
Entrepreneur, consulting government agencies and companies about how to set up successful ICT related initiatives. Until 2016 Aet Rahe had been deputy government CIO at the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. Aet Rahe is the chairman of the supervisory board of Estonian Internet Foundation and a guest lecturer at Tallinn Technical University and Tartu University.
Jesse Grushack
USA
Director and co-founder of decentralized music platform Ujo Music. Grushack began his career at SFX Entertainment specialising in cashless payment technologies and live-event management. In 2015, he found ConsenSys, the blockchain software technology company that hosts Ujo Music.
Brian Hoffman
USA
Project lead at OpenBazaar, an online marketplace based on bitcoin, and CEO of the maintainer OB1. Before starting OpenBazaar Hoffman studied computer science at James Madison University and worked for Booz Allen Hamilton supporting the Department of Defence in cybersecurity projects.
Richard Olsen
USA
Founder and CEO of Lykke, a global marketplace for multiple assets and financial instrument built on the Bitcoin blockchain. Olsen is a pioneer in high frequency finance with extensive entrepreneurial experience. He is visiting professor at the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents at the University of Essex and co-founded OANDA, a foreign exchange company.
Guido Baroncini Turricchia
Italien
Environmental Engineer, expert in geographic information systems and remote sensing. Since 2006 working around Europe in both University and private sector. In the last four years he focused his interest on Blockchain technology promoting the use of cryptocurrency. He co-founded Bitcoin Foundation Italia and the blockchain startup Helperbit, and is CEO of the latter.
Rory Unsworth
Switzerland
Head Contracts Centre at Swiss Re. After a number of years as a litigation lawyer in London, Rory Unsworth joined Swiss Reinsurance Company in Zurich as Senior Contracts Expert in 2003 and became Head Contracts Centre in 2014. His principal professional interest is preventive law and transaction management at all stages of a business, from origination to commutation.
Andreas Kind
Switzerland
Manager "Industry Platforms and Blockchain" at IBM Research Zurich. His team is key contributor to the Hyperledger Blockchain Project and develops advanced privacy and cloud security technologies. Before joining IBM Research in Zurich, Kind headed the Shanghai Lab of IBM Research China. His current research focus is on innovation in Distributed Ledger Technologies, Internet of Things, Cognitive Finance and FinTech.
Kamesh Raghavendra
USA
Vice President at The Hive – a studio to co-create, fund and launch data-driven companies. Kamesh has a track record as an investor, entrepreneur and operating executive in enterprise, industrial IoT, cyber-security and financial services market segments. He also leads The Hive’s blockchain technology investments.
Jens Jelitto
Switzerland
Senior Researcher in the area of Blockchain technology and its industrial application as well as its connection to the Internet of Things. Prior to this role, Jelitto worked as Technical Assistant to Alessandro Curioni, Vice President Europe and Director IBM Research Zurich where he was working in the area of "Technical Strategy and Planning" and on IBM’s Global Technology Outlook. Jelitto holds about 60 patents.
Alessandro Sorniotti
Switzerland
Research staff member in the Storage Systems group of IBM Research, Zurich. Prior to joining IBM, he was a member of the Security and Trust research program of SAP Research. He has been engaged in several EU projects and has also been a member of the SAP Product Security Team, acting as an internal security consultant for SAP business units. His current research interests revolve around the study of security and reliability aspects of storage systems.
Björn Tackmann
Switzerland
Post Doc and Security Researcher at the "Industry Platforms & Blockchain" research team at IBM Research Zurich. Before joining IBM in 2016, Björn Tackmann worked as a researcher at the University of California, san Diego. His current research interest is in cryptography for communication, cloud security and blockchain.
Urs Karrer
Switzerland
Associate Partner and Digital Consulting Practice Lead at IBM Switzerland. Karrer has deep experience in enterprise technology management and the alignment of business and IT in large and global organizations.
André Wolke
Switzerland
Co-founder of Validity Labs, a knowledge provider that educates executives, lawyers, regulators and developers in smart contracts and its underlying blockchain technology. Wolke is also the founder of the Blockchain & Internet of Things School. Over the last 20 years, Wolke worked as a consultant for various fortune 500 companies in the fields of process-automation, software development and data-analysis.
Brian Rogers
Switzerland
Senior Business Development Manager, Swiss Re Institute. Prior to taking on his current role, Rogers was editor of Swiss Re's flagship publication sigma. He also spent a decade working in the area of leadership development, first as a research associate at IMD and then as a learning and development specialist for Swissair and Zellweger Luwa.
Karin Frick
Switzerland
Karin Frick is Head of Think Tank and a Member of the Executive Board at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. As an economist, she researches trends and countertrends in business, society and consumption..
David Bosshart
Switzerland
Dr. David Bosshart was CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for consumption, economic and social studies from 1999 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been President of the G. and A. Duttweiler Foundation.
Moderator
Florian Inhauser
Switzerland
Journalist and moderator. Florian Inhauser presents the main newscast at Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, SRF and he is also the anchor of the foreign news magazine «#SRFglobal». With a master in history and anglistics he speaks English fluently. He has also an excellent reputation as an international correspondent, covering conflicts and crises around the globe.
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