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Nir Kshetri, PhD
Keynote Speaker
Nir Kshetri, PhD
Keynote Speaker
Nir Kshetri is Professor at University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA. He has authored twelve books and about 200 academic articles. His books and articles have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese and other languages. He has been ranked among the world’s top 0.03% researchers in the 2021 list of the World’s Top Researchers by Stanford University. Nir’s work has been featured by hundreds of media outlets such as Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The Economist, Al Jazeera, Public Radio International, Scientific American, and Bloomberg TV. He has provided consulting services to Asian Development Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, various UN agencies and a number of private companies. He is a two-time TEDx speaker about the roles of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6da0kEfBsY&t=590s ) and blockchain in fighting poverty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDo_Jlov9R4). Nir has travelled to more than 100 countries.
Aneesh Zutshi, PhD
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Aneesh Zutshi, PhD
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Aneesh Zutshi is an Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Science and Technology. He is a researcher on Digital Platforms, Digital Business Models, Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, and crypto-economic systems. He lectures on Digital Entrepreneurship adoption of emerging technologies, such as machine learning within digital ecosystems, at the master's level at the University. His research interests lie in the intersection of Technology, Digital Business, and Economic and Social Systems, with more than 20 years of research experience in these areas. He has led numerous research projects on Blockchain and Digital Entrepreneurship for the European Commission and has coordinated several Workshops and Training Courses across Europe. He is involved in managing the Entrepreneurship related programs at NOVA University. He was also the coordinator of the program on Blockchain and Crypto Revolution and Fintech Innovation at NOVA Executive Education.
He has over 26 publications in Scopus-indexed journals in his research area. He has also been an Editor for a special issue on "Blockchain and Tokenization for Industry and Services" at the Journal of Computers and Industrial Engineering (Impact Factor 7.2). He has also participated in various think tanks and conferences, such as the Horasis Conference and the European Innovation Academy.
Jonathan Heiss, PhD
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Jonathan Heiss, PhD
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Jonathan Heiss is a research associate at the Information System Engineering (ISE) group at TU Berlin. His main research interests are cloud-based systems and verifiable decentralized applications (DApps) with blockchains and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs). For his paper on trustworthy data provisioning and pre-processing for DApps he received the Best Paper Award from the 2021 International Conference on Service-oriented Computing. Currently, he is leading a research project on ZKP-based business solutions that build upon ZoKrates, a language and toolbox for verifiable off-chain computations with zkSNARKs which has been developed at the ISE research group and, since then, has increasingly received attention in industry and academia. Recently, Jonathan’s research focusses on solutions for verifiable carbon accounting that build upon blockchains and ZKPs to enable reliable, cheap, and time-efficient verification of carbon emissions, particularly for scope 3 emissions of product carbon footprints in supply chains.
Chris Igbojekwe
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Chris Igbojekwe
Speaker
Chris Igbojekwe is a technology entrepreneur and the founder of Blockchain UI, a company that
focuses on providing user-friendly interfaces for blockchain applications. With over 10 years of
experience in the technology industry, Chris has been at the forefront of blockchain innovation,
striving to make blockchain technology more accessible and user-friendly for everyone.
Prior to founding Blockchain UI, Chris worked as a software developer and consultant for
several leading tech companies. He gained extensive experience in developing user interfaces
for complex systems and applications, which he has since applied to blockchain technology.
Chris is a thought leader in the blockchain space and has spoken at several industry events,
sharing his insights on blockchain UI and its importance in driving the adoption of blockchain
technology. He is also an active member of the blockchain community, collaborating with other
developers and entrepreneurs to advance the industry.
Chris holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
, and a Master's in Design from Florence Design Academy, Italy. In his spare time, he enjoys
hiking, reading, and exploring new technology trends.
Seyed Mojib Zahraee, PhD
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Seyed Mojib Zahraee, PhD
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Seyed Mojib Zahraee is a young researcher at the prestigious RMIT University, Melbourne-Australia. He is also a research assistant in the RMIT school of engineering. He is a member of the RMIT Cyber-Physical and Autonomous Systems Group, RMIT Transport Research Group, and the Australian Maritime Logistics Research Network. His research interest areas are sustainable biomass supply chain, digital supply chain management, sustainable renewable energy value chain, transportation and logistics, sustainability, optimizing operations, and lean manufacturing. Seyed has published over 60 research papers in multidisciplinary fields, including industrial and mechanical engineering, transportation planning, information technology, supply chain management, and construction management. Additionally, he has reviewed more than 200 papers for reputational journals.
Inés Jiménez, PhD
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Inés Jiménez, PhD
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Inés Jiménez is a (Postdoctoral) Research Associate in Economics at the Universidad de Salamanca. She has been visiting scholar at the University of Westminster (UK) and has previous experience in the banking sector. Her main research interests are risk management and forecasting and, particularly, on cryptocurrencies, topics covered in her recent publications in the journals Mathematics, Operations Research Letters, Risk Management, and Research in International Business and Finance.
Oded Orgil
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Oded Orgil
Speaker
Oded is a Senior Executive in the Financial Services Sector with over 20 years of experience. He has a proven track record of building and leading profitable organizations. Oded’s experience includes Senior Executive positions at Manulife Financial, Canaccord Wealth Management, CIBC Wood Gundy, and Merrill Lynch Canada. Oded has advised Private Canadian Corporations on Marketing, Operations and Corporate Governance.
Jason See Toh Seong Kuan, PhD
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Jason See Toh Seong Kuan, PhD
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Dr. Jason See Toh Seong Kuan is a senior lecturer at Inti International University which is based in Nilai, Malaysia. The main research interests are centralized within the scopes of financial management and corporate governance. He is currently teaching the subjects of business ethics, corporate governance, and business research. Apart from that, he has involvement in the varsity publishing house by serving the role as an associate editor under the business article review segment. Meanwhile, he has been appointed as the external academic consultant by the local education agency company to enhance the research skill of the international students.
Taylor Ryan
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Taylor Ryan
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Taylor Ryan is 6x start-up founder with 15 years of marketing experience. One of the worlds top blockchain digital marketers and growth-hackers with projects all over the world. He's the founder of LayerThreeVentures, an ethical and sustainable Web3 accelerator and venture fund, and runs an award-winning Klint Marketing.
Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi, Ph.D
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Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi, Ph.D
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Dr. Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi is working in the academic field. She is a faculty member at the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates. Her Ph.D. is in Blockchaininformation security. Dr. Nedaa's teaching interests are blockchain technology and information and network security. Her research interests include blockchain networks, cyber forensics, mobile forensics, information security, computer networking, internet security, digital forensics, small-scale digital forensics, database systems, and security. She has published several peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in the area of blockchain security and small-scale digital device forensics.
Agostino Capponi, PhD
Keynote Speaker
Agostino Capponi, PhD
Keynote Speaker
Agostino Capponi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. His research interests are in financial technology, market microstructure, systemic risk, and economic networks. Agostino's research has been funded by major agencies such as NSF, DARPA, DOE, IBM, GRI, Ripple, and Ethereum. His research has been recognized with the 2018 NSF CAREER award, and with the inaugural JP Morgan AI Research Faculty award. His research findings have attracted attention from major media outlets, including Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Politico, and the Financial Times. Agostino is a fellow of the crypto and blockchain economics research forum, an academic fellow of Alibaba's Luohan academy, and an external fellow of the FinTech Initiative at Cornell. He serves as an editor of Management Science in the Finance Department, co-editor of Mathematics and Financial Economics, and area editor of Operations Research Letters. Agostino is the former Chair of the SIAG/FME Activity Group and of the INFORMS Finance Section, and the founding director of the Columbia Center for Digital Finance and Technologies.
Matthew Dixon, PhD
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Matthew Dixon, PhD
Speaker
Dr. Dixon is an Assistant Professor in Applied Math at Illinois Tech and an affiliate Professor of Finance in the Stuart School of Business. He holds a PhD in Applied Math from Imperial College, London, and was a postdoc at Stanford University. He has published over 40 articles in fintech relating to machine learning in finance and blockchain engineering, including a textbook on Machine Learning in Finance. He is the recipient of an Illinois Tech innovation award and the College of Computing's Dean Award for Excellence in Research (Junior level), and his research has been funded by Intel, Dell, NASA JPL, and the NSF in addition to being quoted in the Financial Times and Bloomberg Markets. He is the technical co-founder of CFXLabs, which is creating the first global stablecoin settlement network.
Tripti Nashier, PhD
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Tripti Nashier, PhD
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Dr. Tripti Nashier is a finance researcher and practitioner with a Ph.D. and MBA in Finance and Bachelor's in Computer Science. She has over 11 years of experience at various Fortune 50 organizations. She is currently leading innovation at Amazon. Her research papers have been featured in top journals and are widely cited. She has presented at conferences across the world. She is a Reviewer for several reputed journals. She conducts training, seminars, and workshops on her research interest areas which include FinTech, capital markets, international finance, corporate governance, and corporate finance.
Horst Treiblmaier, PhD
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Horst Treiblmaier, PhD
Speaker
Dr. Horst Treiblmaier is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of International Management at Modul University Vienna. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor at Purdue University, UCLA, and UBC. He participated in various EU programs and worked for the European Technology Platform ALICE (Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe). His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Information Systems Journal, Structural Equation Modeling, Business & Information Systems Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Internet Research, Information & Management, Communications of the AIS, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Schmalenbach Business Review. He is a research associate at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and an affiliated member of the academic faculty network at the Blockchain Center of Excellence at the University of Arkansas.
Lauren Packard
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Lauren Packard
Speaker
Lauren Packard is a senior policy analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where she works on technology policy with a focus on crypto. She has ten years of experience in environmental law, including as a litigator in the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute and at the California Department of Justice. She holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she received the Alfred S. Forsyth Prize for excellence in environmental law, and a B.A. from Harvard University.
Tamas Daniel
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Tamas Daniel
Speaker
Tamas Daniel started his gaming career in 2007 by co-founding IDEA Studios, an indie game studio, and publisher. He is also a big believer in browser technologies, open platforms, and blockchain tech. Since 2007 he and his team created more than 4000 viral online games that reached more than 3 billion players worldwide. In 2016 he co-founded Digitap with the purpose of pushing the boundaries of game publishing targeting the browser as a truly free and open platform without gatekeepers.
In 2017 following the PirateBay hype with the Monero browser miner, Daniel launched coinerra(dot)com to experiment with browser mining. In 2021 Digitap launched WAM App, the world's first play-to-earn hyper-casual crypto gaming platform. WAM App has over 3.5 million users now and was nominated at Best Innovation category at Mobile Games Awards 2021.
Parneeta Dhaliwal, PhD
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Parneeta Dhaliwal, PhD
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Dr. Parneeta Dhaliwal is currently working as a Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, India. She is also serving as Head, Research Cluster of Computing, Manav Rachna University to facilitate students in their project competitions and research work. Dr. Parneeta has a total of 16 years of teaching and research experience. She has done her Ph.D. and M.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, the University of Delhi in the area of Machine Learning. She has published many research papers in International Journals and Conferences of high repute. Her research interests include Machine Learning, Blockchain, Digital Forensics, and Big Data.
Mohammad Farajnezhad, PhD
Speaker
Mohammad Farajnezhad, PhD
Speaker
Dr. Mohammad Farajnezhad is an alumni member of University Malaya (UM) and a Ph.D. holder in applied macroeconomics from University Technology Malaysia (UTM) at Azman Hashim International Business School. He also works as an economics education consultant. He has a range of research experiences in Economics, as well as developed empirical methods and statistics, focusing on macroeconomics, monetary economics, financial economics, international economics, and international trade, with a special interest in areas closely related to practice, such as Health Economics. Dr. Farajnezhad has participated in several research projects with collaborators across industry, governments, and universities in Malaysia. Iran and overseas. He has demonstrated a proven track record of accomplishment in the research and publication of high-quality journals, contributing to research projects.
Grant Samms
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Grant Samms
Speaker
Grant Samms is a research analyst contributing to Guidehouse Insights' Smart Cities Tracker solution. His research focuses on energy use and efficiency, smart city development, and the human/built environment interface.
Prior to working at Guidehouse Insights, Samms led the Rural Energy Project at the Center for Environment and Society at Washington College. His focus there included energy efficiency, resilience, and democratization in rural spaces. He holds an MS in sociology, with a focus on environmental sociology, from Oklahoma State University and a BS in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology from Kansas State University.
Mark A. Jamison, PhD
Keynote Speaker
Mark A. Jamison, PhD
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Mark Jamison is the Director and Gerald Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center (PURC), and Director of the Digital Markets Initiative (DMI) at the University of Florida. He provides research and International training and research on business and government policy, focusing primarily on information technology and utilities industries. Dr. Jamison’s current research topics include competition policy and regulation of information technologies, institutional development in regulation, and competition and innovation in the information sectors. He has conducted educational programs in numerous countries: Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and North, South, and Central America. Dr. Jamison is also a Research Associate with the UF, Center for Public Policy Research, and is a Visiting Scholar with the American Enterprise Institute. Dr. Jamison served on the U.S. Presidential Transition Team in 2015-2016, focusing on the Federal Communications Commission. He is the former Associate Director of Business and Economic Studies for the UF, Center for International Business Education and Research, and has served as Special Academic Advisor to the Chair of the Florida Governor's Internet Task Force, and as President of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group. Previously, Dr. Jamison was Manager of Regulatory Policy at Sprint, Head of Research for the Iowa Utilities Board, and Communications Economist for the Kansas Corporation Commission. He led several staff teams in the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).
Viswanadh Akella
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Viswanadh Akella
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- SimplyFI is a Fintech company in the area of Trade Finance, Banking. A Fintech leading innovations in areas of Supply Chain Financing. SimplyFI is recognized as one of the Best Start ups in the areas of Blockchain and deep learning.
- Viswanadh Akella is a distinguished leader in IT industry with 16+ years of experience on management & innovation . Prior to SimplyFI he was in SAP Labs as Innovation program lead for India. He was instrumental in driving key initiatives like IOT, Mobile strategy for many customers across the globe. He is winner of Golden cap best managers award and was recognized leader at SAP Winner`s Circle. , Cyber security. His company is driving innovations in Crypto , Security of digital assets and digital custodian services for global customer.
- He is an IIM K post-graduate in finance and an Engineer.
He is passionate about Blockchains and how it is transforming the world and especially supply chain and banking.
Ellis Solaiman, PhD
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Ellis Solaiman, PhD
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Ellis Solaiman is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK. He previously received his PhD in Computing Science also from Newcastle University, where he subsequently worked as a Research Associate, Teaching Fellow, and Lecturer. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He leads research projects related to trust management, quality-of-service, service-level agreements, Blockchain and smart contract technologies within distributed systems (cloud and IoT). He also has interests in online learning, electronic commerce, and social media. He has supervised 7 PhD students to successfully completing their studies and has published over 50 academic papers. His most recent research work is in the development of multi-chain blockchain solutions for enabling sustainable scalable circular supply chains within the built environment.
Hoshang Kolivand, PhD
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Hoshang Kolivand, PhD
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Hoshang Kolivand is an Associate Professor in AI and Mixed Reality at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and a Visiting professor at Barath University, India. He received his MSc degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and his Ph.D. from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2013. His background is in 3D maths & Computer Graphics, in particular Augmented and Virtual Reality. Over 150 international publications in the area of 3D visualization, immersive technology & human Computer Interaction. A global leader in this field was invited to address the current & future advances of immersive technology in several high-ranked international events.
Shiv Sondhi
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Shiv Sondhi
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Shiv Sondhi is a software developer working in payments technology at the Royal Bank of Canada. He has 4 years of experience working at institutions like The Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) and the National Research Council, Canada. Shiv holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Windsor and is a published author in IEEE and other international conferences. His research interests include distributed systems, blockchain technology, and performance engineering.
M.J.Jeyasheela Rakkini, PhD
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M.J.Jeyasheela Rakkini, PhD
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I am Jeyasheela Rakkini, Assistant Professor in School of Computing, SASTRA Deemed University, India. I am pursuing my Ph.D. in blockchain, especially the application of reinforcement learning algorithm for mitigation of selfish mining attacks in bitcoin mining pools. My google scholar link is https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=U_7fkq4AAAAJ&hl=en and my orcid link is https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-7354-6210.
Victor Karpenko
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Victor Karpenko
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SEO expert, the founder, and CEO of SeoProfy
15+ years of experience in SEO, with 10+ years focused on English-speaking markets like the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe.
5+ years in the crypto Niche
CEO at SeoProfy – 150+ employees' company that focuses only on SEO traffic for clients
Product owner in LinkChecker.PRO – SaaS tool for effective link building.
Sherwood Moore
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Sherwood Moore
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Sherwood Moore is co-chair of the Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group (CA2SIG) which is working to leverage digital technologies such as blockchain DLT, open-source software, AI, IOT, Big Data, machine learning, to create a transparent climate accounting system that is capable of balancing global climate emissions against global climate actions in order to achieve a net-zero carbon future. Sherwood holds a Master Masters in Business Administration with 10+ years of experience planning and executing Go-to-Market strategies for early stage tech start-ups. He also has expertise in the field of internet governance, where he supports ICANN's (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) multistakeholder decision-making model to help the global community reach consensus around the protocols, standards, and policies needed to support the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet's Domain Name System.
Julia Benz
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Julia Benz
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Julia Benz is a research associate on the Data Insights team at Guidehouse Insights. Julia’s focus is on blockchain technology in energy. She also contributes to research and reports focused other emerging energy technologies.
Prior to joining Guidehouse Insights, Benz worked at E Source where she consulted on a variety of utility programs. She was also an analyst and strategist for Vessel Works, a reusable cup service startup and an intern for Solar Stewards, a startup working towards more equitable renewable energy credits. Benz holds a BS in sustainability in development from Brown University.
Luyao Zhang, PhD
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Luyao Zhang, PhD
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Dr. Luyao (Sunshine) Zhang is Assistant Professor of Economics and Senior Research Scientist at the Data Science Research Center at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). She has an abiding passion for interdisciplinary collaborations, especially related to Computational Economics (Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design), Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning, AI Trust, Human-Computer Interaction), Cryptoeconomics (Blockchain for social good, Tokeneconomics, and Consensus Algorithms), Behavioral Science (Bounded Rationality, Trust, and Cooperation), and Interdisciplinary Big Data (Social Media, Sustainability, and Global Health). Her publications appear in economic journals for general interest and beyond, including American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the World Economy, Remote Sensing, Journal of Digital Earth, Data and Information Management, etc.
