Programme 2022
Time zone: London, UK (GMT)
Location: LEVEL 50, SW54 Lecture Theatre, One Canada Square
Reception at LEVEL 39, Sandbox 2
Event partners: CoinTelegraph, DEC Institute
Thursday, December 1st
Chairperson: Jiahua Xu and Juan Ignacio Ibañez (UCL)
08:15 – 9:00
Registration and coffee
9:00-9:15
Opening Remarks
Paolo Tasca, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies
9:15-9:45
Keynote speech: Is software eating finance?
Daniel Heller, Fnality
9:45-10:15
Invited talk: Telco Tokenization and Stablecoin Development an Industry Opportunity
Monique Morrow, Former CTO at Cisco
10:30-11:10
Invited talk: Decentralised Finance (DeFi) Attacks
Arthur Gervais, University College London
Liyi Zhou, Imperial College London
11:10-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-12:10
Paper: Battle of the Bots: Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement
Alfred Lehar, Haskayne School of Business – Calgary, Canada
Christine Parlour, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
12:10-13:10
Panel on Digital Assets and ESG
John Shawe-Taylor, University College London
Betsabe Botaitis, Hedera
Maxime Nicolas, University College London
Moderator: Tomaso Aste, University College London
13:10-14:10
Lunch break
14:10-14:40
Invited talk
Leemon Baird, Swirlds
14:40-15:10
Paper: Governance Challenges of Decentralised Finance
Karsten Paetzmann, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
15:10-15:50
Paper: Discussing blockchain implications on bond issuance
Veni Arakelian, Piraeus Bank
Vangelis Malamas, University of Piraeus
Thomas Dasaklis, University of Piraeus
Gregory Chondrokoukis, University of Piraeus
15:50-16:10
Coffee break
16:10-17:10
Panel: Decentralised Finance
Gaspard Pedruzzi, APWine
Daniel Perez, Mero
Hugo Philion, Flare
Niall Roche, UCL School of Management
Moderator: Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr, Cointelegraph
17:10
Closing Remarks
Jiahua Xu, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies
17:20
Apéritif
Friday, December 2nd
Chairperson: Geoffrey Goodell (UCL)
8:30-9:30
Registration and coffee
9:30-9:45
Opening Remarks
Paolo Tasca, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies
9:45-10:30
Keynote speech: Disruption in Embedded Banking and New Cross-Border Payment Models
Marcus Treacher, Board Director at ClearBank
10:30-11:10
Paper: The Demand for Programmable Payments
Charles Kahn, University of Illinois
Maarten van Oordt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
11:10-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-12:10
Paper: Anatomy of a Stablecoin’s failure: The Terra-Luna case
Antonio Briola, University College London
David Vidal-Tomás, University College London
Yuanrong Wang, University College London
Tomaso Aste, University College London
12:10-12:40
Invited talk: Discovering a global carbon price
Hania Othman, The HBAR Foundation
Wes Geisenberger, The HBAR Foundation
12:40-13:40
Lunch break
13:40-14:20
Paper: Market Depth and Liquidity Provision Profitability Uniswap
Mark Woelders, Warwick Business School
15:00-15:30
Coffee break
15:30-16:30
Panel on Stablecoins and Financial Stability
Jane Moore, Payments & Digital Assets, Financial Conduct Authority
Teana Baker-Taylor, UK/EU Policy and Regulatory Strategy, Circle
Geoffrey Goodell, University College London
Andrea Filtri , European Equity Research, Mediobanca
Moderator: Tom Wilson, Thomson Reuters
16:30-17:10
Keynote Speech: Detection of high risk in DeFi protocols
Claudio Tessone, UZH Blockchain Centre
17:10
Closing Remarks
Tomaso Aste, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies