Previous Edition's Speakers

This workshop is always proud to bring you exceptional engagement from experts and scholars around the world in one renowned venue.   

Esteemed speakers from the Swiss National Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the IMF, the Bank of Lithuania, the Bank of Italy, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Federal Reserve Board have joined the workshop in previous years.

Alessandra Perrazzelli

Deputy Governor, Banca d'Italia

Alexander Lipton

Connection Science Fellow at MIT

Andreas Antonopoulos

Tech Entrepreneur at Bitcoin Expert

Claudio J. Tessone

Co-founder and Chairman of the University of Zurich (UZH) Blockchain Center

Daniel Heller

Research Fellow at UCL - CFO at Bitlumens

David Andolfatto

Senior VP at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Luis - Professor of Economics at University of Miami Herbert Business School

Gary Gensler

Chairperson at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Helmut Wacket

Head of Division at ECB

Katrin Assenmacher

Head of Stress Test Modelling Division at ECB

Livio Tornetta

Director General for Currency Circulation and Retail Payments, Banca d'Italia

Marvin Zonis

Professor Emeritus of Business at University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Paolo Sironi

FinTech Thought Leader and Author at IBM

Raphael Auer

Head of the Eurosystem Centre at Bank for International Settlements

Robert C. Hockett

Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law School

Ulrich Bindseil

Director General Market Infrastructure and Payments, European Central Bank

Victoria Cleland

Executive Director for Payments at Bank of England

Adalbert Winkler

Professor of International and Development Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Adam Hayes

PhD Candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Aditya Turakhia

Senior Director at Ripple

Akaki Mamageishvili

Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich

Alastair Moore

Co-Founder of Fractal - Founding Partner of The Building Blocks

Alexei Blagirev

Director of Innovations at Otkritie

Alfred Lehar

Professor at Haskayne School of Business, Calgary

Andrea Filtri

Co-Head of Research at Mediobanca

Andrea Pinna

Deputy Head of Division at European Central Bank (ECB)

Andreas Park

Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology at University of Toronto

Andrei Kirilenko

Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology at Imperial College

Andrew Papanicolaou

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University

Angela Walch

Research Associate at UCL - Professor of Law at St. Mary's University School of Law

Antoine Martin

Economist and Financial Stability Advisor at Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Anton Golub

Co-Founder & CSO at Lykke

Antonio Briola

PhD Student of Computer Science at UCL

Antonis Dragiotis

Senior Consultant - Head of Presales - Solution Designer at Qualco

Antony Welfare

CBDC Strategic Advisor at Ripple Labs

Ariah Klages Mundt

PhD Candidate at Cornell University

Arno Pernthaler

Co-Founder and Executive Board Member at DEC Institute

Arthur Gervais

Professor of Information Security at UCL

Basak Toprak

EMEA Head of Coin Systems, Onyx by J.P. Morgan

Ben Craig

Economist Emeritus at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and Deutsche Bundesbank

Ben Fung

Former Director of Economic Research and Analysis at Bank of Canada

Biliana Alexandrova Kabadjova

Payment System Analyst at Banco de México

Bonnie Buchanan

Full Professor of Finance at Seattle University

Brett Mollin

Technical Director and Partner Success at Ripple

Bruce Davies

Co-Founder at Abundance Investment

Bruce Rigal

Senior Advisory Consultant at University Chicago Booth School of Business

Calebe de Roure

PhD student at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Campbell R.Harvey

Professor of Finance at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Casimiro Nigro

Assistant Professor at LUISS, Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Perugia

Charlene Chen

COO at BitPesa

Charles Kahn

Professor Emeritus of Finance at University of Illinois

Charley Cooper

Senior Advisor at R3

Christian Decker

PHD Candidate at ETH Zurich

Christina Frankopan

Senior Consultant at Lazard Financial Advisory

Christine Parlour

Chair of Finance and Accounting at Haas School of Business and University of California, Berkeley

Christoph Bertsch

Senior Economist at Sveriges Riksbank

Christoph Siemroth

Senior Lecturer at University of Essex

Christopher Henry

Senior Economist at Bank of Canada

Claudio Lovieno

Teaching Assistant at LUISS

Constance Choi

Founder at Seven Advisory and DATA

Dairo Estrada

Principal Investigator at Banco de la República Colombia

Dan Morgan

Head of European Regulatory Relations at Ripple

Daniel Blaseg

Doctoral Candidate at Goethe University Frankfurt

Daniel Fozzati

Founding Partner, The Building Blocks

Daniel Perez

Founder at Mero Finance

Daniel Rabetti

Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance, National University of Singapore

David B. Garcia

Professor at ETH Zurich