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

David B. Kinitsky

VP at Fidelity Investments

David Harris

Head of Sustainable Finance Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships at LSEG

David Vidal Tomás

PhD in Economics at UCL

Demelza Hays

PhD Candidate at University of Liechtenstein

Demetra Kalogerou

Chairwoman at Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission

Diana Biggs

Industry Advisor at UCL

Dirk Bullman

Innovation Team Leader at ECB

Dirk Schrade

Deputy Head of the Payments & Settlement Systems at Deutsche Bundesbank

Domenico Gammaldi

Senior Director at Bank of Italy

Dominick Paniscotti

Associate VP at Enterprise Architecture, NASDAQ

Don Carmichael

PhD candidate at University of Houston

Emma Li

PHD Candidate at the University of Melbourne

Enrico Bernardini

Deputy Head of Climate and Sustainability Hub, Banca d'Italia

Enrico Foscolo

PhD, Banca d'Italia

Fabbio Braggion

Professor of Finance and Financial History at Tilburg University

Ferdinando M. Ametrano

Former Head of Blockchain and Virtual Currencies at Bicocca University and Intesa Sanpaolo Bank

Filippo Zatti

Associate Professor of Economic Law, University of Florence

Floris Kleemans

Founder at FOCAFET Foundation

Francesco Pierangeli

Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Birmingham

Francis Gross

Senior Adviser at ECB

Francois de Laigue

CEO at Dotted Square

Ganesh Viswanath Natraj

Assistant Professor, Warwick Business School

Garrick Hileman

Section Chief Editor at Frontiers - Prev Researcher and Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics

Gaspard Pedruzzi

CEO at APWine

Geoffrey Goodell

Lecturer, University College London

Gerard Briscoe

University College London

Gilbert Verdian

Managing Director at Quant Network

Gimede Gigante

Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions, Bocconi University

Giorgio Andreoli

Director General, European Payments Council

Giuseppe Pappalardo

PhD Candidate at IMT Lucca

Gregory Chondrokoukis

Professor at University of Piraeus

Guerino Ardizzi

Senior Economist, Banca d'Italia

Guido Caldarelli

Professor at IMT Lucca

Hania Othman

Director Sustainable Impact Europe/Africa at The HBAR Foundation

Hans Peter Grüner

Professor of Economics at University of Mannheim

Harald Stieber

Senior Economist at EU Commission - Research Features

Harish Natarajan

Lead Financial Sector Specialist on Payments and Market Infrastructures

Helena Zhang

Director, Asian Institute of Digital Finance

Helene Oger Zaher

Senior Innovation Manager at Financial Conduct Authority

Henning Diedrich

CEO at Eonblast

Hugo Philion

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flare Network

Iddo de Jong

Team Lead at the European Central Bank

Ignazio Visco

Governor, Banca d'Italia

Isaiah Hull

Senior Economist at Sweden Central Bank

Jan Pieter Krahnen

Founding Director Emeritus at Research Center SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt

Janus Zhang

Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University

Jason Chlipala

COO at Stellar Development Foundation

Jeffrey M. Bandman

Former Senior Official at US CFTC

Jiahua (Java) Xu

Associate Professor in Financial Computing at UCL, Head of Science at DLT Science Foundation, UK CBT

Jiasun Li

Associate Professor at George Mason University