Previous Editions' 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.
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.

Lewis Gudgeon
Co-founder of Gyroscope Protocol - PhD candidate at Imperial College London

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

Liyi Zhou
PhD in Philosophy at Imperial College London

Loriana Pelizzon
Goethe University Frankfurt - Research Center SAFE, P2PFISY 2015 Programme Chair (2015)

Luther Maday
Head of Payments and Real World Assets at Algorand

Maarten Van Oordt
Associate Professor of Finance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Mandar Agashe
Founder and Vice Chairman, Sarvatra Technologies

Marcello Miccoli
Senior Financial Sector Expert in Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund

Marco Alberto Javarone
Professor at Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari

Marco Bevilacqua
Head of Fintech Section, Banca d'Italia

Marco Di Maggio
Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School

Marcus Treacher
Executive Chairman of RTGS.global

Maria Chiara Malaguti
Università Cattolica Sacro del Cuore

Marius Jurgilas
Professor of Practice, Vilnius University (former Board Member Bank of Lithuania)

Mark Esposito
Clinical Professor at Arizona State University

Mark Woelders
Magister in Science at Warwick Business School - Client Associate at Neuberger Berman

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

Massimo Doria
Deputy Director General for Currency Circulation and Retail Payments and Head of the Innovation Centre Milano Hub, Banca d'Italia

Matthew White
CEO at VARA

Maxime Nicolas
Lecturer and Quantitative Researcher at UCL

Michael Cooper
CTO at BT Radianz Services

Michael Kötter
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Michael Kumhof
Senior Research Advisor at The Bank of England

Michael Liftik
Partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP

Mike Warner
Senior IT Strategist at FRB San Francisco

Mirce Mihaescu
General Partner at SBT Venture Capital

Mirko Zichichi
Research Scientist at IOTA Foundation - PhD in Philosophy at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Monique Morrow
Independent Board Director at Hedera - Ex CTO at Cisco

Muhammad Usman Khurram
Postdoctoral Fellow at Zhejiang University

Nadia Pocher
Postdoctoral Researcher in Information Systems, SnT Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust

Nameer Khan
Chairman & Founding Board Member of MENA Fintech Association

Niall Roche
Founding Partner of The Building Blocks

Niall Roche
Founding Partner, The Building Blocks and Senior Teaching Fellow and CTO-in-Residence, University College London School of Management

Nick Lelpo
Head of Motor Finance at Zopa

Nicolas Courtois
Cryptographer & Senior Lecturer at UCL

Nicolas Perony
Co-founder, Head of Research at ECUREX

Nikhil Vadgama
Co-Founder of DLT Science Foundation

Nikolas Guggenberger
Assistant Professor at University Munster School of Law

Nilixa Devlukia
CEO, Payments Solved

Oliver Gajda
Executive Director at European Crowdfunding Network

Paolo Giudici
Professor of Statistics at University of Pavia

Paolo Sironi
FinTech Thought Leader and Author at IBM

Patrick Hansen
Senior Director, EU Strategy and Policy at Circle

Patrick Osborne
Senior Associate Consultant at University College London

Patrizio Pagano
Head of the Secretariat to the Governing Board Directorate, Banca d'Italia

Peter Goodrich
Member of Secretariat at Financial Stability Board (FSB)

Peter Zimmerman
Research Economist at Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Petros Kavassalis
Associate Professor at University of the Aegean

Pinar Emirdag
Head of Digital Product Development and Innovation at State Street Panel Moderator

Primavera De Filippi
Researcher at Harvard University and CNRS