Carlos Moreira began his career as a UN expert on IT, eSecurity and Trust Models, working for ILO, UN, UNCTAD, ITC/WTO, World Bank, UNDP, ESCAP from 1983 to 1998. A recognized early stage pioneer in the field of digital identity, he was also Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1995 to 1999 as well as Head of the Trade Efficiency Lab at the Graduate School of Engineering at RMIT.

In 1999, he founded the Geneva-based online data security firm WISeKey, where he currently serves as Chairman and CEO. Mr Moreira’s unique profile, which combines extensive high level international diplomacy experience and emerging technologies expertise, has positioned him as a distinctive authority, thought leader, and entrepreneurial force in today’s digital world where the acquisition and trusted protection of a digital identity has become an essential step for citizens and entities across the globe. He is a Member of the UN Global Compact, Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council, Founding Member World Economic Forum Global Growth Companies.

Don Tapscott, CEO of The Tapscott Group, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology on business and society. He has authored over 15 books including Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything which has been translated into over 25 languages.

Don has been advancing ground-breaking concepts for over 3 decades. His 1992 bestseller Paradigm Shift helped coin the seminal management concept, and in 1995 his book The Digital Economy changed business thinking about the transformational nature of the Internet. Two years later he helped popularize the terms “Net Generation” and “the Digital Divide” in Growing Up Digital. His most recent book is the 20^th Anniversary Edition of The Digital Economy.

Don’s next and perhaps most ambitious book is co-authored with his son, startup CEO and bitcoin governance expert Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology behind bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World was published by Penguin Random House in 2016, and is now a bestseller, and is being translated into 12 languages.

In 2015, Don became a member of the Order of Canada, and was ranked the 4^th most important living business thinker in the world by Thinkers50. He is Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, and Chancellor of Trent University in Ontario.

It is hard to imagine anyone who has been more prolific, profound, and influential in explaining today’s technological revolutions and their impact on the world.

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Pascal Buchner is the CIO of the International Air Transport Association since 2010.Mr Buchner has almost 26 years of experience heading IT organizations in industriesthat have been transformed by technologies such as the printing industry, themusic and entertainment industry and the distribution industry.

He has been driving the transformation of the IATA IT department into a well-recognized fast moving group supporting the association in its digitaltransformation. Since 2012 he is leading the IATA innovation network helpingairlines to grasp the benefits of the digital world. After achieving the ISO/IEC27001:2013 certification in 2014, he has kept developing a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy aimed at protecting the money of the airlines. He is nowfacilitating industry working groups to develop an aviationcybersecurity strategyand roadmaptoshape the nature of ‘how’ theindustry responds to thecybersecurity challenge to remain safe,secure, sustainable and resilient tocybersecurity risks, while at thesame time enabling state of the artdigitalization andconnectivity of theindustry to step change profitability,efficiency and thecustomerexperience in compliance with dataprivacy regulations.

Pascal Buchner started his career as a developer of military systems and worked fordifferent IT consulting firms in the defense, manufacturing, entertainment anddistribution sectors.

Cristina is the founder and CEO of InsideChains, which works with organizations to digitally transform business models through advanced technology, data and blockchain ecosystems with economic layers that offer members greater visibility, richer data, cybersecurity, new business models and dynamic new products. As an engineer, computer scientist, entrepreneur and MIT Media Lab Alumna, she has lead digital transformation in fintech, insurtech, media and healthtech while successfully working with incumbents and startups throughout her career.

iHuddl is a revolutionary FinTech platform she recently cofounded with alumni from Blackrock, that democratizes access to accredited level investment opportunities, by utilizing open-banking connectivity.

She is a cofounder and investor in Additum, an award winning European ‘Value Based Healthcare’ ecosystem utilizing IoT, AI and blockchain enabled reward tokens to improve patient outcomes.

Other projects and companies she is advising involve serverless cloud, cyber risk assessments, AI, IoT and telematics mobility data to power new products, services, which include open banking FinTech and InsurTech offerings. iXledger, a company she co-founded, was an early blockchain enabled marketplace for insurance which initially offered blockchain insurance.

In the early days of the Internet, Cristina Dolan, co-founded OneMain.com, which grew to be the tenth largest ISP after a successful IPO. At OneMain, Cristina served as the provider’s Geographic Communities Division President and Chief Strategic Alliances Officer. In only five months, she conceived and built the OneMain cornerstone, Geographic Communities, into a profitable business. At its launch, the company’s IPO became the largest Internet public offering at its time, surpassing Amazon’s and eBay’s respective IPOs.

As a key executive of global FinTech software company with a SaaS solution for institutional multi-asset financial trading, she gained an deep understanding of the value of a market ecosystem, new sources of data and the growing regulatory requirements for transparency, security and best execution. The FIX Trading Community invited her to join the Digital Currency/Blockchain Working Group to help identify, analyze and define use cases and integration points for digital currency and distributed ledger technologies across the spectrum of capital markets requirements, and recommend best practices for FIX implementation and usage of this emerging technology in financial markets. Her passion for blockchain and its ability to transform global transactions extends beyond just financial applications, the ability to capture data journeys across multiple systems through blockchain is powering new opportunities within her companies and projects.

She is a recognized trailblazing authority and Internet pioneer, and is often invited to speak about the evolution of networked technologies and her success building products and companies. The MIT Center for International Studies, World Future Society, Barclays, Turkey Future Day, CEMC Council Innovation Summit and Battle of the Quants 2017 engaged her to speak on BitCoin, Blockchain and the Global Economy. She is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and recently wrote about Cybersecurity as a Global Threat to Democracy. In the fall of 2016, she was a judge at an IBM Blockchain Hackathon.

Over the past two decades she has been organizing events around the hottest trends in technology with industry luminaries. As Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York, she has hosted several events with blockchain industry leaders discussing Blockchain and Smart Contracts, Digital Trust in a Blockchain World and Trust::Data as it relates to FinTech and HealthTech.

Career highlights include serving as the President and CEO of the venture-backed MIT spin-out, Wordstream, focused on multilingual messaging. Cristina has also held executive roles at IBM and Oracle where she led sales, business development, and product marketing, winning numerous leadership and sales awards. She was a senior executive in lead technology roles on the founding teams that launched the first Hearst Magazines site (HomeArts) and several ABC/Disney Internet properties including the one of the first Internet streaming audio and video sites in partnership with RealAudio. Cristina has been an investor and advisor to several start-ups and MIT spin-outs, including dmetrics which offers a sophisticated AI platform and decision engine for consumer analytics, sentiment and microtargeting, utilizing unstructured user generated content and was a Rudyard Partners Fund General Partner focusing on mobile investments.

In October 2013, Cristina launched Dream it. Code it. Win It., a non-profit organization to promote creative problem solving within computer science education and rewarded the winning student teams with over $250,000 in cash and prizes over three years. Traders Magazine honored Cristina for her efforts in 2014 with a Charitable Works Award for the program. In 2015, Dream it. Code it. Win it. won four Stevie Awards, a Gold for Organization of the Year and three Silver awards for Startup of the Year, Female Innovator of the Year and Female Executive of the Year. She was recently been honored with a 2017 Harold E. Lobdell Distinguished Service Award from MIT for her work in promoting computer science education. As an advocate for computer science education, her TED talk ‘Just Solve It’, addresses the value of being an engineer and solutionist to create opportunities.

Cristina earned a Master of Media Arts and Science from the MIT Media Lab, where she focused on interactive information and storytelling. She also holds a Masters of Computer Science Engineering and a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering with concentrations in Computer Science, Communications Technologies, and Business. Cristina is bilingual with fluency in English (native-speaker) and Spanish.

As a member of the US Bobsled and Skeleton Federation in 1992, Cristina placed first in the US National Championships and Empire State Games in Skeleton. In 1990, she competed in the World Cup Championship in Konigsee, Germany, earning second place among the female competitors.

Fluent in Castilian Spanish in addition to her native language, English.

Recognized leadership with more than 15 years of experience in project management, successful drive of medium and large IT departments infrastructure/operations.
Implementing strategies and developing IT organization within luxury, aeronautics, industrial manufactures, travels, hospitality management, Supply chain, chemical, health care industries and higher education companies at local and international level. Settling business models supporting growth and cost control strategies through process streamlining, systems portfolio centralization, global sourcing/outsourcing, and new IT architectures taking advantage of traditional corporate and consumer led technologies. Build IT solutions for business digital transformation, redesign on a local and international level including global service delivery models, medium and large-scale program management and achievements in driving complex ERP, CRM transformation programs.
Formally CIO at EHL, EMEA Director IS EMEA at Firmenich, EMEA IT & ERP Director at Unilibabs and Manager of Manage Services at Hewlett-Packard.

Senior Information and Communication Technology executive with extensive international experience in both the Public and Private Sectors. Strong interest in Digital Innovation, Living Lab, Data Protection, Smart City, IoT, eGovernment, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Computing. Gianfranco is currently the Digital Transformation Officer for State of Geneva’s Department of Economy. Formally CIO of the State of Geneva and founder of the Genève Lab, the open innovation unit for the digital transformation of the public administration, CIO of the City of Lausanne, European commission expert for Smart City projects and an effective member European Network of Living RNoLL, President and founder of e-ASG in the US. He holds Master degree in electrical engineering from the EPFL and an executive master in e-Governance from the same institution.

Professor of Finance, IMD

Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center

Member of the Board, Wealth Management Institute (Singapore)

Member of the Board, Debiopharm Investment

Member of the Board, International School of Lausanne

President of the Board of Trustees, IMD Pension Foundation

Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute

Research Fellow, Yale International Center for Finance

Arturo Bris is Professor of Finance at IMD. Since January 2014 he is also leading the world renowned IMD World Competitiveness Center.

At IMD he directed the Advanced Strategic Management from 2009-2014. He has directed programs for senior executives in several industries and continents. Prior to joining IMD, Professor Bris was the Robert B & Candice J. Haas Associate Professor of Corporate Finance at the Yale School of Management (USA). A Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and a member of the Yale International Institute for Corporate Governance, he has worked extensively on issues of Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation, and International Valuation.

His research and consulting activities focus on the international aspects of financial regulation, and in particular on the effects of bankruptcy, short sales, insider trading, and merger laws. Arturo Bris has also researched and lectured on the effects of the Euro on the corporate sector, as well as on the valuation impact of corporate governance changes.

Arturo is passionate about global competitiveness, financial development and macroeconomics. His latest research identifies the relationship between income inequality, social mobility and competitiveness. He is also developing a competitiveness-based investment portfolio that track the best and worst economies.

His work has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Legal Studies, and the Journal of Business, among others.

Professor Bris taught Corporate Finance and Investment Banking at Yale from 1998 to 2005, where he received the Best Teacher Award twice. His consulting experience includes companies in Asia, the US, and Europe.

He is the President of the Board of Trustees of IMD Pension Foundation, and a member of the Supervisory Board of the International School of Lausanne. He is a frequent speaker in international conferences, and appears regularly on international media outlets.

Professor Arturo Bris ranks among the top one hundred most-read finance academics in the world. He graduated in Law and Economics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and received an MSc from CEMFI (Foundation of the Bank of Spain). He holds a PhD in Management from INSEAD. He enjoys reading, road- and mountain-biking, and playing bass guitar.