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Sebastian Bürgel is the CTO and Co-Founder of Validity Labs and HOPR. He received his PhD from ETH Zurich, and then directed his curiosity and energy towards blockchain, smart contracts, and other decentralized technologies. His previous project, SONECT, a mobile cash solution, drew the attention of one of Switzerland's largest financial institutions, PostFinance. Sebastian is a frequent speaker at major blockchain conferences, and is one of the world's leading decentralized application architects. He has built applications for industries such as insurance, real estate, finance, biomedical, and others
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Michele D'Aliessi
Michele D'Aliessi is Co-Founder, COO at Superfluid, Building Real-time Finance. In Blockchain since 2015, studying tokenomics and crypto networks activity/adoption, especially token value generation, capture and retention for long term sustainability and growth. Now building real-time finance at Superfluid. Michele has 8+ years experience in working with tech startup entrepreneurs to expand their business internationally and scale their operations/sales. In 2015 he successfully launched the new robotic bar MakrShakr worldwide, negotiated and closed the first sales contracts with Fortune 500 corporations, while setting up and managing global operations and sales. In 2013 and 2014 Michele produced two startups documentaries on YouTube that collectively reached millions of viewers with pure organic growth. His combined tech and business background allows Michele to develop structured and measurable approaches in studying, designing and optimising processes. He is an experienced public speaker and lecturer in technology and entrepreneurship at several business schools. Areas of interest/expertise: Startups, Blockchain, Token Economics, Fintech, Robotics, AI.
Christian Decker
Christian Decker is the Lead Engineer at Blockstream. Christian is a Bitcoin enthusiast from the very beginning, back in 2009. He got involved in the, then small, community and starting to contribute. In 2012 he was offered a PhD Candidate position in the Distributed Computing Group at ETH Zurich. The goal of his research is to improve the understanding of the underlying consensus mechanisms and to enable the network to scale with the increasing demands. The result was the world’s first PhD dissertation about Bitcoin and the creation of a number of protocols including PeerCensus and Duplex Micropayment Channels.
Nicolas Stalder
Nicolas Stalder is the co-founder and CEO of Cordial Systems and the co-founder of SoloKeys. He has a PhD from ETH Zurich.
Jan Camenisch
Jan Camenisch is the CTO of DFINITY and a member of the Technical Management Committee of Sovrin. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
Korbinian Abstreiter
Korbinian Abstreiter is the Co-Founder at AwesomeQA.He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Jose Aguinaga
Jose J. Perez Aguinaga is Head of Head of Digital Custody Services at SEBA Bank, previously at Hopr, MyBit, Numbrs, Plaid.
Jean Chambras
Jean Chambras is the Co-Founder of Perspective.fi and Spectra Finance. He graduated from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) and ETH Zurich, Switzerland.