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The Co-Founder & Chief Information Officer of DLT Labs, Ajay Singh, is an early pioneer of Blockchain technology and has extensive experience working with financial institutions such as HSBC, BNP Paribas, Diebold, and the National Stock Exchange of India.

Over the years, he has acquired deep expertise in building complex business applications needing high throughput / low latency. He actively promotes Blockchain technology and other open-source technology by running many Blockchain Research Labs across colleges and universities. Ajay has been awarded for his Exemplary Leadership in the Indian Startup Ecosystem by ObserveNow 40Under40, powered by Dell Technologies.

Dr. Ales Zivkovic is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the Soramitsu Labs and is a part time instructor at Penn State University. As the CTO, Ales is responsible for the contributions to the Hyperledger Iroha and several large-scale blockchain projects including retail payment system for central banks, D3Ledger – Infrastructure for Servicing Digital Assets and Sora.org, a decentralized autonomous economy (DAE). Being in IT for more than 20 years, Ales has successfully cooperated on many challenging IT projects, performed IT audits of mission-critical information systems in different domains including insurance, financial institutions, government, and IT companies. Before joining Soramitsu Labs, Ales was the Innovation Officer at Nova KBM, the second largest bank in Slovenia and a member of the Supervisory Board at the Slovenian Press Agency responsible for information technology.

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Alexander is Head of Decentralized Solutions direction of National Settlement Depository(Moscow Exchange Group) and Member of Hyperledger’s Architecture Working Group. Alexander is one of early adopters and evangelists of Hyperledger project and one of founders of D3ledger project which is distributed ecosystem to legalized safekeeping, settlements and servicing of any kind of digital assets without third-parties.

Prior to Hyperledger, Alexander was involved in activities of the Information Management Research Group at the University of St.Petersburg and founded several IT startups in FinTech and optimization of railway schedules/usage of rolling stock.

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Ali Safri has 20+ experience in Delivering cutting edge technology software solutions. Expert in Blockchain Ideation and Implementations including various flavors of Hyperledger in UAE, Bahrain and wider GCC Region. Main Ideator of innovative solutions using blockchain and implementer using a team of 30+ developer at the same time, doing production grade hyperledger solutions in area of Recon and Settlement, Procure 2 Pay (Oil and Gas, Governments, Emirates Airlines) , loyalty points ecosystems, e-KYC, Customer Vault, Commercial Registration Authorities on blockchain, Digital Trade Finance on Blockchain, Land Registries on Blockchain, Property Contract Renewal lifecycles, EV Charging, Vehicle Registration Lifecycle, End to End Student Education records and Legal system Chains, Customs Automation, Telecom data Reconciliations, SS7 Interconnect via blockchain in telecom sector, and Bank Trust Networks and many more real life implementation which are not just POCs but actual production grade implementations.

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Andre is responsible for positioning SecureKey’s growth strategy, cultivating opportunities in new and existing markets, and promoting demand for the company’s solutions globally. He serves as SecureKey’s digital identity evangelist. He was recognized as a global leader in digital identity by One World Identity (2017) and Innovate Identity (2016). Andre serves on the boards of the identity standards organizations of DIACC and the Kantara initiative.

Prior to joining SecureKey, Andre co-founded and served as chief technology officer of 724 Solutions Inc. Previously, he served as chief technology officer for Footprint Software and as chief executive officer for the company’s Asia Pacific business. In 1999, he was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in recognition of his vision and accomplishments. From 1990 to 1994, he served as chief executive officer of Open Systems Limited. Andre has also served on the boards of 724 Solutions Inc., Dexit Inc., Footprint Software Pty. Ltd., and 305 Management Services.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Education from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. He currently lectures at Wilfred Laurier’s Schlegel Entrepreneurship Centre.

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Having a product design background, Andreas Sommerwerk is an n experienced Service Design Lead with a focus in telecommunications industry. Andreas has expertise in the following fields: user experience, design management, user interface design, concept development, mobile applications, data protection, company building, business strategy – and blockchain.

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Arnaud has been working on standards and open source development for over 25 years. He has been involved in every aspect of the standards development process: technical, strategic, political, and legal. Arnaud was editor of several key web specifications including HTML and DOM and was a pioneer of open source with the release of libXpm in 1990. Arnaud is the main representative for IBM at W3C, an elected member of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee, and a contributor to Hyperledger Fabric.

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Atul Patel is co-founder of of DLT.sg – An award winning inter-enterprise company focusing on providing ready production grade platform for International Traders and Supply Chain leaders of Enterprises. Success of DLT.sg is in the production ready platform that has been deployed over several enterprises as part of trusted traders network and trade finance. Before co-founding DLT.sg , Atul held senior leadership positions in Anaplan, SAP and Oracle across Asia Pacific Region for over last 20 years. Atul is an engineer with more than 25 years’ experience in cutting edge technology lead transformations and innovations in large enterprise ecosystems. Atul is a much sought after speaker in digital transformations and blockchain conferences in the world on how customers have deployed business blockchains solutions.

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Ben founded LedgerDomain in 2016 to bring Hyperledger blockchain solutions to enterprise ecosystems, unlocking a world of communal computing and real-time performance.

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Bobbi is currently the Chairperson of the Hyperledger Learning Materials Development Working Group where she is responsible for moderating the bi weekly meetings, setting agendas maintaining the Confluence Wiki Page and developing the documentation standards for Hyperledger Projects and Special Interest Groups. Recently edited the Linux Foundation EdX course, “Introduction to Business Blockchain” LFs171s Go Live 7/16/2019.

Bobbi opened Ledger Academy, a blockchain training Center at Tiger Labs in Princeton, NJ whose mission is to consult and train enterprises on Blockchain Technologies. She is the organizer for the Hyperledger Princeton Meetup, Princeton Blockchain Meetup and Ledger Academy’s Blockchain Fundamentals Meetup which has over 1500 members and regular sessions at the Ledger Academy offices at Tiger Labs Princeton. As Project manager for the Princeton Summer Blockchain Project, The Giving Chain she successfully collected and distributed 100 plus “Giving Bags” of food to local food insecure individuals and area food banks, all track with a Sawtooth Blockchain. Through this experience she started a Non -Profit, BCPrinceton, which looks to expand the Giving Chain and the underlying D2R application..

Bobbi holds ( 2) Undergraduate degrees, BS in Computer and Decision Science, and BS in Management and Organizational Behaviors. In 2002 she received a Masters in Business Education. She holds a NJ Teaching Certification in Business. Recently courses : Smart Contract on the Ethereum Network and RSK Ambassador Executive Blockchain Program. Princeton University’s, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, (current).

She is an active member of the Hyperledger Community holding the position of Chairperson of the Learning Material working groups as well as being an active members in the Public Sector, Social Impact, Telecom and Trade Finance Special Interest Groups.

Bobbi also was a judge the Washington DC Blockchain for Social Impact Competition in 2018.

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Christopher Ferris is an IBM Fellow, CTO Open Technology. He has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 40+ year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards and open source development since 1999. He has overall technical responsibility for all of IBM’s strategic open technology initiatives, including Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Hyperledger, Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Node.js, and more.

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Conor is the Founder/CEO of Web3 Labs, an enterprise blockchain technology company. Web3 Labs are the creators of Epirus, an enterprise blockchain explorer and smart contract registry platform. He’s also the author of web3j, the Java integration library for Ethereum and Quorum, and the technical standards chair at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (http://entethalliance.org).

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Since joining NEC Corporation, Japan based digital technology company, he has been working for incubating new business and creating ecosystem around digital finance. New business he’s launched includes FinTech joint venture between NEC Corporation and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and financial inclusion business in India. One of his passion is to create new digital identity architecture, where citizens have full control of one’s data and identification for better inclusion.

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Daniel Heyman is co-founder Palm NFT Studio and his past role was Co-Founder at PegaSys which was founded in 2017 in partnership with ConsenSys to build enterprise-grade Ethereum protocols. PegaSys and ConsenSys contributed Hyperledger Besu to the Hyperledger Foundation in 2019. HL Besu is a mainnet Ethereum client which can be customized for private chain deployments. In addition to this work, PegaSys continues to drive research for public and private chain technologies, including Ethereum 2.0. In 2019, ConsenSys acquired PegaSys.

Prior to Palm BFT Studio, PegaSys and ConsenSys, Dan had a wide range of experience as an entrepreneur and tech leader as co-founder and CEO of Stack AI, COO of the Demeter Entrepreneur Support Network and Project Manager at MIT’s Poverty Action Lab. He has an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan and a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Columbia University.

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Daniela Barbosa serves as Executive Director for Hyperledger. Daniela has developed and led growth and innovation strategies for more than 18 years with a background working with financial services, media, and enterprise software. Daniela has led both partnerships and alliances teams as well as marketing and has been responsible for driving global partnerships, OEM integrations, market leadership, and global brand awareness.

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David MacFadyen is a professor at UCLA in Comparative Literature, Musicology, and Digital Humanities. His primary interest in blockchains comes from the entertainment industry, specifically as it relates to piracy. As an expert in East European culture, he observes first hand the breakdown in supply chains, copyright, and artist/audience relations. Given the damage done in the “Wild East” to business models for film, music, and publishing, MacFadyen is developing alternative and superior forms of blockchain protection for entertainment in the US.

More on David’s resume can be found at: https://www.davidmacfadyen.com/

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Dave Treat is a Senior Managing Director, leading Accenture’s Metaverse Continuum Business Group as well as the Technology Incubation Group which includes its Blockchain and Multi-Party Systems business which he formed in 2015, along with its Extended Reality, and Quantum Computing businesses. He is also the Global Technology Lead for Capital Markets and has nearly 25 years of experience in Financial Services.  Dave serves on the Board of Directors on Hyperledger—a Linux Project, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Global Blockchain Business Council (Board Chair), Interwork Alliance, Linux FINOS, and the ID2020 Alliance.  Dave is a member of the World Economic Forum C4IR Global Blockchain Council, Digital Currency Governance Consortia, and Project Advisor for the World Economic Forum’s Digital Identity Initiative and the Known Traveler Digital Identity project.  He is a program advisor for the Chamber of Digital Commerce, and co-Chairs the New York Fintech Innovation Lab.   Dave holds over 101 blockchain patents and pending patents and was named one of the Sci-Tech 100 2018: The Architects of the Future by Silicon Republic.

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Dimitri is the Head of Blockchain Lab of The Russian Railways and Chairman at The Association of Blockchain Developers of Saint Petersburg. His areas of expertise are blockchain in fintech, blockchain software development and blockchain programming skills. Prior to being the Сhairman at The Association of Blockchain Developers of Saint Petersburg, Dimitri was the blockchain developer lead and head of IT-systems development, at Sberbank. He is also the founder of OnDem LLC.

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Dmitry Barinov, Chief Technology Officer of SecureKey, is a recognized industry leader with 18 years of experience in information technology and security. Prior to SecureKey, Dmitry has led and delivered numerous technology, security, identity and risk management projects including major implementations in the financial payment industry that have included EMV migration.

As Technology Head in a major North American financial institution Dmitry has participated in major payment platform transformations and contributed to the Canadian Bankers Association’s Financial Service Industry Computer Incident Response Team organization (CFI-CIRT).

Dmitry holds a M.Sc. Degree in Applied Math/Computer Science and M.A. in Economics. He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) professional.

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Douglas Johnson-Poensgen is founder and CEO of Circulor. Circulor is using Hyperledger to develop provenance solutions for complex industrial supply chains.

Doug has 25 years international experience as an Executive and Non Executive Director, operating in TMT, financial services, IT and management consultancy sectors. Strategic by nature, engineer by training, pragmatic fixer and successful implementer of strategy.

Outside work, he is a keen cyclist, oenophile and over-enthusiastic early adopter of gadgets.

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Leemon is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, and is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Hedera. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs. He has been the Co-Founder of several startups, including two identity-related startups, both of which were acquired. Leemon received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.

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Drummond has spent over two decades working on Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust frameworks. He joined Evernym as Chief Trust Officer after Evernym’s acquisition of Respect Network, where he was CEO, co-founder, and co-author of the Respect Trust Framework, which was honored with the Privacy Award at the 2011 European Identity Conference. Drummond has served as co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee since 2004, the new semantic data interchange protocol that implements Privacy by Design. Prior to starting Respect Network, Drummond was Executive Director of two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange, the international not-for-profit clearinghouse for Internet trust frameworks. He has also served as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons. In 2002 he was a recipient of the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was honored as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor.

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Duncan is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer with thirty years experience in the software industry. Prior to co-founding Blockchain Technology Partnes, he founded Cloudsoft Corporation, creator of the Apache Brooklyn open source project, serving as its CEO for nine years. Previously he was founder & CTO of Enigmatec Corporation which was sold to iWave and subsequently acquired by EMC. Back in the day he had a number of fintech roles. At Instinet he led the delivery of their Fixed Income brokerage platform. In recognition of this work pioneering the use of Java enterprise technologies in Financial Services he was nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award.

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Edmund To is Chief Technology Officer of Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), the world’s first independent, not-for-profit technology consortium to reimagine global trade. As CTO, Edmund oversees and manages the blockchain-enabled data infrastructure to accelerate the digital transformation of the shipping and trade industry, as well as enabling greater efficiencies and resilience of the global trade ecosystem. Edmund is a blockchain veteran who understands profoundly the technology’s value in facilitating data exchange in a secure and trusted way. Prior to his role at GSBN, Edmund was a Senior Technical Architect at ConsenSys, a leading blockchain engineering company, where he was working with central banks, financial institutions and corporates to solve real-world problems in multiple industries by leveraging blockchain technology. He started his career in finance with a focus on equity derivatives. Edmund holds a Master of Engineering in Engineering, Economics and Management from the University of Oxford.

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I’m a communications strategist focus on sustainability. Graduated in business administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas and in Fashion Business from London College of Fashion, I have had experience in the financial market (XP Investimentos) and in the communication sector, developing branding projects focused on expanding the positive impact of the performance of organizations on society and the environment.
Today, with great enthusiasm, I act as Head of Marketing at Blockforce. As a sustainability specialist and passionate about communication, I dedicate myself to awaken positive transformations in brands with purpose.
I understand that, increasingly, brands and organizations need to restructure in order to guarantee systemic sustainable development.

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Crazy Innovator helping Startups and Enterprises find peace with Blockchain DevOps, dApp deployments, solutions and to have the power to deploy within minutes, monitor in real-time, visualize their networks and much more.

Also, Actively exploring and building Secure Federated Learning platform to enable AI/ML in a decentralized future.

In my past, have endeavored into:

Defense & Aerospace (RnD)
Developed game changing, futuristic and combat ready solutions for international defense market.

Telecommunication (RnD)
Played an integral role in migration to VOIP when twisted pair ruled the industry.

Media & Broadcasting
Been a key player in transition of legacy broadcasting solutions to next gen Cloud ready solutions.

Willing to connect to share and learn more on Blockchain and decentralized ecosystem.

Angelina Huang is the PR & Marketing Lead of Flowchain. Before she joined Flowchain, she worked as digital marketing and communication for a finance app company, AndroMoney and a WIFI company in France, Travel Wifi. She is familiar with community management and host more than 20 meetups and conventions in the past 3 years.

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Hanna Zubko is Co-Founder and CEO of IntellectEU Inc​, blockchain development and integration company building ​the ​solution for blockchain integration challenges, and blockchain-based solutions for KYC/identity management, document management and authentication, supply chain transparency.

In addition, Hanna serves as Vice Chair for Hyperledger Marketing Committee and Co-Chairs Blockchain for Social Impact working group. Hyperledger is an open source collaboration initiative hosted by the Linux Foundation to advance blockchain technology, uniting 185+ leading organizations such as American Express, Cisco, BNP Paribas, SWIFT, IBM, Intel, SAP and others. IntellectEU joined Hyperledger at its inception as one of the founding members.

For the last three years Hanna served as a judge at SWIFT Innotribe Competition for Fintech StartUps. Hanna is a member of Entrepreneurs Organization and Forbes Business Development Council.

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Hart has extensive experience in blockchain and cryptography, and previously worked in blockchain and cryptography research at Fujitsu Research where he helped lead Fujitsu’s efforts in Hyperledger.  Prior to Fujitsu, Hart received a Ph.D. in cryptography at Stanford under Dan Boneh, where he was a Stanford Graduate Fellow.  Hart has numerous academic publications and patents in cryptography and blockchain and brings a wealth of experience in these areas to the Hyperledger Foundation.

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Heather launched Indicio in 2020, a software development firm that provides decentralized identity networks and products needed for building, testing and deploying digital identity solutions. Prior, Heather was the executive director of the Sovrin Network, a nonprofit that was the leading early adopter of decentralized identity. Under her leadership, the Sovrin Network expanded across the globe.

She successfully lead the launch of Indicio after identifying critical gaps in the decentralized identity marketplace: the lack of top-flight engineering support for companies and organizations that wanted to build identity solutions, the absence of a professionally-run network for enterprise-scale projects, and missing software to make a decentralized ecosystem fully operational.

Heather is credited with making Indicio into the leading global developer of decentralized identity software for enterprise-grade solutions and the leading global network for mission-critical decentralized identity solutions. Through a successful collaboration with SITA, the leading global provider to the air transport industry, Indicio is poised to change the way we travel. Through Cardea, which was adopted as a Linux Foundation Public Health project, Indicio can now deploy off-the-shelf identity solutions for any kind of health credential or public health deployment.
Under Heather’s leadership, Indicio launched multiple verifiable digital credential solutions in areas from fintech to energy for a growing global client base and is poised to develop decentralized identity solutions for the IoT and physical asset space. These complete Decentralized identity toolsets solve the pain points of verification and data liability, fraud, efficiency, and cost savings in managing complex data systems while implementing zero trust security architecture to simplify consumer consent in the face of a growing compliance burden. Heather identified Decentralized identity as a symbiotic technology that successfully melds with existing systems to provide an easy and cost-effective path to integration, adaptation, and innovation.

Heather has shown that by creating a company relentlessly focused on building successful implementations and user experiences, this technology has exponential growth potential.

This is what led Heather to launch Indicio, a public benefit corporation to advance decentralized identity. Committed to the development of open-source software, Indicio provides training, support, governance, and hosting services for a growing list of global clients that successfully demonstrate time and time again the ability for decentralized identity to solve fundamental problems in online verification, identity, privacy, and zero trust security.

Prior to her work in digital identity, Heather led research teams at KPMG and at telecommunications firm Neustar. Heather has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and an MSC from Columbia. She served as chair of the National Press Foundation board of directors and as chair of the Congressional Correspondents Association. Heather is widely regarded as a global thought leader on online privacy and security issues, and advises governments and global NGOs on decentralized identity applications. Heather is a committed advocate for privacy-preserving cybersecurity technologies

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Isaac Kunkel is SVP at Chainyard responsible for Blockchain Consulting Services and facilitating enterprises in their efforts to turn blockchain into business value. Prior to launching Chainyard, Isaac worked in TiVo’s Advanced Search & Recommendations unit as Senior Director of Engineering Operations and Services. Isaac came to TiVo via an acquisition of Digitalsmiths by TiVo in 2014, having served as Vice President of Engineering at Digitalsmiths having joined the start up in 2007. He helped the company increase the footprint of its products and services by building long-term customer relationships and increasing investor value. Isaac previously served in engineering and leadership roles across multiple industries including Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, MCI WorldCom, Prudential and Unisys. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The Pennsylvania State University and Master of Science in Computer Science from Villanova University.

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Iván Gutiérrez, M.Sc., is software engineer, and a Cryptography and Cybersecurity enthusiast. He regularly takes part in R&D projects to apply his experience on the DLTs for the team that coordinates the Blockchain Innovation Center by Tecnalia. Iván has gained technical skills by cooperating with the two main global Blockchain consortia (Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger Corporate Membership) and the Spanish multisectoral network (Alastria). With the aim of technology knowledge-sharing, Iván is actively contributing to its dissemination through specialized learning programs and congresses.

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Jani Partanen is a passionate software professional with over fifteen years of experience in different roles in development and design. User experience and software quality have always been close his heart. Jani has clear opinions how software should be conceived and how it should function.

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Jollen Chen is the creator and CEO of Flowchain, an open source based IoT blockchain solutions. His research interests are the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and IoT data security, and he also published several academic papers on IoT and Blockchain. Two of the research papers are published in the ACM SIGBED Review.

In 2016, he conducted Flowchain’s open source projects on IoT Blockchain and was selected as the Top 10 Blockchain Companies to Watch in 2017. Under his leadership, Flowchain is not only recognized as APAC CIOOutlook Top 10 IoT Solution Provider 2019 in the APAC region but also published as the Cover Story of IOT Special Edition. Flowchain has shown a hybrid blockchain technology based on Flowchain and Hyperledger Fabric that can gain viable benefits such as security, privacy, and decentralization for IoT industries.

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Kamlesh Nagware is the Chief Technology Officer at Snapper Future Tech and Co-Lead Hyperledger India chapter. He plays an active role across the Hyperledger community,  contributing to the Climate Action & Accounting SIG, Trade Finance SIG, and Hyperledger Global Forum Committee. He was named by Fintech News as one of the top 30 Indian blockchain influencers who are helping blockchain adoption and influencing the global community.

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Karen Ottoni is the Sr. Director of Ecosystem and Strategic Initiatives for Hyperledger.

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Mahesh Balan is a 30+ year veteran of the software industry, with the last 20 years focusing on CRM and Loyalty. Pravici started building blockchain solutions for Loyalty in 2015 using ethereum and switched to Hyperledger Fabric in 2017. We have a pilot implementation of our product now running in one of the largest Automotive OEM’s in the world, and are actively working with our Partner Oracle to position Pravici’s Loyalty on Blockchain product as an extension to Oracle Cloud Loyalty and Oracle Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain as a service.

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Makoto Takemiya is a co-founder and CEO of Soramitsu. He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed scientific papers and actively engages in research. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and is currently working towards his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. At Soramitsu he has helped lead the creation of Hyperledger Iroha, a settlement system for the National Bank of Cambodia, a Decentralized Digital Depository for digital assets called D3 Ledger, as well as a decentralized autonomous economic system called Sora.

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Mance is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multi-national corporations, government agencies, and high-tech startups, and is Co-Founder and CEO of Hedera. His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder and CEO of two tech startups, the senior executive for product security at a $1.7B revenue organization, Program Manager for a very-large scale software program for the Missile Defense Agency, the Course Director for Cybersecurity at the US Air Force Academy, and research scientist in Machine Learning at Wright Laboratory. Mance received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and a BS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.

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Mark Rakhmilevich is a Senior Director of Blockchain Product Management in Oracle Middleware and Cloud PaaS Development. Mark works with Blockchain Cloud Service engineering to address the needs of enterprise customers and SI & ISV partners with scalable, secure, and managed cloud platform for deployment of enterprise-oriented blockchain networks. He helps guide customers and partners around the world in applying blockchain technology to a broad range of business challenges, conducting discovery and sharing best practices, deployment models, and integration architecture to facilitate rapid experimentation and production-ready results. Mark publishes articles and delivers industry seminars and customer workshops on requirements for enterprise blockchain, and Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service.

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Marta Piekarska-Geater is Director at Private Fox Ltd.  Marta likes studying: a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology and a double Master from Computer Science and Informatics at Technical University of Berlin and Warsaw University of Technology. Her undergrad Thesis was on Voice Encryption on Android Platform and grad work on GPU-aided Payload Delivery on Linux Kernel. Recently received PhD in User-Informed Design of Privacy Tools, while working for one of the hottest Silicon Valley startups, Blockstream, as their Security Architect. Previously, associated with Deutsche Telekom as the Lead Architect on the Future of Mobile Privacy, a collaboration with Mozilla and Deutsche Telekom improving Firefox OS. As a Post-doc, she also teaches and works at TU Berlin. Her technical interests are covered by what she does – user-informed privacy and security, applications of blockchain beyond cryptocurrency, and lock picking. Outside of work she climbs, reads latin-american novels and enjoys watching Emir Kusturica’s movies. And cooks. A lot.

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Matthew Davie is Chief Strategy Officer at Kiva, a global nonprofit focused on bringing financial inclusion to the world’s 1.7 billion unbanked. In this role, he focuses on enabling new initiatives that bring emerging technologies to vulnerable populations around the world. Recently, this has included developing Kiva Protocol and implementing in Sierra Leone in partnership with multiple United Nations agencies. Matthew is also a charter member of the Linux Foundation’s Social Impact Working Group and serves as an advisor to ID2020 and the Open Society Foundation. In addition to his role at Kiva, Matthew is Managing Partner at Taviti, a technology advisory firm specializing in the intersection of emerging technologies and traditionally-underserved populations. From 2007-2015, he was an executive at multiple early-stage technology companies in the big data, entertainment, and gaming sectors. Before that, Matthew was a lecturer at Stanford University. He earned his B.S. from the University of California at Davis, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

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Michael Bailey has enjoyed diverse careers in Information Technology, Higher Education, and Aerospace. He loves working with technology to make a positive impact in peoples’ lives, adapting IT tools to satisfy needs.

Examples of this are found in his contributions in bringing Self-Sovereign Identity and Digital Verifiable Credentials to the world, where he has been an early contributor to the Hyperledger Indy project. In 2017 and 2018 Dr. Bailey was the technical lead in the deployment of the largest and best known public Indy networks, the Sovrin MainNet and StagingNet. Among other things, Michael wrote and operated the scripts that generated the genesis transactions for these networks. Updated versions of these scripts continue to be used when deploying new Indy networks.

Michael holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering, but has been most at home in Information Technology. He serves on the Sovrin Foundation Technical Governance Board, and is Co-Chair of the ATARC Blockchain Project Team.

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Mohan has more than 30 years of IT experience with the last 10 focused on technology consulting. He has held previous consulting, engineering, and senior management roles with companies including Deloitte, Boston Consulting Group, MomentumSI, Nortel, MCI (now Verizon), NTT Data and Tranzyme Pharma. Mohan’s primary career focus has been on process integration, project management, IT governance, and enterprise architecture and solution delivery.

His professional interests are industry-neutral and technology agnostic. He excels at transforming organizations by leveraging and harvesting their existing assets to create core capabilities that support business priorities, strategic direction and alignment between business and IT. His current interests are in cloud solutions, big data, SOA, enterprise architecture (EA), governance and establishment of integration competency centers. Mohan holds Masters in Management Studies (MMS) and Masters in Science degrees from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India. He is a member of the North Carolina Board of Public Telecommunications and North Carolina State Bar.

What does Mohan do for fun when he doesn’t work on delivering innovative technology solutions to our customers?
Mohan likes to spend time with friends, exercise, garden, network and travel.

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Nathan Aw Ming Kun was a Blockchain Full Stack Engineer at OCBC Bank whose primary focus is on Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) (i.e., Blockchain technologies) and Robotics Process Automation (RPA).  He is also an active participant in the open source collaborative ecosystem such as the Hyperledger Project, among many others. His passion is to help organisations quickly identify, adopt and scale leading-edge digital technologies (e.g., Blockchain on Cloud Native Platforms) thereby pushing the digital frontier and capturing its full value for his clients. His deep technical expertise lies in the area of Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Decentralised Trust Design & Architecture, On-chain & Off-chain Paradigm and AI Enabled Smart Contracts. He also follows closely the development in post-quantum cryptography and analyse its potential far-reaching impact on Blockchain technologies. He is currently contributing to Hyperledger Quilt, a Java implementation of Interledger Protocol. Interledger is the protocol for connecting blockchains and other ledgers.

Nathan Aw brings with him 6 years of enterprise software implementation experience from leading companies such as NTT Data, Accenture and Oracle. He graduated from Singapore Management University (SMU), a leading university in Asia.

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Nathan holds a degree in Computer Science from Utah State University and a Master of Business Administration from Brigham Young University.  Nathan is the chair of Hyperledger Indy’s Agent working group, championing the company’s engagement in the open source community through Hyperledger Indy and is a contributor to distributed identity and blockchain standards at the Decentralized Identity Foundation and the W3C.  His development experience spans diverse systems including robotics, GIS, file systems, big data analytics, and attribute-based security systems.

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“A technology pioneer, an engineer, an entrepreneur but most importantly an industrious personality, who, from a very young age, had an insatiable thirst for knowledge, who knew how to transform “”ambition into action”” and who has always believed in giving back to society and contributing to technological development.

With over a decade of experience as a Blockchain Architect & Consultant, and with immense exposure in Fintech, Banking & Retail, our co-founder and CTO Mr. Neeraj Srivastava has made remarkable contributions to contactless payments & platform design. He has played a key role during the early days of various start-ups such as R3 & SMBX in the USA. In his career, he has been associated with major companies such as Tech M, Royal Bank of Canada, and The Bank of Nova Scotia. During his tenure at Royal Bank of Canada, he led a team of technologists – the pioneers to launch Apple Pay. He has worked on numerous projects including Visa, Mastercard, and Interac. Few of his early achievements in the field of Blockchain comprise of
• The early phase of Project Jasper by the Bank of Canada,
• Project Ubin by the Monetary Authority of Singapore & the first international money transfer over a blockchain

In his quest to learn about new technologies and contribute to technological advances, Neeraj founded SIG (Software Innovation Group), in 2007, a unique innovation hub and a software incubator for student training and project development at his Alma Mater AKG Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India.

DLT Labs under the leadership of Neeraj & other two co-founders have created various products such as DL Asset Track, DL Certify, DL Consent, DL Unify & DL Ecosystem, name a few, which have been a great success technically as well as commercially. DLT Labs is the first, all over the world to establish a Blockchain Lab at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and various other universities. Neeraj not only contributes to the Business segment but also educates society through various seminars, panel discussions & presentations, and knowledge-building sessions for Blockchain enthusiasts across the globe.

Neeraj is a proud member of IBM’s Global Blockchain Board of Advisors, Forbes Technology Council, and a contributing member to global societies such as Hyperledger, Ethereum and BiTA for enterprise-grade blockchain deployments. “

Oscar Lage is Head of Cybersecurity at Tecnalia, member of the board of directors of Aurea Pay&Pass Solutions, member of the advisory board of several companies and leader of first industrial blockchain laboratory in Europe.

Oscar is a regular speaker and contributor to several International conferences, has been part of the Organization Committee of scientific congresses, is co-author of several books including the best seller “Blockchain: la revolución industrial de Internet” which is currently in its ninth edition and the upcoming “Descentralized Digital Identity: The advent of Self-Sovereign Identity with Blockchain” in which Oscar analyzes in several chapters the transformation of the energy and industrial sectors thanks to blockchain based data sovereignty.
He is a regular speaker in general media (TV, radio, press) and has his own technology section in Radio Euskadi “Welcome to the Future”.

Oscar is member Hyperledger, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, coordinator of the industrial node of the Spanish multisectorial Blockchain network (Alastria), vice-president of the blockchain committee of AMETIC and member of the main international forums of cybersecurity as the European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO) or the Center for Industrial Cybersecurity (CCI) among others.

Oscar collaborates as director and professor of several master’s degrees and superior programs in different Universities and Business Schools. Oscar has also founded several technology-based companies and startups associated with cyber security, and regularly collaborates with several Startup accelerators.

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He’s an experienced blockchain and payments professional with over 20 years in the cards & payments Industry (wholesale and retail).  He is the former CEO of a blockchain R&D center, global blockchain business developer and Head of a SWIFT service bureau at a clearing house and payment processor. As operations manager he also led SWIFT operations service bureau technical support and business process outsourcing for payment instruments operations.

He’s frequently present in several international forums and working groups regarding Payments, e-Identity and blockchain. With more than a decade of experience in Strategy and Sales, Management and Product Development, Paulo has a wide range of expertise in different areas as well as valuable insights regarding the financial industry and payment infrastructures.

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Peter works for the Bosch Mobility Think Tank reporting to the Board of Management of the Bosch Group.
He has 25+ years of experience in international project management, coaching and training in SW/HW development.
He received his degree in computer science and business administration from the University of Mannheim and worked for his own Startups, JP Morgan, Sun Microsystems and the BOSCH Group.

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Phil Windley is an Enterprise Architect in the CIO’s office at Brigham Young University. A passionate tech educator, he is the co-founder and organizer of the Internet Identity Workshop, serves as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at BYU, writes the popular Technometria blog, and is the author of the books The Live Web published by Course Technology in 2011 and Digital Identity published by O’Reilly Media in 2005. Phil serves on the Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for several high-tech companies.

Phil has been a professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University and the University of Idaho. In addition, Phil was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kynetx, the company behind the open-source connected-car product, Fuse. He also spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah in 2001-2002, serving on Governor Mike Leavitt’s Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home. He was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early creator of ecommerce tools. Phil received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Davis in 1990.

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Rajesh Dhuddu is a Blockchain & Cybersecurity Leader for USD 5.2 billion IT giant Tech Mahindra. He was instrumental in establishing Blockchain practice at Tech M that made Blockchain real and valuable for several global customers. Under his leadership, Tech M has been recognized as one of the Global Blockchain leaders by several leading analysts, industry bodies like World Economic Forum & Governments like State Government of Telangana.

Rajesh is responsible for making Blockchain relevant and valuable for common man in India by spearheading implementation of solutions to block spam calls and text in partnership with 3 leading Telcos and also Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

He also leads Cloud Security practice globally and Cybersecurity for Asia Pacific, Japan and India markets. His vision is to leverage both Blockchain and Cybersecurity to rewrite existing cybersecurity practices that are built on centralized infrastructures and architect new defence solutions that are immutable.

Lattice80 has listed Rajesh as one of the top 100 Blockchain Influencers in the world in recognition of his contributions over the last 5 years. Thinkers360 has recognized him in the Top 5 Global list of Blockchain influencers.

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Mr. Ravi Jagannathan is a founding member of one of the largest PKI businesses; he brings in considerable technology and operational experience and expertise in the areas of cryptography and security. He has a successful track record, starting from PKI, semantic, mobile wallet and now Blockchain. Mr. Ravi works towards surfacing the single version of truth and believes that the Internet provided us the age of information but Blockchain provides us the age of digital ownership.

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Ric Shreves is Mercy Corps’ Director of Emerging Technology. In that role, he explores new technologies and innovations for humanitarian aid and development. Ric also engages across the agency to facilitate the exploration of the potential of distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies and is the author of two Mercy Corps white papers on blockchain technology. Prior to joining Mercy Corps, Ric worked for two decades as an IT consultant and author. His clients included BASF, The Economist Group, Tesco, Colgate-Palmolive, and many others. Ric moved to Portland, Oregon in 2016 after living overseas for twenty-one years. He has resided in Korea, China, Thailand, and Indonesia. Since 2006, Ric has authored over a dozen books on open source.

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Robert Palatnick is a Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Research and Innovation at DTCC, where he has responsibility for driving technology innovation at the firm and leads a number of key technology initiatives, including cloud, automation, machine learning, big data analytics and distributed ledger technologies. He is also responsible for collaboration with clients, regulators, fintech vendors and academia to research and advance technology innovations across the financial services industry.

Prior to this role, Rob served for over a decade as Chief Technology Architect, overseeing the firm’s global IT strategy, architecture, standards and engineering design of the systems and applications that support the firm’s broad range of products and services. During his career at DTCC, Rob also served as an Application Development Domain Lead, Chief Administrative Officer of IT and CIO of FICC. Prior to joining DTCC, Mr. Palatnick was Vice President, Development and Systems, at Security Pacific Corporation Sequor Software Services.

An active technology voice in the industry, Rob has been a featured guest speaker at key conferences worldwide and is often quoted in the press. He currently serves as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project, a collaborative effort to establish, build and sustain an open, distributed ledger platform across industries.

Rob received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Buffalo and is an alumnus of the David Rockefeller fellowship.

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Rodrigo is a professional in the ICT area with Ba in Electrical Engineering and MSc in Science & Technology Policy, a learning mindset and a broad repertoire of practical skills on technical and commercial aspects of business and technologies. Currently works in CPqD proposing Digital Transformation projects to government and business partners involving Artificial Intelligence, IoT and Blockchain, and also for developing the ecosystem around blockchain initiatives. Before that, he worked at Lucent Technologies as Account Executive and Technical Sales for Brazilian CSPs. He also provides mentoring to startups and entrepreneurs and has supported technological roadmapping initiatives in telecom and agribusiness sponsored by government bodies.

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Saptarshi is a techno functional consultant with 6 years of diverse experience and a background in electrical engineering.He has experience in consulting domain for the construction, power, food and beverage and has been involved in the 360 degree delivery of IT products and services involving blockchain.

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Sean is the former CIO for Financial and Professional Regulation at the State of Illinois, which governs community banks, financial institutions, real estate, cannabis, and professional licensing. The Department is one of the largest licensing bodies in Illinois, and regulates the largest number of state-chartered community banks and credit unions in the country. In this role, he was responsible for supporting revenue in B2B and B2C channels, driving technology strategy and investment, managing a portfolio of applications, delivering new service offerings, improving security and operations, and exploring innovation opportunities with emerging technologies. Prior to joining the State a little more than two years ago, Sean spent 20 years in the private sector in several technology consulting and operations roles, largely within the financial services and insurance industries.  Sean is currently an advisor and consultant.

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Sophia Lopez is Founder and President of Kaleido, an award-winning Web3, blockchain, and digital assets platform that provides scalable and secure infrastructure to enterprises globally. Its clients include the world’s largest banks, top healthcare and insurance networks, gaming companies, 80% of the world’s supply chain leaders, top retail companies, organizations such as SWIFT, World Bank, and IMF, along with 100s of global enterprise networks. Sophia helped launch the IBM Blockchain Platform, the industry’s first blockchain managed service. She held executive P&L responsibility for the blockchain product portfolio. Previously, Sophia held multi-billion dollar P&L executive roles at IBM for enterprise software and hardware lines of business. Sophia currently serves on the Hyperledger Foundation Governing Board and is a senior advisor for Web3 to McKinsey & Company. Sophia serves as an advisor to startups, helping facilitate Web3 masterclasses and blockchain sessions at Davos, Milken Institute, SIBOS, HIMSS and other industry leading events, and providing mentorship in Web3 programs such as the ConsenSys Tachyon accelerator. Sophia has an engineering degree from Harvard University and MBA from UNC Chapel Hill.

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Co-program manager and developer/instructor of the PSU Blockchain Certificate program and Certified Blockchain Solutions Architect. Researching and publishing in the blockchain area.

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Steve has over fifteen years of experience in emerging technologies building, launching and growing enterprise products in a variety of business and technical roles. Prior to Kaleido, he led product teams at IBM, spearheading the creation of over a dozen cloud services and managed a strategic portfolio of software products. Steve launched the industry’s first blockchain managed service, developing new commercial approaches to meet the unique enterprise demands for privacy and scalability. Steve holds his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Engineering from Case Western and an MBA degree from Duke University.

Thomas Bohner is a Product and Business Development Manager at IntellectEU, blockchain development and integration company building the​ solution for blockchain integration challenges, and blockchain-based solutions for KYC/identity management, document management and authentication, supply chain transparency. IntellectEU ​is a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger.

Thomas has a breadth of international experience across financial services, most recently as Associate at P20, focusing on KYC and digital identities. Thomas previously spent some time at Motive Partners, KBC Securities, and Cashforce, with a particular focus on research and technology.

Bohner holds an MSc in Applied Economics and Finance from the University of Antwerp.

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Tommi Hänninen is goal driven business leader with love of good leadership. Tommi’s wide experience includes both leading large multi cultural organizations as well as small specialist teams. He has delivered growth, sold businesses and made successful turnarounds during his career. His personal mission is to learn, grow and develop people and businesses around him. Tommi is enthusiastic about the international business environment and enjoys working with people from different countries and cultures.

Today Tommi leads Joisto Group Oy (www.joisto.com) which is a Finnish IT company developing white label software called Joisto. Joisto is a multi tenant digital archive and data retrieval system used by many service providers and large organizations in the Europe. In 2020 Joisto launched the world’s first multi tenant Blockchain Archive.

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Toshiya Cho is Senior Evangelist / Managing Director, Financial Information System Sales Management Divisionat Hitachi, Ltd. He has a career as systems engineer, business consultant for financial industry as well as a banker. Before joining Hitachi, Toshiya was responsible for Internet Banking and CRM at Citibank N.A.(Japan) and has been involved in a wide range of business and technologies related to marketing, channel strategies, biometrics, and artificial intelligence. Toshiya is a frequent speaker at industrial events and academia. He co-authored “E-Commerce Banking Strategies” (2000), Toyo Keizai, Inc. Toshiya holds a BA in economics from Waseda University and MBA in marketing and international business from New York University.

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Tracy Kuhrt is a Technology Architect within Accenture’s Emerging and Growth business with 20+ years of experience covering the entire software development lifecycle. Tracy has been involved in the blockchain space since 2015. Prior to joining Accenture, Tracy was a Hyperledger Community Architect.

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Travin has extensive experience in the worlds of cryptocurrency and blockchain for organizational use, in addition to where they intersect, as well as distributed ledger technology as a whole. He is the CTO of Consortio Group, a company that provides solutions involving various technologies, including emerging technologies like blockchain. Being involved with Hyperledger since 2016 through his previous work as a Board Member of the Nxt Foundation as well as his own company, Agavon, Travin has been an active member both of the Marketing Committee and Technical Steering Committee, as well as various working groups under each. He is also one of the co-authors of the Hyperledger white paper titled, “An Introduction to Hyperledger”.

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Veera is Chief Commercial Officer of Circulor. Veera has held a number of senior and executive positions in the worlds of finance, TMT and management consulting. Veera is probably best known as the founder and CEO of Procserve, a specialist eCommerce solutions provider that was successfully sold to Basware in 2015.

Most recently Veera has worked with and advised a number of finance and private equity organisations; where she has used her vast experience and personal network to help them develop their portfolio and asset valuations.

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Vipin is the chair of the Identity Working Group and a member of the Architecture Working Group in the Hyperledger Community. Vipin works on bridging the gap between business and technology, having had prior experience in translating business processes and needs into working software. In the blockchain space, Vipin is actively engaged with the Federated as well as the Open Blockchain community. He is interested in crypto-economics, legal & regulatory topics, and transformation of legacy systems through innovation and interoperability.

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Waqas Mirza is the founding CEO of Avanza Innovations – the latest venture of Avanza Group of Companies, an 18 year old technology power house that has 300 customers across 45 countries, and that processes 12 million transaction every day. Avanza Innovations was established by Waqas in 2017 to focus on nascent technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation and Smart City Projects. Waqas has built multiple technology businesses from scratch, grown them across continents and have led multiple turnarounds to set organizations on a sustainable growth path. Waqas has been associated with Avanza Solutions since 2006 and has been serving on the board of directors of Avanza Group of Companies since November 2011. Waqas is also a member of Avanza’s Global Leadership Committee Waqas holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences from FAST-NU and an MBA from London Business School.

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Yuxiang (David) Liu is Senior Technology Architect at Oracle. As Hyperledger TWGC committee, he is leading Fabric-GM SIG and helping in HK meetup organizing and local community.

As an individual, he contributes to fabric-sdk-node, fabric documenting works.

With 4 years experience of using Hyperledger in healthcare-finance and Mediconcen former CTO, he has been volunteering to advocate Hyperledger adoption and digital migration.

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