Results 2018

René Bostic is the Technical Vice President of Innovation and New Technologies for IBM Cloud. Enjoying her career with IBM during the modern millennial technological era, she is an expert in cloud computing, DevOps and emerging cloud technologies such as Blockchain. René has presented at IT Roadmap Conferences sponsored by IDG Enterprises, the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit sponsored by Gartner, Cloud Expo sponsored by SYS-CON Media and the Agile2017 Conference to name a few. Cloud Expo named René a faculty member for both their 2017 Cloud Expo East and Cloud Expo West Conferences. René is a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and a member of the Society of Information Management (SIM). René received a Business and Economics degree with a minor in Computer Science from St. Andrews Presbyterian University (Laurinburg, North Carolina, USA). She resides in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Nina-Luisa Siedler is partner at DWF, a technology-oriented global law firm, and head of the international Blockchain Competence Group. She focusses on the legal implication of blockchain/distributed ledger technology projects and assists her clients with the structuring of business cases in the infrastructure, IoT, data, logistic, energy and retail sector as well as the financing via token sales. Nina-Luisa Siedler is founding member of Blockchain Bundesverband (the German blockchain association) and speaker of the finance as well as the token/ICO working groups. She is also an advisor of BlockchainHub

Managing Growth at Ocean Protocol. Graduated the London School of Economics then spent over 5 years at Airbnb as a Business Analyst and Data Scientist.

Nathan Williams is a Canadian blockchain entrepreneur living in Berlin, Germany.  He is the founder of Minespider, a blockchain solution for tracking conflict-free minerals (http://www.minespider.com).  He co-hosts the Analysis in Chains podcast and the Blockchain Unpacked meetup, bringing understanding of blockchain projects to non-technical audiences (http://www.analysisinchainspodcast.com). Nathan also advises the German Startups Association on blockchain projects and is helping to coordinate a blockchain focus camp for their Startup Camp Berlin event in April (http://www.scb18.de)

Manuel is project leader for Big data streaming infrastructure and Internet of Things projects at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN). During his entire career, Manuel has focused on supporting large research collaborations through technology innovation and evolution. Among other tasks, Manuel has been involved and led critical projects to improve the operations of the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and one of the most complex scientific instrument ever made. Currently, Manuel is the co-founder of Orvium.io, a blockchain initiative to unlock open and transparent science while returning the benefits of science to the society.

Christoph Niemann is working for MaibornWolff GmbH as Blockchain Architect. He has worked in several projects that provide proof of concepts for real world use cases. Furthermore, he is contributing to the Ethereum ecosystem, for instance by providing the first JSON parser for Solidity that runs on Blockchain.

Christoph received his PhD on agent-based coordination mechanisms at University of Bayreuth in 2011. Since then, his interest are decentral mechanisms. Bitcoin has paved the way for decentral approaches in practical real world use cases. Christoph is enthusiastic about this development, in particular about the potential of smart contracts.

Peter Mitchell is an associate in the International Tax and Wealth Management practice groups of Baker McKenzie Zurich. Peter recently earned his LL.M. in taxation from New York University. Prior to his studies, he gained several years of litigation experience in insurance coverage, federal investigations, and white collar defense.

Christopher Murrer is an associate in the International Tax and Wealth Management practice groups of Baker McKenzie Zurich. He joined the Firm after practicing for seven years as a domestic tax and estate planning attorney in New York and Washington, DC.

Meinhard founded SatoshiPay, a blockchain-based nanopayments provider aiming to fundamentally change the way web content is monetised. As open source developer, social entrepreneur and avid shoestring traveller with 50 countries under his belt, Meinhard experienced the need for an open, global and decentralised payment technology first-hand. He already experimented with different alternative payment systems for years when Bitcoin and its ground-breaking blockchain technology crossed his path in 2011. As developer, entrepreneur and speaker he pushes the blockchain ecosystem forward ever since.

Alireza Siadat is a German legal and regulatory expert in the international financial services industry. He is a member of PwC's global ICO expert group and PwC Europe's ICO legal expert group. He is driving PwC Germany's ICO initiative and is currently advising major German ICOs.

Florian Grummes is an independent financial analyst, advisor, consultant, trader & investor as well as an international speaker with more than 20 years of experience in financial markets. He is specialized in precious metals, cryptocurrencies and technical analysis. He writes a bi-weekly in-depth gold and silver analysis for one of Europe´s largest gold and silver retailer the „pro aurum“ group. As well he is publishing a bi-weekly comprehensive gold, silver & mining stocks as well as cryptocurrency analysis for his numerous international readers. He is well known for combining technical, fundamental and sentiment analysis into one accurate conclusion about the markets.

Jan Sammut is the founder and CEO of RefToken, the worlds first decentralised affiliate platform, as well asICOMalta.com, a full stack ICO platform. A marketer by profession, he has previously held executive positions at industry heavyweights such as IGT plc, Stars Group and Highlight Media Group. Jan is a fixture on the European blockchain conference tour and advisor to ICOs with market caps exceeding $1B.

Claudio Weck is currently working on Blockchain and Distributed Hyperledger at the Porsche Digital Lab.

At MHP, a Management & IT Consultancy and Porsche subsidiary he worked for many cooperation’s including Audi, AMG, Bosch, Continental, Daimler Mercedes, formerly as Head of Data Science in Data Excellence and leader of the competence center for Predictive.

Collaborating with many startups in the blockchain area, his focus at ICOs is on technology and business usage in the industry and automotive.

Michael leads EY's German Blockchain community and focuses on exploring and co-creating transformative opportunities with clients from various sectors. With a strong background in Supply Chain Management and Operations Transformation, Michael helps to put the enormous potential of Blockchain technology into context of today's and tomorrow's business challenges and outlines pathways to realizing the benefits. He furthermore drives business development and acts as alliance manager liaising with technology providers, start-ups and regulators within the extended Blockchain ecosystem. Prior to management consulting, Michael spent years with hands-on transformation of manufacturing sites in Europe and Asia.

Gabriel is a seasoned sales and marketing expert with over twenty years of experience in senior level positions at companies such as Motorola, VeriSign (part of Symantec), and SecureWorks (part of Dell). His strengths lie in international business development and strategic partnerships, as well as the unique ability to translate complex ideas and technologies into language that decision makers can easily understand. Gabriel has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from McMaster University in Canada and possesses expert knowledge in cloud computing, IT security, and video streaming technologies (Over the Top Content, OTT). Gabriel also runs his own company, Euro Tech Startups, and manages two blogs: https://dusil.com/ and https://gabrieldusil.com/