DECENTRALIZED 2017
DECENTRALIZED 2017 SPEAKERS

Garrick HilemanHead of Research
Blockchain & Research Associate, Cambridge

Panos PanayVice President
Berklee College of Music
Managing Director of the Berklee Institute
Managing Director of the Berklee Institute

Antonis PolemitisCEO
University of Nicosia

Emmanuel VialeManaging Director
Accenture
Technology Labs
Technology Labs

John BassFounder and CEO, Chief Executive Officer
Hashed Health

Andreas AntonopoulosAuthor of two books
“Mastering Bitcoin” & “The Internet of Money”

Yoni AssiaFounder & CEO
eToro
Group Limited
Group Limited

Bernardo Batiz-LazoProfessor
Bangor
University
University

Frank BoltenManaging
Partner
CHAINSTEP
CHAINSTEP

Gregor BorosaUNIC Fellow
MSc Digital Currency alumnus

Daniel BurgwinkelBlockchain Projects Lead Guardtime
platform

Alice CorsiniChief Operations
Officer
Oraclize
Oraclize

Sinclair DavidsonProfessor
Institutional Economic RMIT University

Arnaud DazinCEO
Mapping Aggregation Platform Ltd

George Giaglis
Director
Institute for the Future
University of Nicosia
Institute for the Future
University of Nicosia

Bryant Joseph GilotChief Medical Officer
Blockchain Health

Ian GriggEOS

Adam HayesCo-founder and CEO
ChainLink

Anna HiraiwaManagement Consultant
Nomura Research Institute

Sergey IvlievCo-founder and COO
Lykke

Astyanax KanakakisCo-founder and CEO
Norbloc

Yannis KaramitsosDigital Transformation Technologist
Orange Business Services

Nikos KarapanagouCTO
Motivian

Konstantinos A. KarasavvasR&D Blockchain Initiative
University of Nicosia

Yiannis LevantisGroup CIO
BMI Group

Soulla LoucaBlockchain initiative Director
University of Nicosia

Spyros MakridakisDirector - Institute for the Future
University of Nicosia

Alexandar MatanovicCEO
Electronic Currency District

Chiara MazzoneInnovation Policy Officer
DG CONNECT- European Commission

Michael MerzFounder
PONTON

Theodosis MourouzisResearch Fellow
University College London

Denis NorenkoChairman
WS Financial and Investment Services Ltd

Maria PapadakiManaging Director
Dubai Center for Risk and Innovation

Panayiotis PapadopoulosPartner
Marathon VC

George PapageorgiouFellow
University of Nicosia

Adam PerlowCEO
Zen Protocol Development

Thor PettersenCo-founder
CopyrightCoins

Krzysztof PiechProfessor
Lazarski University

Vidushi SavantClinical Faculty
Stanford University Medical Center
Online Participation
Online Participation

Avi SelaCOO
eToro Group Limited

Konstantinos SgantzosResearcher
University of Thessaly

Yuka ShimizuManagement Consultant
Nomura Research Institute

Jamie SkellaCo-Founder
Horizon State

Volker SkwarekProfessor
Hamburg University of Applied Systems

Evagelos TabakisHead of Risk Management
Central Bank of UAE

Mark TooheyCo-founder
TBSx3

Mark TorrIoT and Advanced Analytics
Microsoft

Kentaroh ToyodaAssistant Professor
Keio University

George TziortzisBoard Member, Head of Management Consulting
KPMG

Ruslan VasyutinChief Marketing Officer
Datarius Cryptobank

Vasos VassiliouAssistant Professor
Networks Research Laboratory

John VelissariosPrincipal Director - Global Blockchain Technology Lead
Accenture Technology Labs

Angel VersettiCEO
Ambrosus

Athanasios (Thanos) YamasManaging Director
IoTask LLC