E-ECONOMY AND BLOCKCHAIN:

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Fiorenzo Manganiello is a professor of blockchain technologies at Geneva Business School. With an entrepreneurial mind-set, he is currently developing an investment banking team in a Swiss private bank and he puts his energy into projects where finance boosts human capital and innovation. He is fluent in five languages and has a distinguished academic background, having studied at IMD, London School of Economics and Luiss Business School.

About Session:
The objective of the session is to provide a conceptual understanding of the blockchain technology, its potential for disruption and how it will affect our economy. The audience will also be able to understand with concrete examples the basis of cryptography and mining.

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Daniel studied at the HEC University (École des hautes études commerciales) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Before founding Metalfye, Daniel worked for hedge funds and brokers as a full-stack contractor. He developed a set of custom tools and algorithms in order to improve brokers daily productivity and trading. He specializes in ERP and CRM full-scale development. He created the world’s first trading bots for wine markets in 2010, and a portable scanner that maps and gives statistics about all mobile phones in the vicinity in 2012. He have been programming since the age of 12. During the last three years, he have specialized in browsing tools and blockchain development.

About Session:
Metalyfe is a decentralized portal aiming to give ownership to the users of their digital data, while assuring a smooth transition from the Web 2.0 to the Web 3.0

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Co-founder of the company IPGlobalSolutions, tax planner, specialist in the international taxation of intangibles. Tatiana Zarubina obtained her Doctoral degree in the Lausanne University where she got her LLM in International Taxation. She has a long experience of work with HNWI and corporate clients of the ex-USSR zone. In 2016, she founded with partners the company helping its clients managing intangible assets, IP Global Solutions. She works with law firms, investment funds and asset managers from Switzerland, Luxembourg and Russia. Specialist in structuring, tax planning and optimization for intangible assets.

About Session:
Various governmental agencies and IP registers, such as the EU Office for IP, are actively working on the issues of using the Blockchain technology. In the context of industries with a big number of intellectual property, the Blockchain and the technologies of a distributed ledger management provide interesting and obvious possibilities to protect intellectual property and to register it, for the evidence base both at the registration level or in courts. It also allows to significantly decrease the cost of these processes and to accelerate them.

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Dr. Alevtina Dubovitskaya is a researcher in the Applied Intelligent Systems Lab (AISLab) in the University of Applied Science and Arts in Western Switzerland (HES-SO) working in the team of Prof M. Schumacher. She recently completed her PhD at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), supervised by Prof K. Aberer. Her PhD thesis focuses on building systems and protocols for privacy-preserving data exchange and aggregation, with an application to the healthcare domain. Since 2016, in collaboration with Stony Brook University and University Hospital in USA, she is working on the application of the blockchain technology for the consent management when sharing healthcare data for primary care and research. Her research interests are blockchain, eHealth, privacy, and distributed systems. Alevtina has been awarded with the Best Paper Award for the paper on application of blockchain technology in healthcare at the Swiss eHealth Summit 2017.

About Session:
Healthcare data are sensitive but have to be frequently shared among the peers in the healthcare network. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that may execute arbitrary, programmable transaction logic in the form of smart contracts, and provides a shared, immutable, and transparent append-only register of all the actions that have happened in the network. This provides a unique opportunity to employ blockchain technology to facilitate and enhance healthcare data management for all the actors in the healthcare network. The immense development of the blockchain technology is happening over the last years, and the interest to the potential of its application in healthcare is growing. However, a quest for such system that guarantees privacy, security, scalability, and efficiency continues. In this talk we discuss potential applications of blockchain in health and I will present a prototype for blockchain-based consent management system. We discuss the challenges of adopting such system in medical practice.

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Roger leads an independent team of dedicated professionals with significant experience in the field of cyber riskmanagement. Before founding his own consulting firm he worked for several risk consultant companies in Switzerland. He is dedicated to helping clients accomplish digitalisation goals by advising them in the areas of: data protection, risk identification, risk quantification, risk transfer solutions, planning, developing, implementing risk management systems and process development.

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Wayne Grixti is an Advisor on the Malta National Blockchain Taskforce which was set up to design and provide the Government of Malta with a regulatory infrastructure for economic and social activities exercised via distributed ledger technologies.
Wayne received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Malta and has over 17 years of experience working as an Enterprise Architect at the Malta Information Technology Agency engineering solutions for the Government and leading various projects on cloud computing, identity and blockchain.

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Me Vincent Mignon is a lawyer, Doctor in law at Fribourg University (mention summa cum Laude, Vigener prize). He is a co-founder of the law firm LE/AX Avocats. Me Mignon is a recognized specialist in the field of cryptocurrencies. Me Mignon presented many conferences, gave courses on the topic. He is an author of scientific articles in specialised legal revues.

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Markus is a Swiss attorney-at-law and certified tax expert with 15+ years of experience in Swiss and international tax and legal advisory.  Due to his roles at 2 big-four advisory firms and a Nasdaq quoted group, he has a wide experience in advising Swiss based and foreign corporates and shareholders along the company lifecycle. He particularly gained experience in restructurings (structure set up, transformations, mergers, de-mergers, succession, reorganization, liquidation), national and cross-border expansion, mergers & acquisitions as well as in coordinating and working with interdisciplinary teams. Currently he also provides advice to companies and structures in the technology space mainly related to blockchain/ICO.

About Session:
The session will provide an overview of the main tax and accounting implications around blockchain assets. You will get an insight on the current status of the Swiss tax and accounting framework and the differences to other selected jurisdictions.

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Stéphane Rey is the Chief Technology Officer of Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM), a driver of technology innovation at Lombard Odier and pushed the first blockchain-based transaction of the Group. Stéphane chairs the cybersecurity committee of LOIM and he has been recognized as Top CIO 2017 in Switzerland during the 6th Confare Swiss CIO & IT Manager Summit in Zurich. Stéphane is a board member of the Swiss Fintech Innovations association and a member of the technology advisory council of Taurus, the next generation platform to trade, invest, and protect your digital assets. Prior to Lombard Odier Investment Managers, Stéphane was a Partner at McKinsey & Company Business Technology Office, where he focused on serving financial institutions and telecommunication companies. Stéphane has a bachelor degree in Business Administration (1998) and a Master in Information Technology (1999) from HEC Lausanne. During his bachelor education, Stéphane spent one year at Michigan University, where he studied business administration, computer science, and cryptography

About Session:
Everybody talks about blockchain but what does it take to conduct such a transaction, and how does it really work under the hood? During this session, Lombard Odier Investment Managers will share its experience following two transactions on a blockchain.

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Aurélien is a consultant in business intelligence within the cabinet Heptagone digital risk management & security, which he joined in early 2017. His clients include law firms, banks and exporting companies, which he mostly help on economic crime-related issues.
Prior to Heptagone, Aurélien has been working with other private intelligence firms in Geneva,  where he was mostly in charge of due diligence investigations, e-reputation cases and assets tracing.
After completing a Master of Advanced Studies in Economic Crime Investigation and writing a thesis on money laundering schemes inside the Bitcoin, Aurélien started offering banks and other financial institutions some help on cases relating to cryptocurrencies, more specifically on the KYC/AML side of things.

About Session:
The crypto currencies and their peculiar functioning have important impacts on traditional KYC/AML procedures: well-known concepts are rendered useless, and new reflexes are to be learned.
How to verify an asset’s ownership? How to trace back its provenance? What red flags should the compliance be looking for?  Despite everything that has been told on the “untraceable” and “crime-enabling” nature of the crypto-assets, such questions can find answer, and proper KYC/AML processes are possible.