Sofiane Hemici
Over the last 16 years, Sofiane combined international entrepreneurial experiences and a diverse career at General Electric with global leadership roles in tech, consulting and operations.
He advised Fintech in South East Asia in the area of mobile payments and consumer lending in scaling operations, improving efficiency and customer experience.
In 2020, He joined Banque Raiffeisen and is currently leading strategic programs: core banking modernization, payments and regulatory compliance.
Sofiane has a passion for strategy + execution, designing digital enabled operating model & value creation and building high performing /complementary teams.
Dr. Siniša Matetić
Siniša Matetić is Head of Technology & Portfolio Development at Swiss Post and a Dozent/Program Coordinator for the CAS and DAS programs in Cyber Security at ETH Zürich. Siniša’s main focus is on a variety of topics in the field of Digital Trust.
Siniša originally comes from Split, Croatia and holds a Master of Science degree in Information and Communication Technology from the University of Zagreb, and a Master of Science degree in Security and Mobile Computing from Aalto University in Finland and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Previously, he worked as a management consultant at Kearney focusing on business topics in the related IT fields. After that, he joined ETH Zürich where he obtained a PhD degree on the topic of Information Security with the focus on Trusted Execution Environments, Blockchain technologies, Integrity protection and Distributed systems.
Prior to joining Swiss Post and coming back to ETH to run the continuing education programs in Cyber Security, Siniša worked for SwissSign Group AG focusing on designing secure systems in the space of electronic identities and trust services.
Alistair Muir
Alistair is an Entrepreneur and Venture Investor as well as an advisor to both Enterprise and Government on the adoption of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs).
He is considered an international expert on the topics of both Open Banking and secure data sharing within Financial Services and has spoken around the world on these topics.
He is a passionate proponent of the use of privacy enhancing technologies as a means to safely and securely undertake data collaborations for maximum benefit and in a way that protects both the privacy of the individual and the security of the data - he actively advocates for their adoption in multiple countries within the APAC region.
In addition to his work in data sharing, Alistair has been an advisor to government departments of 3 countries on the topics of Fintech, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and the commercialisation of "deep-tech". This includes working with Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Entrepreneurship program in which more than 60 new ventures have been created from world class science and technology
Veroniki Stamati
Veroniki Stamati is an information security and privacy professional, who specialises within the area of governance, risk and compliance. Veroniki is responsible for Information Security and Privacy Engineering in Skyscanner, leading the implementation of security and privacy requirements in an agile manner across the organisation in order to respond to existing and emerging cyber threats. Previously she led the PCI DSS, GDPR and information security programmes of ACCA from their inception, and before that she was working across a variety of industries advising up to CxO level on Information Security Management, Data Protection & Privacy compliance. In addition to technical expertise, she is also a public speaker and has previously been a member of Toastmasters. She studied Informatics in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and obtained her Masters in Computing, IT Law and Management from King's College London in the UK.
Santhosh Parampottupadam
Santhosh Parampottupadam is working as a Scientist in German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) based in Germany. He is working on Trusted Federated Data Analytics where the project aims to facilitate bringing the algorithms to the data in a trustworthy and regulatory compliant way instead of going a data-centric way which is a joint effort of DKFZ and CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Prior to joining DKFZ he worked as Research Scientist in Kaspersky Lab, Ireland, and also an R &D Scientist at Fiserv, Ireland. He has been invited as one of the speakers in the World Machine Learning Summit 2019 held in Dublin.
Santhosh Holds Masters Degree from the National College of Ireland in Cloud Computing and completed his dissertation under Dr. Arghir-Nicolae Moldovan titled ‘Cloud-Based Real-Time Network Intrusion Detection using Deep Learning’ which is published at Glasgow Cybersecurity Conference 2018 and A Machine Learning Diploma(online) from Stanford University. His work focuses on cybersecurity, Trusted Federated Data Analytics, and machine learning in healthcare.
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Jerome Schang
