Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner has founded the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC). In 2018 and 2019, he was ranked as one of the “top 30” economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), a major newspaper in Germany. Further, he belonged to the “Top 40 under 40” — a ranking by the German business magazine Capital. Since 2017, he is a member of the fintech Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany. The expertise of Prof. Sandner includes blockchain technology in general, crypto-assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, the digital programmable Euro, tokenization of assets and rights, and digital identity. You can contact him via mail (email@philipp-sandner.de), or LinkedIn and Twitter

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Arno Pernthaler is a Corporate and Business Development Manager for NewCos in the space of Distributed Ledger Technologies. Since mid-2019 Arno is heading the corporate development of Atomyze, a platform for secure tokenization and trading of industrial commodities on blockchain technology. Arno has co-founded the DEC Institute aiming at launching an international certificate for professional distinction. As a BIG4 consultant Arno has gained strategic as well as technical experience on key technology innovations.

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Marcel Harmann is a Board Member of the Crypto Valley Association, the largest blockchain, and distributed ledger ecosystem worldwide. Marcel has a background in banking, IT, and startups and holds a Master of Arts in Banking & Finance.

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Dr. Paolo Tasca is a digital economist, specializing in distributed systems. He served as a special advisor on blockchain technologies for the EU Parliament, the United Nations, and numerous Central Banks worldwide. He is a serial entrepreneur in the blockchain space and is also the founder and Executive Director of the world’s largest research center on blockchain technologies at University College London (UCL CBT). Before that, he was the Lead Economist on digital currencies and P2P financial systems at Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt).

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Prof. Dr. Tim Weingärtner is a lecturer at the Lucerne School of Computer Science and focuses his research on blockchain and smart contracts. At Lucerne, Tim also supports early-stage start-ups. He has a strong finance background and was the project leader of several IT projects related to credit risk management.

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Simon Waelchli is Executive Director and Chief of Staff at Sygnum, the world’s first digital asset bank. Prior, Simon worked for Bain & Company as a Consultant across different industries.

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