Keith W. Miller is the Orthwein Endowed Professor for Lifelong Learning in the Sciences in the College of Education and in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. His Ph.D. is in computer ethics, his M.S is in mathematics, and his B.S. is in Education. Prof. Miller’s research interests include computer ethics, software testing, and online learning. His outreach efforts feature work with the St. Louis Science Center and Girls’ Inc. of St. Louis. He has collaborated with several important scholars, all of them more accomplished than he, including Deborah Johnson, Jeffrey Voas, Don Gotterbarn, Fran Grodzinsky, Marty Wolf, Michael Lemke, Joe Herkert, Jason Borenstein, and Katina Michael. Miller was the junior half of the Park - Miller random number generator team, and his Erdős number is 3.  More information is available at https://drkeithwmiller.com/  

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Roman Beck is a Full Professor at the Business IT Department and Head of the European Blockchain Center at ITU (www.ebcc.eu), Affiliated Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands, as well as Guest Professor at Halmstad University, Sweden. According to the German newspaper Wirtschaftswoche, Roman is among the top 2% of all German professors in business administration in terms of research output. He is also ranked among the top 1% of all information systems researchers in the world. As a blockchain economist, his research focuses on the changing nature of institutions due to blockchain with a focus on governance and value creation and capturing in decentralized systems.

 

Signe Agerskov is the co-convenor of the EU Expert Group on Blockchain Ethics and co-author of the first set of official EU ethical guidelines for blockchain systems. Since 2020 she has been researching blockchain ethics in the European Blockchain Center at the IT University of Copenhagen. She is an ethics advisor for the EBSI-VECTOR project and writes freelance for the Data Ethics think tank.

 

 

Victor Garcia-Font earned his degree in Computer Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2005. Early in his career, he developed information systems for the banking sector and public administration. In 2014, he embarked on an industrial doctoral thesis at CastInfo S.A., specializing in information security for smart cities. He completed his doctorate in February 2017 at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) with a dissertation titled Anomaly Detection in Smart City Wireless Sensor Networks. Currently, Dr. Garcia-Font is a lecturer at UOC and an assistant professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where he teaches courses on blockchain, network security, and information theory. He is also a member of the K-riptography and Information Security for Open Networks (KISON) research group. His research interests include blockchain technology, cryptographic protocols, machine learning, and smart cities.

Daniel Du Seuil acted as the convenor of the European Self Sovereign Identity Framework within the European Blockchain Partnership. This partnership of 30 EU member states and related countries cooperate in the establishment of a European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) that will support the delivery of cross-border digital public services with the highest standards of security and privacy. Daniel supported the taskforce to transform EBSI into the new Europeum Digital Infrastructure Consortium Europeum. Daniel is also the initiator and project co-lead of the Digital Europe Project EBSI-VECTOR, and participating in DEP EBSI-NE and the EUDI LSP DC4EU. He is currently working as research coordinator in Howest University college working on web3 and Cybersecurity, and was the former blockchain program manager of the Flemish government. He is also a member of the EU blockchain observatory and co-initiator of the Belgian blockchain taskforce at Beltug.
 

Dévika holds a Law degree from the University of Cádiz, where she also completed a Master's in Criminal Law and Criminality. She later earned her PhD with a thesis titled "Criminal Law and the Phenomenon of Crypto-assets." Currently, she serves as a researcher at the University of Barcelona. Her broader research interests encompass the use of artificial intelligence in criminal proceedings, human rights and ethics, the boundaries of predictive crime systems, smart borders, and cybercrime.

 

 

Ignasi Oliva Corrales is a blockchain and DLT engineer and manager for i2CAT Foundation, a non-profit research and innovation center focused on developing a digital society. He is also a blockchain manager for the Digital Catalonia Alliance (DCA), an initiative uniting emerging technological sectors of the Catalan territory.