Dr. Giovanna Massarotto is an international expert on antitrust, economic regulation and IP law in the field of information technology. She is Research Associate of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT), Adjunct Professor for the University of Iowa, and teaches IT Law at H-FARM. She is author of the book “Antitrust Settlements–How a Simple Agreement Can Drive the Economy” and multiple articles on antitrust and regulatory issues related to blockchain, digital markets and software that she presented in several institutions, including University of Oxford, Harvard and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

Prof. Tomaso Aste is Professor of complexity science at UCL Computer Science. He has substantially contributed to research in financial systems modelling, complex data analytics and machine learning. He is passionate in the investigation of the effect of technologies on society, and currently, focuses on the application of blockchain technologies to domains beyond digital currencies. He is the principal investigator for the largest UK project on blockchain for automatic regulation and compliance. He is Scientific Director of the UCL CBT; Head of the Financial Computing and Analytics Group and Member of the Board of the ESRC LSE-UCL Systemic Risk Centre.

Dr Marco Delmastro is an economist at Agcom where he is the Director of the Department of Economics & Statistics. Before (i.e., 2005-2009), he worked in Agcom as the President’s Economic Advisor. Prior to joining Agcom (years 2001-2005), he was Economist at the Italian Competition Authority (Agcm), and case handler of important antitrust cases in the communications sector. He spent two years (1997-1999) at Politecnico di Milano as a Senior Research Fellow and one year (2000) at the University of Pavia as a Lecturer.

Dr Chris Pike is a competition expert at the OECD. He is responsible for the proceedings of Working Party No. 2 of the OECD Competition Committee which focuses on Competition and Regulation. He has authored numerous Background Papers for OECD Roundtables on a variety of competition enforcement and policy topics. Most recently he led the OECD’s work on rethinking the use of traditional antitrust enforcement tools in multi-sided markets, killer acquisitions, digital regulation, market concentration, inequality, labour markets, loyalty rebates, price discrimination, competitive neutrality, blockchain, open API standards, gender, and publicly-funded markets.

Mr Michael Catt leads Business Development efforts at The Block Research — The leading information services organization in the digital asset industry. Michael is also the founder of the University of Kansas Blockchain Institute.

Mr Ginevra Di Berardino – Senior Advisor ECN lead and Senior Policy & International Adviser at Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) (TBC)

Dr Primavera De Filippi – Research Associate UCL CBT and Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (TBC)

Prof Claudio Tessone is Chairman, UZH Blockchain Center and a Research Associate of the UCL CBT. He is an expert in the modelling of economic, social and technical systems from a quantitative and interdisciplinary perspective. His research focuses on blockchain and Bitcoin, specifically in the economic and technical aspects of these ground-breaking technologies: Emergent economic patterns, apparent and hidden incentive schemes, the design of new systems, and the design of decentralised, scalable architectures.