Mark Plinio
Ann Marie Conway
Warren Flood
Cecile Teles
Cecile is Head Patent Attorney at Zentiva. She has over a decade of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
Cecile is uniquely experienced and knowledgeable in the pharma space as she has experience in-house at an elite innovator company (Sanofi), biologics (Merck Serono), and extensive generic experience she gained as Zentiva.
Cecile is an enthusiastic manager of her team and was a key member of the IP team in leading the transformation of Zentiva into an independent and competitive generic company after divestment from Sanofi.
Cecile is a qualified European Patent Attorney. She also holds a certificate from CEIPI in patent litigation and most recently completed her diploma as a Master of Laws in France.
Matthijs van den Bos
Matthijs van den Bos is a Lead Engineer at ING Bank's Center of Expertise for Blockchain, focusing on solving blockchain privacy challenges.
On behalf of ING, he is CTO for ZKFlow (zkflow.io), which brings confidential transactions to Corda using Zero Knowledge Proofs. Matthijs has been developing on Corda since 2016 and has previously been involved as CTO in one of R3's earliest Corda initiatives to reach production status.
Before joining ING, Matthijs worked in different technology positions in various industries throughout his twenty-year career.
Nigel Smart
Smart received a BSc degree in mathematics from the University of Reading in 1989 and his PhD degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1992. Smart proceeded to work as a research fellow at the University of Kent, the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Cardiff University until 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he was a lecturer at the University of Kent, and then spent three years at Hewlett-Packard from 1997 to 2000. From 2000 to 2017 he was at the University of Bristol, where he founded the cryptology research group. From 2018 he has been based in the COSIC group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Smart held a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award (2008-2013), and two ERC Advanced Grant (2011-2016 and 2016-2021). He was a director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2012-2014), and was elected Vice President for the period 2014-2016. In 2016 he was named as a Fellow of the IACR.
Smart carries out research on a wide variety of topics in cryptography. Smart is known for his work in elliptic curve cryptography. He has also worked on pairing-based cryptography contributing a number of algorithms such as the SK-KEM and the Ate-pairing. His work with Gentry and Halevi on performing the first large calculation using Fully Homomorphic Encryption won the IBM Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award for 2012. In the last decade he has worked on making secure multiparty computation practical.
In addition to his three years at HP Laboratories, Smart was a founder of the startup Identum, which was bought by Trend Micro in 2008. In 2013 he formed, with Yehuda Lindell, Unbound Security, a company deploying products based on multi-party computations. He is also the co-founder, along with Kenny Paterson, of the Real World Cryptography conference series.
Nick J Maxwell
Nick Maxwell leads the Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing (FFIS) research programme, hosted within the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies. The mission of the FFIS programme is to examine evidence related to the effectiveness, proportionality and efficiency of public/private and private/private information-sharing partnerships and processes, and to share good practice between existing partnership models around the world. Prior to this role, Nick’s professional career has included head of Research and Advocacy for Transparency International UK; providing anti-money laundering specialist advice to NATO; managing the International Economics Programme at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs); and leading the public policy function at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Martin Fontanet
Martin Fontanet is working as a privacy and security expert at the Swiss Data Science Center. His role is to help in the design and development of the Swiss Data Custodian, a project addressing one of the main challenges facing data science: processing individual data without putting privacy at risk.
Before joining the SDSC, Martin obtained a BSc and a MSc in Communication Systems from EPFL, where he specialized in information security and privacy. He is currently based in Vaud, Switzerland.
