Speakers

Marco Conoscenti Marco Conoscenti is a postdoctoral researcher at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society (Polytechnic University of Turin). He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Polytechnic University of Turin in October 2019, with a thesis entitled “Capabilities and Limitations of Payment Channel Networks for Blockchain Scalability”. His research interests include the…

Alexis Drogoul Alexis Drogoul graduated in AI in 1990 and received his PhD. degree from the University of Paris 6 in 1993. Recruited in 1995 as associate professor, he became full professor in 2000 and joined the IRD as a senior researcher in 2004. He works on agent-based simulation of complex systems, mainly by developing…

Alexandra Giannopoulou Alexandra Giannopoulou is a postdoctoral researcher at the Blockchain and Society Policy Lab at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. Her PhD thesis, obtained in 2016 from the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas and entitled ‘Les licences Creative Commons’, is forthcoming at editions L’Harmattan. She is an associate researcher…

Carlo Piana Carlo Piana is an Italian Free Software advocate and qualified IT lawyer based in Milano. A long standing advocate for open technologies and digital freedoms, he has been general counsel of the Free Software Foundation Europe and is in the OS and IP advisory to the United Nations’ Technology Innovation Laboratories and an…

Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz is lawyer, ICT practitioner and legal expert in the framework of www.JOINUP.eu, the collaborative public sector sharing and reusing website of the European Commission. He authored several studies in the field of intellectual property rights applied to software, the public procurement reform, the best practice contractual clauses in case of software…

Myriam Ayass Myriam Ayass is Legal Advisor for the Knowledge Transfer Group at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and is specialised in Intellectual Property Law. She joined CERN in 2005, and has been working in the field of technology transfer since that date. It is in this context that she became involved in…

Célya Gruson-Daniel Célya is a doctor of social sciences and a consultant at Inno³. She supports private and public institutes in their research and open innovation approach by promoting the implementation of open science and data science practices. She co-founded the HackYourResearch collective in order to create a space for sharing and discuss on the…

Arnau Monterde Arnau Monterde is the Director of Democratic Innovation at the Barcelona City Council. He is one of the cofounders of Decidim project. He has also promoted the Ateneu of Democratic Innovation in Barcelona, a Laboratory for research and action on democracy and technology. He studies emerging forms of political participation and democracy in…

Leonardo Favario Leonardo is the Open Source Project Leader of the Department for the Digital Transformation at the Italian Government. He is responsible for the open source strategy which involves Developers Italia, the publiccode.yml specification, the new National guidelines and the catalogue of open source software created by public administrations and available for reuse. Leonardo,…