Having a product design background, Andreas Sommerwerk is an n experienced Service Design Lead with a focus in telecommunications industry. Andreas has expertise in the following fields: user experience, design management, user interface design, concept development, mobile applications, data protection, company building, business strategy – and blockchain.

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Bobbi is currently the Chairperson of the Hyperledger Learning Materials Development Working Group where she is responsible for moderating the bi weekly meetings, setting agendas maintaining the Confluence Wiki Page and developing the documentation standards for Hyperledger Projects and Special Interest Groups. Recently edited the Linux Foundation EdX course, “Introduction to Business Blockchain” LFs171s Go Live 7/16/2019.

Bobbi opened Ledger Academy, a blockchain training Center at Tiger Labs in Princeton, NJ whose mission is to consult and train enterprises on Blockchain Technologies. She is the organizer for the Hyperledger Princeton Meetup, Princeton Blockchain Meetup and Ledger Academy’s Blockchain Fundamentals Meetup which has over 1500 members and regular sessions at the Ledger Academy offices at Tiger Labs Princeton. As Project manager for the Princeton Summer Blockchain Project, The Giving Chain she successfully collected and distributed 100 plus “Giving Bags” of food to local food insecure individuals and area food banks, all track with a Sawtooth Blockchain. Through this experience she started a Non -Profit, BCPrinceton, which looks to expand the Giving Chain and the underlying D2R application..

Bobbi holds ( 2) Undergraduate degrees, BS in Computer and Decision Science, and BS in Management and Organizational Behaviors. In 2002 she received a Masters in Business Education. She holds a NJ Teaching Certification in Business. Recently courses : Smart Contract on the Ethereum Network and RSK Ambassador Executive Blockchain Program. Princeton University’s, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, (current).

She is an active member of the Hyperledger Community holding the position of Chairperson of the Learning Material working groups as well as being an active members in the Public Sector, Social Impact, Telecom and Trade Finance Special Interest Groups.

Bobbi also was a judge the Washington DC Blockchain for Social Impact Competition in 2018.

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For the last 5 years, Claire has worked within the e-money space, with a distinct focus on the use of DLT as an enabler of payments innovation achieved through programmability, operational efficiencies and financial inclusion capabilities.

Claire is Co-Founder and CRO of OneStep Financial Ltd. OSF is a payments platform company that simplifies complex corporate mass payouts such as refunds, incentives and payments to contingent workers; and also turns payments into marketing and engagement tools through its programmable payment capabilities.

She is Operations and Governance lead at the Digital Pound Foundation, a non-profit organisation that advocates for a well-designed digital, providing thought leadership output and educational events on all matters relating to CBDCs and privately issued forms of digital money.

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Conor is the Founder/CEO of Web3 Labs, an enterprise blockchain technology company. Web3 Labs are the creators of Epirus, an enterprise blockchain explorer and smart contract registry platform. He’s also the author of web3j, the Java integration library for Ethereum and Quorum, and the technical standards chair at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (http://entethalliance.org).

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Leemon is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, and is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Hedera. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs. He has been the Co-Founder of several startups, including two identity-related startups, both of which were acquired. Leemon received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.

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Crazy Innovator helping Startups and Enterprises find peace with Blockchain DevOps, dApp deployments, solutions and to have the power to deploy within minutes, monitor in real-time, visualize their networks and much more.

Also, Actively exploring and building Secure Federated Learning platform to enable AI/ML in a decentralized future.

In my past, have endeavored into:

Defense & Aerospace (RnD)
Developed game changing, futuristic and combat ready solutions for international defense market.

Telecommunication (RnD)
Played an integral role in migration to VOIP when twisted pair ruled the industry.

Media & Broadcasting
Been a key player in transition of legacy broadcasting solutions to next gen Cloud ready solutions.

Willing to connect to share and learn more on Blockchain and decentralized ecosystem.

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Hart has extensive experience in blockchain and cryptography, and previously worked in blockchain and cryptography research at Fujitsu Research where he helped lead Fujitsu’s efforts in Hyperledger.  Prior to Fujitsu, Hart received a Ph.D. in cryptography at Stanford under Dan Boneh, where he was a Stanford Graduate Fellow.  Hart has numerous academic publications and patents in cryptography and blockchain and brings a wealth of experience in these areas to the Hyperledger Foundation.

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Heather launched Indicio in 2020, a software development firm that provides decentralized identity networks and products needed for building, testing and deploying digital identity solutions. Prior, Heather was the executive director of the Sovrin Network, a nonprofit that was the leading early adopter of decentralized identity. Under her leadership, the Sovrin Network expanded across the globe.

She successfully lead the launch of Indicio after identifying critical gaps in the decentralized identity marketplace: the lack of top-flight engineering support for companies and organizations that wanted to build identity solutions, the absence of a professionally-run network for enterprise-scale projects, and missing software to make a decentralized ecosystem fully operational.

Heather is credited with making Indicio into the leading global developer of decentralized identity software for enterprise-grade solutions and the leading global network for mission-critical decentralized identity solutions. Through a successful collaboration with SITA, the leading global provider to the air transport industry, Indicio is poised to change the way we travel. Through Cardea, which was adopted as a Linux Foundation Public Health project, Indicio can now deploy off-the-shelf identity solutions for any kind of health credential or public health deployment.
Under Heather’s leadership, Indicio launched multiple verifiable digital credential solutions in areas from fintech to energy for a growing global client base and is poised to develop decentralized identity solutions for the IoT and physical asset space. These complete Decentralized identity toolsets solve the pain points of verification and data liability, fraud, efficiency, and cost savings in managing complex data systems while implementing zero trust security architecture to simplify consumer consent in the face of a growing compliance burden. Heather identified Decentralized identity as a symbiotic technology that successfully melds with existing systems to provide an easy and cost-effective path to integration, adaptation, and innovation.

Heather has shown that by creating a company relentlessly focused on building successful implementations and user experiences, this technology has exponential growth potential.

This is what led Heather to launch Indicio, a public benefit corporation to advance decentralized identity. Committed to the development of open-source software, Indicio provides training, support, governance, and hosting services for a growing list of global clients that successfully demonstrate time and time again the ability for decentralized identity to solve fundamental problems in online verification, identity, privacy, and zero trust security.

Prior to her work in digital identity, Heather led research teams at KPMG and at telecommunications firm Neustar. Heather has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and an MSC from Columbia. She served as chair of the National Press Foundation board of directors and as chair of the Congressional Correspondents Association. Heather is widely regarded as a global thought leader on online privacy and security issues, and advises governments and global NGOs on decentralized identity applications. Heather is a committed advocate for privacy-preserving cybersecurity technologies

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Jannah Patchay is an Executive Director and Policy Lead for the Digital Pound Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation launched in 2021 to advocate for the introduction of a well-designed digital Pound and for an effective, diverse and competitive ecosystem for new forms of digital money in the UK. Jannah is also the founder of Markets Evolution, a consultancy specialising in financial markets innovation and regulatory strategy. Her passion lies in building the financial markets of the future, harnessing frontier technologies to create new and innovative financial services and products that can promote wider social and environmental benefit, and greater access to financial services.

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Karen Ottoni is the Senior Director of Ecosystem & Strategic Initiatives for LF Decentralized Trust and has been in the blockchain space since 2016. She plays a leading role in growing and supporting the diverse ecosystem of organizations modernizing systems worldwide with decentralized technologies. Her areas of emphasis include open source, CBDCs, digital assets and interoperability.

Prior to joining Linux Foundation, she worked as a strategic business manager in the blockchain practice at Tata Consultancy Services. Karen speaks five languages and previously had a career in international development working in numerous overseas roles in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia with the U.S. Government and various social enterprises. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international service and economics from American University and an M.B.A. from Duke University.

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Makoto Takemiya is a co-founder and CEO of Soramitsu. He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed scientific papers and actively engages in research. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and is currently working towards his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. At Soramitsu he has helped lead the creation of Hyperledger Iroha, a settlement system for the National Bank of Cambodia, a Decentralized Digital Depository for digital assets called D3 Ledger, as well as a decentralized autonomous economic system called Sora.

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Mark Rakhmilevich is a Senior Director of Blockchain Product Management in Oracle Middleware and Cloud PaaS Development. Mark works with Blockchain Cloud Service engineering to address the needs of enterprise customers and SI & ISV partners with scalable, secure, and managed cloud platform for deployment of enterprise-oriented blockchain networks. He helps guide customers and partners around the world in applying blockchain technology to a broad range of business challenges, conducting discovery and sharing best practices, deployment models, and integration architecture to facilitate rapid experimentation and production-ready results. Mark publishes articles and delivers industry seminars and customer workshops on requirements for enterprise blockchain, and Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service.

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Mohan has more than 30 years of IT experience with the last 10 focused on technology consulting. He has held previous consulting, engineering, and senior management roles with companies including Deloitte, Boston Consulting Group, MomentumSI, Nortel, MCI (now Verizon), NTT Data and Tranzyme Pharma. Mohan’s primary career focus has been on process integration, project management, IT governance, and enterprise architecture and solution delivery.

His professional interests are industry-neutral and technology agnostic. He excels at transforming organizations by leveraging and harvesting their existing assets to create core capabilities that support business priorities, strategic direction and alignment between business and IT. His current interests are in cloud solutions, big data, SOA, enterprise architecture (EA), governance and establishment of integration competency centers. Mohan holds Masters in Management Studies (MMS) and Masters in Science degrees from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India. He is a member of the North Carolina Board of Public Telecommunications and North Carolina State Bar.

What does Mohan do for fun when he doesn’t work on delivering innovative technology solutions to our customers?
Mohan likes to spend time with friends, exercise, garden, network and travel.

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Phil Windley is an Enterprise Architect in the CIO’s office at Brigham Young University. A passionate tech educator, he is the co-founder and organizer of the Internet Identity Workshop, serves as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at BYU, writes the popular Technometria blog, and is the author of the books The Live Web published by Course Technology in 2011 and Digital Identity published by O’Reilly Media in 2005. Phil serves on the Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for several high-tech companies.

Phil has been a professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University and the University of Idaho. In addition, Phil was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kynetx, the company behind the open-source connected-car product, Fuse. He also spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah in 2001-2002, serving on Governor Mike Leavitt’s Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home. He was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early creator of ecommerce tools. Phil received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Davis in 1990.

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Mr. Ravi Jagannathan is a founding member of one of the largest PKI businesses; he brings in considerable technology and operational experience and expertise in the areas of cryptography and security. He has a successful track record, starting from PKI, semantic, mobile wallet and now Blockchain. Mr. Ravi works towards surfacing the single version of truth and believes that the Internet provided us the age of information but Blockchain provides us the age of digital ownership.

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Rodrigo is a professional in the ICT area with Ba in Electrical Engineering and MSc in Science & Technology Policy, a learning mindset and a broad repertoire of practical skills on technical and commercial aspects of business and technologies. Currently works in CPqD proposing Digital Transformation projects to government and business partners involving Artificial Intelligence, IoT and Blockchain, and also for developing the ecosystem around blockchain initiatives. Before that, he worked at Lucent Technologies as Account Executive and Technical Sales for Brazilian CSPs. He also provides mentoring to startups and entrepreneurs and has supported technological roadmapping initiatives in telecom and agribusiness sponsored by government bodies.

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Saptarshi is a techno functional consultant with 6 years of diverse experience and a background in electrical engineering.He has experience in consulting domain for the construction, power, food and beverage and has been involved in the 360 degree delivery of IT products and services involving blockchain.

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Sophia Lopez is Founder and President of Kaleido, an award-winning Web3, blockchain, and digital assets platform that provides scalable and secure infrastructure to enterprises globally. Its clients include the world’s largest banks, top healthcare and insurance networks, gaming companies, 80% of the world’s supply chain leaders, top retail companies, organizations such as SWIFT, World Bank, and IMF, along with 100s of global enterprise networks. Sophia helped launch the IBM Blockchain Platform, the industry’s first blockchain managed service. She held executive P&L responsibility for the blockchain product portfolio. Previously, Sophia held multi-billion dollar P&L executive roles at IBM for enterprise software and hardware lines of business. Sophia currently serves on the Hyperledger Foundation Governing Board and is a senior advisor for Web3 to McKinsey & Company. Sophia serves as an advisor to startups, helping facilitate Web3 masterclasses and blockchain sessions at Davos, Milken Institute, SIBOS, HIMSS and other industry leading events, and providing mentorship in Web3 programs such as the ConsenSys Tachyon accelerator. Sophia has an engineering degree from Harvard University and MBA from UNC Chapel Hill.

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Toshiya Cho is Senior Evangelist / Managing Director, Financial Information System Sales Management Divisionat Hitachi, Ltd. He has a career as systems engineer, business consultant for financial industry as well as a banker. Before joining Hitachi, Toshiya was responsible for Internet Banking and CRM at Citibank N.A.(Japan) and has been involved in a wide range of business and technologies related to marketing, channel strategies, biometrics, and artificial intelligence. Toshiya is a frequent speaker at industrial events and academia. He co-authored “E-Commerce Banking Strategies” (2000), Toyo Keizai, Inc. Toshiya holds a BA in economics from Waseda University and MBA in marketing and international business from New York University.

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Tracy Kuhrt is a Technology Architect within Accenture’s Emerging and Growth business with 20+ years of experience covering the entire software development lifecycle. Tracy has been involved in the blockchain space since 2015. Prior to joining Accenture, Tracy was a Hyperledger Community Architect.

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Vipin is the chair of the Identity Working Group and a member of the Architecture Working Group in the Hyperledger Community. Vipin works on bridging the gap between business and technology, having had prior experience in translating business processes and needs into working software. In the blockchain space, Vipin is actively engaged with the Federated as well as the Open Blockchain community. He is interested in crypto-economics, legal & regulatory topics, and transformation of legacy systems through innovation and interoperability.

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Yuxiang (David) Liu is Senior Technology Architect at Oracle. As Hyperledger TWGC committee, he is leading Fabric-GM SIG and helping in HK meetup organizing and local community.

As an individual, he contributes to fabric-sdk-node, fabric documenting works.

With 4 years experience of using Hyperledger in healthcare-finance and Mediconcen former CTO, he has been volunteering to advocate Hyperledger adoption and digital migration.

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