Alessandro Tonchia,

Alessandro Tonchia is one of the founders of smartKYC and a director in Finantix. He focuses on the international growth and overall technology direction. He has been responsible for implementations of KYC/AML systems and intelligent advisory tools that leverage both natural language processing and automated reasoning. An Italian national, he studied philosophy and linguistics at both Ludwig Maximilian Universitaet (Munich) and UCLA (Los Angeles). Alessandro has a passion for technology, languages and history. He is happily based in London, with just a tinge of nostalgia for his hometown, Venice.

Jana Essebier

Jana Essebier is an attorney at law admitted to the bar in Switzerland and Germany and partner at the law firm VISCHER in the field of banking and finance law. She regularly advises Swiss and foreign financial market participants on regulatory law and insolvency and restructuring as well as on litigious matters. One focus of her work is FinTech innovations, such as crowdfunding, mobile payment and blockchain, as well as providing legal advice to start-ups. In addition, she advises both financial market participants and investors on derivatives, structured products and other financial instruments. Jana is recognized by the Regulatory Board of the SIX Swiss Exchange as a representative of issuers.

Luis Ackermann

Luis Ackermann is a Data Scientist and IT Architect. Three years ago he founded Lex Ferenda and has since been developing systems for automated legal data processing and digital assistance tools for legal professionals. He specialises in the area of Machine Learning and Data Security, crafting algorithms which provide reliable insights while complying with high confidentiality standards.

Philippe D. Zimmermann

After his studies in Management at the University of Berne, he worked for several years in academic research and teaching positions. From 2007 onwards he worked in the software industry and was in charge of the certificate business at SwissSign AG, first as a Product Manager, then as a Business Unit Manager. He also founded 2 startup companies, which are still both successfully active. He has an overall experience of 15 years in the fields of e-business and e-government.
Currently, he works at the SECO, where he heads the SME-portal and the business registration portal StartBiz. He also manages the national e-government project „Transaction portal for businesses“ www.egovernment.ch/oss.

Daniel Gasteiger

Daniel Gasteiger began his career as a foreign exchange trader at Credit Suisse and joined UBS Investmentbank in 1998. He then worked as a managing director at UBS at the Corporate Center and, starting in 2012, built the office of the Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 2015 he left the financial industry and founded Nexussquared in Zurich. The start-up advises Blockchain start-ups as well as established companies on the subject of blockchain. In 2016, he founded his second company, Procivis AG, which advises authorities and governments on the use of block-based solutions and offers e-government-as-a-service.

Markus Waldner

Markus was trained as an electrical engineer ETH (postgraduate HSG) Markus Waldner held various senior positions in the industry, with a focus on radio and communication technology. In 2004, he moved to the EJPD and prepared a project for the definitive introduction of the biometric passport in Switzerland. Since 2013, he has been responsible for the conceptual and project work of the federal government for the introduction of a state-recognized electronic identity, as well as the projects for the development and public procurement of the next generation of passports on passports and identity cards

Michael Bornhäuser

Michael Bornhäusser is a co-owner and the head of Private Equity, Products & Services. He has been in business for 20 years, during which time he has successfully founded, acquired and resold or floated companies in the internet, telecommunication and media sectors. He lectures at St. Gallen University and the University of NW Switzerland and is a board member of companies in Switzerland and abroad

Stephan Breidenbach

Stephan Breidenbach is a law professor at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), a mediator and an entrepreneur.Stephan co-founded betterplace.org, knowledgeTools International GmbH and Blue Economy Solutions.

Markus Hartung

Markus Hartung - a lawyer and mediator - is director of the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession (CLP) at Bucerius Law School. His research at CLP revolves around market developments and trends, management, strategic leadership and Corporate Governance, as well as new business models enabled through Legal Tech.

Simon Ahammer

Simon Ahammer is a lawyer and currently heads the internal software development department of the medium-sized law firm Beiten Burkhardt. Already during his legal studies Mr. Ahammer was concerned about software projects in the legal sector. Since this time, he has been designing and developing branch-specific legal applications, as well as working as a legaltech consultant.

Gerard Neiditsch

Gerard Neiditsch has a track record of technology enabled transformation and operations management at large professional services organisations. He has been working for more than two decades in applying innovative technology and work practice changes at leading legal, advisory and accounting firms, at a civil engineering company and a wholesaler. He has also been the co-founder of a leading eDiscovery and virtual data room software company. He is also the co-inventor of a new electronic filing technology, now known as NetDocuments Email.

Bruno Mascello

Qualified attorney and internationally experienced in both private practice and in-house/legal department. Proven management and leadership skills. Experienced trouble shooter and interim general counsel. Experienced negotiator on an international level and project manager. Broad, international and interdisciplinary education in law and economics (LL.M., Executive MBA). Adjunct professor and lecturer at the University of St. Gallen / Executive School in the area of Law&Management. Legal and business consulting, coaching, trouble shooting and interim roles for establishing/leading legal departments.

Maurus Schreyvogel

Chief of staff to the Group General Counsel provides the backbone infrastructure for the Legal function and is responsible for the strategy execution. Together with peers from other functions and business units the chief of staff supports the development the group wide strategy and participates in group wide and cross functional strategic initiatives. Furthermore, the chief of staff delivers the Legal management reporting, oversees research to develop the Legal function and provides internal and external communication support for the Group General Counsel.

Gian Sandro Genna

Sascha Theissen

Consulting for companies, legal departments and law firms in the search for and implementation of new business models, digital tools and legal tech, as well as support for change processes for more innovation and modern leadership through agile methods, kanban and design thinking

Christian Laux

Christian Laux is a partner at LAUX LAWYERS AG and is a specialist with technical experience for over 15 years. He advises IT-providers and private clients especially in the financial market (insurance, banks, etc.), e-health and digital marketing. LAUX LAWYERS AG is a law firm specializing in IT aspects, which supports clients of all industries in digitization projects and in in technically defined tasks (cloud computing, blockchain / Distributed Ledgers, Internet of Things, Analytics / Big Data, etc.).

Martin Eckert

Martin Eckert, one of the three founding partners of MME, has broad experience in assisting international technology and commercial firms (contracts, distribution, relocation, M&A). His areas of expertise are IT, IP and technology law, particularly in the telecommunications and high tech sectors (inter alia medical technology). He has been appointed as an expert lawyer in negotiating many complex IT-Outsourcing projects, mainly for banks and insurance companies. He acts as a litigator in complex commercial law cases before arbitral tribunals and commercial state courts.

Florent Thouvenin

Florent Thouvenin is an associate professor of information and communications law, chairman of the executive board of the Center for Information Technology, Society, and Law (ITSL), Director of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) of the University of Zürich and Associate Fellow at Collegium Helveticum. His research focuses on copyright and privacy issues in the digital society.

Philippe Nantermod

Philippe Nantermod (33) is a member of the Swiss parliament, vice-president of the Swiss liberal-radical party. He works as an independent lawyer. As part of its activities, it has been very involved in digitization issues and proposes a deregulation and market liberalization approach to deal with the digital revolution.

Patrick Allemann

Patrick has extensive knowledge of security and cryptography, having worked in various projects in the context of secure data storage. He is founder of futuretek AG, a technology solution provider, and has been actively involved in Cryptocurrencies since 2012. Previously, he gained a broad experience in various technology and business positions across several sectors, with a focus on banking.

Julia Heinzer

Julia Heinzer is a Managing Director with Accenture’s Finance & Risk practice in Switzerland, responsible for finance & risk innovation technologies including blockchain. Her expertise is in regulatory change and using innovation as an enabler for finance and risk functions. She has hands-on blockchain experience and focus on how distributed-ledger technologies can provide value to insurance companies and banks.

Marc Morant

Marc is the General Manager of Axiom in Switzerland and a member of Axiom’s Continental Europe management team. Axiom is the world’s largest provider of tech-enabled legal, contracts and compliance solutions for large enterprises. The firm’s unique solutions combine legal expertise, technology and data analytics to deliver work in a way that dramatically reduces risk, cost and cycle time. At Axiom, Marc is responsible for the firm’s first Continental European office including expansion across the region. In this fully-fledged role, Marc is directing a team responsible for managing and developing the firm's relationships with Switzerland based clients.

Rolf Auf der Maur

Since the beginning of his career as an attorney in 1992, Rolf Auf der Maur has focused on the legal aspects of the internet, combining his fascination with new communication technologies with his legal expertise. His clients include leading companies from the media and entertainment industries as well as from the telecommunications and information technology industries. In addition to his activities as an attorney, Rolf publishes and speaks regularly on internet-related legal issues and is a member of various industry bodies (e.g. as a board member of simsa Swiss internet industry association, IAB Switzerland and the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers).

Luka Müller

Luka Müller-Studer provides assistance to companies in the technology and financial sector. He focuses on technology, financing acquisition and restructuring cases. He is an expert on complex compliance cases in the areas of regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and judicial assistance and advisor of large compliance organizations.

Wiebe de Fries

He is a licensed tax and civil law attorney in the Netherlands, and founded his own Tax boutique, BloomTax B.V., based in Amsterdam, in April 2014. He is a tax advisor on international transactions, international structurings and investments in and through the Netherlands. Although his practice predominantly comprises Dutch and foreign based corporate clients, he also advises a considerable number of private clients on their personal income tax position and cross border tax aspects. He studied Dutch civil law in Leiden and tax law in Amsterdam, he got his degrees in 2001 and 2004

Isabel Parker

Isabel trained and qualified as a finance lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. In 2013, she moved from fee earning into the Management office of Freshfields as Strategy Lead for a firmwide
global change project to shape the firm’s target operating model. She set up the firm’s legal Services Centre in Manchester, which
formally opened in July 2015. In December 2015, Isabel was made a Senior Director of the firm, responsible for legal services
innovation. She has responsibility for reshaping the legal services elements of the Global Centre and the wider firm, to enhance the value of Freshfields’ client service.

Henrique Säuberli

Henrique works for IBM Research. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the ETH Zurich and has worked as a financial services consultant for 7 years. AT IBM Research, he combines his knowledge of technology and finance to identify technologies that are innovative and revolutionize the financial sector. He is focused on A.I. and cognitive computing, robotics, blockchain and quantum computing

Meng Weng Wong

Meng Weng Wong has a degree in Applied Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and has recently been appointed as a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and at Stanford University's Codex Center for Legal Informatics. His programming languages include Haskell, Prolog, SMT-lib, and Javascript. As a client of the legal industry he has spent over $500,000 in fees over the last decade, and is now building software at legalese.com to reduce future fees for himself and others.