Cédric Wahl

Co-Founder and CTO

Secretarium

An ambitious forward-thinker, Cédric has been working in the convergence space of Applied Maths, Distributed Computing and Finance for the last 25 years. Backed by a strong academic background in Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences, he has built and led the exploit of large, distributed risk management compute systems for some of the most complex financial derivatives.  

 

Leveraging his knowledge of cryptography and investment banking privacy issues, Cédric then moved onto founding Société Générale’s Blockchain Lab in 2015.  

 

Now Co-Founder and CTO of Secretarium; a deep-tech trustless network start-up, committed to reshaping data ownership for the Web by providing privacy-preserving smart contract apps secured by PETs, he is driven by the desire to create a future where everyone controls their own data and can demonstrate honesty.

Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze

Information Economist and Policy Analyst

OECD

Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze is an Information Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), where he has been working on topics related to the digital economy since 2008 and more specifically on data governance since 2010.

Since 2010, Christian has been leading OECD projects on data governance including: the OECD project on Data-driven Innovation, Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data, and Data Portability. He is currently co-ordinating Phase III of the OECD Going Digital Project that focusses on Data Governance for Growth and Well-being, and is leading OECD work on “Emerging Privacy Enhancing Technology: Maturity, opportunities and challenges”.

Before joining the OECD, Christian worked as a researcher at the Institute for Information and Market Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at SAP Research (Germany). Christian holds a Diploma in Information Science, Engineering and Management and in Economics, both granted by the KIT.

Pavle Avramović

Emerging Tech & Research

Financial Conduct Authority

Pavle leads the Emerging Technologies Hub at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He focuses on providing insights and thought leadership on how emerging technologies could impact financial services markets, consumers and regulators. His areas of focus include quantum computing, privacy enhancing technologies, synthetic data and distributed ledger technologies.

Previously he was closely involved in FCA’s efforts across RegTech and SupTech, including the TechSprint work programme. He also leads the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) Horizon Scanning Workstream and is a member of the World Economic Forum Quantum Security Working Group.

He holds a MSc in Digital Innovation and Information Systems from the London School of Economics and is an Industrial Fellow at the University of East London. He has co-authored papers for the Harvard Data Science Review, Alan Turing Institute and other organisations, including presenting at major conferences and research seminars.

 

David Silva

David William Silva is a Ph.D computer scientist. He is responsible for translating business strategies and objectives into efficient, user-friendly, secure, and privacy-preserving data-centric solutions to enable organizations to extract maximum value from data correctly. David started his career as a Software Engineer focused on web services and agile software development. This experience led him to be involved with several projects, from startups to government and large corporations in many different fields. After 17 years of conducting R&D in Brazil, David moved to the US to engage in scientific research applied to a global industry of security and privacy, which has been his focus for the past nine years.

Adri Purkayastha

Group Head of AI and Digital Risk Analytics

BNP Paribas

Adri Purkayastha is currently Group Head of AI and Digital Risk Analytics at BNP Paribas S.A. In this role, his span of responsibility includes all Brands and Subsidiaries, across Domestic Markets, International Financial Services and Corporate & Institutional Banking. He focuses on developing, championing, and building an enterprise-wide understanding of AI/ML opportunities and risks, and overseeing end-to-end AI & Analytics governance and operating models. Additionally, he provides strategic and technical counsel on Data strategy and development of AI and Data Science solutions across the entire Group. Earlier in his career at Deloitte, he was the founder and product owner of AI-enabled SaaS solutions and AI & Data Science advisory lead focussed on Financial Services, worked in Forensic Data Analytics at EY and on Marketing Data Science in Pitney Bowes. He comes from a background that includes entrepreneurship, product management, and data science where we founded companies building AI-enabled products for EdTech, and P2P marketplaces.

John Bowman

Chief Privacy Office - AI Ethics Market Strategy Lead

IBM

John Bowman, joined IBM’s Chief Privacy Office in October 2022 with a primary mission to deliver client success and drive growth in IBM, including advising on enhancements to support regulatory compliance, helping to create a deployment framework, and commercialisation of select CPO assets.  Previously, John was a Senior Principal in Promontory, a Business Unit of IBM Consulting, having joined the company in 2014. John’s client engagements included managing privacy change programmes, preparing applications for Binding Corporate Rules, helping organisations prepare for regulatory audits, and advising on issues of risk, compliance, and public policy. Prior to joining Promontory, John worked at the UK Ministry of Justice where he was Head of EU and International Data Protection Policy. In this role, he served as the UK government’s lead negotiator on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). John served on the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) European Advisory Board 2019-2020 and has over 25 articles published on privacy-related topics.