International ConferencePublic SectorArtificial Intelligence &
Blockchain Summit

Virginia Cram-MartosCEO, Triagularity SàRL & Project Lead for a Blockchain project, Triagularity SàRL & Expert for United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business

Virginia Cram-Martos participates as an expert related to blockchain and other technologies. This includes being the leader for a project of the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) that created a white paper on Blockchain in Trade Facilitation and co-leader of another white paper project on the Internet of Things and Trade Facilitation. In addition, she participates in blockchain fora of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the ISO, the EU and the World Economic Forum. Prior to Triangularity she worked for 25 years at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva. During her last 11 years at the UN, she was a Director responsible for: trade facilitation, global UN electronic business standards, regulatory cooperation, national innovation frameworks and public-private partnerships.

Prof. Dr. Alexiei DingliHead of AI Department, University of Malta and Malta.Ai Task-Force

Prof Alexiei Dingli is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Head of the Department of AI at the University of Malta. He has been conducting research and working in the field of AI for the past two decades. His work was rated World Class by international experts and won various prizes including the Semantic Web Challenge, the first prize by the European Space Agency, the e-Excellence Gold Seal award, the first Prize in the Malta Innovation Awards, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) award for Creativity and the first prize of the Energy Globe award by the UN amongst others. He has published several peer reviewed papers and books in the field. He is also involved in various AI projects with local and international organisations. The Government of Malta appointed him on the Malta.AI task-force aimed at making Malta one of the top AI countries in the world.

Dr. Otto C. FrommeltDirector, National Road Office at the Principality of Liechtenstein

Dr. Otto C. Frommelt is Director of the National Road Office at the Principality of Liechtenstein. He has top management expertise and significant international experience within the automotive industry, governmental administration, non-profit organisations and innovative startup companies. His Senior Executive roles have been diverse and include those of CEO & Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), Business Development Director, Marketing Manager, and Chairman/Board Member of Dealership Groups, Leasing and Rental companies and non-profit organisations (such as the Economic and Social Research Council, UK). Moreover, he is an international Scenario, Strategy and Foresight Expert as well as Business Ambassador. Most recently, he has published several articles about Autonomous Vehicles and Mobility in the Blockchain by Click & Drive.

Tadej Gabrijele-Government expert, Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia

Mr. Tadej Gabrijel is an e-Government expert at the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia. In the past, he was involved in modernization of the basic government registers such as the Central Population Register, Civil Status Register, Vehicles Register, and Travel Documents Registers; he was also involved in the development of first EU biometric passport. His team won an award as UNPSA Winner 2013, for developing internationally recognised and highly successful application building blocks for electronic data exchange between institutions. He is participating in international activities (EU e-government benchmark group, OECD E-government indicators group, pilot projects, various exchanges of best practices with other countries) and in preparation of various strategic documents regarding e-government, digital governance, public administration development etc.

Kenji HiramotoChief Strategist, Government of Japan

Kenji Hiramoto is the Chief Strategist in the National Strategy Office of IT, at the Government of Japan. He is also the Executive Advisor to the CIO of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan. He is in charge of the digital government and the national data strategy. Additionally he is a leader of the Government Interoperability Framework project that is focused on taxnomy, API, data structure, data quality and rules. He is also a member of the data exchange plattform project. Mr. Hiramoto is an active member of many AI and NLP projects. Especially, he is one of the key people who analyzed SNS messages at the time of the Fukushima disaster. Taking advantage of his experience, he uses language analysis in various fields such as policy making and economic analysis.

Marten KaevatsNational Digital Advisor, Government Office of Estonia

Marten Kaevats, is the National Digital Advisor in the Government Office of Estonia or unofficially the Chief Innovation Officer of Estonia. He studies the impact of various scalable technologies on the spatial behaviour of individual people and communities, as he believes that the industrial revolution and the hyperlocal model of life will create reformatory changes to the spatial and social behaviour of people. Marten has graduated from govermental talent managment programme in 2017. He is educated as architect and city planner and has been the chief of TAB 2015 “Self Driven City” curatorial team. Marten is also an active member of several civil society organisations; he was also one of the founding members of the Uue Maailma Selts (New World Society) in 2007 which triggered reformatory changes in participatory democracy and a revolution in civil society, also he founded and contributed to the creation of freeware community web platform Community Tools, established in 2008.

Dr. Alaa MoussawiChief Data Scientist, New York City Council

Holding a PhD in physics, Alaa Moussawi is currently the Chief Data Scientist for the New York City Council. He works with the council to promote data-driven legislation that optimally serves the needs of a growing NYC population. His research has ranged from analysis of network flows in power grids, opinion dynamics and spreading process on networks, to modeling and analysis of income distributions in social systems. Al will be discussing some of the challenges that the NYC council and the US as a whole face when it comes to creating legislation to ensure that AI is used responsibly and ethically in the public and private sectors.

Pratheep PonrajSenior IT Officer, World Bank Group

At the World Bank Innovation Lab, Pratheep Ponraj works on several disruptive technologies including AI, Machine Learning, Geospatial, Augmented Reality among other things. He is also actively involved in several World Bank Group projects in client countries in Health, Education, Water, Justice Sector Modernization, Agriculture and Disaster Recovery in applying emerging technologies to solve sector challenges. He has also published a paper on applying technologies to monitoring public sector service delivery to citizens and address Governance challenges.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang PrinzVice Chair, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology

Prof. Wolfgang Prinz, PhD, is the Vice Chair of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) in Bonn. Mr. Prinz studied informatics at the University of Bonn and receveid his PhD in computer science from the University of Nottingham. Aside from being Vice Chair of Fraunhofer FIT in Bonn, he is the Division Manager of the Collaboration systems research department in FIT, and Professor for cooperation systems at RWTH Aachen. His research departments at FIT is addressing the challenges and potentials of digitalization offered by new cooperation platforms in combination with mixed reality and flexible communication infrastructure as well as the investigation of application areas such as mobility and digital energy. He is co-founder of the Fraunhofer Blockchain Lab that investigates the technical foundations as well as the development and analysis of Blockchain based applications. He coordinated several national and international research projects such as a large European research project on collaborative work environments.

Papuna UgrekhelidzeChairman, National Agency of Public Registry, Georgia

Mr. Ugrekhelidze is a senior level professional experienced as CEO of public and private companies for 20 years. Since 2013, he’s been leading the National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR), a government authority under Ministry of Justice of Georgia. As Chairman of NAPR, he’s in charge of nationwide initiatives and projects, including State Project of Land Registration, the implementation of Blockchain technology in land and business registration systems, development of National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), creation of the unified addressing system and the development of National Navigation System. Under his guidance, several new initiatives and reforms have been developed and started operation - registry of Municipalities, registry of Economic Activities of Legal Entities; modern cloud-based IT Infrastructure has been developed (serving not only to NAPR, but also to other government authorities, including Chamber of Notaries, State Procurement Agency, Enforcement Bureau); several donor-funded projects (Sida, World Bank, Norwegian government, EU, GIZ) have been launched supporting development of the NAPR. As a result of successful the performance of NAPR, property and business registration held top places in the World Bank Doing Business rankings.

Franz WeizsäckerHead of Blockchain Lab, German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ)

Franz von Weizsäcker is the Head of Blockchain Lab at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. At GIZ he is advising governments and business organizations worldwide including in Germany, Palestine and Saudi Arabia on digital strategy, digital economic policy, governmental tech, cyber security, smart cities, among others. Before joining GIZ he worked as management consultant in telecommunications and IT security. His background is computer science from Berlin University of Technology. He is member of the G20’s think tank working group on digital economy, as well as member of the white hat hacker’s group Chaos Computer Club.

Sindre WimbergerService Designer, City of Vienna

Sindre Wimberger has been developing products and services for the Internet for almost 20 years. Currently as Service Designer for the City of Vienna. As Botfather of the WienBot, he ensures, among other things, that the WienBot is constantly learning and becoming smarter. #SmartCityAssistant #Botfather #Voice #AI #NLP

Peter ZhouIT Officer, World Bank Group

Peter Zhou, IT Officer and Tech Lead at World Bank Group. Mr. Zhou is a blockchain evangelist, FinTech practitioner, business solutions architect and corporate entrepreneur with 20 years of experience. Besides managing the cash payments and investment systems at World Bank, he also leads several fintech initiatives including blockchain powered debt issuance, real time payments, digital fiat currency and crypto assets, etc. His previous experience includes Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, and his own startup. His most recent achievement was the world's first global blockchain based bond issuance called project Bond-i, the tokenized asset was fully created, allocated and managed on a private and permissioned blockchain.