Lawyer Genia (Evgeni) Gurevitz – LLB, Graduated from Tel Aviv University (TAU), and has been living in Singapore, where he has been studying in Singapore Management University (SMU). Genia heads the Banking and Payments Services at Tal Ron, Drihem & Co., working closely with the firm’s clients on online and offline banking, electronic money institutions, acquiring banks and regulatory support for i-gaming and financial companies.

Ms. Emily Helmer, Head of Compliance and e-Merchant Services, moved alone to Israel from the USA to pursue her dream of establishing a career in the legal, compliance and payment aspects of digital marketing and online projects. So far she has worked with some of the best known digital marketing agencies before joining the award-winning team of Tal Ron, Drihem & Co., Law Firm.

Gali Bloch Liran is the Founder of GBL Coaching & Consulting for Startups, a Startup Advisor, Lecturer at the IDC Adelson School of Entrepreneurship, Global Speaker & the Host at The Startup Nation Clinic Podcast.

Gali is a certified Executive Coach working with CEOs, startup founders & VC entrepreneurs. Gali brings +15 years of global business development & marketing  experience to the table. Across her tailored workshops & coaching sessions, she helps tech entrepreneurs & startups gain focus, manage their day-to-day challenges, develop their leadership skills, psychological resilience, and balances required to scale a venture sustainably.

Advocate and Notary Tal Itzhak Ron, Chairman & CEO at Tal Ron, Drihem & Co., Law Firm

Tal holds an LL.B (Law and Computer Science), BSc (Computer Science and Mathematics) and MSc (Computer Science); Master of Financial and Gaming Law; an online gaming, digital entertainment, EdTech and financial technology veteran working with the biggest names in the online industry since 2003. As the Chairman and CEO of Tal Ron, Drihem & Co., the award winning technology law firm which he founded in the early 2000’s, he became the first Israeli lawyer to practice these areas of law exclusively and one of the best known names on the international market.

Motti Peer is the CEO of ReBlonde (Ex Blonde 2.0), an award-winning global PR agency. Also named as one the startup nation’s “Movers and Shakers” on Forbes. With A team of 35 professionals ReBlonde one of the leading forces in PR for Blockchain and Crypto industry.

Jens Podewski is the CEO and co-founder of FinXP. He is a long-serving executive, an entrepreneur, and a specialist in the international credit card market and payment processes. As a banker, Jens Podewski has extensive experience in the financial sector having worked as Head of Trade Finance for Otto Group’s financial arm for 15 years, before gaining further in-depth experience in the fast-moving online Gaming industry. As the CEO of FinXP overseeing its day to day operations from Hamburg and Malta, Jen’s mission is to drive FinXP to become one of the best service-oriented payment services based in Malta.

Business and Technology executive with 15+ years of proven track record in developing digital products and technologies. Proficient at delivering highly scalable and reliable systems and platforms for 24×7 businesses. Well versed in digital technology, architecture, business, and engineering frameworks as well as organizational development.

I am currently an M.S. student of Applied Computational Intelligence at “Babeș-Bolyai” University while working as a Python developer. I have previous experience as a Data and IoT Engineer, learning and working with big data and machine learning. Before getting into technology, I pursued a degree in philology and masters in linguistics. I hope to help bridge the perceived gap between the latter and IT by pursuing topics such as ethics and AI.

With more than 13 years of experience in gaming, Liviu is currently a Level Design Director at Ubisoft. Working on well-known AAA Ubisoft titles from the Assassin’s Creed worlds to the Watch Dogs universe, he is passionate about mixing creativity, vision and gameplay. Liviu is leading a creative team in a fast changing environment and is focused on getting just the right amount of rhythm, tension, and difficulty in games, so that players have a truly enriching experience.

Attorney at Law, Head of Litigation & Investigations Team at Ellex Valiunas

Practicing at Dispute Resolution Group, Jovita has represented multiple local and international clients on various commercial and corporate disputes, including complex, high-value cross border cases and advised on various commercial law matters.

Strong dispute resolution background allows her to look at IP, IT and commercial law matters from both business development and risk management perspective Focus on Cinema, Fashion and Leisure sets her apart and allows to meet specific needs of the Industries in the Baltics.

Jovita has had a very diverse portfolio of the clients, including textile companies, largest retailers in the Baltic’s, BIG 4 audit companies, cable televisions and Directors of Independent Films.

Stefania Barbaglio: Disruptor, Entrepreneur, Investor, PR Marketing Guru, Business Strategist and Advisor.

Stefania Barbaglio is a London-based entrepreneur, business strategist, and widely recognised  PR and Investor Relations expert who has advised a range of private and listed companies across many sectors, including new technology, and has facilitated multiple deals globally. In 2015 she founded Cassiopeia Services, the award-winning UK-based boutique Investor & Public Relations agency with a dedicated online channel: FinancialFox, the Real Deal City of London financial TV show, with exclusive interviews with entrepreneurs, innovators, listed company CEOs and market leaders. In the technology space, she has worked with a range of international blockchain application-focused companies on their ground-breaking projects, including leading names such as US-based DigiByte blockchain and Cardano. She is an influencer with a large investor following and is considered one of the top British female social media PR experts. Ms. Barbaglio has also guided various firms in business development, fundraising & organisational dynamics, as well as leading large-scale tech and investment events. She is a keynote speaker on new technology disruption, fake news and cybersecurity big data, alternative investment, social empowerment, and marketing strategies with a focus on social media and building strong communities. Ms. Barbaglio also hosts regular symposia for public companies and start-ups: investor presentations and networking evenings in exclusive private venues.

She is a fellow and alumna of Oxford University and has two MAs: International Journalism from Westminster University (UK) and TV Production from IULM University (Italy) , as well as ten years’ previous experience as a freelance financial journalist and producer for mainstream TV channels including Bloomberg, BBC & leading in-house Investor Relations & PR departments.

Entrepreneur, mentor, networker: Stefania has a keen eye for investment and innovation.

As head of AI Foundation for H&M, Errol is currently working on overseeing the AI ​​projects running at the H&M group. Prior to H&M, Errol worked as a Director of Data Science for ThinkBig Analytics, a Teradata company where he was responsible for setting up and delivering on AI projects across the Nordics, Eastern Europe and Russia. Prior to that he was in London as a Lead Data Scientist for the Vodafone group, but he originally started his career in Nordea bank where he spent about 10 years in various analytics roles.

James owns creative technology company, Copper Candle, which specialises in creating digital pre-visualisations for theatre and entertainment, as well as creating XR location based experiences and digital content.

Having spent the last 10 years creating 3d visualisations for the Royal Opera House, James is now actively involved in research and developments for the theatre and live events industry. He was recently one of the digital fellows for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Magic Leap where he and his colleagues, in connection with the Audience of the Future funding, have been tasked with researching and creating a new generation of audience experiences and theatrical practice that uses digital immersive technologies such as VR and MR.

He continues to develop the industries practice in 3d visualisation and has worked on many projects including Miss Saigon, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Commonwealth Games Ceremonies 2014, Saturday Night Fever, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and &Juliet as well as over 300 productions and projects for the Royal Opera House. He is pioneering the development of virtual production sets using VR and MR technology and is developing the industries use of more advanced 3d visualisation processes. His research for this is being supported through his PhD which he is undertaking with Rose Bruford College and University of East London.

James is also the Head of The Centre for Digital Production at Rose Bruford College where he is creating a hub for new thinking around digital systems in theatre whether that is for live projection and video or virtual theatre using VR and MR technology. As part of this new initiative, he has designed three new graduate and post-graduate courses to train the next generation of digital super-stars, as well as curating a programme of industry led training and short courses for professionals who want to upgrade their skills ready for the digital age.

He writes for several journals and publications, sharing his research and the latest digital practices in theatre and live events. He has a regular column on future technology where he shares his discoveries in science and tech and analyses how it will affect the events industry.

Dr. Simon Planzer is a partner at PLANZER LAW, a Zurich-based gaming law boutique.

PLANZER LAW’s team provides strategic, regulatory and legal advice to companies, regulators and other stakeholders across all areas of the gaming and entertainment industry.

The firm’s primary focus is on EU/EEA gaming law, compliance issues such as AML as well as Swiss gaming law and related commercial, corporate and financial matters.

Dr. Simon Planzer is General Member of the International Masters of Gaming Law. An alumnus of the College of Europe, he specialised early on in EU affairs and gaming law, working at the EFTA Court, the legal service of the EFTA Secretariat and as research fellow in European business law.

Dr. Simon Planzer is the author of the monograph (PhD) ‘Empirical Views on European Gambling Law and Addiction’(2014) and the book chapter ‘Gambling Law’ in The Handbook of EEA Law (2016), both published by Springer International Publishing. Simon also works as a Lecturer in Law at the University of St.Gallen where he teaches European Economic Law. He studied and did research i.a. at Harvard University, the College of Europe and the European University Institute.

Dr. Simon Planzer, founding partner of PLANZER LAW has recently received the recognition from Chambers & Partners and has been listed as a global gaming law expert. Clients and firms across many practice areas and geographies have trusted Chambers’ research for nearly 30 years.

Dr. Simon Planzer, founder of Planzer Law, is endorsed by interviewees (Chambers & Partners) as “absolutely excellent” and “the top Swiss lawyer” for gaming. He is actively involved in the shaping of gaming regulations in Switzerland, regularly interacting with the authorities, as well as providing regulatory advice to private clients. Based in Zürich, he is additionally active representing fantasy sports companies.

Greta Bujute is IT/Data protection lawyer with more than 13 years of experience. Currently she is working as senior legal counsel at Danske Bank. On a daily basis she advises cross-border teams on privacy and commercial law matters. Greta is passionate about LegalTech, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain.

Dr. Robin Kiera is the Founder and CEO of Digitalscouting, renowned speaker, author, and top-ranked insurance and finance influencer.

Also known as the “Rebel of the Industry” and an attention hacker, Robin lives in the stages of conferences and events, sharing unreserved opinions about insurance, finance, and other timely topics.

Nothing can stop Robin from driving companies to climb up the ladder of digital transformation. Aside from providing consultancy services through Digitalscouting. He also started a weekly live show featuring the biggest names in the industry spilling innovative ways, tech trends, latest data, secret sauces, and many other key tools in achieving success.

I am currently an M.S. student of Applied Computational Intelligence at “Babeș-Bolyai” University while working as a Python developer. I have previous experience as a Data and IoT Engineer, learning and working with big data and machine learning. Before getting into technology, I pursued a degree in philology and masters in linguistics. I hope to help bridge the perceived gap between the latter and IT by pursuing topics such as ethics and AI.

Kris is a virtual reality filmmaker focusing on environmental design and new narrative experiences. He currently hosts Creator Jam–a weekly event in virtual reality where people create worlds together.

Marko Savkovic has joined HTC in 2011 and since then has been covering more than 20 European countries with more than 60 customers. During 10 years in HTC Marko was responsible for roadmap product planning and development and he has been involved with VIVE since the very beginning. He is currently Head of Product Marketing for VIVE Enterprise focusing on VR and 5G technologies. Marko is connecting enterprise needs with innovative vision of HTC, currently focusing on making VIVE solutions easy to deploy and manage.

Marko has a PhD in computer science, and he is a passionate project management professional.

Lorna Inman is a VR Artist creating immersive 3D environments using Tilt Brush for videos, movies, events, workshops and performance. In the past two years, she has designed Tilt Brush environments for various companies including Google, Ninety One and Virtual Reality Experiences. Her most recent work has included working with Nutkhut as lead artist on a 360 degree immersive short movie called ‘Girmit’, which is premiering at Mozilla Festival in March 2021. Lorna’s illustrative environments explore natural landscapes entwined with storytelling themes, reflecting her background in Art and Design and her former studies at the University of Leeds. Lorna is open to collaborations and actively searching for opportunities. You can check more on lornainman.com

My interests pivot around how our everyday aesthetic experiences in the physical world drive the creative processes. I define aesthetics, as the willingness to play to ensure a sense of immediacy. James Dewey claims “if it is not immediate it is not aesthetic”. I refer to myself as a sculptor with strong roots in an industrial design educational context and the culinary arts. My research involves ways of reasoning that blends aesthetic abstractions of 3-D form and space that are deeply influenced by haptic perception in the making and performative process.

​I completed my PhD in 2008 at the school of Architecture at Chalmers University in the field of theoretical and applied aesthetics. My thesis title Form & Formlessness: Questioning aesthetic abstractions through art projects, cross-disciplinary studies and product design education.

For the past decade, I have lead two co-creative artistic research projects in haptic perception that transpose aesthetic methods and models between sculptural/industrial design context at Konstfack, and the culinary arts and performative arts applied in the professional education of chefs and sommelier at Örebro University. These experiences have profoundly transformed my way of understanding the field of aesthetics by including the proximity sense of smell, taste, and movement in my research and teaching.

As a professor in theoretical and applied aesthetics at Konstfack I teach, lecture and supervise exam projects in both the bachelors and masters courses for industrial designers. My subjects range from theoretical and practical studies of a taxonomy of form & space, gestalt processes, formgiving procedures, and exploratory design projects in innovative aesthetic reasoning. I collaborate with researchers, industry, and designers in projects that involve services and product development that address.

The teaching traditions I have further developed in my first book on 3-D form and space build on the world of Rowena Reed Kostellow.

M. F. Yang Chen is an educator, user experience researcher, and virtual reality specialist. He integrates design thinking and human-centered principles into the development of VR spaces for collaboration, knowledge building and research.

At the Virtual Reality Learning Lab we explore the possibilities of Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality for teaching and training. We perform fundamental research, create prototypes and develop complete applications. By organising workshops, university courses and masterclasses we help students, professionals and organisations to implement these new media. Check out all of our services at our website: VRLearningLab.nl

Capt.L.C. Arrigo GARIPOLI is a Financial Banking Consultant on Maritime Industries and the founder of BlueQbit. The technology developed for BlueQbit dispatches as a blockchain solution provides a transparent, integrated, without permission and decentralized base data layer for the process of the trust agreement.
The BlueQbit company with the dedicated project aims to implement a
“blockchain based” ecosystem to revolutionize the traditional Shipping Section with its shipments and Naval Brokerage, aware that the platform thus created can also be used for the Departments where yachts registered in BlueQbit can be marketed or rented all over the world

JP is the Managing Director of ARQ Economic & Business Intelligence, a specialized unit that applies economics to consumers, firms, and policy. He is currently the Lead Director on blockchain and cryptocurrency at ARQ Group. JP is specialized in resilience-building strategies and was a Technical Consultant to The Commonwealth Secretariat and acted as advisor to 9 governments across 3 continents. Prior to joining ARQ Group, JP was the Group Board Secretary of a London and Helsinki listed mining company. He also formed part of the private secretariat of the former Prime Minister and of the Governor of the Central Bank of Malta. An economist by profession, JP followed post-graduate studies in economics and political economy at the University of Malta and the London School of Economics. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta.

Consultant and Innovation Services Lead at the Investment Projects Department of the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO) with a focus on R&D and innovations.

SARIO is a governmental organization working under the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic. The mission of the Investment Projects Department is to attract high-added-value investments to Slovakia and to contribute to the regional development of the country. Within its innovation agenda, SARIO aims to interconnect Slovak technology firms with big players in Slovakia as well as abroad.

Marek studied Economic Diplomacy at the University of Economics in Bratislava and International Economic and Political Studies (IEPS) at the Charles University in Prague. He speaks fluently English, German and learns also Russian. In leisure time, he loves reading, traveling, and sports.

Stefania Barbaglio: Disruptor, Entrepreneur, Investor, PR Marketing Guru, Business Strategist and Advisor.

Stefania Barbaglio is a London-based entrepreneur, business strategist, and widely recognised  PR and Investor Relations expert who has advised a range of private and listed companies across many sectors, including new technology, and has facilitated multiple deals globally. In 2015 she founded Cassiopeia Services, the award-winning UK-based boutique Investor & Public Relations agency with a dedicated online channel: FinancialFox, the Real Deal City of London financial TV show, with exclusive interviews with entrepreneurs, innovators, listed company CEOs and market leaders. In the technology space, she has worked with a range of international blockchain application-focused companies on their ground-breaking projects, including leading names such as US-based DigiByte blockchain and Cardano. She is an influencer with a large investor following and is considered one of the top British female social media PR experts. Ms. Barbaglio has also guided various firms in business development, fundraising & organisational dynamics, as well as leading large-scale tech and investment events. She is a keynote speaker on new technology disruption, fake news and cybersecurity big data, alternative investment, social empowerment, and marketing strategies with a focus on social media and building strong communities. Ms. Barbaglio also hosts regular symposia for public companies and start-ups: investor presentations and networking evenings in exclusive private venues.

She is a fellow and alumna of Oxford University and has two MAs: International Journalism from Westminster University (UK) and TV Production from IULM University (Italy) , as well as ten years’ previous experience as a freelance financial journalist and producer for mainstream TV channels including Bloomberg, BBC & leading in-house Investor Relations & PR departments.

Entrepreneur, mentor, networker: Stefania has a keen eye for investment and innovation.

CEO and Founder of Tap2Pay. He has a strong technical and business background. In 2009 he sold his first startup to Informer Technologies Inc. 2009-2011 managed the development of a web analytics project with monthly traffic of 30M visitors. Since 2011 in the development and investment of B2B companies. Founder of MetricsCat.com, NotifyNinja.com, Keyoptimize.com. Investor and Co-Founder ChangeAgain.Me.

Konrad Gill is Founder and Creative Director of ViARsys. Based in the City of Vienna, VIARsys develops Virtual and Augmented Reality systems and solutions for LBE and B2B resources.

Konrad has more than 18 years of experience in leading positions in the gaming and entertainment industry, where he has focused on implementing innovative ideas to land-based entertainment facilities and online gaming convergence.

As president of vrlab.at, the Austrian Association for the development of Virtual Reality and Edutainment, Konrad Gill is engaged on the forefront of implementing immersive worlds with all the possibilities of VR for education and for the preservation of cultural heritage.

Kristaps Dobrajs is an industry veteran. At home on the global scene with scaling sales as his mantra, Kristaps has a 10+ year track record in driving cross-functional team successes in payments, e-commerce, retail and telecommunications. Keen on insights in managing the expectations and requirements between technology and business, Kristaps now employs his extensive experience in leading the sales team at ConnectPay.

Justinas holds a master’s degree in Economics from Cambridge University. He is an experienced finance professional with a track record of bringing projects from an idea to full realization. Currently heading the sales department at Bankera, a Lithuanian company providing payment and financing services, Justinas works with international clients, mainly from digital industries – iGaming, emerging tech, crypto, online platforms.

Dr. Simon Planzer is a partner at PLANZER LAW, a Zurich-based gaming law boutique.

PLANZER LAW’s team provides strategic, regulatory and legal advice to companies, regulators and other stakeholders across all areas of the gaming and entertainment industry.

The firm’s primary focus is on EU/EEA gaming law, compliance issues such as AML as well as Swiss gaming law and related commercial, corporate and financial matters.

Dr. Simon Planzer is General Member of the International Masters of Gaming Law. An alumnus of the College of Europe, he specialised early on in EU affairs and gaming law, working at the EFTA Court, the legal service of the EFTA Secretariat and as research fellow in European business law.

Dr. Simon Planzer is the author of the monograph (PhD) ‘Empirical Views on European Gambling Law and Addiction’(2014) and the book chapter ‘Gambling Law’ in The Handbook of EEA Law (2016), both published by Springer International Publishing. Simon also works as a Lecturer in Law at the University of St.Gallen where he teaches European Economic Law. He studied and did research i.a. at Harvard University, the College of Europe and the European University Institute.

Dr. Simon Planzer, founding partner of PLANZER LAW has recently received the recognition from Chambers & Partners and has been listed as a global gaming law expert. Clients and firms across many practice areas and geographies have trusted Chambers’ research for nearly 30 years.

Dr. Simon Planzer, founder of Planzer Law, is endorsed by interviewees (Chambers & Partners) as “absolutely excellent” and “the top Swiss lawyer” for gaming. He is actively involved in the shaping of gaming regulations in Switzerland, regularly interacting with the authorities, as well as providing regulatory advice to private clients. Based in Zürich, he is additionally active representing fantasy sports companies.

Péter W. Szabó is a passionate user experience researcher, author of User Experience Mapping (Packt, 2017). His current research focuses on the use of machine learning to enhance user experience. He used to be the senior manager for UX/UI at The Stars Group, now a well-known conference speaker and UX consultant. He has helped many big brands and start-ups to get closer to their users, recently with the help of PyTorch based supervised and unsupervised machine learning.