Ferdinando M. Ametrano Affiliations Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer, CheckSig http://checksig.io Founder and Chief Executive Director, Digital Gold Institute http://dgi.io Cofounder and Scientific Director, Crypto Asset Lab Department of Business and Law, University of Milano-Bicocca http://cryptoassetlab.diseade.unimib.it Adjunct Professor of “Interest Rate Derivatives” and “Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology” Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of

Matteo Caroli Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome Full Professor of international management Present academic position since 2018 Associate Dean for Executive education, applied research and consulting, Luiss Business School since 2001 Full professor of international management Department of Management, Luiss Guido Carli University Academic appointments since 2018 Director of the Executive MBA, Luiss Business School

Luca Fantacci Bocconi University, Milan Professor at Department of Social and Political Sciences Luca Fantacci teaches economic history, history of economic thought, economics and policy of global markets, and financial history at Bocconi University, Milan.   He is co-author, together with Massimo Amato, of The End of Finance (Polity 2011), Saving the Market from Capitalism

Gianna Figà-Talamanca University of Perugia Professor in Financial Mathematics Gianna is Associate professor in Financial Mathematics at the Department of Economics,  University of Perugia She is a member of the  CINI Cybersecurity Lab for the node of Perugia. She holds a BA in applied mathematics, a master in probability and finance and a PhD in quantitative

Paolo Giudici University of Pavia Professor of Statistics  and Financial Data Science Professor of Statistics and Financial Data Science at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pavia. Academic supervisor of about 170 Master's students and of 14 Phd students, currently working in the financial industry, in IT/consulting companies or as academic researchers.