Identity Management and Blockchain

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This event will focus on identity management and blockchain applications. We will discuss what are the main challenges of Identity Management with our panel.

Confirmed speakers:

Nadia Filali, Head of Blockchain Programmes for Caisse des Dépôts and Lead of LaBChain
Nadia began her career in the financial sector working on post-trade and capital markets. After joining Caisse des Dépôts, she specialized in portfolio valuation and became Deputy Head of Financial Back-Office and Head of Client Relationship in 2008, then Head of Stategic Projects in 2011, and Head of Business Development in 2015. In December 2015, she co-launched LaBChain, the first Blockchain consortium dedicated to finance in Europe and worked on the creation of LiquidShare, a company dedicated to building a post-trade Blockchain infrastructure for SMEs in Europe launched in June 2016 by 7 partners among which Caisse des Dépôts and Euronext.

Nadim Takchi, Director of Business Development @Cambridge Blockchain a platform that allows financial institutions to meet the strictest new data privacy rules, eliminates redundant identity compliance checks and improves the customer experience.
Nadim is an entrepreneur with a background in finance and business. He manages a blockchain consulting and training company for financial institutions based in Paris.
Prior to that he co-founded and developed a crowdlending company for SMEs in France.

Sajida Zouarhi, Blockchain Architect @Consensys (formerly R&D engineer in Critical Data management)
She works on the Linnia project, a data protocol built on Ethereum that enables data sovereignty.
She was a researcher at Orange Labs & the Computer Science Lab of Grenoble during her PhD thesis.
She is an advisor on the board of several Healthcare & Blockchain projects and is also President of the eHealth and Blockchain Think Tank.
She is also the founder of the Kidner Project. This project aims at creating a worldwide decentralized matching platform for kidney paired exchange by using blockchain & economic paradigms to improve the effectiveness & fairness of the process.

William Skannerup, CEO and founder @VeridenKey
He founded VeridenKey in 2017, a blockchain-based verified identity key solution. VeridenKey works together with governments to connect centralised national electronic IDs through a decentralised network. Since being founded last year, VeridenKey has expanded rapidly with on-going conversations in seven countries across three continents, having been validated as a potential solution to the identity problem. He continues to work closely with the crypto community, financial institutions, advisory bodies and regulators, in several aspects of the new emerging blockchain industry.