The Blockchain Practitioners Podcast

For the 8th episode of our Blockchain Practitioners Podcast, our team member Steven talks to Michiel Van Roey, Co-Founder & General Counsel at Profila and Data privacy lead for Benelux at the technology multinational Cisco.

Michiel is a qualified business lawyer with a Master of Law from the University of Antwerp. He got a Master's degree in intellectual property law at the University of Bern in Switzerland on an Erasmus scholarship (2012) and as a Fulbright scholar, he pursued an LL.M at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia. Michiel is working as legal counsel and Technology lawyer for Cisco Belgium and Luxembourg, providing commercial legal advice and negotiating contracts with Cisco partners and customers. He is also a Co-founder and General Counsel for a blockchain project called Profila, and will give us insight into this platform of new era data sharing, communication and digital marketing that is empowering people to take control of their personal data & get compensated for granting access to it.

Michiel Van Roey has a LinkedIn profile if you'd like to reach out to him for business inquiries :

For the 7th episode of our Blockchain Practitioners Podcast, our team member Stella talks to Daniel Du Seuil, convenor at the European Self Sovereign Identity Framework at the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure (also known as EBSI).

Daniel is operating both as a project manager for digital transformation and as a convenor at the EBSI. The EBSI is a part of the European Blockchain Partnership, which gathers different European public sector administration services seeking to implement blockchain to collaborate more efficiently together. Daniel has previously been working on a national level with the Belgian government on blockchain program management before getting involved on a European level and becoming a member of the expert panel of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum. Daniel is working actively on using blockchain in the field of Self Sovereign Identity (or SSI) and in this episode, he will give us insight on what SSI is and how it could be a game changer for citizens, governments and companies.

Daniel Du Seuil’s LinkedIn if you need to reach out to him for business inquiries: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielduseuil

For the 6th episode of our Blockchain Practitioners Podcast, our team member Alexandros talks to Alena Afanaseva CEO of BeInCrypto, one of the leading news companies specializing in blockchain and digital currencies!

Alena is the CEO and co-founder of BeInCrypto and guest lecturer on Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics! As a well-known Russian Financial Analyst in the past and a former Managing Editor of 'Currency Speculator' Magazine, Alena is knowledgeable on all topics related to macroeconomics, monetary policy, fundamental analysis of financial assets (both crypto and traditional), the future of blockchain and the current state of crypto regulation in Eastern Europe and Middle Eastern countries. Furthermore; Alena's background allows her to share the experience and perception of online news media business and the strategies behind building a world-known multi-language crypto news outlet.

Alena's LinkedIn if you need to reach out to her for business inquiries: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alena-afanaseva-beincrypto/

In the 5th episode of Blockchain Practitioners, our team member Steven Claeys had the pleasure and honor to talk to Lars Schlichting, a FinTech and LegalTech expert and Partner at the prestigious Swiss Business Law Firm Kellerhals Carrard. In addition, he is the Co-head of the Southern Alps Chapter of Crypto Valley Association, founding member of Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association and member of the advisory board of Swiss LegalTech Association. He is also a board member and Co-founder of Ibx.ch, one of the first exchanges in Switzerland to offer institutional clients an exchange for fiat currency vs crypto.

Lars's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-schlichting-2a808113/

In the 5th episode of Blockchain Practitioners, our team member Steven Claeys had the pleasure and honor to talk to Lars Schlichting, a FinTech and LegalTech expert and Partner at the prestigious Swiss Business Law Firm Kellerhals Carrard. He is also a board member and Co-founder of Ibx.ch, one of the first exchanges in Switzerland to offer institutional clients an exchange for fiat vs crypto. We talk about blockchain integration in finance and business today as well as in the future with one of the leading experts in this field as Lars has vast experience in leading the digitization process in the financial industry!

In our fourth episode of the Blockchain Practitioners Podcast Alexandros talks to Giovanni Franzese about how the company he is part of, Ericsson is using Blockchain as an advantage and the benefits and ROI that they see in their investment as well as his own own journey into digital currencies and blockchain.

Giovanni is the Head of Blockchain Business Development CIO Ericsson and has vast experience in international business and technology. Giovanni has been in the space as early as 2010 when the technology was practically unknown!

In our third episode of the Blockchain Practitioners Podcast Steven talks to Randa al Rifai about how to enforce and implement KYC and GDPR with the help of blockchain.

Randa al-Rifai is a seasoned professional in the Lebanese Banking industry. The first certified Middle Eastern woman in Digital Currencies and Blockchain. Leader of Lebanese Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain community (BBB Labs). Ambassador of IFF (Institute for the Future) – University of Nicosia MSc Student of Digital Currency and Blockchain at University of Nicosia Keynote Speaker & Instructor.

In our second episode of the Blockchain Practitioners Podcast, Alexandros Ntolgkov talks to the CEO of Dcentric Health Georgina Kyriakoudes!

Georgina was one of the first people in the world to gain a Masters in Blockchain with distinction. Prior to co-founding Dcentric Health she spent 10 years working in international businesses in London and Cyprus as an auditor, including PwC and Deloitte. She gained her Certified Accountant qualification and built successful online education platforms.

Thanks to her extensive research into medical records and blockchain, she has been published in prestigious publications such as the Lancet, and has delivered keynote speeches across the world.

The My Aria website: https://myaria.health

In our first episode of the Blockchain Practitioners Podcast, Stella Friaise talks to CEO and Co-founder of NGRAVE Ruben Merre whose ambition was to build the safest cold wallet on the planet about what a cold wallet is and what are the risks you are avoiding by buying one.

Ruben Merre is co-founder and CEO of NGRAVE, a blockchain technology company on a mission to empower individuals and businesses to take seamless and secure ownership and control of their digital assets and cryptocurrencies. Under the tagline #OwnYourAssets, NGRAVE offers a fully integrated solution consisting of a new generation of hardware wallet - "The Coldest Wallet", a cold back-up, and a plug and play interface for online solutions such as exchanges and software wallets.

Ruben is a repeat entrepreneur who launched his first business when he was eight years old, followed by later on in his career establishing the first automated investment platform in his home country and leveraging a fluency in six languages to scale it internationally. Ruben is a lifelong learner, obtaining multiple postgraduate degrees in parallel to his professional life as a strategy & management consultant, and entrepreneur. He also successfully completed Oxford University’s Blockchain Strategy Program. Prior to NGRAVE, Ruben was recruited by an international financial institution to lead their entrepreneurial endeavor of setting up a group-wide algorithmic trading/investment platform from scratch, leading over twenty teams. His growing interest and passion for blockchain and digital assets made him shift his career to founding NGRAVE and evangelizing the technology by removing some of the most important adoption hurdles: security and customer experience. Ruben was also named a Belgium's 40 under 40 in 2021.

You can find the NGRAVE Wallet in this link: https://www.ngrave.io/