Webinar on how to Help Governments, Health and Travel Organizations Deploy a WIShelter Covid-19 Trusted Digital Health Passport on the Blockchain

Carlos Moreira began his career as a UN expert on IT, eSecurity and Trust Models, working for ILO, UN, UNCTAD, ITC/WTO, World Bank, UNDP, ESCAP from 1983 to 1998. A recognized early stage pioneer in the field of digital identity, he was also Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1995 to 1999 as well as Head of the Trade Efficiency Lab at the Graduate School of Engineering at RMIT.

In 1999, he founded the Geneva-based online data security firm WISeKey, where he currently serves as Chairman and CEO. Mr Moreira’s unique profile, which combines extensive high level international diplomacy experience and emerging technologies expertise, has positioned him as a distinctive authority, thought leader, and entrepreneurial force in today’s digital world where the acquisition and trusted protection of a digital identity has become an essential step for citizens and entities across the globe. He is a Member of the UN Global Compact, Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council, Founding Member World Economic Forum Global Growth Companies.

Don Tapscott, CEO of The Tapscott Group, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology on business and society. He has authored over 15 books including Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything which has been translated into over 25 languages.

Don has been advancing ground-breaking concepts for over 3 decades. His 1992 bestseller Paradigm Shift helped coin the seminal management concept, and in 1995 his book The Digital Economy changed business thinking about the transformational nature of the Internet. Two years later he helped popularize the terms “Net Generation” and “the Digital Divide” in Growing Up Digital. His most recent book is the 20^th Anniversary Edition of The Digital Economy.

Don’s next and perhaps most ambitious book is co-authored with his son, startup CEO and bitcoin governance expert Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology behind bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World was published by Penguin Random House in 2016, and is now a bestseller, and is being translated into 12 languages.

In 2015, Don became a member of the Order of Canada, and was ranked the 4^th most important living business thinker in the world by Thinkers50. He is Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, and Chancellor of Trent University in Ontario.

It is hard to imagine anyone who has been more prolific, profound, and influential in explaining today’s technological revolutions and their impact on the world.

Pascal Buchner is the CIO of the International Air Transport Association since 2010.Mr Buchner has almost 26 years of experience heading IT organizations in industriesthat have been transformed by technologies such as the printing industry, themusic and entertainment industry and the distribution industry.

He has been driving the transformation of the IATA IT department into a well-recognized fast moving group supporting the association in its digitaltransformation. Since 2012 he is leading the IATA innovation network helpingairlines to grasp the benefits of the digital world. After achieving the ISO/IEC27001:2013 certification in 2014, he has kept developing a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy aimed at protecting the money of the airlines. He is nowfacilitating industry working groups to develop an aviationcybersecurity strategyand roadmaptoshape the nature of ‘how’ theindustry responds to thecybersecurity challenge to remain safe,secure, sustainable and resilient tocybersecurity risks, while at thesame time enabling state of the artdigitalization andconnectivity of theindustry to step change profitability,efficiency and thecustomerexperience in compliance with dataprivacy regulations.

Pascal Buchner started his career as a developer of military systems and worked fordifferent IT consulting firms in the defense, manufacturing, entertainment anddistribution sectors.

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Recognized leadership with more than 15 years of experience in project management, successful drive of medium and large IT departments infrastructure/operations.
Implementing strategies and developing IT organization within luxury, aeronautics, industrial manufactures, travels, hospitality management, Supply chain, chemical, health care industries and higher education companies at local and international level. Settling business models supporting growth and cost control strategies through process streamlining, systems portfolio centralization, global sourcing/outsourcing, and new IT architectures taking advantage of traditional corporate and consumer led technologies. Build IT solutions for business digital transformation, redesign on a local and international level including global service delivery models, medium and large-scale program management and achievements in driving complex ERP, CRM transformation programs.
Formally CIO at EHL, EMEA Director IS EMEA at Firmenich, EMEA IT & ERP Director at Unilibabs and Manager of Manage Services at Hewlett-Packard.

Senior Information and Communication Technology Executive with extensive international experience in both the Public and Private Sectors. Strong interest in Digital Innovation, Living Lab, Data Protection, Smart City, eGovernment, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Computing