Dr. Yoav Intrator is the CTO of Bank Hapoalim. His main responsibilities include driving bank Hapoalim long term innovation strategy and plans. By leveraging Poalim's Innovation Laboratory, partnering and Fin-Tech solutions his organization focuses on identification and development of new disruptive solutions. Dr. Intrator has presented the Blockchain topic in multiple forms and participanted in many panels and events such as the "International Banking & the Future of Money" and "JOURNEY2016". Prior to his role at the bank, he was a general manager at Microsoft leading the development and growth of a new global practice titled: Enterprise Strategy and Architecture. His team developed and rolled out new IP that supported 500 enterprise architects worldwide. Additionally, Dr. Intrator filled roles such as CTO, Chief Enterprise Architect, product management and leader at companies like: Deutsche Bank on Wall Street, AT&T Business, XL Capital and Cap Gemini Consulting.

Siân heads COINsult, a regulatory compliance consultancy focused on digital currencies and consensus-based technologies. She advises fintech startups worldwide on regulatory, compliance and jurisdictional strategy, and helps governments and enterprises evaluate cryptocurrencies, blockchain and distributed ledgers. Siân also heads EDCAB, the European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum, an independent Brussels-based public policy platform where she helps EU policymakers and legislators shape sound policy and regulation relating to virtual currencies and distributed ledger technology. In January 2016, she addressed the European Parliament’s public hearing on virtual currencies and, later, organised a series of roundtables bringing global and financial institutions, academics, lawyers and industry stakeholders together with EU legislators and representatives from the European Commission and institutions. Siân is a founder member of the UK Digital Currency Association and coled its Regulation and Banking Group from 2014 to 2016. She contributes regularly to leading blockchain podcast, EpicenterBitcoin, and frequently speaks and sits on panels at conferences. Siân is an Ambassador for the Emerging Payments Association and also works with Credits, the first and only blockchain platform provider awarded a UK Government G-Cloud framework agreement. Her 45-year career in information technology, security, data protection and compliance includes working in Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and with industries as diverse as banking, transport, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and security

Elad Wieder is a partner in the Banking and Finance Department at Herzog Fox & Neeman (HFN). He has extensive experience in a wide range of aspects within the financial industry, with a particular emphasis on technology, including online platforms, digital payment solutions and other innovative financial products and services. Elad's deep knowledge of alternative payment means is invaluable to credit card companies, online-payment processers and many others concerned with payment methods in today's "post-money" age. In his early years at HFN, Elad spent time on secondment to Allen & Overy in England and with Barclays in Tel Aviv.

Mr. Baris was part of the team of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Finance from 1993 to 2008. In this capacity, he took part in various projects and reforms for the Markets and Insurance Division of the Ministry, and lead the legislation of the Bachar Reform of 2005. From 2008 to 2016 Mr. Baris served as the Chief Legal Advisor to the Ministry. In this capacity, he lead the legal aspects of the government’s programs to deal with the global financial crisis. In these years, he was responsible for the legal advice to the ministry, including the legislation of the Bank of Israel Law of 2010. From 2015 to the present, Mr. Baris is the head of the Committee for the Implementation of Regulation of Non-Institutional Financial Services (“the Baris Committee”), that formulated the proposal that was then legislated by the Knesset, regarding non-institutional lenders, financial services providers (money exchanges), and credit unions. This committee also formulated the pending legislation regarding non-interest non-profit credit and deposit institutes (known as “G’Machim”). At present, the committee is in the process of hearing public comments to draft legislation regarding Peer-to-Peer (“P2P”) loan platforms. From March 2016 Mr. Baris is the Legal Advisor and VP Public Policy in Start-Up Nation Central, an Israeli non-for-profit dedicated to making Israel a works center of innovation and technology, recognized as such.

Stanley Yong is Deputy Director in the Payments and Technology Solutions Office of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Most recently, he was MAS’ lead in Project Ubin, a Singapore dollar on distributed ledger prototype with a consortium of 9 banks. The project re-imagines cross border wholesale payments infrastructure. Prior to this, he developed the Smart Financial Strategy for Singapore’s financial sector with Deloitte. He now leads the execution of the prong of strategy for the non-traditional fintech ecosystem, introducing the new Proof-of-Concept grant scheme and leading projects in blockchain use-cases. As a regulator, Stanley developed the MAS’ model risk audit framework and led a team of quants that looked at market risk and valuation models. He has conducted data science courses, equipping over 60 central bank economists with programming skills and basic machine learning expertise in R. This continued on from his Phd work in the Institute for Infocomm Research at ASTAR where he applied machine learning to natural language processing. Stanley has graduate degrees in Computer Science, Statistics, Advanced Finance and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.