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Swiss-Polish economist, professor at Fribourg University, where he occupies the Chair of International Strategy and Competition, head of the “Observatoire de la Finance” in Geneva, founder of the Institute of Economic Research Eco Diagnostic. An expert on behalf of international organizations such as OECD and UNCTAD, he also conducts studies of Switzerland’s economic fabric. He is the initiator and Vice-President of AREF (Association for the Renewal of Research and Teaching in Economics and Finance).

Hochschule Luzern and ASCENT AG

As a specialist for the renewal of didactics in economics, he recognizes the value of films to affect the viewers, provoke discussion and sensitize to the importance of economic issues. As a business consultant, he has the role of an interface between internationalizing Swiss companies and the economic environment of East and Central European countries.
www.michaelderrer.info

Vice-rector of the University of Bucharest beginning with 2011 and dean of the Faculty of Business and Administration between 2005 and 2011, Professor Magdalena Iordache Platis, Ph.D. is specialised in economy, business administration and marketing, as she is an active professor with over 25 years of experience in higher education teaching.

A political scientist, working on the topic of money already for his PhD. Based between Lausanne and Geneva, he is presently working for the Observatoire de la finance. Secretary General of AREF, the Association for the Renewal of Research and Education of Economics and Finance.
The topic of his presentation is the choice between a privat e new money (Facebook’s Libra) and a Central Bank Digital Currency. Behind this choice lies the question whether money is a private or a public good.

Christian Năsulea is a lecturer at the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest, where he teaches Global Economics, Globalism and Globalisation and other economics-related subjects. He is an associated lecturer at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, where he teaches Cross-Cultural Management in English and Business Economics in French. He is the executive director of The Institute for Economic Studies – Europe and an affiliated researcher with the Institut de Recherches Economiques et Fiscales.
He has a PhD in Management and his main fields of scientific interest are: public policy, political and commercial negotiation in international relations, behavioural economics, and the economic impact of technology.

Antonio Momoc is a Communication and PR specialist, director of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Communication, associate professor at the University of Bucharest and PhD in Sociology. He is also a consultant in reputation management and public speaking trainer for commercial and political clients.
Awarded as the Bologna Professor of 2017 by the National Alliance of Students’ Organizations, Antonio Momoc holds several degrees in Communication Studies, PR and Journalism and obtained over the years a series of international scholarships: a scholarship at the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (2004), a post-PhD European scholarship (2010-2013), including a mobility period at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali “Guido Carli” from Rome, Scuola Superiore di Giornalismo “Massimo Baldini”, and a SUSI scholarship (2013) at Ohio University, E. W. Scripps College of Communication, USA.
Author of the books Comunicarea 2.0 [Communication 2.0] (Adenium, 2014), Capcanele politice ale sociologiei interbelice, Școala gustiană între carlism și legionarism [The Political Snares of Interwar Sociology: The Gusti School between Carlism and Legionarism] (Curtea Veche, 2012), and coordinator of the volumes Activiștii mărunți [The Small Activists] (Curtea Veche, 2007) and Bișnițari, descurcăreți, supraviețuitori [Black marketers, shifters, survivors] (Curtea veche, 2013).

Cătălin Grădinaru is a tutor at the Business and Administration Faculty belonging to the University of Bucharest, Romania, since 2012. His academic interests lie in the topics he is teaching: Introduction to Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Services Marketing and Marketing Simulations. Also related to his professional interests, his PhD in Economics is noteworthy of mentioning: he graduated the School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy. He is also a member of the board of directors at the EFdeN NGO (started in 2013), endeavor aimed at developing a solar house in order to represent Romania at the Solar Decathlon International Competition. The EFdeN house is now the first Comfort Research Center in the country.

Country Manager of Instant Factoring, the first factoring fintech in Romania, launched in 2018. Experience in corporate finance and SME lending, leading over the past 10 years the factoring divisions of several banks and product development teams. Passionate about building winning teams, start-ups and innovation.

Head of Moneymailme at M3 Holdings, with extensive experience in payments and fintech as a former developer, former business analyst and former lead of development teams, she now leads the entire Moneymailme business line as she has the required amount of functional and technical knowledge to ensure the success of any software product.

An experienced professional, Laura’s IT skills such as systems designing and project management are backed by economy-related skills – market analysis, environmental impact and related procedures, legislative framework – and a deep understanding of how various industries work. Laura’s background recommends her as a valuable addition to any company looking to make a difference in fintech, payments and banking.

Senior Business Development and Technical Program Manager at M3 Holdings, with more than 20 years experience in the financial sector is deeply connected with everything related to technology and IT. After working in banks as Executive Director, he decided to be more closer to innovation, and become a part of Innovx business accelerator program. He is a part of mentor squad there, being the main tech advisor.

As an avid tech enthusiast, Bogdan is fascinat-ed by domains such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. FinTech, new kids on the block, is the latest challenge that he accepted, being a part of young enthusiastic team that is trying to develop solutions for the future in the financial industry.

Răzvan is the project manager of Future Banking Conference, one of the biggest events in CEE covering FinTech & digital banking topics. Since 2017, the event gathers twice a year in Bucharest major stakeholders from the European FinTech scene and key players from banking and payments industry.

As a keen observer of the digital transformations upon financial services, Răzvan became a big fan of FinTech innovations and started to follow startups that have the potential of disrupting and easing the day to day life of the consumers.

Thus, in 2019 he took the lead in creating the first Romania’s FinTech Map and now is directing a documentary about “the FinTech gene” in the Romanian ecosystem.

Born in the Swiss mountain area, he studied marketing and communication. He was an activist in the Swiss Sovereign Money Initiative, which was voted upon in Switzerland in 2018. Today he is the Director of Forum-Geldpolitik, a thinktank for monetary policy in Switzerland.

He started off as an engineer, and later discovered his real passion: Alternative forms of money and their relation to a sustainable society.
He is teaching at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Jens Martignoni wrote a comprehensive and very accessible book on the topic of complementary currencies.