This conference was a common event with the Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations.

Our conference aimed at encouraging information exchange, debate and critical reflection on opportunities and limitations of the Blockchain technology in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Our speakers linked technical aspects of Blockchain to policy objectives and discussed concrete use-cases and their potential. The event offered space for discussion and exchange around concrete examples in order to enable developers, regulators and users better understand each other and the technology.

Dr. Ekkehard Ernst, President at Geneva Macro Labs & Future of work and AI specialist at ILO.

Pierre Maudet, State Councillor of the Republic and Canton of Geneva

The State Councillor of the Republic and Canton of Geneva Pierre Maudet opened the conference at Palais des Nations.

Olivia Chang, CNN Money

Olivia is a Reporter and Anchor at CNNMoney Switzerland. She moderated our panel on opportunities and limitations of the blockchain technology in delivering on the SDGs as well as the Keynote speeches of LIBRA and SEBA.

Gianfranco Moi, State of Geneva

Gianfranco is the Deputy General Director of the Directorate of Economic Development, Research and Innovation at the State of Geneva. His topic: the legal and regulatory aspects for governments using Blockchain.

Jörn Erbguth, University of Geneva

Jörn Erbguth is a consultant on blockchain, smart contracts and data protection (GDPR). He's a lecturer at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and the University of Geneva. He will spoke about Privacy aspects of Blockchain.

Bertrand Perez, Libra Association

Bertrand PEREZ is Managing Director & COO at Libra Association. He'll presented about the future of cryptocurrencies and e-payment systems.

Dr. Thomas Moser, SNB

Dr. Moser is an Alternate Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank. His topic: What are the challenges of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies for central banks and monetary policy?

Blanca Zutta, ITSA

Blanca Zutta is Associate Founding Member of ITSA, the International Token Standardization Association and E-Learning technology and Social media specialist at WTO. She spoke about how to standardize tokens.

Paul Wang, Mt Pelerin

Paul is the Executive Advisor to the CEO @High-Tech Bridge. Advisory Board Member @Mt-Pelerin and Head of Corporate Governance at the Geneva Macro Labs. Paul spoke about Financial aspect of Blockchain - the opportunity to reach lower and middle income countries (microfinance)

Dr. Ralph Chami, IMF

Dr. Ralph Chami is Assitant Director at International monetary Fund (IMF).

He talked about how Blockchain can change the way how money is sent home from abroad.

Inma García Sáez, Scrypt.Media

Guido Buehler, SEBA

Guido Buehler is CEO at SEBA Crypto AG. He talked about how SEBA is building a licenced and supervised Swiss bank combining the new financial world of digital assets with traditional banking - in a secure and vertically integrated setup.

Dr. Petru Dumitri, UN JIU

Dr. Petru Dumitriu is Inspector of the UN System Joint Inspection Unit (JIU). Petru was co-host of the conference.

Séverine Ambrus, RTS

Séverine Ambrus is a journalist and correspondant at RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse located in Zurich. She moderated the conference.

Alexander Schell, CVA

Alexander Schell is Executive Director at Crypto Valley Association. He be moderated the conference.

Alessandro Sanos, Refinitiv

Alessandro is heading Refinitiv's Commodities business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. At our conference he highlighted Blockchain essentials: What everyone needs to know about blockchain as the technology is still surrounded by a layer of mystery.

Emilie Raffo, b4H

Emilie Raffo, is a Crypto-Finance Consultant, Public Speaker and a core contributor of blockchain for Humanity: https://b4h.world 
She's also anambassador of the #Stablecoin.Foundation and officer of the #CryptoValleyAssociation for Western Switzerland. Emilie moderated the session on technical applications and challenges of Blockchain and also spoke about Blockchain and financial inclusion.

Thomas Nägele, Nägele Attorneys at Law

Thomas Nägele is Attorney at Law and Managing Partner at NÄGELE Rechtsanwälte GmbH. Thomas was part of the working group that drafted Liechtenstein's blockchain law. He spoke about what laws are needed for the Token Economy to not hinder innovation with regulation, but rather, to provide solutions.

Richard Byworth, Diginex

Richard Byworth is Chief Executive Officer at Diginex. He lead a World Café at Blockchain 4 Impact about how far Blockchain technology can democratize Capital Market.

Pierandrea Quarta, Start-up in Stealth Mode

Pierandrea Quarta is Founder and CEO at Start-up in Stealth Mode. He discussed how Blockchain can help fight plastic waste

Laurent Favre is Founder at A. Favre & Fils. He lead a World Café at our conference about how to strengthen human rights along the supply chain: SwissGold.

Maike Gericke, Scrypt.Media

Robert Zapfel, iov42

Robert is the Co-founder of iov42 who creates the Internet of Value by adapting and pioneering ideas from Blockchain. He discussed technical developments of the Blockchain and provide a how-to-guide.

Jessica Camus, Diginex

Leonardo Gammar, Agora

Leonardo Gammar is CEO at Agora. Leo lead a World Café about how to strenghten voters' rights and democracy with Blockchain.

Curt Hopkins, koinrewards.io

Derek Queisser de Stockalper, Qanalytics, LLC

Derek Queisser de Stockalper is Founder and Director at Qanalytics, LLC. He spoke about how ESG currencies can protect the environment and help build communities.

Renate Günther, Geneva Macro Labs

Renate Günther is Co-Founder and Vice-President of the Geneva Macro Labs and was a co-host of the conference.

Dr. Marianne Schörling, Geneva Macro Labs

Dr. Marianne Schörling is Head of Stakeholder Engagement of the Geneva Macro Labs and was a co-host of the conference.