Antonio Manno is a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur having set up one of the first Internet Service Provider in Italy in the year 1994 after he spent the first part of his career as a manager of the FIAT Group.

Antonio followed the boom and bust of the first internet era having created also the first auction online and group buying company in Europe in 1998 which reached the value of 200 million euro at his peack in the year 2000.

After the internet bust he left Italy for Estonia where he spent several years opening the baltic market for several italian SMEs, then in 2010 he moved to Chile to work with Skinner Layne which he met online a couple of yeas before in a alt currency forum, in 2012 he cofunded Exosphere.
Antonio is a passionate scholar of the Austrian Economist Ludwig Von Mises and of the indian philosopher Jidda Krishnamurti.

WORKSHOP: Solidity

Ksenia is a co-founder and a lead smart-contract developer & security at blocksoft.biz. She has more than 15 years of experience in the fintech software development and  holds expertize in the development of billing system solutions. At D-Tech Space she will host a Solidity workshop, will teach you how to write and deploy a smart contract on Ethereum, write an ERC20 and ICO tokens and speak about Dapp development.

Dominik Stroukal is and is a director of Liberální institut, the first Czech (and Slovak) classically liberal think-tank. He is a former president of the Czech and Slovak Ludwig von Mises Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Theories and MA in Economic Analysis at the University of Economics, and MA in Media Studies at Charles University, both in Prague, Czech Republic. He is a lecturer at the CEVRO Institute University, University of Finance and Administration and teaches economics at two high schools.

He is currently doing research on cryptocurrencies and labor economics. He co-authored his first book about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin: The Money of the Future (in Czech). He published papers about Czech labor markets where he works on the dynamics of unemployment.

Andriy Sobol - technical director of Satoshi Fund, founder of Pandora Boxchain, holds expertize in decentralized systems, cryptography, economics, and game theory. He knows a way how to become blockchain expert in 20 minutes (there is no way), and can tell you about the life in new reality - with cryptocurrencies, neural networks, total robotization and decentralization.

TOPIC: Big data analytics for technology research and forecast

Volodymyr Bandura is CEO at Innolytics Group and Lecturer, Partnership and Sponsorship Coordinator at Singularity University. Volodymyr has over 10 years of experience in large-scale investment projects and startups as well as in creation and development of business projects. While admitting that exponential  technologies like robotics, 3d printing, AI, nanotech etc. may become threats to the current business processes and products, he embraces them as immense possibilities for reinventing and bringing businesses to a totally new level of performance.

TOPIC: Building and scaling decentralized businesses

TOPIC: Legal challenges of ICO

Variety of securities law matters and corporate transactions related to cryptocurrencies are his daily routine.

Since 2004 to 2009 Stanislav has been working in the commercial bank. In 2010 he took part in the training mission of Japanese agency of international cooperation and completed internship in several Japanese institutions. Starting from 2010 Stanislav has been studying the economics of digital assets and virtual currency systems. Stanislav contributed to the project btcu.biz that aims to develop Bitcoin ecosystem in Ukraine. He has also founded first in the world Blockchain Art Hackathon, a unique event that connected blockchain technology and artists and that resulted in a range of unique art items. Stanislav is also a Managing Partner at Blockchain Lab - a team of professionals that helps VIP clients safely buy and save digital assets including Bitcoin as well as create blockchain solutions for existing businesses.

Joe is the CEO at Startup Societies Foundation and Nuhanse Network.

Their mission is to connect, educate and empower small territorial experiments in government — all over the world.

Startup Societies Foundation studies, promotes, and connects startup societies. They want to create a vibrant, global startup societies industry through international conferences, investment summits, digital content and academic studies.

Nuhanse Network is a consulting and software development firm for startup societies projects.

TOPIC: Why domain expertise is not enough for launching truly disruptive products

Tristan has been actively involved in High Tech product startups since 2011, when he founded his first Software-as-a-Software business and was accepted into and funded by Australia's leading Technology Accelerator programme 'Accelerating Commercialisation'.

As is the case for many high-tech product startups, a lot was learnt but commercialisation became untenable due to structural problems within the commercial building market and associated regulatory systems.

This experience formed the platform for Tristan to join the founders of YouTeam.co.uk, Anton Mishchenko, Yurij Riphyak and Andri Grushetsky, in support of a new venture, a two-sided digital marketplace where customers can search for available tech talent.

In some ways it is similar to UpWork, the key difference is that the specialists available are not freelancers but instead full-time employed specialists located in nearshore locations (Central & Eastern Europe).

This solution suits clients wanting to extend their design and development teams, without needing to go through the recruitment process and expense of making an in-house hire or managing, unmanageable freelancers.

Tristan is also the Founder Partner of 'LeverPoint Advisory' to help startups with an MVP penetrate the market and navigate the tech product adoption cycle. LeverPoint consults in the areas of customer development, commercialisation management, go-to-market strategy and high-tech marketing strategy.

TOPIC: How platform business models and blockchain will continue to change the nature of work

Adam Dorfman is Canadian but lives in Ukraine right now. He is an expert on platform thinking and an international speaker on the future of jobs. He has toured the region to share his knowledge on the basic principles of platform business models and how blockchain will continue to change the nature of work. He is also the founder of an early stage startup called, If When Then.

For more information check out www.ifwhenthen.com