Taejoon Park
Taejoon is Managing Director at LG Technology Ventures, the corporate VC arm of LG Group. Taejoon’s investment interest includes AI, privacy enhancing technologies, data, and deep tech. Prior to joining LG Technology Ventures, Taejoon spent the previous seven years at Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, a leading semiconductor equipment company. Taejoon’s investments include Duality Technologies, DataFleets (acquired by LiveRamp), Moloco, DMO Systems (acquired by Applied Materials), and Digital Specialty Chemicals (acquired by Entegris), among others. Taejoon holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.
Suraj Kapa
Suraj Kapa is a cardiac electrophysiologist at Mayo Clinic. He started on faculty at Mayo in 2013 after completing his internal medicine training at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and cardiology and electrophysiology fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania. Over the course of his career he has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and given over 100 invited lectures nationally and internationally. He has been highly sought after for his views on the future of digital health, having spoken at CES, Webit, Exponential Medicine and for venture groups on behalf of Frost & Sullivan, at the Harvard Club, and in other venues. Over the course of his tenure at Mayo he has filed over 30 patents resulting in start-up companies related to non-invasive carbon beam ablation and artificial intelligence algorithms. In addition, he has been invited to serve as a strategic advisor both for his clinical expertise with companies such as Boston Scientific and Abbott as well as his digital and business expertise with companies such as Myant (a wearable sensor company), BioSig (a signal processing company for whom he helped develop the data science infrastructure), and TripleBlind (a data encryption company focused on financial AI algorithms). Academically, Dr. Kapa’s areas of expertise relate to complex ablation, particularly for ventricular tachycardia. He is a well-recognized expert in cardiology, serving on journal editorial boards and also as a vice-chair, author, or reviewer on several scientific consensus statements. In addition, his work on digital tools to address the COVID-19 pandemic has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Stat, and on CNBC. Currently, he also serves as the lead for innovation related to virtual (VR) and augmented (AR) reality at Mayo. In that capacity, he has led collaborative engagement with several companies, academic centers, and is helping lead development of new technologies.
Shoumeng Yan
Shoumeng Yan is the director of confidential computing of Ant Group. His research interests focus on TEE (such as SGX), MPC, and all the privacy preserving computing technologies. He leads the R&D of SOFAEnclave confidential computing stack. His team open sourced Occlum LibOS (https://github.com/occlum/occlum) which is a memory safe LibOS for Intel SGX with secure and efficient multi-tasking capabilities. Before joining Ant Financial, Shoumeng was a senior staff research scientist at Intel Labs, with a focus on secure isolation technologies, and made significant contributions to Intel products. Shoumeng got his Ph.D in CS from Northwestern Polytechnic University in 2005 before joining Intel. Shoumeng filed more than 20 patents.
Nitin Dhavate
Malcolm Dowden
Malcolm Dowden is a Legal Director at Global100 law firm Womble Bond Dickinson. He has extensive international experience of contractual, legislative and regulatory drafting in relation to data protection, privacy and emerging technologies. Recent projects have included analysis of technological solutions to otherwise intractable legal problems, including the data protection risks that stem from blockchain and distributed ledger. Malcolm also lectures in cyber and technology law at the University of Winchester, and contributed a chapter on EU and UK regulation to The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines (American Bar Association, 2019).
Karni Gilon
Karni Gilon, has a M.S.C from Weizmann institute in Mathematics and Computer Science; Worked in several prominent Hi-tech fields, including distributed network switching at Broadcom; Studied Data Science and Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with several publications; Works in NLP research and Technology in Citi Innovation Lab in Tel Aviv.
Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza
Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza (PhD in Telecom.) is a senior researcher at the EPFL Laboratory of Data Security (Switzerland) and the CEO and co-founder of Tune Insight (https://tuneinsight.com). He has more than 15 years of R&D experience in information security, applied cryptography and privacy protection; he has been the scientific coordinator of several European and national projects; he has been part of the editorial board of four journals on Information Security and part of the organizing committee and TPC of more than 20 workshops and conferences in this area. He has coauthored more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, and holds 5 granted international patents. His work is focused on applied cryptography for the protection of sensitive signals in distributed and outsourced environments, with a special interest in secure machine learning and software-based confidential computing. He actively contributes to the Homomorphic Encryption standardization efforts (https://homomorphicencryption.org), and to the design and development of the Lattigo cryptographic library (https://github.com/ldsec/lattigo).
Frank Wiener
As co-founder and president of the MPC Alliance, and marketing leader for Sepior, Frank is actively involved in the market application of secure multi-party computation (MPC) and its role in elevating the security and privacy of digital information and analysis. Frank has a long history in security and networking, working for innovative startups like Sepior to fortune 500 companies like AT&T. Frank’s has supported executive leadership roles in engineering, product management, marketing, business development, sales and general management.
Daniel Rawlings
Dan Bogdanov
Dr. Dan Bogdanov met his first significant privacy challenges while working with the data collection systems of the Estonian Genome Center. This inspired him to start researching cryptographic solutions for privacy problems. He is the inventor of Sharemind, a secure multi-party computation system for collecting, sharing and processing private data. Sharemind is a new kind of computer that analyses digital data without seeing the individual values. This achieves beyond-the-state-of-the-art data protection, as has been demonstrated in various applications processing tax, education, genomic and financial data.
Dr. Bogdanov has been a research team lead for multiple privacy technology research projects with DARPA – an agency of the United States Department of Defense, European FP7 and Horizon 2020. He is the co-author of the ISO/IEC 29101 standard on the architecture of privacy-preserving systems and the ISO/IEC 19592 standard on secret sharing. Today, Dr. Bogdanov leads the Information Security Research Institute at Cybernetica, an Estonian company creating information security, e-Governance and maritime security solutions. He is a board member of the MPC Alliance, an industry organisation of companies developing and using secure multi-party computation technology.