A shared standard. A collective effort.

Martin Etzrodt is a scientist and advocate for Decentralized and Open Science. He holds a PhD from the Université de Lausanne and has conducted research at Harvard and ETH Zürich. He pioneered the concept of Decentralized Science in 2018.

Kira is co-founder and COO of Craft AG. She is a specialist for business development and financial development for new business models and monetization strategies.

Titusz Pan is an entrepreneur and open-source developer. He is the inventor and architect of the ISCC. As co-founder and CEO of Craft AG, he has been developing media technology projects and incubations since the year 2000.

Roanie Levy is an internationally recognized advocate for creator rights, seamlessly bridging the domains of intellectual property law, content rights management, and advanced technologies to champion the interests of creators and rightsholders.

She previously held the roles of CEO and President at Access Copyright, a Copyright Management Organization that distributed millions of dollars each year in licensing royalties to creators and publishers. She also directed Prescient Innovations, the innovation lab of Access Copyright, where she focused on the future of rights management and content monetization using blockchain, AI, and other emerging technologies. (Photo by Jennifer Rowsom)

Philippe Rixhon is a systems and policy engineer working on value flows in contentecosystems and the holistic implementation of copyright law. As an innovation trailblazer, he assembles and leads prestigious multi-disciplinary teams to initiate, create and operate ground-breaking solutions. They are currently standardizing the tokenization of media entitlements, opening the rights data framework, and developing a rights data exchange. (Photo: Private)

Giacomo D'Angelo serves as the CEO of StreetLib.com, a global publishing platform that enables publishers to distribute ebooks and audiobooks across more than 50 retailers.
He spearheads the company's strategy and international expansion, blending a passion for digital technology with a belief in books and stories as essential tools for enhancing human potential.

​Since 2017, Frank has kept true to his professional motto: ‘Boosting Creative Industries with a passion for tech, quality and people’. He persistently strives to utilize forward-thinking technologies to create innovative, high-quality solutions that put people’s needs first.

As CEO of Content.Agent, Frank currently concentrates on preparing the audiovisual industry for the future of content trading. His mission: providing the right tools for effective data management, transparent rights-handling and efficient license trading.

Sebastian is entrepreneur and consultant in the media industries with a focus on digital innovation. He is the founder and CEO of Liccium B.V. 

In 2013, Lambert founded the Open Science Lab at TIB, in Hannover, Germany. The lab runs a number of national and international grant projects, focussing mostly on the development of open research infrastructures (e.g. researcher profile systems based on linked open data), and creative use cases for digital collections in libraries, archives and museums, e.g. through hackathons. (Photo: Lilli Iliev (WMDE) / CC BY-SA)