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Graduated in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Padua, he completes a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides in Toulouse, France. Expert in programming languages such as C++, Fortran, Javascript (React) and Python, used over a decade. After experience working in multiple startups and companies abroad, including Cisco Systems, he returned to Italy to found Piratech, an IT consulting agency, with particular expertise in the cloud sector.

Iria Giuffrida is a Professor of the Practice of Law at William & Mary Law School and is the Interim Director of the LL.M. Programs. She also serves as Visiting Faculty for Business Law at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business. Professor Giuffrida’s research focuses on the legal issues arising from the increasing use of artificial intelligence, the rapid growth of the Internet of Things and smart cities, and related emerging technologies. In her previous professional life, she was a commercial litigator and gained substantial experience in international alternative dispute resolution. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York, is a Solicitor in England and Wales, and has qualified as a Solicitor in the Republic of Ireland. She is also a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US). Professor Giuffrida graduated with an LL.B. in English and European Law from Queen Mary, University of London. She was the 2001 Drapers’ Scholar at William & Mary Law School, where she obtained an LL.M. She was later awarded a Ph.D. in Law by Queen Mary, University of London.

Nicolas Vermeys, LL. D. (Université de Montréal), LL. M. (Université de Montréal), CISSP, is the Director of the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP), the Associate Director of the Cyberjustice Laboratory, and a Professor at the Université de Montréal’s Faculté de droit. He is also a visiting professor of law at both William & Mary (USA) and the University of Fortaleza (Brazil). Mr. Vermeys is a member of the Quebec Bar, as well as a certified information system security professional (CISSP) as recognized by (ISC)2, and is the author of numerous publications relating to the impact of technology on the law, including Droit codifié et nouvelles technologies: le Code civil (Yvon Blais, 2015), and Responsabilité civile et sécurité informationnelle (Yvon Blais, 2010). Mr. Vermeys’ research focuses on legal issues pertaining to artificial intelligence, information security, developments in the field of cyberjustice, and other questions relating to the impact of technological innovations on the law. He is often invited to speak on these topics by the media, and regularly lectures for judges, lawyers, professional orders, and government organizations, in Canada and abroad.

Martina is a microbial community ecologist and currently she is a research scientist in the lab of Jeff Gore at MIT. Martina holds a PhD in marine ecology from the University of Pisa, where she investigated the impacts of pulse perturbations and the occurrence of regime shifts in microbial and algal communities of rocky shore habitats by performing field experiments. She joined the Gore lab as a postdoc in 2017 to study the drivers of microbial community diversity using controlled laboratory experiments amenable to mathematical modeling. Her research aims at getting a mechanistic understanding of the relationship between environmental variables and microbial community assembly.

A professional journalist, Marco Bardazzi is the co-founder of Bea – Be a Media Company, a strategic communication agency based in Milan, Italy. From 2015 to 2020, Marco was Communications Director at ENI. As Executive Vice President, he was in charge of external communications, digital strategy, data analytics and reputation management in the Italian-based energy company, which is active in 60 countries with about 34,000 employees. Before joining ENI in 2015, he was Managing Editor and Digital Editor at La Stampa, a leading European newspaper, where he led the transformation of a traditional newspaper founded in 1867 into an integrated digital news organization.

Before joining La Stampa, Marco was U.S. Correspondent for the Italian news agency ANSA, for which he covered the 2000 Bush-Gore electoral race for the White House; the first international Al Qaeda trial in Manhattan; the September 11, 2001 attack on America the war in Afghanistan; the war in Iraq the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns.
Marco teaches at the Master of Journalism at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan). He was awarded the 2017 Communicator of the Year prize at Premio Ischia. As a journalist, he received the Premio di Giornalismo Saint-Vincent Prize.