CEO, SIX
Jos Dijsselhof joined SIX in January 2018 as CEO. He holds degrees in computer science and business administration, and has a long track record in international management in the financial sector. He has previously held positions at ABN Amro Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and ANZ Australia & New Zealand Banking Group in various countries including Hong Kong and Singapore. His most recent role was Chief Operating Officer (2014–June 2017) and CEO ad interim (2015) at Euronext in Amsterdam.

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Director of the University Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, University of Bern
Thierry Carrel (58) completed his medical studies at the University of Bern in 1984 and received his doctorate in 1985, followed by training as an FMH specialist in general surgery and later in cardiovascular surgery. He habilitated in 1993 under Prof. M. Turina at the University of Zurich. He then spent time abroad in Hanover, Paris, Helsinki and Baltimore. In 1999 he was appointed full professor and director of the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery of the Inselspital at the University of Bern.

Since the beginning of his cardiac surgery career, Thierry Carrel has performed over 12,000 procedures (as an surgeon, teacher or assistant). He is the author of over 650 scientific publications and co-editor of several international journals. In 2014, he was awarded the Da Vinci Prize by the European Society of Cardiac Surgery as the best instructor in Europe and in 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Fribourg. In 2018 he became a member of the board of the American Society of Cardiac Surgery.

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Cyber Security Expert, SIX
As one of the lead members of the security operations team at SIX, Bernhard Distl works on cyber threat intelligence in the context of their security operation center (SOC), and is also involved in building a cybersecurity community for the Swiss financial sector. Formerly a cybersecurity trainer & consultant, Bernhard studied electrical engineering and information technology at ETH Zurich, where he also earned his Ph.D.

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Vice President, The Walt Disney Studios, Director, Disney Research|Studios, Professor ETH Zürich
Markus Gross is a Professor of Computer Science at the ETH Zürich, Head of the Computer Graphics Laboratory, Vice President Research and the Director of DisneyResearch|Studios. He joined the ETH Computer Science faculty in 1994. His research interests include physically based modeling, computer animation, immersive displays, and video technology. Before joining Disney, Gross was Head of the Institute of Computational Sciences at ETH. He received a Master of Science in electrical and computer engineering and a PhD in computer graphics and image analysis, both from Saarland University in Germany in 1986 and 1989. Gross serves on the boards of numerous international research institutes, societies, and governmental organizations. He received the Technical Achievement Award from EUROGRAPHICS in 2010 and the Swiss ICT Champions Award in 2011. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the EUROGRAPHICS Association and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as well as the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2013 he received the Konrad Zuse Medal of GI and the Karl Heinz Beckurts price as well as the IEEE Visualization Career Award in 2015. In 2013 and 2019 he received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He cofounded Cyfex AG, Novodex AG, LiberoVision AG, Dybuster AG, Gimalon AG, Kapanu AG, Perceptiko AG, Propulsion Academy AG, Arbrea Labs AG, Nanocorp AG and Animatico AG.

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Moderator/Editor, Swiss Radio and Television
Reto Lipp (58) has been presenting the business magazine ECO on Swiss television since 2007, as well as the daily stock market program SRF-Börse on a regular basis. Since 2015 he has also been in charge of ECO-Talk, a talk show on economic and business topics. Lipp also regularly comments on economic issues in the “Tagesschau”, “10vor10” and “Arena”, is present on Twitter and leads discussions. The industry magazine “Der Journalist” awarded Reto Lipp with the title of “Economic Journalist of the Year” in 2011.

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Professor ETH ZürichUeli Maurer is professor of computer science and head of the Information Security and Cryptography Research Group at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). His research interests include the theory and applications of cryptography, information security, theoretical computer science, information theory, and discrete mathematics. One of his long-term research goals is to establish a constructive theory of cryptography and to apply it to the modular design of provably-secure cryptographic protocols. He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1990, both from ETH Zürich. From 1990 to 1991 he was a DIMACS Fellow at Princeton University.

He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology from 2002 to 2010, as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and currently serves as associate editor for the Journal of Computer and System Sciences. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an IACR Fellow, and a member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). He was the 2000 Rademacher Lecturer of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and received the 2013 Vodafone Innovation Award for Mobile Communications, the 2016 RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics, and the 2016 Theory of Cryptography (TCC) Test-of-Time Award. Maurer has served many companies and start-ups as board member and consultant and has advised many government organsations. In 2018 he co-founded the Concordium project and foundation aiming at creating a global, universally trusted, provably incorruptible and secure transaction platform.

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Lead Cyber Hub Program & Senior Advisor, SIX
Pierre has over 30 years of international experience in information security, data privacy, and enterprise risk management. He is in charge of the nation-wide Swiss finance service Cyber Security Information Sharing Program. Pierre was the Chief Security Officer for Microsoft, covering the wide Asian region. Pierre was the Chief Security & Privacy Officer (CSPO) for Huawei Worldwide. He designed, built, and operated complete security and enterprise risk management environments for governments, finance, transport, and large conglomerate industries over the world. He was the advisor to three large nations in Australasia, working directly with their ministers or presidential offices in building nationwide cyber security and privacy programs. Pierre is a member of the board of advisors of Airbus Industries. Pierre also sits on the board of several established and start-up organizations in the field of cyber security and privacy.

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