Keynote Speakers

Dino Cataldo Dell’Accio is the CIO, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF). He has significant experience in designing, governing, and assuring information systems, blockchains, and digital identity solutions underpinning United Nations global operations and critical infrastructures. Committed to responsible and ethical design and assessment of algorithms, ensuring that the adoption of emerging technologies serves the broader goals of the United Nations, organizational integrity, and societal benefit. Dedicated to compliance with international standards and professional best practices, for governing, managing, auditing, and securing global information systems, and protecting data and privacy. Focused on implementing ethical algorithmic self-assessment and auditing processes.

Natalia Levina has received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and is a Paganelli-Bull Professor at New York University Stern School of Business. She also holds a Research Environment Professor part-time position at the Warwick Business School. Her main research interest is in understanding how people span organizational, professional, cultural, and other boundaries while developing and using new technologies. Currently, her research explores the adoption of AI in organizations, open innovation practices, platform governance, and blockchain technologies, and epistemic underpinnings of innovation. She served in several editorial positions at Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, and Information & Organization journals. She has co-founded and chaired the AIS Special Interest Group (SIG) on Grounded Theory Method.

 Kevin Werbach is the Liem Sioe Liong / First Pacific Company Professor, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, and department chair at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. A world-renowned expert on emerging technologies, he examines business and policy implications of developments such as AI, algorithmic regulation, gamification, and blockchain/digital assets. Werbach served on the Obama Administration’s Presidential Transition Team, helped develop the U.S. approach to internet policy at the FCC during the Clinton Administration, hosted the Supernova executive technology conference, and created one of the most successful massive open online courses, with over 500,000 enrollments. He directs the Wharton Blockchain and Digital Asset Project. His books, which have been translated into six languages, include The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust (2018; paperback 2023), For the Win (2012; updated 2020), and After the Digital Tornado (2020; paperback 2022).