SPEAKER’S PROFILE

Romain Pellerin joined Input Output Global as CTO in early 2020. IOG is a research and engineering company that develops blockchain protocols and Web 3.0 applications. The company is best known for its work on decentralised protocol Cardano, while other products included decentralised identity solution Atala Prism, the Lace Web3 wallet platform and the recently announced data-protection focused sidechain, Midnight.Romain has a PhD in distributed computing from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and Télécom SudParis. He has founded three start-ups since 2008, at which he held both chief executive and chief technology officer positions. Since 2017, Romain has built blockchain-based products for clients, including a major international bank, and released open-source projects to help developers create durable blockchain systems. A key part of this work has been Romain’s focus on reducing complexity and cutting costs by encouraging the adoption of public blockchains, so lowering the barrier to entry for companies.