Jean-Luc Verhelst is a renowned public speaker, trainer and advisor on blockchain technology. He has authored a book on Bitcoin, the Blockchain and Beyond, and teaches at multiple universities and training centers in Europe and Middle East. Prior to his current position, he worked for several years as a strategy consultant and became the blockchain leader for Deloitte Belgium after spending several months at Deloitte’s EMEA Blockchain Lab. He also co-founded blockchain communities and was selected by the European Commission as a member of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum. Jean-Luc has won the world’s largest blockchain hackathon of 2016; his master thesis on Bitcoin received the award for best financial thesis of 2014 in Belgium. Jean-Luc has an academic background in IT and business and a passion for blockchains and how they will shape our future.