Venture & Ecosystem Development
Business Consultant
Software Development Trainer
Haim Michael is a software development trainer, entrepreneur, and lecturer with nearly 25 years of experience. He founded life michael (lifemichael.com), delivering professional training in Java, Python, JavaScript, Scala, Kotlin, and more. Haim has lectured at leading universities, including Bar-Ilan, HIT, Shenkar, and Technion, and has trained developers at top tech companies.
Director Education Speaks
With an extensive background in biochemistry, educational leadership, and positive psychology, I bring a holistic approach to fostering student growth and institutional excellence. My career spans multiple continents, where I have held key leadership roles, developed bespoke training programmes, and guided schools through accreditation processes, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and innovation.
Founder Partner / Director – The Hybrid LawTech Firm
Christiana Aristidou is a Transnational Technology Lawyer, Founder, and Managing Partner of The Hybrid LawTech Firm, with more than 28 years of experience in business, technology law, regulatory
compliance, and digital transformation.
She is widely recognised as one of the most reputable experts in blockchain regulation and standardisation internationally, with extensive expertise spanning fintech, artificial intelligence, digital assets, payments, banking, investment services, sustainable finance, and emerging decentralised ecosystems.
Her work sits at the intersection of fintech, blockchain, and AI, where she advises startups, SMEs, incumbent financial institutions, regulators, supervisory authorities, and governments on the integration of advanced technologies within complex, multijurisdictional regulatory frameworks.
Christiana has served and trained a significant number of regulated entities, executives, policymakers, regulators, and government bodies on fintech regulation and policy design, blockchain governance, digital asset compliance, AI oversight, AML frameworks, electronic identification and trust services, and digital financial infrastructure. She is particularly known for transforming regulatory complexity into clear, operational, innovation-enabling compliance strategies.
