Agenda

Stéphanie Lelaurin has devoted her career to facilitate and accelerate transformational changes assisting leaders of disruptive and impactful start-ups and organizations. Since 2018 she specializes in fostering the adoption and use of Blockchain and Decentralized Finance solutions for massive financial empowerment of  vulnerable populations and protection of common goods to support the UN SDGs fulfillment. 

A distinguished engineer, leader, and diplomat; multilingual standardization expert and holder of 22 patents, Tunisian born Dr. Bilel Jamoussi has been Chief of the Study Groups Department of ITU Standardization Bureau (TSB) in Geneva Switzerland since 2010.  

He has led the coordination of the bureau’s standards moving activities into a new era characterized by digital transformation that needs an increased collaboration with vertical sectors such as healthcare, transportation, utility, and banking. His innovative approach has served as a catalyst to launch new standards initiatives related to emerging technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, AI, and Quantum, attracting a new wave of memberships from non-traditional players.  

He has also been credited with bringing the telco and financial sectors together to develop digital payments guidelines and standards with the aim of advancing financial inclusion globally.  

Bilel is recognized as a key figure in the ICT industry. Key achievements under his tenure have been important new standards while effectively managing staff by recruiting new talent, improving gender balance, delivering new work methods, and staying within budget.  

Prior to 2010, he worked in the private sector for 15 years and held senior executive positions such as Director of Standards for Nortel. In this role, he participated in over 90 standards-making bodies worldwide. In the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), he authored a number of Internet standards.  

As an IEEE Senior Member, he was elected to the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Board of Governors and the IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group.  

He holds a BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, USA.  

Bilel has lived in Tunisia, Canada, the USA, and Switzerland, giving him a unique global viewpoint. He is fluent in Arabic, French, and English and speaks some Spanish and German. 

Mr Achime Malick NDIAYE est Directeur des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication au Ministère de l'Economie et des Telecommunications du Senegal.

Mr NDIAYE est Ingenieur en Telecommunications,Sepialise en CAR (Conception et Architecture des Reseaux, Membre actif du FG on DFS, Membre actif du FIGI, Vice Presidents des SG20 et SG20-Afr, expert et contributeur du SG3 de l'UIT-T,C oordonnateur National du e-Commerce au Senégal.

Dorothee Delort is a senior financial sector specialist in the Payment Systems Development Group (PSDG) of the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) Global Practice of the World Bank. She has been involved in national payments system reforms, financial market infrastructures (FMIs) and retail payment systems technical assistance, lending projects and FSAP in several countries. Dorothee has over 15 years of experience in central banking, having occupied, before joining the World Bank, various positions in the fields of forex markets and payment systems at Banque de France, the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington DC. Dorothee holds a master’s degree in political sciences from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris (Sciences Po Paris) and a post-graduate degree in International affairs from the University Paris-Dauphine