Juan is a Senior Product Manager at GMV. He holds a Phd in theoretical physics and now he extrapolates the mathematical knowledge developed for academic purpose to the industry. In the projects he has been involved he has played different roles, from developing Machine Learning codes from scratch for optimization problems, to Project Management tasks, orchestrate the team to achieve the goals, solution and deployment (DataOps) design. He is especially interested in Quantum Computing, Semantic Knowledge technologies, Machine/Deep Learning Computing, and software architecture. In recent years he has specialized in privacy enhancing technologies (PET) such as Secure Multi Party Computation (SMPC) and Federated Learning and their application in data spaces

Claudio Baldassarre is a seasoned creative technologist in Semantic Technologies development and application. Started is career with academic research in the field of Semantic Web and soon after moved to work as international consultant for various agencies of the United Nations looking to harmonize global statistical records with definition of Thesauri, Ontologies and Linked Data Networks. He dedicated his effort to solve the problem of sustainable and cost-effectiveness maintenance of large linked data assets lifecycle within the collaboration with the United Nations as well as with the Italian National Council of Research. Active in the Pharmaceutical R&D proving the value of working with consolidated scientific knowledge base to significantly reduce the time to identify novel drug targets. Currently active with the DIGIT DG and SEMIC initiative overseeing the activities to promote and adopt solutions that makes cross-boarder interoperability an even more tangible and executable reality.