RegTech, Governance and the Future of Forests

Expert in socio-environmental projects, sustainability affairs, business development and the management of Nonprofit organizations. Undergraduated in Businees Administration, holds a Master degree of International Management “with distinction” from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

He is a researcher about Blockchain and sustainability issues, with three published papers and additional posters in 2020 - 2022. Mr. Villares has 30 years of work experience in administration, business operations and project management. Since 2008, is the CFO at FAS - Foundation for the Amazon Sustainability, a leading Brazilian organization for the Amazon conservancy.

Mr. Villares has a daughter and son. He is an enthusiast musician and sailor.

World Traveller (I lived in 8 different countries on 4 continents), entrepreneur, CTO, full-stack web developer and blockchain (Ethereum, IPFS) programmer, and since September 2022, father of a boy.I started the WTP-project with a german friend 5 years ago, in order to fight corruption in South America, provide an alternative for the people doing proper business to earn more money and making the entire wood supply-chain more fair and equitable by using the latest technology (blockchain/DLT/Smart Contract) that ultimately could help to save the Amazon rainforest and the planet.

Chief Dadá Borarí is a known indigenous chief and forest guardian from the Brazilian Amazon. He is Chief-General of Maró Indigenous Territory. Ten years ago he set up a team of forest guardians to protect their territory against illegal invasions, mainly tree poachers/illegal loggers, i.c. timber companies.

Dr Tim Boekhout van Solinge is a forest criminologist, specialised in organised forest crime and community-based forest crime prevention. From 2010-2016 he led a NWO research in Brazil and Colombia, during which he met Chief Dadá. Since 2015 Dadá and Tim work together. In 2016, Tim was lead author of the Global Forest Expert Panel on Illegal Timber and he was UN consultant in the field of forest crime.

Bram studied Applied Physics at the Delft University of Technology. He found an research position at the Institute for Soil Fertility Research (Haren, Groningen). He became team leader of the Nutrient Management Team at Alterra (2000); and in 2008 he Interim Operational Manager of the Soil Science Centre of the Environmental Sciences Group (ESG) of Wageningen University and Research Centre. In 2010 he decided to move to New Zealand to fulfil the position as Science Group Leader at AgResearch (2010-2015) focussing on land use, water quality and greenhouse gas emissions. From September 2015 back at WUR.

A career technologist who has worked in everything from startups to global companies particularly in the financial industry but more recently in DLT and supply chain. This journey has led me to become Head of Product at iov42 sitting at the intersection of Business, Market and Technology allowing me to exercise my passion for designing technology and processes to solve challenging problems, the more challenging the better.

Forestry engineer, harvesting and wood sourcing manager in forestry, sustainability manager in international forest industry

Erik VanIngen works as digital agriculture and innovation specialist through blockchain, artificial intelligence, data analytics, data governance, IoT, remote sensing, design thinking and hackathons in the FAO Office of Innovation and the FAO Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment. He drives the blockchain community of practice in FAO in collaboration with other UN entities such as IFAD, WFP and UNIN. Erik is especially interested in digital agrifood systems sustainability on the topics of climate and child labor in collaboration with the private sector. Before joining FAO, he worked for 10 years in the private sector in the Netherlands and Sweden as a software architect and project leader. Erik holds a bachelor in Telematics and a master’s degree at the Open University in the Netherlands in Business Process Management and IT.

Founder & CEO of Bluenumber. He advocates for Data as a Human Right, especially for workers and farmers and young entrants to the Digital Economy in the Global South. Formerly a UN Independent Expert on Business and Human Rights appointed by the UN Human Rights Council (Geneva), Head of Food & Agriculture at the UN Global Compact (New York). Before joining the UN, Puvan was Group Chief Sustainability Officer at Sime Darby, a Malaysian diversified conglomerate. An Architect by profession, Puvan holds an MBA and a DBA in Corporate Strategy and Sustainability.

Jaclyn has a broad experience in business development from a governmental and private sector perspective. Her work is centered in the development and implementation of (innovative) sustainable business models and financial mechanisms. She is based at Wageningen UR where she is engaged in national and international settings and has worked in projects in the Caribean, South America, Africa and South Asia. In the Netherlands she organises workshops to help organisations in the development of business models for ecological impact.

Jennifer Gabrys is Chair in Media, Culture and Environment in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She leads the Planetary Praxis research group, and is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project, Smart Forests: Transforming Environments into Social-Political Technologies. She also leads Citizen Sense and AirKit, which research air pollution and citizen engagement and have been funded by the ERC. Her newest book, Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle, is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press (2022). Her work can be found at http://planetarypraxis.org/ and http://smartforests.net/.