Bio

www.christianaaristidou.com christiana@christianaaristidou.com +357 99 453019 -Business Technology Lawyer-23 years in practice -Member of Cyprus Bar Association(CBA)/Litigator(1997) -President of the Technology Committee of the CBA -National Delegate to ISO TC 307(Blockchain Committee-WG3 and WG6) -ELTA's Cyprus Ambassador -Certified International Legal Project Practitioner (IILPM) -Member of the PMI -Certified GDPR expert (EU-HELP) -Digital Transformation Specialist -Trainer-CyQF-EQF-003266 -Cyprus Blockchain Association-CoFounder/Vice-Chair, now merged with Cyprus Blockchain Technologies -Cyprus Blockchain Technologies Board Member -Member of ITU, served in ITU-FG-DLTs Christiana is the Founder and CEO of ''The hybrid LawTech Firm'', providing services in the intersection of law and technology and of SmartCity Business, a consulting and R&D firm offering services for smartcities. Christiana has been involved in multijurisdictional and complex business and technology legal projects and has worked extensively with Silicon Valley companies. Her expertise lies in the fields of IT and exponential technologies, platform legal architecture and design, start-up projects and funding (i.e. ICOs, STOs, IEOs) including innovative funding instruments, tokenization, payment innovation, cryptocurrencies and crypto-exchanges, innovative investment models, transactional deals and documentation, commercial contracts and cybersecurity. Christiana advises major local and international market players in the fields of digital banking and payments innovation, financial services and fintech, corporate, investments, insurance, entertainment, media and telecommunications, trade and transports, energy, education, health, sports, internet, software and gaming, automotive and smart cars, technology IP protection and transactions. She is currently researching on platform-driven economy, data portability, digital identity, privacy, blockchain and smart contracts, big data, AI, and IoT. Christiana is a trainer training leaders, executives, teams and departments on several major EU Directives, Regulations and other legal and regulatory compliance instruments such as the PSDII and Open Banking, eIDAS, AML, NISD, GDPR and more. She is a legal author, with numerous publications and articles in reputable journals, legal magazines and on social media and a regular speaker at law and technology conferences.