Bio

Developing strategy and solutions around the use of data with DLT based innovations. These solutions focus on enabling flexible and privacy centric data and value transfer within the public sector for use in; Smart Cities, critical infrastructure, environmental and energy systems, and mobility focused data industries such as connected and autonomous vehicles. Mathew served as a US Army Combat Veteran, Cyber Security Analyst & Operations Planner at the National Security Agency, & Digital Forensics professional at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, Head of Sustainability and Smart Cities at the IOTA Foundation, and is now leading a sustainable impact verification focused venture with more information coming in the near future. A regular speaker and contributor on decentralized and distributed innovations included OpenAI, OpenData, DLT / Blockchain, Distributed Systems Theory and real world implementations with multiple existing pilots and projects. A strong advocate for enhanced privacy and policy around data and data management. Involved in global initiatives to create data and metadata standards and raises awareness on how data can be structured and distributed on both a hardware and software level. Intimately involved in Smart City Data policy and project and product designs and development with a home base in Austin Texas and working heavily with the Austin Community and local organizations from a non profit, for profit and government perspective. Some speaking sessions include(links included if available): - Austin Transportation partnership and concepts discussion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWxH9TIE6Po - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Pitch in Copenhagen - European Space Agency PhiWeek 2019 (starts at 51:00) - https://livestream.com/esa/phiweek2019/videos/196131512 - United Nations Smart Camp Summit - Mobility Open Blockchain Institute - https://dlt.mobi/mobi-community-innovation-lecture-iota/ - IOTA Evangelist Network Open Discussion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jAT02RTsas - IOTA and Dell introduction to Project Alvarium - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gATt-VdPTw