Leadership

Founding Chair
Gora Datta

Gora Datta, FHL7 is a US based serial entrepreneur and an internationally acknowledged Subject Matter Expert on Digital Health, Health Informatics Standards & CyberHealth initiatives.

He is an accomplished, visionary executive with 38 years of international professional expertise in the field of Computer & Software Engineering and its application to Healthcare, Mobile Health, CyberSecurity, IoT, Blockchain, eLearning & Social Protection.

Co-Chair
Latif Ladid

  • Founder & President, IPv6 FORUM
  • Chair, ETSI IPv6 Industry Specification Group
  • Founding co-chair, IEEE 5G World Forum
  • Co-Chair, IEEE GET Blockchain Forum
  • Board Member, IoT Forum
  • Chair, Global IoT Summit
  • Former Chair, IEEE IoT World Forum
  • Former Chair, IEEE ComSoC IoT subcommittee
  • Former Chair, IEEE ComSoC 5G subcommittee
  • Former Vice Chair, IEEE ComSoC SDN-NFV subcommittee
  • Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society – ISOC
  • IPv6 Ready & Enabled Logos Program Board
  • Emeritus World summit Award Board Member
  • Research Fellow @ University of Luxembourg on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects
  • Member of 3GPP PCG (Board)
  • Member of UN Strategy Council
  • Member of Future Internet Forum EU Member States (representing Luxembourg)
Claudio Lima

Co-Chair
Claudio Lima, Ph.D.

  • Co-founder of the BEC Blockchain Engineering Council
  • Chair of the IEEE Blockchain Energy Standards WG
  • Chair of the IEEE Blockchain Transactive Energy Initiative (BCTE) .
  • He is currently leading global efforts on Blockchain/DLT standardization, cybersecurity, interoperability and energy smart contracts in government and corporate enterprise blockchain. 
  • Dr. Lima has a PhD in Electronic Engineering at the University of Kent/UK