Activities


Talks

Invited Lecturer Blockchain & Smart Contracts Zichichi Mirko Legal and Technological Aspects (seminar). November 2026. Interactive slides for law students: cryptography and digital signatures; blockchain, smart contracts and digital coins, with a class exercise on the IOTA test network.
Invited Lecturer Move: the Language for Secure Next-Gen Smart Contracts Zichichi Mirko, Vigneri Luigi 7th Scientific School on Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies. June 2026.
Invited Lecturer IOTA Move Smart Contracts Zichichi Mirko Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Master's Degree in Computer Science and Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence, University of Bologna. November 2025.
Invited Lecturer Blockchain & Smart Contracts Zichichi Mirko Legal and Technological Aspects (seminar). November 2025.
Invited Lecturer Move: the Language for Secure Next-Gen Smart Contracts Zichichi Mirko, Vigneri Luigi 6th Scientific School on Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies. June 2025.
Invited Lecturer IOTA Move Smart Contracts Zichichi Mirko Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Master's Degree in Computer Science and Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence, University of Bologna. November 2024.
Invited Lecturer Blockchain & Smart Contracts Zichichi Mirko Legal and Technological Aspects (seminar). November 2024.
Speaker Move: the Language for Secure Next-Gen Smart Contracts Zichichi Mirko LAST-JD Annual Conference 2024. July 2024.
★ Speaker Move: the Language for Secure Next-Gen Smart Contracts Zichichi Mirko Ethna 2024. May 2024.
Invited Lecturer Blockchain e Smart Contract Zichichi Mirko Aspetti Giuridici e Tecnologici (seminario). November 2023.
Invited Lecturer IOTA Smart Contracts and Move Tutorial Zichichi Mirko, Ileri Can Umut 4th Scientific School on Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies. September 2023.
Speaker IOTA Foundation & the Tangle Zichichi Mirko LAST-JD-RIoE MSCA-ITN project Annual Conference 2023. July 2023.
Speaker Protecting digital identity in the Metaverse: the case of access to a cinema in Decentraland Zichichi Mirko, Sorrentino Giovanni Distributed Ledger Technologies 2023 (workshop). May 2023.
Invited Lecturer ERC-20 Tokens, NFTs and DAOs Zichichi Mirko Blockchain e Smart Contract: Aspetti Giuridici e Tecnologici (seminario). November 2022.
Speaker Decentralized Systems for the Protection and Portability of Personal Data (Short Thesis Presentation) Zichichi Mirko LAST-JD-RIoE November 2022 Board in Bologna. November 2022.
★ Speaker Smart Legal Contracts Zichichi Mirko PROTECT Workshop in Cercedilla. June 2022.
Invited Lecturer Blockchain and Smart Contracts Zichichi Mirko Legal Tech and Blockchain. May 2022.
Speaker Incentivized Data Mules Based on State-Channels Zichichi Mirko 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC). May 2022.
Invited Lecturer Community Innovation Lecture Series MOBI, Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative. April 2022.
Invited Lecturer Authentication, Non-repudiation and Data Integrity: Technical and Legal Perspectives Zichichi Mirko Social/Legal/Ethical Aspects in Data Science. March 2022.
Speaker Intelligent Human-input-based Blockchain Oracle (IHiBO) Zichichi Mirko 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART). February 2022.
Speaker Towards CBDC-based Machine-to-Machine Payments in Consumer IoT Pocher Nadia, Zichichi Mirko Peer-to-Peer Financial Systems (P2PFSY). December 2021.
Speaker Argumentation in Trust Services within a Blockchain Environment Zichichi Mirko BNAIC/BENELEARN 2021. November 2021.
Invited Lecturer Smart contracts: Law plus technology Zichichi Mirko Blockchain e Smart Contract: Aspetti Giuridici e Tecnologici (seminario). October 2021.
Invited Lecturer Introduzione alla Crittografia (sulla sicurezza ed altre amenità informatiche) Zichichi Mirko, Ferretti Stefano Blockchain e Smart Contract: Aspetti Giuridici e Tecnologici (seminario). October 2021.
Speaker Governing Decentralized Complex Queries Through a DAO Zichichi Mirko GoodIT 2021. September 2021.
Speaker (Location) Privacy by Design through Disintermediation: from Data Silos to Decentralized Technologies Zichichi Mirko First Annual LAST-JD-RIoE Conference. July 2021.
Speaker Towards Decentralized Complex Queries over Distributed Ledgers: a Data Marketplace Use-case Zichichi Mirko IEEE ICCCN 2021. July 2021.
Speaker MOVO: a dApp for DLT-based Smart Mobility Zichichi Mirko IEEE ICCCN 2021. July 2021.
Speaker Distributed Ledger Technologies and Personal Data Protection Zichichi Mirko Ontology Engineering Group Talks. June 2021.
Speaker Intelligible Identity and Certificate Zichichi Mirko LAST-JD-RIoE Assessment. April 2021.
Speaker Personal Data Access Control Through Distributed Authorization Zichichi Mirko IEEE NCA 2020. November 2020.
Invited Lecturer Non ripudio nella Sicurezza Digitale e Marcatura Temporale Fidata Zichichi Mirko, Ferretti Stefano Blockchain e Smart Contract: Aspetti Giuridici e Tecnologici (seminario). October 2020.
Speaker Are Distributed Ledger Technologies Ready for Intelligent Transportation Systems? Zichichi Mirko CryBlock 2020 (workshop). September 2020.
Speaker On the Efficiency of Decentralized File Storage for Personal Information Management Systems Zichichi Mirko Social Media Sensing 2020 (workshop). July 2020.
Speaker Smart contracts and Proof of Location in Smart Cities Zichichi Mirko Blockchain and Smart Contract: legal, technical and governance aspects (workshop). April 2020.
Speaker Location privacy and inference in online social networks Zichichi Mirko LAST-JD-RIoE Assessment. April 2020.
Speaker Ensuring Personal Data Anonymity in Data Marketplaces through Sensing-as-a-Service and DLTs Zichichi Mirko Distributed Ledger Technologies 2020 (workshop). February 2020.
Speaker The use of Decentralized and Semantic Web Technologies for Personal Data Protection and Interoperability Zichichi Mirko GDPR Compliance - Theories, Techniques, Tools, JURIX2019 (workshop). December 2019.
Invited Lecturer Distributed Ledger Technologies Applications Zichichi Mirko Sistemi Peer-to-Peer 19/20. November 2019.
Speaker Location privacy and inference in online social networks Zichichi Mirko LAST-JD-RIoE Welcome Camp. November 2019.
Speaker LikeStarter: a Smart-contract based Social DAO for Crowdfunding Zichichi Mirko CryBlock 2019 (workshop). April 2019.
Speaker dApp development Zichichi Mirko, Contu Michele Sistemi Peer-to-Peer 18/19. November 2018.


Activities

Hackathon Organizer IOTA Smart Contracts and Move Hackathon Zichichi Mirko, Rufinatscha Samuel 5th Scientific School on Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies. September 2024.
TPC member GoodIT 2023 Special track on Blockchain and Decentralized Technologies for Social Good (BANDIT)
TPC member FiDeFix 2023 ICDCS Workshop - 1st Workshop on Fintech and Decentralized Finance
TPC member Blockchain 2023 International Congress on Blockchain and Applications
TPC member NETWORKING 2022 IFIP Networking Conference
TPC member HICSS 56 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
TPC member Blockchain 2022 International Congress on Blockchain and Applications
TPC member GoodIT 2022 ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good
Reviewer SREP Scientific Reports - Nature
Reviewer DLT Distributed Ledger Technologies - ACM
Reviewer SNCS SN Computer Science - Springer Nature
Reviewer BCRA Blockchain: Research and Applications - Elsevier
Reviewer BLOCKCHAIN Frontiers in Blockchain - Frontiers
Organizer First Digital Media and Human Well-Being (Digeing) Workshop, Madrid
TPC member HICSS 55 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
TPC member Blockchain 2021 International Congress on Blockchain and Applications
Reviewer JNCA Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Elsevier
Reviewer TELE Telematics and Informatics - Elsevier
Reviewer PMC Pervasive and Mobile Computing - Elsevier
Reviewer IPM Information Processing & Management - Elsevier
Reviewer BCRA Blockchain: Research and Applications - Elsevier
Reviewer CCPE Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - Wiley
Reviewer OJ-CS IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society
TPC member CryBlock 2020 3rd Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems (part of MobiCom 2020)
TPC member Blockchain 2020 International Congress on Blockchain and Applications
Reviewer IEEE Access the Multidisciplinary Open Access Journal
Reviewer COMP Computing - Springer
Reviewer IPM Information Processing & Management - Elsevier
Reviewer CCPE Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - Wiley
Reviewer OJ-CS IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society
Reviewer COMCOM Computer Communications - Elsevier, Special Issue on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems
Co-chair Ordine, Caos, Complessità e Sistemica: la prospettiva di informatici, fisici e matematici