Artiona is a Cloud technologies architect and part of the Presales team at Google Cloud for the region of Germany, Switzerland, Austria. A graduate in Software Engineering in Germany and Italy, Artiona has 8+ years of experience in international corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, SAP and most recently Google. Over the last 4 years she has been intensively engaged with Blockchain decentralized technologies while leading the business development team for Blockchain technologies for the EMEA region at SAP as well as leading the Presales team for the Marco Polo network - an initiative supported by 35 global banks for the transformation of Supply Chain Financing processes based on decentralized technologies.
Artiona launched the Blockchain Western Balkans network in 2017 and to date has organized a series of educational events, trainings, hackathons with an enthusiastic group of students and professionals. She has been contributing to the community for years as a Techstars mentor or during educational events. She has been contributing to the community for years as a Techstars mentor or during educational events. In addition to her day-to-day work at Google, Artiona is a board member of BerChain (Berlin Blockchain), a non-profit organization that aims to engage stakeholders about Blockchain technologies in Berlin and promote the city of Berlin as a global hub in the field.