Keynote speaker

Keynote speaker’s Biography

Fériel Bouakkaz

Cybersecurity Associate Professor, Head of Cybersecurity and Management Master of Science and Certified Ethical Hacker referent at EFREI Paris Engineering School, France

After obtaining a bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's degree in networks and computer security at Badji Mokhtar – Annaba University (Algeria), Fériel started a PhD thesis in 2012 within LIMED1 laboratory of Abderrahman Mira University (Algeria), in collaboration with two french research laboratories Heudiasc2 and Lab-STICC3. During her thesis, Fériel worked on secure data aggregation in wireless sensor networks. She obtained her PhD in July 2016 and continued her research work with Lab-STICC laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2017, she joined ENSEA4 Engineering school (France) for two years as an assistant associate professor. She subsequently held the position of coordinating teacher in a school of the chamber of commerce and industry (France). Since August 2019 she occupies a cybersecurity associate professor post at EFREI Paris Engeneering School (France), where she heads the Cybersecurity and Management Matser of Science and Certified Ethical Hacker certification. Fériel’s main teachings are cryptography, infrastructure security and Ethical Hacking. Her actual research interests focus on secure data aggregation, threshold cryptography, AI for blockchain, security and privacy for IoT.


1. LIMED, Laboratoire d’Informatique Médicale, Université Abderrahman Mira, Bejaia, Algérie
2. Heudiasyc, Heuristique et Diagnostic des Systèmes Complexes, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Compiègne, France
3. Lab-STICC, Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance, Universitéde de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, Farnce
4. ENSEA, École Nationale Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications, Cergy, France

Topic

Blockchain, IoT and AI: the bets are open!

Blockchain, IoT and AI are key technologies that revolutionized the world, each one on its side; let's see if the mix of the three can go hand in hand!
Blockchain is the ingeniously simple, revolution ary protocol that increases trust, security, transparency, and the traceability of shared data. IoT is at the heart of essential areas like industrial automation, e-Health and smart cities. For its part, AI improves outcomes by detecting patterns and optimizing processes. The convergence between Blockchain and AI has been discussed in many works, and the observation is the same for the convergence between blockchain and IoT. However, the question of the convergence of the three technologies altogether remains open.
In this talk, I will try to answer questions like: Can these three innovations coexist and complement? Can they remedy each other's weaknesses? What place can they occupy in the context of the next wave of digital transformation?