Dr. Alexandra Mikityuk is a passionate technology professional focused on decentralized systems, blockchain and security technologies. In 2013, she joined the Security in Telecommunication research group at TU Berlin, where she received her doctorate (PhD) in embedded security for remote processing. Since 2017 she was heading the Blockchain Group, a unit of Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs (T-Labs). In 2021 she became a co-founder and CEO of Staex, a company that redefines connectivity and management for IoT with the power of blockchain.