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Technical Steering Committee for Accord Project
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[NOMINATION]: 2022 Niall Roche #42

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Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Niall Roche @niallroche

Nominated By

Matt Roberts

Short Personal Bio

Niall is Head of Distributed Systems Engineering at Mishcon de Reya LLP and CTO-in-Residence and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the UCL School of Management. He is a researcher at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and is on the TechComm for the Hedera Hashgraph. Niall teaches AP fundamentals as part of a Smart Legal Contracts module at the LTIC. Niall has been actively involved at trying to innovate with and expand awareness and adoption of AP.

Short Personal Pitch

I hope to continue to spread awareness and adoption of AP within industry and Academia. I helped to co-write the first paper submission to an international conference in the area of Programming Languages for the Law along with some other papers referencing AP. I have been teaching AP fundamentals to lawyers and students and also trying to innovate using Machine Learning to auto generate Concerto and Ergo from contract templates see https://github.com/accordproject/labs-cicero-classify.

I endeavour to continue to promote the use of AP with DLTs such as Hedera HashGraph (https://github.com/niallroche/nft-royalty-agreement https://devpost.com/software/nft-royalty-distribution) and to explore new approaches to implement smart legal contract logic.