Bruno Baccino – ing

Bruno Baccino

Senior Manager - Advisory at Grant Thornton Uruguay

Grant Thornton has been working intensively and successfully on the development and implementation of Blockchain-based solutions. In his talk, Bruno will present some of the most emblematic and innovative cases that the firm has implemented in different countries and regions.

He currently serves as Senior Manager of Business Consulting at Grant Thornton Uruguay. Former Senior Manager of CPA FERRERE where he directed the practice of Digital Transformation. He specializes in directing large-scale consulting projects with a focus on the implementation of new technologies. He has extensive experience in the financial industry (+20 years), in the public sector (+15 years), in Health (+10 years) and in the general corporate sector (+20 years). As for training, he is a Public Accountant and a Bachelor of Administration from UDELAR (2001). Programmer Analyst of the University ORT Uruguay (1996). At the postgraduate level, he has MBA studies at the Universidad ORT Uruguay.

He has the following professional certifications:

  • PMP - Project Management Professional - issued by the Project Management Institute - 2008
  • CRISC - Certificate in Risk Control and Information Systems - issued by ISACA - 2011
  • CISA - Certified auditor of the information system - issued by ISACA - 2002.

At the teaching level, the following experiences stand out:

  1. Organization and Administrative Methods in the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Administration of the University of the Republic (2004-2009)
  2. Cost Accounting in the Public Accountant career of the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences of the University ORT Uruguay (2006 to the present)
  3. Management Accounting in the Master in Business Administration (MBA) of the University ORT (2010 - 2014).
  4. Strategic Control in the Master in Financial Management of the University ORT Uruguay (2015 - 2017)
  5. Teacher, tutor of Business Plans of the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences of the Universidad ORT Uruguay in the Bachelor of Business Administration, MBA and Master's degrees in Technology Business Management (2008 - 2017) He was a member of the Ernst & Young Information Systems and Advisory Services Assurance practice.

FIRESIDE CHAT: Challenges for Blockchain implementations in Productive environments

In recent years, the challenges were to build a successful POC or Pilot, today we already accumulate significant experience in this area and the new challenges are to implement implementations in productive environments with levels of performance, compliance and security in accordance. In this talk, we will share the experience, capabilities and lessons learned from Grant Thornton's Blockchain Lab to implement solutions in productive environments.

Exhibitors: Raúl López and Bruno Baccino

TIME: Friday, September 4, 12:50 pm (-3 GTM)