Franz Fidler received his Dr. (Ph.D.) degree in electrical/communications engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 2007. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University, NY. During several research visits at Bell Laboratories, NJ, he was involved in investigating performance-enhancement measures in wavelength-division multiplexing networks, which involved the use of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, advanced modulation formats, and high-speed FPGAs. From 2010 to 2013, Franz Fidler was CTO at C SEED Entertainment Systems and from 2011 to 2018 CTO at TriLite Technologies. Franz Fidler is Co-Founder and Member of the Advisory Board (Technical Lead) of TriLite Technologies. He is also deputy chairman of the Austrian Blockchain Center and Academic Director at the University of Applied Sciences St. Poelten, responsible for the field of Digital Media Technologies.