Mark Heaps is a creative force to be reckoned with, with over 20 years of experience and a passion that’s off the charts. He’s worked with the big boys – Apple, Google, Adobe, and more – and has led projects and teams that’ll make your head spin. He’s a published author, and award-winning speaker, and has rocked the stages at Adobe MAX, SXSW, and more. When he’s not igniting the soul of Groq, you can find him in Austin, Texas, with his rad family and their collection of overindulged pets.

Thomas Wolf is co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO) of Hugging Face where he has been at the inception of the open-source, educational and research efforts.

Thomas enjoys creating open-source software that makes complex research, models and datasets widely accessible (for instance by creating the Hugging Face Transformers and Datasets libraries). When he’s not building OSS libraries, he can be found pushing for open science in research in AI/ML, trying to lower the gap between academia and industrial labs through projects like the BigScience Workshop on Large Language Models (LLM) which leads to the BLOOM experiments, model and dataset. His current research interests revolve around LLM accessibility and measuring and overcoming present limitations of Large Language Models. He also enjoys writing and filming educational content on AI, ML and NLP, including writing the reference book “Natural Language Processing with Transformers” published at O’Reilly with amazing co-authors, writing (not often enough) in his blog and recording (also not often enough) educational videos like The Future of Natural Language Processing.

Katie Noyes is a Section Chief in the Science & Technology Branch at the FBI, serving as the organization’s lead on next generation technologies and lawful access challenges. Prior to that, she served as the Senior Technology Advisor for Technology Policy, charged with leading the FBI’s 5G/information and communications technologies and services and internet governance and technology standards development work. From 2011 to 2019, she served multiple roles, to include as the head of the Terrorist Screening Center’s Policy Office and International Engagement Program. Ms. Noyes started with the FBI in August 2007, serving as the first Intelligence Program Coordinator in the San Diego Field Office. Prior to joining the FBI, Ms. Noyes served as an Intelligence Subject Matter Expert with the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, assisting leadership, software developers, data scientists, and mathematicians with developing a capability to narrow the search space for high value targets. She has served over 20 years in the Intelligence Community, starting as an Army Military Intelligence Officer serving tours in South Korea and Iraq, and later in counterintelligence with the Defense Intelligence Agency and DoD Counterintelligence Field Activity. Ms. Noyes has a bachelor’s degree from Boston University, a master’s degree in National Security Studies and Resource Planning from the National Defense University Eisenhower School, and an Executive Chief Information Security Officer Certificate from Carnegie Mellon University.

Naveen Jain is an indomitable force fueled by curiosity and an unwavering commitment to propel humanity toward a future of limitless possibilities. Embracing audacious ideas, he stands at the forefront of innovation, challenging the boundaries of what is achievable. As the Founder and CEO of Viome, Naveen spearheads a revolution in personalized health and human longevity that extends beyond conventional approaches. Viome’s groundbreaking AI-driven platform analyzes not only the intricate interplay between food, our microbiome, and our human cells but also pioneers early diagnostics and preventative wellness strategies. By decoding the molecular information within each individual, Viome aims to empower people to take proactive steps towards optimal health, preventing chronic diseases.

Athina Kanioura is Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at PepsiCo. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $86 billion in net revenue in 2022, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

An accomplished innovator and transformation leader, Kanioura oversees PepsiCo’s end-to-end strategy to win both as a total company and in key markets, including our digitalization strategy. She also leads company-wide transformation—ensuring that our scale is leveraged as we focus on accelerating profitable growth and identifying areas of cost efficiency and optimization—in addition to overseeing Data Products, Platforms, and Talent. 

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Kanioura was the Chief Analytics Officer and Global Head of Applied Intelligence at Accenture, where she specialized in applying AI and analytics to drive business value. During her 15 years at Accenture, Kanioura grew the Applied Intelligence function from a subspecialty to a global group at the forefront of scale business transformation. She also ran Sales and Customer Analytics globally and drove the company’s offerings in customer relationship management and personalization. 

Kanioura specializes in transforming businesses with emphasis on data and technology, and brings many years of practical experience globally in industries such as telecomms, oil and gas, financial services, and consumer packaged goods, having worked with companies such as Mondelez, Unilever, P&G, Reckitt Benkiser, Phillip Morris, and Adidas.

Kanioura is a member of the Royal Statistical and Economics Society, where she contributes to shaping government policy around how data is used by bodies like the IMF. She also sits on the board of the Institute of Marketing Sciences and is a keen educator who has held lectureships at UMIST (UK), Imperial College London (UK), and the University of Sheffield (UK), where she also earned her PhD in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics.  Kanioura is based in Purchase, N.Y

Hilary Mason is the co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door. Prior to Hidden Door she was General Manager of the Machine Learning business unit at Cloudera. She previously founded Fast Forward Labs, an applied machine learning research and consulting startup which Cloudera acquired in 2017. Additionally, she was Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, co-founded HackNY, and was Chief Scientist at bitly. Hilary has been building AI products and business across startups and enterprise over the last 20 years.

Kyle Dufresne leads Dell Technologies’ AI and Edge Solutions Sales Team globally. Established in 2024, this team is responsible for maximizing GTM capabilities across AI by focusing on three pillars: large pursuit support, sales AI enablement and AI GTM strategy development.

Kyle started with Dell in 2003 as a Global Account Manager then moved into leadership roles, beginning in Dell’s Corporate Business followed by being named General Manager of Dell’s Global Business in Europe.

Returning to the United States, Kyle became General Manager of Dell’s Consumer Retail Business in 2014, with added responsibility for Dell’s Public Business Group, overseeing the higher education and healthcare sales organization, and leading national alliances with top technology partners.

In 2016, Kyle became President and General Manager of Global Client Compute Solutions (GCCS) and Global Compute & Networking (GCN), focused on selling client and server portfolios, as well as the software, services and peripherals that complement those products to Dell Technologies’ largest global customers.

In 2020 Kyle was appointed Senior Vice President of OEM Solutions globally. Focused on leveraging Dell Technologies’ strategically aligned businesses to offer customers a comprehensive set of tier-1 technologies and solutions, this position was a natural precursor to his current role as AI and Edge Solutions Sales Senior Vice President.

With a focus on purpose-driven leadership, Kyle not only drives for results and wins, but celebrates each milestone of the journey with his team. He has a reputation for being driven while valuing each team member and motivating them to be fully engaged contributors. Kyle’s involvement with and energy for his team and business are infectious.

Kyle holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Rhode Island. He and his wife Shelly are the proud parents of three children, two boys and one girl. Kyle currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Robert Silvers was confirmed by the Senate as the Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans on August 5, 2021. He is responsible for driving policy and implementation plans across all of DHS’s missions, including counterterrorism; cybersecurity, infrastructure security, and resilience; border security and immigration; international affairs; and trade and economic security. Mr. Silvers also Chairs the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, the Cyber Safety Review Board, and oversees the Supply Chain Resilience Center.

Mr. Silvers previously served in the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama-Biden Administration as Assistant Secretary for Cyber Policy. In that role he oversaw private sector engagement, federal government incident response, and diplomatic outreach pertaining to cybersecurity and emerging technology. Mr. Silvers also previously served as DHS’s Deputy Chief of Staff, managing execution of policy and operational priorities across the entire Department.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Silvers was a partner at the law firm Paul Hastings LLP, where his practice focused on cybersecurity and data privacy, government security review of foreign investments, and investigations and litigation at the intersection of law and national security. After graduating law school, he clerked for Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Mr. Silvers holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught as an adjunct professor in the M.S. in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy Program co-offered by the NYU Law School and NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Micheline Casey is the Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Siemens Energy in Berlin, Germany. With over two decades leading data, AI, and digital innovation strategy for Global 500 companies across the U.S., Europe and Asia, Micheline is an expert in leveraging data and AI to drive value and solve complex business challenges. She is passionate about driving data and AI transformations, revolutionizing business models, and the convergence of physical with the digital.

Her leadership shines in dynamic, disruptive settings where she excels at aligning business and IT, merging strategy with execution, and navigating the data value chain to foster change in intricate business landscapes. Micheline’s prior roles include executive data and AI positions at A.P. Møller-Maersk, Ford Motor Company, and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. She’s been recognized multiple times by CDO Magazine Global Women in Data and contributes to the tech ecosystem as an advisor for Berkeley Skydeck startups.

Outside of work, Micheline loves the outdoors, enjoying skiing, hiking, paddleboarding, and yoga. She’s also a globetrotter, interior design enthusiast, and loves board games.

Jeff Bullwinkel serves as Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Corporate External & Legal Affairs, Microsoft EMEA. He is based in London and oversees the company’s legal and corporate affairs teams across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, providing support for commercialtransactions and regulatory counsel on public policy issues relating among other things to cybersecurity, data privacy, artificial intelligence, digital safety, competition, and international trade. Mr. Bullwinkel joined Microsoft in 2000 and previously held a number of senior roles with the company across the Asia Pacific region, based in Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Bullwinkel was with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, an international law firm based in New York. Mr. Bullwinkel also served as a federal prosecutor with the Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division, US Department of Justice, where he was responsible for a wide range of matters relating to international law. Mr. Bullwinkel is originally from the New York area. He graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and received his law degree from New York University. He is a member of the New York State Bar.

Julia Reuss joined Meta in February 2021 and is responsible for regulatory affairs and policy- and innovation strategy as well as policy programs in 30 Central European countries since then. The region includes the BeNeLux countries, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as 23 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Julia Reuss previously held various management positions in the federal administration. Her positions led from the German Bundestag to the Federal Ministry of Transport and the Federal Chancellery. Julia Reuss was responsible for international strategic business development for Deutsche Bahn and represented the group in Paris for four years.

Julia Reuss studied political science in Vienna, Washington D.C. and Berlin and holds a PhD from the Free University of Berlin.

Paul Brook is Pre-Sales Director & Generative AI Lead, EMEA, at Dell Technologies. Based near London, Paul works with our Partners and Customers in enterprise, commercial and public sector organisations across EMEA to help them successfully adopt transformative, emerging technologies as part of their digital transformation.  Paul is a recognised expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI), guiding entrepreneurs to multinational companies in effectively integrating and leveraging AI for strategic growth. He is also a published author of two books, ‘The Life of AI’ and ‘The Shape of Data.’  As a former CTO at Dell Technologies, Paul has extensive knowledge of many disruptive and emerging technologies, from AI to Edge. Paul joined Dell Technologies in 2004. Previously, he worked in the applications development and managed services sectors. Before joining the IT industry, Paul trained as an accountant and worked for a consultancy specializing in business performance improvement.

Fiona is the COO for Microsoft EMEA, leading a team of sales enablement, go-to-market, sales operations, and marketing professionals. She works with customers and partners across 120+ markets to drive digital transformation. With a career span of 25 years in consulting and technology, Fiona has worked across Europe, Asia, and with global teams. As a qualified executive coach, she supports professional growth and mentor startups and NGOs.

Described as one of the Hidden Seven working wonders around the world, he was the 1st Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh after the bifurcation of the state, Nara Chandrababu Naidu envisions and promises to build a happy, inclusive and globally competitive sunrise state.

“Not just smart cities, my vision is to make smart towns and smart villages too, thus making a smart State by making smart decisions, using smart technology and by using smart manpower.”

Born in Chittoor district on April 20, 1950, Chandrababu Naidu entered politics as a very young youth leader from Chandragiri, receiving a congress ticket in the 1978 elections which later made him the state’s youngest assembly member and minister at 28. Nara Chandrababu Naidu served as the longest Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 1995 – 2004 and also the Leader of Opposition for the longest tenure since 2004.

Voted as the IT Indian of the Millennium, known for emphasizing on modern information technology and making Hyderabad the 5th largest IT hub in the country, Nara Chandrababu Naidu has now an even bigger vision towards turning Amaravati into a futuristic world class capital opening gateways to growing markets and promising opportunities with global standards to make Andhra Pradesh rank among the top three states by 2022 and the best state by 2029.

Philippe Rambach is the SVP, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of Schneider Electric.

Philippe Rambach joined Schneider Electric in 2010 through the acquisition of AREVA. He has more than 20 years of experience in strategy, innovation, and business responsibility in many industries.

He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in France and has held various leadership roles in Industrial Automation. Most recently, as SVP Industrial Automation Commercial, he has led the commercial organization with strong results and impact. He has an international career background and is currently based in France, reporting to the Chief Digital Officer, Peter Weckesser.

Ms Lucilla Sioli is the Director of the “EU AI Office” within Directorate-General CONNECT at the European Commission. She is responsible for the coordination of the European AI strategy, including the implementation of the AI Act and international collaboration in trustworthy AI and AI for good. The directorate is also responsible for R&D&I activities in AI and for the implementation of the AI Innovation Package. Lucilla holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton (UK) and one from the Catholic University of Milan (Italy) and has been a civil servant with the European Commission since 1997.

Lambert Hogenhout is Chief Data and AI at the United Nations Secretariat. He is also an author, keynote speaker and advisor on AI and responsible use of technology. He has 25 years of experience working both in the private sector and with international organizations such as the World Bank and the United Nations. He leads governance and strategy in the areas of data and AI and oversees its practical implementation. He has published on data privacy, data governance, the societal implications of technology and responsible use of AI.

Appointed in 2023, Una Shortt is currently the group Chief Data Officer and Senior Vice President of Data & Performance.

Una joined Schneider Electric in 2004 and has enjoyed a dynamic career in Software & Data Engineering, Data Architecture & Governance, working with talented individuals & teams globally.

Una began her Data career during an internship in 1998, writing data quality routines in manufacturing. When she graduated with a BSc in Computer Systems in 2000, development of Enterprise Application Interfaces, Business Reporting and low level coding in Capital Markets followed. From there she began her Schneider Electric career joining APC in 2004, with a mission to grow BI & Analytics Development, Data Engineering, Business Analysis and Project Management.

She defined the first Analytics Strategy for Schneider Electric in 2012, launched the first B.I. & Analytics Community and was a key member of the squad pioneering the original Enterprise Data Lake in the company in 2014. This followed with the introduction of a suite of BI & Analytics technologies that enabled scaled autonomy for internal stakeholders, with a reach of 60K users today.

Una’s hands-on experience, understanding the very building blocks to operationalize strategy, were the solid foundations to elevate to senior leadership roles in Schneider Electric’s Data Strategy execution, transitioning her career from pure tech to data governance in more recent years.

Una received an MBA from Heriot – Watt University (SCO). During her time there, she developed a passion for Portfolio (PMP, Scrum@Scale).

Una’s driver is a passion for people, enabling together a data backed execution of strategy at Schneider Electric, through Trusted Data@Scale.

About Schneider Electric

Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.

Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency.

We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.

We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.

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Nabiha Syed is Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, the global nonprofit that does everything from championing trustworthy AI to advocating for a more open, equitable internet.

Nabiha was the Chief Executive Officer of The Markup, an award-winning journalism non-profit that challenges technology to serve the public good. Under her leadership, The Markup’s unique approach was referenced by Congress 21 times, inspired dozens of class action lawsuits, won a national Murrow Award and a Loeb Award, and recognized as “Most Innovative” by FastCompany in 2022.

Prior to The Markup, Nabiha was a highly acclaimed media lawyer. Nabiha’s legal career spanned private practice, the New York Times First Amendment Fellowship, and leading BuzzFeed’s libel and newsgathering matters, including the successful defense of the Steele Dossier litigations. She sits on the board of the Scott Trust, the $1B+ British company that owns The Guardian newspaper, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, the New Press, and serves as an advisor to ex/ante, the first venture fund dedicated to agentic tech.

Rajesh Naidu is Senior Vice President, Chief Architect for Expedia Group. Rajesh has global responsibility for Architecture, Data Management and Data Governance across all of Expedia Group. In this role Rajesh focuses on architecting and accelerating Expedia’s platform, innovating accessible and equitable products, and delivering quality experiences for travelers, partners, and developers.  

Rajesh has extensive experience leading global teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and flexible state-of-the art digital platforms for a variety of industries including High Tech, Retail, and CPG. Prior to Expedia, Rajesh held technology leadership roles at Starbucks, SAP and HP. Rajesh is on the Founding Board for the University of Washington School of Informatics.

As the EY Global Digital Technology Leader, Public Policy, Anne leads the development and delivery of the EY global digital technology policy strategy, with a focus on AI, data, cybersecurity and emerging technologies. Anne works closely with other EY leaders and technology experts, as well as with national and supranational policymakers, regulators, NGOs and other stakeholders in the digital policy space. 

 Anne has played a leading role in shaping the EY approach and external engagement on several key policy and regulatory topics, including data sovereignty and cross-border data issues, tech assurance, the EU Digital Services Act and the AI Act. 

 Anne holds a Master’s in Business from HEC, Paris, and a bachelor’s degree in economics, politics and history from Swarthmore College, Philadelphia.

Alicia is a technology innovator in the space and robotics sectors developing and successfully launching systems for NASA, NOAA and Commercial customers in the Telecommunications and Mining sectors both in space and on Earth. In her tenure at OffWorld as Co-Founder and CTO, Alicia has led the technology development of AI based mobile robots for extreme environments on Earth as a precursor to Lunar, Martian, asteroid, and free space applications. Alicia’s background in space and software systems, attitude control systems and orbital dynamics has heavily influenced her approach to the development of distributed architectures for terrestrial and space applications. Alicia has successfully applied AI, modular and distributed system design to the development of patented technologies interacting autonomously with matter capable of revolutionizing key terrestrial and space markets. Alicia holds a MSc. and PhD from Stanford University and a BSc. in Theoretical Physics from UAM, Spain.

Michele Vendruscolo is Professor of Biophysics, Director of the Chemistry of Health Laboratory and Co-Director of the Centre for Misfolding Diseases at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge, where he moved over 20 years ago. His work is aimed at establishing the fundamental principles of protein homeostasis and protein aggregation, and at exploiting these principles to develop methods for drug discovery in neurodegenerative diseases. He has published over 500 scientific papers and 20 patents, and given over 500 invited lectures at international meetings. He has been founder and chief scientific officer of Wren Therapeutics (now WaveBreak Therapeutics).

Petri Myllymäki is a professor of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science of University of Helsinki, Finland. He has over 35 years of experience in working with AI, and his research has led to a number of fielded applications, patents and start-ups.  He is a member of the Finnish Academy of Technology and the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and is currently the Director of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, and the Vice-Director of the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence, the Finnish Flagship on AI. He is currently working as a member of the UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI, as a member of the Board of Directors of the AI, Data and Robotics PPP for the European Commission, and as the director of external relations for the pan-European ELLIS network of excellence in machine learning.

Jesper Schleimann, AI Officer for the EMEA region at SAP, brings over 20 years of experience at the crossroads of business and technology. A passionate tech optimist, Jesper is dedicated to driving AI-powered innovation that ensures sustainable growth and keeps SAP at the cutting edge. His expertise in strategy, AI, and digital leadership leads transformative solutions within the Intelligent Enterprise framework, shaping the future of business.

Joanna Bryson is Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School. Her research focuses on the impact of technology on human cooperation, and AI/ICT governance. From 2002-19 she was on the Computer Science faculty at the University of Bath. She has also been affiliated with the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. During her PhD she observed the confusion generated by anthropomorphised AI, leading to her first AI ethics publication “Just Another Artifact” in 1998. In 2010, she co-authored the first national-level AI ethics policy, the UK’s Principles of Robotics. She holds degrees in psychology and artificial intelligence from the University of Chicago (BA), the University of Edinburgh (MSc and MPhil), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD). Since July 2020, Prof. Bryson has been one of nine experts nominated by Germany to the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence.

Together with his cross-site and inter-organizational team, Stephan Gillich plans and implements strategies for AI technologies worldwide with a specific focus on the European region and the Middle East.

Stephan joined Intel as a Computer Scientist in the Supercomputing Division. Since then, he has gained comprehensive expertise in client computing and the datacenter in numerous business areas, and he has held various management positions with responsibility for technology and the positioning and marketing of relevant products for businesses, industries, and end-users. As a member of the steering committee of the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) he has also worked towards the expansion of unified standards in the media industry.

Stephan Gillich holds a degree (Dipl. Inform. univ.) in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München.

Dilip leads the Amazon Q Business organization, including Q Business, Q Apps, QuickSight, and App Studio. Amazon Q, our generative AI-powered assistant, is poised to transform the way companies and their employees work. Q helps answer questions about your data, provide summaries, generate content, and take action, all with AWS’s strong security and privacy posture.

Dilip joined Amazon in July 2003 and has held a variety of roles in Amazon’s Consumer business. He is credited for helping bring cutting-edge AI and Machine Learning to Amazon’s core retail systems. During his time at Amazon, he has led teams responsible for global retail pricing and promotions strategy, retail supply chain management, worldwide customer demand forecasting, and affiliate marketing strategy, as well as serving for two years as Jeff Bezos’s Technical Advisor. During his 10 years as VP of Physical Retail and Technology, he oversaw teams responsible for innovations to checkout-free services and biometric identity and payment services, including Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Dash Carts, and Amazon One, that power many of Amazon’s own stores as well as hundreds of third-party brands.

In August 2022, he joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team, broadening his portfolio to include the retail technology and applications teams, including Amazon Connect, End User Computing, Supply Chain, and Messaging services. Dilip took over the Q for Business teams in May 2024.

Dilip was recognized as one of AdWeek’s Top 50 executives for 2022. Dilip holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science and earned his MBA at The Wharton School.

Rebecca Finlay is CEO at Partnership on AI, a global nonprofit bringing together a cross-sectoral community of over 100 partners in 17 countries to ensure
developments in AI advance positive outcomes for people and society. With an influential career at the intersection of technology and society, Rebecca has held
leadership roles in civil society, research organizations and industry. Prior to PAI, she founded the AI & Society program at global research organization CIFAR, one of the first international, multistakeholder initiatives on the impact of AI in society. Rebecca’s insights have been featured in books and media including The Financial Times, The Guardian, Politico and Nature Machine Intelligence. She speaks at venues such as SXSW, Wall Street Journal, OECD, FTC, and the UK AI Safety Summit. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and sits on advisory bodies in Canada, France and the U.S. She lives in Toronto and holds degrees from McGill and the University of Cambridge.

We are thrilled to introduce Cihangir Kocak, an expert in business strategy and AI advisory. He is known for creating opportunities and building strong ecosystems that empower businesses to thrive. Cihangir has successfully guided numerous organizations through the challenges of digital transformation and strategic business development. He is appreciated for his ability to simplify complex concepts and inspire actionable insights. Cihangir is passionate about enabling business growth in the AI industry for HP, its customers, and partners, ranging from emerging startups to established enterprises.

Danielle Gorlick is a tenured Amazonian having been with AWS for more than 10 years. She was appointed as the General Manager for Benelux at AWS in January 2024. For the past two years Danielle was Chief of Staff and Head of Business Strategy for the VP of AWS EMEA. She has also held positions across AWS including the General Manager of Amazon Web Services Nordics and Baltics between April 2021 and March 2022. Danielle has built and led several businesses across AWS EMEA including the SMB and Mid-Market commercial sales organization in the Nordics & Baltics. Danielle also held leadership positions across several EMEA markets including Benelux, Italy and Spain working with a wide variety of customers spanning from hot startups, digital native companies, ISVs, SMBs and Enterprises across all industry verticals. Before joining the leadership team at AWS Danielle was working with customers across several different industries in the UKIR market, Israel and the Nordics. Danielle has worked and lived abroad from her home country, the U.S., for 12 years. 

Sebastian Goodwin is chief trust officer for Autodesk. In this role, Sebastian oversees the fulfillment of Autodesk’s commitment to its customers and stakeholders on security, privacy, Trust compliance, Trusted AI, and resiliency. Sebastian helps Autodesk achieve outcomes on security, customer choice, and the ethical use of data to build and scale its products and industry clouds on a trusted platform.

 Sebastian is a recognized cybersecurity leader with over 20 years of experience helping Global 2000 companies measure and manage cyber risk to support sustained business growth.

In his previous role as chief information security officer at Nutanix, Sebastian built the company’s foundation of global cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management. Before Nutanix, Sebastian was head of product marketing for endpoint security at Palo Alto Networks and led the company’s product launch into the endpoint security market. He was also chief information security officer at Robert Half.

Sebastian holds a bachelor’s degree in applied economics from the University of San Francisco, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ravi Rabheru leads the development and execution of strategic AI initiatives across the region. His role focuses on integrating AI solutions to enhance operational efficiency and drive innovation.

Ravi holds an MBA and a BSc in Computer Science and has built a distinguished career with notable organizations from technology service providers such as Rackspace and Hitachi, but also has been on the client side such as the likes of Experian and Sainsburys leading Product and Strategy teams.

Known for his strategic vision and customer-centric approach, Ravi has successfully bridged the gap between technology and business goals, leading to enhanced customer satisfaction, operational efficiencies and value creation.

Ravi is dedicated to advancing the AI Centre of Excellence by fostering innovation, aligning projects with strategic goals, and partnering with key stakeholders. His leadership in AI and product strategy continues to drive transformative outcomes in the industry.

Outside of his professional work, Ravi is a devoted father of two young boys. He enjoys Formula 1, gaming, and playing golf.

Tor Boe-Lillegraven is an experienced Chief Data Officer with 20+ years of global leadership experience in the intersection where technology, applied science and huge amounts of data come together to create business value. 

Tor currently serves as Global Head of Data Management and CDO Global Functions at ING, a global leader in banking, where he looks after data across global Tech, Analytics, Finance & Risk, Financial Crime & Fraud Prevention, and HR. 

Earlier roles include:

– Chief Data Officer at Royal Schiphol Group, responsible for strategic and operational use of data and artificial intelligence to realize the vision for a sustainable and autonomous airport hub.

– Tor also served as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) responsible for developing and implementing Schiphol Group cyber security programs.

– Global Head of Big Data with eBay, leading data engineering and data science teams building awesome data products and services for hundreds of millions of users around the globe. 

 Tor holds a PhD in Strategic Leadership, dual master’s degrees in Innovation and Management, and a BA in Communication.

Ashwini Kotaru is a trailblazing Business Operations Executive, Technology Advocate, and Changemaker at the forefront of AI-powered digital transformation. With over 11 years of international experience across India, the USA, and Singapore, she has spearheaded innovative initiatives that harness the power of emerging technologies to drive operational excellence and create sustainable business ecosystems.

As the Chief Operating Officer at Mobius by Gaian Group, Ashwini champions AI-driven platforms that enhance efficiencies and scale operations globally. Her visionary leadership has been instrumental in navigating complex industry challenges and fostering a culture of innovation and inclusivity within her organization.

Ashwini’s expertise extends beyond the boardroom, as she is a sought-after international speaker, having graced prestigious platforms like UNESCO, NAB, and ATSC. Her thought-provoking insights on AI, digital transformation, and the importance of diversity in technology have inspired audiences worldwide. She is a passionate advocate for education, wellness, and empowerment programs, actively contributing to initiatives that uplift women and children in underprivileged communities.

With a unique blend of technological prowess, strategic acumen, and a deep commitment to social impact, Ashwini is a powerful voice shaping the discourse on leveraging AI and emerging technologies for positive change. Her ability to seamlessly bridge the worlds of innovation and inclusivity makes her a compelling and influential speaker, poised to inspire and empower audiences across the globe.

Neil Bowden is an AI Business Development Exec, EMEA, at Dell Technologies. Based in Dublin, Neil works with enterprise, corporate, commercial and public sector organisations across EMEA to help them successfully adopt transformative, Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions as part of their business transformation.  Neil also works with Dell Technologies strategic, solution and system integrator partners to create and deliver joint AI solutions to customers. Neil is a skilled AI evangelist who translates the complex into tangible business value, bringing in the right teams and partners to deliver end-to-end solutions that drive strategic growth.

Maciej Mazur is a CTO of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in EMEA at Dell Technologies. Based in Wroclaw, Poland, Maciej works with enterprise and public sector customers to help them successfully integrate and leverage AI solutions for strategic growth as part of their digital transformation. As a lead architect on more than one hundred AI projects, Maciej is a recognized AI expert and industry blogger/podcaster. With cross-sector experience, and deep telco and defense knowledge, Maciej works with the C-Suite and IT leaders to leverage AI across their organizations, breaking down silos and optimizing data investments. Customer inquiries often center on sovereign AI cloud strategies and hybrid cloud optimization, and Maciej works with them to provide expert guidance on architecture, implementation, and maximizing GPU utilization in these environments.

To achieve global business objectives, secure products, and protect mission-critical services, Roger defines best practices by sharing his extensive knowledge with key stakeholders and applying his advanced analytical skills.

He solves complex problems or questions for which there are no routine solutions and offers new, simple, pragmatic, forward-looking perspectives that are particularly important for cyber security issues relating to artificial intelligence.

2024 he joined HEIDELBERG as CISO to protect the business against well-known and new threats.

Before joining HEIDELBERG, he worked at Merck KGaA Germany as well as various consulting companies, where he held leading positions in the areas of cyber crisis management, OT security, cybersecurity consulting, business development, penetration testing and security architecture. 

In addition, he is active as an instructor, mentor, and coach.

For more than one and a half decade, he has been a speaker at national and international security conferences and working groups where he shares his ideas with a wide range of security experts on AI and GPT security, cloud security, general cyber-attacks, IoT security, and advanced persistent threats.

In addition to his professional activities, Roger taught the master’s program “Cloud Computing and Service Architectures” at the University of Applied Sciences Worms as an adjunct professor for 10 years.

In his spare time, he loves to create things in his workshop. He goes into maker mode when it comes to electronics, woodworking, and metalworking.

Delphine is a people-first leader with over 25 years experience in consumer electronics. Lived and worked in China, North America, and Europe she has transformed many global businesses leading innovation and forming cross-functional global teams. Today, she leads Logitech’s biggest business group, Personal Workspace Solutions. Her mission is to impact people’s lives by creating simple and delightful experiences. A mission which is greatly influenced by her international journey exposing her to different western and eastern mindsets, e.g. China. People, DEI, and environmental sustainability are at the center of this mission and rooted in how she builds any new organization. Her current organization is 50% female (vs. 26% global average) and hosts 30+ different nationalities. The product portfolio she manages is entirely carbon neutral with 2 in 3 products using PCR plastics. She believes that technology must drive more sustainable and inclusive innovation. Fully committed to realize the company’s pledge to being carbon positive by 2030, she leads the way inspiringothers through her organization. In her opinion, innovation brings change, and any change leads to exciting, new opportunities. Delphine is one of only 19%* of women in the tech industry that reach executive level and at the same time she is a mother of two children. She finds herself in the position of a role model, which she views as a serious and integral responsibility, and as such devotes herself to driving action for a more equal and better future for generations to come.

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Ted Lechterman is an academic philosopher who holds the UNESCO Chair in AI Ethics & Governance at IE University’s School of Humanities. The UNESCO Chair seeks to advance the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI by catalyzing path-breaking research, education, and outreach on the ethical dilemmas and policy challenges prompted by artificial intelligence. Lechterman’s current research addresses the responsibilities of businesses that develop and deploy AI and the relationship between AI and democracy. Recent work analyzes the concept of accountability in AI, the ethics of combatting disinformation with AI, and proposals to augment democracy with AI. Lechterman has also made significant contributions to business ethics and political philosophy. His first book, The Tyranny of Generosity: Why Philanthropy Corrupts Our Politics and How We Can Fix It (OUP, 2022), received second place for the ECPR Political Theory Prize. He is an officer of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Theory, a member of UNESCO AI Ethics Experts Without Borders, and a director at the Compass Ethics consulting network. Lechterman frequently contributes to public debates and advises organizations on managing ethical risks and exercising power responsibly. He holds degrees from Harvard (A.B.) and Princeton (M.A., Ph.D.) and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford, Goethe, Hertie, and Oxford, where he was an inaugural fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI. 

Since 2022, Florence Mottay has been VP and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Zalando, the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce, and is also a strategic advisor with Paladin Capital Group, a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on leading investments in the best technology companies globally. With more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and ethical hacking, Florence was previously the SVP of Information Security and Global CISO of one of the world’s largest food retail groups, Ahold Delhaize, based in The Netherlands. Earlier in her career, Florence spent 10 years supporting the growth of small businesses specialising in information security. During that time, Florence led the delivery of information security and IT governance services to global software and technology vendors, financial companies and retail firms in her roles at IOActive, Cigital, and Security Innovation.

Virginia Dignum is Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University, Sweden where she leads the AI Policy Lab. She is also senior advisor on AI policy to the Wallenberg Foundations. She has a PHD in Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University in 2004, is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), and Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence Association (EURAI). She is a member of the United Nations Advisory Body on AI, the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), UNESCO’s expert group on the implementation of AI recommendations, OECD’s Expert group on AI, founder of ALLAI, the Dutch AI Alliance, and co-chair of the WEF’s Global Future Council on AI. She was a member of EU’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence and leader of UNICEF’s guidance for AI and children. Her new book “The AI Paradox” is planned for publication in late 2024.

Hugo is a Data and AI expert, with over 14 years of experience building innovative solutions for customers and businesses. 

After starting his career in the startup sector, where he worked on personalized recommendations for e-commerce, he joined a banking group to help set up the DataLab and AI Factory.

In 2023, Hugo was appointed Head of the AI Factory at Decathlon Digital where he aims to accelerate the industrialization of data and AI solutions for business domains. Thanks to his expertise in DataOps and MLOps, he is working to implement practices and tools to ensure the quality and speed of AI models in production, while working hand-in-hand with business line in the construction of target solutions.

Hugo is passionate about the possibilities offered by data and AI and is convinced that these technologies have a crucial role to play in the digital transformation of companies. He is constantly looking for new trends and best practices to help his client and teams to stay at the top level.

Brajendra Singh is the Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Specializing in Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Generative AI, Brajendra works with enterprise customers in the BeNeLux region, particularly within financial services, to help accelerate cloud adoption and drive business transformation. Passionate about sharing knowledge, he is actively involved in mentoring, public speaking, and creating educational content.

Sanchit has 16+ years of industry experience in tech and product roles across Southeast Asia, Africa, the US, and Europe with organizations such as Booking.com, Paytm, GoJek, Rocket Internet, and National Instruments. He has 11+ years of Technical Product Management experience after 5+ years as an Applications Engineer. Currently, he is Director-Data Science & Machine Learning Platform with Booking.com

Mumtaz Vauhkonen, Ph.D is a Director of AI at Verizon and heads the Multimodal and Generative AI group focused on Generative AI and Advanced Machine Learning domains including Computer Vision,  IoT, Edge and 5G distributed AI applications. Her experience includes Lead ML Scientist roles at Ford Motor Corporation and Nissan working on AI/ML solutions for Autonomous to Level 3 vehicles, ML roles at Intel Corporation and Enterprise application development with CGEY. She holds a Ph.D from UIUC and research from Stanford in advanced ML, and a Masters from Harvard University. 

Bernhard O. A. Gademann has taken education to the next level together with his team of revolutionary educators – the Artisans of Education® at Institut auf dem Rosenberg. Despite his family’s long-standing tradition, representing the fourth consecutive generation to preside over this unique school in Switzerland, Mr Gademann and his Artisans never cease to innovate and challenge the status quo in schooling, providing true and holistic 21st century education for responsible future leaders. Beyond Rosenberg, Mr Gademann continues to expand his scope as CEO of Pioneer Ventures and in 2018, he co-founded the start-up Edu Smart Technologies, together with his wife Anita Gademann. Prior to his career in education, Mr Gademann excelled in senior roles in the financial service industry in London and New York, focusing on cutting edge technology, developing global partnerships at the dawn of algorithmic trading and mobile market data. The skills he acquired during this time continue to influence his working life, from understanding the power of building strategic partnerships in order to leverage expertise, through to embracing and harnessing the powers of new technology quickly. Since returning to Switzerland to take the reigns of his family’s business in the 2010s, Mr Gademann and his wife Anita Gademann have made leaps in innovation, successfully establishing their own Rosenberg International Curriculum – RIC® as well as the IDP® Ed-Tech platform and are recognised as pioneers in preparing students for successful coexistence and leadership in an age of intelligent machines. Their ultimately individual and holistic approach to education is enhanced through the unique Talent & Enrichment programme, delivered in collaboration with leading universities such as ETH Zurich and high-tech industry partners such as Boston Dynamics

Baldomero is the Data, Digital and Analytics Lead for McKinsey & Company in BeNeLux. With over 10 years of experience serving institutions across industries, with a particular focus on life sciences, he leads the advanced analytics team that builds live (Gen)AI solutions with clients to drive business performance.

Patrick van der Smagt is a senior AI expert at Volkswagen Group and has built up its Machine Learning Research Lab in Munich https://argmax.ai which focuses on fundamental research on unsupervised machine learning for time series modelling, optimal control, and reinforcement learning.  He is an ELLIS Fellow, a faculty member of the University of Munich Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences and a professor at ELTE University Budapest. He is the founding head of the etami European industry initiative on trust in AI https://etami.org, a member of the AI Council of the State of Bavaria, a member of the EuroHPC JU RIAG, and a BDVA board member. Besides publishing not quite 200 papers on machine learning, robotics,  motor control, and ethical AI, he has won various awards, including the 2013 Helmholtz-Association Erwin Schrödinger Award, the 2014 King-Sun Fu Memorial Award, the 2013 Harvard Medical School/MGH Martin Research Prize, and best-paper awards.

Robin emerges as a luminary in the realm of Data and Analytics strategy, renowned for his adeptness in orchestrating digital transformations that yield maximum ROI. Much like Uber’s transformative impact in transportation, Robin’s visionary leadership reshapes enterprise landscapes, propelling them toward unprecedented heights.

As a revered Data and Analytics strategist, Robin spearheads initiatives that unearth the optimal orchestration of Data, Analytics, and Digital transformation. His expertise transcends conventional boundaries, unlocking hidden Data & Analytics potentials within enterprises and redefining industry standards.

Robin’s legacy is etched in his instrumental role at Cisco, where he revolutionized Manufacturing and supply chain methodologies. Through his strategic prowess, Cisco ascended from Gartner’s No. 5 position to the zenith of No. 1, marking a paradigm shift in industry dynamics.

Not content with past triumphs, Robin’s journey of innovation continued at BlockRock, where he pioneered the creation of a groundbreaking Finance cloud offering. This endeavor not only monetized data but also fostered a thriving startup ecosystem, emblematic of Robin’s commitment to pushing boundaries and nurturing innovation.

Now, Robin sets his sights on disrupting the construction industry, a sector yet untouched by the transformative power of Data, Analytics, and AI. Armed with his unparalleled expertise, he embarks on a mission to revolutionize construction practices, ensuring that every endeavor he undertakes achieves the pinnacle of ROI and industry excellence.

Alessandro has been the Group AI Governance Program Director for Generali since 2022, in charge of defining and implementing the responsible usage of Artificial Intelligence in the Group. Previously he covered several roles as Head of Data Science in Generali Head Office as well in other financial and non-financial institutions such as American Express, SAS and RCS MediaGroup, where he also served as Deputy Privacy Officer. He’s currently a member of the Insurtech Project Group within Insurance Europe and an expert member of the Taskforce on AI. He’s a board member of advisor in several academic and research institutions such as Stanford University, University of Trieste, IDC and the World Conference on Data Science and Statistics.

Dr. Raul Villamarin Rodriguez, Vice President of Woxsen University, is a Cognitive Technologist and Adjunct Professor at Universidad del Externado, Colombia. He serves as a member of the International Advisory Board at IBS Ranepa, Russian Federation, and holds positions on the Advisory Boards of PUCPR, Johannesburg Business School, SA, Milpark Business School, South Africa, PetThinQ Inc, and SpaceBasic, Inc. Additionally, Dr. Rodriguez is a Visiting Professor at Uni. del Rosario and an Expert at UNESCO.

Founder Ida Nganga leads the award winning Regional Consortium (of Experts) for Development who use technology and engineering as an enabler for achieving the SDGs (RCD Africa); and is Senior Advisor, UNESCO Emerging Technologies for Development, which is based in Bordeaux, France.

She is the President of Women in STEM Leaders Network which hosts some of the most amazing, accomplished and impactful women in STEM leadership, and the Co-Founder of Women in AI for Africa.

Ida is a trailblazing tech visionary. From sitting on prestigious global advisory boards, playing pivotal roles in multi-million-dollar innovation challenges, to training and mentoring the next generation of digital transformers, her accolades speak volumes.

Dubbed as Africa Leadership’s ‘Outstanding Mentor, Prolific Woman by the UN, Africa Rising – Women in Innovation, Empower Africa’s Women Driving STEM Advancement in Africa, CIO Africa Most Influential Women in Tech, 100 Most Influential Leaders in Tech and Telecommunications, Eminent Women Leaders pioneering inclusion in Tech, Top Influential Leaders Shaping Global Policy, to name a few, Ida is a game changer. 

She has also been awarded for IOT Innovation by the European Union, Top 100 Global Women in Leadership by GCPIT, ISOC Africa Internet Development Fellow, Future of Tech Women in STEM and Timeless Women in Governance by UN Women.

Madam Ida is one the most awarded women in tech and is a much sought after global speaker known for her oratory prowess.

Prof. Dr. Max Welling is a full professor and research chair in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam and a Merkin distinguished visiting professor at Caltech. He is co-founder and CAIO of the startup CuspAI in Materials Design. He is a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) where he served on the founding board. His previous appointments include Partner and VP at Microsoft Research, VP at Qualcomm Technologies, professor at UC Irvine, postdoc at UCL & U. Toronto under supervision of prof. Geoffrey Hinton, and postdoc at Caltech under supervision of prof. Pietro Perona. He finished his PhD in theoretical high energy physics under supervision of Nobel laureate prof. Gerard ‘t Hooft. 

Max Welling has served as associate editor in chief of IEEE TPAMI from 2011-2015, he serves on the advisory board of the Neurips foundation since 2015, he is co-founder of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligence Systems (ELLIS) and served on its board until 2021, he has been program chair and general chair of Neurips in 2013 and 2014 respectively. He was also program chair of AISTATS in 2009 and ECCV in 2016 and general chair and co-founder of MIDL 2018. Max Welling is recipient of the ECCV Koenderink Prize in 2010, and the 10 year Test of Time awards at ICML in 2021 and ICLR in 2024.

Recognised in the UK and globally for innovation leadership and the development and application of technologies, including AI, Kerry was formerly head of service development and innovation where she designed and worked on implementation of new organisational and service models (digitisation, automation, AI, upskilling and culture change).

A trained machine learning developer, and also working on the non-tech side of AI development and implementation, inckudibg deceloping actionable ethics principles, Kerry is an award-winning innovator. Kerry was a finalist for the AI-Conics AI for Implementor of the Year, a forner strategic advisor to the Alan Turing institute on the development of its latest 5 Year Strategy and is listed in the top 100 women in AI Ethics globally.

Kerry is a member of the International Data Science Foundation and the Responsible AI Institute.

Kerry is a member of the AI Advisory Group at the Confederation of British Industries, supported the British Standards Institute develop global AI Standards and provides Board-level counsel on AI to businesses, organisations, AI start-ups, including in the UK, USA and Africa.

Kerry is a passionate advocate of social mobility in AI and provides free coaching to those from under represented communities, those who need a hand up, and with upskilling.

Christopher Obereder, a celebrated serial entrepreneur and investor from Silicon Valley, is renowned not only for his entrepreneurial prowess but also for his deep expertise in the AI field. A distinguished member of the Forbes 30 under 30, Christopher has a proven track record that spans strategic investments and pioneering technological advancements. He has successfully sold two companies and has been instrumental in securing over $360 million in funding for various ventures. His profound knowledge of AI has positioned him at the forefront of integrating advanced technologies into business strategies, which has substantially enhanced the operational efficiency and market reach of his investments.

Christopher’s experience extends beyond mere financial achievements; he has orchestrated his own “Shark Tank” show in Germany, demonstrating his capability to merge entertainment with serious business acumen. As a seasoned speaker, he has enlightened audiences at over 200 conferences, sharing his insights on the transformative potential of AI in the entrepreneurial landscape. His philanthropic efforts are highlighted by his support of over 100 startups, fostering innovation and guiding the next generation of entrepreneurs. With his extensive background, Christopher is actively shaping the future of entrepreneurship through a blend of technological insight and strategic innovation.

Dr. Lyons is an ethicist and AI 2030 Global Fellow with extensive Fortune 500  experience including Gartner, IBM, and Boeing. She has also served as a bioethicist with the US Veteran’s Administration hospitals, leading transformational change to honor Veteran’s End-of-Life wishes. Currently, she serves the FDA in ethics and trust.  Her work has been recognized with multiple awards, including VA Director’s Awards, Best Adjunct Professor at Drexel College of Medicine and an FDA Innovation award for her use of AI to improve policy management. 

Colleen attended Rutgers University, Princeton Theological Seminary, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Benedictine University.

Tjerrie Smit was appointed as Chief Analytics Officer at NN Group as of March 2023. In this role, he has successfully established various Data and Data Science teams. Mr Smit leads the data and AI strategy programme, guiding NN Group on its journey to becoming more data-driven. His team supports business units with AI expertise and data literacy programmes. NN Group launched one of the first large LLM production applications that automatically summarises call centre conversations.

Prior to his current role, Mr Smit held positions as Head of Data & AI, Manager of Advanced Analytics and Manager of Customer Analytics.

Prof. dr. Catholijn Jonker is head of the Interactive Intelligence group at TU Delft and professor of Explainable Artificial Intelligence at Leiden University. She is a Fellow of EurAI, member of Academia Europaea, and member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. She is a co-founding member of the Netherlands Academy of Engineers. She is a knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Her publications address hybrid intelligence and interactive intelligent processes such as negotiation, teamwork and the dynamics of individual agents. In particular, she works towards intelligent agents that can interact with their users in value-conflicting situations when also meta-values no longer solve the situation and negotiation is needed.

As the global Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Head of Ecosystems, Vijay Guntur spearheads technology strategy for HCLTech and is responsible to create differentiation in engineering, digital, cloud and AI. He champions next generation technologies, including GenAI, data engineering and CloudSMART, HCLTech’s comprehensive cloud offering, while fostering synergies and innovation with cloud hyperscalers, tech OEMs and semiconductor chip companies.

Vijay is instrumental in incubating Centers of Excellence that position HCLTech at the forefront of technologies like GenAI, software & platform engineering, Data & AI, IoT and IT/OT. These CoEs act as a wellspring of expertise, ensuring HCLTech clients benefit from the most advanced practices and solutions in these high-demand areas delivering better efficiencies, insights and faster time to market.

Vijay previously led HCLTech’s Engineering and R&D Services (ERS), a $2 billion global business delivering innovative solutions in digital, engineering, cloud and AI for global clients and top R&D spenders across industries. He championed groundbreaking technologies and responsible growth, leading to the strategic evolution of ERS’s GenAI and sustainability business. He also led the initiative to build Silicon-to-Cloud platforms, fostering intellectual property partnerships and integrating GenAI into chip design. His commitment extends to supporting the semiconductor ecosystem through the establishment of the ATMP Lab, a vital resource for India’s growth in this sector.

Vijay’s distinguished 30+ year career at HCLTech highlights his dedication to continuous improvement. He held key leadership positions in the company playing a pivotal role in building HCLTech’s system software capabilities and led organization-wide transformation initiatives.

He is a passionate advocate for ID&E and champions key programs that bring HCLTech and its client organizations together in an ecosystem that strives for value, respect and opportunities for all. He spearheaded the Hi-Tech and Communications business unit within ERS, driving innovation across solutions, sales and delivery. Previously, he led the Products and Platform Engineering business across diverse industry segments. Vijay played a crucial role in incubating HCL’s Software business (Products and Platforms) at HCLTech. Vijay served on the board of Actian, a former HCLTech – SEP joint venture.

Vijay graduated in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India and did his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and he is an avid reader and enjoys travel and meditation.

Dr. Loubna Bouarfa is an esteemed machine learning scientist and entrepreneur who founded OKRA.ai, using artificial intelligence to streamline drug delivery systems, facilitating swift and accurate patient treatment. After the 2023 acquisition of OKRA.ai, she now presides as the chairwoman of the AI Innovation Board at Envision Pharma Group, where she champions the integration of AI into the life sciences with her deep technical knowledge and visionary leadership. Dr. Bouarfa has made a profound impact across three critical domains: business innovation through her entrepreneurial initiatives, policymaking through her engagements with European and global entities, and academia through her affiliations with premier institutions. Dr. Bouarfa has earned widespread recognition for her AI innovations. She has been featured in Forbes’ Top 50 Women in Tech and honored as a Top Innovator Under 35 by MIT Technology Review. Additionally, she received the CEO of the Year 2019 at the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards. Beyond her commercial success, Dr. Bouarfa is deeply involved in shaping international AI policy. As a pivotal member of the High-Level Expert Group appointed by the European Commission under Jean-Claude Juncker’s presidency, she helped draft ethical guidelines pivotal to the development of the AI Act under Ursula von der Leyen’s leadership. Her advisory contributions have influenced AI and data strategies across EU member states, and her work with global organizations like the UN and UNESCO highlights her commitment to responsible AI development.

After transitioning from her full-time academic position at Imperial College London, Dr. Loubna Bouarfa continued to engage with academia while advancing her entrepreneurial ventures in Cambridge. She serves on the advisory board of the Oxford Internet Institute, where she shares her insights on the societal impacts and policy implications of AI. In 2024,
Dr. Bouarfa is partnering with Cambridge University to deliver a series of lectures on Applied AI and Entrepreneurship, aimed at students with quantitative scientific backgrounds from
departments such as data science, physics, mathematics, and astronomy. Her course blends applied AI theory with practical business insights from the field, preparing students to apply
AI in business contexts thoughtfully and ethically, enhancing both technological progress and societal welfare.

Cecily is a co-founding General Partner of Wisdom Ventures, a fund committed to advancing positive impact via compassionate innovation focused on the fields of AI, Mental Health, Mindfulness, EdTech, and HR Tech. With over 20 years of diverse experience as an attorney, revenue leader, and COO, Cecily has spearheaded the growth of startups across various industries, including music, publishing, mindfulness, well-being, and crypto. As co-founder of Wisdom Ventures and co-founding limited partner of Funds I and II of How Women Invest (exclusively investing in women-founded companies), Cecily is a champion for greater human connection and well-being. Her board memberships and support for various organizations, notably at SIY Global, and The U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance, underscore her commitment to ethical leadership and social responsibility.

Sigal Hachlili Dwyer –  Director of AI, Data & Digital Innovation at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare. 

Sigal aims to harness rich health analytics, data science, digital innovation and cutting-edge technology to develop scalable solutions that enhance outcomes for patients, families and staff across the healthcare ecosystem. 

As part of the AI Centre, Sigal oversees a consortium of 10 NHS trusts, 4 Universities and international industry partners – implementing novel AI technologies to speed diagnosis, improve treatment and automate services.

Sigal has over 20 years’ experience in roles at national and international organisations across digital, AI and data disciplines – delivering business transformation and growth, technology innovation and data services. She is passionate about helping organisations to harness digital and data to achieve their goals for future sustainability and social value.

Result-driven entrepreneurial executive with 15+ years of diverse leadership and board advisory experience across most of the functions and types of transformations gained in international consumer goods companies (Danone, ABInBev) and top-tier consultancy firms (EY).

• Expert in large scale and complex projects management, stakeholder orchestration, delivery of change at scale, and dedicated to fostering growth through innovation, technology, efficiency, and empowerment of individuals.
• Known for adeptly navigating high ambiguity with honed analytical and strategic skills.
• Excels in bringing order to chaos by connecting people and bridging organizational silos in pursuit of common goals, vision, and strategy.

Alan Flower is a renowned technology visionary and transformational leader with a proven track record of driving revenue growth and accelerating tech innovation. As a pioneering CTO, Alan has spearheaded transformative Cloud Native strategies, helping global organizations embrace cloud-enabled technologies and digital evolution. With deep expertise in software engineering and architecture, Alan seamlessly bridges technical expertise with business leadership. He has a history of launching breakthrough products and services in fast-moving, high-growth markets, consistently delivering exceptional results. Alan is known for his hands-on leadership and sharp execution, leading global technology organizations to achieve strategic goals. His entrepreneurial spirit, combined with an acute ability to assess risk and opportunity, has made him a trusted leader in digital transformation and technology innovation.A recognized authority in his field, Alan’s contributions continue to shape the future of technology-led companies worldwide.

Patrick works as an AI Specialist focusing on AI and High Performance Computing at HPE. Patrick started working with artificial intelligence when he was recruited by IBM at the end of 2010. As a business developer in data and AI and as IBM Sweden’s Spokesperson for AI, Patrick helped a number of Swedish and Nordic companies take advantage of AI and acted as a bridge between Nordic organizations and IBM Research and IBM Watson. Prior to joining HPE, Patrick worked as a Business Developer at Silo AI, one of Europe’s leading AI firms.

Tim McGarr is the AI Market Development Lead in BSI responsible for investigating new AI markets and delivering new AI assessment services. Prior to this Tim was the Sector Lead for BSI with responsibility for the direction and development of key digital standards areas, including Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security. Tim has been working at BSI since 2009. Prior to BSI, Tim he spent 5 years working in the legal publisher LexisNexis in the strategy department. Before this, Tim he worked as a management consultant and an internal consultant. Tim has an MBA from HEC in Paris, France.

Samwel B. Magesa is a Chief Data Officer with NBC Bank, the leading bank in Tanzania. A Software Engineer and seasoned banker with a career spanning over a decade Samwel has been instrumental in leading numerous digital & financial consultations as well as starting and setting up data and analytics departments for various organizations. Samwel’s career in the consultancy and financial sector has a footprint in digital channels and distributions, business development, technology infrastructure particularly in developing and managing resilient critical mission systems responsible for delivering customer facing financial services as well as database management. Samwel has been influential in the delivery of major projects involving both back end and customer facing platforms. Certified in IT governance, Technology Infrastructure and Project Management, in his time off, Samwel enjoys participating in several development programs empowering youth, reading, writing, and traveling.

Martin works as an Associate Director of Data Science in King, improving the famous mobile game Candy Crush Saga. He’s been leading efforts to enable AI in the mobile game to enhance the experience of millions of players. Before his current involvement in gaming, Martin worked as a Data scientist and ML Engineer in the pharmaceuticals and finance industry. Martin holds a MSc Degree in software engineering and a PhD in Statistics.

Alex Zaretsky is a seasoned entrepreneur and AI expert with a PhD in AI-enabled medical devices and an Executive MBA. With over 14 years of experience, he has led high-impact projects, scaled dynamic teams, and navigated the complexities of evolving tech and regulatory landscapes. Alex specializes in leveraging AI to solve complex challenges and driving growth through Lean and Agile methodologies. As the AI Regulatory Lead at BSI Regulatory Services, he spearheads the integration of ML models within compliance frameworks and develops strategies at the intersection of emerging technologies and regulatory demands

Keith Griffin is a Cisco Fellow in the collaboration Group focused on AI and Machine Learning in the office of CTO. He is also the site leader for Cisco in Galway, Ireland where he is based. Keith formed Collaborations AI/ML technology strategy in 2016 and helped to form Cisco’s Responsible AI framework from initial machine learning data privacy through to today’s responsible AI framework for generative AI and large language models. He leads technology scouting for Collaboration M&A and investments, Cisco’s Collaboration IP, Patent and Research strategy and has been Cisco’s top inventor for collaboration technology for over ten years.

As Director of European AI Governance, Emily Gillett leads The Future Society’s (TFS) work on the EU AI Act and its surrounding regulatory regime, furthering TFS’ mission of aligning AI through better governance. As part of this work, TFS has been focusing on the EU AI Act as it applies to general-purpose AI (GPAI) models, especially the implementation of Articles 51, 53 and 55 and the forthcoming Code of Practice for GPAI model providers. Before joining TFS, Emily was an English barrister and Hong Kong solicitor. In addition to her legal qualifications, she holds a Master’s degree in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Oxford.

Nenad has over 20 years of experience in algorithm development, machine learning, and AI, and has been active in the rail industry since 2014, giving him more than a decade of specialized expertise in this field. Throughout his career, he has held various R&D and leadership positions in startups, blue-chip companies, and academia.

At Alstom, Nenad started as a Senior Data Scientist in Melbourne, FL, USA, and is currently the Mobility Data Science & AI Director based in Saint Ouen, France. In this role, he leads data science teams in developing Machine Learning and AI algorithms for all mobility solutions. His team is dedicated to tackling mobility challenges in both urban and rural areas, emphasizing innovation, efficiency, and sustainability to support railway operators in achieving their operational targets.

In his free time, Nenad enjoys reading science fiction, philosophical, and historical books, playing tennis, and appreciating art. He is also passionate about promoting math and computer science skills among girls and young women, inspiring them to pursue technical degrees.

I am a Data Scientist in the Global Technology Practice Team at SAS. I come from a statistics background and in my previous work experiences, I worked in open source, developing machine learning and inferential statistics projects. Currently, at SAS I work in the customer advisory team, focusing on translating business issues into data science and machine learning solutions.

Dilara Gumusbas Donida Labati received the M.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., in 2014 and the Ph.D. degree from Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2020. During her doctorate degree, she worked as a graduate researcher at the Industrial, Environmental and Biometric Informatics Laboratory, University of Milan, Italy. Her research interests include machine learning, deep learning, representation learning and signal processing and spans across mainly security domain: biometrics and network security

Courtney Napoles is an Engineering Director at Grammarly with more than 15 years of experience in machine learning and natural language processing. She leads a global team of engineers and researchers developing ML and LLM-based solutions to address user problems and build a personalized, context-aware experience for Grammarly’s users. She has founded and driven initiatives in ethical AI and efficient, large-scale human computation. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. She has dozens of peer-reviewed publications in leading research venues and has appeared in major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal and NBC News.

Simone Vazzoler received a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Padova in 2013 and has over seven years of experience building and bringing to production Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence models to solve the business problems of the companies he worked for, focusing on Natural Language Understanding, Computer Vision, and Anomaly Detection. His research interests span from Symplectic Geometry and Dynamical Systems to Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Anomaly Detection.

Gabi is co-founder and General Partner of Blue Tulip Ventures, a firm committed to investing in early-stage startups building Human Centric AI – AI that is good for you, good for the planet and ethical. With decades of experience as an operator, she now guides early-stage AI startups to growth as an investor and advisor.  Gabi brings extensive leadership expertise in product and go to market strategy, product management, marketing, channel management, and strategic alliances. She is passionate about building “stuff”: innovative products, markets, teams, and ecosystems. Before co-founding Blue Tulip Ventures, Gabi was Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Product at Emotion AI pioneer Affectiva. and then at Smart Eye after the Affectiva acquisition. She has worked at 8 startups at various stages and did a stint at IBM where she led technology innovation at scale.

Huub Janssen expertly leads AI supervision at the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure. He is  focusing on the impact on cybersecurity, development of standards, supervising policy, research and collaboration with science and supervising AI.
As Chair of the Dutch group of supervisors in The Netherlands, Huub brings together over 20 supervisory bodies. Huub is also the Chair of the European Working Group of Competent Authorities on AI which also includes EC/DG-CNECT, DG-REFORM, ENISA, and UNESCO. 

Previously Huub was responsible for supervising cybersecurity (NIS Directive) and he uses that information when supervising AI and generative AI. Known for a forward-thinking approach, Huub like to share insights into the paradigm shift he sees in cybersecurity due to generative AI.

Carlo Tortora Brayda
Marquess of Belvedere, Marquess of San Giuliano, Duke della Chiusa, Duke of Forli, Count of Policastro, Baron of Tortora, Baron of Teverola, Lord of Belvedere, Palmoli, Fratta Piccola, Molfetta, Sapri, Le Boccati. Carlo is Uncle to the Solomonic Princes, Their Imperial Highnesses, Yokshan and Joel Makonnen Haile Selassie, in the Royal succession of the Ethiopian throne.

Carlo Tortora Brayda born in Rome, Italy in 1969, is the founder and Executive Chairman of Tortora Brayda Institute for AI & Cybersecurity, a global Think Tank to promote partnerships. Mr.Tortora Brayda was also Chairman of Gorilla Corporation which had
its roots in several companies he founded in the 90s, and re-acquired thereafter.

Gorilla is a leading SaaS and global partner development company responsible for the channel revenue growth of US based Unicorns.
His earliest work with the United Nations was as a Volunteer in the Office of the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid in Geneva Switzerland. Shortly after that time he met with former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali, and
subsequently Kofi Annan several times. These were profoundly formative meetings focusing on the role of Public to Private
Partnerships, Entrepreneurship and their role in international development.

Non-Profit Work in Africa and Working with the World Economic Forum
In 2003, he created Alchemy World Projects, an Ethiopian based Non Governmental Organization aimed at poverty alleviation through
entrepreneurship and coordination with the government on private sector development. The program was successful and lifted thousands of people out of poverty, into employability and small-medium enterprise development. During this time he was appointed Advisor on Trade and Industry to the former Federal President, Girma Wolde-Ghiorgis. He also fulfilled an advisory role in Entrepreneurship development and Foreign Direct Investment to several Regional Presidents, in particular the President of Amhara State, the historical heartland of Ethiopia, covering more than 20 million inhabitants.

Due to this track record in development he was selected by the World Economic Forum to be a Special Constituent Member, and to take an active role in the Forum for Africa held usually in Cape Town, South Africa. During this time he engaged numerous leaders of other African nations looking to develop their private sector and drive forward entrepreneurship, as well as private sector actors like Microsoft and UN Agencies, namely UNICEF, ILO (International Labor Organization), ITU (International Telecommunications Union) and UNDP (United Nations Development Program).
Mr. Tortora Brayda was also asked to speak at several United Nations Summits, including the World Summit for Information Society,
and the United Nations International Telecommunication Union.

Back to Technology
In 2010 he returned to the business of technology, creating Gorilla Corporation and going down a path of Mergers and Acquisitions. In the ongoing spirit of Public to Private Partnerships he signed Gorilla Corporation to be a Sector D Member of the ITU to be at the forefront of internet policy making and standardization.

After his move to Silicon Valley, California to spearhead Technology Partner Development, he was invited by the World Economic Forum to be an expert contributor to a panel in support of the G20, to explore Global Risks in 2012. Since then his only focus has been on supporting Partnership Excellence in all its forms within all areas of technology growth, including the Think Tank’s core tracks: Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence. Mr Tortora Brayda is an Equity Partner of Cyberstratos, part of CEA Worldwide Investment Bank and M&A Advisory focused on Cybersecurity and a Judge on the United Nations AI program AI for Good Innovation Factory, including its climate change program to be presented at COP28.

An AI information systems engineer, with his subsequent companies, Mr Tortora Brayda won numerous business awards including the
Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the Year, South East of England, Shell Livewire Greatest Employment Potential, Oxfordshire Business of the Year Award presented by Boris Johnson, Guildford Mayor’s Cup, Forbes Technology Council awards for best Group (Cybersecurity), and best events (Cybersecurity) and was honored to join Queen Elizabeth II Golden Coronation private event at St James’ Palace in London. He became a Freeman of the City of London in 2023. He is ranked Top 100 Global Thought Leader in Cybersecurity, National Security, and ESG.

Euro Beinat is the Global Head of AI and Data Science at Prosus. He leads the central AI team of c1000 data scientists tasked with building an AI culture at scale across a portfolio of 90+ companies. They identify what works and build AI tools which drive value.   

 Euro has spent more than 25 years working as a technology executive and entrepreneur in data science, machine learning, and AI. He is an active angel investor with a track record in technology start-ups. He currently holds positions on the Board of Directors for two companies and is co-founder of Data Science for Social Good, a non-profit organisation committed to leveraging data science for societal impact. Euro studied Computer Science and holds a PhD in Economics. He lectures on AI Governance at Insead Business.

Sarah Porter has launched 21 b2b and b2c technology products in 11 countries since 1996 and has a renowned reputation for taking ideas from concept to market with subsequent significant growth globally.

Emerging tech / AI / Medtech / Singularity / Existentialism is where her core experience lies and she has over 20 years of commercial experience.

As a board executive for i2i Events Group (parent company The Guardian Media Group / Apax – Ascential – previously Top Right Group) with the specific remit to rapidly grow the business whilst leveraging operational costs and prepare pre IPO. She sat on the i2i mergers and acquisitions committee identifying, analysing and approaching target businesses and accelerated growth by 22% within 12 months.

Achievements include the launch and acquisition of Money2020 – a leading fintech product. This included negotiation, 3 stage due diligence, its subsequent integration, and the long term geo-adaption into a global portfolio worth over $40m. The launch of World Retail Congress in 10 countries, the re-launch of the Cannes Lions festival.

Sarah is a regular keynote speaker on start-ups, business and women/equality related issues and is an ambassador for the Royal Marsden where she champions the use of AI tech in oncology advances.

Meindert, who holds an MSc in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, has built a multifaceted career that blends technology and innovation. As an entrepreneur, he founded a serious-game company and a pioneering music crowdfunding startup, showcasing his ability to disrupt traditional industries. His expertise caught the attention of Ordina, now a Sopra Steria company, where he became the Principal Expert in AI, leading transformative tech projects for data-centered companies like Nike, the Open University, the Volksbank, and the Port of Rotterdam.

Today, Meindert is at the forefront of AI supervision in the Netherlands and Europe through his role at the RDI, the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure. He’s instrumental in shaping the future of AI by developing innovative AI Act sandbox solutions for the Netherlands, partnering on European Commission initiatives with UNESCO, and establishing the AI Safety & Security Lab, where his team explores the risks of new and complex AI models and systems. His journey testifies to his commitment to leveraging AI for a safer, interconnected world.

Dr. Josefin Rosén has spent the last 20 years been deeply involved in AI and advanced analytics offering strategic guidance to organizations across diverse industries on how to effectively and responsibly derive insights and value from data using AI. Last year, she transitioned from her role as Nordic Head of AI to a global position as Principal Trustworthy AI Specialist with SAS Data Ethics Practice. In this role, she helps guide the company’s responsible innovation strategy and empowers both employees and customers to implement AI that enhances human well-being, agency and equity. Josefin holds a doctoral degree in Chemometrics from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Uppsala University.  

Christopher Obereder, a celebrated serial entrepreneur and investor from Silicon Valley, is renowned not only for his entrepreneurial prowess but also for his deep expertise in the AI field. A distinguished member of the Forbes 30 under 30, Christopher has a proven track record that spans strategic investments and pioneering technological advancements. He has successfully sold two companies and has been instrumental in securing over $360 million in funding for various ventures. His profound knowledge of AI has positioned him at the forefront of integrating advanced technologies into business strategies, which has substantially enhanced the operational efficiency and market reach of his investments.

Christopher’s experience extends beyond mere financial achievements; he has orchestrated his own “Shark Tank” show in Germany, demonstrating his capability to merge entertainment with serious business acumen. As a seasoned speaker, he has enlightened audiences at over 200 conferences, sharing his insights on the transformative potential of AI in the entrepreneurial landscape. His philanthropic efforts are highlighted by his support of over 100 startups, fostering innovation and guiding the next generation of entrepreneurs. With his extensive background, Christopher is actively shaping the future of entrepreneurship through a blend of technological insight and strategic innovation.

Paul joined Prosus in 2018, having spent the prior 4 years at McKinsey. He works closely with the leadership teams of the Group’s portfolio companies to identify and execute high-impact AI projects, determine their AI strategies, and manages external partnerships with the likes of OpenAI, Mistral and CDL. Paul leads on AI product initiatives, co-leads Prosus’s AI Fund and works closely with the Group’s investment team on AI-related opportunities. Paul holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering and a PhD in Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Alex Bermudez is a proven start-up and scale-up leader with a track record for building, shaping, and sustaining go-to-market strategies, with more than a decade in enterprise technology experience across Governance, Risk & Compliance, healthcare and data governance. Alex now works as Sales Leader for Airia, the platform to simplify AI in the enterprise.

Bermudez’s global experience and perspective comes from cross-industry and geographical work in North America, Europe and Latin America, with particular focus in helping enterprises adopt emerging technology and create cross-disciplinary execution.

Emma Verhagen was named one of the Netherlands’ Top 5 Best Young Professionals in 2017 and is a recognized thought leader in AI, technology, and business transformation. Holding an AI Executive Education from MIT, her expertise spans the full AI lifecycle, from crafting strategies and roadmaps to leading high-impact AI solutions like Demand Forecasting, Promotion Optimization, and Robotic Process Automation for global giants such as Unilever.

With a proven track record managing €200 million in tech investments and over 200 projects, Emma is uniquely positioned to deliver efficiency, growth, and tangible results through AI. Her insights have reached more than 500 CxOs and Directors at leading conferences, further cementing her reputation as an authority in the field.

Katya Klinova is the Head of Data and AI Initiatives at the UN Secretary-General’s Innovation Lab. In this role, she works on building an enabling infrastructure for putting AI in service of humanitarian and development needs at scale. 

Prior to that, Katya served as an Acting Director of Research and Programs and as the Head of Labor and Economy portfolio of programs at the Partnership on AI, conducted research on the impact of AI on the growth prospects of low- and middle-income countries at Harvard, and led the development of growth strategies for early AI-enabled products at Google.

Katya holds an MPA in International Development from Harvard University, and an M.Sc. in Networks and Data Science from Carlos III University of Madrid. Her work and commentary have been published by ACM/AAAI, Al Jazeera, Brookings, Business Insider, MIT Technology Review, OECD, Oxford University Press, WIRED, and others.

Nathan Poelman is a driving force in the Generative AI revolution, leading Google Cloud’s Go-to-Market strategy for cutting-edge solutions like Gemini in EMEA. He talks about the transformative power of AI and how to monetize it. He shapes strategic partnerships with key customers and governments to unlock the potential of large language models (LLMs) across various industries

Steph has a diverse background ranging from astrophysics to genomics in academia and film & TV to dance in the arts and the third sector. A project and programme management professional, she loves to develop and build collaborations across organisations to help people with their data/AI journey.

Steph led on Data Lab’s efforts in support of the Scottish Government in developing Scotland’s AI Strategy and she’s now leading on the delivery of the strategy’s vision for Scotland to be a leader in trustworthy, ethical and inclusive AI. She is also Co-Founder of Diverse AI and was recognised as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2023 and one of the Top 10 Women in Tech in Scotland in 2023.

Jamie Twiss is an experienced banker and a data scientist who works at the intersection of data science, artificial intelligence, and consumer lending. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Beforepay Group, a mission-driven digital lender that uses artificial intelligence and automation to deliver safe and affordable short-term loans to customers. Previously, he was the Chief Data Officer at at a major Australian bank. Before that, he worked in a variety of roles across banking and financial services after beginning his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Jamie’s expertise covers artificial intelligence, data science, digital experiences, and technology, with a focus on applications in the banking sector. He frequently speaks on topics including next-generation loan decisioning, implementing artificial intelligence in large organizations, data management and governance, and building a data and AI culture.

He holds an AB from Harvard University, an MBA from Stanford University, and a Master’s degree in data science from the University of New South Wales. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Caitlin Begg is a distinguished sociological researcher, acclaimed for her role as the founder of Authentic Social, where she specializes in sociotechnical systems strategy. Additionally, she hosts the insightful “Progression to Analog” podcast. Leveraging her groundbreaking 2016 Harvard thesis on digital communication, Caitlin is a sought-after speaker and presenter across the U.S. and Europe, with recent engagements including the Responsible AI Forum at TUM. Her impactful work has been prominently featured in notable publications such as Forbes, Mashable, Yahoo! News, and others.

Norbert Clemens is a senior finance professional and former Senior Vice President (SVP) of Fresenius Kabi, a large healthcare group. Amongst others, he has been building from scratch and leading the Global Business Services as well as enterprise-wide Intelligent Automation & Artificial Intelligence (AI) journey. Today, Norbert supports start-ups in Healthcare and Tech and advises corporates on value creation using AI.

Claes H. de Vreese is University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Society (2021-), with a special focus on media and democracy at the University of Amsterdam. He holds the Chair in Political Communication (2005-) at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR. He is the co-director of AlgoSoc: Public Values in the Algorithmic Society (a 10-year national research program, 2022-2032) and the AI, Media & Democracy Lab (https://www.aim4dem.nl). He is also external Chair of Social Sciences in the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies DIAS and founding Scientific Director (2021- ) of the Digital Democracy Centre (https://www.sdu.dk/en/ddc) at the University of Southern Denmark.

Awais is a leader in Software and AI within the financial services industry and currently leads Data & AI banking at Bank of America. With a career spanning over 15 years, Awais has led over 60 strategic deals, including IPOs, M&A, and capital raises, with a total value exceeding $60 billion.having led more than $60bn of M&A and capital markets transactions. He established BofA’s Data & AI banking practice in the Bay Area and software banking practice in London. He holds a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Oxford. 

Elena Sinel is an internationally recognised social entrepreneur and award-winning founder of Teens in AI. Committed to catalysing change through technology, she endeavours to empower youth aged 12 to 18 to tackle real-world issues. Driven by a profound passion for AI and its potential to generate lasting positive impact, she launched Teens in AI at the United Nations’s AI For Good Global Summit to promote diversity and inclusion within the AI industry. In collaboration with FTSE 100 companies and governmental bodies worldwide, she has successfully incorporated future-oriented skills into today’s educational frameworks.

Before founding Teens in AI, she spent nearly a decade as an international specialist consultant focused on poverty reduction, rural livelihood development, and poverty alleviation. Her work spanned across Central Asia, the Balkans, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh, where she partnered with international organisations like the British Council, UNDP, and the World Bank.

Elena is currently a Microsoft Regional Director, a programme that recognises industry professionals for their cross-platform technical expertise, community leadership, public speaking experience, online influence, and commitment to business results. She was previously appointed as a member of the Education Task Force at All Parliamentary Group in Artificial Intelligence, providing her with an opportunity to influence policy related to AI skills in education.

Paul has an MSc in Telematics/Computer Science from Twente University and has been working on geographic systems and location-based services since 2002. Paul is currently the Director of Data at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, a non-profit at the intersection of community-driven open data and mapping, technology, and humanitarian action. Since 2015, Paul has worked here in various capacities; from leading all country and implementation teams, to now applying and scaling its suite of tech products and data workflows to climate mitigation and disaster response activities.

Founder / CEO Galaxy Organisation For Technology

AI Ambassador, Serial Entrepreneur, Award-winning Executive Chairperson, Social Entrepreneur, and Justice Advocate with 10 years of leadership experience in AI, Entrepreneurship, Business Development, and Social Impact.

She currently holds the position of Senior AI Consultant with Tesla and CEO of Galaxy for Technology. She helps organizations improve their business performance, use data more intelligently, and understand the implications of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, blockchains, and the Internet of Things. Reema is an AI Expert, Youth Influencer, Popular Keynote Speaker, Futurist, and Strategic Business Leader in Technology.

Daniela Weber is the Deputy Director for NetHope’s Center of the Digital Nonprofit where she researches emerging technologies and trends and their relevance for the nonprofit sector, and supports nonprofits in their digital transformation through assessments, tools, and consultations. She leads NetHope’s AI program which looks to enable nonprofits to utilize AI to amplify their efforts to support vulnerable communities in the face of multi-crisis, and to make sure they can do so in a safe, ethical, and equitable way.

Daniela has over 30 years of experience in leadership roles in IT and Consulting, delivering digital transformation for organizations across a variety of sectors including consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and hospitality. She moved into the nonprofit sector in 2015 and now works for NetHope, an organization that convenes the world’s leading international NGOs and technology companies, and some of the world’s most sophisticated users of digital for human, social, and environmental good

Mother, innovator, technologist, and strategic visionary, Paqui Lizana leverages her “why not” spirit and background in aerospace engineering to drive positive change. With over 15 years of global experience at IKEA, the Volkswagen Group, and HP Inc., she has consistently advanced technological breakthroughs and organizational progress by fostering cross-sector partnerships and networks. Paqui believes technology, humanity, and nature can thrive together, inspiring people to create a more connected, sustainable, and intelligent future. Her purpose, “Igniting people to create the next big thing,” reflects her dedication to global collaboration and creativity. She recently spoke at the AI Imagination in Action event at MIT and was quoted in Forbes for her presentation about the future of Innovation at Dubai Art Week.

My current role, as Head of AI Security Policy and Engagement, focuses on developing the UK Government’s position in addressing the cyber security risks to AI. Historically, I have worked in the UK Government on cyber security policy for more than 7 years with responsibility for various areas of technology, including Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Assessing Emerging Technologies and Apps/App Stores. The work has involved creating various Codes of Practice, compiling regulations for IoT and supporting the development of international standards.

Joe has been in the regulatory industry for over 30 years, assisting manufacturers of connected products to comply with all necessary global regulations and getting their products to market.

He presently holds a role in the Global Cybersecurity office at TÜV SÜD leading the commercialisation activities ensuring efficient transfer of information to industry.  A primary activity in this role is researching and understanding the relationship between overlapping technology regulations and standards and conveying this to the industry.

He is also a member of the Charter of Trust, a unique initiative of 12 leading global companies and organizations working together to make the digital world of tomorrow safer through collaboration in cybersecurity. He is a key member of the Charter of Trust’s Security by Default Task Force.

Jenny Nicholson grew up in the woods with no electricity or running water, an upbringing that fueled her imagination. She surfaces unexpected insights and executes them in unconventional ways, from award-winning games and custom GPTs to social-first campaigns. Recognized by Cannes, D&AD, The One Show, the Clios, FWA, and the Webby Awards, Jenny helps agencies and brands upskill on emerging technology. She partners with Fortune 100 companies and startups alike, infusing creativity into operations and making every customer touchpoint a brand-building opportunity.

Brian Skjerven is a Cloud Solutions Architect at WEKA based in the UK, where he specialises in building storage solutions for customers in the High-Performance Computing and AI/ML space. He has 15+ years of experience in HPC in helping scale some of the largest on-prem and cloud workloads in fields varying from genomics to drug discovery to semiconductor design. Prior to his role at WEKA, Brian was an HPC specialist at Amazon Web Services where he focused on HCLS workloads, including AI-driven drug design. He has also worked for the Australian government and the US Department of Energy at national supercomputing centres, helping to scale and support world-class research projects.

Randon R. Taylor is currently a Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. His research spans social determinants of health, AI democratization & governance, and social psychology. Previously, he served as a visiting scholar for the AI for Good Foundation where he contributed to developing an ethical framework for their AI-based health initiative.

Sebastian Peck is a founding Partner at KOMPAS, an early-stage venture capital firm funding breakthrough innovations in the manufacturing industry and the built environment. Fund I (€135 million) invests globally in technology solutions to reduce emissions, increase productivity and manage risks in these two industries.

Sebastian started his career at the Boston Consulting Group and later joined the TMT advisory team of UBS Investment Bank, providing corporate finance services for telecoms, media and technology clients. Since 2010, Sebastian has been involved in early-stage technology businesses as an operator and investor. As co-founder and CFO / COO of Digital Science, a leading UK-based provider of scientific software, he successfully built a business from the ground up. Following his exit, Sebastian was appointed Managing Director of InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, which he led for five years before launching KOMPAS as a founding Partner.

Sebastian’s investments at KOMPAS include Findable, an AI platform to automate building documentation management, Makersite, an AI platform to enable product design and engineering teams to make more sustainable product design choices, and Material Evolution, which has developed a groundbreaking geopolymer cement with a CO2 footprint 85% lower than ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). At InMotion Ventures, his investments included Lyft, the ride sharing company and Ascend Elements, the leading battery recycling company.

Sebastian holds an MA in History from the University of Cambridge, an MSc with Distinction in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics, and an MBA from London Business School.

Irakli Khodeli has been with UNESCO since 2006. As part of Bioethics and Ethics of Science and Technology team at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, he has been facilitating global ethical reflection on emerging technologies, and supporting international standard-setting to safeguard human rights from the associated risks. He has also led the development of capacity-building initiatives to help countries translate global normative instruments into national policies and action.

From 2015 to 2020, he headed the Social and Human Sciences Unit of UNESCO’s Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific in Jakarta, working with the governments and the civil society in Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Timor-Leste.

Since 2020, he has rejoined UNESCO Headquarters to support the elaboration, adoption and implementation of the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI. He is now leading the Ethics of AI team to assist countries around the world in the implementation of the Recommendation

Sophie Fallaha is an accomplished business executive with a passion for innovation, sustainability and responsible AI. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the International Centre of Expertise on Artificial Intelligence in Montreal (CEIMIA), a leading international NGO that specializes in the development and implementation of high impact projects in responsible AI. Sophie has over 15 years of experience in innovation bridging the gap between research and practice in multi stakeholders environments, having worked with both multinational corporations, governments and non-profit organizations. Her expertise lies in developing and implementing sustainable business strategies that generate social, environmental, and economic value in the field of responsible AI. Prior to her current role as Executive Director of CEIMIA, she served as CEO of the International Reference Center for Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Transition (CIRAIG), an international Center of Expertise across four universities in Canada and Switzerland. At CIRAIG, Sophie headed a sizable team and directed the development and execution of sustainability metrics, in partnership with a diverse set of stakeholders. In addition, she successfully oversaw the procurement of two long-term research and industry collaborations, each with significant funding. These partnerships involved leaders from various industries renowned for their commitment to sustainability.

Hind Ziane is the founder and CEO of Génération Politique, a political strategy and GovTech company based in Paris, France. Génération Politique was created in 2018, in a tense political and social context in France, with the ambition to develop solutions that improve the relationship between citizens and politics.

 Today, the company’s mission is to help politicians face some of the most pressing challenges of our time, using political strategy, citizen engagement methods and new technologies. Génération Politique’s vision is to help fix and transform politics, internationally.   

 Before founding her business, Hind Ziane worked for more than 3 years with an American politician and entrepreneur who led the Gen44 community organizing initiative in Ohio during former President B. Obama’s campaigns. He was later on appointed by the President at the Department of Energy.  During those years, she worked on political and social projects with institutions such as the UNESCO, the White House, or the USAID. She also worked with the office of a US Congresswoman in Texas and was in charge of gathering co-sponsorships for a bill that sought to provide assistance to veterans with severe PTSD. 

 Her experience in American politics was completed by an experience in the French private and public sectors working with French politicians, focusing mainly on public administration and public affairs. 

 As a speaker, Hind Ziane often speaks at local, and international conferences. She is passionate about what she does, and always looks to share her passion about politics with the public. 

 She is convinced that politics needs a massive overhaul internationally, and that a better future can only be built if we fix our political systems. 

 Hind Ziane graduated from Sciences Po Paris, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, where she got a master’s degree in public affairs. She also studied Government at the University of Texas at Austin.

Janina Lorenci is a dynamic arts professional and the founder of MAIA, Artsitters, and Goodmesh Concours. With a rich background in music, art curation, and arts management, Janina has trained at prestigious institutions like the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Manhattan School of Music, and the Royal College of Art in London. Through MAIA, she focuses on curating innovative, interdisciplinary projects that blend technology with visual art, music, dance and performance while fostering inclusivity and empowering artists to reach their full potential.

Remko is Head of Data & Analytics at Eneco. He is the driving force behind GenAI strategy within Eneco and as award winning marketing leader a peer amongst the CMO community. Prior to Eneco, Remko was Head of Digital Marketing and Technology.

Matthew Blakemore is an esteemed AI strategist with a decade of experience, leading AI Caramba and delivering over 250 global talks for entities like NASDAQ and FTSE 100. He has developed multimodal AI solutions, secured patents, and transformed industries, collaborating with tech giants like Google and Amazon, and universities such as Bath and Nottingham. Matthew won the 2023 Business UK Tech Visionary Award for his pioneering work. Matthew serves on the Advisory Committee for the £100M Innovate UK Bridge AI program, advises the Greater London Authority on AI, and is a Board Member of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Matthew leads AI upskilling programs for the e-learning platform Mindstone, furthering education in AI technologies.

He is a member of the BSI and ISO AI Committees, shaping AI standards, and co-authored the globally approved AI Data Lifecycle Standard (ISO 8183), which was adopted by the European Committee for Standardisation in 2024. In the film industry, he has earned over 20 IMDb awards for his AI-generated films, including ‘Best Futurist Filmmaker’ at Cannes and ‘Best AI Film Director’ in New York. His works have been showcased by the European Broadcasting Union and Belgian broadcaster VRT.

Michael Charles Borrelli is a highly experienced financial services professional with over 10 years of experience. He has held executive positions in compliance, regulation, management consulting and operations for institutional financial services firms, consulted for FCA-regulated firms on strategic planning, regulatory compliance and operational efficiency. In 2020, Michael set-up the operations model and infrastructure for a cryptoasset exchange provider, and has been actively engaged in the Web 3.0 and AI communities over the last 4 years. He currently advises a host of AI, Web3, DLT and FinTech companies.

Stefan Hogendoorn is the Chief Geek at NextNovate, bringing a wealth of experience from the Google ecosystem since 2008 and a passion for simplifying complex problems without losing sight of the human element. A former Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud and Firebase, Stefan has deep expertise in development, infrastructure, data architecture, and AI/ML. He is a firm believer in a ‘serverless first’ approach to development, advocating for solutions that prioritize efficiency and scalability. His passion for technology has led him to speak at events around the globe, sharing insights and inspiring others.

Sander is a passionate machine learning engineer who loves to build scalable data and machine learning systems, especially with a focus on generative AI. He has extensive experience in creating ML solutions (both, on-premise and in the cloud). Besides, he developed and gave training for MLOps. Finally, he has conducted various academic research which he presented at multiple conferences (BNAIC, ICHMS) and contributed to popular open-source libraries such as MLflow.

Mike Smith is Director of Engineering and Security at Qodea, Europe’s largest Google-only transformation partner. Prior to his current role, Mike was CISO at Appsbroker (renamed Qodea in September 2024) and he has worked as Director of Cloud Security for FIS (a WorldPay acquisition), Vice President of Network Engineering for Citi and as a Network Security Architect for both Airbus and Deutsche Bank.

Paola Yela is the Information Management and Data Science Officer at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva. Currently, she is working on the proposal of a roadmap for using Machine Learning at IFRC, collaborating in Red Cross Movement-wide initiatives like the Data Playbook and GO. She is also working in the implementation of the IFRC AlertHub Initiative, ideating solutions to effectively advocate for the use of the Common Alerting Protocol for the dissemination of early warnings at scale. Her professional vision is to become a bridge-builder between the data-science field and the humanitarian sector.

Zoë advises organisations on AI strategy and practice, having been in the AI space for over two decades, as a practitioner and leader.  Until May 2024, Zoë led BT’s AI Centre of Enablement which she built in the midst of a wider digital transformation to develop and deploy data science and AI at scale across the business.  Before that, Zoë worked at Innovate UK where she led teams to accelerate UK innovation across a range of enabling and emerging technologies and sectors, including AI, manufacturing and novel materials.  Zoë began her career, with an MSc and PhD in AI, at QinetiQ and SEA developing and demonstrating cutting-edge AI technologies, in areas including cyber security, retail and health.  In 2023, Zoë gave evidence to the UK House of Lord’s Communications and Digital Committee on the opportunities and risks of Large Language Models.

Chris Wysopal is the Chief Security Evangelist at Veracode, responsible for enhancing the company’s industry presence, advocating robust security practices, and fostering customer and peer relationships. Prior to co-founding Veracode in 2006, Chris was vice president of research and development at security consultancy @stake, which was acquired by Symantec. In the 1990s, Chris was one of the original vulnerability researchers at The L0pht, a hacker think tank, where he was one of the first to publicize the risks of insecure software. He has testified to the US Congress on the subjects of government security and how vulnerabilities are discovered in software.

Chris is a highly influential and sought-after voice in the software security industry. He is the author of “The Art of Software Security Testing” and was instrumental in developing industry guidelines for responsible disclosure of software vulnerabilities. MIT Technology Review wrote in 2019 that Chris “has worked for decades to demand secure technologies from influential tech companies.”

Chris received a BS in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In his free time, Chris enjoys photography and hiking the conservation trails near his home outside Boston.

Nicolò Nepote got his MSc in Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and added professional training at the University of Edinburgh and MIT, on the topics of High Performance Computing and Innovation Management. After spending ten years in the Academic field to provide computational resources to researchers, he entered Brembo as HPC Manager. After having covered multiple roles, in R&D and IT, he’s now leading the global Data Science and AI team, developing AI-based software for Brembo Solutions.

Sanjay Puri is a leading advocate for responsible AI governance, leveraging his extensive experience at the intersection of technology, policy, and global business to shape the future of artificial intelligence regulation.  As the host of the RegulatingAi & CAIO Podcasts, he brings together world-renowned experts and policymakers to explore the challenges and opportunities of AI, fostering informed dialogue that balances innovation with ethical responsibility.

Since 2023, Sven Stevenson has been the Director for the Coordination of Supervision on AI and Algorithms at the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, DPA). In 2023, the DPA took up the new role of national coordinating authority for the supervision of AI systems and algorithm risks. His department works on proactive identification and analyses of risks related to AI systems and algorithms. This is published twice a year in the AI & Algorithmic Risks Report Netherlands (ARR). The department facilitates cooperation between supervisors, national compliance desks, academia, NGOs and sectoral bodies. In addition, the department works on guidance and policy contribution. Currently, the department is strongly involved with the coordination and preparation of national supervision in the Netherlands on the AI Act.

Before joining the DPA, Mr. Stevenson was employed at the Dutch Central Bank for 14 years, working in the Financial Stability Department and the Resolution Department. He was seconded to the IMF (2014) and was co-chair of the Taskforce on Deposit Guarantee Schemes at the European Banking Authority (2018-2023). Mr. Stevenson holds an MSc. in Economics (2007) and an MBA (2021) from the University of Amsterdam.

Sako is Founder and CTO of FruitPunch AI, the global community educating and applying AI for Good through real-world Challenges with partners like the ARM, ESA and WWF (5.000 AI engineers and growing!).

Sako has a background in Computer Science @ TU/e where he was the first generation of the AI specialization Master he helped set up as a student advisor. He continued with setting up a Data Science department at a software company where he noticed he and his new employees were ill-prepared for real-world AI, so he decided to do something about it!

Alex Cordovil is the Global Channel Development Director at Vertiv where he leads go-to-market strategy across different business units. With the recent technological transformation in high-density solutions propelled by the rise of AI in data centres globally, Alex has been instrumental in coordinating and steering Vertiv’s Marketing strategy and execution in the AI space, with a keen focus on educating the data centre community about challenges posed by AI.

Before joining Vertiv 4 years ago, Alex was a strategy consultant with a 15-year experience having worked at Bain & Company and independently. As a consultant, he helped organisations in Financial Services, Retail, and Manufacturing prepare for their most pressing and important challenges.

I’m an innovation enthusiast with a passion for emerging technologies. I’m constantly on the lookout for cutting-edge innovations that can revolutionize businesses across industries. Currently, my research focus on the adoption of AI systems in organizations, meaning I’m diving deep into the practical, real-world challenges and opportunities of integrating AI.

Ravi Subramaniam is currently serving as Senior Director (Acting), Global Business Strategy and Intelligence at the IEEE Standards Association. In this role he oversees multiple business lines and is also responsible for marketing and product development. He also advises and consults for numerous standards working groups on post standards implementation which encompasses test plan, certification program development and interoperability. Currently he is focused on developing programs in interconnection of distributed energy resources, AI Ethics, Digital Resiliency and cybersecurity, Autonomous Vehicles and sensors/IoT technologies. He has helped form and support various IEEE certification programs and holds leadership roles within numerous committees, including the IEEE Sensors Council Industry Committee and the nuclear standards certification committee.

Prior to taking on this role, Ravi has served in various technology management roles across the globe. He has previously worked for Eurofins E&E North America, Honeywell and Ericsson. Ravi studied Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University and Johns Hopkins University and has an executive MBA from Rutgers University.

Cha’Von K. Clarke-Joell, a visionary in AI ethics and data protection, addresses the ‘Digital Polycrisis’ in her latest book. Named among the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2024,” she brings extensive experience as the Data, Ethics & Governance AI Working Group Chair for Mission Impact Academy (Mia) and Director of International Development for Women in AI
Africa (WAIA). Her work also includes the development of AI-powered health solutions.As the co-founder of The TLC Group of Companies and former Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Bermuda, Cha’Von has been instrumental in developing privacy certifications and shaping data protection frameworks. Her expertise, backed by certifications like IAPP CIPM and Certified Generative AI Expert, informs her role as a university lecturer in emerging technologies and AI. As Founder of CKC Cares, she champions ethical AI practices and innovative tech solutions.
Cha’Von’s unique blend of technical knowledge and creative insight makes her a compelling voice at the World AI Summit.

Davide Palanza is a research manager in the European Financial Insights team. He leads IDC’s Worldwide Insurance Digital Business Strategies advisory service, with his research covering the following overarching themes: insurance and digital transformation, intelligent claims automation and fraud prevention, on-demand and micro insurance, actuarial change, contextual and value-centric offerings, and regulatory evolution and compliance.

As an engineer, Isabelle has always been curious about how things work, regardless of the topic. She has been working at Sopra Steria for 13 years and is now programme COO of the group-wide initiative on AI transformation. The topic captivates Isabelle because it involves many aspects: technical, business, societal, and philosophical. And she has the opportunity to use it in various situations, both internally and for clients. Outside of work, she likes to disconnect and perform manual activities.

Katalin Feher is an Associate Professor at Ludovika University of Public Service and a Transatlantic Horizon Europe NGI Professor. She serves the United Nations Global Digital Cooperation and the European Innovation Council as an expert. She is a Fulbright Research Alumna. Her research interests encompass responsible AI and governance, generative AI, and AI in media.

Paul Verhagen works at the Civic AI Lab, where public policy meets advanced technical research. The lab focuses on harnessing algorithms and artificial intelligence to combat inequality and enhance equal opportunity. In his role, Paul leverages his extensive background in politics and mathematical AI to bridge the gap between public institutions and academic researchers. He is instrumental in promoting AI applications that serve societal needs, ensuring that both social and technical challenges are addressed. Through his work, the Civic AI Lab has initiated several key projects that demonstrate the potential of AI to foster substantial social change on themes such as healthcare, education, mobility, and governance.

Shravanthi works with complex care and behavioral health in advanced model development and clinical workflow optimization. Working closely with clinical, helping them use the data for decision making, developing new programs backed up with data and modeling to help take informed decision! Solution architecture for clinical specializing in RWD algorithms to take actionable insights. With CCA, Shravanthi works a lot on EHR and helps bring in Data Science concepts and also thinks from a population health perspective to make data informed decisions for enhanced patient outcomes!

Harold has a background in mathematics and education and graduated in fraud detection at the University of Technology in Delft. He works at Sopra Steria, previously called Ordina, and has turned data into value using AI for various organizations in the last decade. As Solution Lead Data Science & AI, Harold is responsible for developing state-of-the-art responsible AI solutions to make sustainable impact. Harold loves coaching others to get the most out of themselves and people around them. Also in his free time, he trains scout leaders on personal leadership and communication skills.

As Practice Lead Data Science & AI at Sopra Steria (previously: Ordina) Paul manages 20 of data scientists at various clients across The Netherlands. Paul has a background in computational linguistics and currently uses his skills at the National Police and as a teacher at the Hogeschool Utrecht and Utrecht University. Paul is a frequent keynote speaker on the responsible use of AI, with a focus on Large Language Models. During his spare time Paul plays the guitar in a rock band.

Alexander Martynau is the Inception program Community manager for the EMEA region. Passionate about startups and deeptech, he has been supporting AI startup ecosystems across Europe for 7+ years, helping companies scale using NVIDIA technology.

Maximilian Kiener is Head of the Institute for Ethics in Technology at Hamburg University of Technology (www.tuhh.de/ethics). He is also an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and an Associate Research Fellow at The Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford as well as the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Before moving to Hamburg, Maximilian obtained his PhD (DPhil) in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and worked as an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow and as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. Maximilian’s research focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence with a particular focus on ‘ethics by design’ and responsibility. He has also been an adviser on the ethics of AI in industry and policymaking. 

Buster is the founder of FruitPunch AI, a platform & community crowdsourcing AI solutions for impact organisations and training engineers in real-world Challenges. They work with partners like the European Space Agency, Stanford, Greenpeace and WWF to apply AI for Good. He has an academic background in neuroscience (brain-computer interfacing) at TU/e where he helped build the AI research institute (EAISI) and is passionate about community building, impact startups & activism.

Matej has been in crypto since 2017 and has been a big advocate of decentralization and privacy from the start. The first project he worked on was called NAKA that has a mission to bringing crypto payments to the mainstream in a decentralized and private manner. He later joined Oasis to further the adoption of privacy in the general crypto space. He’s the Head of Partnerships, working on creating alliances with the larger projects in the broader crypto ecosystem to drive the normalization and use of additional privacy mechanisms in the dApps that crypto user interact with on a daily basis.

Yiannis is the founder and CEO of code4thought. For the last 18 years he has been analysing and evaluating large-scale software systems to ensure they are transparent and sustainable. As AI systems are increasingly becoming crucial for business and society, Yiannis founded code4thought with the vision and purpose to build technology that ensures that AI systems are trustworthy. Yiannis holds a Ph.D. in the field of Data Mining from the University of Manchester in the UK and has published several papers and articles related to Explainable AI, Algorithmic Accountability, Bias Detection, Data Mining Algorithms and Software Quality Evaluation methodologies.

My name is Ferenc Kukucska, and I’ve been working in the Big Data and AI squad for four years now as an Architect. With a total of seven years of experience in the AI industry, starting from 2017, I’ve had the opportunity to work on numerous fascinating AI projects. These projects have included recommendation systems, intelligent search engines, and chatbots, among others. However, over the past few years, I’ve shifted my focus towards DevOps projects, leveraging technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and OpenStack. My expertise in these areas has enabled me to design and implement scalable, efficient, and secure infrastructure solutions that support the development and deployment of AI applications.

Since 2020, I have been joining the Open Telekom Cloud. As a Senior Product Manager for cash cow services, my responsibilities include defining the roadmap at the version/feature/service levels, improving lifecycle rules, prioritizing features and requirements based on a deep technical understanding to achieve customer satisfaction. I also co-moderate regular sales meetings with the Chief Product Management and support strategies together with the CTO regarding AI at Open Telekom Cloud. Additionally, I am responsible for revealing trends in the double-digit range on KPIs, delivering customer DEMOs and trainings, and overseeing 16 cloud services at Open Telekom Cloud.

Alexander Patrushev is an IT professional with nearly 15 years of experience, focusing on artificial intelligence for the past five years. As a Senior Product Manager in AI/ML at Nebius, he is dedicated to finding optimal solutions for AI practitioners, ensuring innovative and user-centric applications.

Helen McElhinney leads the CDAC Network – the global alliance of organisations working to ensure people can access safe, trustworthy information and communicate during crises. Under Helen’s leadership, CDAC addresses frontier issues related to technology in humanitarian action, including efforts to promote ethical data practices, mitigate the spread of harmful information, and ensure AI is used accountably in humanitarian settings to serve the needs and interests of crisis-affected communities. Previously, Helen served as a humanitarian aid worker and civil servant, holding senior advisory roles within DFID and FCDO, and working at posts in Sana’a and Riyadh and across HMG. She later joined the International Committee of the Red Cross as Head of Policy for the UK and Ireland. Helen holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, an LL.M in Human Rights Law from the University of Glasgow and an LLB from the University of Strathclyde.

Artiom Troyanovsky is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Thoughtworks, with expertise in data science, machine learning, with a specialty in Bayesian methods. He has led initiatives to upskill teams and has developed machine learning solutions for various industries, including recommendation systems for an online marketplace and dynamic pricing algorithms for an energy company. Artiom’s experience covers the full ML lifecycle, from data exploration to model deployment and monitoring, with a focus on delivering practical, business-driven results through advanced ML methodologies. In his current role, he is developing an ML(Ops) platform that serves hundreds of internal users for a large automotive client.

Jon is a technology and product leader in the startup space with more than 10 years of experience in high growth environments. Jon leads teams of engineers and AI practitioners including driving innovation for Zetane’s flagship open source AI platform for rapid development of AI and AGI solutions, ZetaForge. Jon additionally delivers high quality AI solutions for customers, balancing cutting edge AI technology with trusted, explainable systems.

Jon has been a lead project engineer on several Zetane industrial machine learning projects ranging from POCs to MVPs all the way to complete end to end solutions. Jonathan was a speaker at WSAI Amsterdam and the US AI for Defense forum in 2023. Jon is a graduate of TechStars Boulder, Colorado, one of the top startup accelerator programs in the US. As the lead engineer at MeetMindful, a dating app, he led the design, development, and scaling of the full application stack from hundreds of users to hundreds of thousands. Previously, as a System Architect at Lewan Technology, an IT consulting company, he led distributed system design and scaling for internal and client applications. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Tulane University.

Yannic is a System Architect as part of the Leading Coalition in the IT Robotics ART at ASML, developing intelligent process and conversational automations. Previously, Yannic led the RPA Center of Excellence at ASML, creating high-quality RPA solutions and maintaining robotized business processes.

Pierre-Luc Parent has been an AI software developer at Zetane for over four years, contributing to numerous projects, including the development of our cloud infrastructure. With a strong passion for cybersecurity, he supports the back-end of ZetaForge and works on various client initiatives. Pierre-Luc has also presented at Concordia University on a collaborative research project where we are deploying an AI system within a satellite to aid in the early detection of forest fires.

David Moore is the co-founder of CrossMoore AI, a UK-based startup focused on ‘automating the boring stuff’ by providing AI-driven products to enterprises, SMEs and public services. Previously, as Director of Emerging Technologies at Balfour Beatty, a £9bn revenue global infrastructure and construction company, he led the strategy and implementation of AI in all its forms, enterprise-grade IoT, data lakes and Digital Twins. David’s expertise spans software development, data science, generative AI, big data, enterprise architecture and technology consulting. He’s a frequent speaker on AI’s transformative potential in business and is passionate about applying cutting-edge tech to real-world challenges.

Patricia Thaine is the Co-Founder & CEO of Private AI, a Series A Microsoft & BDC backed startup. She is a Computer Science PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto (on leave) and a Vector Institute alumna. Her R&D work is focused on privacy-preserving NLP, with a focus on applied cryptography and re-identification risk. Patricia is a recipient of the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, the RBC Graduate Fellowship, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. She has 10 years of research and software development experience, including at the McGill Language Development Lab, the University of Toronto’s Computational Linguistics Lab and Department of Linguistics, and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Stefan Buijsman received his PhD in philosophy at 20 years old and is now an assistant professor at TU Delft working on responsible AI. He is managing director of the TU Delft Digital Ethics Centre and oversees research projects with private and public sector on translating ethical values for AI to concrete design requirements of these systems. In addition he is scientific director of the Convergence Centre for Responsible AI in Healthcare and has written three popular science books on mathematics and AI with De Bezige Bij/Penguin USA. 

Anant Dole is a seasoned technology leader with a global perspective, having worked across South Africa, the USA, and the UK. He currently spearheads AI application development at Writer. Writer is the full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises. He focuses on enterprise solutions using the Writer Framework, an open-source Python platform integrated with advanced language models. With a strong foundation in engineering and management, Anant has over seven years of experience at Uber Technologies. As a Senior Partner Engineer, he enhanced developer experiences and integration quality for customers like Walmart and Apple, significantly reducing API errors and improving latency, which led to substantial financial benefits for the company. Anant holds a Master of Engineering Management from Dartmouth College and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Cape Town. He is also a guest lecturer at Dartmouth College, sharing insights on marketplaces and platform strategy, and mentoring aspiring engineering students. Beyond his professional achievements, Anant is an accomplished chess player, having represented South Africa in international competitions for over a decade. At the AI Summit, he will lead a workshop on AI-driven enterprise solutions, offering “The Fastest Way to Build and Deploy Enterprise AI Applications”

Sarah Spencer is an independent consultant (on sabbatical from the British Government) and a multi-domain expert working at the intersection of AI, public policy, and national security. She helps her clients address the challenges posed by AI and ethically capitalise on its opportunities. Sarah has spent over two decades working with and in support of conflict-affected nations and communities on behalf of the British Government, the UN, and a range of international agencies. She is a regular commentator on ‘AI for Good’ and the geopolitics of AI. Sarah currently lives in Nairobi.

Hayley Edmonds is a British bilingual journalist based in Paris with extensive experience working in television and live sporting and corporate events. 

Her capacity to work in both English and French has led her to work as a moderator and editor on prominent industry corporate events, specialising in tech and sustainability both in France and internationally.

Host of a bi-monthly digital program « Movin’ On » Hayley focuses on strategic anticipation and co-innovation future of sustainable mobility with leading industry experts.   

More recently, Hayley has been hosting the Olympics and reporting on motorsports events including the 24 hours of Le Mans for French television.

Mr. Harneet Singh is a serial entrepreneur and an IIT Delhi alumnus with an experience of building 5 companies, 12 products and running businesses from scratch. He is currently the Managing Director at TechCurators, TC Group and leading a 500 member team across 3 countries (US, UAE and India) and managed P&L of 1 Billion+.

Popularly known as “The Lion Founder” among the AI community, he is the Founder and Chief AI Officer of Rabbitt AI, a London based AI company, backed by the industry leaders from NVIDIA, Meta and Microsoft etc. Rabbitt AI is helping organizations “Own their AI”, turning companies into leaders of the AI revolution, much like the IT boom ushered in giants like TCS and Infosys. Under his Leadership and guidance Rabbitt Ai has raised funds of $2.1 Million and is working rigorously to make each and every Company become GenAI powered

Mr. Singh has served as an AI Consultant with the South Korean Navy. He has worked with the Defense Industry Technology Support Center, an affiliate of South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) to help enable the data annotation, model training and LLMops for developing self learning Generative AI powered System For Mine Warfare.

He is also a Mentor and Advisor at Delhi University’s Startup Incubation Fund and an Official Forum Member at Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Industry-Academia Partnership Forum. He has been chosen as an Official Member & Leader for Forbes Business Council.

Previously, he bootstrapped TechCurators to 14MM$ and scaled the company’s business in 25 countries and 400+ clients with the power of Technology and Community (our strengths), and created employment opportunities for 10,000+ people for Bharat (Tier 3, 4 cities and villages)

He also serves as the Chair of the Board at TransCurators, which is a premier Content Creation Company powered by technology and community, guiding their vision to position India as a global digital content factory for the world and being at the forefront of the Content and Gen AI revolution.

Ramon Rahangmetan is the Co-founder of ‘Circle of Sustainable Europe (CoSE)’ which is an international non-profit organization in Brussels, Belgium working on European programmes & projects in terms of research, implementation and evaluation. Ramon is also the founder of ‘Digiquette’ focussed on digital ethics, project management, EU-policies and trainings. 

In addition to the World Summit AI, he has also spoken at the United Nations in Geneva on Human Rights, the UN Climate Conference in Dubai, and the Info Hub in the European Parliament, Brussels. With a background in Urban Sustainable Development and Business Management, his ambition is to further advance an inclusive, circular economic model by leveraging modern technologies, effective policy-making, and empowering young people to take a leading role in the decision-making processes.

Remco Janssen is the founder and publisher of Silicon Canals, one of Europe’s leading technology news websites on startups, scale-ups, and technology. Ever since his days at a food order website after the dot-com bubble, he has had an undeniable passion for fast-growing companies and disruptive technology. As a trained and experienced public speaker and moderator at tech events and conferences, he is well-equipped to ask all the thought-provoking questions to uncover the proper answers, thus ensuring that the content on stage is of the highest quality.

I’m the CEO & Co-Founder at Leya AI; we are on a mission to make personal AI coaching accessible to everyone on the planet. Our short-term focus is developing a personal English language AI coach who helps people practice speaking skills for work.In one year since launching MVP, we gathered over 12K paid users from 100+ countries and reached $780K ARR. Biohacking is my second hobby after AI. Recently, I’ve also picked up kite surfing!

I’m looking to meet investors from value-added VCs’ who focus on B2C SaaS & Gen AI Startups at the pre-Series A stage. Also, I’m always open to networking with people passionate about EdTech, Biohacking, and AI enthusiasts.

Nina is a Data Science Consultant and Business Development Manager at Datacation, with a solid foundation in Data Science and AI. She is particularly skilled at bridging the gap between abstract AI concepts and real-world business needs. Nina leverages her technical expertise to simplify complex challenges, turning them into clear, actionable solutions. Her approach is to first understand the business processes before exploring how AI can drive meaningful improvements.

Alessandro is a seasoned senior Product and Business Development Manager with over two decades of experience in the dynamic field of Artificial Intelligence and Edge computing.

His journey in the tech industry began as an open-source maintainer and developer, which laid the foundation for his deep understanding of software ecosystems. Throughout his career, his technical expertise and strategic insights have been relied upon by many TOP500 companies.

His passion for expanding knowledge and finding solutions that grow the industry is optimized in his role as Product & Business Development Manager

Before her tenure at NVIDIA, Christina amassed extensive experience in the semiconductor OSAT, wafer foundry, and LCD backlight sectors, where she played a pivotal role in overseeing EMEA sales and driving business development initiatives.

With extensive experience cultivating relationships and fostering business collaborations, she successfully navigated engagements with key partners, customers, and distribution channels in the EMEA region.

In her current capacity, Christina is dedicated to advancing NVIDIA’s business growth by strategically supporting the development of embedded Jetson partnerships with ODM’s in EMEA

Manraj (Raj) Singh is a Managing Partner at Vicus Ventures, a venture fund that invests between the US-India tech corridor and has a focus on B2B SaaS and AI-enabled startups that have global potential. Vicus is powered by the Vicus 50 – their worldwide network of 50 LPs which include unicorn founders, public company CEOs, exciting celebrities, strategic family offices, and top-tier institutional VC funds. Their LPs play an active role working with the fund managers to diligence and support their founders through their entrepreneurial journey. Previously, Raj worked as an operator at Verily (fka Google Life Sciences) leading an AI-enabled product to help prevent blindness. He has his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A from Columbia Business School.

Laurens Vanryckeghem is the Managing Director at Plug and Play Tech Center, Benelux. Holding an Engineering Degree complemented by an MBA in Real Estate from Antwerp Management School, Laurens has dedicated the past decade to support blue chip companies in their transformation. He did this from roles as a sales engineer, a strategy consultant, and as a venture capitalist. Laurens directs the operations at Plug and Play in the Benelux region, assisting large corporations in identifying new competitive advantages, diversifying revenue streams, and reducing costs through the integration of innovative technologies and startup collaborations (both open and corporate innovation).

Girish Kurup is AI Architect at PACE Innovation lab Tata Consulting Services (TCS) based in Amsterdam. He has over 20 years of experience in Consulting and IT delivery across various domains like Energy, Insurance, Banking, Hitech  & Pharmaceuticals. Girish holds a Master degree from Indian Statistical Institute in India and has held key roles in roles in platform architecture, cloud  platforms, Data management and AI . Currently, recently he plays AI Architect role in TCS’s PACE Innovation Lab , where helps accelerate client’s journey for AI adoption journeys.  He is passionate about transforming Customer Contact Centers using Conversation AI and Generative AI solutions.

Hester Benedictus is a public policy maker with an MBA in Healthcare management. She worked for the Dutch Social and Economic Council (SER) and the government of Amsterdam. In 2023 her team won the Amsterdam AI Hackathon ‘most mind blowing’ category with a prototype of Lees Simpel. The app now has more than 100.000 users.

Researcher, professor, author, specialized in Ethics, Technology and Social Robotics in Healthcare. Developing applications together with end users and health care providers. Robotics, home automation and e-health in a care setting are subject to research. All this from an ethical point of view.

Rob van der Veer is an AI pioneer with 32 years of experience and Senior principal expert at Software Improvement Group. He is the co-editor of the AI Act security standard, lead author of the ISO/IEC 5338 standard on AI lifecycle, and creator of the OWASP AI Exchange – open-sourcing the global discussion on AI security.  Rob is co-author of the unique children’s book on AI ‘Luna and the Magic AI Paintbrush’

Erika Marthins is a designer and creative director with a background in interaction design and digital fabrication. She holds a degree in Visual Communication from ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne) and a Master of Advanced Studies from ETH Zürich. As the founder of Augmented Food Studio, Erika has collaborated with leading organizations such as Google, Barilla, Puratos, Roche, and swissnex. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and events worldwide, including at the United Nations, Vitra Design Museum, Milan Design Week, and Ars Electronica. She has also delivered keynotes at institutions like Singularity University and IDEO, sharing her insights on the future of design and technology. Her projects have garnered attention in prominent publications such as Wired, Fast Company, and Dezeen.

Olya Kozlova is a senior solutions architect with a focus on large language models. She has over 10 years of experience applying natural language and speech processing to a wide range of use cases, from text analytics to conversational AI and participating in machine learning research projects. At NVIDIA, her particular area of interest is deep learning compilers and transformer inference acceleration.

Anke and her team are with FLTRD on a mission to make the healthy choice the easy choice. With the FLTRD app and a personalized health score they empower people to make healthy food decisions in the supermarket. Anke started her career in London in Performance Marketing, co-founded Faktor (a privacy technology company, acquired by LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) and has a great passion for preventative health. With FLTRD she combines her passion, her marketing background and her entrepreneurial experiences.

I am a software engineer, working at Adobe for the past 6 years, since I was at the young age of 15. At first, I tackled and helped develop complex fraud prevention systems for online video platforms. My past experience also includes working with ranking/recommendation algorithms and MLOps.

 Moving on, the work I do now enables customers get the most out of Adobe products. This includes using Generative AI and Large Language Models to answer user questions about feature documentation and usage insights. I am also involved in the development of a large-scale experimentation platform that instruments A/B testing.

 Previously, I have been recognized by Forbes Romania, who featured me in their 30 Under 30 list in 2020 for my achievements

Ayça Turan is a Creative Technologist based in the Netherlands, specializing in Extended Reality Design and creating AI Workflows. At the core of her approach is a commitment to progress, experimentation, and a positive perspective toward the future.

Ayça’s dedication to digital art and technology has been recognized through several exhibitions and collaborations. These opportunities have allowed her to share the potential of AI in creative processes with wider audiences

Grant Easterbrook has been in the Fintech and AI space for 13 years, and was one of the first analysts to cover Fintech starting back in 2011. Over the course of 13 years in the industry, he has been quoted in the news as a Fintech and/or AI expert over 200 times. Grant also worked as the Co-Founder/CEO of a startup that built a chatbot for the American retirement industry. That chatbot was used by over $500M of retail retirement assets before the company was acquired in 2020.

Grant also frequently writes about AI. Here are three recent articles that Grant wrote for Fobes: How Financial Services Firms Can Build A Generative AI Assistant (Feb 2024), Exploring Three Scenarios For How Gen AI Will Change Consumer Finance (May 2024), and Corporate Gen AI Projects Should Plan For Failure — And That’s OK (September 2024).

Gary Marcus, scientist, bestselling author, and entrepreneur, was CEO and Founder of the machine-learning startup Geometric Intelligence, recently acquired by Uber, and is known for his provocative and bold claims in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Trained by Steven Pinker, he received his PhD at MIT at age 23. His professional research, published in leading journals such as Science, Nature, Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence, has focused on the foundations of cognition in humans, animals and machines, spanning fields from developmental psychology to neuroscience to genetics to artificial intelligence. A special interest has been on the challenge of endowing machines with common sense.

He is also well-known for his writing for the general public, including frequent essays and op-eds for The New Yorker and The New York Times. His books include The Algebraic Mind, The Birth of the Mind, Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind, The New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero and The Future of the Brain: Essays By The World’s Leading Neuroscientists.

In a 2012 essay for The New Yorker, he was perhaps the first person to publicly criticize deep learning, drawing on arguments he developed in his 2001 technical book The Algebraic Mind. More recently, in a 2018 arXiv article, Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal, he asked whether deep learning might be “approaching a wall.” The challenges he laid out there were covered everywhere from The
New York Times to Wired to The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.

In another provocative 2012 essay, Moral Machines, Marcus was the first to adapt “trolley problems” to driverless cars, anticipating much recent research on the ethics of AI. His next book, REBOOT: Getting to AI We Can Trust, to be published by Pantheon in Fall 2019, co-authored with Ernie Davis, calls for a fundamental rethinking of current approaches to artificial intelligence.

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has spent more than three decades at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research, development, and investment in both the US and China. He’s the chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a leading venture capital firm focused on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Previously, Dr. Lee was the president of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum, he has a bachelor’s degree from Columbia and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Lee is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller AI Superpowers, which examines the role of the US and China in the future of artificial intelligence, as well as its impact on society. His latest book, co-authored with award-winning science-fiction writer Chen Quifan, is called AI2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. It presents a roadmap to educate and explore the opportunities and challenges presented by AI over the coming decades.

Stuart Russell is a pioneer in the understanding and uses of artificial intelligence (AI), its long-term future, and its relation to humanity. He also is a leading authority on robotics and bioinformatics.

Stuart Russell is the author or coauthor of three books on knowledge, reasoning, and machine learning, including the standard textbook on artificial intelligence. Stuart Russell is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC-Berkeley and Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC-San Francisco.

Artificial intelligence. AI is a machine’s ability to perceive its environment and use that information to maximise its chance at succeeding at some goal. All of the technologies behind artificial intelligence are evolving at exponential rates and are just now beginning to rocket up the curve. Soon artificially intelligent machines will be doing things we can barely conceive, in virtually every area of human business, life, and culture. Few people understand this future better than Stuart Russell, who wrote the standard textbook on AI (with coauthor Peter Norvig), now in its third edition.

Robotics. Stuart Russell is also a leading researcher in the practical applications of machine intelligence. If AI is the brain of the machine of the future, the robot is its body. Robots are taking over more and more functions that once required a human actor, with far-reaching consequences — and opportunities — for people, businesses, and society as a whole. He has focused recently on the threat of autonomous weaponry.

Biological information. As an Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery, Stuart has been researching computational physiology, with a current focus on Intensive Care Unit monitoring systems. He is a leader in the development of technologies that make sense of biological data and that apply this information in ways that advance human health.

Credentials. In addition to the positions already mentioned, Stuart Russell holds the SmithZadeh Chair in Engineering at UC-Berkeley and is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on AI and Robotics. He is the recipient of many awards and held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris from 2012 to 2014. He is a researcher at a number of research centers, including the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR), the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), and the Synthetic Biology Institute (SBI). He is the founder and Vice-President of Bayesian Logic, Inc., a data analysis start-up under contract with the UN to build a new Nuclear Test Ban Treaty global monitoring system.

DR. WERNER VOGELS, CTO, AMAZON.COM

Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s customer-centric technology vision.

 As one of the forces behind Amazon’s approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale, and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations.

 Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University where he was a distributed systems researcher. He has held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

On his blog, all things distributed, Werner shares insights and thought leadership content on a range of topics, such as cloud computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, as well as his annual technology predictions.

Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, head of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), CIFAR Program co-director of the CIFAR program on Learning in Machines and Brains,  Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms. His main research ambition is to understand principles of learning that yield intelligence. He supervises a large group of graduate students and post-docs. His research is widely cited (over 80000 citations found by Google Scholar in September 2017, with an H-index of 101).

Yoshua Bengio is currently action editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research, associate editor for the Neural Computation journal, editor for Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, and has been associate editor for the Machine Learning Journal and the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

Professor Simon See is currently the Solution Architecture and Engineering Director, Chief Solution Architect and Global Head for NVIDIA AI Technology Center, NVIDIA Corporation.   He is also an Adjunct Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Conventry University, and Universitas Indonesia (UI).  He is also an distinguish fellow in Fudan University.  Previously Professor See is also the Chief Scientific Computing Advisor for BGI (China) and has a position in Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and King-Mong Kung University of Technology (Thailand).  Professor See is currently involved in a number of International computational,  mathematical science  projects and  national AI initiatives.   Recently Professor  Simon has been appointed as the Executive Director of the ASEAN Applied Research Centre (AARC).   His research interests are in the area of High-Performance Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computational Science,  Applied Mathematics and Simulation Methodology.    Professor See is also leading some of the AI initiatives in Asia Pacific. He is a Steering Committee member of NSCC’s flagship High Performance Computing Conference Supercomputing Asia (SCA) since March 2018. He has published over 200 papers in these areas and has won various awards in the field.

Professor See is a Fellow member of IET, Chairman of TaskForce of IEEE’s CIS Neural Networks Technical Committee, a member of SIAM, IET, AAAI, SCS, and also on the Advisory Team of AIP (AI Professional Association), International Advisory Board of Institute of Operations Research & Analytics (IORA), Advisory Team of Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics Research Centre (MIDARC), School of Computing Sciences (India) and Board of Studies, MS Tech Programs of Mahindra University, Editorial Board Member of Journal of Computational and Cognitive Engineering (JCCE), and the committee member of more than 50 conferences.

Professor See graduated from the University of Salford (UK) with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and numerical analysis in 1993.   Prior to joining NVIDIA, Professor See worked for SGI, DSO National Lab. of Singapore, IBM, International Simulation Ltd (UK), Sun Microsystems and Oracle.  He is also providing consultancy to a number of national research and supercomputing centers.

Dave is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur whose work emphasizes the role of machine learning and AI, especially with respect to time-series data, search and optimization in program space, and decision making under uncertainty. He is Chief Science Officer at X and runs a team of mathematicians and machine learning experts working on early stage projects. He co-founded several companies, including Cerebellum Capital, which was an asset management company powered by an auto-ML system that discovered trading strategies. He also invested in and advised a number of startups in the data science and wearables space. He previously worked at Bodymedia, where he ran the machine learning team and several advanced development projects. Over the years, he’s helped start a number of other businesses. Personally, he’s a husband, father, snowboarder, passionate player of soccer and bridge, a puzzle nerd, a burner, and a travel-lover. He runs robot & programming clubs for his two kids to help them & friends get a deeper tech education. He got started down his path at Stanford University (1994: BS Symbolic Systems, BA Psychology) and completed his official education at UC Berkeley (2003: PhD EECS with a focus on Artificial Intelligence). He feels very lucky to have been interested in AI & ML well before it was cool.

Divya Chander, MD, PhD is a physician, neuroscientist, futurist, and entrepreneur. She is a practicing anesthesiologist with specializations in neurosurgery, ENT, and critical care. While on the Anesthesiology Faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine, she taught the residency neuroanesthesia curriculum for 8 years. Dr. Chander is also a data scientist with expertise in neural signal processing, and has developed algorithms to automate tracking of states of consciousness. Her research interests center around mapping consciousness (using optogenetics and EEG), how consciousness will be altered by human augmentation, and how mapping consciousness in humans may enable us to recognize it in non-human, intelligent beings (both on and off-planet, e.g. through partnerships with organizations like SETI). Dr. Chander is also Chair of Neuroscience at the Singularity Group, a Silicon Valley think tank and education institution for data and technology acceleration, applications, and ethics. She serves as medical, science, and technology advisor and board member to a number of companies in the medical, space life sciences, and neurotechnology spaces. Dr. Chander is also a passionate advocate for data and biometric rights, especially neurorights and neurosovereignty. In that capacity, she has advised global organizations and governments, and serves as medical advisor to the Extended Reality Safety Initative (XRSI.org). Dr. Chander founded Lucidify, a continuous remote brain monitoring platform, for the detection of delirium and other altered state of consciousness to support brain health. While Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Geotech Center, and now, at the Stimson Center Loomis Innovation Council, she has been collaborating with industry and governments to foster good data and technology policy choices for key stakeholders around the world in the area of data trusts, data security, public health, and pandemic resilience. Finally, Dr. Chander also contributes to space life sciences and medicine. A finalist for astronaut selection and an alumnus of the International Space University, Dr. Chander has performed remote simulations of trauma rescues, anesthesia and surgery in Mars analogue settings.  

Raul Escribano is a Senior Vice President Innovative products consulting at Mastercard. He is in charge of making available to Mastercard partners globally new offerings in areas like AI, open banking and real time payments. Before taking this role Raul focused of business development of Mastercard services in South East Asia and France.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on 10 June 2022 the appointment of Amandeep Singh Gill of India as his Envoy on Technology.  The Secretary-General wishes to extend his appreciation and gratitude to the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Ms. Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, for her dedication and commitment as Acting Envoy on Technology.

Mr. Gill is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) project, based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

A thought leader on digital technology, he brings to the position a deep knowledge of digital technologies coupled with a solid understanding of how to leverage the digital transformation responsibly and inclusively for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Previously, he was the Executive Director and Co-Lead of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation (2018-2019).  In addition to delivering the report of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, Mr. Gill helped secure high-impact international consensus recommendations on regulating Artificial Intelligence (Al) in lethal autonomous weapon systems in 2017 and 2018, the draft Al ethics recommendation of UNESCO in 2020, and a new international platform on digital health and Al.

Mr. Gill was India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (2016-2018).  He joined his country’s Diplomatic Service in 1992 and served in various capacities in disarmament and strategic technologies and international security affairs, with postings in Tehran and Colombo.  He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Mr. Gill holds a PhD in Nuclear Learning in Multilateral Forums from King’s College, London, a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Electrical Communications from Panjab University, Chandigarh and an Advanced Diploma in French History and Language from Geneva University.  He is fluent in English, French, Hindi and Punjabi.

JoAnn C. Stonier serves as Chief Data Officer for Mastercard, leading the organization’s data innovation efforts while navigating current and future data risks. She oversees the curation, quality, governance and management of the company’s extensive data assets. JoAnn and her team design and operationalize Mastercard’s global data strategy, guiding enterprise deployment of cutting-edge data solutions, including advanced analytics and AI, and the development of enterprise data platforms. Her leadership is integral to Mastercard’s push to deepen the strategic value it can provide its merchant, banking and government customers and cardholders through its expanding data-driven products and capabilities. JoAnn previously served as the company’s Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer, responsible for global privacy and information governance, and leading regulatory engagement for data compliance. JoAnn is a recognized and highly sought-after thought leader in emergent data and privacy issues. She has advised industry executives, governments, intergovernmental organizations and NGOs. Currently, she serves on the United Nations Expert Group on Governance and Artificial Intelligence and is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Data Policy. JoAnn also serves as a Board Advisor for Truata, a data trust co-founded by Mastercard and IBM, on the Board of Directors and Governance Committee for Hope For The Warriors, a non-profit Veteran service organization, and on the Board of Trustees and Executive & Finance Committees for Academy of Mount St. Ursula, where she attended high school in Bronx, New York. JoAnn received her Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University and her Bachelor of Science degree from St. Francis College. She holds memberships in the Bar of the State of New York and the Bar of the State of New Jersey. She is based in Purchase, N.Y

Dr. Richard Benjamins is Chief Responsible AI Officer at Telefonica and founder of its “AI for Society and Environment” area, including the ethical use of AI. Before that he was the company’s Chief AI & Data Strategist. He is among the 100 most influential people in data-driven business (DataIQ 100, 2018). He is co-founder and Vice President of the Spanish observatory for ethical and social impacts of AI (OdiseIA), board member of the environmental non-profit CDP Europe. He forms part of the advisory board of the Centre for Digital Culture at the Vatican, of MIT-Sloan’s panel on Responsible AI, and is external AI expert for the AI Observatory of the European Parliament. He is also co-chair of UNESCO’s business council for their AI recommendation, and member of GSMA’s AI for Impact taskforce. He is also active in the field of AI and the Spanish language, collaborating with the Royal Spanish Academy. He was Group Chief Data Officer at AXA (Insurance), held during 10 years executive positions at Telefonica on Big Data and Analytics, and was a member of the B2G data-sharing Expert Group of the EC. He co-founded iSOCO, an early AI startup, in 1999. Furthermore, he holds a PhD in Cognitive Science, has published over 150 scientific articles, is founding editorial board member of Springer’s AI Ethics journal, and is author of the books “The myth of the algorithm” (Spanish) and “A Data-Driven Company” (English, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese), and “The algorithm and I” (Spanish). He is a frequent speaker on Artificial Intelligence events, and a strategic advisor to several start-ups and companies

Marc Mathieu, SVP, AI Transformation & Vice-Chair, Salesforce Global Advisory Board, is a storied Business and Marketing leader known for humanizing Fortune 500 global brands as CMO at Samsung, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Danone. Marc is an industry visionary who partners with Salesforce’s C-suite Customers to implement successful digital first AI and emerging tech transformations.

Dr. Steve Chien is JPL Fellow, Senior Research Scientist, and Technical Group Supervisor of the Artificial Intelligence Group and in the Mission Planning and Execution Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology where he leads efforts in automated planning and scheduling for space exploration.  Dr. Chien was previously Adjunct Faculty with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Southern California, and a Research Scientist at the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering and a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Computer Science of the University of California at Los Angeles. He holds a B.S. with Highest Honors in Computer Science, with minors in Mathematics and Economics, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, all from the University of Illinois.

He is a founder of the International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space held every other year from 1997 onward and was the Chair or Co-chair  of numerous workshops.  He is former chair of the AIPS Executive Council (2000-2002), was a founding member of the ICAPS Executive Council (2002-2006), and was founding President of the ICAPS Executive Council 2002-2004. He was also a Councilor for the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (2003-2006)

Dr. Chien was a recipient of the 1995 Lew Allen Award for Excellence, JPLs highest award recognizing outstanding technical achievements by JPL personnel in the early years of their careers. In 1997, he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for his work in research and development of planning and scheduling systems for NASA. He is the Team Lead for the ASPEN Planning System , which received Honorable Mention in the 1999 Software of the Year Competition and was a contributor to the Remote Agent System which was a co-winner in the same 1999 competition. In 2000, he received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for service and leadership in research and deployment of planning and scheduling systems for NASA. He is the Principal Investigator for the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment which is a co-winner of the 2005 NASA Software of the Year Award. In 2007, he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for outstanding technical accomplishments in the development of the Autonomous Sciencecraft deployed on the Earth Observing One Mission and the development of the Earth Observing Sensorweb. In 2011 He was awarded the innaugural AIAA Intelligent Systems Award, for his contributions to Spacecraft Autonomy. In 2011, he was the team co-lead for the Sensorweb Toolbox team, which was awarded Honorable mention in the 2011 NASA Software of the Year Competition. In 2015 He was awarded a JPL Magellan Award as well as the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for his contributions to automated science scheduling for ESA’s Rosetta mission.

Dr. Chien has supported the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Defense Science Board, and Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.  In 2018, Dr. Chien was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Chien has presented invited seminars on planning, scheduling, and resource allocation as well as on spacecraft autonomy and autonomous systems. He has authored numerous publications. in these areas, and has served as a consultant to several multinational corporations in these areas. His current research interests lie in the areas of: planning and scheduling, machine learning, operations research, and decision theory.

Dr. Larry P. Heck is the co-director of the Artificial Intelligence Hub and Machine Learning Center, and Professor with a joint appointment in ECE and Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds the Rhesa S. Farmer Advanced Computing Concepts Chair and is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. From 2017-2021, he was the CEO of Viv Labs and SVP at Samsung where he led Bixby for North America. From 2014-2017, he was a Principal Scientist at Google, leading an advanced Dialogue effort in Google Research. From 2009-2014, he was the Chief Scientist of the Microsoft Speech products team and later a Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft Research. In 2009, he was a co-founder of Microsoft’s Cortana personal assistant. From 2005-2009, he was Vice President at Yahoo! responsible for Search and Advertising quality. From 1998-2005, he was with Nuance Communications and served as Vice President of R&D. He began his career as a researcher at the Stanford Research Institute (1992-1998) initially in acoustics and later in speech research with the Speech Technology and Research (STAR) Laboratory. Funded by the US government’s NSA and DARPA, his SRI Speaker Recognition team was the first to successfully create large-scale deep neural network (DNN) deep learning technology in the field of speech processing (1998 National Institute of Standards and Technology Speaker Recognition evaluation) and the first to deploy a major industrial application of deep learning. He received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, published numerous scientific papers and holds 50+ United States patents. He was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia Tech and received the Distinguished Engineer Award from the Texas Tech University Whitacre College of Engineering.

Parag Parekh is the Chief Digital Officer (a role he shares with Wim Blaauw) at Ingka Group. He has the responsibility for developing digital capabilities and accelerating the digital transformation of the business. Parag joined Ingka Group as Chief Technology Officer, Group Digital, in 2021 and has more than 20 years of technology experience working for global companies.

Prior to IKEA, Parag held senior roles at Adidas with responsibilities for omnichannel transformation, ecommerce, and product engineering.  He also spent several years as Senior Program Manager and as part of the leadership program at General Electric (GE).

An engineer by trade, Parag also has a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS). He is also a graduate of the Executive Development, Business Administration and Leadership program at Harvard Business School.

Born in India, Parag has worked in the US, UK, Asia, Spain, and Germany. He now lives in Sweden with his wife and two daughters. He enjoys running, listening to podcasts, and taking every opportunity to enjoy the outdoors with his family.

Angeline van Dijk is Inspector General of the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (RDI). The RDI monitors the digital infrastructure. Ranging from digital security of equipment, cyber and telecom security to the safe use of the internet and other networks. The RDI is also working on the development of cloud and Artificial Intelligence monitoring. Currently the RDI holds the presidency of the Dutch working group Supervision on Algorithms and the European working group of Competent Authorities on AI.

Meeri Haataja is the CEO and Co-Founder of Saidot, a start-up with a mission for enabling responsible AI ecosystems.

Saidot is a technology company developing a platform for systematic AI governance, transparency and communication. Meeri was the chair of the ethics working group in Finland’s national AI program that submitted its final report in March 2019. In this role, she initiated a national AI ethics challenge and engaged more than 70 organizations to commit to the ethical use of AI and define ethics principles. Meeri is also the Chair of IEEE’s initiative for the creation of AI ethics certificates in the ECPAIS program (Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems). Meeri has been an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University since 2019. During the academic year 2021-2022, her focus will be on projects related to operationalizing AI transparency, as well as the integration of AI ethics, corporate social responsibility and ESG.

Before starting her own company, Meeri led AI strategy and GDPR implementation in OP Financial Group, the largest financial services company in Finland. Meeri has a long background in analytics and AI consulting with Accenture Analytics. During her Accenture years, she has been working in driving data and analytics strategies and large AI implementation programs in media, telecommunications, high-tech and retail industries. Meeri started her career as a data scientist in telecommunications after completing her M.Sc.(Econ.) in Helsinki School of Economics. Meeri is an active advocate of responsible and human-centric AI. She’s an experienced public speaker regularly speaking in international conferences and AI opportunities and AI ethics seminars.