Angela Jiang is a product manager at OpenAI working on making GPT models available, useful, and safe. She is a product manager for GPT-4, focusing on model improvements and partnerships. Prior to OpenAI, she was a product manager at Determined AI, building deep learning training software, and graduated with a PhD in machine learning systems at Carnegie Mellon University.

Angela Oduor Lungati is a seasoned technologist, community builder and advocate of open-source software, driven by a profound commitment to leveraging technology for marginalized communities. With over a decade of experience in software development, global community engagement and non-profit organizational management, Lungati is Executive Director of Ushahidi, a leading Africa-led, non-profit technology company. Under her leadership, Ushahidi has undergone a strategic transformation, breaking down barriers to access and enhancing the platform's utilization, notably in the global COVID-19 response across 140 countries. Lungati’s influence extends to her role on the Board of Directors for Creative Commons and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. She is also Co-Founder of AkiraChix, a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of women using technology to drive innovations and solutions for Africa. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Data Equity. Lungati’s multifaceted expertise and impactful initiatives position her as a trailblazer in the intersection of technology, community development and social impact.

Audrey Tang is a Taiwanese politician and free software programmer who has served as the 1st Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from August 2022 to May 2024. She is known for her transformative work in digital governance and civic technology. Tang has spearheaded initiatives to enhance government transparency, open data accessibility, and public engagement through digital platforms. She has been instrumental in implementing innovative solutions such as vTaiwan and the Join platform.

Camille François works on cyber conflict and digital rights online. She is Chair of the Advisory Board and former Chief Innovation Officer at Graphika, where she led the company’s work to detect and mitigate disinformation, media manipulation and harassment. Camille was also previously the Principal Researcher at Jigsaw, an innovation unit at Google that builds technology to address global security challenges and protect vulnerable users. Camille has advised governments and parliamentary committees on both sides of the Atlantic on policy issues related to cybersecurity and digital rights. She served as a special advisor to the Chief Technology Officer of France in the Prime Minister's office, working on France’s first Open Government roadmap. Camille is a Mozilla Fellow, a Berkman-Klein Center affiliate, and a Fulbright scholar. She holds a masters degree in human rights from the French Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences-Po) and a masters degree in international security from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. François’ work has been featured in various publications, including the New York Times, WIRED, Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Globo, and Le Monde.

Project Director at the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio) and Affiliated with Berkman Klein Center at Harvard. Celina has a Master’s Degree in Human Rights from Harvard University and Undergraduate Degree in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio). She is an expert on human rights and technology. She was a researcher at the Human Rights Watch in New York and a Supervisor at the Human Rights Clinic in Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV Rio). Celina was a consultant for the Harvard Human Rights Clinic and a researcher at ISER.

Chenai Chair is a digital policy and gender expert, whose work focuses on how technologies can be inclusive. Chenai looks at how technology affects women and gender diverse people, while developing interventions through grant-making and fellowships to support leadership growth and sustainability of feminist movements on the African continent.

At Mozilla, Chenai leads the Africa innovation program and its impact on social and economic growth, as well as digital rights from a feminist perspective. She is also the founder of My Data Rights Africa, a resource database created to respond to data and digital technologies from an African Feminist perspective. She draws on Feminist principles to advocate for women’s rights online, digital identity, online gender-based violence, and data and AI projects.

Damián Blasi’s research focuses on understanding the relation between human cognition and linguistic diversity, from the beginning of the Holocene until today and further into the future. He is na ICREA Research Professor, an associate professor at the Center for Brain & Cognition at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and a Branco Weiss Fellow. In addition, he is also an external researcher at the Human Relations Area Files (Yale) and an associate of the Culture, Cognition, Coevolution Lab based at the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He serves as an ad hoc expert on linguistic diversity for UNESCO.

David Li has been contributing to open source software since 1990. He is member of Free Software Foundation, committer to Apache projects and board director of ObjectWeb. In 2010, he co-founded XinCheJian, the first hackerspace in China to promote hacker/maker culture and open source hardware. In 2011, he co-founded Hacked Matter, a research hub on maker movement and open innovation. In 2015, he co-founded Maker Collider, a platform to develop next generation IoT from the Maker community. He is also the executive director of Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab which facilitate the collaboration between global smart hardware entrepreneurs and Shenzhen Open Innovation ecosystem

Divya Siddarth is the executive director and co-founder of the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP), advancing collective intelligence for transformative technology governance. At Microsoft, she builds technological systems and envisions pluralistic worlds with Verses. She also scaffolds new political economies with Metagov, RadicalXChange, and the Ostrom Workshop. Previously, Divya was a political economist and social technologist at Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, AI and Democracy lead at the U.K.’s AI Safety Institute, and held roles at the Ethics in AI Institute at Oxford, the Ostrom Workshop, and Harvard Safra Center. She graduated from Stanford in 2018 with a B.S. in Computational Decision Analysis.

Erik Charas is the Founder and Managing Director of Charas, LDA, a private sector company investing in and driving the growth of entrepreneurship in Mozambique. He is Vice-President of the Public Services Policy for Private Sector Committee at the Confederation of Mozambican Business Associations and one of three members of the Steering Committee of the British Council Management Express (MEX) programme in Mozambique. Charas was named MSN Hero of Africa 2005 and Archbishop Tutu African Leadership Initiative Fellow 2007. Charas chairs several boards of companies and non-profits based in Mozambique. He is also an invited lecturer at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique's only public university. Charas has a degree in Engineering from the University of Cape Town and over 10 years experience in the private and public sectors in Southern Africa.

Gabriele Mazzini is one of the architect and lead author of the proposal on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) by the European Commission, where he has focused on the legal and policy questions raised by new technologies since August 2017. Between 2009 and 2017 Gabriele studied and worked in the United States. He was Associate General Counsel at the Millennium Villages Project, an international development initiative across several sub-Saharan countries founded and directed by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, and collaborated with early stage start-ups in the field of emergency communications and smart energy solutions. As an EU official, he also served in the European Parliament, Legal Service and the Court of Justice. He holds a LLM from Harvard Law School, a PhD in Italian and Comparative Criminal Law from the University of Pavia and a Law Degree from the Catholic University in Milan.

Hub Zwart, Dean of ESPhil since 2018, studied philosophy and psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen. He served as research director of the Centre for Ethics and later as Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Science. He directs the Centre for Society and Genomics and edits the Library for Ethics and Applied Philosophy and the Life Sciences, Society and Policy Journal. His research focuses on ethical issues in life sciences, including genomics, synthetic biology, and research integrity.

John Tasioulas is Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy and the inaugural Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Balliol College Oxford. He studied law and philosophy at the University of Melbourne and completed his doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. He was previously Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Law at King’s College London, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow.

Head researcher for the Law and Technology team at Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio), where he leads the Content Moderation and Digital Constitutionalism Lab (ModeraLab). Law Professor at FAE Law School, teaching courses on social media law, comparative constitutional design and AI regulation. João holds a Master's Degree in Comparative Constitutional Law from Harvard Law School, where he was awarded the Gammon Fellowship for academic achievement, and a Bachelor's in Law from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), from where he also holds a Master’s degree for writing a dissertation on digital constitutionalism and platform regulation.

Karina Santos holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication – Public Relations from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), a master’s degree in Political Communication from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), and is pursuing a graduate degree in Digital Law (UERJ – ITS). She is a researcher with a focus on disinformation, electoral campaigns, and digital democracy. She leads projects on civic technologies like Pegabot and Amazonometer and has experience in the digital communication industry.. Currently, she is the Head of Media and Democracy at ITS.

Leonardo Barbosa is a legal expert and a prominent figure in Brazil’s legislative and political landscape. He currently serves as the Director of Governmental and Institutional Relations at the National Confederation for Financial Institutions (CNF) in Brazil, where he plays a critical role in shaping legislative policies related to the sector and providing strategic direction to the Confederation. Barbosa’s career is marked by a profound commitment to legal scholarship and public service. He was a legislative attorney at the Brazilian lower House of Congress for over twenty years, having served as the Secretary-General of the House from 2018 to 2021. During this time, he led the response to the COVID-19 pandemic by implementing the remote deliberation system that allowed the House to perform its duties when social distancing was critical. He has also been a professor in the Masters Program in Legislative Studies, hosted by the Brazilian Congress, since 2013, and served as the Executive Director of the Brazilian Senate’s School of Government from 2021 to 2023. He has extensive experience in legislative processes, public administration, and deliberative politics, making him a valuable advisor and strategist in the legislative arena.

Nathaniel is Geneva Global’s Vice President & Managing Director, which is a philanthropy advisor. Nathaniel oversees all of the firm’s client-facing work and deliverables as well as its external communications. Those services range from supporting philanthropists as they identify priority areas for investment; developing operational strategies to execute high-impact philanthropic programs; running programs in high-need geographies; and distilling successes, failures, and insights to inform future philanthropic giving. He also serves as president of Capital for Good (a Global Impact Venture) and is responsible for nonprofit fundraising and advisory support services at Global Impact.

Nele Leosk is the Ambassador-at-Large for Digital Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia, being responsible for the development and coordination of Estonia's digital diplomacy and global partnerships in a digital domain. Over the past twenty years, she has advised political and public sector leaders in digital governance and digital economy in more than forty countries in Central and Eastern Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa. Apart from government work, she has experienced the life of private sector, international and inter-governmental organizations such as the UNDP, UNU, OECD as well as academia. As a promoter of free and inclusive digital society, she acts as the chair of Digital Cooperation and Digital Diplomacy network, lead for GovStack Initiative in Estonia; she is the member of the Open Government Partnership Initiative's support group and active in several networks on women in tech. She also mentors female digital leaders. Nele holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute and lectures on technology policy, digital foreign policy and legal aspects of information society.

Ronaldo Lemos is a lawyer specializing in technology, intellectual property, media and public policy. He is the founder of the Institute of Technology and Society, a leading research center in Brazil. He was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford, Princeton, the MIT Media Lab and a Visiting Professor at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He co-created Brazil’s Internet Bill of Rights Law (2014) and Brazil’s National IoT Plan (2018), and served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation, Access Now and other non-profit organizations. Previously, Lemos was Vice-President of the Social Communication Council in the National Congress in Brazil. He writes weekly about law and technology for Folha de S. Paulo, one of Brazil’s most widely read newspapers.

Tiago C. Peixoto is a prominent Brazilian political scientist and specialist in digital democracy, currently serving as a senior public sector specialist at the World Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the European University Institute and has been instrumental in integrating technology into public participation processes. His work focuses on the development and implementation of participatory budgeting, crowdsourcing, and other forms of citizen engagement to improve governance and accountability. Peixoto has been recognized globally for his contributions, frequently speaking at international conferences and authoring numerous publications on the impact of digital tools on democratic practices

Yuk Hui is a philosopher and author whose work primarily explores the intersections of technology, culture, and philosophy. He is ​​Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he holds the Chair of Human Conditions. Educated in Computer Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, Hui furthered his studies in Philosophy and Media Theory in London and Leipzig. He is a tenured researcher at the Digital Cultures and Societies Hub at the University of Hong Kong and has authored significant works including “On the Existence of Digital Objects” and “The Question Concerning Technology in China.” Hui's research delves into the philosophical implications of technology, particularly focusing on how digital objects and technological advancements shape and are shaped by cultural and philosophical contexts. His contributions have earned him recognition and influence in contemporary philosophical and technological discourse.