Mykhailo Fedorov became Vice Prime Minister, the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, on August 29, 2019. He is the youngest minister in the history of Ukrainian politics. Graduated from the Faculty of Sociology and Management of Zaporizhzhia University. 

Before working in the government, he ran a business in the digital marketing sphere. In December 2019 he was appointed as Head of the Digital for Volodymyr Zelenskyy Presidential campaign. Mykhailo Fedorov is an innovator and visioner. With the Ministry of digital transformation's team, the main goal is to make Ukraine the most convenient state in terms of receiving public services. In 2020, Diia project has been launched; which now consists of a wide ecosystem of products: Diia mobile app; Diia web portal; Diia. Digital Education, Diia. Business, Diia. City etc.

Alexandra van Huffelen is a Dutch politician serving as Minister for Digitalisation since January 2022. She previously served as State Secretary for Benefits and Customs from 2020 - 2022. A member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party, she was a member of the Senate from 2015 to 2020 and Director of the Gemeente Vervoerbedrijf (Amsterdam's public transport company) from 2014 until 2020. While serving in the Senate, she held various party positions including chair of the supervisory board for the Health and Care Sector Guarantee Fund and a member of the transport and mobility roundtable for negotiations on the National Climate Agreement

Since December 2021, Stefan Schnorr has been a permanent state secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport. He is responsible for the Cen-tral Services, Budget and Shareholdings, Digital and Data Policy as well as Digital Connectivity divisions. Stefan Schnorr is a legal professional and began his career as an administrative judge in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1994 to 2001 he worked for the Ministry of Justice of Rhineland-Palatinate in Mainz, serving as Head of Public Relations and Press Officer.

Ping Soon is Chief Executive of the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech), the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative and public sector digital transformation. Prior to his current appointment, Ping Soon held various positions in the Ministry of Manpower, National Security Co-ordination Secretariat, Ministry of Trade & Industry, Singapore Tourism Board, Contact Singapore (CS) and Economic Development Board (EDB).  He serves on the Board of Info-comm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA), Institute of System Sciences (ISS) and is a member of the National Institute of Education (NIE) Council.  

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Liesbeth Holterman is strategic advisor at Cyberveilig Nederland, the association of cybersecurity companies in the Netherlands. In her role, she is actively committed to increasing the digital resilience of the Netherlands through public-private partnerships. She also works for one of the ministries and for Novel-T, a foundation that helps SME organizations in the east of the Netherlands with innovation and digitization issues. Liesbeth has been working in the field of cybersecurity for several years now. She entered the field from her position within the Dutch government when she was involved in national security.

Constantijn van Oranje leads Techleap.nl, the accelerator for the Tech-ecosystem in the Netherlands. He and his team connect the Dutch Tech-ecosystem to help ambitious and promising Dutch Tech companies grow fast internationally by improving their access to capital, market, talent and technologies.

Aline Muylaert is an impact entrepreneur and the Co-Founder & COO at CitizenLab, a digital community engagement platform that enables governments to be more inclusive, participatory, and data-driven in their decision-making. CitizenLab is used by 300+ local governments and organizations worldwide, including the cities of Seattle, Vienna, and London. Aline has a passion for urban planning and realizing projects that have a direct, positive impact on society. She has been recognized as Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe leader and is a Fellow at her alma mater Vrije Universiteit Brussels.

Since April 2022, Pedro Tavares is the Portuguese State Secretary for Justice. Previously, he worked as General Coordinator at eBUPi - Simplified Land Digital Registry Mission Unit, the Portuguese public agency responsible for the expansion of a new cadaster and registry initiative using a digital approach (Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Environment).

From 2015 to 2020 he was a Senior Advisor at the cabinets of the Minister of Justice and of the State Secretary for Justice, where he managed different innovation and transformative projects and policies, including a Justice Innovation Lab, transparency and participation projects, or new digital Citizen-centric services. He acted as the Ministry’s contact point for the OECD report on Justice Innovation in Portugal and for several international projects with the European Commission.

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Irakli Beridze is the Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at UNICRI, United Nations​. More than 20 years of experience in leading multilateral negotiations, developing stakeholder engagement programmes with governments, UN agencies, international organisations, private industry and corporations, think tanks, civil society, foundations, academia, and other partners on an international level. Mr Beridze is advising governments and international organizations on numerous issues related to international security, scientific and technological developments, emerging technologies, innovation and disruptive potential of new technologies, particularly on the issue on crime prevention, criminal justice and security.

Dr. Saemundur “Sam” Oddsson is Sidekick’s Co-founder & Chief Clinical Officer. Sam leads the medical research and development at Sidekick Health, a leading digital therapeutics company specializing in multi-chronic condition treatment. For almost a decade, Sam practiced internal medicine for several years at Northern Europe’s largest teaching hospital, Sweden’s Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and is a leading expert in lifestyle disease and prevention. He is also an accomplished researcher and author of several peer-reviewed articles in the areas of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and lung disease.

Dr Jumoke Oduwole is Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on Ease of Doing Business. She is also Secretary to the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), chaired by the Vice President of Nigeria, where policies aimed at supporting small and medium-sized enterprises are facilitated through collaboration with stakeholders across all arms and levels of government and the private sector. Prior to her appointment into the public service, Jumoke taught international economic law at the University of Lagos, and has worked in investment banking and the non-governmental space in Nigeria. From 2013 to 2015, Professor Oduwole was holder of the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.

Gina is the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) at the MoJ. She is responsible for supporting the 82,000 staff working in courts, prisons, probation services and across other smaller agencies by providing simple, intuitive technology solutions and automating basic tasks; building and running digital services that make it easier for the public to get access to justice; and driving user centred service design and transformation. Gina started her working life as a software developer and has had a long and varied career in technology working in programme delivery, operational and commercial roles.

Jan van Zanen was born in 1961 and spent his childhood in Edam-Volendam. After grammar school, he completed his law studies in 1985 at the Free University in Amsterdam and at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York, USA. He then went to work as a board and executive secretary at a national association of entrepreneurs. Van Zanen was a councilor in Utrecht from 1990, after which he became alderman for finance, economic affairs, public space and monuments in 1998.

Nitesh Bharosa is Professor of GovTech and Public Service Innovation at Delft University of Technology. He is also the academic director of Digicampus – a multiple helix innovation ecosystem for future public services. At Digicampus, public agencies, GovTech providers, knowledge institutes and citizen groups co-create human-centred public services employing state of the art digital technologies (www.digicampus.tech). This is done by shaping mission driven innovation coalitions, for example on strengthening citizen’s autonomy online and making public service more proactive. By bridging theory and practise, Nitesh aims to shorten the loop from science to societal impact.

Greg Mounier (PhD) is the Head of the Europol Innovation Lab. The mission of the Innovation Lab is to help the European law enforcement community to make the most of emerging technologies by exploring and developing innovative solutions to improve the ways in which they investigate, track and disrupt terrorist and criminal organizations and keep European citizens safe. The Lab leads several research projects, carries out foresight activities and coordinates the development of investigative tools with national law enforcement agencies. The Lab also hosts the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security.

Paula Gori is the Secretary-General and Coordinator of EDMO. She joined the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in 2017 where she is a member of the management team. Prior she was the Coordinator of the Florence School of Regulation – Communications and Media, which offers training, policy and research activities on electronic communications regulation and competition and she collaborated with the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, which she coordinated during the initial set-up phase back in 2012.

André Rogaczewski is co-founder of Netcompany in 2000 and CEO. He has overseen its evolution into one of Europe’s fastest growing and most successful IT services companies, with a global headcount of +6,500 employees across +10 countries. With his technical background, a master's degree in computer science from Aalborg University and a true vision for societies digital future, he has led the company through a tremendous growth journey. From 2015 he has been a key figure in delivering digital recommendations for Denmark to the Danish Government as a leading member of the Danish Disruption Council and the Confederation of Danish Industries (DI), and as chairman of its Digital Federation (DI Digital) amongst others.

Over 14 years of experience in Business Development with a focus on generating new revenue streams, creating new business models and leveraging new technology. Experienced leader for over 10 years with skills and vision to transform digital disruptions into the source of some of my firm’s greatest opportunities. Proven track record in accelerating growth of business with the development and implementation of an ecosystem strategy by developing strategic partnerships, working with start-ups and scale-up and establishing innovation networks. Experienced in cross-functional team leadership with a focus on growth and development. Understand how to run  a partner networks and working collaboratively with talents that can produces the most innovative solutions and the best results. International experience in business Diplomacy ,standardization and Asset Management (AM) by leading international committee with over 25 countries to contribute to international AM standards. 

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