Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard

Tech Ambassador

Office of Denmark’s Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard is Denmark’s Tech Ambassador. She is responsible for representing the Danish government to the global tech industry and leading Danish efforts in global technology governance. She and her team have a global mandate and physical presence in Silicon Valley, Copenhagen and Beijing, transcending borders in rethinking the traditional understanding of diplomatic representation.

Dr. Peter Ptassek

Director for Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy

German Federal Foreign Office

Dr. Peter Ptassek is the Director for Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy at the German Federal Foreign Office. Prior to this, he served in different capacities including as the German Ambassador to Colombia, Director for EU Basic Issues and Deputy Head of the Federal Foreign Office’s European Directorate General.

Jennifer Baker

Event Moderator

Jennifer Baker, better known as Brusselsgeek has been a journalist in print, radio and television for 20 years, specialising in EU policy for over 10. She has worked across a wide range of media and has experience in navigating the political quagmire of the EU. She regularly features as an EU expert on BBC radio, Euronews, SkyNews and others, and hosts Brussels’ weekly roundup show TOTW for Euractiv.

Dr. Renana Keydar

Senior Lecturer of Law and Digital Humanities

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Renana Keydar is a Senior Lecturer of Law and Digital Humanities, Academic Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at the Hebrew University and Head of the Alfred Landecker Lab for the Computational Analysis of Holocaust Testimonies. Her research is focused on the analysis of legal and personal narratives of mass atrocity and systematic human rights violations using advanced computational text analysis techniques in DH and NLP.

Pegah Maham

Project Director Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung

Pegah Maham is the Project Director of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung. Her interest lies in the measurement and forecasting of progress in AI, its risks, and governance. Together with the VDE, she is currently working on AI trust labels on fairness and robustness. She is the co-founder of the European Policy Data Science Network which connects data scientists in NGOs, think tanks, public policy and administration.

Mutale Nkonde

CEO and Founder

AI for the People

Mutale Nkonde is an AI Policy Advisor, CEO and Founder of AI for the People. She is also a policy fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and completing an MA in American Studies at Columbia University where her research focuses on the ethical use of AI. AI for the People is currently working on the UN’s Business and Technology Project on their technology and gender and Generative AI workflows.

Luísa Franco Machado

Data Economy/AI Ethics Advisor

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Luísa Franco Machado is a Data Economy/AI Ethics Advisor at GIZ. She is an award-winning international activist for digital rights and data justice and a technical advisor in feminist data economy for international organisations worldwide. Her policy research focuses on technology, feminism and socio-economic development. By sharing her research findings in an accessible language on social media, she has reached more than 10 million people.

Prof. Joanna Bryson

Professor of Ethics and Technology

Hertie School

Prof. Joanna Bryson is a professor of Ethics and Technology at the Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School. Her career spans over two decades with broad expertise in AI ethics and policy. Her current focus is on the impacts of communication and computation technology on human societies and new models of governance for AI and digital technology.

Craig Matasick

Information Integrity Team Lead – Public Sector Integrity Division

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Craig Matasick is the Information Integrity Team Lead in the Public Sector Integrity Division at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He is responsible for coordinating the OECD DIS/MIS Resource Hub by identifying and helping governments implement policy and regulatory responses to disinformation and reinforcing information integrity.

Odanga Madung

Senior Researcher for Elections and Platform Integrity

Mozilla Foundation

Odanga Madung is the Senior Researcher for Elections and Platform integrity at the Mozilla Foundation and a data journalist based out of Nairobi. His recent work centers on disinformation for hire, hate speech, and content moderation, revealing the harm caused to ‘rest of the world countries’ by technology giants’ negligence and centralization.

Richard Mathenge

Administrator

African Content Moderators Union

Richard Mathenge is the ChatGPT Team Lead and Content Moderator at Sama AI, Kenya. He is an active unionist in content moderation work involved heavily in sensitizing current and prospective content moderators around Africa of their rights in as far as content moderation is concerned.

Kate Brightwell

Head of Strategy & Engagement, Content Authenticity Initiative EMEA

Adobe

Kate Brightwell is the Head of Strategy & Engagement, Content Authenticity Initiative EMEA at Adobe. Her work involves driving a community of media and tech companies, NGOs, academics, and others working to promote the adoption of an open industry standard for content authenticity and provenance.

Claire Leibowicz

Head of AI and Media Integrity

Partnership on AI (PAI)

Claire Leibowicz is the Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at the Partnership on AI (PAI). The AI and Media Integrity team works on projects at the intersection of AI, information integrity, and public discourse. Her current work centers on synthetic and manipulated content, methods for conveying disinformation to online audiences, and content targeting and ranking systems.

Alberto Rabbachin

Deputy Head of Unit

European Commission.

Alberto Rabbachin is the Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission. He deals with the European Commission policy to tackle disinformation particularly with the Code of Practice on Disinformation. Previously, he was with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.

Katarína Klingová

Senior Research Fellow

GLOBSEC Policy Institute

Katarína Klingová is a Senior Research Fellow at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute. As a member of GLOBSEC’s Centre for Democracy & Resilience, she analyses disinformation and influences operations in the Central Europe region. She has also authored and co-authored analyses on the impact of information operations and social media on a democratic society and elections, building societal resilience against hybrid threats and strategic communication.

Jakub Rybnikár

Analyst and DSA Officer

Council for Media Services

Jakub Rybnikár is an Analyst and Research Officer at the Council for Media Services, the Slovak media authority . Previously, he worked at an EDMO hub and EU-advocacy group. Jakub is also a co-author of several publications on online harms and platform regulation. His work focuses on the nexus between digital media, democracy and security