Cédric Villani, french mathematician, Professor at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, very much involved in scientific culture, scientific advice to society at large, public debate. Lecturer on sciences, technology, ecology. Member of the French Academy of Sciences and Pontifical Academy of Sciences, former scientific advisor of the European Commission, former Member of Parliament - President of the Scientific Parliamentary Office, former Director of Institut Henri Poincaré and founder of the Poincaré Museum of mathematics in Paris. Author of the report which defined France's first national strategy in artificial intelligence, 2018-2023. Currently president of the Association Josette et Maurice Audin, and of the Fondation de l'écologie politique. Administrator of HeadMind Partners.

Amanda’s 25 years’ legal experience includes being instrumental in shaping open source’s legal frameworks and internet law in 2000’s. Sought-after international keynote speaker, tech press contributor and editor “Open Source: Law, Policy and Practice” (2022).
Recognition: Computer Weekly 50 Most Influential Women (2023, 2024) listed as #20 in 2024; Computing IT Leaders 100 (2023, 2024); Lifetime Achievement WIPL (2022); Women Who Will (2023); INvolve Heroes (2022, 2023); Novi Awards (2024).
Advisory: Boards -UK Open Standards Board; UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure; UKRI Exascale; KDE; Mimoto; Scarf; FerretDB and Space Aye; Fellow, Open Forum Academy; Distinguished Fellow, Rust Foundation; European Representative, OIN; Ambassador, Open Charge Alliance.

Jamal ATIF is a distinguished professor of computer science at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL, where he also serves as Vice-President. He is the Associate Director of the Parisian AI Institute PRAIRIE - Paris School of AI, and Scientific Director of the nation-wide AI program (PEPR IA). From 2016 to 2023, he was the Scientific Advisor on AI at the CNRS. His current research centers on the foundations of trustworthy machine learning, including robustness against adversarial attacks, fairness, privacy-preserving models, and more recently, performative prediction. He has supervised over 15 PhD students and has published more than 120 papers in top-tier AI/ML venues, including NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS and Artificial Intelligence Journal. Along with his students and collaborators, he has received several awards for his research, most recently the Best Paper Award at AAAI 2022 for his work on fairness in machine learning. Earlier in his career, he also received two awards from the Radiological Society of North America for his contributions to medical imaging in the mid-2000s

Albert Cañigueral is a Spanish multimedia engineer, consultant and lecturer specialising in the impact of technology on society. In 2011 he founded the ConsumoColaborativo website, which has become a Spanish-language reference on the collaborative economy, and was the connector for Spain and Latin America for the OuiShare network. Author of the book ‘El trabajo ya no es lo que era’, he explores new forms of work and emerging economic models.
Albert Cañigueral currently works at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) as Strategy Manager for Artificial Intelligence and Society, where he analyses the interactions between AI and social dynamics.

Gilles is an engineering graduate who started his career as an IT Consultant in the pharmaceutical industry before transitioning to business positions addressing digital transformation and cloud computing.
Recognizing the power of partnerships, Gilles focused on partner-centric roles thereafter, working with managed service providers and cloud providers.
Currently, Gilles leads OVHcloud's ecosystem of AI players, driving new member acquisition, integrating them into Sales Plays, and promoting successes while advocating for Digital Sovereignty & Sustainability.
Ovhcloud’s ecosystem includes Global System Integrators, Software Vendors, startups, and more, all contributing to our collective success.

Sam Johnston is an Australian technology executive and serial entrepreneur with over 20 years' experience in global technology companies such as Google, Equinix, Citrix and DXC Technology.
Specialising in emerging technologies including cloud computing and artificial intelligence, he has founded and advised a number of innovative start-ups.
In addition to his professional activities, he shares his knowledge and expertise through articles and conferences, actively contributing to the evolution of the technology sector.