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Nicolas Longepe

European Space Agency (ESA)

Geospatial Information Officer

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

5G/6G research engineer

Mérouane Debbah

Director of the 6G Center

Khalifa University of Science and Technology

Deputy chief engineer

Mobile Communication Innovation Center (CAICT)

Managing Director

Professor of Complex and Intelligent Systems

University of Queensland

Professor and Director of the Interpretable Machine Learning Lab

Duke University

Khan Professor of Applied Health Sciences

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

József Váncza

Head of the Laboratory for Engineering and Business Intelligence

HUN-REN Research Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI)

Associate Professor

Dalhousie University

Milena Costas Trascasas

Member of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee

Professor and Director of the Interaction, Discovery, Exploration, Adaptation Laboratory (IDEA)

University of Oklahoma

Associate Professor

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

David Reinkensmeyer

University of California

Marlene Kretschmer

Junior Professor

Leipzig Institute for Meteorology

Research Scientist

Google Research

Postdoctoral researcher, Gentine Lab

Columbia University

Moojan Ghafurian

Assistant Professor

University of Waterloo

Micaelah Morrill

Vice President of Business Development

University of Minnesota Duluth

Postdoctoral Associate

Cornell University

Assistant Professor

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Programme Officer

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

CEO and Co-founder

Katerina Fragkiadaki

Assistant Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

Associate Professor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Alexander Brenning

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Alexandros Karargyris

Co-Chair for Medical working group

Executive Director, Founder, Board Member

Olivier Lambercy

Adjunct Professor and co-Director

Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zurich

Assistant Professor

Princeton University

Russian National Academy of Sciences

Full professor and doctoral supervisor

University of São Paulo

Rungtiwa Phookamsak

Associate Professor

Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dmitry Mikhaylov

Senior Researcher

Lebedev Institute of Physics

Principal Scientist

World Agroforestry Centre

Professor, Head of the Computer Vision Group

University of Bonn

Björn Lütjens

PhD Candidate / Research Assistant

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

David C. Schedl

University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg

Alexandre d’Aspremont

Research Director, Co-founder

CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) & Kayrros

Associate Professor

University of Toronto

Associate Professor

Medical University of Vienna

Hannah Druckenmiller

Assistant Professor

California Institute of Technology

Safety Subject Matter Expert

Daniel Raj David

Detect Technologies

Thomas R. Kurfess

Chief Manufacturing Officer

Georgia Institute of Technology

University of Auckland

Ricardo Chavarriaga

Group Leader Responsible AI Innovation

Zürich University of Applied Sciences

Karen A. Panetta

Dean for Graduate Education

Tufts University School of Engineering

FARI – AI for the Common Good Institute

Richard Bomphrey

Royal Veterinary College, London

Alexandre Chiavegatto Filho

Universidade de São Paulo

Head of Secretariat, Focus Group on AI for Health

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Karen Herrera Ferrá

Mexican Association of Neuroethics

Conservation Science Analyst

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Head of the Data & AI-driven Medicine Department & Lecturer

Clalit Health Services, Ben Gurion University

Shinshu University

Theodore S. Rappaport

New York University

Junichi Kawasaki

Senior Project Manager

KDDI Research, Inc.

Yusuke Shinohara

Lead Research Engineer

Digital Innovation consultant

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Senior Research Scientist

Google DeepMind

Daniel Mankowitz

Staff Research Scientist

Google DeepMind

General Partner

Assistant Professor

Harvard University

H.E. Mrs. Désirée SCHWEITZER

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative

Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations Office and specialized institutions in Geneva

Mrs. Kristine Leilani R. SALLE

Minister, Deputy Permanent Representative and Chargé d'affaires a.i.

Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Mr. Sergey Vasiliev

Deputy Permanent Representative

Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Mrs. Rina Hanis RODZLI

Deputy Permanent Representative and Chargé d'affaires a.i.

Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Ricardo Baptista Leite

I-DAIR International Digital Health & AI Research

Manager, ICT sub-division

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Digital Global Public Health

Technical Officer

World Health Organization (WHO)

Fidelis Ikechukwu Onah

André Rabello Dos Anjos

Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Medical Imaging & Health Data Analysis, Reproducibility, Ph.D.

iDiap Research Institute, Switzerland

Mariam Nouh, Ph.D.

VP Future Economies Sector, Cyber Security Researcher & Consultant

World Bank Group

Msgr. John David PUTZER

First Secretary Chargé d'affaires a.i

Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Hovig Etyemezian

Head of UNHCR Innovation Service

Irmgard Nübler

Senior Economist

Interrnational Labour Organization Research Department

Deputy Director, National AI Initiative Office

Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, Cyber & Emerging Tech at National Security Council

Global Head of Communications

Nicholas Thompson

Frank de Morsier

José M. Tárraga

Image Processing Lab

Universitat de València

Maria Teresa Miranda Espinosa

Information coordinator

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IMDC)

Christian Requena Mesa

Deepcube project

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Doctoral Researcher

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Senior Research Scientist

Pierre-Philippe Mathieu

ESA Implementation Manager

European Space Agency (ESA)

Big Data and Deep Learning Researcher

Assistant Director General, Global Challenges and Partnerships Sector

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Chief of Data, Analytics and Statistics Section

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General

World Health Organization (WHO)

Geneva Office UNFPA

Thomas Schneider

Ambassador and Director of International Affairs

Swiss Federal Office of Communications

Chief of Information Technologies

Stanford University

Tomas Lamanauskas

Deputy Secretary-General

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

UN Coordination Officer, Priority Africa and External Relations Sector

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Nicola Piovesan

Senior Researcher

Richard Baldwin

Geneva Graduate Institute

Klauschen Frederick

Charité - Berlin University of Medicine

Makerere University

Darlington Akogo

Founder and CEO

minoHealth AI Labs

Data Scientist and Project Lead

Robert Koch Institute

Senior Scientist

University of Helsinki

Falk Schwendicke

Charité Berlin

Martin Cansdale

Chief Scientist (VP of AI)

Regulatory Head of Global Software Standards

Senior research fellow

University of Oxford

Laboratoire de Recherche en Neuroimagerie (LREN)

Shada Alsalamah

Technical Officer

World Health Organization (WHO)

Independent Consultant

World Health Organization (WHO)

Generation Connect Visionaries Board Member, Futurist and Founder of Waye

Albert Cabellos

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Charlene-Elise Anderson

Leader - Intergovernmental Organisations and United Nations

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

President and CEO

Thomas Sobottka

Senior researcher

Technische Universität Wien

Philantropist & Author

UK Safer Internet Centres

Research Affiliate

Berkman Kleine Centre, Harvard University

Cherry Murillon

Founder and CEO

Cawil.AI Solutions

Pamela Coke-Hamilton

Executive Director

International Trade Centre (ITC)

Mechanical Engineer and Senior Specialist

Jennifer Gutierrez Yañez

Generation Connect Americas Youth Envoy

Generation Connect Africa Youth Envoy

University of California, Irvine

Ashraf ABUSHADY

Senior Advisor for Digital Transformation and AI

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Martin Wählisch

Team Leader, Policy and Mediation Division

United Nations Department of Political Affairs (UNDPPA)

Deputy Executive Secretary

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA)

Balthasar Staehelin

Special Envoy for Foresight and Techplomacy of the Executive Office of the Director General

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Serge Stinckwich

Head of Research

United Nations University

AI and Digital Innovation Lead

Fondation Botnar

H.E. Ms. Eunice M.Tembo LUAMBIA

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative

Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zambia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

H.E. Mrs. Hend Abdalrahman AL-MUFTAH

Permanent Representative

Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Ana Luisa Trejos

Associate Professor

Western University

Chief Operating Officer

Johannes Schaeferhoff

Takanori Shibata

Chief Senior Research Scientist

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

H.E. Mr. Andranik HOVHANNISYAN

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative

Permanent Mission of the Republic of Armenia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Juan Lavista Ferres

Corporate Vice President & Chief Data Scientist

Microsoft AI for Good Lab

H.E. Mr. HONSEI KOZO

Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative

Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

H.E. Ms. Francisca E. MÉNDEZ ESCOBAR

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative

Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Dejan Jakovljevic

CIO and Director, Digitalization and Informatics Division

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Federal University of Technology Minna Nigeria

Dominick Romano

proto.life & Wired Magazine

UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Omone Tessy Okolo

Pascal van Dalen

Chief Growth Officer

Founder and CEO

Paloma Merodio Gomez

Vice President of INEGI (Mexico) and Co-Chair of UN GGIM

National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI)

Alexandre Caldas

Chief of Country Outreach

Vice President, UN Affairs and International Organisations

Dmitry Mariyasin

Deputy Executive Secretary

External Affairs Officer

World Bank Group

Chief Information Officer

Chief Operating Officer

Chief of the Division of Digital Transformation and AI Strategies

Direct Drive Tech

Chongqing University

Associate Professor

Beihang University

Beihang University

H.E. Mr. Indra Mani PANDEY

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative

Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

H.E. Ms. Usha Chandnee Dwarka-Canabady

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative

Permanent Mission of the Republic of Mauritius to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Diana Ayton-Shenker

Harvard University

Director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS)

Harvard University

Executative Director at UNITAR

Brent Mittelstadt

Associate Professor

Oxford Internet Institute

Director for Data for Impact

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

Chief Information Officer and Director, Technology

World Food Programme (WFP)

Digital communications advisor

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Director IP and Frontier Technologies Division

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Executive Director

Joshua Schachter

Angel Investor, Entrepreneur, Inventor

Lund University

Ming-Hsiang Tsou

San Diego State University (SDSU)

Toronto Metropolitan University

Research Professor

Zhejiang University

Beihang University

Rodrigo Hernangómez

Research Associate

Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI)

Antonio De Domenico

Senior Researcher

Juan Sebastián Ulloa

Adjunct Researcher

Institute Alexander von Humboldt

Associate Professor

 Universidad de Antioquia

Yeswanth Guddeti

Deputy Director General and head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Head of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Public Policy, EMEA

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom

Technical expert

Chair, Board of Directors (tinyML Foundation)

tinyML Foundation

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Marketing, Communications and Engagement Manager

Fondation Genevoise pour l’Innovation Technologique (FONGIT)

Associate Professor

Stanford University

Maria Paz Hermosilla Cornejo

Yolanda Botti-Lodovico

Storytelling and Advocacy Lead

Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Director General

Government of Rwanda

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Head of International Relations and Strategic Advocacy

Programme Specialist

Bernard Maissen

Director General

Federal Office of Communications of Switzerland (OFCOM)

Ludovic Copéré

Senior Investment Director

Founding Partner

Playground Global

Canada Research Chair

University of Waterloo

Queensland University of Technology

Andrew Biewener

Harvard University

Auke Jan Ijspeert

Professor and Head of the Biorobotics Laboratory

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Rodolphe Hasselvander

Blue Frog Robotics

Ariel Schilkrut

Maike Sonnewald

Assistant Professor

Leipzig University

CMCC Chief Scientist of Wireless Technologies

China Mobile Research Institute

Slawomir Stanczak

Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI)

Communications Technology Laboratory

Mojdeh Eskandari

Executive Director

Nishan Chelvachandran

The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)

Associate Professor

University of Pittsburgh

Geneva Graduate Institute

Olivier Dessibourg

Radio Television Suisse

Marie-Laure Salles

Geneva Graduate Institute

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Fathi Abdeldayem

Lead Technology Standardization and Evolving Technologies

Principal Architect

University of Glasgow

Luddy Professor of Computer Science

Indiana University Bloomington

Ecole polytechnique de Tunisie

Alexandre Zavaglia Coelho

Legal&Tech.Design

Chair of Civil Law, Technology and IT Law

Humboldt University of Berlin

Professor of Law

Newcastle University

Associate Professor

University College London

Jeremias Adams-Prassl

Professor of Law

University of Oxford

Rumman Chowdhury

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, USA science envoy for AI

Humane Intelligence

Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

Professor of ICT and Law

Radboud University

Professor of Law

Universidade de São Paulo and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser

European Parliament

Sue Hendrickson

Global Technology Governance Fellow

Harvard Law School

Trustees Professor Of Management Science And Healthcare Informatics

Heinz College Of Information Systems and Public Policy and William W. And Ruth F. Cooper

Ramayya Krishnan

Dean & Professor Of Management Science And Information Systems

Heinz College Of Information Systems and Public Policy and William W. And Ruth F. Cooper

Rishi Bommasani

Stanford University

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Laws

University of Heidelberg

Gillian Makamara

Project Officer

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Executive Director

Khalifa University of Science and Technology

Budhu L Bhaduri

Director, Geospatial Science and Human Security Division

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Chief Scientist

Honda Research Institute Japan

Glüxkind Technologies

Glüxkind Technologies

Baroness Joanna Shields

Brendan Schulman

Vice President of Policy and Government

Boston Dynamics

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering

Stanford University

Technology and Blockchain Partner

Dentons Venture Technology Group

Kosmas Karadimitriou

Director of Data Insights in the Robotics Division

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

Assistant Professor

Mahindra University

Global Thought leader

Michael Osborne

Professor of Machine Learning

University of Oxford

Moitheri Hanese

Machabeng College

Pedram Hassanzadeh

Assistant Professor

Rice University

William D. Collins

Associate Lab Director (LBNL) and Professor

University of California at Berkeley

Myrna Macgregor

Principal Data Strategist and Lead for Responsible AI & Robotics

Ocado Technology

European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Jason Hausenloy

UWC South East Asia

Faisal Khwaileh

The European New School of Digital Studies (ENS)

Professor of Technology and Regulation

University of Oxford

Ulrike Tagscherer

Chief Innovation Officer

Senior Program Manager

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Head of Innovation & Portfolio Management

Ravi S Nanjundiah

Indian Institute of Science

Director for Climate Simulation Research

Research Scientist I, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

Colorado State University

Assistant Professor

University of Lausanne

Head of Digital Access

Venture Investor

Harbor Light Advisors

VP and Managing Director

Qualcomm Ventures

James G. Claude

Global Voice Group

Financial Services (M-Pesa) Tribes Technical Lead

Financial Sector Analyst

Head of Fintech and Innovation

Yushan Siriwardhana

University of Oulu

Madhusanka Liyanage

Assistant Professor

University College Dublin

Institute for Climate and Application Research (ICAR)

Giovanni Rapacciuolo

Director of Applied Data Science

Google AI Research Team

Senior Wildlife Conservation Scientist

Moore Centre for Science

Co-director, iNaturalist

National Security expert and Senior Machine Learning consultant

Government of Canada

Founder and CTO

Green Dino and robotTUNER

Gayathri Manikutty

Senior researcher

Acting Executive Secretary

Convention on Biological Diversity

University of Sheffield

Arturo Elizondo

Co-Founder and CEO

Chief Operating Officer

Google DeepMind

Roxana Widmer-Iliescu

Senior Coordinator Digital Inclusion

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

George Q. Huang

Chair Professor of Smart Manufacturing

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Nathan Cummings

UK Atomic Energy Authority

Michael Churchill

Fusion Energy Scientist

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Visiting Researcher

Patrick Gallinari

Professor, Researcher Criteo AI Lab

Sorbonne University

Assistant Director-General, Division of Universal Health Coverage & Life course

World Health Organization (WHO)

Director of Artificial Intelligence Policy Division

Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Republic of Korea

Ghent University

Executive Director & Head of NAVER Cloud AI lab

Seoul National University Hospital

Director of AI Convergence Innovation team

Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Republic of Korea

Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Republic of Korea

Autonomous Machine Computing chair

UN Development Coordination Office as the Lead for Private Sector engagements

UN Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries

Pierre Dillenbourg

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Amandeep Singh Gill

UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology

Co-Founder and CEO

Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, Author The Equality Machine (An Economist best book of 2022)

University of San Diego

Andrew Gonzalez

Professor and Liber Ero Chair in Biodiversity Conservation in the Department of Biology

McGill University

Executive Director

The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania Law School

Creative Director and Project Leader

Tata Consultancy Services

Joyce Sidopoulos

Co-Founder and Chief of Operations

Matteo Cianchetti

Assistant Professor

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Pratyush Muthukumar

Stanford University

Karishma Muthukumar

Graduate student

University of Cambridge

Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Copenhagen

Anima Anandkumar

Professor, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) & Director of Machine Learning Research (NVIDIA)

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Bernhard Kowatsch

Head of the Innovation Accelerator

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Ricardo Vinuesa

Associate Professor

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Frederik Kratzert

Research Scientist

Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

Business Development Manager

SDG Young Leader at the Office

United Nations Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth

CEO and Founder

Co-Founder and Lead Robotics Engineer

Adapta Robotics

Alessandra Sala

Sr. Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

Business Development Manager Automotive

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lead

World Economic Forum (WEF)

Don M. Cunningham Assistant Professor

University of California at Berkeley

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

Professor and Director

University of Geneva

Senior Chief Researcher

Center for Technology Innovation