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Professor of Energy & Climate Ethics

Delft University of Technology

Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem

Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy

University of Pretoria & South African Centre for AI Research

Research Scientist

Michelle Kuchera

Assistant Professor

Davidson College

Independent Consultant

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) & International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Principal Road Safety Specialist

Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)

Francois E. Guichard

Intelligent Transport Systems and Automated Driving focal point

Liverpool John Moores University

Sanjay Kumar Sainani

Senior Vice President, Global Business Development

Co-Founder and CEO

Road Safety Desk Officer

Transport Community Secretariat

Principal Transport Specialist

Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)

Sveta Milusheva

H.E. Mr Moez Chakchouk

Minister of Transport and Logistics

Head of Safety and Mobility

World Health Organization (WHO)

Chief Executive Officer

The international Road Assessment Programme (iRAP)

Assistant Vice President, Intelligent Robotics Research Division

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Principal Researcher, Visual Intelligence Research Section

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Director, Authentication & Recognition Technology Research Section

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Principal Researcher, Defense & Safety ICT Research Department

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Director, Postal & Logistics Technology Research Center

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Director, Technology Planning Strategy Section

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

SVP (Senior Vice President), Intelligent Convergence Research Lab

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Chief Technology Officer and General Manager Europe

Umesh V. Waghmare

Professor in the Theoretical Sciences Unit

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Secretary General

Towards Zero Foundation (TZF)

Bosch endowed Professor of Machine Learning

University of Tübingen

Senior Data Scientist

VP Automotive Business

Mickaël Mesbauer

Program Manager

Chalmers University of Technology and Monash University Accident Centre

Vice-president of Deployment Operations

Catherine Newman

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Technical Officer & Co-founder

Space Intelligence

Founder and CEO

General Manager for Artificial Intelligence

Olga Algayerova

Executive Secretary

Board of Directors & Founding Member

International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP)

Director of Strategic Planning

Linux Foundation APAC

Christian Djeffal

Assistant Professor for Law, Science and Technology

Technical University of Munich

Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistical Science

Duke University

Professor of Robotics

Carnegie Mellon University

Full Professor, Department of Computer Science

Saarland University

Professor of Medicine

Stanford University

Research Scientist

Argentina's National Research Council (CONICET)

Senior Coordinator, Digital Services

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Andreas Holzinger

Head of Human-Centered AI Lab, Institute for Medical Informatics/Statistics

Medizinische Universität Graz

Kristian Kersting

Professor for Machine Learning

Technische Universität Darmstadt

Marta Kwiatkowska

Professor of Computing Systems

University of Oxford

Postdoctoral fellow

Maria-Francesca Spatolisano

Assistant Secretary-General, Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology

Salah Sukkarieh

Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems

University of Sydney

Professor of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Monash University

Professor, Director of Machine Learning Group, Faculty of Information Technology

Monash University

Professor of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Monash University

Strategic Lead of The National Addiction and Mental Health Surveillance Unit

Finkel Professor of Global Health and Director of Global and Women’s Health

Monash University

Soledad Atienza

Simon Chesterman

Dean of the Faculty of Law

National University of Singapore

China Agricultural University

Cedric Seguineau

Naïo Technologies

UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety

CEO and Co-Founder

Diligent Robotics

James Bellingham

Executive Director

Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy

Jean-Martin Bauer

Senior Advisor on Digital

World Food Programme (WFP)

Alberto Arribas-Herranz

Sustainability Science Lead Europe

Davide Scaramuzza

Professor of Robotics and Perception, Departments of Informatics and Neuroinformatics

University of Zurich

Group leader, Earth System Data Exploration

Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)

Vice president of Products and Services

Houston Mechatronics

Squishy Robotics

Aubrey Donnellan

Co-Founder and CCO

Bear Flag Robotics

Shashikant A. Sharma

Scientist-G and Group Director, VEDAS Research Group, Space Applications Centre

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Santiago Santos Valle

Expert in autonomous equipment innovations

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Director of Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP)

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Professor at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

CEO and Founder

Cynthia Breazeal

Founder and Director of the Personal Robots group

CEO and Founder

Hanson Robotics

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology

Maastricht University

Maarten van Smeden

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology

University Medical Center Utrecht

Agricultural Engineer

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Deputy head of Institute of Translational Medicine

Chief Scientist

China Mobile Research Institute

Director of Peng Cheng Laboratory

Academician of China National Engineering Resarch Institute

Head of Wireless standardization and Vice President

Robotics Head of Innovation

Henrik I. Christensen

Qualcomm Chancellor’s Chair of Robot Systems

Alison B. Lowndes

Senior Scientist | Global AI

Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor

Singapore University of Technology and Design

Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering

Columbia University

Veronika Eyring

Professor of Climate Modelling

German Aerospace Center (DLR) / University of Bremen

Chief Scientist for Geoinformatics and IBM PAIRS Geoscope

IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Paul O’Gorman

Professor of Atmospheric Science

Professor in Mathematics & Atmosphere/Ocean Science

Courant Institute, New York University

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC)

Claire Monteleoni

Associate Professor & Associate Chair for Inclusive Excellence

University of Colorado Boulder

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)

Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology

Astounding HealthTech

Christos Masouros

University College London

Senior Machine Learning Scientist for Climate Modeling

Chris Bretherton

Professor, Departments of Atmospheric Science and Applied Mathematics

University of Washington

Professor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The University of Melbourne

AI and Machine Learning Coordinator

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

Norihiro Fukumoto

Associate Professor

University of Tokyo

Head of Unit A/2 in DG CNECT

European Commission

Senior brand and consumer marketing Leader & Storyteller and Creator of Deep Consumer Connection

Jiansheng Xiong

Duncan Watson-Parris

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Oxford

Abdukodir Khakimov

St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications

Associate Professor

University of ElectroCommunications

Tapio Schneider

Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Niels Peter Skov Andersen

General Manager

Car-2-Car Communication Consortium

Salvatore Scalzo

Policy and Legal Officer

European Commission

Gabriele Mazzini

Legal and Policy Officer

European Commission

Legal and Policy Officer

European Commission

Patrick van der Smagt

Director of AI research

Volkswagen Group

Smart Mobility Advisor

European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA)

Dietmar Harhoff

Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Professor and National Center Chair, Department of Computer and Information Science

University of Pennsylvania

Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Senior System Engineer

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Harvard Medical School

Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics

Harvard Medical School

Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

New York University

Professor of Economics and Founding Director, Access to Knowledge for Development Center

School of Business, American University in Cairo

Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

University of Cambridge

Sevgi Z. Gürbüz

Assistant Professor

University of Alabama

Founder Director

Senior Research Scientist

Alessandro Pappalardo

Senior Researcher

Beth Esponnette

Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Product Officer

Aleasha McCallion

Strategic Projects Manager

Monash University

Secretary-General

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Valérie Masson-Delmotte

Co-Chair, Working Group I

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Robin R. Murphy

Raytheon (endowed) Professor of Computer Science & Engineering

Texas A&M University

Founder and deep learning researcher

Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor

Berkeley School of Public Health

Chief Scientific Officer

Managing Partner

COREangels Impact

Managing Partner

Pretosium Ventures

Omer Imtiazuddin

Managing Director

Himabindu Lakkaraju

Assistant Professor

Harvard Business School

Associate Professor of Machine Learning

University of Oxford

Master Expert Regulation Certification Standards

Director of the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium (AVSC)

SAE Industry Technologies Consortia

Founder and CEO

Ventures Platform

Investment Manager

Gregoire Montavon

Senior Researcher, Machine Learning Group

Regina Barzilay

School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Head, Emerging Technologies Division

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Director of Center of Cyber Security and research assistant professor

New York University

Co-founder and former director

Senior Adviser of Development Policy: Digital Cooperation, Technology and Innovation

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Founder at The HopeSisters, AI for good advocate, Mental Health Change Maker

The HopeSisters

Ecem Yilmazhaliloğlu

Founder of Technoladies; WEF AI Youth Council Member/Representative of Turkey, Diversity Advocate, and AI4ALL alumnus

Senior Advisor, Gender Equality

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

Guest Researcher

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Senior Researcher

NEC Laboratories Europe

Battista Biggio

Assistant Professor at University of Cagliari and Co-Founder of Pluribus One

University of Cagliari

Manuel Marina Breysse

Cardiologist, CEO & Co-Founder

Former Real Madrid, FC Porto and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador

Henning Sanneck

Department Head, Network Automation

Nokia Bell Labs

Jérôme Duberry

Research Associate

Albert Hirschman Center on Democracy

Aleksander Madry

Professor of Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Research Fellow

Politecnico di Milano

Maria Antonia Brovelli

Professor of Geographic Information Systems and Digital Mapping

Politecnico di Milano

Thomas G. Dietterich

Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Director of Intelligent Systems Research

Oregon State University

Melike Erol-Kantarci

Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor

University of Ottawa

Investment Manager

Mark “Garvey” Candella

Director of Student and Education Programs

Dikaia Chatzieftstathiou

Reader in Olympic Studies and the Social Analysis of Sport

Canterbury Christ Church University

Arndt Von Twickel

Technical Officer

Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)

Vice President – Product Development

Prof Shashi Shekhar

McKnight Distinguished University Professor

University of Minnesota

Senior Vice President at Riegl International and Member of WGIC Policy Committee

Riegl International

Sr. Director of Strategic Business Development at Maxar Technologies and Member of WGIC Policy Committee

Maxar Technologies

Stephanie Leonard

Head of Traffic Innovation and Policy

Lokendra Chauhan

Vice President Maps at TomTom and Chair of WGIC Policy Development & Advocacy Committee

Executive Director

World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC)

Head of the Ambient Intelligence Group

Jozef Stefan Institute

J. Alberto Conejero

Director of the Applied Mathematics Department

Universitat Politècnica de València

Commissioner of the Presidency

Generalitat Valenciana

Albert H. Seubers

Director of Global Strategy IT in Cities

Sandrine Daniel

Head of Scientific Office

Director, Monash Energy Institute

Monash University

General Manager, Data Science

Head of Sustainability

Secretary General at Organization for International Economic Relations and FG-AI4EE Vice-Chairman

Organization for International Economic Relations (OiER)

Director at Austrian Economics Center, Vice President at Austrian National Bank and FG-AI4EE Vice-Chairman

Austrian National Bank

Nicholas Carlini

Research Scientist

Weapon Contamination Specialist

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

VP of Alliances & Sponsor Relations

Bret Greenstein

Senior Vice President and Global Head of AI & Analytics

Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Siddartha Khastgir

Head of Verification & Validation of CAV at WMG

University of Warwick

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies of the Faculty of Law

University of Groningen

Elizabeth Connaughton

Legal Assistant

Scottish Law Commission

Lawyer, Automated Vehicles Review

Law Commission of England and Wales

Jessica Uguccioni

Lead Lawyer of the Automated Vehicles Review

Law Commission of England and Wales

Dr Aisha Naseer

AI Ethics Research Manager

Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe

Giulia Del Gamba

Digital Policies Advisor

Intesa Sanpaolo Bank

Anjali Mazumder

Thematic Lead on AI, Justice and Human Rights

The Alan Turing Institute

Deputy Director N/LAB, Faculty of Social Sciences

University of Nottingham

Professor of Earth Observation, Faculty of Social Sciences

University of Nottingham

Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative

Arizona State University

Programme Manager, Modern Slavery Programme

United Nations University - Centre for Policy Research

Alexander Vedyakhin

First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board

Natàlia Grau Batlle

Marketing Manager

Assistant Professor

Hallym University

Investment Manager

Business Development Director

Skolkovo Foundation

Senior Program Manager Humanitarian Partnerships

Rakesh Bharania

Director, Humanitarian Impact Data

Yasunori Mochizuki

NEC Corporation

Director of the Infrastructure Department

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Professor at the University of Bordeaux and Chair at RoboCup France

Chief Strategy Officer

Executive Director of The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker

University of Oxford

Risto Miikkulainen

Associate VP of Evolutionary AI

Mikko Hyppönen

Chief Research Officer

Francisco Müller

Professor Associado

Universidade Federal do Pará

Vera Futorjanski

Veritas Ventures

‪Marco Di Renzo

Professor, Fellow

CNRS & Paris-Saclay University

Francesc Wilhelmi

Postdoctoral Researcher, Mobile Networks Department

Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)

Nuria González Prelcic

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

North Carolina State University

José Suárez-Varela

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Monique Kuglitsch

Innovation Manager

Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute

Head of Department of Artificial Intelligence

Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute

Co-Chairman, FG-AI4EE

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

Mikela Druckman

Co-founder & CEO

Head of Project

Child Growth Monitor

CEO and co-founder

Nicholas Aaron Khoo

Advisor at Global Esports Federation and Co-Founder of Yup.gg

Global Esports Federation

Distinguished Engineer

Muralee Thummarukudy

Operations Manager, Crisis Management Branch

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Chair in Science Communication and Future Media

University of Salford

Chief of the Study Groups Department, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Principal Project Manager

Joseph K. Hopkins

Senior Managing Partner at The IPRESTIGE Emerge Fund LLC and CEO, Fallingst Technologies LLC

The IPRESTIGE Emerge Fund LLC

Head of Ecosystem Development

Joanna Batstone

Monash Data Futures Institute

World Wide Business Development Leader

Serial Digital Health Entrepreneur, Board Member, Shareholder, Investor, Speaker, SME

Neama Dadkhahnikoo

Technical Lead, Prize Operations

Senior Editor of The Lancet and Vice-Chair of the ITU-WHO Focus Group on AI for Health

The Lancet Journal

Startup Program Manager

Amir Banifatemi

Chief Innovation Officer and Chair of the AI for Good Programme Committee

Caitlin Kraft Buchman

CEO/Founder, Women at the Table and Co-Founder, Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms

Senior Fellow, Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative (AIEI)

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

Founder; Director & CSO, Roborace

Autonomous Drivers Alliance (ADA)

Serial Entrepreneur and Founder of AI Center of Excellence Africa

AI Center of Excellence Africa

Inventor, BBC "Click" Presenter

Sinovation Ventures