Prodromos is a Legal Counsel at OpenAIRE and Athena Research Centre and the Head of Digital and Innovation at the Onassis Group. He serves as the president of the supervisory board of the European Patent Academy of the European Patent Office. He read law and Information Systems in Athens and London and holds a PhD in Law and Information Systems from the London School of Economics.

She is currently Head of Digital Policy for the National Lottery Heritage Fund,  the largest dedicated funder of heritage in the UK. The Fund provides leadership across the sector and work to ensure the UK’s heritage supports positive and lasting change for people and communities. Her role is to help ensure that the National Lottery Heritage Fund makes the most impactful grants it can, leading on digital policy and sector wide digital skills development.

Yannis Ioannidis has served as the President and General Director of the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center for 10 years (2011-2021). His research interests include Database and Information Systems, Data Science, Recommender Systems and Personalization, Data Infrastructures, and Human-Computer Interaction, topics on which he has published over 160 articles in leading journals and conferences and also holds three patents. His work is often inspired by and applied to data management and analysis problems that arise in industrial environments or in the context of other scientific fields (Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities) and the Arts. He is the chair of the EB of OpenAIRE which implements the European policies on open access to research publications and data, and is the Software Director of the Human Brain Project flagship initiative. He has also led or is currently leading the creation of new international or spin-off companies. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow, a member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award and several other research and teaching awards. He is also a vice chair of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), the Greek delegate to ESFRI and a member of its Executive Board and a member of the strategic management board of the Greek hub of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Dr Natasa Milic-Frayling is a Founder and CEO of Intact Digital Ltd, a company that provides a platform and services for hosting legacy software installations to enable long-term digital data readability and use. Intact Digital works with highly regulated sectors such as Pharma and Life Sciences to support compliance with the data integrity regulations, reconstruction of research studies and reproducibiity of data analyses.

Natasa has 25 years of experience in computer science research and innovation, including 17 years at Microsoft Research. She authored over 100 research publications and has a dozen of approved patents to her name. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Nottingham where she spent 5 years serving as Chair of Data Science and contributing to the University research strategy on Data Science and AI.  

Natasa is actively engaged with a broader professional community on critical issues that arise from inter-disciplinary use of digtial technologies ranging from professional ethic, privacy and design transparency to digital obsolescence and responsible innovation. She served as a member of theAssociation for Computing Europe Council and as Chair of ACM Women Europe. She is an active member of the Preservation Sub-Committee within the UNESCO Memory of the World Programmeand serves as Chair of the Research and Technology Working group for the UNESCO PERSIST project.

Alex Wade has recently joined the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) as Director of Strategic Partnerships. Previous he worked with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as technical program manager for Meta and served as the Director for Scholarly Communication for Microsoft Research, focused on Microsoft Academic, a semantic knowledge graph of academic research publications, people, and institutions. During his career at Microsoft, Wade managed the corporate search and taxonomy management services and served as Senior Program Manager for Windows Search.

Prior to joining Microsoft, he held Systems Librarian, Engineering Librarian, and Philosophy Librarian, and technical library positions at the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Alex holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Librarianship degree from the University of Washington.

Mercè Crosas is a Catalan researcher specialized in open data.

A graduate in Physics from the University of Barcelona and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Rice University (Houston, Texas), Crosas spent six years at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a pre/postdoc fellow. At Harvard University, she co-directed the Dataverse project, open-source software for publishing, conserving, citing, exploring, and analyzing research data, from 2006 to 2021. She is a co-author of FAIR data principles, and has contributed to the recommendations of the OECD for access to public data.

Crosas has worked with biotechnology companies, leading the development of computer systems for data management and analysis. She has been Harvard University Information Technology Research Data Management Officer, and Chief Data Science and Technology Officer at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS).

Since May 2021, Crosas has been the Secretary of Open Government in the Department of Foreign Action and Open Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Aisén Etcheverry Escudero is a lawyer from the University of Chile and Masters of Laws from the University of San Francisco School of Law. She has been a visiting professor at the American University and at the Intellectual Property Diploma Program of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In the private sector, she has worked in international companies, such as Oracle or Amazon, formulating and implementing strategies for linking platforms such as AWS, with the governments of the Southern Cone, including investment projects, sectorial regulation, human capital and R&D development.

In the last 15 years she has been legislative advisor (Ministry of Economy) in promoting institutional modernization processes, in areas such as intellectual property, electronic commerce and protection of personal data. She has led processes of reformulation of programs to promote science, and the creation of technology centers aimed at linking academia and industry, for the development of science-based innovation.