Christin Eisenschmid
Vice President, Worldwide Government Affairs (WGA)

Christin is responsible for Intel’s strategic engagement with government stakeholders and industry associations in EMEA, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Canada. She and her team drive strategy and programs to advocate Intel’s policy positions, enable business growth and core business objectives and ensure digital readiness and innovation capacity in the countries.

In addition to her Government Affairs role, Christin is Managing Director of Intel Germany. Based in Munich, Germany, Eisenschmid joined Intel in 2011 with the acquisition of Infineon Technologies’ wireless solutions business. She is on the board of several European industry associations and industrial bodies, representing the company externally and engaging with the broader ecosystem to enhance our reputation and drive business growth.

Before joining Intel, Eisenschmid was vice president of finance and chief financial officer of the Wireless Solutions Group at Infineon Technologies AG. Earlier in her career, she was vice president of finance for Infineon’s global sales organization and director of Infineon’s supply chain.

Eisenschmid holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Augsburg in Germany. Outside of work Christin enjoys hiking, running and skiing in the Bavarian and Austrian mountains as well as cooking and fine dining.

Edward Santow
Industry Professor, Responsible Technology
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Edward Santow is Industry Professor - Responsible Technology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

Ed leads UTS's new initiative on building Australia's capability on ethical artificial intelligence. Ed’s areas of expertise include human rights, technology and regulation, public law and discrimination law.

From 2016-2021, Ed was Australia's Human Rights Commissioner, where he led the Commission's work on AI and new technology; refugees and migration; human rights issues affecting LGBTI people; national security; and implementing the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

Ed is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and serves on a number of boards and committees.

In 2009, Ed was presented with an Australian Leadership Award, and in 2017, he was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Ed previously served as chief executive of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and was a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Law School, a research director at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and a solicitor in private practice.

Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell AO FTSE FAHA
Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University and Vice President and Senior Fellow at Intel.

Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell AO FTSE FAHA is a renowned anthropologist, technologist, and futurist. Genevieve completed her PhD in cultural anthropology at Stanford University in 1998 and is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development.

She is currently the Director of the School of Cybernetics and the 3A Institute (3Ai) at the Australian National University and also remains a Vice President and Senior Fellow at Intel Corporation.

Genevieve joined the ANU in 2017 after spending 18 years in Silicon Valley guiding Intel's product development and social science and user experience research capabilities. In 2017, Genevieve was appointed the inaugural Director of the 3A Institute, co-founded by the ANU and CSIRO's Data61. The Institute's mission is to establish a new branch of engineering to responsibly and sustainably scale AI-enabled cyber-physical systems. In 2021, she was appointed Director of the new School of Cybernetics at the ANU, which in addition to housing the 3A Institute, is focused on building capacity in Systems and Design.

Prof. Toby Walsh FAA FACM
Laureate Fellow & Scientia Professor of AI
School of CSE, UNSW Sydney

Toby Walsh is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW and CSIRO Data61, and adjunct professor at QUT. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many other bodies on this topic. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science, and was named on the international "Who's Who in AI" list of influencers. At the request of Australia's Chief Scientist, he chaired the learned academies Horizon Scanning report on AI, and currently sits on the national AI Action Plan committee. He has authored two books on AI for a general audience, the most recent entitled "2062: The World that AI Made".

Dr. Manish Gupta
Director,
Google Research India

Dr. Manish Gupta is the Director of Google Research India. He holds an additional appointment as Infosys Foundation Chair Professor at IIIT Bangalore. Previously, Manish has led VideoKen, a video technology startup, and the research centers for Xerox and IBM in India. As a Senior Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Manish led the team developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. IBM was awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Blue Gene by US President Barack Obama in 2009. Manish holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has co-authored about 75 papers, with more than 7,000 citations in Google Scholar, and has been granted 19 US patents. While at IBM, Manish received two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, an Outstanding Innovation Award and the Lou Gerstner Team Award for Client Excellence. Manish is a Fellow of ACM and the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Delhi.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Nuttapon Nimmanphatcharin
Ministry of Digital Economy and Society

Assist. Prof. Dr. Nuttapon, experts in Digital Economy Promotion, SMEs Promotion, STI Policy, Management and Planning, has spanned over 15 years, covering a broad cross section of appointments including those of Business Consultant, Assistant to Dean (Faculty of Business Administration), Assistant to Dean (School of Business Administration), and Adjunct Professor at Siam University and PIM Institution; Former Director of Sectoral Strategy and Plan for SMEs Department, Former Director of SMEs Sectoral Warning and Analysis Department, Former Director of Technology and Information Centre, and Founder of SMEs Flying Geese Program (PPP Project) at Office of Small and Enterprise Promotion (OSMEP) with his work experienced e.g. Develop SMEs Plans and Strategies; SMEs Database Development, Design and Implement Performance Appraisal System for SMEs Policy Establish alignment between SMEs policy goals and SME goals through Cross-Functional Projects and outside-work activities etc.; Former Senior Director of Research and Policy Management at National Science Technology and Innovation Policy Office (STI) Thailand which was responsible for a formulation of National Science Technology and Innovation Master Plan 2012-2021, STI Indicator Development and Analysis, Design and Implement Performance Appraisal System for STI Policy, etc. Currently, he is a President and a CEO at Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA), which responsible for formulating DE promotion plan and producing policy recommendations for the improvement of laws and regulations, provide for indicators,databases, indexes, and research studies for the benefit of digital economy and society determination, coordinate and follow up on digital technology and innovation in compliance with the plan and program, supporting and developing the digital ecosystem and integrating the digital promotion works of all public and private agencies, domestically and internationally, to ensure their accomplishment in line with the DE promotion plan, supporting for the promotion and the development of digital infrastructure and system, digital manpower, digital economy and digital society projects, and administering the enabling instruments and tools in line with the DE Promotion Plan.

Dr. Iris Pfeiffer
Forschungsinstitut Betriebliche Bildung, Germany

Vita

• Degrees in Psychology and Business
• Experiences as start-up founder and independent consultant
• Head of Department for Educational Affairs at Prognos AG and ZDH, the national association for the skilled trades
• Educational researcher for more than 20 years

Focus areas of Research

• Strategical and organisational development of VET stakeholders
• Evaluation of pilot projects and funding programmes
• Future of vocational education and training
• Training and specialist monitoring

Jasmina Koeva-Balabanova
MD – Chair of the Board of Bulgarian Alliance for Precision and Personalized Medicine

Dr. Koeva graduated Medicine in Medical University Varna Magna cum Laude. From 1986 till 1992 she was a research associate in the Clinic of Endocrinology of “St. Marina” University Hospital. She has accomplished postgraduate studies in Institut für Diabetes »Gerhardt Katsch«, Germany and WHO Collaboration Center, Clinic of Endocrinology and Metabolism, „Royal Victoria Infirmary“, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Dr. Jasmina Koeva has a MD in Healthcare Management, Medical University Sofia, and has qualification in strategic business and marketing planning, forecasting in pharmaceutical industry, leadership, organizational development etc. From 1992 till 2005 she has worked at various managerial positions in different pharmaceutical companies. From 2005 till 2008 г. Jasmina was Councilor and Head of Bulgarian Trade and Economic Mission in the Embassy of Bulgaria to Vienna, Austria Since 2008 Dr. Koeva has been working on various projects in pharmaceutical marketing, medicine and life sciences, molecular diagnostics and healthcare management and since 2013 she has worked actively in the field of precision and personalized medicine.

Dr. Jasmina Koeva is founder and Chair of the Board of the Bulgarian Alliance for Precision and Personalized Medicine - BAPPM and member of the Board of EAPM. She is also a representative of Bulgaria and member of the Special group to EC for the European Genomic Initiative “1+ MG”.

Denis Horgan
EAPM Executive Director
Belgium

Prof. Denis Horgan, a former Director of the European Cancer Patient Coalition, who was also a policy advisor in the European Parliament and worked with various international NGOs on health development projects. In addition, he has published over fifty academic articles related to the area of personalised medicine.Today, Denis is the Editor in Chief of the journal entitled Public Health Genomics and he is the Executive Director from the European Alliance of Personalised Medicine (EAPM).The mix of EAPM members provides extensive scientific, clinical, caring and training expertise in personalised medicine and diagnostics, across patient groups, academia, health profes-sionals and industry.Relevant departments of the European Commission have observer status, as does your own organisation, of course. In the relatively short time since it was formed, EAPM has been in the vanguard of raising the profile and explaining the possibilities of personalised medicine in Europe.In recent years this has created an observable institutional shift in policy due to the issues that the Alliance has put forward through its multi-stakeholder membership and bottom-up policy making.

Fernando Augusto Loureiro
Executive Director, Government Affairs
Intel

Fernando Loureiro is executive director of Government Affairs for Intel Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Responsibility includes to enhance Intel’s visibility and influence with policymakers and develop & drive technical and public policy agendas in support of Intel’s business in the region.

Before, Fernando was head of Public Policy and Corporate Communications at companies such as Roche Pharmaceuticals, Dell and Compaq. At Dell he was also responsible for Site Selection across the globe. He was in charge of the Brazilian Program of Investment Promotion and Technology Transfer, run by the Ministry of Foreign Relations and the Inter-American Development Bank in Brasilia. Early in his career he held several executive positions at Itautec Informática.

Fernando Loureiro has a bachelor and a master degree in Business Administration from the São Paulo University, a post-graduation in Foreign Affairs from ESSEC Business School in France; specialization in Strategic Alliances from Wharton School, a specialization in High Impact Leadership from Columbia University, specialization in Marketing Champions at INSEAD/France and is Certificate in Change Management Leadership by Cornell University. At FVG Brazil, he has taken the CEO International Program

Vanessa Cann
Managing Director, KI Bundesverband e.V.
Germany

Vanessa Cann has been Managing Director at the German AI Association since May 1, 2020. Her areas of responsibility include community building and partner management as well as the association's development.

The studied political scientist previously headed the Artificial Intelligence and Future Mobility platforms at the German Association of Startups, where she connected startups with established companies and investors. Vanessa Cann developed her interest in artificial intelligence in political consulting, where she advised Fortune500 companies on their digital policies. She is involved as a mentor for startups and at Women in AI.

Dr. Bienvenu Agbokponto Soglo

Dr. Bienvenu Agbokponto Soglo is the Director, Government Affairs Africa & EMEA CTO Liaison at Intel Corporation. In his current role, Dr Agbokponto Soglo is responsible for developing policy strategies and advocating for favourable government policies, regulations, and standards to support Intel's business interests in Africa. He leads the policy and government affairs work in Africa in areas such as 5G, broadband, artificial intelligence, privacy and security and other digital transformation policies. In addition, he also leads engagements with Universities, Research Institutions, NGOs in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); for research focused on emerging technologies and projects/initiatives at the intersection of policy and technology. He has more than 15 years’ experience and a strong track record working in the ICT and telecommunication industry with expertise in mobile telecommunication technologies, global and regional spectrum policy, broadband strategy, corporate social responsibility, as well as governmental ICT policies across Africa. Before joining Intel Corporation in 2018, Dr Agbokponto Soglo worked at Qualcomm for more than 10 years, first as Staff Engineer then as Government Affairs Director for West and Central Africa. Prior to that, he worked at Huawei Technologies as Wireless Product Manager.

He has published several technical papers on Network Control Systems in International Journals and Conferences, including in the European Journal of Control. He has also presented at many international forums, conferences and meetings across the globe including at the WTO and the ITU; and held leadership positions in ITU-R Working Party 5D; and is the Vice Chair of the GSA ATU Spectrum team. Dr. Agbokponto Soglo holds a Ph.D. degree in Control Science & Engineering from Beijing Tsinghua University (2005), an MSc in Control Theory & Control Engineering from Dalian University of Technology (2002), and a BSc in Automatic Control from Dalian Maritime University.

Martin Lundborg
Head, Accompanying Research, Mittelstand-Digital

Martin Lundborg graduated in Economics and Finance from Jönköping University (Sweden) and Christian Albrecht University (Kiel, German) in 1999. Since graduating, he has worked for various consulting firms and for Vodafone. Until the end of 2017, Martin Lundborg worked for Detecon (a consulting subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom) in the field of telecommunications and digitisation. Starting on January 1, 2018, he works for WIK as head of Communications and Innovation department and is head of accompanying research of the "Mittelstand-Digital" funding initiative on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

As a project manager in the field of digitisation and telecommunications, Martin Lundborg has carried out projects on five continents for ministries, authorities, industry organizations, medium-sized enterprises and network operators. His experiences include inter alia market studies on communications services required for the digitisation of companies, support for ministries and authorities regarding telecommunications and digitization topics, submission of expert opinions for telecommunications and media policies, telecoms regulation, strategy and planning of broadband investments, as well as financial evaluation of IT outsourcing projects. Martin Lundborg has published numerous scientific articles in his field of activities.

Núria Malats, MD, MPH, PhD
Genetic & Molecular Epidemiology Group ; Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO); Madrid, Spain

Dr. Núria Malats is currently the head of the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain. She has a broad expertise in these fields of research by focusing mainly on pancreatic and bladder cancers. She coordinates several large national and international studies integrating different levels of information, including omics data, in both disease development and progression. The resources of these studies have contributed to further disentangling the complex aetiology of these cancers. Dr. Malats has over 300 publications and is external reviewer of national and international funding agencies and first rank scientific journals. Dr. Malats chaired the EUPancreas COST Action (BM1204) with >250 members; she was a board member of the International Pancreatic Cancer Case Control Consortium (PanC4), and the chair of the Research Work Stream of Pancreatic Cancer Europe (PCE) multistakeholder platform.

Onica N. Makwakwa
Head of Africa, Alliance for Affordable Internet
World Wide Web Foundation

Leads the multi-stakeholder engagement across Africa for the Alliance for Affordable Internet focusing on advancing good practices in policy and regulatory frameworks for affordable and meaningful access to broadband. She also convenes the Africa Summit on Women and Girls in Technology. Onica has managed and pioneered various national and international campaigns, policy change processes for women’s rights, civil rights, consumer rights, as well as media and digital transformation initiatives. She brings a strong sensitivity and unique perspective to the dynamics affecting women, and other disadvantaged populations.

Onica has managed and pioneered various national and international campaigns, policy change processes for women’s rights, civil rights, consumer rights, as well as media and digital transformation initiatives. She brings a strong sensitivity and unique perspective to the dynamics affecting women, and other disadvantaged populations.

Prof. Barry Dwolatzky
Emeritus Professor, School of Electrica & Information Engineering
Wits University

Barry Dwolatzky is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Electrical & Information Engineering at Wits University. He is the founder and Director of the University’s Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE). He is also the founder of Wits University’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. While he remains the Director of the JCSE, in July 2021 he was appointed as Director of Innovation Strategy in the Office of the Wits Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation.

Barry’s undergraduate (BSc(Eng) ) and postgraduate degree (PhD) are in Electrical Engineering and are from Wits. In 1979 he left South Africa and worked in the UK as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Imperial College, London and at the GEC-Marconi Research Centre. Over this period, he worked on a number of large software research and development projects.

Barry Dwolatzky returned to Wits from the UK as a Senior Lecturer in 1989. He became a full professor in 2000. In December 2017 he officially retired from Wits and was appointed an Emeritus Professor. His primary focus over the past 30 years has been the growth and development of the South African software engineering sector.

In 2005 Barry Dwolatzky was the major driver in setting up the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits. The JCSE aims to grow skills, promote the adoption of best practices and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in South Africa’s digital economy. In 2007 he became Director and CEO of the JCSE.

In 2013 Dwolatzky spearheaded an initiative at Wits to establish a major digital innovation hub in the Braamfontein area of inner-city Johannesburg. Called the “Tshimologong Precinct” the project has attracted significant support from government and a range of major local and international companies. IBM Research has established their 12 th international laboratory in Braamfontein as an integral part of the Precinct.

In recognition of his contribution to the South African IT industry Barry Dwolatzky was named the “South African IT Personality of the Year” in 2013 and received an award for “Distinguished Service to IT” from the Institute of IT Professionals of South Africa (IITPSA) in 2016. Also in 2016 Wits University presented him with the “Vice Chancellor’s Award for Academic Citizenship”.

Dr. Till Klein
Senior Manager at appliedAI Initiative - UnternehmerTUM.

Till Klein drives expertise building about AI in companies and beyond. As part of the appliedAI Academy team, he is responsible for the development and delivery of large-scale education programs on AI, both in the public and the private sector. Previously, Till worked in high-tech and data-driven industries, including medical technology and industrial drone applications, which sparked his interest in AI. Building on his research in the field of knowledge transfer through collaboration networks, he aims to build bridges for tackling challenges on AI. Throughout his career, he had stops in the USA, France, Australia, and various parts of Germany.

Stefan Göllner

Stefan Göllner is an Innovation Manager at AI-Campus the learning platform for Artificial Intelligence at Stifterverband. His main responsibility is to engage thematic AI-Expert communities from University and Industry in the creation and implementation of new learning resources with the aim to make AI-Campus Germanys´ leading provider for open educational resources in the field of AI. Stefan studied Communication Design at University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf and has 10+ years of experience as a project manager and researcher in innovation oriented R&D projects focused on ICT (e.g. at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Telekom Laboratories Berlin, Academy for the Arts Berlin). From 1018-20 He was as an Innovation manager at Berlin Partner for Business and Technology in Germanys »Mittelstand-Digital« initiative. He is the founder of digital-agency place/making Berlin and a lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

Mario Romao
EU AI and Global Healthcare Policy
Director

Mario Romao works at Intel’s Business and Technical Affairs team. Mario oversees global digital health policy and coordinates Intel’s Artificial Intelligence policy interactions with the European Union. Mario works with governments on policies to promote the adoption of health information technologies to address some of the current challenges healthcare systems are facing. Mario has extensive experience working with digital health policies and technologies. He was involved in the deployment of European initiatives in the field of health care technologies and solutions for people with special needs, including a focus on the elderly population. Mario also coordinates Intel’s public policy engagements in the EU on Artificial Intelligence, looking at policy and regulatory options for the trusted adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Europe, including in the healthcare sector. He participates actively in numerous groups and associations promoting the advancement of digital technologies across Europe.

Tom Chittenden
President & Founding Director
Genuity AI Research Institute

Dr. Tom Chittenden is Chief Technology Officer for HiberCell. He is also the President and Founding Director of the Genuity AI Research Institute (GAIRI), where he is responsible for global AI/ML R&D for HiberCell.

Tom is an Omega Society Fellow and an Accredited Professional Statistician™ with the American Statistical Association. He holds faculty appointments at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. His research has been published in top-tier scientific journals, including featured articles in Nature and Science. In 2019, Forbes named him among the top 100 AI Pioneers in Drug Discovery and Advanced Healthcare. In 2021, he was named the Business Intelligence Group (BIG) AI Excellence Award Winner. Tom was also the recipient of the 2021 Global Genius Directory Award in recognition of his contribution to cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He a Diplomate and the Chief Statistical Sciences Advisor for the Global Strategic Initiatives and Planning Committee of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry. Dr. Chittenden is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on causal AI and statistical machine learning in the biomedical sciences.

Tom holds a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology from Virginia Tech and a DPhil in Computational Statistics from the University of Oxford. His multidisciplinary postdoctoral training includes experimental investigations in Molecular and Cellular Cardiology from the Dartmouth Medical School; Biostatistics and Computational Biology from the Dana‐Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health; and Computational Statistics, Statistical Methodology, and Statistical Machine Learning from the University of Oxford.

Dr. R.S Sharma
Chief Executive Officer, National Health Authority; Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Govt. of India) Former Chairman,
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)

He is an IAS officer of 1978 batch, with a distinguished career in the Government of India and State Governments, leading reforms and leveraging IT to simplify administrative processes. In the process, he has contributed to shaping India's Policies in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). He combines planning and execution skills to ensure that policies work at the ground.Has been involved in policies related to financing of big infrastructure projects in Railways, Ports, Airports and Highways.

Dr. Sharma is presently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Authority responsible for managing the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) and the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). Also, he serves as the Chairperson of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19.Previously, Dr Sharma headed the TRAI from August 2015 to September 2020, in which period he brought consumer focus to reaching the telecom and broadcasting services to all pockets of the country. And where the regulatory action may have been insufficient, he advocated policy changes to the government.He provided thought leadership through initiatives, for example, in adopting net neutrality principles in India, use of crowdsourced data to measure service quality, and leveraging blockchain to achieve regulatory outcomes.He pushed for development of indigenous technologies, keeping the country's needs in mind, e.g. to establish a grid of Wi-Fi hotspots or to make interoperable set-top boxes for television broadcast.He represented India at various international fora and contributed to the policy space in communication technologies and broadcasting. Before joining the TRAI, Dr Sharma worked as Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, where he spearheaded the Digital India program to develop India into a digitally empowered society and a knowledge economy. He brought in policies related to open source, open standards, and open APIs in all government projects and shaped eGovernance space by converting silo applications in various sectors to modern, multi-tenanted enterprise systems.

Dr. Sharma supported the development and adoption of several digital products in governance and citizen services, such as eKYC, Digital Locker, eSign, Online Reservation System (ORS) in the hospitals, Digital Attendance, Jeevan Pramaan (a system for issuing Digital Life Certificate for the pensioners) and the Digital Consent Artefact. Importantly, he crafted policies for digital payments that led to the creation of the phenomenally successful UPI payment system in India.

Before joining the Government of India as Secretary, Dr Sharma worked for one year in 2013-14 as Chief Secretary in the Government of Bihar and Jharkhand, where he provided leadership to the entire administrative system of the State. He dealt with law and order, administration of the criminal justice system, revenue system and all other aspects of the work, for which a State Government is responsible under the Constitution. While there, he modernized governance and public service delivery systems using technology in several areas, such as land and property registration systems, municipal governance, Public Distribution System (PDS) and taxation systems.Dr. Sharma is best known for the role he played as Director General & Mission Director of the Unique Identification Authority of India in the years 2009 – 2013.Working closely with Mr Nandan Nilekani in overall design and implementation of Aadhaar, he brought to fruition Government of India’s ambitious project to provide a unique identity to all its residents. Today it is the world’s largest identity system, capable of biometrically authenticating every individual resident in the country. He conceptualized (and later implemented) several services that leveraged the authentication infrastructure for better governance and for bringing in cost-effectiveness in both government and private enterprise.In his other assignments, he has worked as District Magistrate in several districts in Bihar, Director of Treasuries, Secretary in different departments in the State and as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India.In September 2020 Rupa Publications brought out his book The Making of Aadhaar: World's Largest Identity Platform (ISBN-13: 978-9390356126), which has been very well received. Dr Sharma holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi; Master’s in Computer Sciences from the University of California, USA; and Master’s in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Maksym Korablyov
Research Assistant
MIT Media Lab

Maksym Korablyov is a PhD student at MILA under the supervision of Yoshua Bengio. Prior to that he was an MS student at MIT and a visiting researcher at Harvard Medical School. Maksym's main interest is in developing AI algorithms to solve important problems for humanity, would it be cancer therapeutics, or materials for solar panels.

Nivruti Rai
Country Head, Intel India and VP, Intel
Foundry Services at Intel Corporation

Nivruti Rai is vice president, Intel Foundry Services, at Intel Corporation and Country Head of Intel India. Based in Bengaluru, she provides overall engineering and business unit leadership and leads operations for the site, driving innovation, cross-group efficiencies and execution for engineering teams delivering global products and roadmaps. She also leads engagements with national and local governments and policymakers, as well as collaboration with ecosystem players to enable innovation and entrepreneurship.

She joined Intel in 1995 and subsequently worked in the CPU development organization in Oregon. She led the effort to conserve chip power in microprocessors by selectively using high-performance devices and pioneered the use of error-correcting codes to reduce operating voltages and memories, becoming a principal engineer in 2003. She moved to India in 2005 to manage R&D of mobile platform technologies used for handheld and laptop computers. In 2013, her team was awarded an Intel Achievement Award for contributing to the development of the Minute Intel® architecture core. In her previous role as vice president in Intel’s Platform Engineering Group, she led teams across the United States, Costa Rica, Israel, Malaysia and India charged with developing innovative analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) blocks and IP subsystems for Intel’s system-on-chip products. She also managed the emerging technologies group in India developing machine learning and computer vision soft IP.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, physics and chemistry and a master’s degree in applied mathematics, both from the University of Lucknow in India. She also holds a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Oregon State University and a board of director certification from Harvard Business School. She has been issued one U.S. patent and has authored several technical papers on integrated circuit design methodologies and operations research.

Sandeep Dutta
Chief Practice Officer – Asia-Pacific region

Role
Sandeep is a member of the executive team at Fractal and is the Business Head for the Asia-pacific region. Within APAC he has grown business-hubs for Fractal in Australia, S.E Asia and India. In addition, Sandeep has led Fractal’s collaboration with the government and public sector in the region to evangelise and deploy AI for social impact. Earlier, he led Fractal’s global healthcare practice and played a key role in the early development and commercialization of Qure.ai, Fractal’s start-up with a focus on healthcare-AI.

Experience
Before Fractal, Sandeep has 20+ years of global experience spanning Analytics, IT and E-Business with companies like Mphasis, TCS, HP and Wipro. He has played leadership roles in P&L Management, Strategy, Business Development, Operations and New Business start-up. He has worked in the US, Europe and India geographies and has managed extended sales and delivery teams in these regions.

Education
He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, MBE from Delhi University and BA (Eco) Hons from Sri Ram College of Commerce, DU.

Dr. Ganapathy Krishnan
Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Center
Flipkart

Dr. Ganapathy Krishnan (Krish) is Vice President, Engineering at Flipkart which is India's largest eCommerce marketplace. His team, based in Seattle, Washington, works on Conversational AI using deep learning technologies.

Prior to Flipkart, Dr. Krishnan worked at Microsoft where he worked on Bing Local Search Relevance and Metrics and at Amazon where he worked on improving the employee experience in warehouses using data science. He built the data team at Sweetgreen and pioneered the concept of salad embeddings to identify salad combinations that customers have not tried yet but are likely to love.

Dr. Krishnan has founded two companies with successful exits and has also worked as a consultant to startup companies and venture capitalists. He has an academic background in neural networks and Computer Vision. He taught Computer Science for 8 years at Stetson University. He has several publications in Computer Vision and Neural Networks and two patents in eCommerce.

Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov
CEO,
Insilico

Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, is the founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine(insilico.com), a leader in next-generation artificial intelligence technologies for drug discovery and biomarker development. He is also the founder of Deep Longevity, Inc, a spin-off of Insilico Medicine developing a broad range of artificial intelligence-based biomarkers of aging and longevity servicing healthcare providers and life insurance industry. In 2020 Deep Longevity was acquired by Endurance Longevity (HK: 0575) resulting in a substantial increase in stock price since acquisition. Since 2015 he has invented critical technologies in the field of generative adversarial networks (GANs) and reinforcement learning (RL) for generation of the novel molecular structures with the desired properties and generation of synthetic biological and patient data. He also pioneered the applications of deep learning technologies for the prediction of human biological age using multiple data types, transfer learning from aging into disease, target identification, and signaling pathway modeling. Under his leadership, Insilico raised over $50 million in multiple rounds from expert investors,opened R&D centers in Baltimore, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Moscow,and St Petersburg, and partnered with multiple pharmaceutical,biotechnology, and academic institutions. Prior to founding Insilico, he worked in senior roles at ATI Technologies (GPU company acquired by AMD in 2006), NeuroG Neuroinformatics, Biogerontology Research Foundation. Since 2012 he has published over 130 peer-reviewed research papers, and 2 books including “The Ageless Generation: How Biomedical Advances Will Transform the Global Economy” (Macmillan, 2013). He serves on the editorial boards of Trends in Molecular Medicine, Aging Research Reviews, Aging, Frontiers in Genetics, and founded and co-chairs the Annual Aging Research, Drug Discovery, and AI Forum (8th annual in 2021), the world's largest event on aging in the pharmaceutical industry. He has two undergraduate degrees in computer science from Queen's University (Canada), Masters in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins, and PhD in Physics and Mathematics from Moscow State University. In December 2020 he developed and launched an online Longevity Medicine Course for Physicians taken by over 3,000 medical professionals. He is the adjunct professor of artificial intelligence at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

Prof. C V Jawahar
Dean, Research & Development, Head, Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), Machine Learning (ML) Lab & Executive Education Group (EEG)
IIITH

Prof. C. V. Jawahar is the Dean of Research & Development and Head of Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), Machine Learning (ML) Lab and Executive Education Group (EEG) at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH), India. He leads the research group focusing on computer vision, machine learning and multimedia systems. He is also the CEO of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE-IIITH) at IIIT Hyderabad

An Amazon Chair Professor, Prof. Jawahar is also an elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) and the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). His prolific research is globally recognized in the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision research community with more than 50 publications in top tier conferences and journals in computer vision, robotics and document image processing to his credit with over 9000 citations. He is awarded the ACM India Outstanding Contribution to Computing Education (OCCE) 2021 for fundamental, selfless service in teaching of computing, and nurturing a generation of students who now serve the larger society, and have led to an impact in multiple dimensions of computing education.

Extremely conscious of the social and practical relevance and application of research, Prof. Jawahar is actively engaged with several government agencies, ministries and leading companies around innovating at scale through research.

Pradeep Dubey
Intel Senior Fellow, Director, Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Labs
Intel

Pradeep K. Dubey is an Intel Senior Fellow and director of the Parallel Computing Lab, a part of the Intel Labs organization at Intel Corporation. He leads a team of top researchers focused on state-of-the-art research in parallel computing. Dubey and his team are responsible for defining computer architectures that can efficiently handle emerging machine learning/artificial intelligence, traditional HPC applications for data-centric computing environments, and deriving product differentiation opportunities for Intel’s CPU and GPU processing platforms. Dubey previously worked at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. Dubey has made significant contributions to the design, architecture and application performance of various microprocessors, including the IBM Power PC, the Intel386™, Intel486™, Intel® Pentium®, and Intel Xeon® processors. He holds 36 patents and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed technical papers. In 2012, Dubey was honored with an Intel Achievement Award for breakthroughs in parallel computing research, and was honored with Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University in 2014. Dubey holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. He is also a Fellow of IEEE.

Dr. Vidur Mahajan
MBBS, MBA

Dr. Vidur Mahajan runs CARING – the Centre for Advanced Research on Imaging, Neuroscience and Genomics – which works with more than 40 research groups across the world and aims to bring cutting-edge products in the artificial intelligence space into clinical practice through its platform called CARPL, which is world’s only platform for the development, testing and deployment of medical imaging AI in clinical practice. CARING has published several papers on AI and has more than 120 academic and conference papers in the field across the world. He is also additionally responsible for running Mahajan Imaging, one of India’s leading medical imaging providers, and CARINGdx, an advanced molecular diagnostics lab. He has done an MBA with dual majors in finance and healthcare management from the Wharton School of Business and did MBBS from Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai.

Sumner Lemon
Regional Director, Digital Transformation & Enterprise Sales, Asia-Pacific and Japan Territory
Intel

Sumner Lemon is the Regional Director for Digital Transformation and Enterprise Sales, Asia-Pacific & Japan Territory, responsible for leading Intel’s engagements with strategic end-user accounts across the region.Sumner joined Intel in 2010 and held several sales leadership roles across the region.He previously served as Director, Public Sector, Asia-Pacific & Japan, where he was responsible for all of Intel’s government, education and high-performance computing engagements. Sumner also served as Country Manager for Malaysia and Singapore,responsible for Intel’s sales and marketing activities in both countries. Prior to that role,Sumner was the Chief of Staff and Technical Assistant for the General Manager of IntelAsia-Pacific & Japan.Sumner holds an MBA from the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and a BA in East Asian Studies from Colby College.

Dr. Ilham A Habibie
MBA

Chief Executive ,National ICT Council, Republic of Indonesia

• Chief Executive, WANTIKNAS - National ICT Council of Indonesia –is a multi-stakeholder institution in the field of ICT, formed and chaired by the President of the Republic of Indonesia.
• President Director and Co-Founder of PT Ilthabi Rekatama, an Investment Holding Company with businesses in multiple sectors including PT Regio Aviasi Industri that is manufacturing the R80, a new generation Turboprop aircraft.
• Chairman & Co-Founder, PT OrbitVentura Indonesia (OVI), an education and innovation development company that has launched Orbit Future Academy – Skills for Future Jobs and Berkarya!Indonesia - a movement to create awareness on the culturalization of innovation and encouraging the nation to move from being consumptive to productive.
• Chairman of Bank Muamalat Tbk
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Habibie Center,
• Head of Research & Technology, Indonesia Chamber of Commerce (KADIN)

Asst. Prof. Putchong Uthayopas
Former Vice President for Digital Technology
Kasetsart University

Dr. Putchong Uthayopas is a professor at Kasetsart University, Thailand. He is Chairman of the Thai Universities Digital Transformation Strategic Committee under the Council of University Presidents of Thailand. He was the Vice President for Information (CIO), Kasetsart University, Thailand, responsible for KU's digital policy and digital strategy. He also serves in many government committees such as the Board of director of Digital Government Development Agency, Strategic Committee of the National Innovation Agency (NIA), Strategic Committee of the Institute for Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (IPST), Board of Technology of the Computing Center of the Court of Justice, Research Advisory Committee of NECTEC, IT Committee of the Thailand Science Research and Innovation, Committee in sub-committee for Government IT architecture and Standard under the National Committee for Digital Government. He is a committee that drafted the Thailand National AI Strategy for Ministry of Higher Education Science Research and Innovation and Ministry of Digital Economy and Society.

Yoshitaka Yamamuro
Head
World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Japan

Yoshitaka joined the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan in July 2021. Previously, he served as Director of the Asia Digital Transformation Policy Office at the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). As a policy expert and public servant, Yoshitaka has worked on a range of issues including corporate tax policy, green initiatives and digital industry. At the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan, he oversees projects related to data governance, healthcare data policy, mobility, smart cities and agile governance. Yoshitaka holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Tokyo, a Master of Arts from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Sachin V. Gopalan
Co Founder & President Director ,Orbit Future Academy

• Serial Entrepreneur, since age of 29 years. Grew into a Marketing Expert with experience in Business Information, Economic Research, Digital Media Assets such as News Channels & Portals, Newspapers & Magazines, Event Conceptualization and Management.
• Currently Co-Founder & President Director, PT Orbit Ventura Indonesia (OVI), an education and innovation development company that has launched Orbit Future Academy – Skills for Future Jobs
• Was Founding CEO of BeritaSatu Media Holdings, 3rd largest media group in Indonesia with several TV channels, newspapers, magazines, news portals, radio channels and over 125 events a year.
• Passion in building programs with Economic & Social Impact and is an author of futurist blogs
• Also currently,
  
  • Co-Founder, Habibie Festival of Technology & Innovation
  • Co-Founder, Indonesia Economic Forum
  • Co-Founder, Indonesia Education Forum

Paola Vega Castillo
Minister of Science, Innovation, Technology & Telecommunications, Costa Rica

Paola Vega has a degree in Electronic Engineer from Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR), she is also graduated Microelectronic and microsystems in Scientific master’s degree by TUHH. She became the first woman in Costa Rica to earn a PhD. in Microelectronics by Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH). Minister Vega was a postdoctoral researcher in the Nano electronic and medical electronic Institute in the TUHH, and she taught in the engineering career. She has particular interest in areas of the strategic knowledge as bioengineering, Tics, research on engineering as electronic, microelectronic and microelectromechanics systems. Paola was sworn as Minister of Science, Technology and Telecommunications on June 1st, 2020 and she was as Deputy Ministry of Science and Technology from May 8, 2018 to June 2020. She previously served as Vice President for Research and Outreach in the ITCR.

Ileana Rojas
Intel Costa Rica GM

Ileana Rojas is the General Manager for Intel Costa Rica and CR MPE Senior Director. She joined Intel in 1997 and brings more than 30 years of experience in engineering management, information security, strategic planning, and business operations across multiple Intel business groups including Software Engineering, Product Development, Information Security, Intel Capital, Finance and Global Shared Services. She has a solid track record of transforming organizations to industry benchmark standards. Ileana holds a BSc. In Information Systems and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). She is also passionate about women in STEM careers and has served for more than 20 years in the Site Leadership team. She leads the global MPE Women Development & Progression SO, is a member of the ATM D&I MRC and LAR NEW board. She is also the sponsor of the CR IBCN charter. Ileana tops the list of 2020 Forbes 100 most powerful women in Central America ( Forbes CA Magazine, August 2020).

Alfonso Pompa Padilla
Secretary of Innovation, Science & Technology, Jalisco, Mexico

Bachelor degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering by the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus (ITESM). Also, he has MBA by the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, in the United States of America. His most relevant professional career was for 35 years at the ITESM, performing as a teacher in the areas of Leadership and Strategic Planning at the undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education programs and especially in management positions, highlighting in: Rector of the Western Area. Rector of the South Central Area. Vice-President of the Campus of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, with national responsibility for the 26 Campus.

Andres Bursztyn
Vice Dean, National Technological University, Argentina

Information Systems Engineer graduated from the National Technological University, Buenos Aires Regional School, with a Postgraduate Degree in Business Management. Vice Dean of the Buenos Aires Regional Faculty of the National Technological University (2013 and continues). Vice President of the Professional Council in Computer Sciences of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2011 and continues). Secretary of Information and Communication Technologies in the Rectorate of UTN (2013-2017). Coordinator of the Network of Careers of Engineering in Information Systems / Informatics (RIISIC) of the Federal Council of Deans of Engineering (CONFEDI) (2013-2014). Secretary of Regulatory Affairs in the Network of National Universities with Computer Science Careers (REDUNCI) (2013-2015). Undersecretary Manager of Computer Applications - Directorate of Information Technology and Communications in the Attorney General's Office (2007-2012). Deputy Director of the Information and Dissemination Center at the Inter-American Foundation, under his responsibility the project of web applications and e-learning system for Latin America and the Caribbean sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank (1999-2004). Full Professor and researcher with more than 30 years of university teaching experience.

Bruce Andrews
Corporate Vice-president & Chief Government Affairs Officer

Bruce H. Andrews is corporate vice president and chief government affairs officer at Intel Corporation. Andrews leads Intel’s global government affairs group and oversees the company’s government affairs and public policy functions and strategies.

Andrews has more than 30 years of public policy and government relations experience. Prior to Intel, Andrews served as senior vice president and managing partner, co- leading global government affairs, at SoftBank group.

Prior to SoftBank, Andrews served as managing director at Rock Creek Global Advisors, an international economic and trade policy advisory firm. Prior to Rock Creek Global Advisors, he served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2014 to 2017 and chief of staff to the Secretary from 2011 to 2014. Prior to the Commerce Department, Andrews served as general counsel of the Senate Commerce Committee for Chairman Jay Rockefeller, and vice president of Governmental Affairs for Ford Motor Co., where he oversaw U.S. federal and state government affairs. Before that, he was one of the founding members of Quinn Gillespie & Associates. Additionally, Andrews was an attorney at Arnold & Porter, legislative director to Congressman Tim Holden and started his career with Senator Alan Cranston.

Andrews is a graduate of Haverford College and the Georgetown University Law Center.

German Rueda
Former Deputy Minister for Digital Transformation, Colombia

Germán Rueda is the former Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technologies of the Republic of Colombia, where he led the implementation of Colombia’s National Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation public policy. Prior to his role at the Ministry of ICT, Germán served as an advisor to the Minister of Health and Social Protection, leading the digital transformation agenda for the healthcare sector, which included the development of multiple regulation including the adoption of Electronic Health Record interoperability, the framework to scale implementation of telehealth, and guidelines to enforce electronic billing across the sector, among others.

Germán obtained his industrial engineering degree from the University of Miami in the United States, where he also graduated with honors from his Executive MBA focused on Healthcare Management and Policy. Additionally, he completed the social innovation program with StartingBloc at the London Business School. He currently works as an external consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank on technology, digital health, and skills development projects.

Enrique Cortes Bello
Director, Artificial Intelligence Hub at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico.

Enrique Cortés-Rello has extensive international experience in the application of advanced information technology to enable the digital transformation of businesses in multiple industries. Currently, Enrique is the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Hub of Tec de Monterrey, one of the first AI ecosystems in Latin America, and a technology advisor to several investment funds in Mexico and Europe.

Previously, Enrique was the managing director of Luxoft Mexico, a Swiss firm that specializes in the use of advanced technology such as data science and Artificial Intelligence for digital transformation in industries such as automotive, agribusiness, and electronic commerce. Prior to that, Enrique worked for Perot Systems/Dell in India, the UK, U.S., and the Philippines helping global customers digitalize their business in the travel, utilities, telecommunications, financial, and healthcare industries. Enrique has Master and PhD studies in Computer Science with specialization in AI from Arizona State University. He also attended the “Leading Professional Services Firms” program at Harvard Business School.

Carlos Rebellón
Director government relations for Spanish speaking countries & Canada;
Intel Corporation

Mr. Rebellon, “Rebe” is the current Director of Government Relations for Spanish speaking countries and Canada at Intel Corporation, a world leader in manufacturing of essential technologies that power the cloud and the connected world.
Carlos leads multiple Intel policy priorities subjects in the region such as AI, 5G, IoT, AD, public procurement, and digital transformation.
Carlos is currently chairman or member of boards at several industry associations in Latin America (IADB BEST network, IADB FAIR LAC Costa Rica, Internet Association MX, ANDI Colombia, CCIT Colombia and AmCham Argentina)
Before devoting his work fulltime to Intel, Carlos served as President of The Colombian National Post Services and as Executive Director of the Colombia’s Communications Commission CRC.
Carlos has over 17 years of experience in government and multinational companies in telecommunications, technology, and services industries in the areas of regulatory affairs, public policy, public procurement and sales.
In addition to being a policy expert, Carlos has also taught ICT regulation and utilities regulation at Universidad de los Andes, and Universidad Externado in Colombia for more than 12 years.

Cesar Said Rosales Torres
Project Manager, Fair LAC Entrepreneurial Journey

César Rosales coordinates the activities of the fAIr LAC initiative at IDB Lab oriented towards actors of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean, which promotes the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI). César is an international expert with professional experience in international organizations of the inter-American system based in Washington DC, as well as in countries of the region such as Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay, and has a multidimensional background in areas of development, technology and democracy in matters related to dynamics of inequality, exclusion and misinformation. César holds a master's degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, United States, and a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, and currently is PhD Candidate in Law at Pompeu Fabra University, Spain.

Mara Balestrini
Digital Transformation & experimentations advisor,
IADB Lab.

Mara Balestrini is Senior Advisor in Digital Transformation and Experimentation at IDB Lab. Mara Balestrini has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction. She has 10 years of experience at the intersection between user-centered design, adoption strategies, and the Internet of Things. She has been CEO of the innovation agency Ideas for Change and a cabinet advisor to the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence of the Government of Spain.

Andres Bursztyn
Vice Dean, National Technological University, Argentina

Information Systems Engineer graduated from the National Technological University, Buenos Aires Regional School, with a Postgraduate Degree in Business Management. Vice Dean of the Buenos Aires Regional Faculty of the National Technological University (2013 and continues). Vice President of the Professional Council in Computer Sciences of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2011 and continues). Secretary of Information and Communication Technologies in the Rectorate of UTN (2013-2017). Coordinator of the Network of Careers of Engineering in Information Systems / Informatics (RIISIC) of the Federal Council of Deans of Engineering (CONFEDI) (2013-2014). Secretary of Regulatory Affairs in the Network of National Universities with Computer Science Careers (REDUNCI) (2013-2015). Undersecretary Manager of Computer Applications - Directorate of Information Technology and Communications in the Attorney General's Office (2007-2012). Deputy Director of the Information and Dissemination Center at the Inter-American Foundation, under his responsibility the project of web applications and e-learning system for Latin America and the Caribbean sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank (1999-2004). Full Professor and researcher with more than 30 years of university teaching experience.