Alex Spokoiny, Chief Information Officer at Check Point, leads the company’s global IT services, including business applications, datacentres, cloud, security, and IT business continuity areas.
Camila Pintarelli is State Attorney before the Brazilian Supreme Courts, currently appointed to serve as Head of the National Homeland Security Fund at the Brazilian Ministry of Justice.
Fabian Stephany is an Assistant Professor in AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. He is also a Future of Work fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, an inaugural fellow at Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute, and a research affiliate at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin.
theFreesheet editor George Hopkin is a veteran journalist with over 35 years of experience. As a specialist in technology reporting, Hopkin covers the full spectrum of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
Guy Grainger is Global Head of Sustainability Services and ESG at NYSE-listed real estate services company JLL where he has overall responsibility for sustainability services, products and strategy, and for JLL’s corporate sustainability program.
Dr. Heather Domin is Vice President and Head of Office of Responsible AI and Governance at HCLTech where she spearheads centralized functions for responsible AI and governance. Prior to her role at HCLTech, she was Global Leader of Responsible AI Initiatives at IBM. She serves as co-chair of the IAPP advisory board for the AI Governance Professional (AIGP) certification exam development board. She has also served as a World Economic Forum Fellow, Associate Director of the Notre Dame - IBM Tech Ethics Lab, and has contributed to numerous other industry working groups and alliances.
Jayasree K. Iyer is the CEO of the Access to Medicine Foundation, a non-profit organisation that stimulates and guides the pharmaceutical industry and other health sectors to do more to close the gaps in healthcare inequity.
Joel Christoph is a Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, where his research focuses on the economics of frontier AI governance, including compute regulation, market-based security mechanisms, and international coordination. He is also a researcher in economics at the European University Institute, supported by the Japan-IMF Scholarship.
Kevin Werbach is Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and Director, Blockchain and Digital Asset Project, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Laura Veldkamp is the Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance & Economics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, with an economics Ph.D. from Stanford. She has been a board member and chair of the governance committee for the American Finance Association, an editor of the Journal of Economic Theory and a frequent keynote speaker at prestigious academic conferences in both finance and economics.
Dr Maha Hosain Aziz is a professor, author and speaker in global risk and future trends based at NYU's MA International Relations Program, leading the annual global risk prediction project with crowdsourced consultancy Wikistrat; she is a risk expert on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council, co-chair in policy overseeing the AI Policy Brief Series at think tank The Digital Economist and senior advisor on geopolitics at global boutique firm for impact Enlighten Advisory.
Namit Agarwal is Head of Programme - People & Social Impact, leading the World Benchmarking Alliance's social transformation work with public policy, companies and investors on issues of transparency, accountability, human rights and gender.
Nilmini Rubin leads global public policy for Hedera, an enterprise-grade distributed public network governed by a Council of leading global institutions.
Professor Niusha Shafiabady is Head of Discipline for IT and the Director of Women in AI for Social Good lab at ACU at Australian Catholic University. She is an internationally recognised expert in computational intelligence, artificial intelligence, and optimisation, with more than two decades of experience bridging academia and industry.
Peter De Caluwe is the CEO and Deputy Chairman of Thunes, where he leads strategic and operational efforts to accelerate real-time, secure and cost-efficient cross-border payments, with a focus on expanding the Direct Global Network and advancing financial inclusion in emerging markets.
Shahid Ahmed is Group Executive Vice-President, New Ventures and Innovation, at NTT Data Group, responsible for driving new digital experiences, offerings and technologies.
Shane Moore is CEO of Derby-based QSC Safety Consultants, which has spent more than 30 years helping blue-chip industrial and manufacturing clients manage workplace and building safety across high-risk plants and complex estates.
Sreevas Sahasranamam is a Professor at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. His work focuses on enabling SDG-aligned innovation and entrepreneurship at the intersection of emerging technologies, ecosystems, and policy. He has contributed to global policy platforms including the G20, serving as Co-Chair of the Startup20 Sustainability Taskforce (India, 2023), Advisor to the ESG Taskforce (Brazil, 2024), and Advisor to the Digital Economy Working Group (South Africa, 2025).
Todd Grindal, EdD, is the President of SRI Education, where he provides strategic leadership across a wide range of research, evaluation, and technical assistance initiatives designed to inform education policy and practice.
Dr. Vibha Dhawan is the Director General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the Chancellor of the TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS). She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Consul General South Asia Partnership, Michigan State University.
