Among the world’s best-known privacy & cyber advisers, Lokke Moerel is regularly called upon by some of the world’s most complex multinational organizations to confront their global privacy and ethical challenges when implementing new technologies and digital business models and to assist them with their global cyber incident response and regulatory investigations. Lokke is Co-Academic Director (together with Freddy Dezeure) of the Tilburg University professional learning program Advanced Cyber Security & Governance as well as of the professional learning program AI & Law (teaching Algorithmic Accountability). Lokke is a member of the Dutch Cyber Security Council (the advisory body of the Dutch cabinet on cybersecurity), expert on cyber of the European Commission’s Horizon2020 Innovation Program, member of the Advisory Boards of the Dutch Academic Cyber Security Society (ACCSS) and The Hague Security Delta (HSD) and chair of the board of the Netherlands Atlantic Association. She was a member of the latest Monitoring Committee Dutch Corporate Governance Code.

Renate Verheijen is a double qualified lawyer: she has a master's degree in International & European Law and obtained a master's degree in Private Law (specialization in business law with bar qualifications). With a solid back ground in consulting sector (EY) she built up her professional career as strategic advisor for the Board of Directors of a large hospital. She specialized in Cyberlaw and worked as legal counsel for Secura B.V. (Cybersecurity Services), respectively as Data Privacy Manager Europe for Fox-IT B.V./NCC (Cybersecurity Services) located in the Netherlands, before joining the EU Agency for Cybersecurity in Athens, Greece. Cybersecurity and more specifically EU Cybersecurity, is her true passion. She is a lead Implementer for ISO/IEC 27002 and 27701 and is CIPP/E certified. She guided Cybersecurity Certification teams and their Ad Hoc Working Groups of experts that develop an EU Cybersecurity Certification Framework, from legal perspective and guided and supported the Member States (the EU Cybersecurity Certification Group: ECCG) and the European Commission in this respect. She was the central contact point for the EU Stakeholder Cybersecurity Certification Group (SCCG) on behalf of the Agency and as such closely involved in their activities. Recently she has been promoted as Head of Resources of the Agency dealing with legal, privacy and cybersecurity matters from the Agency’s internal organization as well as procurement, finance and HR matters"

Pier Giorgio Chiara is assistant professor junior (ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo a)) of the School of Law and CIRSFID – ALMA AI Center at the University of Bologna. In March 2023, he obtained a Joint PhD degree in Law Science and Technology from the University of Bologna and in Law from the University of Luxembourg, with the mark ‘excellent’ (Marie Sklodowska-Curie ‘Last-JD-RIoE’ project). His research mainly focuses on the normative issues (ethical, legal and social) of emerging digital technologies, with a particular focus on cybersecurity, privacy and personal data protection and ethics and governance of artificial intelligence. He is associate editor at the international journal ‘AIRe - Journal of AI Law and Regulation’ (Lexxion publisher).

Niovi Vavoula is an Associate Professor and Chair in Cyber Policy at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. Prior to her appointment she was Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, where she completed her postgraduate and doctoral studies. Her research focuses on the legal challenges, particularly regarding fundamental rights and the rule of law, posed by the regulation of new technologies, such as AI and cybersecurity, such as law enforcement, criminal law and migration management.