Sjoera Nas is a senior privacy consultant at Privacy Company. She worked for almost 12 years at the Dutch Data Protection Authority as head of the internet team. Sjoera has conducted numerous Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) on Big Tech cloud services for SURF and for the Dutch government. Her comprehensive reports on the risks of data processing by Microsoft (Windows, Microsoft 365, Copilot), AWS, Google, Zoom and Facebook (Pages) are publicly available. Sjoera publishes summaries of these DPIA and DTIA in blogs on www.privacycompany.eu, and publishes updates on linkedIn.

Prof. Dr. Julian Kunkel is a Professor of High-Performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Göttingen and serves as Deputy Head of High-Performance Computing at the Göttingen Supercomputing Center (GWDG). He is a leading expert in HPC storage systems, performance analysis, and the software engineering of scientific applications. Prof. Kunkel's academic journey began with a deep interest in high-performance computing storage, which he developed during his studies in computer science in 2003. Prior to his current position, he held postdoctoral research roles at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), where he worked closely with the Scientific Computing group at the University of Hamburg. He also served as a lecturer at the University of Reading. At the University of Göttingen, Prof. Kunkel manages several research projects focused on advancing HPC technologies. His primary research goals include developing efficient and performance-portable I/O systems, optimizing data reduction techniques, and improving the management and performance analysis of parallel applications and cluster systems. He also leads the german AI service center "KISSKI" (AI service center for critical infrastructures), providing basic AI services to over 500 german institutions and over 1 Mio users as well as providing AI resources to startups, SMEs and the public sector. Prof. Kunkel is a founding member of the IO500 benchmarking effort, the Virtual Institute for I/O (VI4IO), and the HPC Certification Forum.

Cynthia C. S. Liem is a tenured Associate Professor at the Multimedia Computing Group of Delft University of Technology. She pursued Computer Science degrees (BSc, MSc, PhD) at Delft University of Technology, and Classical Piano Performance degrees (BMus, MMus) at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Furthermore, she gained considerable research and software engineering experience in industry at Bell Labs Europe Netherlands, Philips Research, Google UK, and Google Inc. in Mountain View, USA. Her research interests are in trustworthy and responsible AI; here, she especially focuses on techniques that make people discover new interests and content which would not trivially be retrieved, and questions of validation and validity in data-driven decision-making. After starting in music information retrieval, today, her research considers broader public-interest domains with high societal impact. With her track record in inter- and transdisciplinary collaborative research and public engagement (e.g. as first technical commenter on the childcare benefit scandal in The Netherlands), she became a sought-after communicator. She also is a committed teacher, playing a major role in developing mandatory courses on Responsible Computer Science and Responsible AI in the master's curricula in Computer Science and AI of TU Delft. Dr Liem received recognition through multiple awards (Lucent Global Science and Google Anita Borg Europe Memorial scholarships, Google European Doctoral Fellowship, finalist of the New Scientist Science Talent Award, Researcher-in-Residence at the National Library of The Netherlands, Women in AI Netherlands Diversity Leader Award, Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Dyson Pioneer Award), and was a 2021-2026 member of the Dutch national Young Academy. As a musician, she also still has an active performing career, particularly with the Magma Duo (with Emmy Storms, violin), which has been award-winning both nationally and internationally.