Prof. Dr. Eleni Kosta is full Professor of Technology Law and Human Rights at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands). Eleni was awarded the title of Doctor of Laws at the KU Leuven (Belgium) with a thesis on consent in data protection. Eleni is conducting research on human rights and technology, specilising on privacy and data protection, as well as on artificial intelligence and engages with a borad range of issues in the context of law an technology, such as eEvidence, Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing of terrorism etc. She recently co-edited with Franziska Boem a Commentary on the Law Enforcement Directive (2016/680) published by OUP. She has been involved in numerous EU research projects and is teaching "Capita Selecta Privacy and Data Protection" at the LLM Law & Technology of the Tilburg Law School, among other courses. In 2014 Eleni was awarded a personal research grant for research on privacy and surveillance by the Dutch Research Organisation (VENI/NWO). She is a member of the AI Board Subgroup on Regualtory Sandboxes and of KYSATS, the Cyprus for the recognition of higher education qualifications. Eleni also collaborates as associate with timelex (www.timelex.eu).

Juraj is an EU official at the Data Protection Unit of DG Justice and Consumers of the European Commission. He is working on the development and application of EU data protection law for more than a decade. Juraj has been closely involved in the process of drafting and negotiating the new EU data protection legislation, particularly focusing on the Law Enforcement Directive (EU) 2016/680, the Data Protection Regulation for Union institutions and bodies and data protection rules for the European Public Prosecutors’ Office and Eurojust. He publishes regularly on topical issues for data protection in the area of law enforcement. He is also a part-time postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), after defending his PhD in2024 jointly at VUB and Uni.Lu.

Evangelos Zarkadoulas is a Senior Officer of the Hellenic Police specializing in the investigation of serious and organized crime, having served, inter alia, in the Homicide Department of the Attica Security Directorate. In recent years, he has held the position of Justice and Home Affairs Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union, where he acts as a liaison between the Hellenic Police and the European institutions on matters of internal security, police cooperation, and information exchange. He represents Greece in working groups of the European Commission and the European Artificial Intelligence Board that address the use of artificial intelligence in law enforcement and its regulation within the EU institutional framework. Academically, he is a PhD candidate in Law and a researcher at the Cyber and Data Security Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), focusing his research on the proportionate and responsible use of artificial intelligence by law enforcement authorities in the European Union.

Evi Chatziliasi works for the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), where she serves as Head of the Sector responsible for supervising the EU agencies operating in the area of Freedom, Security and Justice, a position she has held since April 2024. She has been part of the EDPS Supervision & Enforcement Unit since September 2020. Evi grew up and studied in Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds an LL.M. from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Before joining the EDPS, she practised law in Greece for four years. She then became a legal auditor at the Hellenic Data Protection Authority, a role she held for 12 years. During that time, she served as coordinator of the Legal Office, focusing on public administration, national defence, law enforcement and public order. She first joined the EDPS Supervision & Enforcement Unit in 2018. In 2019, she was appointed Data Protection Officer of the European Central Bank and moved to Frankfurt, where she worked until 2020, when she returned to the EDPS.