Speakers


Anna Abramova
Head of the Department of Digital economy and AI
MGIMO-University

Peter Addo
Head of Emerging Tech Lab
AFD

Darlington Akogo
CEO
minoHealth AI Labs, karaAgro AI, Runmila AI Institute, and Gudra AI Studio

Abdou Ambarka
Sèmè City

Pauline Audenino
Project Director
Agenium Space

Emmanuel Bacry
Senior Researcher
CNRS

Adrien Barrot
Head of Data Factory
Airbus Atlantic

Janine Berg
Senior Economist
International Labour Organisation

Stijn Broecke
Senior Economist
OECD

Sebastian Calderon
Program Coordinator
i4Policy

Pyrou Chung
Director
East-West Management Institute's Open Development Initiative, Knowledge for Development Foundation

Anne de Kinkelin
Deputy Director of Digital Environments
France Media Monde

Agnès de Leersnyder
CEO
Future4Care

Paul Duan
CEO
Bayes Impact

Charles Dzadu
Software Engineer & Co-Founder
Makifaa

Mohamed Farahat
Legal Consultant and AI Expert
UN AI Advisory Body

Floriane Fay
Head of Institutional Relations and Sustainable Development
Google

Juliette Fropier
AI Project Manager
Ecolab / French Ministry of Ecological Transition

Deshni Govender
Project Lead FAIR Forward
GIZ

Gry Hasselbalch
Author & Scholar | Co-founder
DataEthics.Eu / EU International Outreach for Human-Centric Approach to AI

Maha Jouini
AI policy researcher / AI for Peace / Digital transformation consultant / AI Ethics / Tech - Governance / Pan African and Feminist Author
AI Activist

Amandine Kashani-Poor
Data Protection Officer
AFD

Solomon Kassa
Senior Advisor to Ethiopian AI Institute | TV Personality | Founder, 1888EC | Author | Public Speaker | Social Media Influencer
AI Ethopian Institute, 1888EC

Silver Kelk
Head Of (Business/Innovation) Development
Ülemiste City/Mainor AS

Paul Kennedy
Chief of Staff
Zindi

Lacina Koné
CEO
Smart Africa

Ariane Labat
Head of Unit European Commission, Directorate-General for International Partnerships
European Commission, Directorate-General for International Partnerships

Yavel Mireya Francis Lanuza
Ambassador, Head of Mission
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Panama

François-Marie Lesaffre
AI Technologist
Sopra Steria

Emmanuel Létouzé
CEO
Data Pop Alliance

Vo Manh Linh
Deputy Head of Division
Vietnam Ministry of Digital Transformation

Marie-Hélène Loison
Deputy CEO
AFD

Nicolas Maillot
Edge AI Engineering Lead
Thalès

Natali Marina
CEO
Noty.ai

Pierre-Philippe Mathieu
Space Tech Innovation
European Spatial Agency

Thomas Melonio
Director of Innovation Strategy and Research
AFD

Carla Montesi
Director general
European Commission, Directorate-General for International Partnerships

Melody Musoni
Policy officer
ECDPM

Dr Lawrence Nderu
Chairman, Lecturer, and Researcher in AI/ML, Software Engineering & Founder
JKIAN Hub

Seydina Ndiaye
Program Director
Force-N

Aissatou Ndiaye
Director for ICT
Senegal Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Economy

Reina Otsuka
Digital Innovation Lead for Nature, Climate and Chemicals &Waste, BPPS
United Nations Development Programme

Dr. Matthias Peissner
Director Human-Technology Interaction
Fraunhofer IAO

Jérémie Pellet
Chief Executive Officer
Expertise France

Séverine Peters Desteract
Director of the Sustainable and Inclusive Economy Department
Expertise France

Dr. Craig Ramlal
Lecturer
University of the West Indies

Sid Ravinutala
Director of Data Science,
IDinsight

Claudia Roda
Professor, Director of MSc in Human Rights and Data Science
American University of Paris

Laura Sandor
Programme Manager
The Data Tank

Prateek Sibal
Inclusive Policy Lab
UNESCO

Emilie Sirvent-Hien
Responsible AI Program Manager
Orange

Samar Sobeih
Vice President of Public Policy - Middle East and Africa.
Moharram & Partners

Guillaume Soulères
Manager, Project Director
Tactis

Veronika Stabej
Ambassador
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia

Anastasia Stasenko
Cofounder
Pleias

Funda Ustek Spilda
Senior Researcher and Project Manager
Fairwork, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

Arnaud Valleteau
CEO
Veolia Water Technologies

Jean Van Wetter
CEO
Enabel

Stefaan Verhulst
Co-Founder
The Data Tank

Jimena Viveros
Member of the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on AI, and Chief of Staff and Head Legal Advisor to Justice Loretta Ortiz
Mexico Supreme Court

Charlotte Weil
Data scientist & software team lead
EPFL (Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Swizerland)

François Yvon
Senior Researcher
CNRS

Izni Zahidi
Engineer
Monash University Malaysia