With over 15+ years of experience in government reform, policy and digital transformation leadership Tamara has developed a global reputation for introducing the culture, practices and technologies of the digital era to help governments better serve the public. Tamara is a tech ambasador, entrepreneur, board director and scholar and is currently advising and supporting government leaders in the USA and Europe in gov tech, tech policy, public administration reform and digital transformation efforts.

At the core of Tamara’s mission has been empowering leaders in government, and driving culture change by introducing mindset, practices and modern digital delivery skills, building teams highly skilled in human centered design, iterative product delivery and empathetic group facilitation. She is a founder of Rebel Alliance, an open civic org that aims to empower public servants in Europe and around the world in their public service modernization and in fostering a culture of openness, learning, risk taking and psychological safety.

Tamara served as the Minister of Public Administration, Digital Society and Media of Montenegro (2020-2022). Under Tamara’s leadership Montenegro government reshaped key policies and standards, propelled public private partnerships, saved money, improved services and built lasting capability for innovation and digital service delivery. Previously, over the past two California administrations Tamara championed the course for the priority policy initiatives and digital service and public transformation strategies for the world’s 5th largest economy. She has built two startups for the state of California, recruited and cultivated world-class technology talent, and developed critical partnerships that changed how the government delivers services to the public.

Francis Maude has nearly four decades of high-level international experience in business and government.

As Minister for the UK Cabinet Office, Lord Francis Maude created the world-leading UK Government Digital Service (GDS) to lead whole-of-government digital transformation from the centre of government. With Francis’s oversight from 2011-2016, GDS saved over 1.8 billion GBP through spend controls alone with a total saving of 4 billion GBP across all government IT contracts; created GOV.UK, the award-winning, single government online portal; transformed the most-used public services to fully meet the needs of users; and reformed procurement for digital products and services, stimulating the UK tech sector. As a result, the UK was ranked number 1 in the UN e-Government Development Index in 2016. He was also responsible for the creation of the world’s first social investment bank, Big Society Capital.

Since leaving government in 2016, Francis has chaired FMA, a practitionerled venture that supports governments to implement reform; to save money, improve public services and build lasting capability. He recently completed a review of the governance and accountability of the British government civil service.

Since April 2022, Pedro Tavares is the Portuguese Secretary of State for Justice, heading the digital policies, both for courts and the registry systems. Previously, he worked as General Coordinator at eBUPi – Simplified Land Digital Registry Mission Unit, the Portuguese public agency responsible for the expansion of a new cadaster and registry initiative using a digital approach. BUPi won several projects, namely Cities and Territories of the Future by APDC; Best Digital Transformation APDSI; Apolitical Global Public Service Team of the Year – Runner-Up; and OECD innovation best practice mention.

From 2015 to 2020 he was a Senior Advisor at the cabinets of the Minister of Justice and of the Secretary of State for Justice, where he managed different innovation and transformative projects and policies, including a Justice Innovation Lab, transparency and participation projects, or new digital Citizen-centric services. He acted as the Ministry’s contact point for the OECD digital policies and for several international projects with the European Commission.

In the public sector, Pedro worked on innovation projects such as the new concept for the citizens’ one-stop shops (Lojas de Cidadão), or the Citizens’ Portal. He has had different positions focused on digital transformation and innovation, including roles managing digital services, communication, transparency and participation initiatives.

Pedro also worked in the private sector as marketing & innovation director at different IT companies, including PHC Software and Inetum.

Moreover, he was a digital marketing & communications trainer at INA and Lisbon Digital School, and a guest lecturer at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Instituto Politécnico de Santarém.

Pedro holds a master’s degree in Digital by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a post-graduation in Business Administration by ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics & Management, a BA in Communication Studies by Universidade Nova de Lisboa and an advanced course in Digital Innovation by The University of Chicago.

Miguel A. Porrúa is the Coordinator of the Data and Digital Government Cluster at the IFD/ICS Unit of the Inter-American Development Bank. Prior to this position, Miguel was a senior e-Government Specialist at the Organization of American States (OAS) where he managed the Organization´s e-Government portfolio. Previously Miguel was the Director of Government Relations for Latin America at the electronic government company govWorks, based in New York, where he oversaw various electronic government projects in the region. Prior to his arrival in the US, Miguel lived in Montevideo (Uruguay) where he managed projects related to the modernization of the public sector for the Spanish government (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development, AECID) and the United Nations (UNDP).

Thomas Abell is the Director for ADB’s Digital Technology for Development Division, which promotes the effective use of digital technology across ADB programs to improve development impact. His team works with ADB member countries in supporting the transition to the digital economy and provides assistance across many areas, including eGovernment, connectivity, tech startup ecosystems, earth observation, technology policy, and industry partnerships.

Thomas has over 30 years of professional experience in digital technology, including technology policy and strategy, software development, and systems architecture. During his 10+ years of experience in international development, he has worked extensively across Asia, Africa and Latin America, working with governments, development organizations, NGOs and corporations. He has authored many publications on technology innovation in development, focused mainly on education, financial inclusion and agriculture. Thomas has master’s degrees in engineering and management and a bachelors in engineering from MIT.

Rudi is the director of the Open Government Partnership Local program. Previous to this role he was Undersecretary of Public Innovation and Open Government at the Cabinet Office of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. In this position, Rudi was in charge of the National Open Government Strategy, developing Argentina’s first open data infrastructure, advancing open government reforms with three open state action plans and running LABgobAR (the National Government Lab) to support capacity building and innovation projects using user-centered design with more than 30.000 government officials involved. In 2018 he chaired the Digital Economy task force during Argentina’s presidency of the G20. In 2012 he directed the Open Government Strategy for the City of Buenos Aires, advancing projects in open data, citizen participation, civic tech, open government and digital transformation.

Mara Balestrini is an expert in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with 15 years of experience in planning and executing digital transformation and innovation projects. She currently works at the Innovation Laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank, BID Lab, where she coordinates the implementation of the digital transformation program, provides advice on the use of disruptive technologies in operations, and is a member of the fAIr LAC initiative for the ethical development and use of artificial intelligence in the region. Before joining IDB Lab, Mara was an advisor to the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence of the Government of Spain and CEO of the innovation consultancy Ideas for Change.
Mara holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University College London (UCL) and a master’s degree in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). She is a member of the board of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and a researcher at the Public Governance Center of ESADE (EsadeGov). Her work has been recognized at ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, Ars Electronica, among others, and has been featured in international media such as the BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and El País.

Miguel is a Senior Operations Officer in the World Bank’s Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) Group. In this role, Miguel focuses on providing strategic and analytical support to World Bank country teams to more effectively address the underlying drivers and impacts of FCV. His current area of focus includes examining FCV dynamics in Somalia, Kenya, and the Horn of Africa region. Previously, he was part of the core team that developed the World Bank Group’s first FCV Strategy, and also helped to establish the Global Concessional Financing Facility – an international platform to support middle-income countries address the development challenges posed by refugee crises. Miguel has experience in international organizations working on development and conflict-related issues, and holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative (UNDP) in Uruguay. He has more than 25 years of experience in development cooperation at the United Nations. Previously to this position he served in Paraguay as UNDP Deputy Resident Representative between 2018-2022.  Alfonso held regional responsibilities acting as Chief Business Solutions & Operations at the Regional Center for Latin-America & the Caribbean (2014-2018) and working at the Regional Center for Southern & Eastern Africa (2006 – 2008).

He also was appointed Advisor to the Strategy and Policy Unit of the UNDP Bureau of Management in New York.

Alfonso joined UNDP in 2002 and has worked extensively in the Americas, Africa, and Europe.

Fernández de Castro holds a degree in Business Administration from the Autonomous University of Madrid and holds a Master in innovation and leadership management from the MIT Sloan School of Management (Cambridge, Massachusetts).

Ms. Natalia Aristimuño Pérez is currently Director of Digital Enablers & Innovation at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Digital Services. Before her appointment as a Director, she was responsible for the Interoperability Unit. Her past experience combines different Head of Unit positions in the domains of delivering solutions for human resources, decision-making, document and knowledge management. Since she joined the European Commission in 2000, she has been involved in developing user-friendly solutions for public administrations and the European Commission itself. She graduated Deusto University (Bilbao, Spain) with IT background and has a deep knowledge of the business domains she works with.

Joy Bonaguro has spent her career working at the nexus of data, design, technology, and policy. Most recently, Joy served as Chief Data Officer of the State of California with an overarching goal to improve government use of data. She established the Office of the CDO along with a suite of statewide data services. Prior to her state role, she was responsible for scaling internal systems, data, and information security at Corelight, a high-growth cybersecurity startup funded by Accel and General Catalyst. Prior to Corelight, she served as the first Chief Data Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, where she pioneered multiple initiatives to introduce data science, streamline data access, improve data management, and boost capacity to use data. Before that, Joy developed technology, cyber and privacy policy across the Department of Energy’s National Laboratory System. Her career started in New Orleans with seven years designing and managing the development of information systems to support planning and decision-making for local governments and nonprofits. Joy earned her Master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and her Bachelor’s in Mathematics and Philosophy from Tulane University.

At this moment I am working for the Innovation Office (CTO) of the City of Amsterdam. Working in an innovative and vibrant team provides me with the energy to strive for a future-proof, green and resilient Amsterdam. In the CTO, we work with short-term experiments in living labs cooperatively with citizens and market parties. Currently, I commit myself to the digital transition in the field of Smart Mobility with a strong focus on secure data exchange between all stakeholders in the Smart Mobility eco-system. Mobility data is an essential building block to arrive at a livable future city. Mobility generates freedom and does not stop at borders. To create a European, connected, and green mobility network, we must connect the local networks and move together towards a new way of multi-modal travel. In this process, mobility data is vital. Mobility data, however, also entails risks, especially if we start linking datasets on a European scale. That is why I am committed to ensuring privacy and security in this transition so that everyone will soon be able to travel safely, greener, and more comfortably throughout Europe.

Alexander has worked for the Scottish Government since 2014. Between 2015-2019 he established the Scottish Government’s CivTech Programme, Europe’s first GovTech programme. In that time he won/shortlisted for numerous awards including winning the Leadership Award at the Scottish Public Service Awards. Since 2020 he established and co-chairs the GovTech Global Alliance (formerly the CivTech Alliance) – a global network of similar government teams and that year was named as one of the Top 20 global leaders in GovTech. In 2021, he was listed in World Economic Forum’s Agile 50 list – 50 global leaders navigating disruption. That same year, he designed and co-delivered the Alliance’s COP26 Global Scale Up Programme which won Apolitical’s Global Public Service Team of the Year – Climate Award, and was shortlisted for two Scottish Public sector sustainability awards. In 2023 he participated in the World Economic Forum’s inaugural GovTech Network workshop in Geneva. He is a massive believer in harnessing the power of the entrepreneurial mindset to transform public service delivery and the value gained from cross-border collaboration.

Specialist in innovation and transformation of public institutions. He is a Public Administrator and Master in Business Engineering and Information Technologies from the University of Chile. He led projects in the Government Laboratory of Chile, currently being its Executive Director. He directed the Fiscal Expenditure Observatory and led the area of business intelligence and studies at the General Comptroller Office of Chile. Professor of Public Innovation at the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana.

Master in Business Administration from Universidad Externado de Colombia, specialist in Information and Communication Systems and Logistics Management, Economist.
She has experience in National and Territorial Public Management, specifically in the design and implementation of Public Policies and investment projects in ecosystemic conservation, risk management, climate change, land use planning and public finance issues.

She has extensive knowledge in formulation and implementation of projects of the General System of Royalties, especially in Science, Technology and Innovation and Social Appropriation of Knowledge.

She has served as a leader of major initiatives in the public and private sector, advised the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications on issues of the General System of Royalties in ICT aspects.

She was Secretary of Finance and Secretary of Planning and ICT of the department of Tolima, where she stood out for promoting an equitable, competitive and sustainable department, ensuring the fulfillment of resources with transparency and efficiency.

She was also a member of the board of directors of RAP-E, where she contributed to the construction and structuring of environmental and climate change projects, including the preservation and conservation of moorlands.

She also advised the Mayor’s Office of Ibagué and was a professor of higher education, among others.

Since 2020 she has headed the environmental authority of Tolima, and has been re-elected for the 2024 – 2027 term thanks to her great results. Together with her technical team, she has managed to transform the Regional Autonomous Corporation into an efficient, transparent and close to the people entity, always ensuring the protection and conservation of the department’s natural resources.

Brigadier General Juan Sánchez Delgado is currently serving as the Acting Director of the Spanish Space Agency, where he is Director of Security and Planning. His work focuses on achieving the space-related objectives set out in the National Security Strategy, the National Aerospace Security Strategy, and the EU and NATO strategies and policies.

He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1990. Transport pilot and Armed Forces General Staff graduate, he has extensive experience in air operations, logistics, planning and programs management.

Before joining the Spanish Space Agency, he was appointed advisor to the Deputy Air and Space Force Chief of Staff. In that position he led the works on the Air Force Space Strategy and the creation of the Space Command within the Air and Space Force structure.

Mikheil Chikviladze is a highly accomplished professional with a solid background in business administration, data processing and analytics. Armed with a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Mikheil brings a wealth of expertise and hands-on experience to the ever-evolving landscape of the Georgian Revenue Service.

Currently, Mikheil serves as the Deputy Head of the Analytical Department, playing important role towards increasing analytical capabilities and digitalization level of the tax administration.

Throughout his career, Mikheil has led and contributed to crucial projects, like the Large Taxpayers Office, Automatic VAT Refunds, Tax Gap calculations, developing small Data Warehouse, crafting Key Performance Indicators for ongoing programs and so on.

Mikheil finds intersection of tax administration and modern technology as an exciting space, a place where every challenge is an opportunity and every innovation is a step towards a better future.

Niall Brennan is the Senior Advisor for Data Strategy to the CDC Director. In this role, he provides guidance to the CDC Director on the multi-billion dollar CDC Data Modernization Initiative (DMI), as well as working directly with CDC Centers and Offices to accelerate implementation of the DMI.

Prior to coming to CDC, Brennan was Chief Analytics and Privacy Officer at Clarify Health, where he led Clarify’s analytics and informatics strategy. He joined Clarify following his role as president and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute, from 2017–2022, and previously served as the Chief Data Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, from 2010–2017, where he led the Obama administration’s healthcare transparency efforts, built an advanced analytics enterprise, and played a key role in implementing numerous Affordable Care Act provisions, including the Qualified Entity Program and the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.

Brennan is a graduate of Georgetown University’s MPP program and has an undergraduate degree from University College Dublin. He is married to Myra and has two children, Niamh (22) and Eoghan (17), who he inflicted difficult-to-pronounce Irish names upon. He is proud to be a native of Ireland, an immigrant, and a naturalized US Citizen.

Ana Garcia-Hernandez is a Senior Policy and Research Manager at J-PAL Europe, where she works in partnership with the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration in Spain and the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI). The partnership aims to generate evidence through multiple randomised evaluations of Social Inclusion and use it to inform policymaking in Spain.

Ana has served as a principal investigator and co-investigator for several randomised evaluations and other studies on women’s political participation, girls’ access to education and empowerment, and ethics in development research in Uganda, Zambia, and Colombia. She has also been an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) consultant.

Before joining J-PAL, Ana was a postdoctoral researcher in a position shared between Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Colombia and Universidad del Rosario. Ana holds a Ph.D. in Economics from NOVA SBE, an M.Sc. in Specialized Economic Analysis from Barcelona School of Economics, and a BSc in Economics from Carlos III University. Before her doctoral studies, she worked as a Senior Research Associate for Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in Uganda. At IPA, she managed randomised evaluations in governance and gender.

Alfonso is a blockchain and web3 advisor in the Secretariat of Innovation and Transformation. He leads the Growth and Ecosystem team building the digital trust framework (QuarkID), and he teaches in the web3 master program at Metapro Academy and at ITBA.

He has developed programs for community engagement and web3 technical adoption in disadvantaged neighborhoods in his hometown of Buenos Aires, working with DAOs and projects funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Isabel is a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State,
currently serving as the Economic Counselor in U.S. Embassy Madrid. From
2021-2022 she served as Director for North America in the White House
National Security Council, where she helped craft the President’s bilateral
agendas with Mexico and Canada and revived structures for North American
integration. She also served as Economic and Political Counselor in U.S.
Embassy Panama City, focusing on illicit finance, geostrategic security issues,
and maritime affairs, and was Deputy Director in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs’ Office of Policy Planning and Coordination (WHA/PPC), which fields regional issues in the Western Hemisphere. She also served as Political Counselor and Trade Officer in U.S. Embassy Mexico City from 2012-2016 during trade agreement negotiations under the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Prior assignments include serving as Commercial Attaché in the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia during the Arab Spring and as a Dean and Virginia Rusk Fellow at Georgetown University, where she studied development issues in the Americas. She was a Watch Officer in the State Department Operations Center, which informs the Secretary of State and manages breaking global crises, and served in the U.S. Embassies in Caracas, Venezuela and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
She has served as co-chair and was a founder of Balancing Act @ State, an employee
organization that advocates for policies that enhance productivity and diversity. She also helped create the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs’ Diversity and Inclusion Council.

Isabel was born and raised in Madrid, Spain, but moved to Tucson, Arizona at an early age. She holds a B.A. in international relations and history from the University of Pennsylvania, and also studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is fluent in Spanish and speaks French.

Sept 2021 – Now: Head of Center for International Affairs, Secretariat General of Ministry for Communication and Informatics of Indonesia
June 2020 – Sept 2021: Policy Analyst, National Public Procurement Agency of Indonesia (LKPP)
July 2017 – June 2020: Deputy Director for Management and Development of Electronic Procurement Service Unit, Directorate for Development of Electronic Procurement System National Public Procurement Agency of Indonesia (LKPP)
February 2016 – July 2017: Deputy Director for Learning Resources
Directorate for Competency Training, National Public Procurement Agency of Indonesia (LKPP)
January 2015 – February 2016: Deputy Director for Training Materials
Directorate for Competency Training, National Public Procurement Agency of Indonesia (LKPP)
January 2012 – January 2015: Deputy Director for International Cooperation
Directorate for Business Climate and International Cooperation, National Public Procurement Agency of Indonesia (LKPP)
May 2009 – January 2012: Head of Business Process Section Bureau of Planning, Organization and Business Process, National Public Procurement Agency of Indonesia (LKPP)
December 2002 – May 2009: Research Scientist, Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research, Ministry for Marine and Fisheries of Indonesia

Olivier Delteil, based in Paris, is currently a Senior Impact and Product Development at Direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM). In this role, he manages DINUM’s participation in several European projects, including the GovTech4All project. Olivier brings a wealth of experience from previous executive positions at NGOs and Media companies. He holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Business Development and Innovation from Audencia Nantes Ecole de Management.

Luis Felipe Monteiro brings over 20 years of experience in the technology field, finance, and government digital transformation.

He is currently a Board Member of GLEIF, a Swiss based foundation that plays a critical role in promoting trust and transparency in the global financial markets. As the CEO of Cateno, a leading payments company in Brazil, he was responsible to achieve challenging milestones.

Previously, Luis held the position of Brazil’s Digital Government Secretary. He spearheaded the digital transformation of the country, successfully aligning the objectives of senior executives, parliament, policy makers, and digital squads spread through hundreds of government agencies.

Under his guidance, two thousand digital public services were transformed, resulting in the remarkable growth of GOV.BR as one of the world’s top five government platforms, serving over 150 million users. During this period, Brazil was recognized by the World Bank as the second most mature country in Digital Government. Widely regarded as an influential figure in the government and digital realms, Luis was honored by the World Economic Forum as one of the world’s 50 most influential people revolutionizing government and among the 100 most
influential individuals in digital government.

Moreover, his extensive background includes serving as the Chairman of the Board of SERPRO, the largest IT public company in South America, and holding positions on various other boards of directors. With a strong foundation in computer science, Monteiro’s educational accomplishments include a master’s degree and an MBA in information technology, and executive education programs at Georgetown and Harvard, focusing on leadership, innovation, and digital transformation.

Personal Information:
 Born in 1978
Education:
 Computer Engineering, Universidad Complutense
de Madrid (2001)
 Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia (2003)
Professional Experience:
 General Director for Digital Transformation of the Administration of Justice.
Ministry of Justice (2020 – present)
 Specialist in Government and Digital Transformation. Citizen Services
Innovation Division. Inter-American Development Bank (2019-2020)
 General Subdirector for the Promotion of Digital Administration and Digital
Services. General Secretariat of Digital Administration. Ministry of Finance and
Public Administration (2014-2019)
 General Subdirector for Programs, Studies and Promotion of Electronic
Administration. Ministry of Finance and Public Administration (2012-2014).
 Project Manager. IT Manager. Director of IT Division. Ministry of Territorial
Policy and Public Function (2006-2012).
 Admission to the General State Administration as Senior IT Professional
(2006)

Ángeles Marín is a Telecommunications Engineer and a Civil Servant in the Spanish State Administration.

In 2007-2012 she held various positions in the Ministry of Housing. In 2012-2024 she worked at the former Ministry of Public Works, now the Ministry of Transport. She headed the Mobility Strategy Office, was responsible for drafting of the Law on Sustainable Mobility and coordinated the investments of the Spanish Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (Next Generation Funds) within the scope of the General Secretariat of Transport and Mobility.

Since January 2024 she is General Director for Policies against Depopulation, in the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.

Leyre Madariaga was appointed Director for Digital Transformation and Entrepreneurship at the Basque Government in October 2024. Until then she was the Director for Foreign Affairs at the Basque Government President’s Office since 2013.
Leyre Madariaga is Bachelor of Economics and Business Sciences in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration – Deusto Business School (Spain), and Master’s Degree in European Studies in the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). Most of her professional experience has been directed towards International Relations and Foreign Trade, with a highly technological
focus.
She started working for IDOM, an engineering and consultancy Basque company, as Responsible for Multilateral Projects and Director of the Office in Romania. Shen then moved to Deputy Chairman of SPRI, the Development Regional Agency of the Basque Country, as Head of Internationalisation. And in 2010 became the International Development Director in Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Tecnalia for short), the biggest private technology centre in Spain and ranking fifth in Europe. This technology centre is a Spanish and European reference in scientific
and technological research, through the generation of more efficient, profitable and competitive
solutions that improve business opportunities for its customers

Industrial Engineer, Executive MBA from the Instituto Universitario de Empresa (IUDE). Currently, General Director of Digital Strategy and Artificial Intelligence in the Administration of the Principality of Asturias.

He has developed his professional career, for more than 20 years, linked to the ICT sector and the digital transformation of organizations. Evolving from more technical positions, focused on the development of customized solutions for large corporations, to positions more linked to strategic business management and corporate management. After almost two decades in the private sector, in Telecable, a company of the Euskaltel group, where I was in charge of the Enterprise market, since September 2019, I am in charge of digital services in the Government of the Principality of Asturias, from where the digital transformation of the regional administration is promoted in all its areas.

José Manuel García Duarte holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the School of Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, along with additional studies in Industrial Engineering.

Since 2012, he has served on the governing board of the Illustrious College of Telecommunications Engineers of the “Comunidad Valenciana”.

As an ICT expert in technologies applied to Public Administrations, for over a decade, he has worked in multinational companies such as NextiraOne and Dimension Data, now integrated into Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). In these roles, he has managed projects for the administrations of the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and Murcia.

In 2017, he was appointed Director of Operations and Engineering at À Punt Mèdia, where he played a key role in its launch and the initiation of new broadcasts.

In 2019, he assumed the role of Managing Director of Information and Communication Technologies (DGTIC) for the Generalitat Valenciana. In this position, he has navigated the challenges posed by the pandemic, particularly in the educational sector and in overall strategic planning.

He is currently finalizing the Strategic Plan for Digital Transformation of the Generalitat Administration, GEN Digital 2025, and preparing for the upcoming period of 2025-2030. This plan emphasizes administrative simplification, generative artificial intelligence, hyper-automation, digital identity, and other emerging technologies. Additionally, he is continuing ongoing projects from the current plan such as Cloud First (evolution towards a hybrid cloud) and Anima (Data Governance and Data Lake).

She has worked for more than 15 years in the field of consulting, participating in several strategic projects in the public sector. Her activity has been centered on the strategic definition, the establishment of management models, and the development of facilitating solutions. She has focused on the digital transformation and the co-design of public services, focusing on the user experience.

In June 2018 she was appointed Director General for Digital Administration of the government of Catalonia, and currently she is the Director General for Digital Services and Citizen Experience of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

TBA

Josep Maria Flores Juanpere is an Electronics Engineer, with a degree in Political and Administration Sciences, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

He began his professional career in R&D for the electronics industry, but since 2015 he has been working on the digital transformation of the government of Catalonia, where in 2019 he created the unit that promotes the improvement of Digital Services for the entire Government, within the Directorate General of Digital Administration, in which he is Innovation Manager.

He has promoted first the introduction and then the generalization in the Catalan government of the design thinking methodology for the design of digital services, as well as the introduction of the plain language movement, applied to the texts that are part of the administrative procedures.

 He leads or has led other digital transformation projects such as the following:

– Design of the new front-end corporate processing platform

– Automation of administrative procedures through a backoffice platform

– Proactive and personalized digital services

– Citizen Wallet

Michael Donaldson is the Chief Innovation Officer of the Barcelona City Council. He has a law degree and a master’s degree in public management. He has worked as director of strategic planning and central services in the municipalities of Rubí and Gavà. He is a trainer in open government and transparency issues and has published several articles and chapters of public management.

Since February 2021 , Maria Pía Junquera Temprano is General Director for Citizen Participation within the Madrid City Council

She started her career in 1995 working in the General Directorate of International Economy and in the General Directorate of the Treasury and Financial Policy, both in the Ministry of Economy.

In 1997, she joined the Ministry of Justice where she held several positions and served as Deputy Director until 2004, being responsible for inspection, human resources and financial management.

She has also been Deputy Director of Regulatory Coordination in the Ministry of Economy and in the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration from 2004 to 2014 , General Director for Administrative Organization and Procedures within the Spanish Ministry of Finance and Public Administration from 2014 to 2016 and General Director for  Public governance within the Spanish Ministry of Finance and Public Service from 2016 to 2021.

Computer Science Engineering.

Civil servant until 2019, when he became CIO of the Government of Murcia. He has leading the creation of ATD (Digital Transformation Agency of the Region of Murcia).

His career has developed in  both the Public and Private sectors. Before his actual role, Gilabert occupied several positions as member of the management board on several companies.

He is focused on adding value to the organizations through the digital transformation.

Responsible for the digital strategy aimed at achieving the Digital Government of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, as well as the strategy of governance and data quality assurance.

Engineer by training, I have developed my professional career always linked to the world of innovation, first towards the territory, from economic promotion, and, since 2016, focused on the change of the administration internally promoting digital transformation and open innovation.

He began his professional activity in 1992 as a teacher in the “Cambridge
Information Technology” training cycle.

Since 1994, he has been a career civil servant at the Regional Government of
Castilla-La Mancha, where he has held various positions of responsibility, always in
the technological field. Their roles stand out as:

– Head of R&D&i at SESCAM (Health Service of Castilla-La Mancha), leading
medical imaging and electronic medical records projects.
– Head of Security and Judicial IT Service.
– Head of Inspection and Broadcasting Service.
– Head of the Information and Communications Technologies Area in different
ministries.

Currently, since July 2023, he has held the position of general director of
Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in the Ministry of Finance, Public
Administrations and Digital Transformation of the Community Board of Castilla-La
Mancha.

In addition, he has participated in projects and scientific publications related to
informatics applied to health, such as the Serendipia project (first national
Telepathology network), and the integration of computer detection aid systems in
digital mammogram.

Rosa Paradell is a Telecommunications Engineer, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Sciences and a Master’s Degree in Engineering and Management of Renewable Energies. With more than 25 years of experience in the ICT sector, most of them in the field of business development, innovation and management of complex projects. For more than 15 years focusing on the public sector.
Since 2015 she is part of the team of the i2CAT Foundation, research center for advanced digital technologies, where she currently holds the position of Director of innovation in the public sector.

Doctor in Law, Professional Public Manager and Secretary of Local Administration, Senior category, she is Co-Director of the Local Network and Co-Director of the Chair of Good Local Government (UVigo). She is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation of Spain, and Associate Member of the International Academy of Political-Administrative Sciences and Future Studies (IAPAS) of Mexico. Associate Professor of Administrative Law at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Member of the Editorial Board of Actualidad Administrativa, of the Editorial Board of the Basque Journal of Organisation and People, of the Advisory Board of LA LEY compliance penal, Revista de cumplimiento normativo, Derecho y empresa, of the External Assessment Board of the Journal Gabilex and of the Scientific Board of the International Academy of Political-Administrative Sciences and Future Studies (IAPAS) of Mexico. She is President of the Association of Women in the Public Sector.

Author of more than one hundred publications in specialised journals and various monographs, she has directed and coordinated several collective works on public management, digital transformation and Artificial Intelligence, transparency and public procurement, and is a speaker and lecturer at various public and private institutions, both nationally and internationally, and lecturer at various Masters and Postgraduate Universities. Member of the Analysis and Proposal Group for the Reform of Public Administration in Spain, she collaborates in research, pre-legislative and reform work with the different public administrations and, in particular, with the FEMP, where she coordinates the ‘Integrity in Local Public Procurement’ Working Group.

Her work has received several awards such as the VII Masaguer i Mir Award for the Best Book on Local Law, Outstanding Public Innovator 2016 and III Ferrán Termes Award for the improvement of transparency and efficiency in management 2019 and First Prize in the XXXIV CLAD Competition on State Reform and Modernisation of Public Administration 2021 and she has been awarded the Recognition as an international benchmark in the promotion of the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda, by the Ibero-American Network of Governments and Institutions for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda-RIGIL (2022) and X ENATIC Award for Digital Innovation.

Laura Preciado de Lorenzo is Telecommunications Engineer and Master’s degree in Information and Communication Systems Management from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She has an extensive background in the public sector, having served since 2005 as a member of the Senior Corps of Systems and Information Technologies of the State Administration.

Since 2023, she has been the Head of the City Digital Transformation Strategies Department, contributing to digital transformation process in the city and digital administration and advancing the effectiveness and efficiency of government services. She is involved in the definition, management, coordination, and monitoring of several projects within the Digital Transformation Strategy of Madrid City Council (www.madrid.es/digitalcapital), which aims at the digital transformation of Madrid with a clear focus on providing services to the people.

Previously, from 2017 to 2023, she served as Technical Advisor at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, at the General Directorate of Rural Development, Innovation and Agri-food Education, contributing to the development and digital transformation of the agri-food sector.

Previously (2009-2017), Laura held the position of Division Director of Information and Communication Technologies, at the Ministry of Justice, responsible for technological services to citizens and internal users. During these years, she was responsible for implementing Law 11/2007 on electronic access for citizens to public services at the Ministry, with new electronic services used by several million citizens per year. She fostered innovation to enhance operational efficiency and service delivery through strategic planning, project management, and implementing best practices and international standards related to ICT and Cybersecurity.

From 2006 to 2009, she developed roles at the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

In the private sector, she worked at EADS-CASA, Telefónica Móviles, and Servicios Generales de Teledifusión.

Juan Corro is a telecommunications engineer from the University of Cantabria. He has been Technical Director in the satellite communications division of Erzia Technologies, Director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Telecommunications, member of the Board of Directors of RED.ES and Hisdesat, the company that manages the Spanish earth observation and military communications satellites, founding President of the CTN 178 of Smart Cities in AENOR and member of the Permanent Commission of the Council for Scientific and Technological Policy of the Ministry of Science.

Juan has also been Academic Director of the Engineering Area of the University Center attached to the Camilo José Cela University U-TAD, leader in digital training and Vice President of SAYME, a technology startup specialized in IoT solutions and services with special presence in smart waste management solutions.

He has also been Director of Technology and Innovation at the Municipal Transport Company of Madrid (EMT), Vice President of the Information Technology Commission of the UITP (International Union of Public Transport) and is one of the 100 experts selected by the European Commission to advise on legislative initiatives to promote multimodality in Europe. He is also an associate professor at the University of Alcalá and was also a alderman and member of the Governing Board of the Santander City Council.

Former Minister of Education and Culture (2000/2004).

Full Professor in Political Science and Administration.

Executive President of the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) (1996/2000)

Member of the European Parliament at the Committee on Industry, Digital, and Energy (ITRE).

Chair of the European Internet Forum (EIF).

Vice President of the European Energy Forum.

Member of the Transatlantic Policy Network.

Member of the European Parliament Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age.

European Parliament’s rapporteur on the Data Act; the European Electronic Communications Code; the Telecoms Single Market Regulation; the Directive on Security of Networks and Information Systems for the ITRE committee; the Regulation on the Body of European Regulators in Electronic Communications’ (BEREC) and the report on Cloud Computing Strategy for Europe, among other dossiers.

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Born in Malaga in 1977, she studied Telecommunications Engineering at the same city. Later he studied different postgraduate courses at prestigious schools such as IESE, Instituto de Empresa and the London Business School.

She has developed her career for more than 15 years between Madrid, the United Kingdom, the United States and Latin America, in different senior management positions, in key sectors such as Technology, Telecommunications, IT & Cloud, Finance and Banking. During this period, he works for companies such as Oracle, Ericsson, Huawei or ZTE, in which they hold leadership positions, managing large teams of people and large budgets.

She is also the founder of a start-up focused on the collaborative parking market (parkfy) and of a consultancy dedicated to business development and commercial optimization in Mexico and Colombia. Full command of English language, plus basic knowledge of Portuguese, Italian and Chinese languages.

Dr. Stefaan G. Verhulst is an expert in using data and technology for social impact. He is the Co-Founder of several research organizations including the Governance Laboratory (GovLab) at New York University and The DataTank base in Brussels. He focuses on using advances in science and technology, including data and artificial intelligence, to improve decision-making and problem-solving. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the open-access journal Data & Policy and has served as a member of several expert groups on data and technology, including the High-Level Expert Group to the European Commission on Business-to-Government Data Sharing and the Expert Group to Eurostat on using Private Sector data for Official Statistics. Dr. Verhulst has been recognized as one of the 10 Most Influential Academics in Digital Government globally. He has published extensively on these topics, including several books, and has been invited to speak at international conferences, including TED and the UN World Data Forum. He is asked regularly to provide counsel on data stewardship to a variety of public and private organizations.

Marina has a mixed background with MAs in Economics and Humanities. She joined the European Commission in 1991 working as Innovation Officer for the development of EU policies and related Research and Innovation programmes in support to Applied and Close-to-market Digital Technologies specifically addressing societal challenges, notably in the areas of eBusiness, eInclusion and eGoverment.

She moved to the Digital Economy Unit of the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission in 2015, where she continued to support the development and management of R&I policies and projects addressing societal needs, currently in the area of Digital Transformation in support to Public Governance.

Her research covers investigations on the socio-economic impact of emerging digital technologies, including AI in support to the deployment and delivery by Public Administrations of innovative Public Services addressing citizens and businesses.

Mia’s professional journey has spanned across multiple countries but is currently based between London and Madrid. At the moment, she is part of a UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose team dedicated to benchmarking the problem-solving capacities of city governments globally through the Public Sector Capabilities Index research initiative.

After studying different trajectories within strategic design, innovation, business development, leadership, and politics at Design School Kolding, Parsons School of Design, and Copenhagen Business School, she found a more profound interest in strategy and how to shape and design conditions and artifacts which enables systems to shift.

In addition, she co-founded AANNDD to explore alternatives to current business paradigms and to shape meaningful restorative alternatives.

Fernando Fernández-Monge is a senior associate with the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, a joint program of Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, funded by and executed in collaboration with Bloomberg Philanthropies. His work focuses on the use of data and innovation within the public sector, as well as on fostering and managing technological innovation to make cities more efficient, equitable and responsive to social needs.

He holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, a Master in Fiscal Policy from UNED and the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales and B.A.s in Law and Political Science from the Autonoma University of Madrid. He has written several teaching cases and academic and policy papers on data governance, public innovation and city leadership and management. His work has been published or featured in Apolitical, Governing, World Economic Forum, El Pais, and Agenda Publica, among others.

Miguel Ferrer, Law graduate from the University of Barcelona and Master in Intellectual Property Law and Information Society from ESADE. Currently Executive VP for strategy and public policy at the Spanish Association for the Digital Economy.

15 years of experience in public and regulatory affairs in the technology and digital sector, he has worked as a consultant for companies such as Airbnb, Apple, Tesla, Cabify or Betfair, as well as various business associations. He was Director of Public Affairs for the digital economy at the communication agency Kreab and until December last year he was global head of public policy at Glovo. Miguel is a professor on the Master of Institutional Relations at Pompeu Fabra University.

Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, MBA at INSEAD and visiting professor at the Anderson School at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
He began his professional career in the engineering world at Bechtel and later at
GETINSA and DETEA.
In the telecommunications sector he was Director of Project Management at Airtel
(later Vodafone) and Director of Institutional Relations at AUNA.
He has been National Secretary of New Technologies of the Partido Popular and was
elected National Deputy for Zamora in November 2011.
In the Public Administration he has been Undersecretary of the Ministry of Public
Works, President of Correos y Telégrafos and Secretary of State for
Telecommunications and the Information Society.
He is currently General Manger of DigitalES Spanish Association for Digitalization.

Loredana Stan is Director at NovaGob Foundation. Political scientist, Agile and public sector innovation specialist.

Novagob Foundation is an open innovation ecosystem in Spain and Latin America where ideas are generated and applied to solve public problems. A scientific-based project that in its 10 years of work has accompanied more than 50 public organizations to develop public innovation projects and has connected more than 17,000 public sector employees in Spain and Latin America.

Loredana has extensive experience as a consultant, trainer and researcher in public innovation, in the fields of innovation methodologies and tools, ecosystems and public sector innovation laboratories both in Spain and Latin America.

Andrew Glass Hastings has extensive experience working at the intersection of the public and private sectors. As the Open Mobility Foundation’s Executive Director Andrew leads this unique public/private partnership where cities and companies collaborate in real-time to produce the open-source data standards and software tools cities need to digitize their infrastructure and manage all forms of mobility on their streets, leading to more equitable and sustainable urban communities.

Graduate in International Relations, with a master’s degree in Development Cooperation and Public Policy Management from Menéndez Pelayo University and the Ortega y Gasset Institute, and a specialization in Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development. She has experience in development cooperation, public policy evaluation, and Open Government. She has collaborated with various state and international institutions such as the OECD, UNICEF, Oxfam, and RTVE. She is part of the team that coordinates the ‘Research, Advocacy, and Communication for Social Change’ pathway in the International Cooperation Master’s program at the Pontifical Comillas University.

David Osimo is director of Research in The Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based think tank set up in 2003 to intellectually accompany the Lisbon Agenda, Europe’s original growth and jobs programme. He coordinates the research activity on issues such as data economy, digital government, start-ups, and scale-up policy as well as pioneering novel collaborative methods for policy research.
He previously served as director and co-founder of two start-ups, as a scientific officer in the European Commission Joint Research Centre and advised the United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He holds degrees from the University of Milan and the University of Cardiff.

Gianluca Sgueo is Faculty Member at Sciences Po – École d’Affaires Publiques, where he teaches “Digital Democracy & Public Spaces”. He is also Senior Associate Researcher at the Centre for Digitalization, Democracy and Innovation of the Brussels School of Governance, in Brussels, and Director of the Digital Department at the “Fondazione Luigi Einaudi”, in Rome. He served in the roles of policy advisor and policy analyst for the Italian government and for the European Parliament.

Website http://www.gianlucasgueo.com – LinkedIn Gianluca Sgueo– Twitter @GianlucaSgueo – TedTalk ‘What if Government Was a Game?’

For over 25 years Ben Cerveny has worked as an executive, strategist, and designer in the context of operating systems, media applications, web services, products, the built environment, and digital games.

Before founding the Foundation for Public Code, he was a Design Fellow at Samsung, leading a project on room-scale programmable environments. Previously, he helped design the massively multiplayer game that became Flickr [and also named it], founded the Experience Design Lab at Frogdesign, and was CEO of Bloom Studios, whose data visualization iPad app Planetary was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution.

Nicolas Brien is an entrepreneur, investor and board member. He is a vibrant advocate of EU tech sovereignty and has chaired the European Startup Network, the most influential industry group representing startups in Brussels. Mr Brien sits on the Board of companies and foundations in Europe and Asia, such as Heritage, Vidacity, Tilder or France Alzheimer. After successfully restructuring EuraTechnologies, Europe’s largest startup incubator, he entered into stealth mode and has been working on a Greentech startup project. From 2016 to 2021, he led France Digitale, Europe’s largest Startup organization with 2000+ startup members and 100+ VC. Prior to joining the digital ecosystem, he ran the Direction of Studies at Kantar and was a senior advisor to Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (Spokeswoman of the French Government)

Wietse Van Ransbeeck is the co-founder and CEO of CitizenLab, a digital community engagement platform that enables governments for more inclusive, participatory, and data-driven decision-making. Today, the platform is used by more than 500 local governments in more than 20 countries around the world, from national governments and large cities to the smallest towns. Wietse was previously named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe and Meaningful Business 100 lists for his work on bringing local democracies into the digital age.

Borja Santos is an expert in public policy and international development, driven by a deep passion for social change, education, technology and innovation. Over the last six years, he has held the position of Associate Vice Dean at the IE University – School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs. In this role, he has been instrumental in executive directing programs for 1,600 students in international relations and economics. His contributions have significantly enhanced the university’s reputation and educational quality, particularly through the development of innovative pedagogical strategies and the incorporation of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence. Additionally, he lectures in various executive and graduate programs.

Beyond his academic responsibilities, Borja has dedicated over fifteen years to designing, implementing, and evaluating public policies and international programs across Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia. His extensive experience includes working with five multilateral organizations (UNWFP, UNDP, FAO, WB, and IADB), as well as with renowned think tanks such as the Harvard Center for International Development. Furthermore, he has collaborated with multiple governments (including MAEC-AECID Spain; Municipality of San Sebastián; and the governments of Ecuador, Sri Lanka, Peru, Ethiopia, and Belize), international consultancies, and projects within the social innovation and non-profit sectors. Borja continues to make significant contributions as an international consultant, focusing on executive training, and the design and evaluation of innovative projects with various governments.

Miguel Almunia is Associate Professor of Economics at CUNEF University (Madrid). He is also a Research Affiliate at CEPR, IFS, IGC, and invited researcher at J-PAL Europe. He obtained a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley, and an MPA/ID from Harvard Kennedy School.
Miguel works in the fields of public finance and development economics. His research focuses on the effects of government policies, in particular taxation and regulation, on the behavior of firms and households. In his published articles, he used micro data from administrative sources from several countries.

Paco Soler is the Head of ISDI Corporate (pronounced eesdee), the main business school leading the transformation of businesses and people to the digital era.  

Paco has held international senior positions for over 20 years in the consulting, software development, automotive and education industries. He has lived in 6 countries and has run projects in more than 30, and his passion is helping people live to their full potential.  For 12 years Paco has been the VP for Europe for Urban Science, an automotive consulting company, which has allowed him to experience the challenges and transformations within the formerly-known “automotive industry”, now morphing into Mobility. He is an experienced event moderator. 

In addition to supporting companies in their transition to the digital world, Paco is also a professor of leadership focused on helping leaders transform themselves and create an environment where change is possible.  He is the author of the book “Change your chip” where he talks about how individuals and organisations can adapt to the changes the digital world is bringing.

Paco is a Certified Professional Coach and a Post-Graduate at Neuroscience of Leadership. He works regularly as a Coach at the High Performance Leadership program at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, arguably one the best leadership programs in the world.   

Paco is married and the proud father of two girls. As a passionate guitar player and sports person, he is an Ironman Finisher, he’s well versed in the subject of failing, not always fast, but certainly often.

Dan Abadie is a leading Digital Transformation consultant who has dedicated his career to helping public and private organizations navigate and thrive in the digital age. With a strong background in developing digital strategies and delivering innovative technology solutions, Dan has played key roles in digital transformation at the government level and in the private sector.

In 2024, he expanded his impact by joining the Center for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI) as Sr. Technical Advisor, contributing to the design and implementation of Digital Public Infrastructures (DPI) for public organizations.

Previously, from 2020 to 2023, he led LATAM for Public Digital Ltd., a UK-based digital transformation consultancy. During his stay, he supervised data and digital transformation projects for organizations such as the IDB, CAF, UNDP, World Bank and private entities, focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean.

His career in the Argentine government as Undersecretary of Digital Government (2015-2019) marked a milestone in his career. In this period, Dan advised the President on digital economy and digital transformation issues, led crucial discussions at the 2018 G20, and was in charge of Argentina’s Digital Government service. Under his leadership, innovative initiatives were launched such as the Mi Argentina platform, the first digital driver’s license, and the citizen’s digital wallet, the single domain website Argentina.gob.ar, the virtual assistant Chat Crecer and the Plan National Digital Inclusion.

Before, between 2007 and 2015, he was the head of digital in the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, where he played a fundamental role in the development of the single domain BuenosAires.gob.ar, the “How I Get There” mobile application, the citizen service and the call center telephone line 147.

Internationally recognized for his influence and contribution to digital government, Dan was selected by Apolitical in 2019 as one of the 20 most influential people worldwide in this field. That same year, he won a Webby Award in the health category for the virtual assistant Chat Crecer and stood out as a TEDx speaker, sharing his knowledge and experience in digital transformation and e-government.

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Mark joined Visa in April 2022 bringing 35 years of experience delivering digital solutions in the technology industry across Public Sector markets. He leads the Government Solutions business across Europe, digitizing Government acceptance, disbursements, and commercial payments.

Prior to this Mark established the Public Sector business for Google Cloud across Europe, Middle East & Africa. Moving customers to the Cloud as part of their digital transformation journeys, focusing on delivering better outcomes though data, analytics and AI.

Mark spent 20 years at IBM, where he was their VP Public Sector, Europe. In this role he led large transformation engagements for a number of government customers. Mark ran the UK’s Government, Health and Defense businesses over 10 years, and was a member of the IBM UK leadership team.

Mark began his career in the 1980’s as a Software Engineer designing and delivering complex real-time systems integration projects for the aerospace industry. He was one of the original start-up members of AeroSystems International; a joint venture between Sema Group and Westland Helicopters working to deliver airborne software systems.

Mark is a member of the IET and Chartered Engineer, as well as being a fellow of the British Computing Society. He has a degree in Electronic Engineering as well as an MBA.  He has had business assignments in Italy and Washington D.C.

Rachel is currently the Director of EU and International Public Affairs at Sage, a FTSE 100 tech company supporting millions of SMEs globally with the technology they need to power their economies. In addition to overseeing public affairs in the EU, Rachel helps lead the organization’s global sustainability and tech policy. Prior to Sage, Rachel was at the International Chamber of Commerce where she worked across several policy areas including sustainability, customs, trade facilitation, and tax.

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Ben Supple is an experienced technology. Ben most recently led Global Public and Nonprofit Partnerships for Meta’s business messaging group, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. As the second public policy hire at WhatsApp, Ben helped establish a foundation for its policy function and served as the first-ever global WhatsApp election lead, building the playbook that is still in use today for every major election. Ben helped launch the WhatsApp Business App in 2018 and then the WhatsApp Business API in 2019. In 2020, Ben built a dedicated government and nonprofit partnerships program and global civic engagement team, resulting in thousands of governments and nonprofit organizations onboarded to the API, hundreds of developers supporting government clients and the creation of key programs like WhatsApp’s COVID crisis response, global fact checking and Chat for Impact. These partnerships yielded a large proportion of overall API messaging volume, generated substantial revenue, improved WhatsApp’s brand and reputation, and most importantly, helped tens of millions of real people in times of need.

Prior to WhatsApp, Ben served for nearly a decade as a leader in the global strategic consulting firm, the Cohen Group, led by the former US Senator and Secretary of Defense, Bill Cohen. He managed numerous Fortune 100 clients across tech, energy, aerospace, consumer products, and textiles, among other areas, and also led the firm’s Americas practice.

Melissa Cohen, JD, MPA, is a founding partner of Coral Health Advisors, a national health policy, strategy and operations consulting firm. She has spent the last 15 years as a senior leader in both government and the private sector leading teams responsible for the design and implementation of alternative payment models to improve patient care. She started her career as an attorney for hospitals and health systems and learned early on how fragmented care and lack of access leads to poor patient outcomes. This led her to pursue a career in health care policy, strategy and operations and she has not looked back.
From 2018-2021, Melissa was the Staff Vice President of Payment Innovation and Strategy at Elevance where she led value-based contracting with a focus on provider enablement and alignment to product and benefit design. Melissa was one of the original staff of the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), joining at its inception in 2011. While there, she drove the design and implementation of payment models across the care continuum. In her last year at CMMI, Melissa was responsible for management of the Center’s 10-billion-dollar budget and investment portfolio. Melissa has a JD from Fordham University School of Law, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Paola Santana is a lawyer, public procurement expert and serial tech entrepreneur, creating the next breakthrough in government systems. She’s the founder and CEO of GLASS, a Silicon Valley startup revolutionizing how governments buy with pioneering G-Commerce.

Previously, she co-founded Matternet, a Silicon Valley company pioneering drone logistics networks. Under her leadership, Matternet engaged with The White House, the U.S. Congress, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and NASA to enact the first drone regulation in the United States in 2016, and became the world’s first drone delivery platform authorized for permanent operations over a populated city in 2017.

She co-established the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court, and worked at the National Elections Court coordinating the Elections Litigation Chamber. She has also collaborated with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the OECD, developing striking public infrastructure projects and strategic partnerships integrating exponential technologies.

She’s best known for her ability to create things from scratch at the intersection of the public, private and regulatory domains, and for her track record introducing cutting-edge technologies into highly-regulated markets. Her most recent experience includes co-drafting the public-private partnership enabling the first multi-state Hyperloop system in the United States.

A Fulbright scholar and graduate from George Washington, Georgetown and Singularity University, she’s been featured as CNET Top 20 Latin in Tech, Forbes Next 1000, LinkedIn Top Professionals Under 35 in Enterprise Tech, and served as Lead of the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advisory Group and appointed member of the first FAA Drone Advisory Committee.

Marcos has more than 25 years of experience in venture capital, asset management, corporate finance, treasury funding and structured finance. Prior to joining Vox Capital as the Head of VC, Marcos was a partner at Webrock Ventures, a Swedish VC Firm, and prior to that he was the head of asset management at CM Capital. Earlier in his career he worked for several years at Citigroup in NY at the Global Treasury Group and at PWC in Brazil. Marcos holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Universidade de São Paulo and an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business. He speaks fluently English, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

Bryan Sivak is the co-founder and managing partner at Evidenced Capital, a private market investment firm focused on early-stage healthcare companies benefitting from tailwinds generated by policy and regulatory changes. He currently sits on the Vesta Healthcare and Osso VR boards.
Most recently, Bryan served on the executive leadership team at Centene as Senior Vice President, Technology, Innovation, and Modernization. During this time, he was responsible for enterprise-wide technology strategy and execution, focusing on next-generation products and services.
Previously, he held a dual role at Kaiser Permanente as Vice President of Medicaid Transformation as well as Managing Director of Kaiser Permanente Ventures. As Vice President of Medicaid Transformation, Bryan was responsible for working across the organization to help lead the transformation of the provision of care and services to its large and growing Medicaid population. As a Managing Director of the KP Venture Fund, he invested in and built venture-backed companies that are
developing the next generation of technologies and services to meet the needs of KP members and the broader healthcare ecosystem.
Prior to Kaiser Permanente, Bryan was the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His position was to bring new ideas and perspectives to the work of the Foundation and challenge existing processes and assumptions to help more effectively build a “Culture of Health.” He also served as a Senior Fellow at Civic Hall, a New York City-based “community center” for technologists, government innovators, researchers, and others focused on leveraging technology to solve the problems of the many versus the issues of the few.
Before Kaiser, starting in 2012, Bryan served as the Chief Technology Officer at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the Obama administration. During his three years in this role, Sivak was responsible for helping HHS harness the power of data, technology, and innovation to improve the
health and welfare of the nation. Prior to HHS, he served as the Chief Innovation Officer for Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, where he led Maryland’s efforts to embed innovation concepts into the DNA of state government.
In 2009, preceding his time with Governor O’Malley, Bryan was Chief Information/Technology Officer for
the District of Columbia. He led a large and diverse team that created a technology infrastructure known for enhancing communication between the district’s residents and their government and implemented organizational reforms that improved efficiency, program controls, and customer service. Prior to his public service, Bryan was a private sector entrepreneur, founding InQuira, Inc. in 1997, a multinational
enterprise software company focusing on natural language processing based knowledge management (acquired by Oracle).

Johnny is a Director at PUBLIC, a specialist GovTech advisory firm in the UK. Johnny has supported multiple government teams across the UK and EU to reimagine how they deliver public services, as well as working with GovTech startups to help them scale in the public sector.

Johnny is a leader in applying digital and innovation in public procurement and finance and has worked with the UK Cabinet Office and CCS, Welsh Government, EU Governments and multiple UK Government Departments on applying digital and data in their procurement processes.

Recently, Johnny has worked closely with the UK Cabinet Office to shape its new Procurement Act, including helping to design a new innovation procurement mechanism, as well as conducting a review of innovation procurement across the EU, working with the European Commission.

María Izquierdo cares about contributing to a better future that distributes power and puts people’s needs first. Her work as a service designer focuses on bringing teams and organisations together, advocating for businesses that create value for society.
Over the last 10 years, she’s worked in the private and public sectors on subjects such as data infrastructure for public services, AI in healthcare and practical ethics in emerging technologies. Recent work includes Genomics England and the UK Government.

Samir Kayali, educated in Aeronautical Engineering at Cornell University, has devoted nearly three decades to leading projects in the high-level international real estate sector. As the founder of C95 Creative, Samir has been a pioneer in the implementation of BIM technology, propelling the company to global recognition for its innovations in the field. Since 2019, as Executive Chairman of URBIM, he has steered the platform towards integrating data into 3D models, essential for the development of digital twins that improve decision-making, promoting sustainability, data management, collaboration, and transparency in the sector.

His legacy is highlighted by the creation of one of the world’s largest urban digital models, demonstrating his constant commitment to innovation and efficiency in architecture and engineering

Carlos Romero is co-founder of Fractal Strategy, he has accompanied digitalisation projects, strategic design and customer experience consultancies with administrations and companies at national and international level. He is responsible for service design in the Aragon Digital Services team, winners of a mention in the “Professionals” category in the National Design and Innovation Awards 2022.

He holds a degree in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineer and Master’s degree in User Experience Design. Since 2010 he has been involved in the academic development of the design profession and is currently an associate professor of design methodologies for the Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Design at the University of Zaragoza, pioneers in bringing Design Thinking teaching to the university context in Spain. He gives training courses for organisations and companies, training other professionals in design thinking. He collaborates in the organisation of events to promote the transformation of public administrations.

Sofia is a GovTech expert at Gobe Studio, with experience delivering open innovation programs for govtech startups in Europe and in Latin America. She has lead the delivery of the first European Commission’s Pan-European GovTech Bootcamps while at PUBLIC, and has been involved in the launch of Govtechlab Madrid, the first GovTech Laboratory in Spain while at the IE PublicTech Lab, amongst other govtech projects.

As an active member of the international govtech community, she is a member of the GovTech Global Alliance, has contributed to publications from CAF – Development Bank of Latin America, the Inter-American Development Bank, GovLab and PUBLIC, and actively participates as a public speaker in govtech conferences worldwide.

Trained in political and social sciences, she has undergone Executive Education in digital transformation for government at Harvard’s Kennedy School and is a graduate in International Relations from IE University.

Sofia is passionate about bringing startups closer to public institutions to instigate innovation and digitally transform them with sustainable strategies that contribute to skill development and economic growth.

Graduated in IT Organization Engineering (La Salle). Founder of the company Omnios. Experience in technology consulting and participation in international entrepreneurship programs (Imagine Silicon Valley, MarkeTic…)

Omnios is a company that develops and produces Artificial Intelligence solutions specialized in natural language processing (NLP, LLMs…). Present in more than 10 countries and working since the beginning for leading multinationals in their respective sectors (Alcon, Cuatrecasas, Angelini Pharma, FCBarcelona, CTTI / Generalitat de Catalunya, Ferrer…). Also recognized as a pioneering entity in the development of the state of the art of technology by entities such as the CDTI, Cybersecurity Agency…

Camila Salazar is Head of Data Analytics and Learning at the Open Contracting Partnership, working with partners globally to take a data-driven approach to improve public procurement outcomes. She leads OCP’s data use support to partners, developing methodologies on how to use open contracting data and advising on how to improve data quality to achieve specific goals, reforms, research, monitoring, and advocacy. In addition, Camila performs internal data analysis to better track and measure the progress and impact of key OCP interventions and demonstrate the usefulness of procurement datasets to local users and local objectives. She also supports OCP’s capacity-building activities.  Camila holds an MSc in Applied Social Data Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science as a UK Foreign Office Chevening Scholar and holds a BA degree in Economics, a BA and a Licentiate degree in Journalism and Communications from the University of Costa Rica.

Jonas Moses-Lustiger is the Policy and Communication Lead at StateUp, a global advisory for governments and firms focusing on public-purpose innovation. Before joining StateUp, Jonas conducted market research and strategy for a major tech company and served as Chief of Staff of the Sharing Knowledge Foundation, a STEM cooperation initiative associated with CERN where he acquired a deep expertise of the intersection between technology, policy, and international cooperation. He previously worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conducted research in public policy for various institutions. Jonas holds a Master of International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris, and a dual Bachelors from Sciences Po and the Sorbonne Paris IV in Social Sciences and Philosophy.

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