Dr. Andrejs Vasiļjevs is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of a leading European language technology company Tilde specializing in machine translation and other technologies for complex languages.
He drives innovation and fosters large scale industry and academia collaboration to advance multilingual solutions for digital Europe (e.g. LetsMT, EuroTermBank, ELRC).
Andrejs is the president of the Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and board member of Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance (META-NET), the language technology industry association LT-Innovate and the Big Data Value Association. He has also served as an elected member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO Information for All programme (2010-2014).
Andrejs has received a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Latvia and has authored more than 60 research papers. He is also an Honorary Doctor of the Academy of Sciences of Latvia.

Bill McCoy has been at the vanguard of publishing technology for over 30 years, helping to lead the establishment of a number of industry-standard platforms including PostScript, PDF, OpenType, and EPUB.
Bill served from 2011 through 2017 as Executive Director of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the trade and standards group that developed the EPUB standard interchange and delivery format for eBooks and other digital publications. After the merge of IDPF into the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Bill served as head of the Publishing activity at W3C from Feb 2017 until August 2018.
Bill was a founder and served as President of the Readium Foundation open source consortium. He earlier held various leadership roles at Adobe Systems, including General Manager, Digital Publishing, and was founder and CEO of PictureIQ Corporation.
Bill received a a bachelor's degree in Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley, and pursued graduate studies in Computer Science and Management at Stanford University and University of Santa Clara.

Christian Dirschl is Chief Content Architect at Wolters Kluwer Germany and part of the Innovation and UX Team. He is responsible for Innovation Projects around semantics and AI. He was part of H2020 Projects LOD2 and ALIGNED.
Before joining Wolters Kluwer back in 2001 he worked for several software companies. He is an Information scientist based in Munich, Germany.

Jan Willem Tulp is a independent Data Experience Designer from The Netherlands.
With his company TULP interactive he creates custom data visualizations for a variety of clients. He has helped clients such as Google, European Space Agency, Scientific American, Nature and World Economic Forum by creating visualizations, both interactive and in print. His work has appeared in several books and magazines and he speaks regularly at international conferences.

John Sheridan is the Digital Director at The National Archives, with overall responsibility for the organisation’s digital services and digital archiving capability.
Prior to his current role, John was the Head of Legislation Services at The National Archives where he led the team responsible for creating legislation.gov.uk, as well overseeing the operation of the official Gazette. John recently led, as Principal Investigator, an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project, ‘big data for law’, exploring the application of data analytics to the statute book, winning the Halsbury Legal Award for Innovation.
John has a strong interest in the web and data standards and is a former co-chair of the W3C e-Government Interest Group. He serves on the UK Government’s Data Leaders group and Open Standards Board which sets data standards for use across government. John was an early pioneer of open data and remains active in that community.
John’s academic background is in mathematics and information technology, with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Southampton and a Master’s Degree in Information Technology from the University of Liverpool.

Lisa was a presenter with Sky News in London for ten years before moving to Abu Dhabi for two years, where she wrote for The National newspaper. Her television work includes domestic & foreign assignments, live studio work and reporting. She has written & presented documentaries for Sky One & RTE (Ireland). Other studio work includes various BBC channels, Channel 4, Sky channels, Fox news and radio stations.
In Luxembourg, where she has lived for the last three years, Lisa conceived and set up RTL Today (English news & entertainment). She interviewed all the party leaders ahead of the recent general election. Lisa also founded her own company, MediaLab Luxembourg, which produces videos, offers public-speaking mentoring, voice-over work, copywriting, etc.
Given her science background, Lisa continues to write and consult on children’s science books with Dorling Kindersley publishing house.
Lisa studied Natural Sciences (physics, chemistry, geology, maths) at Cambridge, obtaining a double first (MSci and BSci) with specialism in chemistry. She is also a full time mum to two daughters.

Nisa Bayindir is an award-winning audience intelligence strategist and consumer psychologist who blends trends and insights to deconstruct consumer needs and motivations. Her career spans across various fields of digital media - from publishing to omnichannel marketing - bolstered with integrated strategy and research crafted for change in consumer understanding, brand vision, market expansion and product innovation.
She’s currently the Director of Global Insights at GlobalWebIndex, overseeing insights gleaned from the GlobalWebIndex panel of over 22 million consumers across 44 countries.