Alexander Nussbaumer received a doctoral degree in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology, Austria. After working in industry as software developer, he joined the Cognitive Science Section of the Department of Psychology at the University of Graz in 2006. Since 2009 he has been member of the Cognitive Science Section and later the Cognitive and Digital Science Lab of the Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science (ISDS) at Graz University of Technology, Austria. He has been managing and participating various EC-funded research projects in the field of digital learning, medical training, cultural heritage, secure society research, smart city research, and online disinformation. His research interests focus on the intersection area between computer science, cognitive psychology, and computer ethics. Currently he is working in the OpenWebSearch.eu project on search applications, human factors, and ethical aspects.

Pearse O'Donohue is the Director for the Future Networks Directorate of DG CONNECT at the European Commission, dealing with policy development and research supporting the Digital Single Market as regards 5G networks, IoT, cloud and data flows and conceptualising new and innovative approaches towards service platforms and next generation Internet. Until October 2014, he was Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Neelie Kroes, previous European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda. He was responsible for advising the Vice-President on the development and implementation of policy on electronic communications, networks and services, as well as broadband, spectrum and other related policies such as Internet governance. Prior to that, Pearse was Head of the Radio Spectrum Policy Unit in the European Commission, DG CONNECT. Prior to joining the European Commission, Pearse held posts in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU in Brussels, and as Assistant Director of the Brussels office of the Irish Business & Employers' Confederation.

 

Philippe Ombredanne is a FOSS hacker on a mission to make it easier and safer to reuse FOSS code. He is the maintainer of ScanCode, the industry standard licence detection tool, and other open-source tools for software composition analysis and licence & security compliance at AboutCode.org.

Philippe is the project lead in two supply chain projects funded by NGI0: FOSS Code Supply Chain Assurancewhich is building a new system to help verify the integrity of deployed code packages and validate their origin with external data sources, with the potential to mitigate attacks on open-source packages supply chains such as detecting if a package in use is matching verified code by matching source and binaries exactly and approximately; and Free Software Vulnerability Database which is a resource set up to aggregate software updates.