Philip Brey is a professor of philosophy and ethics of technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente. In his research, he investigates social, political and ethical issues in the development, use and regulation of technology in society. His focus is on new and emerging technologies, with special attention to artificial intelligence and digital technologies. He was one of the first to study the ethical implications of many emerging technologies, including social media, virtual reality, care robots, smart surveillance systems, Internet-of-Things and 3D printing. Brey is a former president of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT) and of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). He has coordinated major research projects in ethics of technology in the European Union and the Netherlands, including the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Pascale Leistra is an architect, researcher, educator and business strategist. As an architect, she worked at Atelier PRO on numerous educational projects, such as school buildings community-, sports- and cultural centres. One of her exemplary projects is the Letovo School Campus in Moscow, which has been awarded Best Moscow School Architecture Award 2016. Based on her passion for heritage she has built up solid experience in transformation and renovation. Changing times require new answers and solutions. At VMX architects, Pascale continues working on context, program and clients' ambition with a strong sustainable motivation. Working in an international team in which people inspire each other, her aim is to create healthy and happy environments.

Denis Oudendijk is an architect who looks at the world without a manual, the goal of his design approach is to change the way we look at design. By changing people's perception of and shifting the functionality of every object on earth, he gives new meaning to objects and tries to find solutions which are within anyone's reach. Functions are temporarily and do have a lifespan, in architecture and in design. He, together with his team, is questioning the standard design approach where form follows function, and they believe that their methods meet the goals of circular thinking, prolonging things' lifespan to endless.

Marian Stuiver is a PhD in Agricultural Sciences at Wageningen University and Research Centre. She is a programme leader in Green Cities. Dr Stuiver is developing consortia on topics such as sustainable business, climate change and nature in the city. Marian is a recognised global expert on strategic visioning, science for impact, ethics and governance. She is developing methodologies to connect entrepreneurs, organizations and policymakers from different backgrounds and cultures for a common goal.

Polina Maltseva is currently leading social infrastructure projects for a newly created city in Russia - Dobrograd, including the opening of the first school and kindergarten there this fall. She is also a founder and CEO of an online school for parents that provides courses on educational best practices. Also, Maltseva serves as a consultant for other projects in offline and online education for K-12.

Previously, she was the COO of the Letovo School leading the creation of the top-performing boarding school in Russia. She also worked on projects for San Francisco Unified School District. And before that held a consultant position at the top global consulting firm, McKinsey&Company. She is a graduate of Higher School of Economics, London School of Economics, and Harvard Business School (MBA). She created one of the largest student organisations in Russia focused on business education (Case Club) as well as the McKinsey Business Diving case championship with more than 2000 participants.

Petr Kudryavtsev is an urbanist and sociologist, a co-owner of Building Media Group, and a partner at Citymakers. In the past years, he worked as publisher and editor-in-chief for ARX professional journal in architecture and cooperated with other specialists to have founded the Territorial Development Institute (TDI), which designed 20+ major urban construction projects for Moscow and various regions of Russian, created the Friends of Zaryadye public movement. Since 2012, he has served as a partner in Citymakers Bureau, which specialises in socio-cultural programming, creation of concepts for the development of urban districts and public spaces, as well as educational projects. Kudryavtsev has authored more than a hundred papers in leading architectural publications and served as an official representative of the World Architecture Festival in Russia, and a member of the Festival's judge panel.

At Strelka KB, Nabi works on creating a more sustainable and resilient urban environment, by strengthening the relationship between water, ecology and cities.
He worked at an urban design and landscape architecture firm SCAPE (New York, NY), there, among other projects, he participated in the design of the "Ecological Citizens" exhibition for the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Architettura (2018).
Nabi holds a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, a Bachelor from New York Institute of Technology, and is an alumnus of The New Normal postgraduate programme at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.

Timur Burbaev is the head of the Industrial Design programme at the School of Design of NRU HSE in Russia and the Art Director at Art. Lebedev Studio in Russia. Also, he is a visiting lecturer at the British School of Design in Moscow. He is a designer that won several international awards in Industrial Design: Red Dot, IF Design (Germany), Good Design (Japan). He supervised and created numerous projects both individually and as the Art Director of Art. Lebedev Studio, including those for the Moscow city infrastructure, Russia Premier League, Bosch, and other institutions. Timur was trained as a design engineer (transportation design).

Professional experience and current professional activity:
· Architect "Neutelings Riedijk Architects" (Netherlands)
· Founder of the architectural research bureau "VISOTA" (Netherlands)
· Head of the study of the system of houses and palaces of culture in Russia "Identity in the typical"
· Guest teacher at the "Amsterdam Academy of Architecture"
Studied at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and obtained an International Master of Architecture degree

Professional experience and current professional activity:
· Founder of the architectural research bureau "VISOTA" (Netherlands)
· Head of the study of the system of houses and palaces of culture in Russia "Identity in the typical"
· Guest teacher at the "Amsterdam Academy of Architecture"
Studuied at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and obtained an International Master of Architecture degree

Jaap de Zwaan is a Dutch emeritus professor of European Union Law. He started his professional career as a member of The Hague Bar. Later he worked for a period of 19 years for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague (European Integration Department and Legal Service) and Brussels (Permanent Representation of the Netherlands at the EU). In 1998 Jaap de Zwaan was appointed full-time professor of European Union Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Apart from his activities as a European law professor, he served his Law School as Vice-Dean for International Affairs and as Dean. In the period mid-2005 until mid-2011 De Zwaan was Director of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, 'Clingendael', a think tank as well as the diplomatic academy. In May 2011 he returned to Erasmus University Rotterdam. In the period mid-2012 until mid-2017, De Zwaan has also been active, on a part-time basis, as Professor European Integration at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Until the present day, Jaap de Zwaan is still active in various fields related to European Union law and policies.

Alfred Pot started his career as a logistic manager at a machine factory. His second job was as a lecturer on logistics, organisational behaviour and coaching at the Dronten University of Applied Sciences (DUAS). The context of his job changed in 2014 where he started as project leader on complex research projects on precision farming and on heat innovation. The combination of logistics and precision farming made it possible to become the head of the department of Agro-Technology & Management. Nowadays he combines the outcome of research to develop new curricula, to professionalise his education team and he performs research on logistics.

Robert van Otterdijk is a food technologist, graduated from Wageningen University. He worked first in the Dutch food industry in quality assurance and r&d, after which he joined the Food & Agriculture Organisation of the UN.

In 1995, he joined a SIDA (Sweden) funded field project in Zambia on production, processing and commercialisation of root & tuber crops. In 2002 he joined the FAO again, this time as the agro-industry officer of the Regional Office for Africa, based in Accra - Ghana. In 2008 he moved to FAO Headquarters in Rome (Italy), and since 2017 he is based in FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia in Budapest (Hungary).