is a corporate lawyer and company secretary specializing in startup legal frameworks, venture capital transactions, and compliance. As the founder of Bizlegal and VP of Corporate Strategy at Execube Group, she has guided founders and investors through 1,000+ deals. Ripple has also pursued executive education in
Read MoreAn Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta and adjunct in Computing Science. He is an Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair. His research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing, clinical informatics, and AI ethics.
Read MoreCompiler founder and CEO Mike Farrell is a longtime tech journalist in Washington, D.C., who worked as an editor and reporter at Politico, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor and CyberScoop. He was part of the Globe team that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting
Read MoreMegan Roberts is the Positioning and Engagement Manager in the Digital, AI, and Innovation Hub of the United Nations Development Programme. She previously served as the director of policy planning at the United Nations Foundation, where she led its policy work on the future of multilateral
Read MoreLv Shiming is a member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, president of the China Association of Volunteers for Persons with Disabilities, and vice-chairperson of the Seventh Presidium of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation. For many years he has worked to advance the
Read MoreIn July 2025, Mr. Eric Falt was appointed as Regional Director of the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean (D2), based in Kingston, Jamaica. He is the UNESCO Representative to Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia,
Read MoreShe holds a degree in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a Master’s degree in Management and Public Policy from the University of Chile. To enhance her professional development, she has completed courses in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. With over 13
Read MoreDenise Eldemire-Shearer (Professor of Ageing and Public Health) has been working in the field of ageing since 1982. Her key areas of interest include healthy ageing and its determinants and community-based long-term care. Advocacy is a strong component of her work.
Read MoreDeepak Maheshwari has a keen interest in the interplay of public policy with technological innovation and socio-economic development. He has been closely engaged in the evolution of policies and regulations with respect to India’s digital ecosystem for almost three decades. Currently, he is Senior Policy Advisor
Read MoreSince January 2025, Guilherme Canela is the Director of the Division for Digital Inclusion and Policies and Digital Transformation, and Secretary of the Information for All Programme (IFAP) at UNESCO headquarters, in Paris. He has a B.A. in International Relations from theUniversity of Brasília (UNB) and
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