Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. A pioneer in her field, she has authored more than 120 articles and chapters and is author or editor of more than 15 books, including The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, Designs on Nature, and The Ethics of Invention. Her work explores the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and policy of modern democracies. She founded and directs the STS Program at Harvard; previously, she was founding chair of the STS Department at Cornell. She has held distinguished visiting appointments at leading universities in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the US. Jasanoff served on the AAAS Board of Directors and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her honors include the SSRC’s Hirschman prize, the Humboldt Foundation’s Reimar-Lüst award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ehrenkreuz from the Government of Austria, and membership in the Royal Danish Academy. She holds AB, JD, and PhD degrees from Harvard, and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Twente and Liège.

Venkat Ramaswamy
Venkat Ramaswamy is Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He is a globally recognized thought leader, idea practitioner, and eclectic scholar with wide-ranging interests in co-creation, innovation, strategy, marketing, branding, IT, operations, and the human side of the organization. His previous award-winning book in 2004, The Future of Competition (with C. K. Prahalad), introduced co‑creation as a revolutionary business concept. 

Julia Rokicka
Julia Rokicka is a co-founder and board member of Biorecykling Assosiation. She collaborates with other NGOs, housing community, activists, citizens, students, politicians, journalists, universities, companies in the field of waste management and renewable energy. She wrote her Master Thesis on deliberative democracy and collaborative decision-making processes involving wide range of stakeholders from different groups for better development of regions and cities. She works in a Swiss bank as a Business Manager and she is a Leader of employee networks focused on environment in Poland – Trash Hero, Sustainability and Nature’s Footprint network, where she coordinates campaigns, workshops and volunteering activities. She started Trash Hero Wrocław initiative and she is coordinating most of clean-up and recycling actions in Wrocław and many in Poland. In Wrocław she is also Green Party President.

Aron Darmody
Aron Darmody is Associate Professor of Marketing at Suffolk University, Boston. His research focuses on cultural theories of technology and digital consumption, productive consumption, and cultural studies of marketing practice. His work has appeared in many research outlets, including Journal of Consumer Culture, Big Data & Society, Consumption, Markets and Culture, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, and Journal of Macromarketing.

Iris Eisenberger
Iris Eisenberger is a Professor of Public Law and European Economic Law at the University of Graz. She has previously been a Professor of Law and Head of the Institute of Law at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, a faculty member at the University of Vienna’s Law Faculty, and a visiting professor at many renowned institutions, including Mekelle University in Ethiopia, Macau University, and the Munich Center of Technology in Society (MCTS) at the Technical University of Munich. Her research focuses on public economic law, innovation and technology law and the protection of human rights.

Maja Horst
Maja Horst is professor of responsible technology at Denmark Technical University. She previously held a position as head of department and professor of research communication at University of Copenhagen. She has been a member of the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy which is currently investigating whether Denmark needs a technology policy.

Stijn Steenbakkers
Stijn Steenbakkers (1987) has been Alderman for Economic Affairs, Brainport, Education, Innovation and Sport in Eindhoven since May 2018. He was born and raised in the province of Brabant, of which Brainport Eindhoven is the economic heart. Prior to starting work in Eindhoven, he held various positions at the Rabobank, including that of financing specialist for Rabobank Corporate Clients and was most recently account manager for strategic FI clients (large insurer and pension funds) within Rabobank GWPC (Global Wholesale Product Clients). He was also a member for the CDA (political party) of the Provinciale Staten in the province of Noord-Brabant. Before starting work at the Rabobank, he was a policy officer for Economy and Innovation for the CDA in the House of Representatives. Steenbakkers studied economy in Utrecht and Rotterdam and International Relations and Diplomacy in Antwerp.

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“Innovation is nothing more or less than the development of a new idea or product. The art is in doing that in such a way that the innovation will still be relevant in a few years. So that we're not building on one-hit wonders but on well-considered, well-thought-out concepts. And they're the result not of an individual, but of a collaborative process. Something we've been very good at in our Brainport Eindhoven Region for decades. Together, we achieve more, between businesses, with start-ups and scale-ups and with the public too.

It may seem more complicated and for some, possibly difficult to get used to, but our products will be better because of it. And more valuable for both consumer and manufacturer."

Judith Veenkamp
Judith Veenkamp is head of Smart Citizens Lab at Waag. Smart Citizens Lab is dedicated to empowering citizens to collaborate with other stakeholders to find solutions to societal issues. Judith has experience in public research, facilitating grassroots initiatives and the topic of democratizing technology. She is involved with various European projects regarding mobility and a member of the steering committee of DataMission.

Sarah Waschler
Mrs. Sarah Waschler is a project manager working in the area of the ‘Digital agenda’ for the city of Ulm. Her domains of expertise are mobility, education and demography. She coordinates the activities of internal and external partners and is responsible for public relations.

Paola Huijding
Having received two degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, Paola has built her career as designer, city planner, innovation developer and strategy manager. In her role as initiator, booster and coordinator,she has been providing design and strategic approach for innovative solutions to the built environment issues, giving cities and societies the opportunity to reshuffle systems to help them achieve resilience. By juxtaposing the technological and the social, and the political and the economic, a cross-sectoral approach gives her the confidence in the vital role that climate friendly innovations and circular economy will play in consumption patterns and urban transitions. This will provide our societies with the conditions for a healthy, zero-carbon and circular lifestyle that is urgent needed.

As senior project leader at Platform31 she runs experimental projects and coordinates the programme Sustainability engaging with business partners, knowledge institutes and governmental bodies as ministries and municipalities. Connecting practice, science and policy she coordinates the programme that consists of several projects, which are complementary to each other in the search for scalable solutions to the energy transition, climate adaptation and circular economy.

Maarten Steinbuch
Maarten Steinbuch is a Distinguished University Professor in Systems and Control and Chair of Control Systems Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research ranges from automotive engineering (with a focus on connected cars and clean vehicles) to mechatronics, motion control, and fusion plasma control. He is primarily known for his work in the field of advanced motion control, as well as in robotics for high precision surgery. Steinbuch is a prolific blogger and a key opinion leader on the influence of new technologies on society and a well-known advocate of electric vehicles. He has developed new techniques to accommodate reference and disturbance induced errors, based on repetitive control, iterative learning and motion feedback control. Steinbuch's research has also resulted in improvement of robots for precision domestic care and surgery.

Steven Dorrestijn
Steven Dorrestijn is head of the research group Ethics & Technology at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. In 2012 Dorrestijn completed his PhD thesis (The design of our own lives: Technical mediation and subjectivation after Michel Foucault) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Previously he studied Philosophy in Paris and Philosophy and Mechanical Engineering in Twente. Dorrestijn’s research and publications focus on the philosophy and ethics of technology, Michel Foucault’s work in relation to technology, and the integration into design of knowledge about the impact of technology (Product Impact Tool).  www.stevendorrestijn.nl