People
248 people the summit's public pages list as speakers in our programme or in our companies' sources, by name, role and organisation only.
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- Abhinav Gupta, Co founder, President, Skild AI
- Abigail Slater, Former Assistant Attorney General, The US Government
- Adam Kobeissi, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Kobeissi Letter
- Adam Leventhal, TV Presenter & Independent Journalist, Sky Sports & Noosphere
- Adam Schwartz, Co-Founder & CEO, Parable
- Albert Wenger, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
- Alexandra Geese, MEP, The European Parliament
- Alexandre Neves, Journalist, Grupo Renascença Multimédia
- Alfonso (Poncho) Sandoval Rosas, Senior Developer Advocate 🥑, CIsco Systems
- Ali Partovi, Founding Partner, Neo
- Alvin W. Graylin, Prof. AI Policy at UW / Digital Fellow, Stanford HAI
- Amanda Aronczyk, Co-host, Planet Money, National Public Radio
- Amit Katwala, Features Editor, Wired
- Amy O'Brien, Tech Editor, Vogue Business
- Andreas Blattmann, Co Founder, Black Forest Labs
- Andrew Sever, Co-founder and CEO, Sumsub
- Andrew Sollinger, CEO & Publisher, Foreign Policy Magazine
- Ang Li, CEO and Co-founder, Simular
- Ania Lichtarowicz, Managing Director and Editor, Somewhere on Earth: The Tech Global Podcast
- Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak, Chief Operating Officer, Robust Open Online Safety Tools
- Anni Chen, Developer Evangelist, Twilio
- Anthony Grieco, SVP, Chief Security & Trust Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Anton Osika, Co-founder & CEO, Lovable
- Arba Kokalari, MEP Group of the European People's Party, European Parliament
- Arjun Kharpal, Senior Technology Correspondent, CNBC
- Art Gilliland, CEO, Delinea
- Astrid Maier, Chief Deputy Editor and Head of Strategy, Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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- Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer, Cognizant
- Bailey Pumfleet, CEO & Co-founder, Cal.com
- Balázs Orban, MEP, European Parliament
- Benjamin Faes, CEO, RWS Group
- Bernard Wolff, ThinkShield Cybersecurity Technical Solution Lead MEMEA, LEnovo
- Bernardo Correia, Secretary of State for Digitalisation, Government of Portugal
- Betsy Reed, Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian US
- Bill Gross, Founder & Executive Chairman, Idealab
- Blake Montgomery, Tech Editor, The Guardian US
- Brooke Hopkins, Founder & CEO, Coval
- Burke Stephenson, Head of Cybersecurity Sales - EMEA, Lenovo
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- Calum Chace, Co-founder, Conscium
- Carmem Domingues, Former White House Senior AI Advisor, AI Techno-Realist, Future Government Institute
- Carolin Wais, Partner, Plug and Play Tech Center
- Charles Pellegrin, Business Editor, France 24
- Charlie Wells, Reporter and Editor, Bloomberg
- Chon Tang, Founding Partner, SkyDeck Ventures
- Christos Rizos, Group Business Development Director, AI & Digital Solutions, AustriaCard
- Chung-Yan Chow, Editor-in-chief, South China Morning Post
- Ciara Haley, Executive Producer, Web Summit
- Clara Jacintho, Software Engineer, Datadog
- Conor Freeman, Former Black Hat Hacker & Offensive Security Lead, The Hacking Games
- Cristina Ferreira, TV Host, Executive, TVI
- Cristina Nascimento, Journalist, Rádio Renascença
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- Dahai Li, Co-founder & CEO, ModelBest
- Daniela Braga, Founder & CEO, Defined.ai
- Dayana Sarkisova, Senior Editor, TIME
- Deli Zhao, Founder and President, Xpeng Aridge
- Des Hogan, Commissioner, Data Protection Commission
- Diana Layfield, Group CEO, Monzo
- Diogo Guerra, CTO, Feedzai
- Domininkas Virbickas, Product Director, Nord Security
- Don McGuire, EVP and CMO, Qualcomm
- Dr. Durga Malladi, EVP and GM, Technology Planning, Edge Solutions & Data Center, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Qualcomm
- Dylan Barrell, CTO, Deque Systems
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- Edith Harbaugh, Co-founder & CEO, LaunchDarkly
- Eleanor Pringle, Senior Reporter Economics and Markets, Fortune
- Elena Poughia, Managing Editor, Dataconomy Media
- Erika Whitmore, Partner, KPMG
- Ethan Byrd, Founder, Primitive
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- Fei Xu, CMO, Xiaomi Group
- Filipa Barreto, Partner, KPMG
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- Georg Zoeller, Co founder, Centre for AI Leadership (C4AIL)
- George Hayes, KPMG Private Leader, Global Senior Lead Tax Partner, KPMG
- George Kurtz, Co-founder & CEO, CrowdStrike
- Georja Calvin-Smith, Productrice principale / Présentatrice, France 24
- Gerasim Hovhannisyan, Co-founder & CEO, EasyDMARC, Inc.
- Gian M. Volpicelli, Technology Reporter, Bloomberg
- Gigi Danziger, Founder, Eutopia
- Giovanna Faggionato, Financial Services Reporter, POLITICO
- Giovanni Alberto Falcione, Co-founder & CTO, Exein
- Gonzalo Vila, Co-Founder & CEO, NXTPLAY Capital
- Greg Piefer, Founder & CEO, SHINE Technologies
- Grzegorz Lipke, CTO, House Of Angular
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- Hanh Nguyen, CEO & Co-Founder, alqem
- Harry McCracken, Technology Editor, Fast Company
- Haz Hubble, CEO & Co-Founder, Pally
- Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, European Commission
- Henry Farrell, SNF Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs, John Hopkins University
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- Ian Rogers, Chief Human Agency Officer & Board Member, Ledger
- Igor Ryabenkiy, Founder & Managing Partner, AltaIR Capital
- Irene Long, CSO, Rokid
- Isobel Sita-Lumsden, Global Head of Business Marketing, TikTok
- Ivan Mehta, Reporter, TechCrunch
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- J. Ofori Agboka, Vice President People, Experience & Technology, Amazon
- Jacob Lauritzen, CTO, Legora
- Jacob Sever, Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Sumsub
- Jake Jurewicz, Co-Founder & CEO, Blue Energy
- James Ball, Political Editor, The New World
- James Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen, jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, and Member, Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Lyndon B. Johnson Schoo of Public Affairs, University of Austin Texas
- James Vowles, Team Principal, Atlassian Williams F1 Team
- Jamie Ayala, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Open VSX
- Jan Lipavský, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Government of Czech Republic
- Jeff D'Onofrio, CEO & Publisher, The Washington Post
- Jeff Wilser, Podcast Host & Book Author, AI-Curious
- Jen Wong, COO, Reddit
- Jeremy Fraenkel, Co-founder & CEO, Fundamental
- Jeremy Goldman, Host, FUTUREPROOF Podcast
- Jianhua Li, Correspondent & News Anchor, CGTN Europe
- Jill Kramer, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Mastercard
- Jim Edwards, Executive Editor, Fortune
- João Miguel Mesquita, Editor-in-chief, Digital Inside
- João Nuno Ferreira, President, National Centre for Advanced Computing
- Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, Minister of State and of Finance, Government of Portugal
- Joe McElroy
- John Koetsier, Forbes columnist & Tech First Podcast Host, Forbes, Freelance
- John Madelin, Chief Product Officer, The Hacking Games
- Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder & CEO, Vivaldi
- Jonathan Adashek, Senior Vice President and Chief Global Affairs Officer, IBM
- Jordi Romero, Co-founder & CEO, Factorial
- José Fonseca, Technical Expert, ManageEngine
- José Pedro Nascimento, Chief Technology Officer, MEO
- Joshua Wöhle, CEO, Mindstone
- Julie Pace, SVP and Executive Editor, Associated Press
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- Kamil Sindi, CTO, Runway
- Kate Knibbs, Senior Writer, Wired
- KC Sullivan, President, CNBC
- Kevin Kiley, CEO, Airia AI
- Kirill Skrygan, CEO, JetBrains
- Kirsten Korosec, Business tech editor, TechCrunch
- Kit Eaton, Technology writer, INC
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- Larissa Schneider, Co-Founder & COO, Unframe
- Larry Aschebrook, Founder and Managing Partner, G Squared
- Larry Li, Founder & Managing Partner, Amino Capital
- Laura Greenhalgh, Editorial Director for Global Technology, POLITICO
- Laureen Meroueh, Founder & CEO, Hertha Metals
- Lawrence Snapp, CEO, TrustScale
- Ling Ge, Chief Investment and Strategy Officer (EMEA), Tencent
- Lisa Eadicicco, Tech Editor, CNN
- Louis Dreyfus, CEO, Le Monde
- Luc Chénier, CEO, Kyiv Post
- Lucinda Shen, Deals Reporter, Axios
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- Mafalda Freire, Journalist, businessIT - PC Guia
- Mahi de Silva, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Higgsfield
- Maike Kauffmann, Co-Lead, Purpose
- Maju Kuruvilla, CEO and Founder, Spangle
- Marc Lacey, Managing Editor, The New York Times
- Marijus Briedis, CTO, NordVPN
- Marina Khaustova, COO & Executive Director, Crystal Intelligence
- Marta Dhanis, Journalist & TV Host, MD Media Fusion
- Mary Robinson, Founding Member, The Elders
- Mathias Stamm, Editor-in-Chief, Deutsche Welle
- Matthew Prince, Co-founder & CEO, Cloudflare
- Mattias Ljungman, Founder & CEO, Moonfire
- Maty Bohacek, AI Researcher, Stanford University
- Mauricio Sion, Founder & Executive Chairman, SGF Global
- Max Easton, CEO, Smartex.ai
- Max Schireson, Partner, Battery Ventures
- Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director, Agentic AI Foundation
- Mehul Srivastava, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Financial Times
- Michael Du, CFO, XPENG Aridge Flying Cars
- Michael McNamara, MEP, The European Parliament
- Michael O'Flaherty, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe
- Michele Catasta, President, Replit
- Miguel d'Aguiar, Executive Director, Startup Portugal
- Mike Cannon-Brookes, Co-founder & CEO, Atlassian
- Mike Nguyen, CEO, Inflect
- Milkana Brace, Co-Founder & CPO, SageOx
- Miroslav Wlachovský, Former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, government of Slovakia
- Mohammad Asad Khan, Co-founder & CEO, TestMu AI
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- Nanna Andersen, Managing Director, New Growth & Ventures, H&M Group
- Ned Koh, Co-Founder & President, Aaru
- Neha Mittal, Co-Founder & CEO, JustAI
- Neil Lawrence, Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Trent AI
- Niall Firth, News Editor, MIT Technology Review
- Niall Mackey, Managing Director, Topsec Cloud Solutions
- Nicholas Johnston, Publisher, Axios
- Nicholas Muy, CISO, Scrut Automation
- Nick Thompson, CEO, The Atlantic
- Nick Yu, Chief Product Officer, OMOWAY
- Nikola Mrkšić, Co-founder & CEO, PolyAI
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- Ollie Whitehouse, Chief Technology Officer, National Cyber Security Centre
- Otto Costa Miranda, CEO, Ephemeral
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- Paddy Cosgrave, CEO & Founder, Web Summit
- Pascale Davies, Senior Tech Reporter, Euronews
- Paul Bascobert, President, Reuters News
- Paul Benigeri, CEO, Archive
- Paul Jenkinson, Co-founder & CEO, Whitespace
- Paul Tighe, Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, The Vatican
- Peter Ludwig, Co-founder & CTO, Applied Intuition
- Philip Rathle, CTO, Neo4j
- Philippe Botteri, Partner, Accel
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- Rainer Märkle, General Partner, HV Capital
- Raphael Auphan, Chief Operating Officer, Proton
- Rebecca Ruiz, Senior Reporter, Mashable
- Rene Haas, CEO, Arm Ltd.
- Renu Navale, VP & GM, Health and Cities Division, Edge Computing Group, Intel
- Reya El-Salahi, Presenter / Journalist, CGTN Europe
- Richard Socher, Co-founder & CEO, Recursive & You.com
- Rick Song, CEO, Persona
- Rijk van Zanten, Co-Founder & CTO, Directus
- Rob Pegoraro, Contributor, PCMag
- Robert Booth, Technology Editor, The Guardian UK
- Rocio Wu, Partner, F-Prime Capital Partners
- Rohit Sharma, Partner, True Ventures
- Ronnie Sheth, Founder & CEO, SENEN GROUP
- Rory Blundell, CEO, Gravitee
- Ryan LaSalle, CEO, Nisos
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- Sahil Jain, CEO & Co-Founder, Samepage.ai
- Sam Kidd, CEO and Co-Founder, LawVu
- Sam Liang, CEO and Co-Founder, Otter
- Sam Pasupalak, Co-founder & CEO, Skyfall AI
- Sam Stephenson, Co-founder, Granola
- Samudra Gupta, Solutions Engineer, Descope
- Sara Fischer, Media Correspondent, Axios
- Sarah Kunst, Founder & Managing Director, Cleo Capital
- Satya Nitta, Co-founder, Executive Chairman & Chief Scientist, Emergence
- Shrikesh Laxmidas, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, ECO
- Simon Ince, CTO, Lush
- Sinéad O'Sullivan, Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School/Harvard Business Review
- Sonia Azzouzi Boudie, Chief of Tech & Strategy Officer, iBanFirst
- Søren Bramer Schmidt, CEO, Prisma
- Stanislav Fort, Founder, CTO, & Chief Scientist, Aisle
- Stavros Gadinis, George R. Johnson Professor of Law Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business, Berkeley Center for Law and Business
- Stephan Morais, Investor, Indico Capital Partners
- Stephanie Liu, CEO, Levitate Foundry
- Steve Vassallo, General Partner, Foundation Capital
- Sumit Dhawan, CEO, Proofpoint, Inc.
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- Tao Zhang, Co-founder & CPO, Manus AI
- Tariq Al Tayer, Director of Foreign Direct Investments Department, UAE Ministry of Investment
- Tariq Krim, Founder, Human intention
- Teresa Fiuza, Chief Investment Officer, Banco Português de Fomento
- Terry Martin, International News Anchor/Moderator, Free agent
- Thibaut Courtois, Real Madrid Footballer & Investor, NXTPLAY Capital
- Thomas Fazi, Author, UnHerd
- Thomas Froment, Program Lead, Development Tools, Eclipse Foundation
- Timothy Young, CEO, Jasper
- Tom Stackpole, Senior Technology & Innovation Editor, Harvard Business Review Group
- Tomáš Klvaňa, Executive Director, Aspen Institute Central Europe
- Tony Fadell, Principal, Build Collective
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- Vahan Agopyan, Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation, Government of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Valery Mezencev, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Make
- Victor Gao, Chair Professor, Soochow University; Vice President, CCG; and Chairman, China Energy Security, Center for China and Globalization (CCG)
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- Will Bryk, Co-founder & CEO, Exa
- William Shi, President, AgiBot Europe
- Wilton Itaiguara Gonçalves Mota, President and CEO, Serpro
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- Xavier Green, Co-founder & CTO, ScorePlay
- Xiaoguang Chen, Co-founder & CEO, Eversec Technology
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- Zach Coelius, Founder, Coelius Capital
- Zeki Turedi, Field CTO for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, CrowdStrike