Kir Nuthi is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation focusing on European digital policy. Previously, she worked as a public affairs manager at NetChoice, where she focused on emerging technology issues surrounding content moderation, competition policy, and the sharing economy. Kir holds an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London and a BA with dual focuses in Economics and Political Science from the University of California San Diego.

Ms Kumpula-Natri is a Member of the European Parliament representing Finland and the S&D. She is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and a substitute member to the Committee on International Trade (INTA), where she is the standing rapporteur of the parliamentary monitoring group WTO rules on e-commerce. Ms Kumpula-Natri is also the first vice-chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with the United States of America (D-US) and has served as the first vice-chair of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA).

A strong advocate for gender equality and women in tech and digital cooperation, Ms Kumpula-Natri is the chair and founder of the UN Generation Equality Friendship Group in the European Parliament and a member of the European Parliament´s delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe. Previously, Ms Kumpula-Natri was a member of the Finnish Parliament for 11 years and chaired the Grand Committee responsible for EU-Finland relations at the parliamentary level. She has also been a member of her hometown local council in Vaasa for 20 years.

Kir Nuthi is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation focusing on European digital policy. Previously, she worked as a public affairs manager at NetChoice, where she focused on emerging technology issues surrounding content moderation, competition policy, and the sharing economy. Kir holds an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London and a BA with dual focuses in Economics and Political Science from the University of California San Diego.

Giuseppe Colangelo is a Jean Monnet Professor of European Innovation Policy and an Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Basilicata (Italy). He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Markets, Regulation and Law, and of Competition and Markets of Innovation at LUISS (Italy). He is a fellow of the Stanford Law School and University of Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF), the scientific coordinator of the Research Network for Digital Ecosystem, Economic Policy and Innovation (Deep-In), and an academic affiliate with the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).

He graduated in Law from LUISS, earned an LL.M. in Competition Law and Economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (the Netherlands), and a Ph.D. in Law and Economics at LUISS.

His primary research interests are related to innovation policy, intellectual property, competition policy, market regulation, and economic analysis of law.

Jeremy Rollison is Senior Director of European Government Affairs within Microsoft’s Corporate, External, & Legal Affairs (CELA) group. Based in Brussels, he manages the team
responsible for Digital Transformation and Sustainability, focusing specifically on data policy topics. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked in the Government Relations team at Nokia in the
company’s EU representative office and was previously Director of the European Digital Media Association (EDiMA; now Dot.Europe) in Brussels. He has over 15 years of experience in
Brussels at the company, association, and consultancy levels, focusing and engaging with EU stakeholders on issues related to the development and delivery of online services in the single
market and corresponding EU regulatory policy, with an increasing cross-sectoral policy focus linked to the digital transformation journey(s) of Microsoft customers.

Jens serves as Senior Director Corporate Affairs EMEA & APJ at Workday and manages Workday’s public policy engagements and teams in the European and Asia-Pacific regions. Before joining Workday to set up the international Corp Affairs function, he ran the European office of the Center for Democracy and Technology, and previously led government affairs teams at Intel and Dell.

Elisar follows EU regulation shaping the digital economy with a particular focus on AI and data-related technologies. She has previous experience working for a tech company and the European External Action Service, among others. Elisar has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Oxford and holds a Master in International Relations and Law of the European Union from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.

Mariane ter Veen is director data sharing lead at consulting firm INNOPAY. She helps organisations to fully embrace the opportunities of the digital transactions era by adopting a more open outlook, collaborating across ecosystems and creating new value.

She believes in a world where trusted data exchange is the key to unlocking new business models and reducing costs.

As an enabler of this, she is a strong advocate of data sovereignty, which gives people and organisations control over their data. She is the coordinator of Data Sovereignty Now, a campaign of like-minded organisations urging European policymakers at all levels to ensure that control of data remains in the hands of the people and organisations that generate it.

Mariane has a wealth of experience in the domain of data sharing, both in public/private partnerships as well as helping individual organisations, and spearheaded the development of several data-sharing schemes.