Thomas Keller is a member of the Executive Board of DENIC eG, the registry for .de. He has been in the internet industry since 1997 and active in the ICANN/ccTLD environment for over two decades. He is also co-chair of the first TLD Information Sharing & Analysis Center in Europe (EUR TLD ISAC).

Andreas Musielak is a member of the Executive Board of DENIC eG, the registry for .de and co-managing director of DENIC Services GmbH & Co. KG. He is actively involved in the domain industry, for example as Chair of the SOPC of ICANN Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) and at CENTR.

Peter Koch has been active in the world of ccTLDs for over 30 years. As an advisor to the DENIC Executive Board, he bridges the fields of regulation, standardization, Internet governance, and cybersecurity.

Richard Wein has been General Manager of nic.at, the official registry for.at since 2000. He is also Managing Director of nic.at's sister companies tldbox GmbH, ipcom GmbH and CERT.at GmbH. Richard regularly represents nic.at at international industry meetings like ICANN, CENTR.

Robert Schischka has been CTO of nic.at, the official registry for.at, co.at and or.at domains, since September 2003. He also is CTO of the sister companies tldbox GmbH and ipcom GmbH. In addition, he has been director of the national Austrian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT.at GmbH) since 2008.

Urs Eppenberger started working for the Switch foundation straight after graduating and helped to build the internet in Switzerland. He is in charge of SWITCH’s registry for the top-level domains .ch and .li, where his focus is on safeguarding the DNS as a critical infrastructure and protecting users.

Linus Neumann, a psychologist by training, is an IT security consultant and hacker. He serves as an expert on IT security in the German Bundestag and is a co-founder of the podcast “Logbuch:Netzpolitik,” which covers current net policy topics.

Prof. Dr. Christian Stummeyer is one of the leading digital & AI experts in Germany. He reads Business Informatics and Digital Commerce at Ingolstadt Technical University. He also is scientific director of AININ (“Artificial Intelligence Network Ingolstadt” and “Certified Speaking Professional“ (CSP).

Dr. Julia Pohle is a communication scientist and expert in digital policy. She leads the research group “Politics of Digitalization” at the WZB Berlin. Her focus areas include digital sovereignty, internet governance, and global communication policy. Previously, she served as an advisor at UNESCO.

Jorge Cancio is the Deputy Head of International Relations at the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM). In this role, he holds strategic, leadership, and coordination responsibilities within the international relations team.

Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug has been working in information security & critical infrastructure protection as consultant & auditor for over 23 years. His topics include NIS 2, KRITIS, hack back, ethics & cyber resilience. He is founder of the KRITIS WG and co-founder of the WG Sustainable Digitalisation (AGND).

Claudia van Veen has over 15 years of moderation experience. She delights audiences with her authentic, eloquent and competent style in any event. Her main fields of interest and competence include IT, digitalization, cyber security, medicine and psychology. She is fluent in German, English and Dutch.

Markus Beckedahl has been observing, analyzing, and explaining for over 25 years how the internet and crucial digital technological developments shape our societies, cultural practices, and political decisions. In doing so, he has played a key role in shaping a new field of politics: digital and net policy.

Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Professor Emeritus at the University of Aarhus, has been a prominent figure in Internet Governance and transborder data flows since the 1980s. He served as a Director on the ICANN Board (2013–2015), Special Ambassador of the NETMundial Initiative, and was instrumental in shaping ICANN.

Andreas Dengel is a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, a managing director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, and the head of the research department of Smart Data & Knowledge Services at DFKI. Since 2009, he has also been a professor (kyakuin) at the Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems at Osaka Metropolitan University.

Irina Soeffky is the Head of the Subdivision for National, European, and International Digital Policy at the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport. She has over 15 years of experience in public service and has extensively worked on international issues. She holds a degree in law and economics.