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Julien Bek
- Sequoia Capital
- Partner
Jyoti Hirani-Driver
- NATO Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA)
- Chief Operating Officer
Peter Wennink
- Former President and CEO, ASML
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Heineken
Robert Doornbos
- Former F1 driver
Shez Partovi
- Philips
- Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer
Pernilla Sjöholm
- Tinder Swindler Survivor & Founder of Identity Fraud Startup
Thomas Wolf
- Hugging Face
- Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO)
Brooke Nayden
- Adyen
- CHRO
Vidya Peters
- Datasnipper
- CEO
Jacqueline van den Ende
- Carbon Equity
- Co-founder & CEO
James Landay
- Stanford University
- Co-Founder and Co-Director, Stanford Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Michiel Kotting
- Northzone
- Partner
Young Sohn
- Founding Managing Partner, Walden Catalyst Ventures
- Chairman, Samsung Semiconductor Advisory Board
Christina Calje
- Autheos
- CEO & Co-founder, Angel Investor
Ali Niknam
- bunq
- Founder and CEO
Seth Dobrin
- 1infinity Ventures
- General Partner
Marc Wesselink
- Venturerock
- Founder
Polly Barnes
- EQT Ventures
- Operating Partner
Dinika Mahtani
- Cherry Ventures
- Partner
Marc Wietfeld
- ARX Landsysteme
- CEO
Laurence Mehaignerie
- Citizen Capital
- Co-Founder & Partner
Salar al Khafaji
- Monumental
- Founder & CEO
Jan Goetz
- IQM Computers
- Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Daan Klein Douwel
- KLM
- Head of Data & AI
Natasha Govender-Ropert
- Rabobank
- Head of Artificial Intelligence - Financial Economic Crime
Daniel Gebler
- Picnic
- CTO
Matej Pfajfar
- Monzo
- CTO
Jeroen van Glabbeek
- CM.com
- CEO
Rob van Straten
- Skytree
- CEO
Tom Henriksson
- OpenOcean
- General Partner
Daniele Tonella
- ING
- Chief Technology Officer
Sarah Barber
- Jenson Funding Partners
- CEO
Elvira Shishenina
- Moth / Quantinuum
- Scientific Advisor / Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives
Marcus Hølland Eikeland
- VONA Ventures
- Managing Director
Lukas Leitner
- Lakestar
- Senior Associate
Cyril Vančura
- imec.xpand
- Partner
Dr. Benjamin Wolba
- European Defence Tech Hub
- Co-founder
Sten Tamkivi
- Plural
- Partner
Derek Mitchell
- Content Creator
Karin Schmid
- Extreme Tech Challenge
- Energy Advisor & Co-chair of AI Energy Innovation Summit
Aaike van Vugt
- VSParticle
- Co-founder & CEO
Nicolas Autret
- Walden Catalyst Ventures
- General Partner
Victoria Slivkoff
- Head of Ecosystem, Walden Catalyst Ventures
- Executive Managing Director, Extreme Tech Challenge
Madeline Lawrence
- Aikido | Peak Capital
- CBO | Former Partner
Andy Lürling
- LUMO Labs
- Founding Partner
Beau-Anne Chilla
- FORWARD.one
- Partner
Jelle Prins
- Cradle
- Co-founder
Maksym Plakhotnyuk
- ATLANT 3D
- Founder & CEO
Hitesh Kumar Sahoo
- Phanofi
- CEO & Co-Founder

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