Alexandra Geese is a Member of the European Parliament with the Greens/EFA group. She has been elected in 2019 and now serves as a full member of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, the Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age and the Budget Committee. Her political focus is on digital policy, fundamental rights, especially non-discrimination of women and minorities in artificial intelligence, as well as gender budgeting.

Carly Kind is the Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute and deliberative body a remit to ensure data and AI work for people and society. A human rights lawyer and expert in technology policy, Carly has advised industry, government and non-profit organisations, and worked with the European Commission, the Council of Europe, numerous UN bodies and a range of civil society organisations. She was formerly Legal Director of Privacy International, an NGO dedicated to promoting data rights and governance.

Paola is currently Head of Design and Research at Democratic Society, where she is exploring the social implications of digitalisation on society at large and the impact of digital technology on our democratic practices and our public space. In her role she is leading the design of the organizational strategy for Digital and Democracy.
She has a long-standing research interest on topics of digitalisation and activism and she was Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute, researching questions of digital inequalities and digital sovereignty. She regularly lectures on the topic of design in the public services and democratic design with different Universities across Europe. She is currently Visiting Professor at the Polimi in Milan, teaching on the topic of design justice and digitalisation of public services.
Paola has a doctorate in Design Anthropology from the London College of Communication.