Ján Matejka presently works as the Director of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His professional experience has spanned the areas of intellectual property and ICT law. Jan Matejka also focuses on civil and information technology law, contract and business law. His professional experience involves also e-government, electronic signatures, information security and telecommunications. He is a senior lecturer of Data Protection Law of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague. He studied at Manchester Metropolitan University School of Law and the Universite d’ete Granade. He is the author of a number of texts on Telecommunication Law. He studied at Manchester Metropolitan University School of Law, University of West Bohemia Faculty of Law and Universite d`ete Granade. He is an author of more then hundred expert and popularized works on Internet and computer Law and a solver of many grant projects. His specialties are data privacy and (personal) data protection, Internet and computer law, software law, copyright law, civil and commercial law, contract and business consultancy, labor law, telecommunications law, domain names, privacy protection, license and service contract negotiation, cyberlaw and arbitration.

Hananel Hazan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Haifa (2014), M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Haifa (2007), and B.A. in Exact Sciences from Ashkelon College and Bar-Ilan University (2003, magna cum laude). In 2014-2017 Dr. Hazan worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Network Biology Research Laboratories at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology where he developed a new experimental low cost platform for closed-loop interactions with a cortical neuronal network and machine learning that analyzed the activity in real time. In 2017-2019 Dr. Hazan worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the College of Information and Computer Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is currently working as a research scientist at the Levin Lab at Tufts University.

Alex Ivančo gained more than ten years of experience in the international law, working as the Head of the International Law Unit at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, and for the Czech Trade Promotion Agency in São Paulo, Brazil. He was also responsible for the implementation of OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises before recently joining the Ministry of Finance as a Director of the Financial Market Supervision Department. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from Charles University and is especially interested in dispute resolution outside of the formal state-sponsored judicial systems, design of dispute resolution systems and the use of modern technologies. He initiated discussions in UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL on global harmonization of legal framework for artificial intelligence and smart contracts.

Jan Klesla is a former National Coordinator for European AI Centers at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic and one of the co-authors of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy. He has focused on the digital economy, particularly investments and regulations in the area of the technological disruption of traditional industries. In these areas he cooperates with Czech and foreign think-tanks. Previously he worked as an economic editor and editor in Hospodářské noviny. Later he founded the economic monthly Index in Lidové noviny, then led the economic desk and worked as an economic commentator. Before joining the media, he gained experience in law, finance and information technology.