Isabelle Biallaß is a German judge since 2009. She currently works as legal officer at the IT-Department of the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia. Her fields of responsibility are European and national e-Justice projects and related legal matters, including AI and Legal Tech. She is a frequent speaker on these topics. She is the author of publications on IT-Law, e-Justice, AI and Legal Tech since 2006, eg. the chapter on AI and Legal Tech in the “juris-Praxiskommentar zum ERV”. She is a member of the board of the “Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag e. V.”.

Le-Minh Nguyen is currently a Professor of School of Information Science and a director of the Interpretable AI center at JAIST. He is the head of the Machine Learning and Natural language Understanding Laboratory at JAIST. He received his B.Sc. degree in information technology from Hanoi University of Science, and M.Sc. degree in information technology from Vietnam National University, Hanoi in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information Science from School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in 2004. He was an Assistant professor at School of information science, JAIST from 2008 to 2013 and Associate Professor at JAIST from 2013 to 2019. His research interests include machine learning & deep learning, natural language processing, and legal text processing.

Bernhard Waltl is Legal Operations Officer at the BMW Group. He has a PhD in computer science and was a visiting researcher at Stanford University. Bernhard is interested to see how technology changes, influences, and disrupts the business of law. He is part of an international network of leading researchers from computer science,and legal informatics.

Adam Ziegler is Director of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab (LIL), an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. As Director of LIL, he leads a multidisciplinary team that blends expertise in law, programming, librarianship, and design to address a variety of problems that relate to the intersection of law and technology. LIL’s current flagship projects are: the Caselaw Access Project, which offers free public access to all historical, published decisions of state and federal courts; Perma.cc, which allows courts, scholars, lawyers, and other authors protect their web references against link rot; and H2O, which helps faculty create free, adaptable course materials. Prior to joining Harvard, Adam founded a legal tech startup that sought to promote open and collaborative legal knowledge, and he practiced law for over 10 years in the areas of commercial and appellate litigation and white collar defense. 

Enrico Francesconi is a research director at IGSG-CNR, the Institute for Legal Informatics and Judicial Studies of the National Research Council of Italy and, currently, he is a Policy Officer of the European Parliament. His main research interests include Semantic Web technologies for the legal domain, legal ontologies and knowledge representation, AI techniques for legal document classification and knowledge extraction, e-Government, e-Participation, semantic models for the document collections of the EU. He has been Policy Officer of the European Commission - DG Publications Office, member of the Italian and European working groups defining XML and URI standards for legal documents and representative of the Italian Ministry of Justice in the e-Law Working Group of the Council of the European Union. He is President for the period 2020-2021 and Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. He is Section Editor on Ontology and Knowledge Representation of the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal (Springer), co-Editor in Chief of the Journal on Open Access to Law (Cornell University, Law School), Scientific Advisory Board Member of Law, Governance and Technology Series (Springer). He served as Conference Chair of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013, Rome). He is contract professor of Information Retrieval and Semantic Web Technologies at the School of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences of the University of Florence.