Tanel Tammet is a professor at the School of Information Technologies of the Tallinn University of Technology. He has a Ph.D from the Chalmers University of Technology / University of Gothenburg and an M.Sc in applied mathematics from the University of Tartu. His research focuses on automated and commonsense reasoning: theory, implementations and applications. He has also worked in the cyber security sphere and has been a software architect for a number of commercial software development projects. He was one of the original analysts and designers of the Estonian i-Voting system and was recently a member of the state-organized workgroup analyzing the risks and proposing improvement options for the i-Voting process. More details

Arvind Gupta is the Head and Co-founder of Digital India Foundation a policy think tank working in areas of Digital Inclusion, Data Privacy & Cyber Security. He has over 28 years of experience in leadership, policy & entrepreneurial roles both in India and Silicon Valley, USA. He is the recipient of Eisenhower fellow for Innovation (2014) and is the member of #WEF Digital Futures Council and OECD initiative on Global Value Chains. He ran the digital campaign for BJP, the largest political party in India, for their successful campaign in 2014. He is the founder member of iSPiRT, which has extensively worked on “India Stack” and was appointed the CEO of MyGov, an initiative of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to digitally communicate schemes and policies to Indian citizens. He advises many countries on building digital public goods and solving societal problems.

Jack is a Security Architect at Krebs Stamos Group and a Computer Science undergraduate at Stanford University. He started winning software bug bounties as a teen and was named one of Time’s 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018, the same year he began working at the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service. After discovering and reporting severe vulnerabilities in several states' electoral infrastructure, Cable joined the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the summer of 2020. More details

Prof. Krithi Ramamritham is a professor of computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay, India. A world-recognized expert in data management and distributed systems, he has been researching tools aimed at socio-economic development as well as analyzing India’s AADHAR identity system [2d(ii)]. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and served on the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment Technical Advisory Board of TTTech, Vienna, Austria, Microsoft Research India, and Tata Consultancy Services. More details

Jeremy is the lead Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program Director at NSF focusing on computer security. Jeremy has a long history of work in elections security (Politico -‘Reckless and stupid’: Security world feuds over how to ban wireless gear in voting machines). With over 35+ years of experience, he has held numerous security research positions in industry and standards bodies.

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Dr. Steve Newell is a project director at the AAAS Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues (AAAS EPI Center). Prior to joining AAAS, he was a Senior Legislative and Federal Affairs Officer at the American Psychological Association, where he promoted evidence-based policy and federal investments in science.

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Dr. Sagar Samtani is an Assistant Professor and Grant Thornton Scholar in the Department of Operations and Decision Technologies at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Dr. Samtani graduated with his Ph.D. from the AI Lab in University of Arizona’s Management Information Systems department. Dr. Samtani’s research interests are in AI for Cybersecurity, specifically in developing deep learning and network science approaches for cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability assessment, open-source software, and Dark Web analytics. He has received funding from NSF’s SaTC, CICI, and SFS programs and has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in information systems, machine learning, and cybersecurity venues.

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