Holly Hoch is a current Ph.D. candidate and research associate at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), working specifically at the Institute for Work and Employment Research. Her current research focuses on technology law, including algorithmic discrimination and liability risks in AI.

Coming from an international background, Holly graduated with honors from the University of Zurich in International Business and Economic Law (LL.M), and the University of California, Berkeley with a Juris Doctorate and certificate in International Law. Prior to starting her Ph.D., she worked as a tech attorney in San Francisco. Her legal experience is distinct, directly advising start-ups as well as large technology companies including Amazon, Facebook, PayPal, and Twitter.

Mads Solberg is associate professor at the Department of Health Science in Ålesund, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He uses tools from anthropology and cognitive science to make sense of how humans interact with technology in healthcare.

Mark Ryan is a Digital Ethics Researcher at Wageningen Economic Research, focusing on areas or robotics, AI, and digital developments and responsible innovation. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He has also worked on two large H2020 projects: the SHERPA project (2018-2021, budget €3 million) focuses on the ethical, social and human rights implications of smart information systems (data analytics and artificial intelligence); and the MARIO project (budget €4 million, 2015-2018), which assessed the difficulties of loneliness and isolation among people with dementia and the possibility of using service robots to ameliorate some these issues. He has published on a wide range of digital ethics topics, such as: smart cities, self-driving vehicles, agricultural data analytics, social robotics, and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Aleksei Gudkov is a researcher in Higher School of Economics (Moscow). He earned his Ph.D. in law (magna cum laude) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain).

His current research focus is in Tech Law; Regulation of Artificial Intelligence; AI & Blockchain; Fiduciary relationships, Ethics in Tech regulation; Law & Blockchain; AI copyrights; Anonymous person & Private data.

Jan de Bruyne works as senior academic researcher on legal and ethical aspects of AI at the Flemish Knowledge Centre for Data & Society. He is a lecturer on e-contracts and postdoctoral researcher at CiTiP. He also works as a postdoctoral researcher on AI and liability at the Ghent University Faculty of Law and Criminology. He is a member of Leuven.AI. He successfully defended his Ph.D. in September 2018 on a topic dealing with legal aspects of third-party certifiers.

UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jones’ books have earned him critical acclaim and interviews in national and international media. A co-founder of the Association of Internet Researchers, he has made numerous presentations focusing on the Internet’s social and commercial uses, and social changes in the Internet age. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and the Tides Foundation.

Jones is Editor of New Media & Society, an international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture, and co-editor of Mobile Media & Communication, both with SAGE Publications. Jones is also co-editor of Digital Formations, a series of books on new media for Peter Lang Publishers. He has provided Internet consulting services to numerous corporations and not-for-profit organizations, and served as Senior Research Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project.