Viivi serves as a senior advisor for MyData Global in the areas of global and EU policy and the development of MyData thought leadership. She’s been involved with MyData since 2016 and was a member of the core team that founded MyData Global as a nonprofit association in 2018. She has previously held the roles of deputy general manager and head of programmes at MyData Global.

Dejan Lavbič is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science. His research interests include Semantic Web technologies, Blockchain, Information Quality and Software Engineering. He worked on more than 30 projects, focusing on knowledge transfer within industry collaboration and research projects funded by the EU. Dejan is an active program committee member of several journals and conferences. He authored more than 60 scientific papers.

Georges Lobo holds PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay, France). He has been active in research in Particle and Nuclear physics for about 10 years before working in ICT. He started working at the Commission almost 20 years ago as a researcher and have been in charge of IT in a number of commission services as Informatics Resource Manager. Since 2012 he is working as Programme Manager in digital technologies working on a number of topics such as Internet of Things, Network Technologies, Connected Automated Driving and Smart Cities, and has joined the Interoperability unit in 2017 where he is currently in charge among other things of Innovative Public Services and Interoperability Academy.