Pascal Derycke obtained a PhD in physics at the University of Metz (France) in 1996. After his degree, he pioneered in IT and web communication. In 2011, Pascal joined the Marine Department of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission as a scientific programmer and data analyst where he expanded his skills to earth observation science and GIS technologies used in the monitoring of climate change and assessment of the environmental status of marine and coastal waters. During these 6 years he was responsible for the maintenance and upgrading of the marine geo-portal EMIS (Environmental Marine Information System) and provided scientific programming support for mapping bio-geophysical products. Alongside this he contributed to the development of INSPIRE services and server applications related to the marine environment and participated in the release of the JRC open data catalogue and the MSFD Marine Competence Centre. In 2017, Pascal brought his expertise in data management and GIS to the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) of the European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) where he was responsible for technical coordination of the EMODnet activities and the European Atlas of the Seas. During the course of 2020, he designed and implemented for the WEkEO EU Copernicus Data and Information Access Service (DIAS) the novel digital platform Marine-analyst.eu for augmented data access and reproducible data analysis based on open computational notebooks. Since 2021, he joined as data engineer the EU Health Information System unit at Sciensano. Among others, Pascal contributes to the Population Health Information Research Infrastructure project (PHIRI) and the European Health Data Space for the secondary use of health data (HealthData@EU) pilot project.

Miguel Díez Blanco is the Team Lead for Interoperability Enablers at European Commission, which includes the EC Open Source Programme Office (OSPO). Miguel has almost 20 years of professional experience ranging from software development projects to infrastructure and operations activities. During the last 13 years he has been working for the European Institutions, currently in the Interoperability and Digital Government Unit at DIGIT. Miguel holds an MSc in Informatics Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) and an MBA at HEC Paris School of Management.

Ulrika Domellöf Mattsson is a data specialist at the Department for Coordination and Data Sharing in the Swedish Agency for Digital Government. She is working with the Swedish data portal and implementing Open data charter as a well as controlled data sharing and the Data Governance act. She is leading the work with metadata in Ena, the national digital infrastructure. With a background in the library sector, Ulrika has a long experience working with library systems, metadata and public sector information. She has been in the board of the national library system Libris, DiVA - Academic Archive Online and in the steering committee of the national library association and the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations.