Michal Kubáň is currently working as a Seconded National Expert in the Data Unit of DG CONNECT at the European Commission.

His main responsibility is to assist Member States with the implementation of the Open Data Directive and the Implementing Regulation on High-Value datasets. He also works on the coordination of Common European Data Spaces and implementation of the Data Governance Act. Michal has 11 years of experience working on national and EU data policies. Before joining the Commission he worked as an National Open Data Coordinator at the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic. He was also the main lead of the Czech Open Data Task Force Team. Before working in the civil service, Michal worked in the NGO sector as an Open data advocate.

Peter Kustor is Head of Department in the Directorate General for Digitalisation and E-Government of the Austrian Federal Chancellery. His responsibility covers Legal Affairs and the Source PIN Registry Authority, eGovernment Strategy as well as EU and International Affairs.

He has been active in the fields of ICT, Digitalisation and E-Government since 20 years and is acting as Austrian representative for issues of Digital and E-Government, legal questions of digitalisation and E-Government, trust services and eID as well as legal informatics in various EU-fora and international institutions.

He is lecturer at the Austrian Academy for Public Administration, the postgraduate-program on ICT- and media law in Vienna, the Law Faculties of the University of Vienna and the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. He has been speaker at numerous national and international Conferences and events and author of a number of publications mainly dealing with issues of public international and european law, legal informatics and E-Government.

Penny Labropoulou is a Principal Applications Researcher at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing/R.C. "Athena", working mainly in the area of Language Resources and Technologies Infrastructures.

She is currently involved in the European Language Data Space, leading the metadata model specifications and semantic interoperability activities, and collaborating as a core member in the design, specifications and development of the technical platform. She has extensive experience in similar initiatives and projects (European Language Grid, CLARIN:EL, OpenMinTeD, ELRC-SHARE, META-SHARE) and has been one of the main authors of the META-SHARE ontology for the documentation of language resources.

Her interests include metadata modeling, semantic web technologies, linguistic linked data and ontologies, and alignment of ontologies, as well as licensing and ethical issues for the exploitation of language resources.

Her interests and previous activities include the design and implementation of monolingual and multilingual computational lexica and user dictionaries.