Monica Palmirani is full professor in Computer Science and Law and Legal Informatics at University of Bologna, School of Law. She co-chairs the LegalDocML and the LegalRuleML. Since 2013 she serves on the OASIS LegalXML Steering Committee. In 2015, she was recognized as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor. She was member of Board of Directors of OASIS from 2016 till 2018. Her research fields include XML techniques for modelling legal documents in structure as well as in aspects connected to legal knowledge, including logic rules and legal ontologies, and ICT-enhanced legal drafting techniques using artificial intelligence techniques. She is also the scientific coordinator of the Legal Blockchain Lab and teaching course in Law School about DLT. She has published more than 130 papers and she has been chair of several international conferences, editor of book series and member of the scientific committee of "AI and Law" Journal. She is president of the IAAIL (International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law), pointed out as President for the period 2024-2025. She is Director of the International PhD programme "Law, Science and Technologies" MSCA-ITN. She has winner of the ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council for five years of ground-breaking topics with a funding of 2.5Ml of Euro. She is also principal investigator of Jean Monnet Module on Legal Design.

Diego Piacentini was the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Digital Transformation of the Italian Government, reporting directly to the Prime Minister (2016-2018). In that role, he was also a member of the Science Technology and Innovation Expert Advisor group at the OECD (2017-2018) and the eGovernment Steering Board of the European Commission's DG Connect (2016-2018). He also led for the Italian Government the Innovation7@G7 (Turin, September 2017), where he pioneered the working group on the use of Artificial Intelligence in government.

The core of his business career was with Amazon and Apple, the majority of which was at Amazon (2000-2016) as Senior Vice President of the International Consumer Business and member of the senior executive team reporting to Jeff Bezos. Prior to that, Diego joined Apple Computer Italy (1987), and was General Manager and Vice President of Apple EMEA from 1997-2000.

Diego is currently a member of the Boards of Directors of DoorDash, The Economist Group, Voi Technology and Apolitical, a learning and networking platform for government. He is an Advisor for KKR and Exor Ventures and is an informal advisor/mentor to many startups across Europe, US, India and other parts of the world. He is the Founder of View Different, an investment vehicle that supports entrepreneurs looking to scale their business and/or expand beyond their domestic markets.

His NGO affiliations include: mentor for Endeavor Global and board member of Endeavor Italy, which he co-founded in 2016; the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent global health research center at the University of Washington; and the Maasai Association, supporting education and health initiatives in Kenya.

Diego graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Economics from Milan-based University Bocconi in 1985.

Service and Strategic Designer at the Dipartimento per la Trasformazione Digitale, the Italian government team dedicated to enhancing digital services within the Public Administration. Driven by intellectual curiosity and inspired by people, data, testing, and research, she has contributed to advancing design maturity through human-centered design and a systems-thinking approach. A strong advocate for the power of communities, open source, and peer collaboration, she is also an experienced speaker and coach in service design practices.