Devon Braunstein serves as Director of the Illinois Office of Broadband, leading statewide initiatives to expand high-speed internet access to underserved communities across Illinois.

Kyla Williams Tate is the Chief Equity Officer for the City of Chicago, working to advance equity and inclusion across city programs and services.

Wenyan Wang is a Research Analyst and Digital Literacy Coordinator for the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community (CBCAC), working to improve digital access and literacy among residents in Chicago's Chinatown.

Dr. Abel Kho is the Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Northwestern University, pioneering research in AI applications for healthcare.

Dr. Sam Volchenboum is the Director of the Data for the Common Good at the University of Chicago, a board-certified pediatric hematologist and oncologist, the Associate Dean of Masters Education, and the co-founder of Litmus Health, a data science platform for early-stage clinical trials.

Mihir Kshirsagar is the Director of the Technology Policy Clinic at Princeton University, where he works on public interest technology, privacy, and consumer protection policy. He was formerly lead trial counsel at the New York AG’s Bureau of Internet & Technology, where he worked on consumer protection law and technology matters, obtaining one of the largest consumer payouts in the State’s history.

Erie Meyer previously served as Chief Technologist and Senior Advisor to the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where she helped lead efforts to address Big Tech’s lurch into financial services and set up the consumer complaint system. Meyer was also Chief Technologist and Director of Policy Planning for FTC Chair Lina Khan, and co-founded the U.S. Digital Service at the White House.

Stevie DeGroff is an attorney at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, where she focuses on privacy and cybersecurity regulation, including drafting and implementing rules for the Colorado Privacy Act. With a background spanning digital media, advertising, and law, she works on emerging technology issues including AI, algorithms, facial recognition, and autonomous vehicles. Stevie is a Stanford Law School graduate whose research centered on cybersecurity, privacy, and technology’s impact on civil liberties.

Chinasa T. Okolo is a Policy Specialist at ODET, the founder of Technecultura, and a recent Computer Science Ph.D. graduate from Cornell University. She has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential people in AI by TIME and honored in the inaugural Forbes 30 Under 30 AI list.

Siddarth Singh works in the Office of the Chief Economist at the IEA, based in Paris. He is the co-lead of IEA’s report and workstream on Energy and AI, and a contributing author of the World Energy Outlook.