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Arnaud Taddei Global Security Strategist, UK Arnaud Taddei works in International Standards Defining Organizations and was elected chair of ITU-T SG17 for the UK end 2024. He started in 1993 at CERN. In 2000, he joined Sun Microsystems and became Principle Engineer. In 2007 he joined Symantec (later Broadcom) and ended as Director of Research as direct report to the CTO. Graduated as Telecom Engineer from the ENSTb, France, Mr. Taddei owns a DEA with INRIA, which led him to the Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow in 1992.
Clement Neo Founder and research lead of Neo Research A Singapore‑based frontier‑AI safety evaluation organisation launched in May 2026. Its debut DeepSeek V4 Pro safety report drew SCMP coverage. It conducts open‑ended research on AI misalignment and loss‑of‑control risks.
Debora Comparin Standardization Expert at Thales Digital Identity & Security Standardization expert at Thales and WP1 Chair of ITU‑T SG17. Founder of OSIA and co‑founder of SIDI Hub.
Dong Zhang AI security researcher and governance practitioner at vivo Focuses on agent harnesses, runtime risk control, permission governance and security assessment, building trusted closed‑loop governance for highly autonomous AI agents.
Juncheng Shen Executive Editor-in-Chief and Compliance Expert at MiniMax With rich experience in AI and internet sectors, he engages in generative‑AI governance, standard formulation and compliance research, focusing on balancing AI innovation and regulatory oversight.
Feng Gao Chief Cybersecurity Expert, China Unicom Leads the formulation of over 50 international and national security standards. She has undertaken numerous key national projects, won many industry awards, and holds abundant patents, copyrights and academic papers
Kai Wei Director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute at the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) Leader of the General and Strategic Working Group of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance(AIIA), and the leader of the domestic corresponding group for ITU-T Study Group 16
Li Shiqi Lead of Security Standardization at Alibaba Group Has long been engaged in international standardization in the fields of artificial intelligence and cloud computing security.
Lin Shi Director of the Security Governance Department, AI Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology Focuses on government support, technical research, standardization, testing and evaluation, and ecosystem development in the field of AI. He has contributed to multiple international and industry standards on AI and the metaverse, and supports the AI Industry Alliance of China (AIIA) and the China AI Competition.
Xiaofang Yang Head of Agent Security Operations at Alibaba Group Leads the company's agent security framework across security evaluation, runtime protection, and risk auditing, and contributes to frontier AI risk standards and industry research.
Yu Tang Senior Expert, China Automotive Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd Focuses on intelligent vehicle testing and evaluation, contributing to the IVISTA assessment system. He leads key research projects, develops standards and patents, and delivers validated technologies for global OEMs, winning multiple top‑level domestic and international innovation awards.
Ze Shen Chin Researcher at the Singapore AI Safety Hub, a co-lead of the AI Standards Lab A researcher at Singapore AI Safety Hub and co‑lead of the AI Standards Lab, he studies global secure AI agent identity. Previously he worked on catastrophic AI risk modelling and EU AI Act governance, with a mature background in oil‑gas safety risk management