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Chair of the People Centered Internet, co-founded with Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet.  She chairs the Sustainability Technical Committee for IEEE’s Society for the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) and leads the Assessment Committee for IEEE’s Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC), and is on the executive committee for SSIT and HAC. She co-founded the Industry Connections Social Impact Measurement working group of the IEEE Standards Association. One of the early pioneers of CRM at Oracle, she built on earlier work at Intel, and her studies at MIT under future Nobel Economics winners, Modigliani, and Merton. Socio-Technical lead (2011-13) for the US Government Future of Health initiative she began as subject matter expert for Networked Improvement Communities (2009-10). She is the convener of the Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy network working closely with the UN agencies, ITU and UNDP, and serves as an advisor to GovStack Global, supported by Germany and Estonia. She is a Fellow of the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany in 2022, and serves as co-chair for the UN Commission on the Status of Women 2023 report on the theme of Digital Innovation.

atyana Kanzaveli has gone from a programmer to senior executive at Big 5 to founder and CEO of a startup company along her 20 year career,recognized as a thought leader, mentor for her ability to guide Fortune 500 and startup companies through business challenges.

She’s worked for major companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers and Fujitsu and startups in the early days of the Web.
Tatyana has personally helped companies jump from 0 to millions in revenue even during the toughest economic times. She opened new verticals and markets.

Today she is the founder and CEO of Open Health Network, the startup in a Big Data, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare space. PatientSphere by Open Health Network has been featured in Venture Beat, Mobile Health News, and other prominent publications.

She is a mentor at 500Startups and Richard Branson Entrepreneurs Centre and serves on boards for private companies. She also is licensee and organizer of highly notable TEDxBayArea conferences, she is a frequent speaker at US and International conferences on innovation, entrepreneurship and digital health.

Tatyana has been featured in the White House blog , spoke at the United Nations, presented at the first White House Demo Day hosted by the President Obama, did a TEDx talk; keynoted at WEBIT, WSIS and other international conferences.

Tatyana has been recognized as one of the top 10 Influential Women in Healthcare IT in 2015 and by Forbes as one of the top 50 women-led startup in tech founders.

Coach in collective intelligence, Benoît loves supporting and developing teams, with listening and empathy, towards the transformation of organizations and processes. Indeed, passionate about new technologies, curious, he proposes and leads changes within Orange Business Services. Creative, motivated by the resolution of complex problems, he loves multicultural environments and advocates gender equity convinced that diversity (gender, culture, …) and inclusion (origins, disabilities,…) in teams, projects, programs and organizations is a key to increased creativity, well-being and economic efficiency along with social responsibility. He is involved in multiple associations or boards on these subjects. 

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Elena Estavillo is an expert in the digital ecosystem, competition, regulation, gender and leadership, with special focus on exponential technologies, data and the transformation they generate in our society. Founder and CEO of the think tank Centro-i for the Society of the Future and associate director of the consultancy AEQUUM. Chairwoman and co-founder of Conectadas, a network of women leaders in the digital space that received the WSIS 2020 Champion award. Former commissioner at the Federal Institute of Telecommunications in Mexico. Bachelor in Economics from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Master in Mathematical Economics and PhD in Economics from the University of Paris. MIT Executive Certificate in Leadership and Management. IVLP Alumni-5G Networks. Lecturer and author. Columnist in Forbes Mexico and La Silla Rota. Independent board member at the School of Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Member of UNESCO's Open Space on Artificial Intelligence for Latin America and the Caribbean, and member of the working group of independent experts C26+ Digital Economy promoted by the US-Mexico Foundation. Distinctions: MujerTec 2022 trajectory award from Tecnológico de Monterrey, 100 Women in Antitrust from Global Competition Review, Most Powerful Women from Forbes Mexico, 102 Women Leaders from El Universal, 20 Women Who Are Changing the Industry from the Radio and TV Chamber in Mexico. Member of the International Women's Forum. 

Susana Arrechea works at New Sun Road, a Californian start-up incubated at UC Berkeley. She is leading the Internet-enabled solar Digital Community Centers project, funded by the US Agency for International Development, Microsoft, and DAI.   

Arrechea's local team organizes Mayan indigenous Q'eqchi' women to achieve digital and leadership skills and get new income sources from providing Internet and power services to the community.  

Arrechea earned an undergraduate in chemical engineering from the University of San Carlos of Guatemala (USAC). She received a scholarship from Fundación Carolina to study a Master of Science and a Ph.D. degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. She described more than 14 new organic molecules derived from porphyrins with applications in solar devices. In 2015, she was a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, under the Fulbright NEXUS program. From 2016 to 2020, she was a Research Professor at USAC.   

In 2017, she won the Galardón de Guatemaltecos Ilustres award and the TWAS Young Scientists Award in Guatemala. In 2020, she won the OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World representing Latin America and co-founded the OWSD Guatemala chapter.  

Gabdibé GAB-HINGONNE was born on March 21, 1973 in Pala, Chad. She is a graduate specializing in Education Sciences in ICT and Training from the University of Montreal in Canada, she has a degree in geography in 1998 at the University of N'Djamena, a master's degree in Education Sciences, option secondary education. She has been a geography teacher in a high school in N'Djamena and an educational advisor since 2003. But since January 2022, she has been a trainer in educational technology at the Virtual University of N'Djamena in Chad. She is the National Coordinator of Action for the Education and Promotion of Women (AEPF-Tchad), a civil society organization that has been campaigning for the empowerment of women since 2007. In addition to educational activities, she has been involved since 2013 in the organization of the International Girls in ICT Day as Vice-President of the organization. She is a member of ISOC, ICANN and the AEPF-Chad focal point for the protection cluster and GBV sub-cluster. It allowed the organization: Action for the Education and Promotion of Women to be granted special ECOSOC status in August 2018. It has been organizing, since 2014 until today, training for leaders of groups and associations of women in ICT to enable them to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the Internet for their empowerment.

Ari is a Behavior Design Venture Capitalist with a decade of experience focused on investing in early-stage technology companies (Pre-Series B; B2B and B2B2C) across infrastructure, healthcare, and the financial services industries. 

Previously, Ari invested in Enterprise AI as a Principal at Silicon Valley Data Capital. Prior, Ari was Director at RBC Capital Markets and Group Product Manager at RBC, where she led global next-gen product development and was tasked with delivering on digital transformation across capital markets, wealth management, and personal and commercial banking. Qayumi is best known for pioneering next-generation tools to facilitate positive behavior change at scale while delivering on ESG goals (e.g., Consensual and Mindful Technology). 

Above all else, Ari’s greatest skill is creating proprietary Applied Behavior Design methods and models to distinguish stage-specific losers from long-term winners in early-stage venture capital management (e.g., QABDA, QAM, and QQ). 

Ari studied Human-Computer Interaction and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. 

Managing Director of STEP IT Academy in Cambodia 

Founder of Sisters of Code, a non-profit educational program for girls 

Natalja is passionate about innovation in education and empowering female students in learning digital skills. 

Originally from Latvia, Natalja has accepted a challenge and moved to Cambodia in 2015 to head and run operations of a newly established training centre IT Academy STEP, specializing in tech education. Observing a dramatic underrepresentation of girls in the field of technology, in 2019 Natalja has founded a non-profit educational program: the first female coding club in Cambodia - Sisters of Code. 

Under Natalja’s leadership, IT Academy STEP Cambodia organized different international programs: The Hour Of Code in cooperation with the US Embassy, STEM Hub Cambodia in cooperation with the British Embassy, Global Game Jam hosting it for 3 years already and more than 10 ICT bootcamps, taking place in different locations in Cambodia. 

Natalja is proud that Sisters of Code is acknowledged with the international awards from SOLVE MIT, EQUALS in TECH, World Bank, AmCham Cambodia, as well as by Women in IT Asia. 

Yvette RAMOS, Ms. Science of Engineering (electronics-telecom), EPF (1992), and Ms. Human Resource Management, MBA(IAE2002) – France. PhD candidate Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies – Portugal http://alteracoesclimaticas.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/ 

With a background in Engineering and twenty five years professional experience, starting with a position of Project Manager in the Industry (Schlumberger, Ascom) to Expert in Strategic planning and Change Management, including capacity development for telecom companies and hydrological, meteorological and climate services at international level, she has developed extensive experience on managing teams and projects abroad. 

Over the last twenty years, she had the chance to work with international teams, in the private and public sector, in the business and development environment. She holds the position of Expert at the specialized United Nations Agency the ITU, the International Telecom Union, Development Bureau, and the World Meteorological organization, both with HQ in Geneva, Switzerland. 

She had recently the challenging position of Project Manager (2018-2021) in the World Bank project for the modernization of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology of the Union of Myanmar. 

She is the Managing Director of an IP- Intellectual Property Law firm based in Geneva. 

First woman president of the +100 years aged Swiss Engineering Geneva chapter (2011-…) and founder and president of WOMENVAI, an international NGO a platform for innovative projects in Environment and High-Tech – led by women – supported by women AND men. 

Vidhya completed her Masters in Digital society from IIIT, Bangalore in 2017. She was the topper and Gold medalist in her class. She was the winner of Reebok India FitToFight Awards 2017. Earlier, she was the recipient of the Dhirubhai Ambani Scholarship and was felicitated by Canara Bank, Syndicate Bank, and other institutions for her brilliant academic records in secondary and higher secondary education. She was the first blind student to study Maths in Bachelor’s degree in Computer Applications from Christ University Bangalore and was the topper of her batch.