Agenda

Robert Opp is the Chief Digital Officer and Director of the Digital, AI & Innovation Hub of UNDP, the UN's sustainable development organization working across 170 countries globally.   
  
Under his leadership, the Hub combines digital, data, AI, innovation, and systems transformation capabilities to improve the lives of those furthest behind. Through this approach, the Hub drives dynamic and agile transformation at scale, delivering both immediate solutions and long-term systemic impact. Central to this work is UNDP's Digital Strategy, envisioning digital as an empowering force for people and planet.  
 
Previously at WFP, Robert directed the Innovation and Change Management Division, launching the 'Zero Hunger' innovation accelerator and the award-winning crowdfunding smartphone app ShareTheMeal. 

Andrei Skorobogatov is Director of Policy at the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), where he leads the organization’s global policy agenda and engagement with governments, regulators and multilateral institutions. Prior to joining GASA, he served for nine years in the UK Government, including as Head of Strategy and International Fraud Policy at the Home Office, shaping national and international approaches to fraud prevention and disruption. He was responsible for the organisation and delivery of the 2024 Global Fraud Summit, and led the development of the 2026 UK Fraud Strategy.

Tom Carpenter is the Senior Vice President of Global Policy for Mastercard’s Services division which includes AI, Cybersecurity & Fraud, Open Finance & Data Policy. In this role, Tom leads Mastercard’s Services policy development and helps set strategic engagement with regulators, policymakers, industry stakeholders and standards bodies around the world. 

Tom’s career has placed him at the forefront of financial services innovation for over two decades. Before Mastercard, Tom led policy and public affairs for the Financial Data Exchange (FDX), and prior to that role, Tom represented a host of financial services clients in Washington at Republic Consulting and Wexler & Walker. Tom also served as a legislative aide in the U.S. Congress.

Hoda Baraka is the Advisor to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology for Technology Talent Development. She is also the National Al Strategy Lead, Acting Director of the Egyptian Center for Responsible AI (ECRAI), and a Professor of Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.

With over 40 years of experience, Baraka is a seasoned consultant in digital transformation, advising both public and private sector organizations. She currently leads several national capacity-building programs under the Digital Egypt Generations umbrella, including Digital Egypt Builders Initiative (DEBI) and Digital Egypt Pioneers Initiative (DEPI).

As Acting Director of ECRAI, Baraka spearheads the National Al Strategy. In this role, she contributes to the development and oversight of the strategy and governance framework, ensuring the responsible, safe, and ethical deployment of Al technologies across Egypt.

Baraka previously served as First Deputy ICT Minister from 2006 to 2013. Between 2002 and 2013, she was also the National Director of Egypt’s ICT Trust Fund, established to advance the use of ICT for sustainable development.

In recognition of her contributions to advancing education through technology, she was awarded UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education. She also served as a member of the Technical Advisory Group on Capacity Development under the UNESCO-WEF Partnership for Education, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Technology and Education.

Yu Ping Chan heads Digital Partnerships and Engagement at UNDP, the United Nations’ development agency. As part of UNDP’s Executive Office, Yu Ping helps drive global thought leadership and builds partnerships to support the agency’s digital development work. 
 
Yu Ping previously headed the Rising Nations Initiative Secretariat at the Global Center for Climate Mobility. She has extensive experience with multilateral diplomacy and the United Nations system, having also previously led the Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, as well as the Policy and Regional Support teams in the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism. Prior to this, she worked in the UN’s Department of Political Affairs, and in the New York Office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.  
 
Before joining the UN Secretariat, Yu Ping was a diplomat in the Singaporean Foreign Service. She served at the Singapore Mission to the United Nations in New York as well as at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, overseeing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).  
 
Yu Ping has a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) from Harvard University, and a Masters of Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.