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Marine Dechamp-Guillaume is an Agriculture Engineer specialised in innovation and project management. She is Chief Project Manager at OKP4. She has been building Data Spaces projects for 3 years. She coordinates the development of OKP4 protocol in collaboration with the CTO.

Viivi Lähteenoja is a data, policy, and ethics researcher and professional. She has experience working towards human-centric and ethically sound personal data benefits for people and societies in nonprofit, academic, public sector, and private sector organisations. Viivi currently serves as the chair of the board for MyData Global, an international nonprofit organisation for the promotion of fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital societies through the human-centric use of personal data. She is also a Senior data strategist for 1001 Lakes, a Finnish data economy company focusing on supporting companies and governments with consulting, products, and services to use, share, and create value from data. Her academic research at the University of Helsinki and Aalto University is in philosophical ethics and specifically the (ab)uses of personal data.

Prof. Marko Turpeinen has over 25 years of experience as business visionary and international education and innovation leader in digital transformation of industries and network society. He is the Founder and CEO of 1001 Lakes, a company that specializes in enabling fair and trusted data ecosystems. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University focusing on topics such as digital ethics and power of algorithms.

Sebastian Kleff has involved in Data Sovereignty Technology since more than 7 years.

· Expert in data sharing use cases and its adoption

· Connect business with tech – also at my past experience at Boston Consulting Group  

· Was part of International Data Spaces Association founding meeting in 2016

· Over last years become more clear that it requires an easy access to data sovereignty technology

· 2021, founded sovity with the vision to make every company to a frontrunner in data sharing

· My role at sovity: Co-Founder & CEO

Théo Pelliet is Head of Ecosystem at OKP4. He has been involved in blockchain and decentralized governance for 3 years. He leads the strategy for the OKP4 Protocol, aiming to build an open technology that will unlock trust & incentives alignment for sovereign data-sharing ecosystems.

Antti “Jogi” Poikola is an active and networked expert and promoter of the people-oriented data economy in Finland and internationally. As Senior Lead and Data Architecture Specialist in Sitra’s Gaia-X Finland project, Jogi’s work focuses on bringing Finnish expertise into developing the European data spaces. He also works to ensure Finnish data-sharing networks have an up-to-date view of the kinds of technological solutions that are viable and interoperable now and in the future.

Markus Taumberger is Line Manager at VTT and is also Director of the Finnish IDSA Hub. Currently he is coordinating the HEU project RESONANCE and the H2020 project. iFLEX. Earlier he has been the Coordinator of the H2020 project Flex4Grid and FP7 STREP project POBICOS.