Vittorio Bertola is an engineer, policy expert, and digital rights activist, who currently manages governmental affairs and technical standardization at Open-Xchange, a global leader in open-source platforms for email and DNS. Recently, he was one of the promoters of interoperability requirements in the EU’s Digital Markets Act, co-founding the Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets. He served on the Board of ICANN, the Internet’s domain names regulator, at the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance, and in several other national and international Internet policy positions. He was an early leader in Italy’s online democracy experiments, serving as a town councilor in Turin.
Stefano Quintarelli is a computer scientist, internet pioneer, venture capitalist, and founder of the first Italian unicorn. He chaired the United Nations Advisory Group on Advanced Technologies for Commerce and E-business and was a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence; he also served as the chairman of Italy’s public digitization agency and authored several essays on these topics. He was a member of the Italian Parliament (2013-18) and is the inventor of SPID, the Italian public digital identity system.