Tech archaeologist. Researcher in Civilisational Resilience. Mobilis Institute founder. Monty Python and big dog fan. #LeaveTheCave

Wessel Reijers is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Media Studies, Paderborn University. Additionally, he holds visiting scholarships at the Technion and at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute. He received a PhD in technology ethics from Dublin City University. Previously, he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, a Research Associate in the ERC project “BlockchainGov”, led by Dr. Primavera de Filippi, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna.

Wessel’s current research explores the impacts of emerging technologies on citizenship, most notably coming from social credit systems. Additionally, he explores the nature of distributed governance, investigating its potential as well as its pitfalls.

Wessel is the author of Blockchain Governance, Narrative and Technology Ethics and co-editor of the edited volume Interpreting Technology.

Apart from his research, Wessel likes to write fiction, make music, and make some paintings once in a while.

Maurice addresses the ethical challenges and risks posed by mathematics, mathematicians, and mathematically-powered technologies. His research looks at the ethical issues arising in all types of mathematical work, including AI, finance, modelling, surveillance, and statistics. He set up the Ethics in Mathematics Project in 2016 and has been its principal investigator since then, delivering seminar series, giving invited talks, and producing scholarly articles in the area. Maurice has direct industry experience with over 30 startups, having been a member of the Ethics Advisory Group at Machine Intelligence Garage UK for over 2 years. He comes from a background in research mathematics, holding two PhDs in mathematics, from the University of Cambridge and the University of Melbourne, and has over a decade of experience working as an academic mathematician on problems in algebra and computability theory.

Tomáš Studeník
CEO of Insane Business Ideas | Founder of Caelestinus Global HealthTech Incubator

Tomáš Studeník is a radical innovator, urban hacker, and the CEO of Insane Business Ideas, a consultancy that helps major corporations unlock their digital potential through bold innovation and a global network of top-tier hackers.

Tomáš is the founder of Caelestinus, a global healthtech incubator based in Prague that empowers early-stage startups to transform healthcare through digital innovation, with a focus on interoperability, patient data, and AI.

He is the author of two acclaimed books on learning from mistakes: The Art of Failure and The Big Book of FuckUps, and he teaches the groundbreaking course Science of Failure at the University of Hradec Králové.

Tomáš holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool and an MSc in Innovation from HEC Paris. He is also the mastermind behind CEE Hacks, one of the largest innovation marathons in Central Europe, uniting young talents to solve real-world challenges in healthcare, sustainability, mobility, and beyond.

In 2021, he premiered THEAITRE, the world’s first stage play written by artificial intelligence—further proof that when it comes to the future, Tomáš doesn’t wait for it. He builds it.

Tomáš Mikolov is a Czech computer scientist working in the field of machine learning. In March 2020, Mikolov became a senior research scientist at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics.