ROBERTO SAVIO
An Italo-argentinian journalist, communication expert, political commentator, activist for social and climate justice and advocate of global governance. He co-founded in 1964 and lead Inter Press Service, turning it in the following decades into primary news agency of the Global South. He was Deputy Director of the Scientific Council of the World Policy Forum, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev. He has been Member of the International Committee of the World Social Forum since it was established in 2001. He is Responsible for international relations of the European Centre for Peace and Development, based in Belgrade. He was Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for a New Humanity.
RUFO GUERRESCHI, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER
An activist, researcher and entrepreneur, on a life-long mission to promote liberty and democracy world-wide within and through digital technologies. Founder of the Trustless Computing Association and it spin-in TRUSTLESS.AI. He conceived and leads the Free and Safe in Cyberspace conference series, that since 2015 promotes a new IT security paradigm to reconcile personal freedoms and public safety: the Trustless Computing Paradigms. Formerly founder and CEO of Participatory Technologies Srl, which sold open source e-democracy solutions to transnational political organizations in three continents. As Global VP at 4thPass, the first Java mobile app store system, he sold 10M€+ systems to Telefonica. As CEO of Open Media Park, he brought from €3 to €21 million the valuation of a planned cybersecurity & new media technology park project in Rome.
DAVIDE COVA
Davide the founder and director of Dorjeling Center, Piediluco, Italy. A seasoned teacher of secular Buddhist meditation, psychology, and philosophy. Holds a degree in Political Philosophy and has specialized in Conflict Resolution, with experience as a political analyst at the United Nations in New York and Copenhagen. A disciple of the Dalai Lama and the Venerable Lama Geshe Ciampa Gyatso for ten years, he completed a seven-year full-time 'Masters Program in Buddhist Studies' and was a Buddhist monk for three years. His pilgrimage to Buddhist sites in India and Christian sites in the Middle East was followed by a 16-month solitary meditative retreat.