RUFO GUERRESCHI, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER
(Italy) An activist, researcher and entrepreneur, on a life-long mission to promote liberty and democracy world-wide within and through digital technologies. Founder of TCA 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. As founder and CEO of Participatory Technologies Srl, he 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.
ROBERTO SAVIO
(Italy/Argentina) 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.
MARTA JASTZEBSTRKA
(Director of Fundraising of TCA) Marta Jastrzębska is an asset management professional with a deep understanding of traditional and non-traditional investment strategies. Her career began in 2007 at Charlemagne Capital, an emerging markets specialist later acquired by Fiera Capital, a global firm managing C$160 billion in assets. She holds an MSc in Finance from LSE, and an MA in Law from Wrocław University.
AKASH WASIL
AI Policy Researcher at Control.AI. Former AI Governance Researcher at Center for AI Safety, Berkeley, California. Former Analyst at Stanford Existential Risks Initiative. Graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Psychology from Harvard University.
MARCO LANDI
(France) President of EuropIA Institut, a non-profit advocating for safe and sovereign AI. President of Questit, an AI startup. Marco was President and Chief Operating Officer of APPLE COMPUTERS in Cupertino, responsible for Global Operations, Marketing and Sales, after a successful turnaround of Apple EMEA activities as President of Apple Europe. Presidnet of Questit, a leading AI startup. Founder of the World AI Cannes Festival, one of the leading AI conferences and expos in Europe.
JAN PHILIPP ALBRECHT
(Germany) A European and German politician, widely renowned for his activism in digital civil rights. As a EU parliamentarian, he served as the Vice-Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. From 2018 to 2022, he served as Minister for Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization of the German State of Schleswig-Holstein. He is member of NOYB – European Center for Digital Rights, lead by Max Schrems. Currently, he serves as President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, a foundation promoting the environment, civil rights and multilateral democracy with 180 staff in 30 countries.