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Annika Antikainen is a Legal and Policy officer at the European Commission in topics related to, inter alia, multilingualism and language technologies. She works closely with the Language Data Space project. Before joining the European Commission, Annika worked as an Associate Lawyer in a law firm in Finland.

Edouard Geoffrois is the Director of Alliance for Language Technologies (ALT-EDIC). He has a PhD on the topic of Automatic Speech Recognition and has created the activities on Language Technologies at the French Ministry of Defense. He has coordinated multi-country cooperations with EU support (ERA-NETs) in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies at the French National Research Agency (ANR). From 2019 to 2024, he was working at the European Commission on the European Defense Fund with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. He has extensive experience of the creation and management of linguistic data and of the design and organisation of evaluation campaigns, as well as of the management of large complex R&D programmes.

Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm is Deputy Director of the DFKI Lab Berlin and Principal Researcher and Research Fellow in the DFKI Speech and Language Technology research lab. He is also an Adjunct Professor for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Georg Rehm is a European research leader working on multilingual AI, research and language data infrastructures and language technologies as well as Director-level coordinator of large-scale European initiatives including European Language Grid, European Language Equality and the Common European Language Data Space. He has coordinated and contributed to 50+ national and European research and innovation projects. His achievements have been recognised with more than 10 awards. Georg Rehm has more than 25 years of experience across research and industry. He has authored, co-authored or edited more than 300 publications and has organised or co-organised more than 50 scientific conferences, workshops and events. His community work include various roles at EACL and ACL, service in European NLP and language technology organisations and initiatives and at W3C (head of the German/Austrian Chapter) as well as DIN (member of the strategy group FOCUS.digital). In addition to his other roles, he regularly works as an independent expert and evaluator for national and international funding agencies (including the European Commission) and as an advisor for startups, investors, research projects, regional networks and other organisations.

Rickard Domeij is a doctor in computational linguistics and head of language technology at the Language Council of Sweden, Institute for Language and Folklore.

Taras Kucherenko is Lead Research Scientist at KB-Lab, the R&D group at the National Library of Sweden. Currently, he is leading the project of training Swedish Sovereign Large Language Models.

Jonas Unger is a professor at Linköping University and head of the division for Media and Information Technology at the department for Science and Technology. He is the project leader for the SE.LLMA - project where the goal is to develop competence, infrastructure and Swedish language models.

Sara Öhrvall is an advisor, investor, board member and author, working at the intersection of AI, emerging technologies, business and society. She is one of the initiators of the Swedish Language Models Program and currently leads several cross-industry AI initiatives. She is also Practitioner in Residence at the Stockholm School of Economics, where she chairs SSE Business Lab and SSE Ventures.

Markus Forsberg is the national director of Språkbanken at the University of Gothenburg and an associate professor of language technology.

Juan Carlos Lopez Calvet is Director of Data & AI at Schibsted Media, where he works at the intersection of journalism, technology and innovation. With more than 20 years of experience in technology, he focuses on using AI and responsible data practices to support growth and create better, more personalised media experiences.

Jussi Karlgren is a mathematically inclined linguist who has spent his time mostly working on statistical analyses of human language as it can be observed in live usage. He is currently a docent of language technology at the University of Helsinki, and a Principal AI Scientist at Silo AI, a part of AMD, where he works with assessing the quality of generative language models. His primary research interests are in formulating /knowledge representations for human language/, a subfield which in recent years has moved from the periphery of artificial intelligence on to center stage.