Mathias Charles is the President of Live Love France & International. He is also Ambassador ONE in France, an NGO that fights against extreme poverty and misinformation on health issues. He was named this year's Goalkeeper by the Gates Foundation, for all his work to promote the Sustainable Development Goals.

Darko Brkan is the Director of UG „Zasto ne“, one of the most prominent Bosnian NGOs that promotes civic activism, government accountability, and the use of technology and digital media in deepening democracy. He also acts as the board president of the regional network ActionSEE, advisory board member of OGP in BiH, and has been a fellow of numerous prominent global fellowships. He holds degrees from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Computer Science, and Faculty of Economics in Strategic Informational Management. His professional interests are mainly in technology and its social impacts, government accountability and transparency, social media, media accountability, fact-checking, elections and civic activism. He is a regular contributor to many local and international media and a speaker at a number of prominent events.

Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he fled from his war-torn country at the age of 10. Since then, he has been active in civil society, mostly on projects dedicated to helping the refugees and vulnerable people. He embarked on a mission to help Bosnians and Yugoslavs reunite in Germany and overcome their prejudice and grudge among themselves. In 2018 he created a YouTube channel named Gastarbajter (“migrant workers” in German) where he shared trustworthy information about the possibilities to find a job, one's integration into society and knowledge about German laws and regulations. He gained millions of views then decided to create a company with the goal of securing the sustainability of his work. He believes that the experience of German democracy will, through his Gastarbajteri, have a positive effect in the Balkans. Married to a Ukrainian, he is currently working on a similar project for Ukrainian refugees in Germany.

Kyle Matthews is the Executive Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University. At Concordia, he founded the annual AI and Human Rights Forum and the Digital Mass Atrocity Prevention Lab, which works to counter online extremism and study how social media platforms are being used as a weapon of war. His work focuses on human rights, international security, emerging technologies and countering authoritarianism. He is a member of the Global Diplomacy Lab and the BMW Foundation’s Global Responsible Leaders network. He is currently a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Global Affairs.

Eric Meerkamper works at the intersection of emerging technologies and global digital citizen engagement and human rights issues including: democratic renewal, online gender-based violence, LGBTQ rights, peace-building, violent extremism, persecution of ethnic minorities and refugees, mis/disinformation, and global public health. Eric is a Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and a member of the Advisory Board of the CyberPeace Institute in Geneva. Eric holds an MBA from the Ivey Business School and a BA (Hons) International Political Science from Western University in Canada. He is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto.