Soenke Ziesche holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from the University of Hamburg, which he received within a Doctoral Program in AI. He has worked since 2000 for the United Nations in the humanitarian, recovery and sustainable development fields as well as in data and information management. He is currently a consultant, mostly for the UN, for AI as well as for disaster information management and based in Brooklyn, USA.

Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy is a tenured faculty member in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Louisville. He is the founding and current director of the Cyber Security Lab and an author of many books including "AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable". Dr. Yampolskiy's main area of interest is Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security.