Emanuel is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in the digital sector. As CEO and other leadership positions at MITA, Malta's ICT Agency, his strategic leadership has enabled the modernisation of public services through numerous digital policies, strategies and implementations. Emanuel has held key positions, such as Chief Information Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, where he enhanced digital infrastructure, improved digital services and cybersecurity, and fostered innovation. His influence extends to various committees on digital technologies and data, driving significant policy advancements. His career spans both public and private sectors, locally and internationally. Emanuel holds an Electrical Engineering degree and an MA in Creativity and Innovation from the University of Malta, along with an MBA from Henley Management College, UK. Emanuel's extensive experience, strategic leadership, and strong academic background make him a thought leader in the digital sector, adding value to digitalisation discussions.

Petra De Sutter was sworn in on the 1st October 2020 as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Public Enterprises, Public Administration, Telecommunication and Postal Services under Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. After a long career as a gynaecologist and fertility expert, she entered politics in 2014, as a member of the Flemish green party Groen, motivated by the desire to combat the use of harmful substances in everyday environments. In the Belgian Senate and the Council of Europe, De Sutter championed women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, and tackled bio-ethical questions, including surrogacy and commercial egg donation. She is committed to a socially equitable Europe, and to improving the rights and protections of refugees and the LGBTI community. In 2019, De Sutter was elected to the European Parliament as the leading candidate for her party Groen. She was a member in the Committee on the Environment and Public Health, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, and was the first Green Chair of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. As Minister responsible for Public Enterprises, Public Administration, Telecommunication and Postal Services De Sutter will focus on the challenges of digitalization and sustainability. The importance of a strong and well-run state is indeed more important than ever during this period of COVID-19. As Deputy Prime Minister, De Sutter will also be responsible for the green agenda within wider government policy. Thanks to her expertise and integrity, she is respected and trusted across party lines

Pascal Derycke obtained a PhD in physics at the University of Metz (France) in 1996. After his degree, he pioneered in IT and web communication. In 2011, Pascal joined the Marine Department of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission as a scientific programmer and data analyst where he expanded his skills to earth observation science and GIS technologies used in the monitoring of climate change and assessment of the environmental status of marine and coastal waters. During these 6 years he was responsible for the maintenance and upgrading of the marine geo-portal EMIS (Environmental Marine Information System) and provided scientific programming support for mapping bio-geophysical products. Alongside this he contributed to the development of INSPIRE services and server applications related to the marine environment and participated in the release of the JRC open data catalogue and the MSFD Marine Competence Centre. In 2017, Pascal brought his expertise in data management and GIS to the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) of the European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) where he was responsible for technical coordination of the EMODnet activities and the European Atlas of the Seas. During the course of 2020, he designed and implemented for the WEkEO EU Copernicus Data and Information Access Service (DIAS) the novel digital platform Marine-analyst.eu for augmented data access and reproducible data analysis based on open computational notebooks. Since 2021, he joined as data engineer the EU Health Information System unit at Sciensano. Among others, Pascal contributes to the Population Health Information Research Infrastructure project (PHIRI) and the European Health Data Space for the secondary use of health data (HealthData@EU) pilot project.