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Markus Söder is the Minister-President of the German Free State of Bavaria. A member of the Christian Social Union party, he was elected in 2018 and previously served as Bavarian Minister of Finance, Regional Development and Regional Identity.

Fabian Theis is the Director of the Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Center and Scientific Director of HelmholtzAI. He uses artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of human cells, exploring the cellular mechanisms behind diseases. In 2023, was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his pioneering work in the analysis, modelling and interpretation of genomic data.

Ferenc Krausz is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). In 2023, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his achievements in studying electron dynamics in matter with the help of extremely short light pulses (attosecond physics).

Markus Blume is Bavarian State Minister for Science and Art. Previously he was Secretary General of the CSU party from 2018 to 2022. Blume has been a member of the Bavarian state parliament since 2008.

Surjo R. Soekadar, MD is Chief Innovation Officer at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Einstein Professor of Clinical Neurotechnology. He is a physician-scientist and innovation leader working at the intersection of neurotechnology, artificial intelligence, and digital health.

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Meyer is Chair of Neurosurgery at TUM Klinikum Rechts der Isar in Munich. A particular focus of his work are brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Under his leadership, a BCI with 256 microelectrodes was implanted for the first time in Europe in a patient with high-level spinal cord injury. (Photo Credit: ©Astrid Eckert/TUM)

Prof. John Amuasi is a leading global health expert whose work sits at the intersection of infectious diseases and technology innovation. He serves as Head of the Global Health Department at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana and Professor of Global One Health at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg.

Dr. Susan Thomas is the Director of Google Health for Europe. She joined the company in 2021 after more than 15 years of consulting in the health and life sciences industry, most recently as a senior partner at Ernst & Young. Prior to that, Susan was a practicing physician in both the U.K. and Australia, where she undertook her training in medicine for the elderly.