Theme 4: Innovating Democracy through Tech

Founder and Chairman of The Alliance of Democracies Foundation

Executive Director, Twaweza East Africa

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Zendesk and Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellowship Mentor

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, VoteMe App

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Anttscamp

Member of the House of Commons, The United Kingdom and Co-chair of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation

Chairman of the Special Competitive Studies Project, Co-Founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO of Google

Former President of Mexico

Host of the NatSec Tech podcast and former anchor and correspondent for CNN and ABC News

Vice President, Cato Institute and Board Member, Facebook Oversight Board

Executive Director, Alliance of Democracies Foundation

Director & Producer of “People you may know”, Metrotone Media

Producer of "The Social Dilemma", Head of Creative Development at Exposure Labs

Former President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Member of the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age

Filipino-American journalist and author, Co-founder and CEO Rappler, Philippines

Former Secretary of Homeland Security (2005-2009), United States

Executive Director The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, OpenEthics

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Quack Hunter

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, Pravoman

Member of the House of Commons; Former Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (2018-2019), UK

Editorial Director, Global Growth

2022 Obama Foundation Leader (Denmark), Co-founder and CEO at CanopyLab

Former Managing Director N-tv and former Editor-in-Chief at Bild, Germany

Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellow, NLP toolset

Cabinet Expert, Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, European Commission