PhD in law, is a permanent researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 2010 and director of the Center for Internet and Society of CNRS (UPR 2000) which she co-founded with Francesca Musiani in 2019. Since 2020, she has also been directing the national research network on Internet, AI and Society (GDR 2091) which structures thematically the community.

Renata Avila is an international human rights and technology lawyer and openness advocate. She is helping individuals and organisations access and use data to take action on the most pressing social problems, as well as preserving and enhancing human rights through open standards, policy and advocacy. In her previous practice, focused in strategic litigation for access to information and access to justice, she represented high profile human rights advocates, including Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchu Tum. A former fellow and affiliate of the Stanford Institute of Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence, she is currently associated with the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS, France. She participates on the boards of several organisations, including Open Future, the Center for the Advancement of Infrastructural Imagination and the Just Net Coalition. She co-founded the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and the Progressive International. She has co-authored two books and contributed chapters to several others, and regularly contributes to different publications in English and Spanish.

Antonios is a digital law Manager at the Platis – Anastassiadis & Associates Law Partnership, associated with EY Greece, member of the EY Law network, since 2017. He has more than a decade of practical experience in electronic communications and media law, IT and e-commerce law, intellectual property law, cybercrime law, data protection and confidentiality of communications law.

Dr. Freyja van den Boom is a cross disciplinary researcher focussing on the socio-legal and ethical impact in societies of disruptive technologies including AI and Data based innovations. They obtained their PhD with a dissertation titled “Driven by Digital Innovations: Regulating In-vehicle Data for Telematics Insurance in Europe,”. They received an M.Sc. in Sociology of Law and an M.A. and B.A in European and International Law from Tilburg University, Netherlands. Their research includes projects on inclusive AI futures, anticipatory governance, open science, and data sovereignty. They have collaborated, presented, published and performed both their academic and artistic works and speculative designs.

Valérian Guillier conducted his PhD research between 2015 and 2023 at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, focusing on cultural commons. For this research, he held a doctoral contract from Labex Arts-H2H. Additionally, from 2020 to 2022, Valérian served as an ATER (Attaché temporaire d’enseignement et de recherche) at Aix-Marseille University, teaching courses on cultural mediation in the arts.

Lawyer and researcher. She is working on the Open Data Ecosystem (ODECO) Project – a 4-year Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network initiative (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020). Her focus areas are legal and governance mechanisms for open non-government data. In terms of legal mechanisms, Ramya’s will study licensing models for open non-government data. In this piece of her research, she will draw from CNRS’ previous work on data commons as well as licensing developments from the open source community.

Lucas is a journalist, researcher, openness advocate and digital activist who is passionate about promoting the adoption of open standards, building open infrastructure for communities, and forming broad coalitions to drive systemic change. For the last 18 years, he has been part of a wide range of commons-based initiatives fighting for power distribution and people's participation in decision-making. Currently a PhD candidate in the Autonomous University of Madrid, his scholarly focus is on tracking and promoting commons-based practices among activist collectives, with particular attention to horizontal governance models and emerging organisational aesthetics from the Global South.

Master of Science Strategy & Design for the Anthropocene student, ESC Clermont Business School, on a research internship (CIS-CNRS and Inria) on open science, open data, commons, usage rights/licenses and ecological sustainability.