Daniel Wallner started his career near Vienna as a part-time developer at the MBIT Solutions GmbH next to his studies for Management and Human-Centered Computing. After a few step-ups from Team Lead for Software Development and Software Architect of a Cloud-born IoT platform - now he is starting as Senior Consultant in Frankfurt at the Information GmbH. He built the automated onboarding process for the #EUvsVirus-Hackathon.

Thomas Landrain is a synthetic biology researcher who became by necessity an entrepreneur and an activist in order to build alternative models to the academic research and corporate innovation systems to facilitate open and participatory science and innovation. His goal is to provide opportunities to all citizens to play a part in Humanity’s grand endeavors in exploring and understanding our biggest problems and in co-designing solutions that can be shared to and used by everyone. JOGL is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for collaborative task solving. JOGL helps humanity to sync onto fixing our most urgent and important problems using Open Science, Responsible Innovation and Continuous Learning. JOGL partners with academic labs, companies, startups, foundations, NGOs and public services to create participatory research programs for understanding and solving Health, Environmental, Social and Humanitarian issues. The NGO JOGL (app.jogl.io) is the third organisation he has founded after the community lab "La Paillasse” (lapaillasse.org) and the biotech startup “PILI” (pili.bio).

Colm leads Developer Relations in EMEA at Slack, where he and the team help developers build more pleasant and productive ways to work. Before Slack, he ran the Engineering team at Kitman Labs, and worked on the iOS and Platform teams at Facebook.