Over the last 25 years, Andy has held a range of leadership roles in the digital space, supporting innovation across both private and public sectors. As Head of Online at the World Wide Fund for Nature International, he spearheaded the organization's first online fundraising campaign and developed its first web-based projects. While Head of Online at Credit Suisse Private Banking, Andy designed the company’s accessibility standards allowing blind clients to use previously inaccessible online services. At the Union of European Football Associations, he was responsible for bringing football from the stadium to millions of mobile phones around the world through pioneering livestreamed events and developing UEFA's first mobile services.

At WHO, Andy strives to amplify vital public health messages to more people through more channels. During the COVID-19 emergency, Andy has engaged the digital sector to support this mission and leads the Tech Task Force, a conglomerate of over 40 companies working to tackle misinformation, raise quality content and develop new digital channels. Through his work, WHO has been able to reach billions of people. Andy has also been the web lead for over 35 emergencies while at WHO, with deployments to the African Region to support both Ebola and Cholera outbreaks.

I am passionate about technology, transformations and great challenges. After years working in the private sector and trying to bridge the gap with public management, in 2010, I joined the Buenos Aires City Government. At first I worked on education, then oversaw the Barrio 31 integration process, working in one of the most emblematic informal settlements in the country, and today I lead the Secretariat of Innovation & Digital Transformation, developing technological solutions for the City.

Petya Kamburova is a business developer who identifies needs & shapes business models & strategies to foster growth. Over the last few years, she has worked with hundreds of globally present companies from various industries to create win-win integrations and campaigns, generating value for the businesses (millions of new users) and the end-users (engaging experiences). She has also been in charge of innovation, working on go-to-market strategies for new products, driving product & pioneer partner adoption & scale through holistic campaigns. She has built numerous digital user experiences and developed & designed conversational products in award-winning campaigns, connecting the dots between, different industries, the end-users, and the digital space. She was the driving force behind WHO & Rakuten Viber's Campaign "Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation Together" which launched in March 2020 and had 4 million active users shortly after.

LCDR Howard Chiou, MD, PhD is a U.S. Public Health Service physician and medical officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is currently assigned to the Demand for Immunization Team in the Global Immunization Division as a resident in the CDC Preventive Medicine Residency. He was deployed as lead for the Behavior Change Unit on the CDC COVID-19 Community Interventions and Critical Populations Task Force, and, as an officer in the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service, led the Innovation Team within the COVID-19 response at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Before joining CDC, Howard’s prior research focused on culture change in hospitals, and worked as visiting faculty at Stanford University applying positive deviance methods to intensive care units before completing a transitional residency at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Howard is a graduate of the MD-PhD program in anthropology at Emory University, and holds an MA in Anthropological Sciences and a BS in Human Biology from Stanford University.

Neelam Pol is Programme Specialist for Innovation with UNICEF India. She is responsible for Technology for Development projects at UNICEF, and for scaling digital innovation investments made by UNICEF, in India, with a focus on open-source technologies and content. As part of her portfolio, Neelam manages U-Report India – a youth engagement platform. U-Report India engages with more than a million young people pan India through chatbot messaging on various topics like health and nutrition, life skills and career guidance, climate change, etc.

Dr. Miner is a licensed clinical psychologist and epidemiologist. As an Instructor in Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, he uses experimental and observational studies to improve health-focused conversational artificial intelligence. His research utilizes algorithmic audits to identify broad social opportunities and risks for chatbots in health crises. Dr. Miner’s work has been published in JAMA journals and Nature Digital Medicine, and highlighted in popular media outlets such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.