🎙️ Paul Zeitz is an author and advocate for global justice and human rights. With over 35 years of experience and several publications he is addressing systemic challenges. Especially in his book "Hit Refresh on the U.S. Constitution", he calls for more deliberation in our democracies.

🎙️ Ben Nelson is founder and CEO of the Minerva Project and founder of the Minerva University. His mission is to reinvent higher education by utilizing a systematic and evidence-based approach to learning. He offers valuable insights into the relationship between education and democracy.

🎙️ Cecile Green is a social entrepreneur and Seth Frey is a computational social scientist. They share a mission to enable healthy self-organization and improve relationships in society, which naturally impacts democracy. Together, they work on the Commoning Standard for effective self-governance.

Sylvain Le Bon is co-founder of Startin’blox, a company that helps building data spaces. Drawing on his extensive entrepreneurial experience, Sylvain provides an overview of data spaces and their role in establishing the foundation for digital democracy.

🎙️ Jorge Lagarto is director at LabX, a center for public sector innovation. With many years of experience in the field, Jorge provides clear guidance on making services more citizen-friendly by integrating their needs and expectations.

Wietse van Ransbeeck is the CEO and co-founder of Go Vocal, a leading platform for community engagement. The company partners with over 600 municipalities and cities worldwide to facilitate citizen dialogue and provide governments with insights for better decision-making.

🎙️ Marcello Coppa has a background in economics and communications. He has 15 years' experience in innovation management and consultancy. As CEO of the Feel Community and curator of the GoVTech Forum, he is working to accelerate innovation in public systems.

🎙️ Stefaan Verhulst, PhD is co-founder of the Governance Laboratory (The GovLab), a research center that is focused on transforming decision-making by using advances in science and technology. We talked about legitimate and effective decision-making and the importance of asking the right questions.

🎙️ Yuting JIANG is CEO and co-founder of the Agora Citizen Network. The Agora tool was inspired by the well-known Polis platform. Yuting has a sound understanding of how modern technologies can improve democratic processes and offers interesting insights into future developments.

🎙️ Matt Stempeck is founder and curator of the @civictechguide.bsky.social, which lists civic tech projects from all over the world. With 20 years experience in civic tech, Matt has a profound understanding of what makes a project successful and what makes it fail.