Name: Austin Carson
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Founder & President at SeedAI
Past job: Government Relations at NVIDIA; Executive Director, TechFreedom; Legislative Director for Chairman Michael McCaul
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Name: Lilybelle Davis
Current city: New York, NY
Current job: M&A Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Past job: Judicial Law Clerk for the Hon. Joseph R. Slights III, Delaware Court of Chancery
Name: Wendy Baker
Current city: High Point, NC
Current job: Legal Counsel at Human Interest
Past job: ERISA Attorney at Ascensus
Name: David Ryan Polgar
Current city: Manhattan & West Hartford, CT
Current job: Founder of All Tech Is Human and member of TikTok's Content Advisory Council
Past job: Co-founder of the Digital Citizenship Summit
Name: Stu Solomon
Current city: Arlington, VA
Current job: CEO of Connected DMV
Past job: Managing Director at Accenture
Name: Zinet Kemal
Current city: Blaine, MN
Current job: Associate Cloud Security Engineer, BestBuy
Past job: Senior Information Security Engineer, State of MN
Name: Vera Zakem
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Senior Technology and Policy Advisor at Institute for Security and Technology / Founder, Zakem Global Strategies
Past job: Director, Strategy and Research, Twitter; Director of Strategy, Partnerships, and Sr. Research Scientist on disinformation and malign influence, CNA Corporation
Name: Nord Samuelson
Current city: Portland, ME
Current job: President at Emburse
Past job: Chief Digital Officer at Covtiti, Managing Director at AlixPartners
Name: Jeremy Pesner
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior Technology Policy Analyst, Bipartisan Policy Center
Past job: Doctoral Student, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Name: Lisa Hayes
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior Director, Tech Policy & Senior Counsel at TikTok
Past job: Interim Co-CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT);
Name: Sean Perryman
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of Social Impact Policy & Counsel at the Internet Association
Past job: Counsel at House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Democratic Staff
Name: Malcom Glenn
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior Fellow, CWI Labs and Fellow at New America
Past job: Head of Global Policy, Accessibility and Underserved Communities at Uber; Executive Communications Manager, Google
Name: Nicole Isaac
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior Director of North America Policy at LinkedIn
Past job: Head of U.S. Public Policy
Name: Joseph Okpaku
Current city: Oakland, CA
Current job: Chief Policy Officer, Booster Fuels
Past job: VP Government Relations, Lyft
Name: Maurice Turner
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior Advisor to the Executive Director, U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Past job: Deputy Director at the Center for Democracy & Technology; TechCongress Congressional Innovation Fellow
Name: Tiffany Moore
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior Vice President, Political and Industry Affairs at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)
Past job: Government relations consultant, political appointee, congressional staffer, corporate lobbyist
Name: Lisa Dyer
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Director of Policy, Partnership on AI
Past job: Director, Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement, U.S. Department of State
Name: Arvin Patel
Current city: San Jose, CA
Current job: EVP and Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Rovi Corporation, a TiVo Company
Past job: Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Technicolor
Name: June Williams
Current city: Oakland, CA
Current job: Policy Advisor, Trust & Safety at Google
Past job: San Francisco District Director for U.S. Senator Kamala Harris
Name: Kay Firth-Butterfield
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Chief Head of AI at World Economic Forum
Past job: Chief AI Ethics Officer at World Economic Forum