Mr Alvaro Diez Soto is Head of Unit at Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, where he oversees the unit in charge of innovation and digital transformation. With a background in computer engineering, he previously held various leadership roles in Eurostat’s unit dedicated to digitalisation and science and technology statistics and before that on the IT units dedicated to statistical production. Prior to joining the European Commission in 2011, he worked for several years in the private IT sector.

Christophe Ley is Chair of Applied Statistics in Actuarial Sciences at the University of Luxembourg and co-founder of GrewIA, a company offering comprehensive tailor-made training and innovative consulting solutions in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. He is currently also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sports Analytics.

Siniša Arsić is a professional with a PhD in Information Systems and Quantitative Management, with 11 years of professional experience in Telekom Serbia, a major telecommunications operator in Serbia and the West Balkans region. Siniša executed a significant number of projects in the section for products and services development in mobile telephony for the residential segment, and for the last five years, he has been part of Digital transformation projects – within the domain of intelligent automation of internal business processes.

Dr. Dootika Vats is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Previously, she was an NSF Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Gareth Roberts at the University of Warwick. Her PhD was from the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities working with Prof. Galin Jones. Her research interests are Markov chain Monte Carlo, output analysis for stochastic simulation. Recently, she has been interested in stochastic optimisation algorithms.