Stefan Holy is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic.

Konrad Schindler received his Ph.D. degree from Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 2003. He has been a tenured professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing with ETH Zurich since 2010. He was Commission President of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2012-2016), has served as associate editor or senior program committee member for leading remote sensing journals and computer vision conference, and is a member of the Commission for Remote Sensing at the Swiss Academy of Sciences (scnat), and a founding member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligence Systems (ELLIS) and of the ETH AI Center. His research interests lie at the interface of machine learning, computer vision, remote sensing and Earth observation. His passion is harnessing the power of modern, statistically based machine learning to solve real-world mapping problems.

Ben Schwegler is an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at Stanford University, a Senior Research Fellow at Engie, and one of the founders of Synthetic Applied Biology, Inc. For most of his career he was the Chief Scientist at Walt Disney Imagineering where he led much of Disney’s Research and Development group. While he was with Disney he lived for a decade in Shanghai China, as well as in Paris, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Now he is spending most of his time as a Senior Research Fellow for Engie, formalizing the basis for Integrated Infrastructure Systems at Stanford (and teaching a class about that) and getting his startup off the ground.

Karen Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the Yale School of the Environment. An urban and land change scientist, she is one of the world's leading experts on contemporary urbanization and global environmental change. She uses satellite remote sensing, field interviews, and modeling methods to understand how urbanization will affect the planet, including land change, food systems, biodiversity, and climate change. She has extensive fieldwork experience in Asia, especially China and India, where she has conducted research for over 20 and 10 years, respectively. Professor Seto has served on numerous national and international scientific bodies. She is a Coordinating Lead Author for the urban mitigation chapter for the IPCC 6th Assessment Report, currently underway, and co-lead the same chapter for the 2014 IPCC 5th Assessment Report. She has served on many U.S. National Research Council (NRC) Committees, including the NRC Committee to the Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the NRC Committee on Pathways to Urban Sustainability. From 2000 to 2008, she was faculty at Stanford, where she held joint appointments in the Woods Institute for the Environment and the School of Earth Sciences. She has received many awards for her scientific contributions, including the Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America and the Outstanding Contributions to Remote Sensing Research Award from the American Association of Geographers. She is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Iro Armeni is a PostDoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich, conducting interdisciplinary research between Civil Engineering and Machine Vision. Her area of focus is on automated semantic and operational understanding of buildings throughout their life cycle using visual data. She completed her PhD at Stanford University on August 2020, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, with a PhD minor at the Computer Science Department. Prior to enrolling in the PhD program, Iro received an MSc in Computer Science (Ionian University-2013), an MEng in Architecture and Digital Design (University of Tokyo-2011), and a Diploma in Architectural Engineering (National Technical University of Athens-2009). She is the recipient of the ETHZ Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Google PhD Fellowship on Machine Perception, and the Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship. Iro has worked as an architect and consultant for both the private and public sector.

Martin Fischer is the Kumagai Professor of Engineering at Stanford University and directs the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering. He is known globally for his work and leadership in developing and applying VDC (Virtual Design and Construction) to increase the productivity of construction project teams, enhance building performance, and create new strategic opportunities for firms in the construction industry. VDC combines a focus on project value with rethinking of workflows supported by digital tools and the timely and productive engagement of the expertise needed to achieve the desired project value. His award-winning research results have been used operationally and strategically by many industrial and government organizations around the world. He has co-authored the book “Integrating Project Delivery” published by Wiley in 2017, written over 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters, and given over 100 keynote lectures on his research. His work has been recognized by the ASCE Peurifoy Construction Research Award and with elections to the National Academy of Construction in the US and the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences in Sweden.