Lindsay Frost is Chief Standardization Engineer at NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, chairman of the ETSI ISG CIM group for Context Information Management, chairman of ETSI OCG AI group, Board member of ETSI, and ETSI lead delegate to the three CEN/CENELEC/ETSI groups SF-SSCC (Sector Forum for Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities), Focus Group on AI, and CG-SMa (Coordination Group for Smart Manufacturing) as well as external Advisor to the StandICT.eu 2023 Project for coordinating standardization (in Smart Cities and AI). His previous roles included: board member of HGI, co-chairman of HGI Smart Home group, Chair of ETSI TISPAN WG5 Home Networks, Chair of WFA Mobile Convergence group. Lindsay Frost has a Ph.D in experimental physics, a strong interest in medical engineering and a passion for promoting better use of standards for IoT, AI, Smart Cities and communities.

Dr. Bhushan Kotnis is a research scientist at NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg. His work spans interdisciplinary fields including network science, Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Processing. He pursued his PhD at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India focused on graph dynamics and optimization problems in social networks. Subsequently, he moved to Heidelberg University pursuing research at the intersection of Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Processing. His current research at NEC Laboratories Europe, is focused on relational learning in Knowledge Graphs, information extraction, Knowledge Graph construction from text and conversational dialogue systems.