Aldo Gangemi is full professor at University of Bologna, and associate researcher at Italian National Research Council, Rome. He has co-founded the Semantic Technology Lab at ISTC-CNR. His research focuses on Semantic Technologies as an integration of methods from Knowledge Engineering, the Semantic Web, Linked Data, Cognitive Science, and Natural Language Processing. His theoretical interests concentrate upon the representation and discovery of knowledge patterns from data, ontology, natural language, and cognition, across multiple application domains. He has published more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, conferences and books, and seats as EB member of Semantic Web, Applied Ontology, and Web Semantics journals.

Valentina Presutti coordinates STLAB at CNR in Rome. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science (2006) at University of Bologna (Italy). She has coordinated, and worked as researcher in, many national and European projects. She co-directs ISWS. She is editorial board member of Journal of Web Semantics, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Data Intelligence Journal, Intelligenza Artificiale. She has been involved in the organisation of ISWC and ESWC and she is senior PC for IJCAI. She is one of the creators of the ontologydesignpatterns.org initiative and of the workshop series on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP). She has 100+ international publications semantic web, knowledge extraction, and ontology design. She teaches Social Robotics and Programming as adjunct professor at University of Bologna. Her research interests stand at the crossing between semantic web and artificial intelligence and include knowledge graphs, empirical analysis of the semantic web, social robotics.

Giorgia is a technologist and the privacy reference contact at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR). She received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bologna in 2006. From 2011 to 2020 Giorgia served as a consultant for “Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale” of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in such topics as technical and semantic interoperability, (linked) open data, cloud computing. She is one of the authors of the various national technical guidelines for open data and public sector information reuse, and of the Italian network of ontologies and controlled vocabularies named OntoPiA. She has been and is involved, also as technical manager, in a number of EU and national funded projects. She is co-founder of the CNR spinoff named BUP, an innovative company working in the field of artificial intelligence.