Adrien is the COO of the CyberPeace Institute, an NGO based in Geneva. He spent his career in various crisis response roles in the private sector, the French government, the European Commission and the World Economic Forum. He holds an MEng in telecommunication from UTT, an MSc in Global Security from Cranfield University, and an MBA from IE Business School. Adrien speaks French, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Ann Cleaveland is the Executive Director of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, where she is responsible for growing key partnerships, managing day-to-day operations, and stewarding a strategy to fulfill the mission of CLTC’s multidisciplinary research center.

Her research interests include cybersecurity futures, digital risk communications, and governance of cyber risk. Cleaveland is a senior leader and business manager with over fifteen years of experience in philanthropy, non-profit management, and industry.

Prior to joining CLTC, she served as the Senior Director of Strategic Planning at the ClimateWorks Foundation, where she led multiple initiatives focused on supporting a large, philanthropic collaborative in a more strategic, effective, and science-based response to global climate change.

Michael Makstman is the City Chief information Security Officer for the City and County of San Francisco. He leads the Office of Cybersecurity, located in the Department of Technology, and serves City departments by securing sensitive data and technology assets, assessing, and managing security risk, and thwarting attempted cyberattacks. The Office of Cybersecurity is also tasked with actively monitoring systems, creating cybersecurity policies that empower departments and commissions and promoting cybersecurity best practices within the City.

Prior to joining the City and County of San Francisco, Michael served in executive roles at complex, regulated organizations in Healthcare, Finance and Technology industries for over 15 years. Michael is a founder and Co-Chair of Coalition of City CISOs (cityciso.org), an organization dedicated to promoting cybersecurity for local governments. He also chairs the Ethics Committee and is a Fellow of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), the largest international organization of information security professionals. He earned his Bachelor’s at DePaul University and graduated with a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Yannick’s passion is to bridge the gap between different ecosystems of innovation and enhance collaboration for social impact. A connector and an agenda setter, Yannick strives to develop communities of impact-driven innovators as part of Swissnex in San Francisco, the innovation outpost of Switzerland connecting with the West Coast of the United States in science, education and innovation. Yannick’s dream is to see a world where technology works for humanity, and leaves no one behind.

After 7 years working on partnerships, innovation and digital transformation at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Yannick joined Swissnex in San Francisco in 2020, in the middle of the covid19 pandemic. First as Deputy CEO and now CEO ad interim, his main responsibilities are to lead the implementation of a new strategy and ensure the organization delivers on its mission to accelerate the impact of its partners.