Dr. Diana Santos is associate professor of Portuguese at the University of Oslo and she has worked in computational linguistics, contrastive studies, and corpus-based semantics for more than 25 years, being the leader of Linguateca, a resource center for the computational processing of the Portuguese language.
Dr. Krister Lindén is research director of FIN-CLARIN at the University of Helsinki and he has worked in computational linguistics, language technology and language studies for more than 25 years.
Dr. Wanjiku Ng'ang'a is a senior faculty member at the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, and is also a Research Lead in the C4DLab which undertakes R&D in ICT4D. Her research work in language technology focuses on African languages, having worked on Swahili, Gĩkũyũ and Igbo.