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Conference Committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Conference Committee supports each conference and comprises the people appointed for the roles depicted below, who are responsible for a given area of the conference. Subject to the conference needs, these roles may be modified and other roles may be created or appointed by UNU-EGOV in concurrence with the Local Organiser.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\n Conference Chair, Opening Ceremony Speaker<\/h9>\n

Tshilidzi Marwala<\/h4>\n

Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations<\/p>\n

United Nations University<\/p>\n

South Africa<\/p>\n

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\n Conference Chair, Opening Ceremony Speaker<\/h9>\n

Ahmed Mohammed Alsuwaiyan<\/h4>\n

Governor<\/p>\n

Digital Government Authority<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n

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\n Conference Chair, PC Chair<\/h9>\n

Mohammed Ali Alshara<\/h4>\n

Dean of College of Computer and Information Sciences<\/p>\n

Prince Sultan University<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n

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\n Conference Chair, PC Chair<\/h9>\n

Naci Karkin<\/h4>\n

Senior Research Analyst<\/p>\n

United Nations University (UNU-EGOV)<\/p>\n

Portugal<\/p>\n

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\n Conference Chair, PC Chair<\/h9>\n

Nina Rizun<\/h4>\n

Assistant Professor<\/p>\n

Gda\u0144sk University of Technology<\/p>\n

Poland<\/p>\n

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\n Track Chair, Workshops Coordinator<\/h9>\n

Dimitrios Sarantis<\/h4>\n

Senior Research Analyst<\/p>\n

United Nations University (UNU-EGOV)<\/p>\n

Portugal<\/p>\n

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\n Roundtables Coordinator, Track Chair<\/h9>\n

Tupokigwe Isagah<\/h4>\n

Lead Research Associate<\/p>\n

United Nations University (UNU-EGOV)<\/p>\n

Portugal<\/p>\n

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\n UNU Communications Chair<\/h9>\n

B\u00e1rbara Seco<\/h4>\n

Communications Consultant<\/p>\n

United Nations University (UNU-EGOV)<\/p>\n

Portugal<\/p>\n

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Conference Committee The Conference Committee supports each conference and comprises the people appointed for the roles depicted below, who are responsible for a given area of the conference. Subject to the conference needs, these roles may be modified and other roles may be created or appointed by UNU-EGOV in concurrence with the Local Organiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2706","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7230,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2706\/revisions\/7230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}