Yongseok is the DG for Startup policy of the Ministry of SMEs & Startups(MSS). He has worked as a government official, more than 20 years, in various institutions such as the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs(Korean Embasssy in France) and the Office of the President. Concerning the Digital Transformation, he participated in several international occasions like the OECD's Digital for SMEs(D4SME) Conference in 2019 and the WEF's Advanced Manufacturing & Production(AMP) session in 2020 to introduce Korean government policies on Digitalization of SMEs.

Chulgoo is the leader of the Korea team and APAC Field Applications Engineering manager at NI (previously known as National Instruments). He has been working in the Test and Measurement automation industry for more than 15 years with NI and has partnered with Asian and Korean clients to break through challenges for increasing traceability and improving yield quality in design, validation and mass production; from engineering implementation to executive level discussions for future preparation.

Sangpyo is the leader of PwC Korea's financial services consulting practice. He has led many large scale business transformation projects including digital transformation, big data analytics, AI enabled business model design, and Robotic Process Automation for many global and local clients. He has been with PwC more than 20 years, including 2 years on secondment to PwC UK's London office. He studied at Seoul National University, Korea National Open University, and the London Business School.

Jacco Zwetsloot has lived in Korea for 20 of the last 25 years, with a broad range of work experience in the communication, legal, tourism, training and broadcasting sectors. He has worked as an English teacher, a tour guide for the US military, a regular radio show guest, and a translator of North Korean propaganda. Currently, Jacco works as a content creator for a communications consultancy Insight Communications Consultants, hosts a weekly podcast about North Korea, moderates panel discussions, writes a monthly Korean newspaper column and still leads occasional lunchtime walking tours in downtown Seoul for the Royal Asiatic Society Business & Culture Club. Jacco holds a Master of Arts degree in Korean Studies from Leiden University, a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies from Monash University and a separate Bachelor of Arts in Modern European Studies and German Language from the University of Melbourne.

Andrijana Cvetkovikj is the Director of the Economist Corporate Network in North Asia.

Andrijana is on the Board of Del Sole Corporation (listed on the Jasdaq), has a PhD from Nihon University, an Executive MBA from the Fox School of Business TUJ, is a former Ambassador to Japan for Macedonia; former visiting Associate Professor at Kyoto University, and current lecturer at Temple University and is involved in a number of scientific and artistic organizations in Japan and around the world, including being on the Advisory Board of the OIST Foundation.

She is a committed advocate on diversity, inclusion, and the UN’s SDGs, promoting these as a speaker at the World Economic Forum 2016, UN’s Conference for Climate Change in Tohoku and other international events. She's been living in and connected to Japan for over a decade, and speaks Japanese.