Eric Bodden is one of the leading experts on secure software engineering, with a specialty in building highly precise tools for automated program analysis. He is Professor for Secure Software Engineering at Paderborn University and director for Software Engineering and IT-Security at Fraunhofer IEM, where he is collaborating with the leading national and international software development companies. Bodden is a member of Acatech, der German National Academy of Science and Engineering, as well as a member of the review board on Software Engineering and Programming Languages of the German Science Foundation (DFG).

Prof. Bodden's research was awarded numerous times. For instance, in 2024 he received an ERC Advanced Grant, and in 2019, Bodden was named ACM Distinguished Member. At the German IT-Security Price, his group scored 1st place in 2016 and 2nd place in 2014. In 2014, the DFG awarded Bodden the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, Germany's highest honour for young scientists. Prof. Bodden's research has received six ACM Distinguished Paper Awards and two Most Influential Paper Awards in different communities. Prof. Bodden is member of the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Springer Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) and the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. In 2020, Bodden was elected into the Working Group 2.4 Software Implementation Technology of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), a UNESCO organization. He is further a "Scout" within the Henriette Herz Scouting Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Tilo Mentler has been Professor of Human Computer Interaction and User Experience at Trier University of Applied Sciences since 2020. Previously, he was a junior professor for safety-critical human-computer systems at the University of Lübeck from 2016 to 2020. Among other things, he coordinated the NetzDatenStrom research project on the standard-compliant integration of big data solutions and open source approaches into existing network control systems. He researches and teaches the human-centred development of computer-based interactive systems and heads the HCI laboratory. His research work, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Carl Zeiss Foundation, focuses on the goals, needs and abilities of users of modern technology. He is the spokesperson for IFIP Working Group 13.5 - Human Error, Resilience, Reliability, Safety and System Development and a member of the steering committee and former spokesperson for the Usable Safety & Security (UseSafeSec) specialist group of the German Informatics Society.

Prior to his career at the University of Stuttgart, Matthias Lehmann worked as a software development engineer at Diehl Aviation. Here he worked on the development of an Electronic Flight Control System (EFCS) for primary flight control. He was the responsible software developer for the Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) and software team leader for the IMA developed with Airbus A380 according to DO178B Level A.

Philipp Ahmann is a Senior OSS Community Manager at ETAS (a Bosch subsidiary), specializing in safety-critical automotive open source software. With 15+ years' experience in Linux automotive platforms, he has held roles from software engineer to project & line manager. He currently holds the position of the technical steering committee chair for the Linux Foundation ELISA project to Enable Linux in Safety Applications. Additionally, he is a member of the Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board.

Michael Armbruster is Solution architect at emlix GmbH for safe and secure systems based on embedded Linux. He has worked in various roles and domains such as avionics, automotive and industrial automation for more than 20 years. Much of his experience is in engineering functionally safe systems (of systems) in context of video-based advanced driver-assistance, autonomous driving and autonomous automation and control. Before his time at emlix GmbH, he worked at Elektrobit Automotive GmbH on technical solutions that allow the utilization of Linux for safety-related applications leading to EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications as announced early 2024.

Exemplary projects he worked on, realized e.g. fault-tolerant and dynamically reconfigurable SW-integration platforms for SW-defined vehicle functionality, or an optimized transportation system that pairs autonomous shuttles and roadside infrastructure as integrated cognitive system with cloud-based value-added services.