FL heads the Proteome Informatics Group at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Geneva, Switzerland. She received a PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France and held research positions in France, Japan and Australia working on knowledge representation and data mining methods. She spent a few years in industry (Proteome Systems Ltd in Sydney, Australia and Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) S.A, in Geneva, Switzerland) before joining SIB in 2006, where she has been driving knowledge discovery projects in proteomics and more recently in glycoscience, a source of many bioinformatics challenges spanning data standardisation, formalisation, and curation.

Lyndon Zass is a University of Cape Town-based geneticist and data specialist whose work bridges human genetics, public health, and bioinformatics to advance phenotype standardisation and genomic medicine across the African research landscape. Lyndon Zass serves as a Project Manager African Genomics Data Hub (AfriGen-D). In addition, he plays a substantial role in the eLwazi Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) as a Project Co‑ordinator and co‑chair of the eLwazi Data Support Work Package.

Dr Vicky Nembaware is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the current Secretary of the African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG). She serves as Project Manager and Co-Investigator for the Sickle Africa Data Coordinating Center (SADaCC). Beginning her career in the H3Africa consortium as a training manager, she has built broad expertise in curriculum design, study design and implementation, study monitoring, and large-scale data analysis across academic genomics and the public-health NGO sector. Passionate about mentoring and skills development, Dr Nembaware has led or helped establish several pan-African capacity-building initiatives. She helped coordinate the Sickle Cell Disease Ontology (SCDO) working group; was Principal Investigator for SMARTLife, which developed competencies for research managers in Africa; helped set up the H3Africa Travel Fellowships & Internships; co-founded the African Genomic Medicine Training Initiative (AGMT) to train healthcare workers in genomic medicine; and helped launch the mGenAfrica programmes to foster engagement between genomic researchers and high-school learners. At UCT, she supervises postgraduate students in data science and genomics and is co-convener of the Master's in Computational Health Informatics. She has also served on boards and scientific committees for genomics and genomic-medicine networks. Dr Nembaware earned a BSc in Chemistry and Microbiology from UCT; Honours and MSc (cum laude) from the University of the Western Cape (South African Bioinformatics Institute); and a PhD in Bioinformatics from UCT (2008). Her work consistently bridges research, training, and implementation, advancing genomics capacity, equity, and impact across Africa.