Fouzia RADOUANI has a PhD in Immunology; she is acting as research director and head of Microbiology department at Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca. Her research interest includes infectious diseases, genomics, data science and Bioinformatics, she is conducting and managing different research projects, mainly, H3Africa, H3ABionet, PerMediNA, AfricaBP, GARN-CLS and Afri-Gen, where she is leading a working group for data curation. Dr. RADOUANI is the principal investigator representing Institut Pasteur du Maroc within H3Abionet and AGDH projects, she is supervising and training MSc and PhD students. Her interested in bioinformatics consists in genomic data analysis, developing bioinformatics tools and databases. She is authoring and co-authoring numerous publications and book chapters, she also presents her work in various national and international conferences. Dr. RADOUANI is providing training in terms of her skills with main goal to meet the needs in microbiology, genomics, data analysis and biological mechanisms exploration.

As a Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Genome Sciences, Dr. Schriml's current research incorporates data science and knowledge engineering, focusing on the classification of genetic and environmental drivers of complex diseases, biomedical data sharing, integration and harmonization. Dr. Schriml is the PI of the Human Disease Ontology project (http://www.disease-ontology.org/), a NIH/NHGRI-funded Genomic Resource and Knowledgebase, established in 2003. Dr. Schriml has been active in the biocuration community since 1999.

Dr. Mélanie Courtot is Senior Director of Genome Informatics and a Principal Investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), and Associate Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Her research lies at the interface of biomedicine and computing, with a focus on building scalable data infrastructure and intelligent systems to support cancer genomics and translational research. Dr. Courtot has a long-standing commitment to biocuration and the development of community-driven data standards. She serves on the Strategic Leadership Committee of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), where she co-leads the Data Use and Cohort Representation group, and contributes to global cohort harmonization efforts through the International HundredK+ Cohorts Consortium (IHCC). Prior to joining OICR, she led metadata standards development at EMBL-EBI, including coordination of the Gene Ontology editorial office and the Gene Ontology Annotation projects. She also contributed to major international initiatives such as FAIRPlus, CINECA, and the Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative, advancing data quality, interoperability, and semantic enrichment for large-scale biomedical data resources. Dr. Courtot holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia, and degrees in Biochemistry and Computer Science from Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. She is passionate about community engagement and continues to champion open science, responsible data sharing, and collaborative infrastructure development in the biocuration and bioinformatics communities.

As a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and co-director of The McCormick Genomic & Proteomic Center at The George Washington University (GW) Dr. Mazumder works closely with national and international collaborators in developing molecular biology resources. His research focuses on developing novel methods for data-to-knowledge discovery and community-driven bioinformatics projects such as BioCompute, GlyGen, BiomarkerKB, and the High Performance Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE). Through NCI, NSF, NIH (NIAID, NIGMS, NCI, NIH Common Fund), ARPA-H, pharmaceutical, non-profit, and FDA funding he has been involved in bioinformatics research associated with cancer biology, glycobiology, and microbiology. In addition to his research activities, he co-directs the Bioinformatics M.S. graduate program and the Genomics and Bioinformatics Ph.D. program at GW. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8823-9945

Thomas Keane is the Team Leader for the European Genome Phenome Archive (EGA) and the European Variation Archive (EVA) at EMBL-EBI. He is a member of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) steering committee, and previously co-led the Large-scale Genomics workstream. Before joining EMBL-EBI as Team Leader in 2016, Thomas led the Sequence Variation Infrastructure group in the Computational Genomics programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. His research interests are in using genomic technologies to understand biological processes, with a particular focus on rodent models for human disease. He is the scientific lead for the Mouse Genomes Project. He also holds an honorary professorship at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Verena Ras is a South African scientist who has spent several years designing and delivering bioinformatics and genomics training across Africa. While completing her PhD part-time, she joined the University of Cape Town's Computational Biology Division, where she coordinated capacity-building programmes for H3ABioNet - a Pan African Bioinformatics network. Her work on blended training models have helped equip hundreds of researchers and clinicians with practical skills and have seeded new local training hubs throughout the continent. Elected Secretary of the Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET), and as Director on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), Verena now helps shape international curricula and advocates for open, equitable access to genomics education. She also contributes to ethical standards for genomic sampling through the Earth BioGenome Project's Sample Collection and Processing Sub-committee.