Gianluca Misuraca is Founder and Vice President on Technology Diplomacy of Inspiring Futures (IF), a expert network which provides research, training and strategic foresight advisory services worldwide. Among his key assignments he coordinates, on behalf of the European Commission, the “Digital Partnerships in Action” (DPA) facility to support implementing Digital Partnership Agreements with Japan, Singapore and South Korea. Gianluca is also Founder and former Executive Director of the Master on Artificial Intelligence in public services (AI4GOV) and, since January 2025 he is the Scientific Director of AI4Gov Accelerate (AI-Gov-X), a 20 million Euros initiative co-funded under the Digital Europe Programme. Prior to this, he was leading on behalf of the European Commission, the “International Outreach for human-centric Artificial Intelligence” (InTouchAI.eu) initiative to promote the EU approach to trustworthy AI at the global level. From 2009 to 2020 Gianluca has been a Senior Scientist at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, leading future-oriented research in Digital Governance, Social Innovation and Artificial Intelligence.