Michael Burnard, who grew up in his parents' sawmill in Oregon (USA), is Deputy Director of InnoRenew CoE and Associate Professor at the University of Primorska. He came to Slovenia in 2013 and received his PhD from the University of Primorska. Research interests: human health in built environment and interdisciplinary work combining IT and data science.

Oya Atalay Franck is an architect, architectural historian and educator. She was President of the EAAE/AEEA from 2017 to 2024 and is Professor of Architecture, Dean and Managing Director at the School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur (Switzerland).

Wolfgang Michael Kern, architect, teacher and head of the Department of Schools and Secondary Schools for Engineering, Arts and Crafts at the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.

Uwe Kies is Secretary General of InnovaWood, the European network for wood science, research, innovation and education. He is also Chairman of the Wood4Bauhaus Alliance, a political platform to promote the use of wood in the construction sector. Uwe holds an MSc in Forest Information Technologies from HNEE and a PhD in Natural Sciences from WWU University Münster in Germany.

Matti Kuittinen is an architect and professor of sustainable building at the Faculty of Architecture at Aalto University (Finland). His research focuses on climate impacts and carbon flows in the built environment. While working at the Finnish Ministry of the Environment, Kuittinen developed the national life cycle carbon assessment methodology and initiated the Nordic Bauhaus program.

Andreja Kutnar is a professor of wood research at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia, and head of the InnoRenew CoE research institute. Her areas of expertise include wood composites, thermohydromechanical treatment of wood and adhesive bonding. In 2022, she co-authored the Horizon Europe - New European Bauhaus Nexus Report. She is coordinator of the New European Bauhaus Academy Alliance. She is currently also a member of the Climate Council of the Republic of Slovenia and a member of the Commission for Sustainability in Sport at the Slovenian Olympic Committee.

Stefan Leitner, Head of the Education Department at Holzbau Austria and until 2024 Chairman of the Technical Commission at Timber Construction Europe, the Berlin-based European umbrella organization of small and medium-sized timber construction companies.

Rok Prislan, acoustic designer and consultant, heads the research department for building acoustics at InnoRenew CoE. His main research topics are advanced measurement techniques for sound field characterization and geometric room acoustics modelling.

Georg Rappold heads the Wood Policy, Bioeconomy and Innovation Department at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Regions and Water Management, and is also Chair of WoodPoP.

Darko Sajko was Head of the Department for Development Incentives in the Wood Industry at the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Slovenia and has been Director General of the Wood Industry Directorate since 2022.

Veronika Steinhofer-Juch, has worked for the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Agriculture as well as for the FAO. The political scientist coordinates the secretariat of the European Wood Policy Platform WoodPoP and moderates the “IHF Prologue 5”.

Matej Vukmanič, expert with more than two decades of experience in the prefabricated house industry, specializing in timber construction and the sale of prefabricated timber houses. He is currently CCO at Lumar, the largest Slovenian manufacturer of prefabricated timber panels and solid timber constructions.

• Erich Wiesner, fifth-generation managing director and owner of the timber construction company WIEHAG in Altheim (Upper Austria), has left his mark on timber construction worldwide. With extraordinary projects such as the world's tallest timber-hybrid building in Milwaukee, the architectural masterpiece World of Volvo in Gothenburg and Asia's largest timber construction in Singapore, WIEHAG sets international standards in timber construction.

Guido Wimmers, architect and civil engineer, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), Canada. Initiator of the Austria House for the 2010 Olympic Games, the first Canadian passive house and the first application of cross laminated timber and glulam in Canada. Co-founder of Passive House Canada. Co-developed North America's most stringent energy efficiency code for buildings, the BC Energy Step Code Since 2023, director of building-related educational programs at the British Columbia Institute for Technology (BCIT).

Vera Winthagen, an industrial designer by training and a policy analyst, is the acting head of unit of the New European Bauhaus in the European Commission.