Board

Andreas Kellerhals is a historian who first worked at the University of Bern, before he joined the Swiss Federal Archives for 27 years, where he was instrumental in driving the digital transformation during his 13 years as director. The Federal Archives also hosted the first Open Data Conference in Switzerland, in 2011, and led the creation of the opendata.admin.ch portal, now opendata.swiss. In 2018, as Commissioner for Open Government Data at the Federal Department of Home Affairs, he drafted the Confederation’s new OGD strategy for 2019-2023.

Mario Cacciatore is the founder and managing director of BillCare AG, which provides administrative support to freelance caregivers and healthcare organizations, from sending invoices to filing tax returns. As a former nursing professional with a degree in business administration, he is familiar with the high administrative demands and would like to digitize these with BillCare AG. In doing so, BillCare AG relies on innovative open source products and is committed to a smooth data exchange between service providers and invoice recipients.

Christian Gutknecht is a data engineer at Glue Software Engineering AG, where he has been working with parliamentary data since 2021 and launched the Open Parl Data project. He previously worked at the Universities of Zurich and Bern, at the SNSF and at the publishing house MDPI to promote open access to scientific publications. He blogs about open access and his diverse experiences with the Public Access Act on wisspub.net.

Andrea Scheller is a social geographer with many years of experience in statistics and data management. She worked for the Federal Statistical Office, was seconded to Eurostat as a national expert, headed the EFTA Statistical Office in Luxembourg and until recently the Office of Statistics of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Shaped not least by her experience in technical cooperation, her main focus is on free and equal access to data as well as on data literacy, both of which are essential prerequisites for a vibrant and informed culture of debate and thus for democracy in its very essence.

Charlotte van Ooijen Falce is a Dutch data policy expert with over 15 years of experience in researching and advising public authorities across different countries and government levels on data-driven public value creation. For the official European data portal data.europa.eu, she contributed to community building and research on open data reuse and impact. She also worked on several European projects on the twin green and digital transition, led the analytical work on the data-driven public sector at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and collaborated with the World Bank on a Interoperability how-to-note for data sharing in the public sector. In her current role as data strategist and client partner at Swiss digital agency Liip, she aims to support the federal government, cantons, municipalities and other public organisations to leverage data to fulfill their goals, be it for social, economic, environmental or governance impact.

Inji Kim has been an open access specialist at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) since 2023 and at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) since 2025, where she is responsible for the secondary publication of scholarly works in the institutional repositories.

Driven by her passion for transparent scholarship and open data, she successfully completed her master’s degree in Library and Information Science at the Technical University of Cologne with a thesis on the discoverability of qualitative social research data.

Since January 2026, she has been working on the swissuniversities ORD project at the FHNW as a data steward, and is currently focusing on data content and models from educational and music research, with a view to their publication.

As an art historian and digital humanities scholar, Sonja Gasser has been working for over ten years on digital collections and open data in the GLAM sector. As project manager at the Foundation for Art, Culture, and History (SKKG) in Winterthur, she oversees the digital collection.

In her dissertation, “Transformative Digital Collections of Art: Data in Museums and Digital Art History,” published in 2025 by Bielefeld University Press, she explored the potential of collection data and digital technologies in the fields of museums and the humanities. From 2020 to 2022, she was a research assistant in the Digital Humanities department at the University of Bern; prior to that, starting in 2017, she worked in the Graphic Arts Collection at the Kunsthaus Zürich.

She is a co-founder of the web forum vernetzt.museum, dedicated to the exchange of ideas on digital collection and museum topics.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonja-gasser/

Julia Mia Stirnemann is a professor of User Experience & Data Visualization at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) at the Institute for Public Sector Transformation. There, she serves as co-director of the Digital Sustainability Lab and focuses on the integration of UX/UI principles, software development, and data-driven digital transformation in the public sector.

A key focus of her work is on user-centered design systems, applications, and AI concepts in the context of sustainable data governance. She is a designer, holds a Ph.D. in art history, and is an information architect, working interdisciplinarily at the intersection of design, technology, and society.

In addition to her work at BFH, she has run her own studio at Basislager Zurich since 2008. Her research and teaching have taken her to, among other places, the American University of Sharjah, Concordia University in Montréal, and the University of Bern.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliamia/

Sabine Wildemann is a strategist, marketer, and data scientist. Based in Switzerland by choice, she is co-initiator of the Swiss {ai} Weeks and founder of Wildcard Media, co-creating one of Europe’s largest AI initiatives and helping bring the Swiss LLM Apertus into action. She spent 15+ years in Marketing across both corporate settings and SMEs, successfully leading brand-building projects and organizing over 40 events throughout her career. As the founder of a B2B2C edtech startup, she scaled the company and supported parents with a care and learning platform for their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sabine is passionate about vibe-coding, hackathons, and digital inclusion, and recently researched what drives Swiss residents to donate their chatbot data for open source AI research. As president of the non-profit aiLights association, she connects the Swiss AI ecosystem, supporting knowledge transfer between stakeholders and generations and is also committed to making AI accessible to those with limited technical backgrounds. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabine-wildemann/