In his career, Järvinen has been an entrepreneur, teacher, military officer, consultant, and professional leader in ICT business and cybersecurity in national and international business environments. In the military, he has gained experience in instructor roles in Finland and in expert and leadership roles at the tactical operational level in various crisis management environments. Järvinen has been training key personnel in interaction psychology, focusing on cognitive influencing, for 15 years, while empirically researching the subject. Järvinen's cognitive influencing content and methods are used in different settings in Finland and around the world.

Järvinen holds a Master's degree in Education. In addition to her work, Järvinen is preparing a doctoral thesis for the National Defence University and works as a writer and researcher in various contexts related to cognitive warfare. Järvinen's dissertation research investigates intentional cognitive influencing of a targeted and profiled target person in face-to-face situations with the help of a trust relationship under the title Building Trust as Part of Human Intelligence Collection Process.

He has a colorful history overlapping design, business, technology, and society. The common denominator between these three roles is his endless enthusiasm to figure out how technology and society are intertwined: as a culture, in politics, in business, as well as in everyday life.

His research, teaching, and service design work have received several awards and much popularity.

Risto Sarvas holds a doctorate in Media Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University).

In his work Vuorisalo has studied and focused especially on security of data and information flows, national security, and ICT transformation. Currently his role focuses on enabling trustworthy solutions and technologies for public organisations.

He teaches, in particular, master's students on leadership, teamwork, and self-management.

Ylitalo's pedagogical approach emphasises a dialogical and resource-oriented approach. He also works as a supervisor, coach, and workplace facilitator. He has a long and diverse experience in coaching and developing leaders, management teams, and organisations in both corporate and public organisations.

Ylitalo's research has focused on leadership and leadership development, with a particular emphasis on the effectiveness of guidance, resource-centred and dialogue-based development approaches. He has also studied the social dynamics and development of cooperation and partnerships between companies and organisations, as well as network management and the development of a network approach.

In his work, Sund has specialised in national security, security regulation, risk management, and information security issues. He has also studied cybersecurity governance, regulation, and policies. Peter Sund has a broad educational background including business management, information technology, la,w and behavioural sciences.

Professor Malmi specializes in management systems, strategy implementation, and cost and profitability accounting. He teaches frequently in a variety of Executive Programs and has served as an advisor to a large number of companies from various different industries: IT, electronics, energy, finance, food, health care, media, metal and engineering, paper and pulp, pharmaceuticals, rental services, retail, telecom and transportation/logistics and the public sector.

Teemu Malmi holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from The Helsinki School of Economics, which was merged into Aalto University in 2010.