Born in Philadelphia USA, Mr. Peter Bloom has founded and worked with numerous social organizations in Latin America, Africa and the United States on human and environmental rights, community media production and telecommunications. Since 2009 Peter has been coordinating Rhizomatica, an organization he started to promote new communication technologies in adverse contexts that works on developing affordable open-source telecommunications solutions, and regulatory advocacy for community networks.

Specialist Emergency Physician based in Northern KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, running an ED in a Tertiary government hospital, which sees a large number of snakebites annually. Focussed on syndromic snakebite management, and improved antivenom administration

Dr Frank Tianyi works at the intersection of clinical medicine and neglected tropical disease control. His doctoral research used the Person-Based Approach to design RELAY, a community-led multi-pronged intervention, linking local Relay Champions, community members, traditional healers, telecom companies, and public health authorities. He focuses on preventing snakebites and on the delays between bite and treatment.

Infiniqo is building a technology-enabled snakebite readiness ecosystem combining AI, awareness, training, coordination, and field intelligence to strengthen prevention, response, and care.

As a researcher, I have been working in protein biochemistry (enzyme therapeutics) and unraveling enzyme promiscuity for diverse catalytic reactions and broad substrate affinity of enzymes that can be used in diagnosis and therapeutics. Additionally, I have been working on point of care devices development for diagnostics

Hussen Steven Mdala is a Malawian Entrepreneurship Expert who is also interested in studying and understanding the impacts caused by snake bites. He has worked with the rural community in funded projects for over 7 years now and have experienced how snake bites pose a challenge to the livelihoods of both the rural and urban communities in Malawi. He is therefore developing solutions that would help in preventing or reducing the dangers that are suffered by the victims in the ‘Pre-hospital gap’.

John Mhanuzi Wabike directs Kasulu Health Home Based Care Organization (KAHHOBACO) in Tanzania’s Kigoma region. With over two decades of experience and a Master of Public Health, he improves reproductive and child health, community clinics, and refugee response. Currently, he leads the innovative K-SNAKE project, empowering rural villages with rapid snakebite first response and digital referral networks. He is deeply passionate about building sustainable, community-led solutions that save lives

I am Louis Ng'oma, working as a country Coordinator for TGHN Malawi and am also a study coordinator for Snakebite study for Nyanja health research institute. I am new in snake study but I have more than 20 years vast experience working in ministry of health, NGO's, Research and community engagement programs. For more details you can also check my name on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-ng-oma-175a2899/

I am Daniel Tadesse (PhD, Associate Professor) with a background in Botanical Sciences/Ethnobotany, working at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. I have background information on the people experiencing snakebite at the grassroots level. I also know about the practical routes to reach the hospital for help.

I am Senior scientist and academic working on the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka and currently engaging several multi country studies related to infectious diseases control and prevention. And would like to initiate some meaningful collaborative research to resolve problems faced by vulnerable communities in the snakebite risk areas under the resource poor settings and information is not well communicated in advance.