Treye Thomas, Ph.D., is a Lead Toxicologist and Program Manager for the Chemicals, Nanotechnology and Emerging Materials Program Area in the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) Office of Hazard Identification and Reduction.  His duties include establishing priorities and projects to identify and mitigate potential health risks to consumers resulting from chemical exposures during product use.  Dr. Thomas has conducted comprehensive exposure assessment studies of chemicals in consumer products and quantified the potential health risks to consumers exposed to various chemicals including flame retardants, nanomaterials, wood preservatives, perfluorintated compounds and heavy metals.

Dr. Thomas played a lead role in developing the CPSC nanotechnology research program, and is addressing the health and safety implications of emerging technologies, including additive manufacturing/3D printing and wearable technology.  Dr. Thomas  serves as a CPSC representative in a number of activities including as a federal  liaison for the NAS Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions standing committee, the UL 3D Technical Advisory Board, and is the co-chair for the NNI Nanotechnology Environmental and Health Implications (NEHI) working group.  Dr. Thomas received an MS from UCLA and PhD from the University of Texas, Health Science Center, before completing a post-doctoral fellowship in industrial toxicology.

Promoting safe e-commerce, developing new technologies and inspirit entrepreneurship: that is the passion of Luca Vahrenwald, currently CEO of TerrainQ Solutions. Together with his team, the company was awarded with the Gold Product Safety Award by the European Commission in 2021. The background to the award is the development of the Ce-rt Proof tool, which makes it possible to identify unsafe products in e-commerce. Luca Vahrenwald was the driving force behind the implementation of this idea. Here he benefited from his expertise in the area of CE regulations as well as his know-how of the e-commerce business. But it's not just online retail that he's familiar with. He can draw on his experience in stationary retailing at the world's largest food retailer "ALDI".

That supports his aim the translation of the increasingly complex requirements of product safety into understandable language and applicable processes for online business.

Through the proactive management of the company, TerrainQ has been able to position and maintain itself in the market of product compliance service. TerrainQ is first mover for developing product safety software and market leader for providing remote audits in e-commerce.

In the meantime, a strong network can be relied upon. This enables TerrainQ Solutions to provide a professional service to smaller online retailers through to global online-marketplaces.

Chantal Van den Bossche works as communications specialist at WECF, Women Engage for a Common Future, an international ecofeminist network of over 250 women's and environmental organisations in 72 countries worldwide, with a historical focus on Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus.  Prior to WECF, Chantal worked as a journalist. She obtained a degree in Russian Language from Gerzen University, St. Petersburg and a Masters in Eastern European Studies from the University of Amsterdam, where the focus of her research was on the social stigma of AIDS and HIV in the former Soviet Union.

With WECF Chantal works on building awareness on the importance of a healthy non-toxic environment, from a feminist perspective. She represents WECF at the stakeholder group for REACH and SVHC (Substances of Very High Concern) at the Dutch Ministry of Environment and co-wrote WECF publications on Gender and Chemicals and Toxic Free Periods, such as ‘Why the European Green Deal needs Ecofeminism’. At the moment she also works with partners in Ukraine on an EU funded green energy efficient reconstruction project, training women to become energy auditors.  Recently Chantal has also become politically active, she was recently appointed as International Secretary for the Pink Network of the Dutch Social Democrats (PvdA) and as Dutch representative for the PES LGBTIQ+ network Rainbow Rose.