Gábor Soós, PhD is Advisory Committee Member of the International Centre for Creativity and Sustainable Development (ICCSD) under the auspices of UNESCO, serving in his personal capacity. His work focuses on AI, culture, education, and public-interest innovation, with particular interest in governance-first digital companions, place-based knowledge systems, and evaluation approaches for high-trust deployment contexts. He is currently Project Lead of Source2Sea: Bartók 3.0 Connectivity (2026–2031), a UN Ocean Decade Action linking cultural and water systems through community-grounded and digitally enabled approaches.