Felicitas Macgilchrist is a Professor of Digital Education and Schooling at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Her research explores the cultural politics of educational technology, with a focus on critical, ethnographic and speculative approaches. Felicitas is co-editor of Learning, Media and Technology and has recently written about designing postdigital futures in Postdigital Science and Education, rewilding edtech in education and generative criticality in Learning, Media and Technology. Following recent co-edited books including Postdigital Participation in Education (Palgrave, 2023), Schule und Unterricht im digitalen Wandel (Schools, Teaching and Digital Transformation) (Klinkhardt, 2023) and Die datafizierte Schule (The Datified School) (Springer, 2023), she is now thinking about how to centre design justice in edtech research and development.

If you want to learn more, please visit https://www.edu-digitalinequality.org/ 

Jen Ross is co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, and director of the MSc in Education Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, both at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She is part of the team behind the MSc in Digital Education programme, the  Manifesto for Teaching Online, and the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC. She leads the Digital Cultural Heritage cluster in the Centre for Data, Culture and Society, is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and is closely involved in international collaborations including Una Europa and the Higher Education After Surveillance network.

Jen’s research interests include education and cultural heritage futures, online distance education, digital cultural heritage learning, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), digital cultures, and online reflective practices. Recent publications have explored postdigital research, higher education futures, participatory speculative fiction, surveillance practices and cultures in higher education, lecture capture, glitches, and digital co-production in museum and gallery settings. Her 2023 book, Digital Futures for Learning (Routledge), explores speculative approaches to researching and teaching about the future.

Alexiei Dingli is a renowned AI expert and Professor at the University of Malta. With over 20 years of experience in the field, he has helped numerous companies successfully implement AI solutions.

His work has been recognized as world-class by international experts, and he has received numerous awards from organizations such as the European Space Agency, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the United Nations.

In addition to his considerable peer-reviewed publications, he has also been a critical member of the Malta.AI task force, working to position Malta as a global leader in AI.