Dr. Ladan Pooyan-Weihs is lecturer and diversity officer at the Department of Information Technology of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Her main area of interdisciplinary research is digital transformation and its related ethical aspects, chances and challenges in the society and workplace. Due to her background in computer science and cryptography, she is particularly interested in the Blockchain technology and its potential applications in the digitized world. She is convinced that the women in computer science can hugely contribute to the digital sustainability and digital ethics according to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations in general and in particular in the SW-development based on ethical aspects.

Lauren Huret is a Geneva-based artist. Her visual work as well as her research, comprising mainly videos, installations and performances, seeks to highlight the dynamics of belief and adhesion produced by our technical and media devices. Her work has been shown in numerous institutions and art spaces internationally. She has published five books to date, including Artificial Fear, Intelligence of Death (Link, co-published by Kunsthaus Langenthal, April 2016), L’âge des techniciens (with Pacôme Thiellement, Clinamen, June 2017) and Praying for my Haters (CCS Paris, February 2019).

Dr. Emilia Roig is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ), a Berlin-based organization combatting intersecting forms of inequality and discrimination in Europe. She is faculty member of the Social Justice Study Abroad Program of DePaul University of Chicago and has taught graduate and post-graduate courses on Intersectionality Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory and International and European Law. From 2007 to 2010, she worked extensively on Human Rights issues at the UN and other international organisations in Tanzania, Kenya and Cambodia.

Maike Thies is a Research Fellow at the Bachelor Specialization of the Subject Area in Game Design at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), where she curates and coordinates the interdisciplinary lecture series Kein Kino at the Toni Kino (ZHdK) focusing on New Realities. She is passionate about bridging Game Design and Emerging Technologies with other disciplines to explore new fields of action. Her research activities focus on Interactive Theatre, Narrative Spaces, Immersive Arts and Design Trends. She is Co-Head of REFRESH, an interdisciplinary, international festival/conference initiated by the Department Design and the Immersive Arts Space of Zurich University of the Arts and dedicated to Immersive Arts and the Future of Design.