Dr. Rita Bencivenga, University of Genova, Italy [slides]
Rita Bencivenga, is an expert with over 35 years of experience in lifelong learning and gender studies. She earned her degree in Educational Sciences from the University of Genoa, Italy, and her doctorate from the University of Paris X Nanterre, France. Her research interests focus on the impact of gender on adult education and higher education, gender equality plans, diversity and inclusion, and the experiences of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. Her articles have been published in various academic journals, including Studies in the Education of Adults, the European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, SOCIETIES, and GENDER, among others. Rita Bencivenga’s academic career has taken her to numerous institutions, including the University of Genoa in Italy, the University Lumière Lyon 2, and the University Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis in France. She has also been a visiting researcher at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, UK. Currently, she is a member of LEGS – the Gender and Sexuality Studies Laboratory at CNRS/University Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis and University Paris Ouest, France.

Prof. Jorge Alberto Hidalgo Toledo, University Anáhuac, Mexico (he/him)
Jorge Alberto Hidalgo Toledo is an accomplished scholar with a Ph.D. in Applied Communication from Anáhuac University. He has held several prestigious positions, including Vice President of the Mexican Association of Communication Researchers and President of the National Council for the Teaching and Research of Communication Sciences. He has extensive experience in academia and the communication industry, having worked for major publications and radio groups, including Reforma, El Universal, and El Heraldo, and as a contributor to Origina, MD magazine, The O, and as editor of Clap! Magazine. He was a Host and Producer at Grupo Acir and Grupo Radio Centro. He has been an educator for nearly 20 years. He has co-authored several books and published numerous chapters on communication topics. He is the Academic Coordinator of Graduate Programs at the Faculty of Communication at Anáhuac University. He is also involved in various councils and committees related to communication, journalism, and accreditation.

Dr. Amir Hossein Payberah, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (he/him)
Amir Hossein Payberah (https://www.kth.se/profile/payberah) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Division of Software and Computer Systems (SCS) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He earned his PhD from KTH in 2013, specializing in distributed systems. Following his doctoral studies, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Institute of Sweden (RISE), focusing on data-intensive computing platforms. As a postdoc at RISE, he also worked as a guest lecturer at Amirkabir University of Tehran (AUT) from 2013 until 2015. In 2017, he embarked on a role as a machine learning scientist at Oxford University, where he remained until 2018. Subsequently, he returned to KTH as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Recently, he initiated the co-liberative computing research group and started leading the “WASP Legal, Ethical, and Societal Aspects” cluster. He is also the specialization representative of SCS in the ICT Doctoral program council. His current research centers around the intersection of equity and justice in AI, particularly in the context of large language models.

Dr Arun Kumar, University of California, San Diego (he/him)
Arun Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Halicioglu Data Science Institute and an HDSI Faculty Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the Database Lab and Center for Networked Systems and an affiliate member of the AI Group. His primary research interests are in data management and systems for machine learning and artificial intelligence-based data analytics. Systems and ideas based on his research have been shipped as part of products from, or used internally by, multiple cloud, Web, and database systems companies, including Google, Facebook, Oracle, and VMware. He is a recipient of three SIGMOD research paper awards, six distinguished reviewer/meta reviewer awards from SIGMOD/VLDB, the IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a UCSD oSTEM Faculty of the Year Award, and research award gifts from Amazon, Google, Oracle, and VMware. His first PhD graduate received the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Dr Juan Antonio Navarro Pérez, Google, UK (he/him)
Juan Antonio Navarro Pérez is a senior software engineer at Google, UK. He obtained a degree in mathematics from Universidad de las Américas Puebla and a PhD in computer science from The University of Manchester. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and Technische Universität München, where he developed applications of automated reasoning into program analysis and verification. His academic career continued as a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and then at University College London.

Dr Romain Sabathier, COOP-EGAL, France (he/him)
Romain Sabathier is a consultant and trainer specialising in gender equality and the fight against sexual and gender-based violence. He was instrumental in developing gender equality policies at the National Assembly (2009-2013) and later served as the Secretary General of the High Council for Gender Equality (2013-2016). A graduate of Sorbonne University with a degree in political science and gender studies, he is the co-author of the general knowledge book “Feminism for Dummies,” Published by First in 2019 under the direction of Danielle Bousquet. He currently lives between Gers and New York and collaborates regularly with the Council of Europe.