Speaker Ana Henriques is currently a PhD student at the Interactive Technologies Institute/LARSyS, at the University of Lisbon, advised by Hugo Nicolau and Angelika Strohmayer. Ana has focused their research on the intersections of ethics, feminist HCI and community-based work while exploring what community-led ethics could look like as a process of feminist ethical frameworking…
Speaker Clara Crivellaro is a Reader in Digital social justice at the School of Computing’s Open Lab, with expertise in Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Civics, Human-Centred Design, Participatory Design, and co-creation. Her research explores how the careful design of new and emergent technologies and socio-technical processes can help support democratic practices and advance equity and social…
Speaker Anna Carter is a Research Fellow at Northumbria University she has extensive experience in designing technologies for local council regeneration programs, her work focuses on creating accessible digital experiences in a variety of contexts using human-centred methods and participatory design. She works on building Digital Civics research capacities of early career researchers as part…
Speaker Matt is a Professor of Global Development and Dean of Research Culture at Northumbria University. His research interests focus on the relationships between civil society, citizenship and development in the global South, with a particular focus on volunteering in humanitarian and development settings, and on young people as development actors. He is Principal Investigator…
Speakers Ana Henriques is currently a PhD student at the Interactive Technologies Institute/LARSyS, at the University of Lisbon, advised by Hugo Nicolau and Angelika Strohmayer. Ana has focused their research on the intersections of ethics, feminist HCI and community-based work while exploring what community-led ethics could look like as a process of feminist ethical frameworking…
Speaker Formerly of Google and Meta, Tiffany Knearem is a User Experience Researcher who holds a PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University. Her recent publications span topics of human-AI alignment, AI-supported design workflows, and community informatics. She was recently featured in ACM’s Interactions Magazine and is a regular speaker at ACM conferences….
Speaker Dani Kalarikalayil Raju is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and a passionate HCI researcher based in India. His work focuses on community-centred participatory design of AI technologies, ensuring that innovations are inclusive and contextually relevant. Dani is the co-founder of Studio Hasi, a startup that partners with non-profit organisations and Indian communities to enable their meaningful…
Speaker Alex is a sociologist by training, with longstanding commitments to critically investigating and intervening in the proliferation of technology and machine intelligence. His work has been shaped most heavily by a critical yet hopeful scholarship in feminist technoscience, including works from Ruha Benjamin, Simone Browne, Vinciane Despret, Donna Haraway, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. He’s…
Speakers Dr. Ana María Bustamante Duarte is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Design (ArqDis) at the Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. During her PhD, she developed inclusive approaches to support forced migrants’ participation in the design of interactive geotechnologies that helped them to navigate their new host cities in Germany….
Speaker Michael Muller (He/Him/His) is a Researcher in HCI at IBM Research AI. His research has spanned over several topics including the application of Participatory Design, Data Silences and ethics and values in applications of AI to human issues. Michael is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and a member of the CHI Academy. Abstract Michael will…