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Sinéad Bovell is a strategic foresight advisor and the founder of WAYE, an organization that prepares youth for a future with advanced technologies, with a focus on non-traditional and minority markets.

Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist & Mozilla Creative Media Awards alum who creates experiences that spark dialog about race, gender, aging, and our future histories. Her work in AI and other mediums uses emerging technologies and social collaboration to work toward technological ecosystems based on care and social equity. Dinkins’ experiences with and explorations of artificial intelligence have led to a deep interest in how algorithmic systems impact communities of color in particular and all of our futures more generally.

Dinkins’ experiments with AI have led full circle to recognize the stories, myths, and cultural perspectives, aka data, that we hold and share form and inform society and have done so for millennia. She has concluded that our stories are our algorithms. We must value, grow, respect, and collaborate with each other’s stories (data) to build care and broadly compassionate values into the technological ecosystems that increasingly support our future.

Dinkins teaches at Stony Brook University, where she holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art. Dinkins is a Schmidt AI 2050 Senior Fellow and LG_ Guggenhiem Award winner named to Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI(2023), a United States Artist Fellow, Knight Arts & Tech Fellow Lucas Artists Fellow in Visual Arts, and a Mozilla Creative Awards awardee (2021). Additional supporters of Dinkins work include the Onassis Foundation, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Creative Capital, Soros Equality Fellowship, Data and Society Research Institute Fellowship, Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works Tech Lab, NEW INC, Blue Mountain Center; The Laundromat Project; Santa Fe Art Institute and Art/Omi.

The New York Times featured Dinkins in its pages as an AI influencer. Wired, Art In America, Artsy, Art21, Hyperallergic, the BBC, Wilson Quarterly, and a host of popular podcasts have recently highlighted Dinkins’ art and ideas.

Holly Herndon is an artist renowned for her pioneering work in machine learning and music. Holly holds a doctorate in Computer Music from Stanford. She and Mathew Dryhurst were awarded the 2022 Ars Electronica prize for digital art, and co-founded Spawning, building an AI data governance layer.

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Linda Dounia Rebeiz is an artist and designer who investigates the philosophical and environmental implications of technocapitalism. Her work mediates her memories and context as alternative truths and evidence of excluded ways of being and doing using generative technologies, namely Artificial Intelligence and Creative Coding. In 2023, Linda was recognized on the TIME100 list of most influential people in AI for her work on speculative archiving — building AI models that help us remember what is lost. She is currently based in Dakar, where she is from.

Manuel Sainsily is a Senior AI Advocate at Unity, and XR Instructor at McGill University & UMass Boston. Born in Guadeloupe, and Canadian citizen based in Montreal, he is a trilingual public speaker, designer, and educator with over a decade of experience who champions the responsible use and understanding of artificial intelligence. From delivering a TED talk and speaking at worldwide tech conferences, to producing events with Meta and OpenAI, Manuel amplifies the conversation around emerging technologies and culture preservation through powerful keynotes and curated events.