Alok Nandi is known for his creative design scenarios in a variety of fields, such as immersive storytelling (VR, AR, and XR), strategy, and hospitality food systems. As a creative entrepreneur, he has tracked the waves of digital transformation, starting with developing for the web and moving on to leading design teams for Belgian and French publishing firms. Alok Nandi has a background in film studies, management, and electromechanical engineering. He started his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble. In 1991, he has authored a book on film maker Satyajit Ray, prefaced by Henri Cartier-Bresson. He created an exhibition on Ray for the Cannes Film Festival, which subsequently moved to the London Film Festival, Paris Festival d'Automne, Nantes 3 Continents, Aix en Provence, and Brussels, with film screenings and a retrospective.

Dr. Ferrando, Ph.D in Philosophy, M.A. in Gender Studies, is a philosopher of the posthuman; she teaches Philosophy at the Program of Liberal Studies, New York University.

Harshit Agrawal is an AI artist and Human Interaction Researcher, who graduated from the Fluid Interfaces group at MIT Media Lab and the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. He has carried out art residencies to expand his practice in diverse cultural contexts at the Art Center Nabi in Korea, Museum of Tomorrow in Brazil, and Kakehi-Lab in Japan. Harshit poses to be the first Indian artist in the world’s first AI art show, Gradient Descent held at Nature Morte gallery. His art is covered in international media like BBC, New York Times as the founding members of this new genre of A.I based art. Also, Harshit has published several research papers on creation tools on art and human computer interaction conferences, including Siggraph, ISEA, UIST, UbiComp, TEI, IUI, IDC.

Hiroki Habuka is a research professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Law, a visiting associate professor at University of Tokyo Graduate School of Law and Politics, and the CEO of Smart Governance Inc.

She is the Program Manager and Engagement Lead at London School of Economics and Political Science.

Michiel Baas holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. He has done an extensive amount of study on migration and transnationalism, with an emphasis on travel between Singapore, Australia, and India. His most recent research, which examines this subject via the prism of social and cultural mobility, also focuses on the emerging middle-class professionals in urban India. As an urban anthropologist, sociology, cultural studies, and science and technology studies are additional sources of inspiration for his work. Creating an anthropology of artificial intelligence (AI) is the goal of his research project, "Craitivity: Towards an Anthropology of Artificial Intelligence." His significant publications would include Imagined mobility: migration and transnationalism among Indian students in Australia, [s.l.: s.n.]. – PhD thesis University of Amsterdam; published in 2010 at London: Anthem Press, “In-betweenness: Indian student-migrants and the purpose of disconnection from here & there.” Conserveries mémorielles 13 (special issue: Frontières, barrières, horizons: réinterroger l’histoire et les mémoires de la migration) and he also worked as the editor of Transnational migration and Asia: the question of return, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.  His focus on the Indian middle class is predominant in his work. He has written extensively on a variety of subjects, including Indian bodybuilding and fitness, Indian students migrating to Australia, skilled professionals migrating to Singapore, the Indian migration sector, and the daily lives of IT professionals in Bangalore.

Samuel Bendett is an adviser with CNA's Strategy, Policy, Plans and Programs Division, where he is a member of the Russia Studies Program. Currently conducting research on the Russian defense and security issues, as well as the emergence of unmanned warfare and AI.

Tanuj Solanki explored the implications of AI for society in his novel, "The Machine is Learning". He is also the founding editor of the Bangalore Literary Magazine and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. His earlier exposure to artificial intelligence involved heading digital transformation for a large insurance company.

With more than five years of varied experience in academic and mental health care settings, Ranjith Jaganathan is a cognitive science researcher. Recently, he spent a week as a visiting faculty member at the Strate of Design, Bengaluru, where he gave design students insights into cognitive science and research. He formerly worked as a research associate at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, contributing to the Cognitive Neurology Lab in the Department of Neurology, studying the onset delay of dementia. His background in research involves hypothesizing research problems, designing and conducting in-lab human vision experiments, stimulus construction, programming (MATLAB, Python, and R), data collection, and performing statistical analysis.

Sannuta Raghu is a multimedia journalist vigorously leading and building responsible news for platforms with 6 to 200 million users. Currently, she is the executive producer at Scroll.in which is an independent news organization in India, where she leads award- winning journalists and video designers to extend the frontiers of news reportage and storytelling. Also, she holds a wide background of experience as Senior Producer and Senior Desk Editor at CNN-news 18, Producer at Network18 and CNBC-TV18, and News Reporter at New Deal for Communities. Carrying abundant skills in herself comprising social media, Video production, press Releases, and more, provides valuable insights to the sphere of journalism.

Retired senior army officer,He is a former lieutenant general of India's army and was part of Carnegie symposium on AI to talk of future warfare.

Col Vinayak Bhat (Retd) joined the Indian Army through NDA, Khadakwasla in Jan 1979 and was commissioned into Assam Regiment on 24 Dec 1982. Later worked as Interpreter at various Border Post Meetings with Chinese PLA from time to time whenever posted in field areas. He volunteered to be part of Military Intelligence in 1993. He did various operational appointments mostly on external intelligence. He has numerous achievements to credit in counter terrorist, counterintelligence and psychological operations inside and outside the country. He specialized in satellite imagery in 1994 and worked in the field till superannuation on 31 Dec 2015.He has worked on satellite imagery analysis with keen interest in nuclear field especially nuclear cycle, nuclear weapons and their storage facilities. He has covered mining, milling, calculations of SWU and other calculations through satellite imagery.

He has covered most of the world generally and China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Libya extensively.

With more than 30 years of national and international professional experience Dr. Malhotra is deemed as a global tech-evangelist in the domain of digital transformation in governance. Several universities and organizations, world over, regularly take her academic inputs for curating newer prepositions, newer project designs, newer trainings and better tech-policy spaces.

Mark Coeckelbergh is a Belgian philosopher of technology. He is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna and former President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He was previously Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, Managing Director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, and a member of the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente. Before moving to Austria, he has lived and worked in Belgium, the UK, and the Netherlands. He is the author of several books, including Growing Moral Relations (2012), Human Being @ Risk (2013), Environmental Skill (2015), Money Machines (2015), New Romantic Cyborgs (2017), Moved by Machines (2019), the textbook Introduction to Philosophy of Technology (2019), and AI Ethics (2020). He has written many articles and is an expert in ethics of artificial intelligence. He is best known for his work in philosophy of technology and ethics of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), he has also published in the areas of moral philosophy and environmental philosophy.

Prof. (Dr.) T. G. Sitharam is the Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi since December 2022. He was the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam from July 2019 to December, 2022. He Obtained his B.E.(Civil Engineering) from University of Mysore; Master’s from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1986 and Ph.D. from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1991. He worked as a lecture at University of Waterloo and later moved to University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA (1992-94). In July 1994, he joined Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as faculty in the department of Civil Engineering. He also held the positions of Director (additional charge) at Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar, Assam; Chairman, BOG of IIT Guwahati; Chairman, Board of Governors at CIT, Kokrajhar and Chairman, Board of Management of North East Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Arunachala Pradesh. Presently, He is the Council Member of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Bharath Reddy is the Programme Manager of the Graduate Certificate in Public Policy (Technology and Policy) programme at Takshashila. His research interests lie at the intersection of technology, public policy and India's national interest. He is currently working on advanced telecoms, open-source technologies and internet governance. Before joining Takshashila, he worked in the telecom space, designing software for 4G base stations. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering and is an alumnus of the programme he now manages.

Kailash is a philosopher among technologists and a technologist among philosophers. More concretely, he has been running Olam: an English-Malayalam and Malayalam-Malayalam dictionary since 2010. As somebody who tinkers intimately with software, he is arguably more nostalgic about the waves of tech paradigms that pass by, than he is excited about the next generation that comes. He is also chief technology officer at Zerodha.

Dr Jini K Gopinath is a trained Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Hypnotherapist with expertise in Psychological Assessment, Psychotherapy Techniques, Corporate Employee Wellness, and Performance Coaching. He was trained in Clinical Psychology at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, and has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. He has worked in different fields related to mental health, wellness, and education for the past 20 years. He has worked in universities teaching psychology to undergraduate and postgraduate students, headed the Clinical Operations for Corporate Wellness at Optum International (UHG), ran a mental health start-up called Mind Matters in Bengaluru, and worked as a Performance Coach for sports professionals, including the Kerala Ranji Trophy Team and Indian Premier League teams like Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab. Currently, he is working as the Chief Psychology Officer at YourDOST (Yourdost.com), an online wellness platform, and as an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the Indian Institute of Psychology and Research, Bengaluru. He regularly conducts workshops and training programs for mental health professionals in India and abroad.

Dr Veeky Baths is the Co-founder of EvoReality. EvoReality aims to preserve the colors in the lives of the elderly and their families by using advanced technology-based tools for cognitive and functional assessment. He is also working as an Associate Professor and heading the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at BITS, Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus. His research interests include Computational Psycholinguistics and Alzheimer’s Dementia Detection from Spontaneous Speech using Machine Learning, Brain Computer Interface, Consumer Neuroscience, Brand perception, Neural Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition.

Visual artist, comic creator and musician, George Mathen, popularly known by his penname, has recently written "Dream Machine: AI and the Real World" . The visual grammar in the book also plays with the dwindling attention span of the young today. His often lacerating, dark, and satirical takes on the world inform his visual poetics. The intersections of technology with the human questions, especially within discourses of artificial intelligence function as the frame of his earlier work called The Snake and the Lotus. His Rashtraman comics generate a counter-discourse around contemporary Indian politics and satirizes propaganda and ideological warfare through a superhero figure.

Dr. Aparna Joshi is an academician, researcher, interventionist, practitioner, and trainer from India with 25 years of immense experience in the discipline of mental health and psychosocial well-being. Since 2010, she is an Assistant Professor with the School of Human Ecology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), India. Her ardent teachings, research and outreach work chiefly builds on the reciprocal relationship between theory, research and practice, and academics and the field. Mostly, she researches on the intervention and capacity-building projects which are commissioned and supported by National and International organisations and aim at integrating psychosocial well-being issues into existing development endeavours. She is an active member of the advisory groups to several civil society, government, and international organisations. Apart from teaching and research journey at TISS, she has led two field action projects: iCALL, a professionally run National level free and multi-lingual telephone, email and chat-based mental health and psycho-social counselling service, and Sukoon, a Mental research initiative that aims to improve the well-being of couples and families in legal and community contexts in India.

Shiv Iyer is the founder, and the CEO of two Database Systems Infrastructure Engineering Companies, MinervaDB and ChistaDATA, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Presently, he is a Microsoft Azure Data Platforms Influencer and a Committer for numerous open-source Database Systems projects like MySQL, PostgreSQL and ClickHouse. Shiv holds an intense foundation and experience in Database Systems Architecture, Internals and Production Engineering over two decades. Formerly, he was the Principal Database Architect and Data Site Reliability Engineer for some of the largest internet companies in Bay Area. Also, he is a frequent keynote speaker in Database Systems conferences globally.

Satheesh K V is the Co-founder and COO of Spottabl. With an extraordinary and inspiring academic background consisting of a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Calicut University, a degree from NIIT, MBA from IGNOU, and an PGCHRM from XLRI Jamshedpur, has worked with Intel, Dell, AOL, and Flipkart for 7 years and 5 months and, currently, holds a seat in board of advisors for let's venture, nova benefits and Hiresure.ai.

Muthumari S is the Global Head of AI, Brillio which is responsible for strategizing and executing data and AI solutions for Brillio’s clients. She runs Brillio’s AI Labs and Research Council, which incubates modern technologies such as generative AI and AI TRiSM, as well as the use of AI in drug discovery. Also, Muthu was added to CDO Magazine’s list of Global Power Data Women 2022 and its 40 Under 40 Data Leaders in 2022. She is one of five global finalists for the 2022 VentureBeat “Women in AI-Responsibility and Ethics of AI” Award. Analytics India Magazine added her name to its list of Top 10 Data Scientists 2019 and 40 under 40 Data Scientists 2021. Muthu has delivered 50+ thought leadership sessions across the globe and is also, an active speaker in WiDS (Women in Data Science.).