Wayne Holmes

Learning sciences and innovation researcher who teaches at University College London

Wayne Holmes, PhD (Oxon) is a learning sciences and innovation researcher who teaches at University College London, and is a consultant researcher on AI and education for UNESCO and for the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI). His research, books and papers, and invited talks focus on the ethical and social implications of AI and education.

Martin Seligman

Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania

Martin E.P. Seligman is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on positive psychology, learned helplessness, prospection, optimism, and positive education. n In 2021, he was named the most influential psychologist in the world by Academic Influence. His mission is the attempt to transform social science to work on the best things in life – strengths, positive emotion, good relationships, meaning, and human flourishing.

Dan Podjed

Research Fellow at Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Anthropologist dr. Dan Podjed is Research Fellow at Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Researcher at Innovation and Development Institute of the University of Ljubljana, and an Assistant Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana.

Mart Laanpere

Professor in mathematics and computing education, School of Digital Technologies, Tallinn

Mart Laanpere is professor in mathematics and computing education in the School of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University, Estonia. His main focus in research is conceptual design and analysis of affordances of technology-enhanced learning systems and tools, digital competence modelling and assessment, didactics of informatics.

Kristijan Musek Lešnik

Chair of the Positive Psychology Centre at the University of Primorska

Kristijan Musek Lešnik is Chair of the Positive Psychology Centre at the University of Primorska. He is President of the National Board of Experts on Education His main areas of interest are positive psychology & Positive Education. Kristijan believes that implementing positive psychology principles/tools into educational practices can lead to improved well being and prosperity of societies and their members.

Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck

Founder and director of Lie Detectors

Juliane is the founder and director of Lie Detectors (https://lie-detectors.org/), an award-winning and journalist-led media literacy organisation in Europe. She advises politicians and lawmakers including as an EU expert on online disinformation and digital literacy. Over a 20-year award-winning journalist career she wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Reuters and others.

Dana Redford

Founder and president of the Policy Experimentation and Evaluation Platform (PEEP)

Dana Redford, PhD is founder and president of the Policy Experimentation and Evaluation Platform (PEEP), an NGO that supports evidence-based policymaking in education reform and economic development. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies, UC-Berkeley. Dr. Redford in an international expert on innovation, entrepreneurship and climate change education.

Margaret Sutherland

Professor, Director of Partnerships, Communication & External Engagement and of the Scottish Network for Able Pupils

Margaret is Professor, Director of Partnerships, Communication & External Engagement and of the Scottish Network for Able Pupils. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She has 40 years teaching experience in primary schools and higher education. Her work is primarily concerned with learning, teaching and pedagogy.