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Dr Yekta Bakırlıoğlu is a Senior Lecturer in Design Management at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, UK. Previously, he carried out research and teaching roles at Middle East Technical University (Turkey), Koç University (Turkey), University of Limerick (Ireland), and Aalto University (Finland). His research interests include open design, distributed production, circular economy, design for sustainability, sustainable consumption and production, and gender-sensitive design.
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Former communication lecturer at a private university in Malaysia. Currently on a career break to pursue research interest in the area of transgender studies, specifically on transgender people in Malaysia and their identity negotiation on social media. I hold a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree from Universiti Putra Malaysia. Deeply passionate about education, having taught for over 20 years in higher education settings.
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Senior Lecturer from University of Otago, Aotearoa|New Zealand; research and practical expertise in early childhood education, genders, sexualities, inclusive education, teacher education.
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Dr. Kwok Ng holds the title of docent "Health Promotion and Adapted Physical Activity" and is a senior researcher, postdoctoral researcher, and visiting professor at 4 European Universities in 3 countries. He is the Vice-President of the International and European Federations of Adapted Physical Activity, and co-chairs the chronic conditions working group for the HBSC - a WHO collaborative study. His work is multidisciplinary in areas associated to disability, education, physical activity, health and policy.
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Dr. Hemachandran Kannan is the Director of AI Research Centre and Area Chair of Analytics Department at Woxsen University. He is the Advisory Board Member at APT AI Labs, LLC and Technical Advisor at Agzistence Private Limited. A strong educational professional with a scientific bent of mind, highly skilled in AI & Business Analytics. He is having a rich working experience in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Building Video recommendation systems, Building Conversational Chatbots, Automation, and Autonomous Robots. He got the Best Faculty award at Woxsen in 2021.
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Ryan is a government affairs specialist at Bosch ASEAN, responsible for advocacy strategy development, market and policy intelligence, and project and stakeholder management. He is experienced in policy research, development, and advocacy with think tanks and multinational organisations in Finland, Singapore and Malaysia. He led and was part of consultancy projects including developing the Estonian government’s experimentation framework, collaborating with a global tech firm on the governance of emerging technology, and deliver capacity building workshops to civil servants in the Philippines.
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Dr. Daniel Onyedikachi Ugwu is a researcher with expertise in the broad areas of environmental toxicology, environmental and climate change policy research. He has a PhD in Environmental Biochemistry from the University of Nigeria and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Medical Biochemistry, David Umahi Federal University of Health Sciences, Uburu, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. He is a) 2023 Commonwealth Futures Climate Research Cohort Fellow with The ACU and b) a 2022 fellow of the Climate Governance, Diplomacy and Negotiations Leadership Program - Cohort X at AGNES
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Yonah Welker is a public technologist with the work encompassing algorithms, emerging technologies, and policies, addressing society, human capacity, designated groups and spectrums such as social, expressive and human-centered AI, robotics, emerging learning, work, health, public and economic solutions. It includes the co-creation of emerging technologies and algorithms, screening, evaluating and cooperating with national, public and private projects, cohorts, ecosystems and funds, contributing suggestions to repositories and frameworks.
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A psychology researcher and a clinician involved with behaviour change on climate and health. University teacher & Researcher at Universtiy of Turku.
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Alphoncina Lyamuya is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. Her research interests lie at the intersection of emerging media technologies, transnational governance, and inequality. Specifically, she is interested in the use of information and communication technologies and other digital infrastructures by governments and humanitarian agencies in migration management and humanitarian service delivery.