Kari Kuutti is a professor emeritus (HCI & CSCW) at INTERACT research unit in the University of Oulu, Finland. Back in 1996, his professorship was the first one in Finland dedicated to HCI and CSCW. He has also served as a professor at the Department of Computer Science of Helsinki University of Technology (currently Aalto University), and as an adjunct professor at Helsinki University of Arts and Design (currently a part of Aalto University) and at the Department of Education at University of Helsinki. He has been a visiting scholar at the Design School in the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong and at the Interaction Design Centre in the University of Limerick. 2020 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the European Society of Socially Embedded Technology (EUSSET).

Kuutti has published over 120 research articles, and he is recognized for his efforts to bring practice-based approaches into the analysis and design of cooperative systems, especially for his promotion of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) for the purpose. He has been actively involved both in national and in European research collaboration. A large part of his work has been linked to developing support for collaborative and distributed design efforts, not only academically but also with industrial partners, such as Airbus and Nokia Mobile Phones.

Gina Neff is the Professor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University London. She runs the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge. She is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer for UKRI Responsible AI UK and Associate Director of the ESRC Digital Good Network.

Professor Neff serves on the boards of the Social Science Research Council, the Institute for the Future of Work and Reset.tech. She holds a doctorate in sociology and undergraduate degrees in Economics and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, all from Columbia University. Her books include Venture Labor (MIT Press 2012), Self-Tracking (MIT Press 2016) and Human-Centered Data Science (MIT Press 2022).

Her academic research has won both engineering and social sciences awards. Oxford awarded her a 2019 Teaching Excellence Award for her leadership of doctoral programmes at the Oxford Internet Institute. She led the team that won the 2021 Webby for the best educational website on the Internet for the A to Z of AI, which reached over one million people in 17 different languages as part of Google’s AI skills training.