Dr. Chris Dede is a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) and was its Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies for 22 years. He’s also currently the Associate Director for Research at Harvard GSE’s National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (AI-ALOE). His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. In 2007, he was honored by Harvard University as an outstanding teacher, and in 2011 he was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

Dr. Christina Katopodis has delivered more than 50 talks and workshops on teaching and learning topics at colleges and universities and regional, national, and international conferences across Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the U.S. She is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate at the City University of New York’s Humanities Alliance, pursuing research on the indispensable role of a humanities education in a just society. With Cathy N. Davidson, Dr. Katopodis is author of The New College Classroom (Harvard University Press, 2022), winner of the AAC&U 2023 Frederic W. Ness Book Award.

Dr. Alina von Davier is a psychometrician and researcher in computational psychometrics, machine learning, and education. Dr. von Davier is a researcher, innovator, and an executive leader with over 20 years of experience in EdTech and in the assessment industry. She is the Chief of Assessment at Duolingo, where she leads the Duolingo English Test research and development area. She is also the Founder and CEO of EdAstra Tech, a service-oriented EdTech company. In 2022, she joined the University of Oxford as an Honorary Research Fellow, and Carnegie Mellon University as a Senior Research Fellow.