Professor Isabel Fischer

Professor Isabel Fischer is an international expert on AI in education, uniquely combining her role as Professor of Digital Innovation at the University of Warwick, UK, with over two decades of senior roles in the FinTech sector. As a co-founder of the AI Thought Exchange, she regularly speaks internationally on the future of AI in Education. Her research combines social inclusion, technology-enabled innovation, and education, providing a critical perspective on ethical scaling.

Katie Heard

Katie Heard is Head of Research and Data Insights at the Good Things Foundation.

Dr James Muldoon

James Muldoon is a sociologist whose work explores the human side of artificial intelligence and other technologies. His new book, Love Machines, investigates how people form relationships with AI — as friends, intimate partners, therapists and even with digital versions of deceased loved ones. He is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Management at the Essex Business School and a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. His broader research reveals the hidden human labour and global supply chains that make artificial intelligence possible, and how digital work is transforming sectors from ride-hailing and food delivery to childcare and domestic work.

Professor Pamela Abbott

Pamela Abbott started in academia as a computer scientist and mathematician. However, her academic career in Information Systems spans over some 11 years during which she has held various lecturing positions both in the UK (Brunel University London) and abroad (University College Dublin, Ireland). Pamela obtained her PhD in Management Studies from Cambridge University in 2004, having pioneered research in an area of global sourcing called “Nearshore Software Outsourcing”. This research interest stemmed from her former career as a Software Quality Analyst at a Barbados-based software outsourcing company specialising in providing services to US-based clients. Pamela’s more recent work in global sourcing looks at sources of collaboration and innovation through knowledge processes in software and services outsourcing.