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Francesca Polito is an interdisciplinary, human centered design leader, educator and researcher. She has spent the past two decades consulting with multinational companies on human centered product and service design innovations, and sustainable long term growth strategies. Her research and practice explore human-centered design as it relates broadly to technology innovation, education, society, human development, product development, and ethics. She explores requirements, vulnerabilities, and technology needs to transition 21st century learning to benefit human development needs.
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Shashika Rathnayaka is a Research Fellow in Applied Economics at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Griffith University, Australia. Her research interests include Agricultural and Food Economics, Development Economics and Econometric Modelling. Shashika has published in international journals, including; Agricultural Economics, Economic Modelling, Applied Economics, Economics Analysis & Policy and Empirical Economics. She recently published her first book, 'Economic Development and Consumption Patterns in Asian Countries' with Springer.
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Project Management at University of Huddersfield. She is conducting research in the areas of Professional Service Operations Management and Innovation Management. Her key research interests include among others: open innovation, operations management tools like Lean thinking, human resource management, operational efficiency, sustainable project management, artificial intelligence and university industry relations.
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My focus is on R&D(Multidisciplinary Research & Innovation, Startups, Incubation through emerging technologies: IoE, AI ML DL, AR VR MR, Embedded Systems , 3D Scanning, Rapid Prototyping )
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Dr. Jean-Denis has a PhD in Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship. He teaches and performs research in the area of entrepreneurial communities in the developing world. He is originally from Haiti and has published academic research on strategy for firms in several emerging markets.
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Dr. Praveen Naik Bellampalli, an Assistant Professor at the Central University of Karnataka, specializes in Rural Studies, Migration, and Development. Holding a PhD from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, his research explores the impacts of out-migration on rural livelihoods. With extensive fieldwork and international conference presentations, he contributes significantly to academia.
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Christopher ZHU is a dedicated researcher in the fields of data science and climate change at Imperial College. Before that, Christopher studied at the Oxford Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He has been serving as the Fellow of the International Science Council and the Co-Chair of the ISC CODATA Connect. He is also a consulting expert for the Guangdong and SAR governments in shaping and executing financial and macroeconomic policies. Moreover, he is the Golden Medalist at the Macau International Art Open as an Opera Tenor and the Fellow of Royal Society of Arts.
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Alicia work focuses on intersectionality, AI/SE design, and the ethical construction and availability of data. Create inclusive spaces to improve diversity in the digital landscape. She prioritizes AI ethics and inclusive HCI by amplifying marginalized voices, indigenous knowledge, and the experiences of women by improving participatory design processes, data driven decision making, and data literacy competencies. This impacts storytelling, wellness, and relation to place for municipalities and governments as well as university, business, and community collaboration.
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Dr Rikke Duus is an Associate Professor at the University College London School of Management and visiting faculty at ETH Zurich.
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I am an Assistant Professor in Applied Ethics at Northeastern University London and affiliated with Oxford's Department of Continuing Education. As a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, I specialise in using ethics and social-political philosophy to make informed public policies, particularly in health, technology and religion. Trained in both Islamic and Western traditions, I am committed to policies that promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, especially for underrepresented communities from Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan.