Pat Pataranutaporn, PhD is an assistant professor, technologist, and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is the founding director of the Cyborg Psychology research group. He also serves as co-director of the MIT Media Lab Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Research Program. His research lies at the intersection of AI and human-computer interaction, where he focuses on inventing, investigating, and inspiring next-generation human-AI systems for human flourishing, applying insights from human psychology to AI and understanding how AI impacts human psychology. His research has been translated into real-world impact, ranging from Future You, a widely adopted AI digital twin for supporting long-term thinking that has been used in over 100 countries worldwide, to research that has shaped legislation protecting children from companion AI, and leading efforts to develop the first open benchmark for the human impact of AI in collaboration with leaders across academia, industry, and government. He also serves as an advisor to the Psychology of Technology Institute and Partnership on AI. As founding director of the Cyborg Psychology research group at the MIT Media Lab, he leads a team of interdisciplinary researchers to develop and study how AI can both augment and diminish human learning, decision-making, critical thinking, creativity, and other critical dimensions of human experience. His group is among the first to investigate emerging phenomena through empirical studies examining how AI reshapes cognition, emotion, and behavior, from emotional dependence on AI companions and cognitive manipulation to false memory implantation, placebo effects of human-AI interaction, and the co-evolution of human and machine intelligence.

Misha Sra is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she directs the Human-AI Experience (HAX) Lab. She received her PhD from MIT in 2018 advised by Prof. Pattie Maes. She has published at the most selective HCI, VR, and AI venues such as ACM CHI, ACM UIST, IEEE VR, ICLR and CVPR where she received five best paper awards and honorable mentions. MIT selected her as an EECS Rising Star in 2018. In 2023, she was awarded an NSF CAREER Award for her work in human-AI interaction design. Her research focuses on human-AI coordination, designing systems that enable people and AI to work together through shared context whether that is physical environments, diagrams, layout, 3D models, or XR.

Marc Canter is an American internet entrepreneur, speaker, technology evangelist and early pioneer of online software, and is often called the "godfather of multimedia”. Canter is a CEO of Instigate, Inc. Canter is best known for being the co-founder and CEO of MacroMind, the company that became Macromedia. After college, Canter travelled to New York City to help his friends build a music studio called "Noise New York." During this time Canter learned about laserdiscs, laser light shows, NAPLPS, pro audio and video equipment, and a then-new technology called videodiscs. Canter has also worked as a taxi driver. Canter dropped out of graduate school to work for Bally-Midway, programming music and graphics for video games. He coded one of the earliest pieces of licensed music content ("Peter Gunn" for Spyhunter). Canter co-founded MacroMind in 1984, the company that later became Macromedia, and began developing for the newly launched Apple Macintosh. Canter launched MacroMind with the idea of it being a "software rock and roll band”, and the company created the first multimedia player, the first cross-platform authoring system and the world's leading multimedia platform. Partly due to his work with the company, Canter is considered one of the founders of multimedia. In the 1990s, he was the chairman of virtual technology company Canter Technology. At MacroMind, Canter was involved in one of the first known cases of a virus being distributed via commercial software.] According to the March 16, 1988 edition of the Toronto Star, several MacroMind products shipped with virus infected media. Analysis later revealed that Canter's computer was infected with the virus while he was working on training material for the software products. MacroMind and Canter moved to San Francisco, California, where the company received venture capital funding and was the third software-related investment of the firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. To speed growth, Macromind engaged in a series of mergers and acquisitions in the late 1980s and early 1990s, renaming itself Macromedia in 1991. 

Keith Newman is a seasoned marketing and media executive who has run and worked at several media and tech companies. Today he is a GTM consultant and advisor specializing in developing unique growth tactics @TheGTMFirm for firms looking to accelerate growth. Newman has a few media projects including his podcast: THE LOOK BACK where he interviews Silicon Valley's greatest founders, funders and influencers (Mark Cuban, Ron Conway, Nolan Bushnell, Ann Winblad +80 more). 250k listeners! https://www.thegtmfirm.com/ OR https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-look-back-host-keith-newman-talks-the-founder/id1560219589