Dr Gina Fox is an Associate Professor in Criminology and Deputy Dean of Education for the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at the University of Leicester. She is a University Distinguished Teaching Fellow and holds Principal Fellowships with Advance HE, recognising her sustained leadership in curriculum design, academic practice and pedagogic enhancement.

Erin DeSilva is Senior Associate Provost for Learning Innovation at Dartmouth College, where she oversees the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) and Learning Design and Innovation (LDI). Her team of educational technologists, learning designers, faculty developers, and media specialists partners with faculty to integrate pedagogy and technology in service of student learning. With nearly two decades of experience in higher education, Erin brings a practitioner's perspective to the challenge of sustaining teaching quality while navigating rapid institutional change.

Dr Carrie Berger, Executive Director of Online Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, Purdue University

Nicole Buckenwolf is a Senior Staff Ontologist at Spotify, working on a small central team responsible for ontology/taxonomy and domain modeling across the company's media catalog. The team serves as an expert resource for groups across the organization, helping teams improve interoperability, align their models to best practices, and extend them to new use cases.
 

From agency to in-house teams, commercial brands to purpose-driven organisations, Lily has worked across brand, marketing, content, design and creative operations, partnering with diverse teams and leaders to solve complex business challenges. She believes design thinking is one of the most underutilised capabilities in organisational leadership, and that shifting creative to become a strategic enabler is the key to improving decisions, streamlining workflows, strengthening brand and delivering stronger organisational outcomes.