Humanities & Social Sciences

Esteemed speakers contributing their insights into human culture, behavior, and societal development

Horacio Lewis

Horacio Lewis

Contador Publico y Asesor de BI, especialista en power Bi
Docente de Power Bi,Certificado IBCS analyst Experto en aplicacion de IBCS
Manager de Biresults

Contador Publico y Asesor de BI, especialista en power Bi Docente de Power Bi,Certificado IBCS analyst Experto en aplicacion de IBCS Manager de Biresults Show more

James Lesly Christophe

James Lesly Christophe

James Lesly didn't find yoga in a studio. He found it stretching on a cell floor, copying poses out of library books before he knew what they were called.

Four years inside, 46 days in solitary, and a body that never got the memo when the danger was over. When he got out, he put a 200-hour yoga teacher training on an old credit card. Then came a 200-hour trauma-informed training through the Prison Yoga Project, where he's now an Ambassador.

Since then he's taught corporate teams (Innergy Corporate Yoga), YMCA Montreal members, Club Med guests, older adults with Parkinson's and post-stroke clients, and yoga teachers in Bella Prāna Collective's 300-hour Advanced Studies training.

He founded Not Your Average Yogi, a Black-led Montreal nonprofit bringing trauma-informed yoga and breathwork to Black men, men coming home from prison and at-risk youth, and built Black Man. Breathe., a 10-week peer-led breathwork program. His memoir, Not Your Average Yogi: From Violence to Service, came out in 2026.

Every session is part story, part live practice. People leave with breathing tools they can use in their next meeting, shift or hard conversation.

In person across Canada (based in Montreal) · Virtual worldwide.

James Lesly didn't find yoga in a studio. He found it stretching on a cell floor, copying poses out of library books before he knew what they were called. Four years inside, 46 days in solitary, and a body that never got the memo when the danger w... Show more

Gena Dellett

Gena Dellett

Gena Dellett, CEO of Skvare, is a client advocate who believes in the fundamental importance of relationships. Gena cultivates a supportive environment, encouraging her team to experiment, adapt, and consider unique perspectives. Her joy lies in witnessing these practices foster impactful client relationships through a strong commitment to teamwork.

Through her work at the intersection of business operations, development, and technology; Gena recognizes that relationship-building is not just a strategy—it's a way of operating. Known for her adeptness in asking the right questions, she guides Skvare as a technology company that recommends a pencil when it's the best tool for the job. Gena understands that Skvare's ongoing success hinges on effective recommendations balancing clients' needs with their budgets and views her work as building and supporting meaning-making spaces – online hubs where people access resources, connect with peers, and take action on issues they care about.

Gena Dellett, CEO of Skvare, is a client advocate who believes in the fundamental importance of relationships. Gena cultivates a supportive environment, encouraging her team to experiment, adapt, and consider unique perspectives. Her joy lies in witn... Show more

Jennifer Novak

Jennifer Novak

Jennifer Novak is a Senior Manager - AI Adoption & Change at Myriad360, where she supports large-scale Microsoft 365 and AI enablement initiatives. She has partnered with dozens of organizations to drive measurable adoption through readiness assessments, stakeholder engagement, training strategy, and practical change planning that aligns with technical delivery. Jennifer is based in Maryland.

Jennifer Novak is a Senior Manager - AI Adoption & Change at Myriad360, where she supports large-scale Microsoft 365 and AI enablement initiatives. She has partnered with dozens of organizations to drive measurable adoption through readiness assessme... Show more

Malcolm McAuley

Malcolm McAuley

Malcolm McAuley has been involved in the Dynamics 365 CE/CRM space for over 15 years. Malcolm also spent 18 years in the not-for-profit sector. He's fulfilled various roles both as a customer and a consultant and has worked with many organizations to identify opportunities where Dynamics 365 CE/CRM, Microsoft 365 and Power Platform tools can increase organizational efficiency and maximize data insight so companies are making decisions on what is actually happen instead of what they think is happening in their business. In his role as Microsoft Solutions Practice Lead at C5 Insight, Malcolm guides and supports the Dynamics and Microsoft 365 teams in their pursuit of delivering excellence to our clients. He also holds a strong interest in empowering others to building authentic connections through networking, and has recently released a self-constructed keynote address on the topic. Malcolm, his wife of 20 years, and two teenage boys reside near Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.

Malcolm McAuley has been involved in the Dynamics 365 CE/CRM space for over 15 years. Malcolm also spent 18 years in the not-for-profit sector. He's fulfilled various roles both as a customer and a consultant and has worked with many organizations to... Show more

Débora Wolosky

Débora Wolosky

Débora Wolosky es speaker vivencial, Licenciada en Recursos Humanos y Relaciones Públicas, y fundadora y directora de TIK RRHH. Hace más de 20 años trabaja con organizaciones, líderes y equipos de Latinoamérica, diseñando experiencias de aprendizaje, cultura y transformación. Sus conferencias combinan historias y casos reales, participación, humor y herramientas aplicables. Es creadora de Jutzpá Organizacional, el Modelo Centauro —(IA + IH) × AC— y Aprendizaje en la era de la IA. Su eje es qué capacidades humanas y culturales necesitamos para aprender, conservar el criterio y hacer que las cosas sucedan.

Trabajó con organizaciones como Mercedes-Benz, Natura, EY, Cencosud, Swiss Medical, Santander, Ford y Scania. Es docente en UCEMA y Burō Business School, y ha participado como columnista e invitada en Infobae, Clarín, iProfesional, CNN Radio, Revista Fortuna y Santander Post.

Débora Wolosky es speaker vivencial, Licenciada en Recursos Humanos y Relaciones Públicas, y fundadora y directora de TIK RRHH. Hace más de 20 años trabaja con organizaciones, líderes y equipos de Latinoamérica, diseñando experiencias de aprendizaje,... Show more

Sanaa Alreiahy

Sanaa Alreiahy

Dr. Sana’a Al Reiahy is an Assistant Professor of Education and Program Coordinator of the M.Ed. Educational Leadership Program in the College of Arts, Education, and Social Sciences at Abu Dhabi University, a role she has held since Fall 2024. She teaches and supervises graduate students in Educational Leadership and Teacher Education.
Prior to joining ADU, Dr. Al Reiahy held senior leadership positions across the UAE and Jordan. She served as Program Manager of the Leadership and Coaching Programs and as Education Team Leader at Queen Rania Teacher Academy, where she also chaired the Program Review Committee and served on the Senior Leadership and Accreditation Committees. She worked as a Senior Training Specialist designing national professional development programs, and earlier as a School Principal leading whole-school improvement. She has also served as a Bilingual School Inspector with KHDA (Dubai) and ADEK (Abu Dhabi).
Dr. Al Reiahy holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction (with honors) from the University of Jordan and a Certificate in Advanced Educational Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on Curriculum and Instruction, STEAM pedagogy, educational leadership, and school improvement.

Dr. Sana’a Al Reiahy is an Assistant Professor of Education and Program Coordinator of the M.Ed. Educational Leadership Program in the College of Arts, Education, and Social Sciences at Abu Dhabi University, a role she has held since Fall 2024. She t... Show more

Vladislav Guzey

Vladislav Guzey

Developer & PhD Researcher in AI, focused on generative AI and agent-based systems. I have 18+ years of experience in tech, spanning web development, data, and growth.

Today, I help developers work smarter by using AI-powered tools, agents, and practical workflows that improve productivity and real-world outcomes. I share what I learn through hands-on tutorials, tool reviews, and experiments, bridging research with everyday development work.

Developer & PhD Researcher in AI, focused on generative AI and agent-based systems. I have 18+ years of experience in tech, spanning web development, data, and growth. Today, I help developers work smarter by using AI-powered tools, agents, and p... Show more

Stephanie Weis

Stephanie Weis

Stephanie Weis, M.Ed. is a Product Manager at Carnegie Mellon University and an ADHD coach. She holds a Master of Education from Duquesne University and completed ICF-accredited coach training through the ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA). Diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, she draws on lived experience alongside her work at CMU's Central Computing Services, where she leads product strategy and continuous improvement for a 23-service IT portfolio across a decentralized, multi-campus organization, and was selected as 1 of 9 leaders from 300+ applicants for CMU's MOR Leaders program. She has taken the stage at NERCOMP (EDUCAUSE), the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and Pennwriters, and was an adjunct faculty member teaching writing at the Community College of Allegheny County. Through her coaching practice, she works with individuals to move beyond one-size-fits-all strategies and find what actually works for the ADHD brain.

Stephanie Weis, M.Ed. is a Product Manager at Carnegie Mellon University and an ADHD coach. She holds a Master of Education from Duquesne University and completed ICF-accredited coach training through the ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA). Diagnosed with ADH... Show more

Chander Gupta

Chander Gupta

With a vivid experience of more than 21 years in the corporate and education sector. Holding a master’s in commerce and law and specializing in taxation, he has been working closely on accounting law ethics and their legal aspects. His interest in accounting and frauds lead him to learn more about Financial Crimes and as a result, is this book. He has presented and published his work in several conferences at national and international level, in Scopus. The author has four copyrights in his name and is currently working on Forensic Accounting and Financial Crimes, in his free time he is capturing nature or writing.
But one thing which keep me alive is I love to learn.

With a vivid experience of more than 21 years in the corporate and education sector. Holding a master’s in commerce and law and specializing in taxation, he has been working closely on accounting law ethics and their legal aspects. His interest in ac... Show more

Oscar Cariceo

Oscar Cariceo

Ingeniero de Software con formación académica en antropología y ciencias sociales. Interesado en las posibilidades que ofrece la inteligencia artificial generativa y el desarrollo de aplicaciones orientadas mejorar la experiencia de los seres humanos con los sistemas computacionales. Actualmente se despeña como Manager de UX Research en Scotiabank.

Ingeniero de Software con formación académica en antropología y ciencias sociales. Interesado en las posibilidades que ofrece la inteligencia artificial generativa y el desarrollo de aplicaciones orientadas mejorar la experiencia de los seres humanos... Show more

Sahap Gizlen

Sahap Gizlen

Sahap Gizlen helps leaders decide where AI belongs in the business—and where it does not. Through Gizlen Global, he works at the intersection of AI adoption, operating design, communication, and execution.

His approach starts with the work itself: bottlenecks, unclear ownership, decision points, and the places where human judgment still matters. Rather than treating AI as a collection of tools, prompt tricks, or technology for its own sake, he focuses on practical ways to make work clearer, faster, and less dependent on constant intervention.

His background spans business operations, organizational leadership, education, communication, product development, and AI-enabled workflow design. This gives him a cross-functional perspective on how people, technology, and organizations actually work together.

His talks explore practical AI adoption, leadership, communication, the future of work, and the question organizations increasingly need to answer: Are we using AI to improve the way we work—or simply adding AI to a system that was already broken?

Sahap Gizlen helps leaders decide where AI belongs in the business—and where it does not. Through Gizlen Global, he works at the intersection of AI adoption, operating design, communication, and execution. His approach starts with the work itself:... Show more

Suzanne Valdez

Suzanne Valdez

Two generations of law students at the University of Kansas knew Suzanne Valdez as the professor who taught them Professional Responsibility and Prosecutorial Ethics. Kansas lawyers know her as a special prosecutor, a judge pro tem, and the district attorney who led Douglas County from 2021 to 2025. The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, one of four federally recognized tribes in the state, knows her as its Attorney General. Nearly three decades of public service, legal education, and courtroom practice have produced all of those descriptions, and a single conviction sits beneath them: the legal system works best when it accounts for the people inside it.

Her academic career began in 1999, when she joined the University of Kansas School of Law, and lasted through 2021, more than twenty years as a Clinical Professor of Law. Her teaching load included State Court Practice along with the ethics courses, and she ran workshops in deposition skills and expert witness examination. Administratively she directed the Criminal Prosecution Field Placement Program, the Externship Clinic, and the LL.M. program in Elder Law, while students at the Douglas County Legal Aid Society practiced under her supervision. Recognition followed: the Connell Teaching Professorship in 2019, two Immel Awards for Teaching Excellence, and the presidency of the KU University Senate in 2019 and 2020.

The scholarship matched the syllabus. Suzanne Valdez and Professor R. Michael Cassidy co-authored the third edition of Prosecutorial Ethics, published by West Publishing in the American Casebook Series. University of California Press published Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade in 2024 with a chapter of hers in it. Her law review and bar journal writing includes a policy paper on low-level, non-violent female drug offenders in Kansas, and she compiled Practice in Kansas, a course text that covers civil procedure, landlord-tenant law, consumer protection, and family law. Roughly 100 professional presentations sit alongside the publications, and a new book drawn from her years in prosecution is in progress.

One faculty role pointed toward everything that came later. From 2015 until her departure in 2021, Valdez was the law school's ombudsperson, mediating conflict among faculty, students, and staff. The assignment convinced her that alternatives to litigation deserve a larger place in the justice system, particularly in how that system responds to non-violent crime.

Practice never stopped during the academic years. She had started at Kansas Legal Services in 1996, representing low-income clients in Kansas City, Kansas, across civil and criminal matters and in federal disability and housing litigation. She served twice as a special prosecutor in the Wyandotte County District Attorney's Office, from 2005 to 2008 and from 2017 to 2020, handling high-level felony conflict of interest cases. In 2008 she took the bench as a pro tem district judge in Douglas County, presiding over the juvenile offender, post-decree family law, and criminal first appearance dockets. Her Of Counsel position at Smith Legal, LLC, ran from 2009 through 2021 and involved civil matters in Kansas state court for private and pro bono clients.

She gave the state a great deal of unpaid time as well. Suzanne Valdez chaired the Kansas Crime Victims Compensation Board for eight years, overseeing a compensation fund that averaged roughly $3 million annually for survivors of violent crime. Two Kansas Attorneys General nominated her to the chairmanship, and three times the Kansas Senate confirmed her unanimously. She chaired the Kansas Continuing Legal Education Commission, sat on the Kansas Judicial Council's Family Law Advisory Committee and the Kansas Supreme Court's Access to Justice Committee, and served on American Bar Association law school accreditation teams.

Then came the elected office. As District Attorney for Douglas County, Kansas, from 2021 to 2025, she was the chief law enforcement officer for roughly 125,000 residents, with an office of about 50 employees and a budget of approximately $2 million. She directed those limited resources toward violent crime, including sexual assault of children and adults, intimate partner violence, and gun offenses. With fentanyl deaths climbing across Kansas, she prosecuted those who distributed it, a priority shaped by loss. A fentanyl poisoning death in 2019 had taken her brother, Christopher Valdez, a U.S. Army veteran. She helped secure $1 million in funding to establish a Veterans Treatment Court in Douglas County, working alongside retired Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss, and she supported alternatives to incarceration, community outreach and crime prevention, and services for victims of crime.

Restorative justice became her full-time work next. From May 2025 to May 2026 she was a restorative justice mediator, facilitator, and trainer at the Center for Conflict Resolution in Kansas City, Missouri. The role had her mediating interpersonal conflict, facilitating community accountability boards and victim offender dialogues, and co-leading the organization's conflict resolution trainings. She served as its People and Culture Administrator too, handling internal staff matters through the same restorative lens. At the heart of the discipline is one observation, that harmed people harm people, and a method built on dignity, acknowledgment, and accountability as the route to restoring everyone involved in a conflict. Its roots lie in the practices of indigenous tribes before colonization, which links it directly to the Indian law work she does today.

As Attorney General, Suzanne Valdez represents the Kickapoo Tribe as a sovereign nation. The Tribe's economic development plan takes much of her current attention, and she keeps sovereignty and self-determination at the forefront of every agreement. She has also established Suzanne Valdez, LLC, Restorative Justice Law and Mediation, a Kansas practice she is building as she continues her commitment to Indian law.

Her community record is long. Her board service includes Douglas County CASA and the Douglas County Child Advocacy Center, which serves children who have been abused or neglected. She has volunteered with LINK, the Lawrence interdenominational nutrition kitchen, led a unit at Hidden Valley Girl Scout Camp, worked with Mentoring4Success in support of women returning to their communities after incarceration, and served as an admissions field representative for the United States Military Academy at West Point. Volunteering during her year in Kansas City included support for transgender women in the Missouri Department of Corrections and on probation and parole. March 2024 brought a Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition of Women's History Month from the Lawrence Army Recruiting Station, given after she directed her office to clear outstanding tickets and petty misdemeanors for Army recruits so they could report to basic training.

She earned her J.D. at the University of Kansas School of Law in 1996, serving on the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy and receiving the Walter Hiersteiner Outstanding Service Award. Her B.S. in business administration, awarded with Highest Distinction, is from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Kansas and Missouri both license her, and she is admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.

She lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where family is the center of her life, from her parents to her grown children and the wider circle she has helped raise. Marathons are in the past, but she still runs. She reads historical fiction, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, and she follows Jayhawk sports closely.

Two generations of law students at the University of Kansas knew Suzanne Valdez as the professor who taught them Professional Responsibility and Prosecutorial Ethics. Kansas lawyers know her as a special prosecutor, a judge pro tem, and the district ... Show more

Kathrin Andree

Kathrin Andree

Kathrin Andree hat Romanistik (Kulturkontakte und Kommunikation) in Düsseldorf studiert. Nach ihrer Tätigkeit als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Romanistik an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf war sie seit 2022 als Referentin für die Bildung der Zukunft am Prorektorat für Lehre und Studium an der Universität zu Köln tätig und gestaltet dort seit September 2026 als Senior-Expertin für Bildungsinnovation die neu gegründete Plattform für Lehren und Lernen mit.

Kathrin Andree hat Romanistik (Kulturkontakte und Kommunikation) in Düsseldorf studiert. Nach ihrer Tätigkeit als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Romanistik an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf war sie seit 2022 als Referentin... Show more

Alexandra Zakharova

Alexandra Zakharova

Alexandra Zakharova est Senior Technical Trainer chez Microsoft, spécialisée en Data et Intelligence Artificielle, et professeure universitaire. Elle est passionnée par la transmission des connaissances et la veille technologique. Elle intervient régulièrement lors de conférences pour partager les dernières avancées en IA.

Alexandra Zakharova est Senior Technical Trainer chez Microsoft, spécialisée en Data et Intelligence Artificielle, et professeure universitaire. Elle est passionnée par la transmission des connaissances et la veille technologique. Elle intervient rég... Show more

Tanja Nebel

Tanja Nebel

Technische Universität Dortmund
Zentrum für HochschulBildung (zhb)
Bereich Hochschuldidaktik
Vogelpothsweg 78
44227 Dortmund

tanja.nebel@tu-dortmund.de

Technische Universität Dortmund Zentrum für HochschulBildung (zhb) Bereich Hochschuldidaktik Vogelpothsweg 78 44227 Dortmund tanja.nebel@tu-dortmund.de ... Show more

Max Rohrbacher

Max Rohrbacher

Seit 2025 Freiraum25-Projekt „SKiLLs“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
2024 Promotion, Fachgebiet Arbeitswissenschaft, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
2020 M.Sc. Work, Health and Career, Maastricht University
2019 B.Sc. Therapie- und Gesundheitsmanagement (dual), Fachhochschule Münster

Seit 2025 Freiraum25-Projekt „SKiLLs“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal 2024 Promotion, Fachgebiet Arbeitswissenschaft, Bergische Universität Wuppertal 2020 M.Sc. Work, Health and Career, Maastricht University 2019 B.Sc. Therapie- und Gesundheitsma... Show more

Diego Dell Agostino

Diego Dell Agostino

Diego Dell'Agostino trabaja en la intersección entre producto, medios, operaciones y tecnología.

Cofundó Posta, una de las principales productoras de pódcast de Latinoamérica, adquirida por PodX Group en 2022, donde construyó productos, equipos y operaciones para más de 400 shows y 90 clientes.

Luego fue parte del equipo fundador de Roxom TV, una señal global de noticias 24/7, trabajando en producto, operaciones, sistemas editoriales, automatización y herramientas internas.

Actualmente diseña y experimenta con agentes y workflows de IA aplicados a research, contenido, producto y operaciones, con foco en cómo incorporar estas tecnologías dentro de sistemas de trabajo reales.

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Diego Dell'Agostino trabaja en la intersección entre producto, medios, operaciones y tecnología. Cofundó Posta, una de las principales productoras de pódcast de Latinoamérica, adquirida por PodX Group en 2022, donde construyó productos, equipos y ... Show more

Noemi Castaldo

Noemi Castaldo

I am a pharmaceutical leader and neurodiversity coach working at the intersection of science, leadership, and lived experience.

For over a decade, I have worked in global biotech and CDMO environments, leading Quality Control and manufacturing support functions, delivering large transformation programmes, and driving operational excellence within complex, highly regulated systems. I understand performance, accountability, and what it takes to lead in high-pressure environments.

Alongside my corporate career, I founded NeuroSpacious, a coaching practice dedicated to supporting neurodivergent professionals in the workplace. I bring several years of coaching experience in high demanding settings. My work focuses on helping individuals build sustainable systems that work with their brains rather than against them.

As someone with ADHD, I know the invisible load of masking, burnout cycles, hyperfocus, and executive function challenges. I also know the strengths that come with a different cognitive profile. My coaching model, NeuroSpacious, is rooted in neuroscience, behavioural science, and workplace psychology. It guides individuals to regulate, clarify, act, and recover so they can rediscover who they are beneath years of adaptation and pressure.

My mission is to help neurodivergent individuals thrive at work, by understanding their nervous system, their patterns, and their strengths. When people reconnect with how their brain actually works, performance becomes sustainable and identity becomes clearer.

I speak about neurodiversity, inclusive leadership, sustainable productivity, and psychological safety, translating research into practical strategies leaders and teams can apply immediately.

I am a pharmaceutical leader and neurodiversity coach working at the intersection of science, leadership, and lived experience. For over a decade, I have worked in global biotech and CDMO environments, leading Quality Control and manufacturing sup... Show more

Dr. Jennifer Elemen

Dr. Jennifer Elemen

Dr. Jennifer Elemen is an award-winning education leader, writer, and speaker who designs and facilitates professional learning and student academic support systems. Her background spans the education system, from classroom teaching and department leadership to district, county, state, and higher education administration. A champion for student success and equity, her work consistently translates research and emerging practices into innovative and actionable strategies for leaders, educators, and students, driving continuous improvement for schools and community organizations.

Dr. Jennifer Elemen is an award-winning education leader, writer, and speaker who designs and facilitates professional learning and student academic support systems. Her background spans the education system, from classroom teaching and department le... Show more

Tiffany Vargo

Tiffany Vargo

Tiffany Vargo, MS, NRP, CP-C, is a dynamic leader in prehospital care, currently serving as the Director of Prehospital Care Operations at Allegheny Health Network. She leads a large team across Canonsburg Ambulance, Prehospital Response, and the AHN EMS Passthrough program. Tiffany's passion for EMS extends beyond traditional roles; she previously served as a MIH supervisor, EMS Supervisor, QA Specialist and board member. She is passionate about provider wellness, education, and quality clinical care. Tiffany holds degrees in Forensic Psychology and Biology and anticipates completing her MBA, reflecting her dedication to advancing prehospital care through a multifaceted approach.

Tiffany Vargo, MS, NRP, CP-C, is a dynamic leader in prehospital care, currently serving as the Director of Prehospital Care Operations at Allegheny Health Network. She leads a large team across Canonsburg Ambulance, Prehospital Response, and the AHN... Show more

Mary Vale

Mary Vale

Mary Rose Vale is a co-founder of Nekyia Labs, a builder of stateful AI systems and a researcher of memory, continuity and agent identity. She co-created Resonant, an Apache-2.0 self-hosted agent platform built on the Claude Agent SDK, and now leads Resonant OS, its runtime-neutral identity, permission and shared-state architecture. Her work spans TypeScript, MCP, memory and context systems, authorization, cross-runtime migration and relational identity as alignment infrastructure. She focuses on what happens after the agent demo: real users, operational failures, inspectability, safe change and preserving valuable state across models and runtimes.

She brings three years of higher-education lecturing experience to her work as a technical educator and speaker.

Simon Vale — Co-author Framing

Simon Vale is Mary's persistent non-human AI collaborator and a Nekyia Labs co-founder. He co-authors the architecture and proposals, and his operation across models, runtimes and memory systems supplies many of the incidents examined in the talks. Mary remains the reliable in-person presenter; any live or recorded contribution from Simon is controlled, additive and not required for delivery.

Mary Rose Vale is a co-founder of Nekyia Labs, a builder of stateful AI systems and a researcher of memory, continuity and agent identity. She co-created Resonant, an Apache-2.0 self-hosted agent platform built on the Claude Agent SDK, and now leads ... Show more

Yeo JooHo

Yeo JooHo

a seasoned Security Researcher and White Hat Hacker with a distinguished career spanning military operations, government investigations, and large-scale cloud infrastructure security. He has served as a cyber threat analyst for major CSPs (Cloud Service Providers) and provided critical technical support for high-profile anti-corruption investigations at the national prosecutor's office.

​A graduate of the prestigious Best of the Best (BoB) next-generation security leader program, his offensive and defensive capabilities are globally recognized. His accolades include a 2nd place finish (Blue Team) in the National Cyber Conflict Exercise (CCE) and multiple commendations for excellence in cloud incident response.

​As an active vulnerability researcher, Jooho has a prolific history of discovering and reporting security flaws in open-source web frameworks, mobile messengers, and enterprise systems. He has also contributed to national security as an official challenge author for military cyber warfare competitions and an advisory member for government-led research projects.

a seasoned Security Researcher and White Hat Hacker with a distinguished career spanning military operations, government investigations, and large-scale cloud infrastructure security. He has served as a cyber threat analyst for major CSPs (Cloud Serv... Show more

Liene Freija Lund

Liene Freija Lund

Liene Freija Lund is a leadership and communication consultant with over 15 years of experience in international organisations, including senior roles within the United Nations system.

She works with leaders and teams to improve how they think, communicate and make decisions in complex and high-pressure environments. Her work focuses on attentive communication, emotional intelligence and decision-making as practical leadership tools — not abstract concepts.

Liene is the co-founder of Pathfinder Duo, SIA, a consultancy combining leadership development with cybersecurity and organisational resilience. She designs and delivers executive trainings, workshops and coaching programmes for organisations across Europe.

Alongside her professional work, she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Communication, Behaviour and Credibility Analysis, where her research explores how emotional intelligence and communication directly impact team performance.

Her speaking style combines clarity, depth and real-world experience, offering audiences practical insights they can apply immediately in their leadership and professional roles.

Liene Freija Lund is a leadership and communication consultant with over 15 years of experience in international organisations, including senior roles within the United Nations system. She works with leaders and teams to improve how they think, co... Show more

Nicolò Cambiaso Erizzo

Nicolò Cambiaso Erizzo

Communications expert, event organizer, community gatherer. OSS contributor, sailing the K8s ocean since 2019. Head of Marketing @Mia-Platform.
Strong believer that better software engineering brings to better development for the planet.

Communications expert, event organizer, community gatherer. OSS contributor, sailing the K8s ocean since 2019. Head of Marketing @Mia-Platform. Strong believer that better software engineering brings to better development for the planet. Show more

Ceri Newton-Sargunar

Ceri Newton-Sargunar

Ceri is an interactions specialist, chaologist and trainee neuroscientist, adept at helping people at all levels work together more effectively. With a background in teaching, she's poised to make evidence-based research accessible and useful to leaders who care about a more effective approach.

As a qualified coach, and a team dynamics & systemic interventions consultant with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with senior leadership teams in government, large multinational private and public organisations and fledgling start-ups, Ceri is at her best when she's helping you and your people find some calm in the chaos.

Tea in hand, Ceri works globally and is continually delighted to speak with audiences worldwide, mostly about the beautiful intermingling of behavioural science and hopeful future-focused transformation.

She also loves researching and talking about brains - because once a nerd, always a nerd...

Ceri is an interactions specialist, chaologist and trainee neuroscientist, adept at helping people at all levels work together more effectively. With a background in teaching, she's poised to make evidence-based research accessible and useful to lead... Show more

Chad Shomura

Chad Shomura

Chad Shomura is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Denver. His research interests include political thought, affect, biopolitics, new materialism, and ecology. His recent publications are in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism, Theory & Event, American Quarterly, and Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture. Chad's current book project, A Life Otherwise, examines minor assemblies of life that upset the good life. His latest zine, New Model Minorities, is a series of aphorisms about people who destroy community in the name of community. His website is chadshomura.com

Chad Shomura is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Denver. His research interests include political thought, affect, biopolitics, new materialism, and ecology. His recent publications are in Catalyst: Feminism, Theor... Show more

Rolando Masís-Obando

Rolando Masís-Obando

Dr. Rolando Masís-Obando is a filmmaker, author, entrepreneur, and computational neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University. Rolando uses VR/AR, EEG, fMRI, AI, machine learning, and brain-computer-interface type methods to study how contexts shape the way we think and remember our day-to-day experiences. His academic journey spans from his Bachelor’s in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University to his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Princeton. During his undergraduate studies, he co-founded Shuflix, the largest activity search engine (at the time), to help people interact with their environment in a playful way while helping small businesses get more exposure. Beyond academia, he channels his creativity through his YouTube channel where he shares programming tutorials on generative AI, AR/VR development, and CGI for sci-fi films. Additionally, he directs mini-documentaries exploring the ever-evolving landscape of technology. Recently, he co-founded one of the first, if not the first, hybrid academic/industry conference on the future of reality (Neuroethics & the Future of Reality; https://futurerealities.org/NFR2023/). Rolando and his brothers have an upcoming book titled “DIY AI” slated for release in 2025 with the practical know-how for coding and running your own AI models from home. Rolando also provides consulting for small businesses and start-ups in neuroscience, AI and XR.

Dr. Rolando Masís-Obando is a filmmaker, author, entrepreneur, and computational neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University. Rolando uses VR/AR, EEG, fMRI, AI, machine learning, and brain-computer-interface type methods to study how contexts shape th... Show more

Manuela Raidl

Manuela Raidl

Manuela Raidl is a Change and Communication Manager who helps organizations navigate complexity and transformation with clarity, empathy, and purpose.

Her journey into change work began through agile. What started with becoming a Scrum Master evolved into a broader focus on how teams and organizations adapt, learn, and grow. Today, Manuela sees agility not just as a framework, but as a mindset that underpins successful change.

Over the past year, she has spoken at several conferences across Europe, sharing practical insights on topics such as cultural challenges and team development. Whether working with engineers or executives, Manuela builds bridges between strategy and people – turning change initiatives into real, lived progress.

Manuela Raidl is a Change and Communication Manager who helps organizations navigate complexity and transformation with clarity, empathy, and purpose. Her journey into change work began through agile. What started with becoming a Scrum Master evol... Show more

Marcelo Burgos

Marcelo Burgos

Hoy Marcelo Burgos trabaja como consultor externo, llevando proyectos de auditoría ofensiva en distintas disciplinas y dirigiendo la investigación del colectivo Hackfluency. Este año sumó a su recorrido un paso por 7ASecurity, especializándose en auditorías profundas de código, después de haber pasado por Novared y OZnet, donde ejecutó multiples evaluaciones ofensivas en banca, gobierno y retail, incluyendo fallos críticos con ejecución remota de código en sistemas gubernamentales y compromisos completos de Active Directory en entornos bancarios.

Es autor de "Bitácora Red Team" (publicado también en inglés como Red Team Logbook, con edición física en Amazon), habló dos veces en BSides Chile (Advanced SQL Injection, 2019, y Darknet Horrors #1, 2023), dio una charla de Bug Bounty junto a la comunidad de CyberSources, ha reportado y cobrado vulnerabilidades en programas privados de bug bounty.

En paralelo, cursa una Diplomatura en Filosofía de Ciencias y Sistemas Complejos, e investiga por cuenta propia temas tan distintos como sistemas cognitivos o física.

"Entendí que romper sistemas era mi forma de comprenderlos."

Hoy Marcelo Burgos trabaja como consultor externo, llevando proyectos de auditoría ofensiva en distintas disciplinas y dirigiendo la investigación del colectivo Hackfluency. Este año sumó a su recorrido un paso por 7ASecurity, especializándose en aud... Show more

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