Michelle Cortese is an XR design director, educator and author. She splits her professional time between Metaverse design leadership at Meta Reality Labs and teaching VR design at NYU. Her work explores immersive interaction systems; the ethical implications of embodied technology on end users; and the transmutation of human expression across new technologies and formats.

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Dr. Bruce Martin McLaren is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and past President of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (2017-2019). Dr. McLaren is passionate about how technology can support education and has dedicated his research to projects that explore how students can learn with digital learning games (also called educational games), intelligent tutoring systems, e-learning principles, and collaborative learning. 

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Dr. Rupert Wegerif is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge and the founder and academic director of the Digital Education Futures Initiative at Hughes Hall, Cambridge (DEFICambridge.org). In the thirty years since his Ph.D. in educational technology at the Open University, he has focused on developing a new theory and practice of education for the digital age.

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