Iolanda Leite​ is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH. She holds a PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from IST, University of Lisbon. She had postdoctoral appointments at Yale University and at Disney Research. Iolanda's research interests are in the areas of AI and human-robot interaction. She is the co-editor in chief of AI Matters, the newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI).

Leigh Clark is a Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at Swansea University's Computational Foundry. His research examines the effects of voice and language design on speech interface interactions, how linguistic theories can be implemented in this space, and how users with diverse speech patterns like stammering can improve their interactions with conversational user interfaces. CUIs. He is co-founder of the international CUI conference series.