Speakers:

1. Ahmed Ansari is an Assistant Professor in Integrated Digital Media at New York University. He is a founding member of the Decolonising Design platform and his research intersects at the confluence of critical cultural studies, design studies and history, and the philosophy and history of technology with a focus on South Asian contexts. His recent work looks at decolonising knowledge production in design history, ethnography, and theory, and on the applications of non-Anglo-European knowledge systems to developing new ways of thinking and practicing design.

2. Guido Caicedo has experience and knowledge of entrepreneurship and innovation and also led teams in tech companies that developed internet platform services in Ecuador. As an entrepreneur he co-founded two internet security companies and was product manager of another one that commercialized the first internet secure credit card platform and the first e-magazine distribution platform in Latin America. Since 2003 he has been relentlessly helping other entrepreneurs as the Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at ESPOL University which later became the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center i3lab.

3. Asnath Paula Kambunga is a Marie Curie PhD fellow at the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies at Aarhus University. Her research interest lies in working with youth communities and collaborative explorations of futures. In her PhD project, she is exploring how every day (post) colonial memories of Namibian youth could be co-created, experimented and contribute to the decolonisation discourse.

4. Paola Ricaurte is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City and a digital rights activist. She conducts research on decoloniality, feminism and technology, and she will continue building networks among activists, journalists, and academics working on AI in the Global South.

5. Anasuya Sengupta is Co-Director of Whose Knowledge?. She has led initiatives in India and the USA, across the global South, and internationally for over 20 years, to amplify marginalised voices in virtual and physical worlds.