Odette Scharenborg is a Full Professor of Inclusive Speech Communication at the Delft Inclusive Speech Communication (DISC) group at the Multimedia Computing Group at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her research aims to build inclusive speech technology, i.e. making speech technology available for everyone irrespective of how they speak or what language they speak. In her research, she considers technical aspects as well as ethical and societal aspects. Her particular focus is on human and automatic speech processing, child speech, non-nativeness, low-resource languages, atypical speech, and preferably combinations of these.

From 2017-2025, Odette was on the Board of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the largest international society on speech science and technology. She served as Vice-president from 2021-2023 and as President from 2023-2025. From 2018-2022, she was a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. In 2025, she was the General Chair of Interspeech 2025, the flagship conference of ISCA and the largest international conference on speech science and technology.

Katta Spiel is an Assistant Professor for ‘Critical Access in Embodied Computing’ at TU Wien. They research marginalised perspectives on embodied computing through a lens of Critical Access. Their work informs design and engineering supporting the development of technologies that account for the diverse realities they operate in.  In their interdisciplinary collaborations with disabled, neurodivergent and/or nonbinary peers, they conduct explorations of novel potentials for designs, methodologies and innovative technological artefacts.

They received their PhD in 2018 from TU Wien and after a year at KU Leuven, they conducted postdoctoral work as an FWF-Hertha Firnberg Scholar, also at TU Wien.  Their work has received several international and national awards, including the SIGCHI 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award as well as the Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien in der Sparte Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft, Technik in 2022 and they were awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2023.  They further serve on the Austrian Monitoring Board on the UN CRPD.