Formée aux sciences sociales, Coline de Senarclens a fondé Empowr.ch, une société qui promeut l’égalité de genre dans une perspective intersectionnelle, à travers trois axes: les connaissances formelles, l’accompagnement et la transmission. Elle travaille également avec la sexologie et notamment sur les sujets liés aux paniques morales et aux tabous. Coline propose des formations, des ateliers et des coaching individuels, collectif ou d’entreprise dans une perspective féministe et basé sur le renforcement du pouvoir d’agir.

Silvia Ecclesia is a PhD candidate at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Silvia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences for Globalisation from the University of Milan and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her research deals with intersectionality and power in future imaginaries of artificial intelligence in the context work. In particular, she investigates AI perception and ethics in the area of human resources and recruitment in Italy. Silvia is part of the Horizon Europe project ‘BIAS: Mitigating diversity biases in the labour market’.

Eduard Fosch-Villaronga is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University (NL). Eduard is an ERC Laureate and investigates the legal and regulatory aspects of robot and AI technologies.

Mascha Kurpicz-Briki is professor for data engineering at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Biel, Switzerland, and co-leader of the research group Applied Machine Intelligence and the BFH Generative AI Lab. In her research, she is investigating bias in word embeddings and language models, with a focus on European languages and values. In this context, she is leading the corresponding tasks in the EU-funded project BIAS. She is also the author of the book “More than a Chatbot: Language Models Demystified”, explaining the background behind recent language models to a less technical audience.

Bianca Prietl is a sociologist and professor for gender studies with an emphasis on digitalization at the University of Basel. She studies how technology, knowledge and power are related by focusing on gender and sexuality. Her research comprises analyses of masculinity constructions in engineering and data science, investigations of bias in algorithmic systems and AI as well as enactments of nature/cultures in technoscience.

Josie West is a Gender and Assistive Technology researcher at the Global Disability Innovation Hub, with nearly a decade of research experience developing qualitative research approaches. Josie recently earned her Ph.D. in Digital Humanities from King’s College London. Her research explored how gendered politics inform digital exclusion, invisibility and unfreedom within the online sex industry. Josie is committed to advancing participatory action approaches and understanding of the intersections between technology, disability, gender and sex work.