Robert Marinov is a current PhD candidate whose doctoral research focuses on the growth of Digital Twins as sustainability solutions, exploring the environmental and normative impacts of their embedding within Canadian discourse, policy, and practice. His work has been published in journals including the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Communication Review, Politics & Policy, and Critical Studies in Media Communication, and has been presented at international conferences in Bologna, Italy, and Berlin, Germany. He has also made media appearances and publications for The Conversation Canada and Radio-Canada’s Bonjour La Côte.

Ceyda Yolgormez is a Postdoc at the Indigenous Futures Research Cluster, working in the Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Her PhD work brought together social theory and interactive technologies, such as large machine learning models or social robots, to consider how our conceptions of the social are changing. Her PhD dissertation proposes a framework for a sociology of machines that reimagines human-machine relations. Her research looks at playful and creative engagements with machines as a site to explore and experiment with human machine socialities, and is interested in methodologies that reveal and trouble the common-sensical way in which we understand such relations.