Maroussia is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School, a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation, and a member of the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence working group. Building on previous work on AI and human rights at Global Affairs Canada (foreign affairs department), she currently researches AI governance, and co-leads a working group on the matter at Berkman Klein. Her academic and creative work has been featured in NeurIPS, Stem Cell Review and Reports, and ISEA. Maroussia previously worked for Quebec’s public inquiry commission on electronic surveillance and clerked for the Chief Justice at the Quebec Court of Appeal, and volunteered on gender-based violence and criminal matters in Haiti (Lawyers Without Borders) and on digital literacy in Brazil (Alternatives). She holds degrees from Harvard, McGill, and Concordia University.

Fenwick McKelvey is an Associate Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. He is co-director of the Applied AI Institute and leads Machine Agencies at the Milieux Institute. He studies digital politics and policy. He is the author of Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) winner of the 2019 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Award. He is co-author of The Permanent Campaign: New Media, New Politics (Peter Lang, 2012) with Greg Elmer and Ganaele Langlois.

Fenwick McKelvey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. He studies digital politics and policy, appearing frequently as an expert commentator in the media and intervening in media regulatory hearings. He is the author of Internet Daemons (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), winner of the 2019 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Award. He is a member of the Educational Review Committee of the Walrus Magazine.

McKelvey is Assoc. Prof. Communication Studies and Co-director, Concordia Institute for Applied AI, and Director of the Algorithmic Media Observatory. He contributes expertise in digital infrastructures, algorithms, bots, and artificial intelligence in relation to Internet policy and governance.

Éliane Ubalijoro, PhD, is the Executive Director of Sustainability in the Digital Age and the Global Hub Director in Canada for Future Earth. Her decades of experience span academia, science-policy and the non-profit and international development sectors. She is a Professor of Practice for Public-Private Sector Partnerships at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development. Eliane is a member of the Impact Advisory Board of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet. She is a member of Rwanda’s National Science and Technology Council and has been a member of the Presidential Advisory Council for Rwandan President Paul Kagame since its inception in September 2007. She is a member of the Expert Consultation Group on the Post COVID-19 Implications on Collaborative Governance of Genomics Research, Innovation, and Genetic Diversity. Éliane is a member of the African Development Bank’s Expert Global Community of Practice on COVID-19 Response Strategies in Africa. She is a member of the Capitals Coalition Supervisory Board. Eliane is a member of the Advisory Board of the Earth Leadership Program. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of ShEquity and Orango Investment Corporation. Eliane is on the boards of Genome Canada and the Crop Trust.

As the Executive Director of the Future Earth – Montreal Hub, she will contribute expertise on how locally-grounded science and technology research can be translated into effective governing and funding policies.

Kamuela Enos (Kanaka Maoli) is founder of UH’s Office of Indigenous Innovation, which identifies, researches, and scales traditional practices for the benefit of Indigenous communities. The former director of social enterprise at MA‘O Organic Farms, he has extensive experience in revitalizing ancestral agricultural practices. He will contribute to the development of meaningful and co-generative collaboration with Indigenous communities around new technologies.

He will contribute to the development of meaningful and co-generative collaboration with Indigenous communities around new technologies.

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.