Andy Forest is a tech entrepreneur and educator. As a tech entrepreneur, he has led teams developing large AI machine learning projects such as Berlitz’s global online virtual classroom which has served more than 2.5 million live student lessons over a 15 year period. As an educator, he leads steamlabs.ca and has built AI education experiences for Canada Learning Code, Amazon, the Ontario Science Centre, the Oslo Teknisk Museum, and many other organizations around the world. He has given talks and keynotes on the future of technology and education to Mozilla, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, UNESCO, the Association of Science and Technology Centers, the Ontario Ministry of Education, and many more.

Bonita Oliver has been practicing Astrology for over 24 years, referring to the tropical zodiac and using the Placidus house system. She encourages the use of astrology as tool for deciphering our psychological motivations. Her aim is to empower people with the means of understanding of their own astrological charts.

Bonita is also a multidisciplinary performance artist and improviser. She is a Web3 consultant, a facilitator with Technology Gap, a Co-Founder of Black Meta Fest 2022 and a Co-Founder of DisruptorDAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) which encourages Web3 education among Black Women and Afro Latinas.

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman is CEO/Founder of Women at the Table, and Co-Founder of the Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms. Women at the Table,is a growing, global gender equality & democracy CSO based in Geneva, Switzerland focused on advancing feminist systems change by exercising leverage points in technology, the economy, sustainability & democratic governance by using the prism of technology, innovation & AI. The < A+ > Alliance, is a global coalition of technologists, activists and academics who champion Inclusive AI & Affirmative Action for Algorithms so that we come closer to creating gender and racial equality in a world where machine learning does not wire an already biased system into our future. The Alliance was an official selection of the Paris Peace Forum 2021, a 2020 Fast Company World Changing Idea in AI & Data, and leaders of the Generation Equality Forum Action Coalition for Technology & Innovation for Gender Equality.

Deniz is a human rights and international security expert, helping to design media policy at the intersection of digital
technologies. Deniz joined OSCE in 2010 and has advised on strategic communications, led projects establishing independent media self-regulatory bodies, and supported legal reform initiatives to enhance media pluralism in numerous countries. She currently leads the OSCE’s #SAIFE project putting a Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence and Freedom of Expression. Deniz has also worked as a senior adviser for human rights at the Austrian Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs.

inabel Uytiepo, CBMA, CCHT, CMT (they/siya) offers Deep Collective Care, Somatic Forgiveness and Ancestral Wayfinding as a multidisciplinary wholistic healing arts practitioner for individuals and groups. inabel is also a co-convener for the grassroots cross-racial solidarity organization Peoples Collective for Justice and Liberation. inabel’s most recent endeavor is sharing their life’s explorative work in a co-creative journey called the Wayfinding Collective. linktr.ee/healingisgiving

Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at Centro Académico de Alajuela, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Co-Leader, A+ Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms. Interested in how free geospatial software support vulnerable communities to produce and manage open data for decision making.

Julia is an international law and human rights expert. In her work, she has focused on international relations, the intersection of technology and human rights, and the prevention of marginalization. At the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Julia focuses on policy research and development in the field of internet governance and digital participation, with a focus on the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of expression, digital and legal safety of journalists, gender and online pluralism. Previously, she worked as legal officer and human rights adviser at the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Julia sits on the advisory board for the Vienna Forum for Democracy and Human Rights, holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Vienna, an Information and Media Law LLM and is a PhD candidate on the impact of digital innovations on freedom of the media.

Artist working mainly with photography, art historian, associate professor at the Film School in Łódź. Founder and co-Director of the Visual Narratives Laboratory, where he also heads the Interactive Narratives Studio, developing, among others, a toolset for creating digital publications for the contemporary web. Recipient of a Fulbright Junior Research Grant at Hohns Hopkins University (2009-2010), and grants, among others, from the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and the Shpilman Institute of Photography. Interested in developing convincing visual forms of thinking, as an artist he focuses primarily on the aesthetic – that is, sensual – dimension of the epistemological, political, and ethical, creating visual archeologies of institutions and discourses, biographies of people and things.

THE LAOKOON GROUP combines artistic research with various forms of expression in their work. In this way, they create data experiments, theater productions, performances, radio plays, and documentaries on highly explosive topics, always centering on the question of how our idea of man and society is changing in the digital age. Their debut film "The Cleaners" about the shadow industry of digital censorship in Manila had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and has since been screened at more than 70 international film festivals and screened in theaters/TV around the world. It was nominated for an Emmy and the German Television Award and received numerous international awards, including the Prix Europa for Best European TV Documentary in 2018 and the Grimme Audience Award in 2019. Since 2019, Terrasse, Block and Riesewieck have been working together under the label Laokoon.

I'm Laurent(they/them), a queer non-binary Chinese Singaporean media artist, with a scientific background in Computing (Information Systems). I'm currently studying an MA in Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins. For the past 3 years, I’ve held 11 design jobs [full-time; part-time and freelance] in the Singaporean tech industry and music industry, and explored my personal practice outside of client commissions (both on my own and with collaborators) — while maintaining a full (sometimes higher) workload of classes, all at the same time.

My practice is heavily informed by my background and identity, as I (un)learn through making, and engage in making as a form of knowledge creation and sharing. My practice is always communal and conversational — mirroring everyday conversation which is rarely straightforward and occurs through constant, caring negotiation.

For an overview of my work, please visit: https://read.cv/laurent

Lucy is a Senior Tech Policy Fellow with Mozilla Foundation. Her project is focused on incorporating a gender perspective into online advertising reform in the EU and UK, with the aim of achieving greater protections for women’s health data

Graphic designer, illustrator, researcher. Serves as Assistant Professor in the Narrative Drawing Studio, Academy of Fine Arts Kraków, Poland. She is interested in visual writing strategies, especially in presenting research from the visual studies field. Avid gamer. As a VN Lab collaborator she designed remediation of her own book 'Model and Metaphor. Visual Communication in the Humanities'.

Cosmos Experience Wrangler |
Futures Thinking & Foresight | Facilitator
Curator | Convener | Sometimes Speaker | Perpetual Seeker

Learner, Companion, Guide — on journeys of individual & collective inquiry.

Perpetually curious, I have curated, convened, shared and helped broaden perspectives in a range of contexts, around many different topics - and now AI Cosmologies is the latest adventure!

What began as a nascent idea, has evolved into this MozFest moment's synthesis of what is an ongoing, ever-evolving, life-long and life-wide (un)learning project(s)/inquiry grounded in decoloniality, feminist, and Black/African diaspora pasts/presents/futures-focus

At the end of a world as we've known it, this liminal and emergent space in which we find ourselves is potent: together we can collectively dream and liberate not-yet-known possibilities of safety, justice, equity, and wellbeing for all.

I am a philosopher, writer, producer and freelance researcher. I have a wide range of interests and focus areas including social & cult psychology, the psychology of misinformation & coercive control, philosophy of mind and religion, narrative game design & edu-games, ethics and the environment. I want to use my brain to ask big questions and solve big problems. www.starspider.ca

Tada Hozumi is a spiritualist, artist, and philosopher of Japanese ancestry whose work is dedicated to bringing harmony between the New Earth and Metaverse.

They are a descendant of the Hozumi clan, one of Japan and the world's longest documented and unbroken shamanic lineages.

Their newly launched project Lunmu (龍夢/Dragon's Dream), a collaboration with psychic and artist Rein Lo, weaves together esoteric cosmologies of various ancient cultures into an open-source user-friendly modern spiritual science - a labor of love in preparation for the coming initiatory age of Singularity and ecological collapse.