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Bay Area-based writer and editor who began her examination of how technology impacts the human experience in New York when she worked as a journalist and editor for a trade publication focused on advertising production. Since then, she has worked for a variety of tech and media companies, and cultural and academic institutions, including U.C. Berkeley and San Francisco’s Exploratorium. Her novel, Jane Is Everywhere, was published in 2018.

Julianna DeSilvia is an international historical and language researcher and educator. She has completed research focused on the benefits of a global citizenship education in high school US history classrooms and is currently focused on the intersectionality between disciplinary structures and language acquisition in educational settings.

Complexity Scientist, Data Scientist, and Machine Learning Engineer with 15 years experience as a technical practitioner in both research and industry. She is currently working on the World School History Project, applying human-in-the-loop methods to develop a multi-perspective knowledge base of school history curricula and learning materials.

Research Fellow at Department of Humanities, University of Catania (Italy)

The author writes about what value can be created at the intersection of historical science and AI for different types of stakeholders.

Research Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge, where he works as part of the Silk Roads Programme.

Mark Humphries is a Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published widely on various aspects of Canadian history and war and society. He is currently focused on the fur trade in North America and in exploring ways to use AI to support historical research.

Amateur historian specialising in European Medieval times with three decades of experience, and an avid collector. A thinker and practitioner, aspiring to empower historical methodology with AI technologies.

Author reflecting on the application of philosophical principles of determinism and the inherent limitation of knowledge in studying past and future social systems, drawing insights from a 25-year tenure in corporate strategy theory and practice.