Claudia Núñez-Pacheco is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Malmö University in Sweden. Her research investigates how to design from self to others, including how bodily ways of knowing are utilised as materials for aesthetic experiences in design. She employs introspective and somatic practices to explore aesthetic and generative qualities in our interactions with technology.

Pedro Sanches is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Informatics at Umeå University in Sweden. His research draws on feminist epistemologies to design biodata-driven and AI-based technologies for health and wellbeing, as well as performing arts. He applies speculative and somaesthetic design tactics to consider situated lived experiences when crafting with data and AI as design materials.

Jesse Josua Benjamin is an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. His work combines philosophy of technology and design research and practice, and centres on the underexplored aesthetic potentials of concrete technical attributes of emerging technologies, and the resultant consequences for design research and practice. Having argued for understanding machine learning uncertainty as a design material, his current research interrogates the solidifying design conventions around AI technologies.

Iohanna Nicenboim is a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft, where her work focuses on materialising AI through design. Originally from the Global South, she brings a critical perspective to how AI systems are developed and deployed, emphasising the need for non-extractive, regenerative, and situated approaches. She completed her PhD as a Microsoft Research Fellow, developing a more-than-human design approach to AI that combines posthuman theory with research-through-design practice. She co-edited a special issue of the HCI Journal on the More-than-Human Turn in Design, has chaired two DRS tracks on More-than-Human Design in Practice, and is a chair of the Pictorials track at DIS (2023 and 2026).

Mirjana Prpa is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University. Her research interests include leveraging micro-phenomenology in HCI for understanding the complexity of user experiences and extending it to unfold experiences arising from human-AI persona interactions, spanning from LLM use for persona creation to LLM-based agents in social VR.

Sarah Fdili Alaoui is a Reader at the Creative Computing Institute at the University of the Arts London in interaction design, human-computer Interaction, and dance and technologies. She is a choreographer, a dancer, and a Laban Movement Analyst. Her research investigates the theory, practice, and methods of intersecting technological design with dance-making. Her research methods include artistic research, research-through-design, (auto-)ethnography, phenomenology and action research. She co-founded and organised the MOCO conference.

Michelle Rennerová is an art curator, artist, and PhD student from the University Pompeu-Fabra in Barcelona. In her artistic practice, she explores the intersection of technology and human experience, focusing on social engagement and well-being. Her research focuses on analysing the integration of AI-driven biometric technologies into interactive art installations and their influence on human agency, autonomy, and self-determination.