Steven Kelts is a Lecturer in Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Computer Science. His work centers on ethics in technology, including the distinctive moral responsibilities of modern tech firms, with peer-reviewed publications in Technology and Society Magazine and the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society. Kelts is an ethics advisor to the Responsible A.I. Institute and the recipient of grants from Princeton’s Council on Science and Technology and from Google for the “Agile Ethics” program. He leads Princeton’s GradFutures initiative on the Ethics of AI, for which he earned the university’s Clio Hall Award. Beyond his teaching and scholarship, Kelts co-founded Kalos Academy, a nonprofit supporting first-generation and low-income students, and has contributed curriculum design for Tsinghua University and the EdTech platform Campus.org. https://www.stevenkelts.com/

Pallavi Nuka is Associate Director of Princeton SPIA’s Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance (JRCPPF). She helps lead the Center’s strategy and programs, oversees operations and academic initiatives, and works across campus with faculty, policymakers, alumni, and funders to advance multidisciplinary research, teaching, and student engagement on financial markets, macroeconomics, and economic policy. Previously, she was Associate Director of Princeton’s Innovations for Successful Societies program, where she researched governance and policy implementation and authored/edited publications on leadership and public-sector reform. She has also taught and conducted research at SPIA and Princeton Politics, and spent six years at the World Bank–GEF Evaluation Office evaluating climate and development investments in addition to serving in the U.S. Peace Corps in Côte d’Ivoire. https://jrc.princeton.edu/people/pallavi-nuka

Vikram V. Ramaswamy is a teaching faculty member in Princeton University’s Computer Science Department, where he teaches introductory courses in artificial intelligence and machine learning. His work focuses on fairness and interpretability in machine learning, with an emphasis on visual systems. Ramaswamy has developed improved real and synthetic datasets and produced influential analyses of interpretability methods for convolutional neural networks. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of Prof. Olga Russakovsky, and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from IIT Madras, where he was advised by Prof. Jayalal Sarma. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~vr23/

Georgina Curto is a Senior AI Researcher and Team Lead at the United Nations University Institute in Macau. Her research focuses on agentic and foundational AI for inclusive growth, advancing the state of the art in natural language processing, agent-based modeling, social networks, and machine learning, while leading interventions for sustainable development. She also builds corridors between African, Chinese, European, and American AI ecosystems through global research and capacity-building initiatives in order to bridge science and real-world challenges. Previously, she was an Assistant Research Professor at the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society and a postdoctoral researcher at the ND–IBM Technology Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame, and she currently chairs the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Symposia in the Global South. She is a key collaborator on the AI & Human Rights project at the AI Ethics Lab at Rutgers University, a comprehensive legal framework that maps which rights AI can threaten or advance, how risks play out across sectors, and who is accountable for protecting them. https://www.georginacurto.com/

Benedikt is the founder of 74West, a hands-on advisory practice for CEOs, executives, or boards who are navigating pivotal moments in their organizations. Benedikt also serves as an Entrepreneurship & Design Fellow at Princeton University, where he teaches aspiring entrepreneurs at the Keller Center. His work explores the convergence of entrepreneurship, humanistic design, and business leadership with a focus on AI and co-creativity, neuroaesthetics, and the socio-economic responsibility of design. As a board member of the Design Executive Council (DXC) Ben helps shape the standards of humanistic design and strategic leadership as AI transforms experience design and business strategy. Previously, he served as Chief Design Officer at Stark, led global design transformation at SAP, directed major UX teams at Microsoft, and served as Chief Design Officer at Wunderlist. Benedikt is also the author of Typoguide, an angel investor in design-driven startups, and an international keynote speaker whose award-winning work across hardware, software, and brand design has been featured worldwide. https://benediktlehnert.github.io/

Jesse Parent is a strategist and data scientist helping visionary teams and aspiring philosopher-builders map the path from here to there. He works at the intersection of foresight, research architecture, and mentorship, turning complexity into clear on-ramps for action. He is Senior Program Manager at Data x Direction, a project and learning platform exploring data science, data ethics, human-centered AI, and strategic decision-making through educational materials, discussion series, content, and internships focused on responsible AI, practical data strategy, and the human and systems-level impacts of data-driven choices. He also directs JOPRO, supporting interdisciplinary inquiry and future-oriented leadership through talks, workshops, and community-based learning. https://jesparent.com/