Prof. Frans Melissen is the Transversal Professor of Sustainability Transitions at Breda University of Applied Sciences. He aims at accelerating sustainability transitions, with special attention to human behaviour and constructive dialogue. He has extensive experience in translating generic sustainable development paradigms into learning paths and materials for current and future professionals.

Prof. Carlos Pereira Santos leads the research fields of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Breda University of Applied Sciences, with experience in Computer Science and Computational Intelligence. He is a technical leader on numerous projects driving innovation in the domains of Games, Mixed Reality, and Film.

Dr. Sara Ratner, Principal Investigator, AI in Education at Oxford University (AIEOU). Sara founded and leads AIEOU, a global interdisciplinary research hub that explores the design, regulation, implementation and impact of AI in Education. She is an academic at the Department of Education, University of Oxford with extensive professional experience in education, policy, and technology.

Mark Curcher is an international educator and a Senior Lecturer at Tampere University of Applied Sciences, with a career spanning four decades across the UK, the UAE, and Finland, much of it in the friction between education and technology. His current thinking concerns what AI does to that relational core, and how the vocabulary of efficiency and personalisation can quietly narrow what education is for.

Ines Springael is Programme Leader CTL/AI at BUas. She leads AI strategy and adoption at Breda University of Applied Sciences. She developed the AI Strategy Compass, a framework for guiding institutions through AI adoption, that approaches AI adoption not  from a technical-rational concept, but from the idea that it changes people’s behaviour. She brings a practitioner’s grounding to questions that are too often treated as purely technological and will moderate this session with that same grounded curiosity.