Minjuan Wang is newly appointed Chair Professor of Emerging Tech and Future Education, at The Education University of Hong Kong. She has also been a tenured professor of San Diego State University.  She is an Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT). She is also a new associate Editor with Nature-HSSC (Humanities and Social Science Communications).
Dr. Wang teaches Methods of Inquiry, Designing and Developing Learning for the Global Audience, and Mobile Learning Solutions Development. Her research specialties are multidisciplinary, focusing on learning across the Metaverse, Cross-Reality (XR) and Immersive Learning, AI in education, and the sociocultural aspects of learning design and the use of technology.
She has been collaborating with scholars worldwide on research and development projects. She is a high-impact author, an internationally recognized scholar, and has keynoted more than 40 international conferences. She is recognized as a high-impact author, with more than 8000 citations on her English publications and a H index of 42.

José C. Príncipe (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, in 1972, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 1974 and 1979, respectively, all in electrical engineering.,He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, a Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and the Don D. and Ruth S. Eckis Chair of Electrical Engineering with the University of Florida. He is the founding Director of the Computational Neuroengineering Laboratory. His primary research interests include advanced signal processing with information-theoretic criteria, information-theoretic learning, and adaptive models in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, with applications to deep learning, reinforcement learning, and brain–machine interfaces.,Dr. Príncipe was the recipient of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Career Award, the IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award. He was the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. He was the Chair of the Technical Committee on Neural Networks of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the President of the International Neural Network Society. He is a Fellow of academy for biological and medical engineering (ABME) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Canada and Honorary Chair Professor, Multidisciplinary Academic Research Center, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. He is IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Chang has been appointed as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2023 to 2025 (https://www.computer.org/profiles/maiga-chang) and also recently received Distinguished Researcher Award from Asia Pacific Society on Computers in Education (APSCE) in 2022 (https://new.apsce.net/apsce-award-winners/).

Dr Chang's research mainly focus on artificial intelligence; natural language processing; intelligent agent and chatbot technology; game-based learning, training and assessment; learning behaviour analysis; learning analytics and academic analytics; health informatics; data mining; computational intelligence; museum education mobile learning and ubiquitous learning; healthcare technology, etc.

Dr. Chang is now Vice President (2022~) of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE, http://iasle.net/). He is also IEEE Computer Society Technical & Conference Activities Board (2022-2024, https://www.computer.org/volunteering/boards-and-committees/technical-activities), Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (2017~2024, APSCE, https://www.apsce.net/) and Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (2016~2025, GCSCE, http://gcsce.org/), and Chair (2021~) of Educational Activities Committee, IEEE Northern Canada Section (https://northerncanada.ieee.ca/ncs-executives/). Dr. Chang is also a Steering Committee member (2020~) for International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS, https://iis-international.org/its/).

Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland is Full Professor and Head of Innovative Immersive Technologies for Learning (IMTEL) research group and lab at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has been working with educational virtual worlds and immersive technologies since 2002, with over 100 publications in the field. She has been involved in developing educational XR simulations for a wide range of stakeholders, including industry, hospitals, Norwegian Armed Forces and Labour and Welfare Administration. Ekaterina is Norway's ambassador for Women in Immersive Tech.