Keynote Speaker

Dr. Nick Jacobson is an associate professor in Biomedical Data Science, Psychiatry, and Computer Science at Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine. He directs the AI and Mental Health: Innovation in Technology Guided Healthcare (AIM HIGH) Laboratory within the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health. Dr. Jacobson's research harnesses artificial intelligence and passive sensor data from smartphones and wearables to develop scalable, personalized interventions for mental health. He pioneered Therabot, a generative AI therapy chatbot developed over six years with more than 100,000 human hours of members of the research team, predating ChatGPT by years. In the first randomized controlled trial of a fully generative AI therapy chatbot, Therabot demonstrated substantial symptom reductions across depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, with strong therapeutic alliance. He also developed Mood Triggers, a smartphone sensing platform integrating ecological momentary assessment and intervention. His suite of applications has reached over 50,000 users across 100+ countries, reflecting his commitment to making mental health support globally accessible.

Keynote Speaker

Don Shin is a Professor in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. He studies AI mediated communication, human algorithm interaction, and the ethical and epistemic dimensions of algorithmic systems in media and society.

He is a Highly Cited Researcher, recognized for sustained citation impact placing him among the most influential scholars globally, and is also listed among the world’s top two percent of scientists based on Stanford University’s global citation database. His research leadership includes directing large scale interdisciplinary projects supported by national funding agencies, including serving as Principal Investigator for a major Ministry of Education initiative in Korea. In 2024, he was inducted as a Fellow of the International Communication Association in recognition of his sustained scholarly contributions.

Prior to joining Texas Tech, Don held senior leadership roles across multiple international institutions. He was the founding Chair of the Department of Interaction Science at Sungkyunkwan University, an interdisciplinary academic industry initiative supported by the Ministry of Education and Samsung, where he worked closely with Samsung on human centered computing and the design of human focused algorithmic systems. His work has also involved extensive collaboration with industry partners including LG and Naver.

Don’s research integrates ethics, algorithms, human computer interaction, and computational social science to examine how people construct meaning, trust, and judgment in algorithmically mediated environments. He is the author of multiple scholarly books published by Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and Oxford University Press, including Artificial Misinformation and Debiasing AI. He currently serves as an editor of AI and Society.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Lisa A. Marsch is the Founding Director of the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH), a designated “Center of Excellence” supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. She is also the Director of the Northeast Node of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network and the Andrew G. Wallace Professor within the Departments of Psychiatry and Biomedical Data Science at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. CTBH is an interdisciplinary Center housed at Dartmouth and includes partners across the U.S. and internationally. This Center uses science to inform the development, evaluation, and sustainable implementation of digital therapeutics and other digital health tools for behavior change targeting a wide array of populations and health behaviors. These tools are designed to deliver engaging and effective health monitoring and health behavior interventions anytime and anywhere and to collectively lead to transformations in the delivery of science-based health care.

Dr. Marsch is a regular keynote speaker at national and international meetings (including invited presentations at the White House, U.S. Congress, the World Bank, the United Nations and for the US Surgeon General). She has served as a consultant to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the World Health Organization and on the National Advisory Council to the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) in Singapore.

Keynote Speaker

Kate Niederhoffer, Ph.D. is a social psychologist with 20 years of experience applying psychological research to drive technology-enabled behavior change. She leads empirical research at the intersection of psychology and artificial intelligence, examining how people think, feel, and perform when working with, developing alongside AI. Her work explores how mindsets, relationships, and communication shape human-AI interaction, and how these dynamics influence performance and organizational culture. Kate’s research is rooted in the psychological benefits of sharing emotional experiences and explores how natural language use reflects and influences psychological states and interpersonal dynamics. Kate has built, led, and consulted with the top research teams in digital mental health. She was the founder of Sooth, a mobile platform for advice acquired by DreamsCloud (2016). Previously, she was EVP, Strategy at Dachis Group (now Sprinklr) and VP of Measurement Science at Nielsen Online (BuzzMetrics).

Angela Duckworth is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative.

A 2013 MacArthur Fellow, Angela has advised the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs.

Prior to her career in research, Angela founded a summer school for underserved children that was profiled as a Harvard Kennedy School case study and, in 2023, celebrated its 30th anniversary. She has also been a McKinsey management consultant and a math and science teacher at public schools in New York City, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Angela co-founded Character Lab, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing scientific insights that help children thrive.

Angela completed her undergraduate degree in Advanced Studies Neurobiology at Harvard, graduating magna cum laude. With the support of a Marshall Scholarship, she completed an MSc with Distinction in Neuroscience from Oxford University. She completed her PhD in Psychology as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Angela’s TED talk is among the most viewed of all time. Her book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is a #1 New York Times best seller.

Invited Panelist

Dunigan Folk is a MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he works with Drs. Angela Duckworth and Lyle Ungar. His research explores whether turning to AI for companionship makes us more or less lonely, and how we can better utilize our time to improve our happiness.

Dunigan holds a B.Sc. in Psychology, an M.A. in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Psychology, all from the University of British Columbia.

Keynote Speaker, Panelist

Ed Stander, PhD, is an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist, Co-Founder of Fitt Talent, and Professor Extraordinaire at North-West University. He has dedicated his career to advancing People Excellence by connecting potential with opportunity—democratizing access to high-quality, scalable talent assessments.

His reflective work explores the intersection of People Analytics and Technology, forming the foundation of his research. Currently, he focuses on the role of generative AI in assessment interpretation and feedback—particularly its application in deep learning and accelerated career development beyond surface insights.

Through Fitt Talent, Ed and his team deliver next-generation assessment solutions via its Talent Management as a Service (TMaaS) ecosystem. Fitt redefines traditional models by linking dynamic talent assessment with curated learning experiences, supported by a technology-agnostic, ISO-accredited, and GDPR-compliant infrastructure. Developed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre (UK), the platform has guided professionals from over 50 countries. In 2025, Fitt received the Best Talent Intelligence Solution award at the Global HR Tech Awards.

Ed’s experience spans Africa, the Middle East, the UK, the US, and Asia. He lives in Stellenbosch, near Cape Town, with his wife, Tasmin, and their daughters, Mila and Harper.

Keynote Speaker

Johannes Eichstaedt is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford and a Shriram faculty fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered A.I. He uses Natural Language Processing and LLMs to measure and improve mental health. In 2011, he co-founded the World Well-Being Project, now a consortium of psychology and computer science labs across four universities. Originally trained as a physicist, Johannes received his Ph.D. and clinical training at the University of Pennsylvania. Johannes was elected a rising star and emerging leader by three scientific organizations, has published 85+ articles, and has served as an expert for the United Nations and several governments. In the 2025/2026 academic year, he is a visiting professor at INSEAD, near Paris.

Keynote Speaker

Marshall is a Principal Strategist and the AI Innovation Lead for Strategic Customer Engagement at Google Cloud in Sunnyvale, CA. He drives executive engagement and AI strategy for Google’s Cloud & Alphabet’s largest customers in Cloud Space Silicon Valley. He is responsible for supporting the CEO of Google Cloud's executive engagements in Cloud Space by providing strategy sessions, consultative workshops, speaking engagements and AI demo build/execution. He is also a 20% AI Blackbelt in Applied AI Engineering (AAIE) providing customer advisory, business value consulting, and hands-on technical expertise for strategic AI customers.
Formerly he was the Head of Customer Engineering and a GenAI Blackbelt leading a team of AI/ML, GenAI, Data Analytics Specialists and Customer Engineers focused on Enterprise customer transformation. He is a former Field CTO & Principal Cloud Architect at Google Cloud focused on consulting with strategic global enterprises and SaaS ISV partners to help them digitally transform utilizing Google’s innovative cloud technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Cloud Infrastructure.
Marshall has over 30 years of industry experience working at organizations such as Cisco, D2iQ, HPE, Avaya, AT&T, & Prudential. Marshall has helped guide many key Enterprise, SaaS, startup, and technology companies globally on their AI and technology strategies. He is a Wharton program graduate of the Chief Technology Officer program. He received a Master of Science in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from Full Sail University and a B.S. in Microbiology & Cell Science from the University of Florida.
He’s passionate about AI and technology due to its potential to change the world. He’s also a strong believer in the power of education and lifelong learning. He’s passionate about “human potential” and is always looking for new ways to grow and stretch himself. Marshall works to drive fast, eat well and travel to interesting destinations!

Program Committee Chair, Keynote Speaker, Workshop Presenter

Prof. Llewellyn E. van Zyl, PhD, is an award-winning positive psychologist and data scientist, internationally recognised for his work in employee wellbeing, organisational diagnostics, and human-centred machine learning. His research focuses on designing scientifically rigorous, AI-enabled diagnostic models that help organisations understand, predict, and improve employee experience and wellbeing.

With over 15 years of applied consulting experience and more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, his mission is to bridge the gap between behavioural science and organisational practice by advancing data-driven, technology-enabled approaches to enhance human flourishing at work. He is particularly passionate about leveraging machine learning, natural language processing, and bottom-up methodologies to uncover employee insights that traditional frameworks overlook.

He is currently serving as a Professor of Positive Psychology at the Optentia Research Unit (North-West University), and Chief Solutions Architect with Psynalytics AI Driven People Analytics, where his pioneering work in bottom-up, person-centered, idiographic methods for capturing dynamic, contextually embedded individual experiences is reshaping how positive psychology, data science and AI converge to deliver hyper-personalized insights into employee wellbeing

Promo Blurb: As one of the world’s leading voices driving the AI-enabled, precision science of wellbeing, van Zyl’s work demonstrates how AI can make wellbeing science more personal, predictive, and profoundly human.

Keynote Speaker

Lyle Ungar is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches and studies how LLMs work, and how their use affects people's learning, productivity, and wellbeing. Lyle collaborates widely, and holds secondary appointments in Psychology, Bioengineering, Genomics and Computational Biology (the School of Medicine), and Operations, Information and Decisions (Wharton). He has published over 400 articles and holds ten patents. His research group brings cutting edge generative AI methods to psychological and medical research, including analyzing social

media to better understand the drivers of physical and mental well-being and building socio-emotionally sensitive AI-based tutors and coaches.

Keynote Speaker, Panelist, Honorary Chair of the Summit

Martin Seligman is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on positive psychology, learned helplessness, prospection, optimism, and positive education. He is a best-selling author of several books, including Flourish. His recent book, The Hope Circuit, is his autobiography. His newest book is Agency: A Psychological History of Human Innovation (Simon and Schuster 2026). He received the American Psychological Society’s William James Fellow Award for basic science, the Cattell Award for the application of science, and three Lifetime Distinguished Scientist awards from the American Psychological Association. In 1996, Seligman was elected President of the American Psychological Association by the largest vote in modern history. He was named the single most influential psychologist in the world by Academic Influence.

Keynote Speaker

Professor Dr Michael Gerlich is a leading international voice on the societal impact of Artificial Intelligence and one of the most recognised researchers on how AI shapes human cognition, critical thinking, and organisational transformation. He is Professor and Head of the Center for Strategic Corporate Foresight and Sustainability at SBS Swiss Business School. His work, published in high-ranking journals and featured in global media such as The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Guardian, explores the opportunities and risks of AI for individuals, corporations, and society. In 2025 alone, he has delivered keynote speeches on five continents, including at the United Nations, the Future Talent Summit, and leading industry events in Japan, South Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Drawing on both academic rigour and high-level advisory experience, Prof. Dr Gerlich brings a unique perspective on how to preserve human thought in an AI-driven world.

Keynote Speaker

Robb Rutledge is an assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University. He completed a BSc in Biology at Caltech, a PhD in Neural Science at New York University, and was a postdoc and then faculty member at University College London at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research. His lab combines computational models with neuroimaging, pharmacology, and smartphone-based data collection to study decision making and happiness across the lifespan.

Keynote Speaker

Steve Peralta is the Co-founder and former Chief Wellbeing Officer of Unmind, one of the world’s leading workplace mental health companies, supporting more than two million employees across global organizations including Uber, LEGO, Unilever, and Disney.

With over two decades of experience spanning wellbeing, leadership, and human performance, Steve’s work bridges science and soul - blending psychological research with lived experience to help people and organizations flourish.

As an executive coach and speaker, he now partners with purpose-driven founders and leaders to create cultures where people can thrive without sacrificing their health or humanity.

At Unmind, he and his colleagues are currently exploring the intersection of AI and wellbeing, asking how technology can serve - rather than supplant - our most human capacities: presence, empathy, and connection.

Grounded and deeply human, Steve invites audiences to rethink success, reconnect with what truly sustains them, and lead in ways that advance both people and society.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Yukun Zhao is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of CU-ASK (Actionable Social Knowledge) program at the Faculty of Social Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining CUHK, he was the Vice Director of the Positive Psychology Research Center at Tsinghua University, China. He also serves on the IPPA Council of Advisors. In these roles, he organizes China International Positive Psychology Conferences, develops positive education programs that have been applied in more than 50 schools, produces positive psychology MOOCs, and oversees the Positive Psychology Certificate Program that has trained more than 2000 people. Yukun received his PhD from Tsinghua University, and the Master of Applied Positive Psychology degree from University of Pennsylvania. He also holds Master degrees of Computer Science and Chemistry from Rutgers University. His main research interest is positive cultural psychology, spirituality and meaning in life, and new technology applications in psychology. He has published ten books, and co-edited/co-translated nine books.

Keynote Speaker

Sepehr Khosravi is the founder of AI Scouts, an award-winning instructor at UC Berkeley, and an ML Platform Engineer at Coinbase. He leads AI Scouts, a global program that teaches people of all ages how to build real projects with modern AI, helping thousands gain technical confidence and launch new ideas. Through his teaching and engineering work, he aims to inspire a new generation of builders who can harness AI as a tool to solve real problems that they are passionate about.

Keynote Speaker

Robb Rutledge is an assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University. He completed a BSc in Biology at Caltech, a PhD in Neural Science at New York University, and was a postdoc and then faculty member at University College London at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research. His lab combines computational models with neuroimaging, pharmacology, and smartphone-based data collection to study decision making and happiness across the lifespan.

Panelist, Workshop Presenter

I am a psychologist working in the domain of judgment and decision-making. In my research I look at a wide-range of topics focusing, in general, on how people make decisions, what impacts their choices, and finding ways to improve the accuracy of people’s judgments. I tackle these issues using lab or online experiments, applying a mostly quantitative approach to the analysis of behavior. I am an assistant professor at Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics in the Netherlands. Lately, I’m interested in how people make judgments while working with AI systems, how they judge AI provided judgments, and how others view people who rely on AI.

Panelist, Workshop Presenter

Jazz Rasool has been an Executive Coach for 20+ years and is Director of the Artificial Intelligence Coaching Alliance, a group of over 620 coaches and researchers advocating innovative, yet ethical use of AI in Coaching, Mentoring, Supervision as well as Learning and Development. He created an AI Coaching platform in 2008 based on his intercultural psychology model. His last 100 clients have all been women entrepreneurs. Jazz has published extensive academic papers on Technology Enhanced Learning, AI and Ethics. He has contributed European Union projects, including a €1m Futurist evaluation of EU Creative Industries as well as working on a €3m NASA/ESA project for AI/Biometrics/Metaverse enhanced training for Astronauts due to go on future International Space Station and Manned Mars missions. 

He is Global Research Lead for the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and sits on the Skills and Diversity Council for techUK, the UK trade body for technology businesses and technology advisory body for the UK Government. Jazz is Chair for the UK government group reviewing the national Level 5 Coaching Professional Apprenticeship Standard. In 2020 Jazz presented a TEDx talk at the University of Twente on use of Digital Technology for Mental Wellbeing, workplace productivity and collaborative creativity for boosting business revenues for enhanced economies.  Jazz’s personal passion is advocating Fifth Industrial Revolution (Industry 5.0) approaches to harmonise use of Human and Machine Intelligence for sustainable flourishing in workplaces, society and for Environmental ecosystems that affect Climate Change. He has created a Coaching framework to serve these needs, ‘Coaching 5.0’, supported by an underlying psychology for new Industry 5.0 coaching competencies and ethics, ‘Psychology 5.0’.

Workshop Presenter

Malak is MPhil Deputy Director and Teaching Associate at The Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA), which is part of the Institute of Technology and Humanity at Cambridge University. Her research interests span design research into aligning conversational AI with human values, and collaborative design methods for building human-centred AI. Malak holds a PhD in Design Engineering from Imperial College London, a Master’s degree in Human Computer Interaction from the University of St Andrews, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Digital Media from the American University in Cairo. She has also had several years of experience consulting various companies and NGOs on how to create human-centred AI products and experiences, including UN Women UK, The Alan Turing Institute, Bold Insight, and AIxDesign.

Workshop Presenter

Nardine Osman is a senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She earned her PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 2008. Her research expertise covers multiagent systems, normative systems, trust and reputation, and formal verification. Leveraging this expertise, she has been focusing recently on value engineering in AI, a field aimed at developing systems that can identify and understand human values, reason according to those values, and explain behaviour in terms of them.

Nardine currently leads the Ethics and AI research line at IIIA-CSIC and is actively involved in major projects. She heads the €1.8M Spanish project VAE (Value-Awareness Engineering) and contributes to the EU-funded VALAWAI project on value awareness in AI. Additionally, she has recently co-founded the International Workshop on Value Engineering in AI with Luc Steels, which is now in its third edition at ECAI 2025.

Promo Blurb: An AI ethicist thats engineering computational frameworks that allow machines to reason with moral values. Her work is turning tethics from aspiration into algorithms.

Workshop presenter

Pieter Van Gorp works as an associate professor in Information Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE). He has a Ph.D. degree in Model-Driven Software Engineering from the University of Antwerp. His own research line focuses on digital health platforms. Besides that, he has managed the program of health data science within the Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute (EAISI) from 2017 to 2023. Since 2023, he is serving as the scientific director of the Dutch EngD program on Clinical Informatics.

His research on digital health platforms covers engineering topics like workflow management and privacy-by-design, typically with the aim to promote long-term engagement. Since 2015, he is leading GameBus, delivering a playful and data-driven app suite that engages families and friends to a healthier lifestyle. Regarding workflow management, he has contributed to Tracebook, a dynamic checklist support system. He has also studied transformations and analyses for advanced process models (among others in relation to protocol compliance). Regarding privacy-by-design, Van Gorp has performed research on MyPHRMachines and he has supported a Personal Health Record (PHR) scale-up via a one-year sabbatical. Finally, Van Gorp has always been a strong proponent of open science (as illustrated by his work on SHARE.)

Workshop Presenter

Prof. Dr. Rens van de Schoot works as a full professor of collaborative Methods in AI and Data Science at Utrecht University. He is the director of the AI-LAB on AI-aided Knowledge Discovery and coordinator of the open-source ASReview project (AI-aided Systematic text reviewing), which is used by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. He is also the founder of the official university spin-off, the Forward Faster AI group, which supports partners in implementing AI techniques active in over 50 European consortia.

Workshop Presenter, Panelist

I am interested in the way we make sense of the world, in the brain and through language. To this end, my PhD research develops tools to study information processing in the brain and uses naturalistic narratives such as movies and audiobooks to link neural activity to the semantic and schematic structure of language, quantified using large language models. I investigate this in the context of psychosis, where belief updating and knowledge organisation are altered, with the aim of clarifying underlying mechanisms of clinical relevance. Because information in the brain and language gains meaning only through subjective lived experience, I am also excited about novel ways to study phenomenology with LLMs and in how advances in conversational AI may influence human belief formation, in particular in light of the emerging use of chatbots for mental health.

Panelist

Tamara Lechner is a “people person” in the AI world—a leading expert in applying flourishing science to drive individual and cultural change that makes life and work measurably better. As Chair of the AI for Human Flourishing think tank within Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program and Head of Learning at the World Flourishing Organization, she’s on a mission to help 1 billion people flourish by 2035.

Tamara co-leads the IEEE team expanding global AI standards from well-being to flourishing, believing that compliance and policy can be tools for advancing human potential. Her work helps organizations build data-driven, emotionally intelligent workplaces where humans and AI work in harmony to create extraordinary outcomes.

Tamara’s work signals a new era—one where AI is built to serve our highest human values and flourishing becomes the metric that matters most.

Prof. Aaron Jarden from the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne is an academic, a wellbeing consultant, a social entrepreneur, has multiple qualifications in philosophy, computing, education, and psychology, and is a prolific author (130+ peer-reviewed publications) and presenter (170+ presentations). He has previously been a Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University, and Head of Research at the Wellbeing and Resilience Centre at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). He is the founder and past president of the New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology, co-founder and co-editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing, co-founder of Wholebeing, and lead investigator for the International Wellbeing Study, amongst others.

Panelist

Dr Max Major is the Principal Clinical Psychologist specialising in AI at Unmind. He leads the clinical governance, safety architecture, and efficacy strategy for Nova, Unmind's AI wellbeing coach – and shapes the company's broader approach to responsible AI in mental health. With over a decade of experience across the New Zealand health system and the NHS, Max now works at the intersection of evidence-based psychology, ethical AI, and digital scale. His focus: ensuring AI serves as a safe, effective bridge that connects people to the right level of care – without compromising clinical rigour or the value of human connection.

Max is a frequent contributor to industry discourse on responsible AI, advocating for systems that prioritise safety, therapeutic alliance, and transparent governance over engagement at all costs.

Adam is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Davis, broadly studying well-being and personality trait change. He uses both between-person (nomothetic) and person-specific (idiographic) approaches as complements to understand not only how changes occur across people but also the unique and dynamic ways well-being and personality unfold for a single person. He is also interested in using person-specific approaches to highlight the positive experiences within the LGBTQ+ community. His research has been published in top-tier research journals. Overall, his primary research goal is to highlight the utility of recentering the person in the study of well-being and personality broadly.

Ana Alina Tudoran, Associate Professor at Aarhus University’s Department of Economics and Business Economics, works at the intersection of AI, consumer behavior, and organizational wellbeing. Trained as an economist (PhD, 2009), she studies how people balance privacy, trust, and value when adopting data-driven technologies, and how human–AI collaboration can enhance work. Methodologically, Alina blends experiments with computational data analysis. She teaches applied machine learning, customer and lifetime value analytics, and business experiments with AI, emphasizing rigorous design, transparency, and human-centered outcomes. Her recent talks include EURAM 2025 (Florence) on the privacy–security trade-off in IoT adoption and an AOM 2025 PDW (Copenhagen) on employee adaptation to generative AI. She advises organizations on responsible AI experimentation, aligning technological innovation with values that support wellbeing.

Panelist

James Derek Lomas is a tenured professor of “Positive AI” at the department of Human-Centered Design at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His research explores human-centered AI for education, wellbeing, and global development. In his professional practice, he has helped design AI learning systems used by millions of students around the world. With his work at the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, a UNESCO-recognized rare book library in Amsterdam, he explores how classical philosophy and advanced technology might together support human flourishing. He regularly lectures on the role of harmony, resonance and vibes in the age of AI. Lomas studied at Yale University, UC San Diego and completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, in the fields of cognitive science, design and human-computer interaction.

Panelist

Dr Julie Prescott is Head of Psychology at the University of Law, where she leads research and teaching in applied psychology with a particular emphasis on digital mental health. With a robust academic background and a passion for innovation, Julie’s research explores how digital technologies can enhance psychological wellbeing and support mental health interventions.

She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, books, and book chapters, contributing significantly to the field of digital psychology. Her most recent co-authored book, How Digital Technologies Can Support Positive Psychology, was published by Emerald in 2025 and reflects her commitment to integrating technology with evidence-based psychological practices.

Julie is co-editor of the Emerald journal Mental Health and Social Inclusion, and in 2024, she co-founded and became co-editor-in-chief of Mental Health and Digital Technologies, an Emerald journal dedicated to exploring the intersection of mental health and digital innovation.

Her work continues to shape the future of psychological practice, education, and research, particularly in the context of emerging technologies and inclusive mental health support.

Panelist

Justin Scaini is the Group Head and Executive Vice President, Strategy, Innovation and Transformation at Kids Help Phone, where he leads acceleratorKHP — driving game-changing innovation, data science, technology operations and organizational transformation.

He began his career as a management consultant at Accenture before moving into health services, where he designed and led the pro bono consulting program at Capitalize for Kids, supporting more than 30 mental health organizations across Canada. Prior to joining Kids Help Phone, he was a Senior Strategy Consultant at Mackenzie Health, playing a key role in the organization’s COVID-19 pandemic response and the opening of Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital.

Justin holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Life Sciences with a minor in Economics from Queen’s University and a Master of Health Science in Health Administration from the University of Toronto.

Outside of work, he’s a proud father, enjoys wilderness landscape photography and is an avid non-fiction reader.

Panelist

Dr Kirsty Gardiner, PhD, is a Chartered Social Psychologist, and a Research Director of a DEI consultancy. She is an experienced lecturer in positive psychology, social psychology, organisational psychology and behaviour change, having led and taught on several prominent university courses. 

Kirsty is also a dedicated researcher, focusing specifically on the socio-cultural determinants of health and wellbeing. She is particularly interested in social justice and is passionate about the value of using research to drive forward positive change.

Promo Blurb: A social psychologist and DEI strategist ensuring that every AI advancement is matched by an equal commitment to justice, inclusion, and human dignity.

Panelist

Melissa Crawford is recognised internationally as an expert on the future of work, with a distinctive interdisciplinary background that integrates technology, psychology, and organisational practice. Her career spans senior leadership roles in some of New Zealand’s largest organisations across technology, aviation, banking, FMCG, retail, education, and energy.

She holds two technology degrees and is currently studying a Master of Science in Applied Positive Psychology with RCSI, where her focus is on the intersection of human flourishing and technological change. Melissa is also a graduate of the Institute for the Future (California) and the University of Houston’s Strategic Foresight programme, and a member of the Association of Professional Futurists.

In her role as Director of Tech with Heart, she works with organisations to apply foresight and future-readiness strategies, helping leaders navigate the ethical, psychological, and societal dimensions of emerging technologies. She serves on several governance and advisory boards and is a sought-after keynote speaker globally.

Melissa’s passion lies in working on strategic projects to help shape a better future.

Panelist

Michael V. Heinz is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and a practicing psychiatrist at Dartmouth Health. His research focuses on scalable digital technologies for assessing and treating mental health problems, including the use of passively collected data such as movement and heart rate. With Dr. Nicholas Jacobson, Dr. Heinz created and evaluated the first generative AI-powered chatbot for therapy—Therabot. He has collaborated with industry partners including Microsoft Research and Artisight, and is a member of Dartmouth’s Psychiatry Immunology and Neurology Group. Dr. Heinz specializes in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders through psychotherapy, medications, and neuromodulation strategies including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

Panelist

Raymond is a Professor of Human Computer Systems at Ulster University, and has research interests in digital health, medical informatics and human-computer interaction. Specific interests include: 1) healthcare data science and machine learning, 2) the design and evaluation of digital health interventions (e.g. health apps and chatbots) and 3) clinical decision making with artificial intelligence. Raymond continues to work with a series of companies including Stryker (Heartsine), Inspire Wellbeing, Chroma Lighting, Action Mental Health, ARC Regulatory, ORCHA, Kainos, PulseAI and others.

Raymond is a visiting professor at Keele University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is an Ulster Distinguished Research Fellow. He currently lectures on topics related to data science, machine learning and AI. He has co-authored over 500 research outputs and has supervised around ~20 PhD researchers to their final viva. On estimation, he has been a grant holder on research projects to the value of around £15M to Ulster.

Raymond is a board member of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics and was a directing board member for the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology. Within Northern Ireland, he is a Member of the DHCNI Digital Capacity and Capability Board and the Northern Ireland Trusted Research Environment (NITRE) Strategic Board (2024) as well as the Medical Imaging Board AI sub-group.  Raymond has chaired a number of international conferences, including 1) the International BCS Human Computer Interaction conference, 2) the Annual Conference of the International Society for Computerised Electrocardiology, 3) the Annual European Conference of Cognitive Ergonomics and 4) the International Conference of Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing which he co-founded.  Another part of Raymond likes sitting on the sofa, watching football, eating popcorn, drinking coffee and being with his family.

Panelist

Prof. Rudolf M. Oosthuizen is a NRF C2 rated Professor in the Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He holds a DLitt et Phil in Industrial and Organisational Psychology from UNISA, a MA in Industrial and Personnel Psychology from the North-West University, and earlier degrees from the University of Pretoria. He is a registered Industrial Psychologist with the Professional Board of Psychology of the Health Professions Council of South Africa. With 25 years of academic experience, his research spans positive psychology, particularly salutogenesis, well-being, sense of coherence, self-efficacy, resilience and learned resourcefulness, as well as career psychology, employment relations, and the evolving dynamics of work. More recently, Rudolf has integrated topics related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), including Smart Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Algorithms (STARA), exploring their psychological impacts, the role of industrial psychologists in these changing work environments, and how positive psychological frameworks can guide human-machine interaction in meaningful, ethical, and salutary ways. Among his works is a 2025 chapter “Robotic Positive Psychology Interventions and Emotional Well-being,” which investigates how robotic agents might be used in interventions to enhance emotional wellness. Rudolf’s contributions place him at the intersection of positive psychology and technological change, seeking to understand and shape how human well-being can be preserved, fostered, and even enhanced as Artificial Intelligence and other emergent technologies alter workplaces and social systems.

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Sachin Pendse is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) at the University of California, San Francisco, where he directs the Technology, Mental Health, and Society (TeMHSo) Research Lab. His research focuses on the design of (AI-based) mental health technologies that are fundamentally safe, private, and consent-forward by design. He received his doctorate in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and postdoctoral training at the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) at Northwestern University.

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Dr. Tayyab Rashid is a Toronto-based licensed clinical and school psychologist, Faculty Associate with Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, and Visiting Scientist at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Trained under Dr. Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania, he co-developed Positive Psychotherapy and specializes in strengths-based approaches, resilience, and posttraumatic growth. He has worked with communities facing severe trauma worldwide, delivered 50+ invited talks, and trained professionals in 25+ countries. His books Positive Psychotherapy (2018, with Martin Seligman) and Strengths-Based Resilience (2025) are internationally recognized and translated into multiple languages. Dr. Rashid is President-Elect (2025–27) of the International Positive Psychology Association and recipient of awards including IPPA’s Outstanding Practitioner Award (2017) and the University of Toronto’s Chancellor Award (2018).

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Kaiping Peng is currently a professor of psychology at the Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences at Tsinghua University. He previously served as the Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University and taught at the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA for 15 years before returning to China in 2008. He led the effort to build the psychology department at Tsinghua University and served as the founding chair of the Department. Additionally, he holds positions as the Director of the Institute of Global Industry at Tsinghua University, and a member of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University. He was also a board member of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and the International Positive Education Network (IPEN). Furthermore, he has served as the Executive Chairman of the International Conference on Positive Psychology in China since 2009. His primary research interests are in positive psychology, social psychology, and cultural psychology. Professor Peng has published over 450 academic journal articles and 14 books in both English and Chinese. He has received numerous academic awards and has been recognized as one of the most cited Chinese psychologists globally since 2015. In 2023, he received the Century Achievement award for excellence teaching from Tsinghua University, one of the highest honors for faculty at Tsinghua.

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Sebastiaan (Ian) Rothmann is a professor of Industrial Psychology at the Optentia Research Unit at the North-West University (NWU) in South Africa (2010-2023). After completing an M.Com in Industrial Psychology at the NWU in 1986, he completed a PhD in Industrial Psychology (1996). Ian’s research is on work-related well-being (job demands/resources, personality, burnout, and work engagement; 2000-2010), which moved towards sustainable employability (work capabilities, resilience, decent work, and flourishing; 2011-2025). In the top international research teams (with researchers from the UK, USA, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, and Taiwan), his contributions were influential in advancing positive organisational scholarship in the conceptualisation and measurement of pathways to sustainable employability. His research was published in 277 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. The Society for Industrial/Organisational Psychology of South Africa awarded him a fellowship for his contributions to the science, practice, and organisation of Industrial and Organisational Psychology. He is also a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Ian served on the editorial advisory committees of various journals.

Workshop Presenter

Dorian is Assistant Professor in Ethical Design at The University of Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity. She is also a Visiting Researcher at the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London and a Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College Cambridge.

She is a human-computer interaction researcher who specialises in digital health and on design for wellbeing, autonomy and learning. She has worked in participatory digital health and mental health across age groups with communities in the UK, Australia and Latin America. Her current interests are on ethical front-end design and design for ‘whole-person digital health’ that takes into account the psychological dimensions of physical illness.

Her books include: Positive Computing: Technology for Wellbeing and Human Potential (MIT Press), and Interface Design for Learning (Pearson). She is also on the editorial board of the Springer Nature journal, AI & Ethics.

Previously she held the positions of Research Fellow at Imperial College London and until 2024, she was Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. Until 2019, she was Creative Leader of the Wellbeing Technologies Lab at the University of Sydney.

With over 20 years’ experience in technology design, she works together with communities, engineers, and social scientists to co-create human-centred, context-sensitive and research-driven technologies in ways that respect psychological needs. She has also done work for non-profit and corporate institutions including Movember Foundation, IESO Digital Health, Google, Atlassian, Honda, Sony and Phillips.

She received her PhD in Interaction Design from the University of Sydney and Bachelor’s from Carnegie Mellon. Her contributions in human-computer interaction include the “METUX model” for evaluating the wellbeing impact of technologies within six spheres of human experience and the 15 Wellbeing Supportive Design Heuristics.