TB Bardlavens is chaotic good. He is a Gay, Black man from the Carolinas, a highly regarded social intrapreneur, and an advocate for equity in technology and design. For more than a decade, TB has dedicated his career to dismantling systemic barriers, building and scaling teams, and launching innovative digital products for companies like Microsoft, Meta (formerly Facebook), and Adobe, delivering more useful, impactful, and equitable experiences for billions of people globally. He is a Product Executive, Cultural Strategist, Diversity, Equity, and Justice expert, Co-Founder, Writer, and International Speaker and Facilitator. 

Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Design and Anthropology at The New School. She is co-founder with Andrew Shea of the Lab for AI, Ethics and Creative Labor. Sareeta takes a majority world approach to the study and development of AI, as evidenced by a recent publication in the radical geography journal Antipode, titled Thinking the Unthinkable in AI: Four Hegemonic Ways of Seeing AI and Five Majority World Ways to Move Beyond Them. Her first book, Encoding Race Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin, is the winner of the Diana Forsythe Prize in Anthropology and the International Convention of Asian Studies Book Prize.

Andy Parsons is the Senior Director, Content Authenticity at Adobe, leading efforts to create open technologies to verify and authenticate digital content and build systems that improve the way we understand the origin and attribution of media. He leads a team that works to bring transparency and trust to digital content through the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), a global coalition of more than 6000 members from industry, civil society, and journalism—including the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NVIDIA, Publicis, Nikon, Leica, Witness, and Universal Music Group—all united in their commitment to bolstering trust in the digital ecosystem with Content Credentials, a simple, powerful “nutrition label” for content.

Mehr Khwaja is a visual communicator, systems thinker, and Fulbright Scholar committed to legibility as political practice. In Pakistan, she redesigned digital banking interfaces that reached millions and simplified financial products so effectively that her work earned an excellence award from her previous employers. Now at Parsons School of Design in New York, she's shifted from solving illegibility to interrogating it. Her work combines data visualization, interface design, critical cartography, and speculative storytelling to investigate how design shapes who gets access to understanding, and who benefits when systems stay opaque.