Paul Kim is the Founder and President of Seeds of Empowerment, a global social innovation incubator. He established in collaboration with Stanford University graduate students in 2004. Currently, he serves as the Chair of the International Expert Committee on Education Technology at the World Bank and advises Lumos Capital, Roble Ventures, and Chegg, Inc. As the former Associate Dean and Chief Technology Officer of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, Dr. Kim dedicated 24 years to advancing learning technology for marginalized communities worldwide. He can be contacted at paul.kim@seedsofempowerment.org. 

Manu is currently the Director of the Singapore-ETH Center, and Professor for Learning Sciences and Higher Education at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he also directs The Future Learning Initiative (FLI). Manu is also the Founding Chair of the ETH Zurich – EPFL Joint Doctoral Program in the Learning Sciences.

Prior to this, Manu was a Professor of Psychological Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. Manu also worked at the National Institute of Education (NIE/NTU) of Singapore as the Head of the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Department, as well as the Head of the Learning Sciences Lab (LSL).

Find about Manu here: https://www.manukapur.com/

Wenli CHEN is an Associate Professor and Head of the Learning Sciences and Assessment Department at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. Her specialization lies in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and learning analytics. Dr Chen has been invited as the keynote speaker for many international conferences, including the International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting 2024. She has won a dozen Best Paper Awards from international conferences. In 2020, the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education presented her with the Distinguished Researcher Award. She received the "Excellence in Research Commendation" from NIE in 2022, the "Excellence in Teaching Commendation" in 2015 and 2017, and the "Nanyang Education Award" from NTU in 2016.

Presently, Wenli serves as the Editor-in-Chief for both the Journal of Computers in Education, and Learning: Research and Practice. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Instructional Science, and Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. Moreover, she is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.

She is the executive committee member of the Asia Pacific Society of Computers in Education and the Global Chinese Society of Computers in Education. She also served as co-chair of the CSCL Community Committee of the International Society of the Learning Sciences from 2016 to 2021. She was the Program Committee Co-chair for the International Conference of CSCL in 2022, and the Co-chair for International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2016. She chaired the Program Committee for the International Conference on Computers in Education 2017, and the Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education 2014.

Dr. Ho Shen Yong is the Executive Director of the Institute of Pedagogical Innovation, Research and Excellence (InsPIRE) at NTU. He joined Nanyang Technological University in 2011 as a Physics lecturer. Prior to that, Dr. Ho taught at Hwa Chong Junior College from 1998 to 2003. He then pursued his graduate studies in Physics at the University of Toronto from 2004 to 2009. Subsequently, Dr. Ho conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Center for Quantum Technologies at NUS from 2009 to 2011.

Dr. Ho is passionate about education. As a lecturer for the freshman engineering Physics course, he has actively developed learning activities to help students enhance their thinking skills and appreciate the connections between textbook knowledge and real-world applications. In 2014, Dr. Ho helped establish the "Making and Tinkering" course, where students are free to design and construct almost any technological prototype within a semester. To date, the course has produced more than 140 student projects. Dr. Ho has received several teaching awards, including the Nanyang Education Award (University, Gold) in 2018. That same year, he was appointed Principal Lecturer in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.  Dr. Ho is also the Provost’s Chair in Physics since 2019.