Dr. Jules White is Senior Advisor to the Chancellor, Director of Vanderbilt’s Initiative on the Future of Learning & Generative AI, and a Computer Science Professor at Vanderbilt University. He created an early online class in Prompt Engineering, with over 290,000 enrollments, and has published over 170 papers. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient and has won multiple Best Paper Awards.

Victoria Lansdown is an AI Instructional Designer for Google, powered by Synergis IT + Creative, where she develops education and workforce programs focused on generative AI and digital skills. She began her career as a K–12 teacher and now focuses on helping educators and organizations adopt AI in practical, human-centered ways. She has led AI-integrated curriculum initiatives for ELL and agentic AI, and previously presented on AI at Pearson, the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business, and UNESCO Digital Learning Week.

Jay (Jarrad Merlo) is a well known English exam expert from Australia. He was an English teacher before founding E2Language - a popular online test prep website - where he taught a range of English tests, including PTE Academic, for nearly 10 years. His YouTube channels have over 3 million subscribers and his test prep videos have had hundreds of millions of views. He now works for Pearson as an AI Product Manager where he works on assessment innovation

Kacper Łodzikowski is the Vice President of AI Capabilities at Pearson. His group primarily focuses on natural language processing, computational psychometrics, human-computer interaction, and ethical AI governance. He is also a linguistics researcher and an AI lecturer at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

Ilya Gogin is the Director of Product Management at Pearson, where he leads the ELL Accelerator team to advance the adoption of emerging technologies for language learning. Previously, he was an Instructional Designer for adult language learning courseware and a Product Manager. He’s been working closely with AI teams at Pearson to incubate AI powered features and products. Before Pearson, Ilya taught ESL in New York, where he also gave workshops to help English teachers adopt new technologies in the classroom. He holds a master's degree in TESOL, specializing on teaching adult learners. Currently, he is working on projects that use generative AI and XR for language learning.