Daniel D. Hutto is Senior Professor of Philosophical Psychology and Head of the School of Liberal Arts at the University of Wollongong. He serves on the Australian Research Council College of Experts. He has won international recognition both with his research and as the co-author of the award-winning book Radicalizing Enactivism (MIT, 2013) and its sequel, Evolving Enactivism (MIT, 2017). Prof. Hutto speaks internationally, not only at philosophy conferences, but also at expert meetings of anthropologists, clinicians, educationalists, narratologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists.

Emanuela Del Dottore is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at SDU. Her research explores questions related to formulating and implementing control and decision-making strategies for bio-inspired robotic systems. She is passionate about robotics, behavior analysis, swarm and collective behavior, and intelligent systems.

Tom Froese is Associate Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. He is particularly known for his contributions to the embodied and enactive approach to cognitive science, which conceives of the mind as an emergent natural phenomenon that is brain-, body-, and world-involving. Froese is known for his work on the enactive torch and irruption theory, drawing on mathematical models of complex adaptive systems.

Steven M. LaValle is Professor at the University of Oulu and has earlier industry experience as chief scientist in Oculus VR and Huawei. He is the principal investigator of the ERC project ILLUSIVE, aimed at developing a mathematical foundation for perception and inference in the context of virtual reality. With his decades of experience in robotics and planning algorithms combined with his work on virtual reality, LaValle is in a unique position to facilitate the kinds of interdisciplinary advances our conference aims to support. 

David Kirsh is Professor at UC San Diego and co-Director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. He has written on situated and embodied cognition, how environments can be shaped to simplify/extend cognition, and how space, external representations, our bodies and even manipulable objects become interactive tools for thought.

Kevin O'Regan is emeritus ex-director of the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS, Université Paris Descartes. After working on eye movements in reading he became interested in visual stability and discovered the phenomenon of change blindness. His current work concerns the sensorimotor approach to phenomenal consciousness and its applications to child development and robotics.