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Lindsay Ems is Associate Professor and Faculty Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Communication at Butler University. Her scholarship interrogates the roles mobile and digital media play in structuring of political and social relationships. She has written a book called Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet鈥檚 Margins, which has recently been published by MIT Press. The book explores the sophisticated strategies used in Amish communities to decide if and how to adopt new digital communication technologies and what is at stake for them when they make such decisions.

Saloma Furlong Miller left the Amish at the age of 23. She is the author three books, and her story has been featured in two PBS American Experience films, 鈥淭he Amish鈥� and 鈥淭he Amish: Shunned.鈥澛�

Andrew Russell is Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He is the co-author of The Innovation Delusion (2020) and Circuits, Packets, and Protocols (2022)

Christopher Ategeka is an award-winning engineer, entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder and general partner at the pre-seed fund Startup Playbook, that supports software companies run by women and other entrepreneurs traditionally underrepresented in the venture capital market. Ategeka has spent his career working at the intersections of technology and humanity. His book, 鈥淭he Unintended Consequences of Technology,鈥� identifies the challenges and opportunities that technology poses to people and the planet.聽

Jane Alexander is a novelist, short story writer, and a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her most recent book, The Flicker Against the Light, is a collection of uncanny short stories about science and technology. Her second novel A User鈥檚 Guide To Make-Believe is a dystopian thriller about virtual realities, and her first novel The Last Treasure Hunt was selected as a Waterstones debut of the year in 2015.聽