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Rana El-Kaliouby is the Chief Strategy & Science Officer at the MIT Startup Affectiva. She is an expert in emotionally aware artificial intelligence and a major contributor to the field of facial expression recognition and technology development. El-Kaliouby's research endeavoured to depart from the field's dependence on exaggerated expressions created by actors in the laboratory, in favour of focusing on more subtle glances that people make in real situations.
Her 鈥榝ormative鈥� moment came when she realized that her research needn鈥檛 be limited to human-to-computer interaction but could also be applied to human-to-human communication.

Paula M. Niedenthal is a social psychologist and听 Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison, where she is the principal investigator at the Niedenthal Emotions Lab.听 Her research focuses on emotion processes at several levels of analysis. At a basic cognitive level she is interested in how emotions influence the perception and interpretation of facial expression and of other symbols with emotional value, such as words. She has also examined the role of emotion in categorization.

Tony has been a showman for over 30 years 鈥� researching and implementing British popular entertainment forms in a wide variety of contexts. Founder and performer of the last-remaining professional seaside pierrot troupe in the UK 鈥淭he Pierrotters鈥�, he has performed at countless resorts and events and as his alter ego 鈥淯ncle Tacko!鈥�, he opened the National Theatre of Variety at Blackpool Grand Theatre & Opera House and was invited to meet Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on behalf of all seaside entertainers. In the 1990 and early 2000鈥檚 he was the Artistic Director at Wakefield Theatre and Opera House before diversifying into writing, teaching acting and directing.
He entertains via a plethora of formats: storytelling, music, puppetry, music hall, pantomime, variety. He is at varying times a director, manager, consultant, facilitator, performer, workshop leader, broadcaster, lecturer, teacher and writer.

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