Prof. Gerard Paul Prendergast, Ajman University, UAE

Gerard Prendergast is a Professor of Marketing and the Dean of the College of Business Administration at Ajman University. He previously held faculty positions in a variety of countries, having taught Bachelor, Master and Doctoral programs across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Middle East. His research and teaching focus on marketing communications, marketing ethics, and qualitative methods. Professor Prendergast has over 25 years of extensive academic administrative experience, having served as MBA Director, department head, and Associate Dean. In these roles, he oversaw a wide range of portfolios, including internationalization, research, graduate programs, and external relations. He has played a pivotal role in quality assurance, contributing to university quality assurance committees and accreditation bodies. Most recently, he was appointed to the Registrar of Auditors for the Hong Kong government's University Grants Committee (UGC). Prior to becoming an academic, Professor Prendergast was a marketing executive with the ANZ (New Zealand) Banking Group.

Title: AI for Good? Navigating Trolley Problems, Ethical Dilemmas, and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract: TBA

Prof. Robert Laramee, University of Nottingham, UK

Robert S. Laramee received a bachelors degree in physics, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass). He received a masters degree in computer science from the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He was awarded a PhD from the Vienna University of Technology (Gruess Gott TUWien), Austria at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms in 2005. From 2001 to 2006 he was a researcher at the VRVis Research Center (www.vrvis.at) and a software engineer at AVL (www.avl.com) in the department of Advanced Simulation Technologies. He was Associate Professor at Swansea University (Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe), Wales in the Department of Computer Science (Adran Gwyddor Cyfrifiadur). He is Professor of Computer Science and Data Visualization at the University of Nottingham.