The Twenty-Second International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor, University of Illinois, USA
"Generative AI in Education: Implications and Applications"
Professor, University of Illinois, USA
"Generative AI in Education: Implications and Applications"
Professor Emerita and former Rector, University of the Aegean, Greece
"Bridging Technology, Knowledge, and Social Change"
Specialized Scientific Personnel in Language Technology, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center, Greece
"Conversational AI assistants for teaching and learning: Human-centered pathways from LLMs to classrooms"
Research Director, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center, Greece
"Conversational AI assistants for teaching and learning: Human-centered pathways from LLMs to classrooms"
Associate Professor of Educational Technology, Ramon Llull University, Spain
"De la teoría a la práctica: algunas primeras lecciones aprendidas. Retos de la IA en la educación"
(Online in Spanish)
Full Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of ICT, University of Malta, Malta
Professor Emerita and former Rector, University of the Aegean, Greece
Boston College, Boston, USA
(English)
Docente Universitario e Investigador, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile
(Spanish)
Docente Universitario e Investigador, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile
(Spanish)
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
Tilburg University, Netherlands
(In-Person)
Izmir University of Economic, Turkey
(In-Person)
Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile
(In-Person)
National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
(Online Only)
Rutgers University, United States
(Online Only)
Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
(Online Only)
Rhodes, Greece