Agenda

 Dr Anita Lamprecht is an international lawyer at the intersection of governance, law, and technology. With a background in international litigation, she focuses on the legal and policy dimensions of digital transformation. Her expertise spans AI, digital twins, internet governance, the metaverse, emerging technologies, and futures literacy. At DiploFoundation, Anita co-leads the AI Apprenticeship programme, supports capacity-building for international organisations, and contributes to global digital policy. Her work bridges law, innovation, and institutional practice, focusing on inclusion and life-centred technology. She actively promotes Diplo’s humAInism approach, which advocates transparent, responsible, and life-centred use of AI. As a woman in tech and law, Anita brings an intersectional perspective to education, equity, and leadership.

Anna Matamala, BA in Translation (UAB) and PhD in Applied Linguistics (UPF, Barcelona), is a Full Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Prof. Matamala is the leader of Transmedia Catalonia research group and director of AccessCat Network. She has published extensively in the field of audiovisual translation and media accessibility, and has led and taken part in many funded projects. MAP platform co-creator. LAB-TTAV director since 2017.  Accessibility expert at ANEC. Joan Coromines Prize in 2005, APOSTA Award to Young Researchers in 2011, Dr. Margaret R. Pfanstiehl Memorial Achievement Award in Audio Description Research and Development 2021. More information: webs.uab.cat/amatamala

PhD (UMIST, UK) works at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) in the TransMedia Catalonia Lab. She has written and edited many books, near 100 academic papers and almost the same number of book chapters --all on Media Accessibility. Leader and participant of numerous EU funded research projects. She works in standardisation. She has been working on Immersive Accessibility for the past 6 years first in a project called ImAc, which results are now further developed in TRACTION, MEDIAVERSE, MILE, and GREENSCENT. She led until December 2022 the EU network LEADME on Media Accessibility. She was the Co-Chair of Study Group on Accessibility and Inclusion in the ITU Metaverse Focus Group, and she is leading the Digital Inclusion and Accessibility track of the ITU Virtual Worlds. She is now working on AI and accessibility in the three funded projects MOSAIC, ALFIE, and SPICE. For more info please go to: https://webs.uab.cat/pilarorero/ 

Estella Oncins, PhD (UAB, Spain), is a lecturer at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Coordinator of the MA in Audiovisual Translation. She is a senior member of the TransMedia Catalonia research group, her work focuses on digital and media accessibility, including immersive environments. She has participated in multiple EU-funded projects on accessibility. In 2024, she received the WSIS2024 award in ICT applications in E-learning for the project YoungArcHers. She actively contributes to digital and media accessibility committees within UNE, ITU, and ISO and was involved in the XAUR (W3C). Currently, she works on VR/AR accessibility in the InclusiVRity and IMMERSE projects and explores AI and accessibility in MOSAIC and ALFIE.

Mireia Farrús is an Associate Professor at the Language of Computation Centre at the Universitat de Barcelona. She graduated in Physics and in Linguistics and she received her PhD in Signal Theory and Communications from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in 2008. She held a research position at DFKI (Germany), and she has been a visiting researcher at the University of Umeå (Sweden), the University of Canberra (Australia), the University of Edinburgh (UK), and Columbia University (NY, USA). Her main research has been focused on speech technologies within the area of biometrics and security, machine translation, prosody modelling, and pathology detection in the clinical domain, publishing over 100 papers and participating in 25 competitive and 11 industrial projects.

Dr. Mar Gutiérrez-Colón is an associate Professor of English Applied Linguistics in the Department of English and German Studies, at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in Tarragona, Spain. She holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition (2002) She is the Coordinator of the  of the Research Group in Language and Technology (a consolidated group, recognised and awarded with budget by AGAUR-2023). https://www.relate.recerca.urv.cat/ca/

She has led and participated in research projects on the use of new technologies in language acquisition and distance learning (computer assisted language learning and mobile learning) as well as in the accessibility field. 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8479-4933