Seumas Miller

Seumas Miller is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security at Charles Sturt University, Canberra, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He is the author or coauthor of over 250 academic articles and twenty-two books including The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force (Oxford University Press, 2016), Institutional Corruption: A Study in Applied Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Cybertechnology, Ethics and Collective Responsibility, with Terry Bossomaier, (Oxford University Press, 2024). He was Foundation Director of the Australian Research Council Special Research Centre in Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (2000-2007), and Principal Investigator on a European Research Council Advanced Grant on counter-terrorism ethics (2016-2021). 

Tracey Spicer

Tracey Spicer (AM), is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster, who has anchored national programs for ABC TV and Radio, and Network Ten.  

The inaugural national convenor of Women in Media, in 2019, she was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia. In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, winning the Social Enterprise and Not-For-Profit category.  

Her new book, Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future, was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2023. It was longlisted for a Walkley Award, and won the Social Responsibility category in the Australian Business Book Awards. 

Toby Walsh

Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in AI. He is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales, Chief Scientist at its AI Institute, has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI for his contributions to AI research, and has won the prestigious Humboldt research award.  A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, he has previously held research positions in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, and Sweden. He is the author of four books for general readers on AI, most recently Faking It!  Artificial Intelligence in a Human world.  

Christina Slade

Christina Slade has published on critical and creative thinking, citizenship, language, and the role of media in national identity.  Her research is at the intersection of philosophy and media. Christina is Emeritus Professor at Bath Spa University, where she was the Vice-Chancellor. Prior to that, she was Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at City University London, Dean of Humanities at Macquarie University, Professor of Media Theory at the University of Utrecht, and Head of the Creative Communication School at the University of Canberra.