Dr. Dev Aditya

Otermans Institute, United Kingdom

Dev Aditya is an expert in AI from London, UK. He led the team at Otermans Institute that built the first Digital Human AI teacher (OIAI) with the mission to upskill 750 million learners globally by 2030. His AI teachers have taught in 24 countries from teaching for universities to schools, corporates to direct marginalised learners. Dev Aditya has also developed a specialist teaching and learning LLM OIMISA-7B. Dev Aditya was awarded by the UK Prime Minister for his work and has been a Young Global Innovator and Under 30 Social Entrepreneur (Mint). For research work in AI, he was recognised by Innovate UK and secured national level funding from them. He has conducted AI and HCI research, has previous experience at The Alan Turing Institute and Brunel University of London, regularly publishes in this space, and his work is currently operating globally across 4 continents. His latest achievement is converting all his AI products to run completely offline on EDGE AI. For this, he was named the Young Innovator of the Year Europe by AIconics at the AI Summit London 2025. His AI system is currently running one of Africa’s largest and fastest AI literacy programme which was mentioned at the UN General Assembly in 2025. He is also the architect of Human Capital Infrastructure.

Dr. Leah V. Barbaso

Cebu Institute of Technology-University, Philippines

Leah Velasco Barbaso is a Professor and permanent faculty member of the Information Technology Department, College of Computer Studies (CCS), at Cebu Institute of Technology – University, where she has taught since 2008, bringing nearly two decades of academic experience. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, which she completed Cum Laude, a Master of Science in Information Technology, and a Doctor of Management major in Human Resource Management. An active researcher, she has presented and published extensively in international conferences and Scopus/ISI-indexed journals on educational technology, learning analytics, and AI-integrated systems. She regularly serves as a Technical Committee Member for international conferences, including the International Conference on Digital Technology in Education (ICDTE), the International Conference on Education and Training Technologies (ICETT), and the International Conference on Education and E-Learning (ICEEL). A recipient of Technologian Teacher awards, she also serves as CCS Special Projects Coordinator and is an active member of professional organizations such as the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators Region 7 (PSITE-7) and the Computing Society of the Philippines.