Shaimaa Lazem is an academic researcher at the City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City), a research institute in Alexandria, Egypt. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, 2012. At SRTA-City she established a research program in human-computer interaction (HCI). Her research interests include participatory design, cross-cultural collaborations, post-colonial computing, and decolonizing HCI. Her previous projects included designing low-cost education and health technologies and applying learner-centered and flexible learning pedagogies for teaching computer science and HCI. Lazem is the Co-founder of the ArabHCI community.

Ebtisam Alabdulqader is a Saudi lecturer in the Information Technology Department at King Saud University and earned her PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Open Lab at Newcastle University. Ebtisam’s current research focuses on HCI aspects of social computing, health informatics, accessibility and mHealth. Her current work is investigating strategies to promote the adoption of digital technologies to augment the current healthcare system and introduce new relational healthcare models. She also led STEM initiative to promote computer science careers in Saudi Arabia. Ebtisam has been honored with Teaching and Advising Excellence Award (three times) and the Excellence in Research Award. She is the founder and leader of the ArabHCI initiative and the vice chair for the ACM SIGCHI chapter for Riyadh Saudi Arabia.

Samia Ibtasam is a Ph.D. student at the Paul G Allen School of Computer Science \& Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. As part of the ICTD Lab, her current work focuses on devising tools and frameworks to increase women’s technological and financial inclusion. With more than ten years of experience in designing, developing and deploying technologies for emerging markets, she is studying the impact of gender on technological and financial services and the use of consumer training to expand financial inclusion. Before UW, she was a faculty member at the Information Technology University in Lahore, Pakistan and was also the founding Co-Director of Innovations for Poverty Alleviation Lab (IPAL). She worked to design solutions for Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) including information systems, diagnosis applications and worked with the Government of Punjab, Pakistan to redesign the Immunization card and creating digital health records for the province of Punjab.

Sharifa Sultana is a PhD student at Cornell University, USA. She conducts research in the intersection of HCI, ICTD, wellbeing, and feminist-HCI. She uses both quantitative and qualitative techniques to study marginalized rural populations in Bangladesh and aims to design computational tools and systems to address the challenges for the rural low-education population while accessing information. She is actively engaged with local NGOs and traditional healthcare support providers in rural Bangladesh. Before coming to Cornell, she served as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Independent University, Bangladesh and is currently on leave now.

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He conducts research in the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information and Communication Technology and Development (ICTD). He received his PhD in Information Science from Cornell University in 2017. He established the first HCI research lab in Bangladesh in 2009, and still maintains it. His research work is built around the concept of ‘voice’ that connects various branches of political philosophy to technology intervention. His current research focuses on the politics of faith and justification in computing.

Kentaro Toyama is W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information. He co-founded the International Conference on Information \& Communication Technologies and Development and is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Information Technologies and International Development. He has conducted research with Muslim-majority communities in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.

Richard Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Previously, as a visiting professor at the IIT, Bangalore, India, he started department's Professional Master's Program and led efforts in Tutored Video Instruction long before MOOC's became popular. As a visiting researcher in the Learning Sciences and Technology group at MSR, he led the development of Classroom Presenter, a tool for delivering presentations from the TabletPC. He worked with the Digital Health Solutions group at PATH, a Seattle based NGO working on health technologies for low resource environments. In 2015 he founded the UW Digital Financial Services research group with support from the BMGF to address challenges in introducing financial technologies in the developing world. Richard's main research interest is in Computing for the Developing World, with a focus on challenges in global health. He currently has a number of projects developing technology to address challenges in the global distribution of vaccines. He has done a substantial amount of work in educational technology, focusing on the Community Led Video Education model, first in the Digital StudyHall project and later in Projecting Health. Previously, he has worked in the theory and implementation of algorithms, including parallel algorithms, computational geometry, and scientific applications.