Prof. Erik Champion

Prof. Erik Champion is a Professor of Virtual Heritage and Interactive History at Adelaide University and directs the Playful Cultures Lab, part of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE). He is Emeritus Professor at Curtin University, an Honorary Research Fellow at UWA, and Honorary Professor of Games, Immersive Media & Extended Reality, at the University of Salford, UK. He has written or edited 11 books, particularly in the intersection between serious games and digital heritage, and teaches 3D digital media, architectural history, and game design. He leads a current Australian Research Council Discovery Project on digital heritage and gamification.

Margarita Dorovska

Margarita Dorovska is a curator and an occasional writer in the field of contemporary art. She makes the podcast http://govoriartist.at and teaches a course on exhibition making for the MA programme Contemporary Museum Exhibitions in Historical and Archaeological Museums at New Bulgarian University.  She is the director of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Contemporary Art Center and Gabrovo. From 2016 to 2023 she was director of the Museum of Humour and Satire in Gabrovo. Previously she worked as an expert for contemporary art at the Ministry of Culture (2014 – 2016) and freelanced (2011 – 2014). In 2014 Margarita worked with the bidding team of Varna for the city’s candidacy for European Capital of Culture as adviser for the artistic programme and overall concept. She worked as research and development manager and then curator at InterSpace Media Art Centre (2005 – 2009), and was the founding director of Cult.bg Foundation (2006 – 2011), which managed an independent online media for art and culture, provided open source services for art professionals and administered the Fund for Support of Emerging Artists (2006-2007).

Keynote Title:  Digitised Museum Collections – Use for Researchers, Museum
Staff and General Audience

Prof. Dimitris Kotzinos 

Prof. Dimitris Kotzinos is a Professor of Computer Science at CY Cergy Paris University and a member of the ETIS Lab, where he conducts research at the intersection of data science, web technologies, and artificial intelligence. His work focuses on the semantics of interoperable web data, knowledge graphs, social network analysis, and the ethical dimensions of AI, such as fairness, transparency, and data privacy. He is part of the Cultural Heritage Could (ECCCH). With over 70 publications and involvement in numerous European research projects, he brings deep expertise in designing systems that bridge technology and society.