Justin Langan is an Indigenous advocate, environmentalist, and the founder of O'KANATA, a nonprofit empowering Indigenous youth. With a background in political studies and interactive media arts, Justin leads projects focused on eco-literacy, sustainable development, and climate action, integrating traditional knowledge with modern solutions.

Distinguished Professor Hulbe is a glaciologist who studies how and why polar ice sheets change over time. She integrates data from satellite remote sensing, field-based observations and numerical modelling to investigate the mechanics and dynamics of modern systems and the recent past. Her recent work has focussed on rate-determining processes associated with deglaciation in the Ross Sea region of West Antarctica.

Dr Marzatico is a lecturer at the School of Surveying and a researcher at the interface with more than 20 years of working experience in post-conflict countries. She researches the relationship between land, natural resources and traditional governance, and how this impacts on indigenous communities’ participation in decision-making on land and natural resources at local and global levels. She is codirector of the Ōtākou Whakaiu Waka Research Theme Research at the Interface of Diverse Knowledge Systems and a member of the Otago Centre for Law and Society Steering Committee.

Dr Marzatico is a researcher at the interface with more than 20 years of working experience in post-conflict countries. She researches the relationship between land, natural resources, traditional governance, and the law and how this impacts on indigenous communities’ participation in decision-making at local and global levels. She is co-director of the Ōtākou Whakaiu Waka Research Theme Research at the Interface of Diverse Knowledge Systems and a member of the Otago Centre for Law and Society. Associate Professor/Dean Māori Katharina Ruckstuhl (Ngāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki) leads research that involves the interface research between Indigenous people and the R&D, energy and environmental sectors. She is a Deputy Director of Te Whai Ao Dodd-Walls Centre of Research Excellence for Quantum & Photonics, the current ENRICH Global Chair at the Engelberg Center, NYU, and a member of the Indigenous caucus of the IEEE working party on Standards for Indigenous people’s data. She has published on Māori language revitalisation, resource extraction, Māori knowledge and science and technology and Indigenous data sovereignty. Rachel is an experienced Regenerative Practitioner, project coordinator and designer. She uses regenerative design principles in large scale infrastructure and technical developments, specialising in Kaupapa Māori and the creative arts approaches. Using research drawn from mātauranga Māori, Chinese Medicine and Western Somatic practices such as Body Mind Centering, she applies this to site, community and time specific contexts to bring people into relationship to inner and outer ecologies through somatically designed alignments of movement, story, space, object and sound. Distinguished Professor Hulbe is a glaciologist who studies how and why polar ice sheets change over time. She integrates data from satellite remote sensing, field-based observations and numerical modelling to investigate the mechanics and dynamics of modern systems and the recent past. Her recent work has focussed on rate-determining processes associated with deglaciation in the Ross Sea region of West Antarctica.

Rachel is an experienced Regenerative Practitioner, project coordinator and designer. Trained in methodologies developed through Regenesis Group she uses regenerative design principles in large scale infrastructure and technical developments, specialising in Kaupapa Māori and the creative arts approaches. Using research drawn from mātauranga Māori, Chinese Medicine and Western Somatic practices such as Body Mind Centering, she applies this to site, community and time specific contexts to bring people into relationship to inner and outer ecologies through somatically designed alignments of movement, story, space, object and sound.