Chad Laines serves as ABC Unified's Instructional Technology Specialist, where he provides teachers with AI integration strategies to leverage this powerful tool to revolutionize instruction by making it more accessible, engaging, and personalized. A two-time Educator of the Year nominee with over three decades as a middle school history teacher, he led students to 13 LA County championships and two state championships through the National History Day program. He now brings that classroom experience to provide guidance for the ethical and responsible use of AI in the classroom and beyond. His work is grounded in his HI+AI philosophy: the belief that the most powerful learning experiences emerge when Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence work in harmony.

Dr. Constance Steinkuehler is a Professor of Informatics at the UCI where she researches cognition, culture, and learning in the context of multiplayer videogames. She is the Co-Director of the Games+Learning+Society Center and she formerly served as Senior Policy Analyst in the Obama White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Her work has been featured in Science, Wired, USA Today, New York Times, LA Times, ABC, CBS, CNN NPR and the BBC. Current projects include investigations of toxicity and extremism in online commercial games and game-based programs in incarcerated settings to foster inclusion, equanimity, and social connectedness.

Justin is a senior at Harvard studying Computer Science. A Whitney High School alum, he co-founded the Computer Science Club and was a Code Jam organizer. In college, he has explored a range of paths within tech, including startups, quantitative finance, AI, and research. He's especially interested in how AI is reshaping the role of a modern software engineer, and he hopes to share the perspective of an AI-native computer science student at this year's Code Jam.

Rishikesh Ingale is a software engineer at Google working on network load balancing. He has broad interests in deep learning and distributed systems and has previously worked on distributed ML training/HPC, ML for cloud efficiency, and natural language understanding. He graduated from the computer science BS/MS program at UCSD.

Eamon Marchant is the AP Computer Science Principles and Physics teacher at Whitney, where he also serves as the head of the science department. Often partaking in sports such as cross country and badminton, he mentors students both academically and athletically. With a strong passion for education and computer science, Marchant inspires the next generation of thinkers and problem-solvers.