Stéphane Grumbach is a senior scientist at Inria, the French Institute for Digital Science. He works on the digital transformation of human societies considered globally in relation with the current complexity surge, the unmanageable planetary boundaries and the inescapable geopolitical tensions. 

He works in the Complex System Institute at ENS Lyon, that he headed for some years. He taught for numerous years digital economy in SciencesPo Paris. Previously, he has been science counselor at the French Embassy in Beijing, and director of a Sino-European lab, LIAMA. In 2006, he became the first foreigner habilitated, 博导, in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Two recent books appeared on related topics, The Empire of Algorithms, Armand Colin 2022, and Reinventing Governance in a Volatile World, Routledge 2025.

CAI Zhen is a professor of philosophy at East China Normal University. Her research focuses on normative ethics, moral psychology, and comparative ethics. She has taught courses such as Introduction to Ethics, Evolution and Ethics, and Seminar on Moral Psychology. She is the principal investigator of the research projects Current Issues of Evolutionary Ethics (2015-2020), Moral Judgment from the interdisciplinary perspective of philosophy and neuroscience (2024-2028), both funded by the National Social Science Fund of China. She also serves as a Council Member of the Shanghai Ethics Society, a member of the ECNU Human Subjects Protection Committee Board, and a member of the NYU Shanghai University Institutional Review Board.