Piotr Mirowski is the Director of Improbotics, a theatre company that pioneered improvisation with artificial intelligence and robots on stage, investigating the intersection of AI and human creativity. Piotr is also an AI researcher, currently Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Visiting Researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London. He obtained his PhD in computer science at New York University (Outstanding Dissertation award, 2011) supervised by Prof. Yann LeCun. Piotr has worked on robotics, on weather and climate forecasting and now on human–centered AI, leading an interdisciplinary team working on AI and Society.

Boyd M. Branch is a Research Fellow at Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research (C‑DaRE) and Co‑director of the AI Theatre Lab Improbotics. He is a theatre technologist and academic whose work spans live performance, digital media, and interdisciplinary research. He serves as Course Director for the Master’s in Virtual & Augmented Reality at Coventry University and collaborates with scientists, engineers, veterans, and artists to create innovative performance systems – ranging from biofeedback-driven immersive theatre, to digital oral history installations and STEM-focused museum exhibits. His scholarly output includes peer-reviewed works on virtual and augmented reality in performance, remote music, and human-LLM collaborations. His media designs have been featured internationally – at the Venice Biennale, New Ohio Theatre (NY Times Critics’ Pick), New York Academy of Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, and various festivals.