Nana Ariel is a rhetoric and literary scholar and a senior faculty member at Tel Aviv University. She has been a guest lecturer and speaker at various international institutions, including Harvard University, Sciences Po, Paris and UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching span rhetoric from antiquity to the preset, specifically modernist rhetoric and material cultures, manifestos, conventionality and originality, rhetoric and populism, and rhetoric in the context of technology and AI. An enthusiastic educator, she is also deeply engaged with pedagogy and learning, with a recent focus on epistemic curiosity. In addition, she is the author of several children’s books. One of them is called "The Most Boring Book in the World".  Her favorite academic cliché is: "It is beyond the scope of this paper"

Dana Riesenfeld is a philosopher of language and teaches at Tel Aviv University. She also heads the philosophy program at Ironi Aleph School of the Arts. Her research engages with linguistic rules, conventions, and normativity, as these are understood across analytic and continental traditions. She has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of Donald Davidson and is exploring language as it is used on digital platforms. Her favourite cliché is "Click, share, comment and subscribe".