Dr. Perone is the Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services and an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare. She is a licensed attorney and interdisciplinary scholar. Prior to her current role, she previously served as a senior health policy fellow at the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She also practiced law for nearly ten years and served as the Executive Director for a community-based nonprofit serving LGBTQIA+ older adults in the United States. Her research examines equitable aging, including intersections in long-term care, LGBTQIA+ aging, and health policy.

Walter R. Boot, PhD, is the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor in Geriatrics II and Associate Director of the Center on Aging and Behavioral Research at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is a principal investigator of the National Institute on Aging-funded CREATE Center and Co-Director of the NIDILRR-funded ENHANCE Center. His research examines how existing and emerging technologies can support the health, well-being, quality of life, and social connectedness of older adults with and without cognitive impairment. His recent work focuses on using artificial intelligence, including large language models and natural language processing, to help older adults navigate complex health systems. His expertise includes human factors, user-centered design, cognitive aging, age-related cognitive impairment, clinical trial design, and technology adoption across the lifespan.

Dr. Diaz-Asper is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Marymount University in Virginia and a neuropsychologist with over 20 years of experience working with older adults in research and clinical settings. She is a Fellow at Marymount University's Center for Optimal Aging and her research concerns using artificial intelligence to analyze speech as a method to screen for cognitive decline.