Waltraut Ritter is research director at Knowledge Dialogues, specializing in applied research projects on socio-economic issues of information and knowledge societies. Her lecture Open Public Data in the Cultural Sector focuses on how this new culture for digital innovation can be nurtured across memory institutions.

Lina Srivastava is a social innovation strategist combining culture, activism and storytelling. On February 12, she gave a Medea Talk on narrative platforms for social change.

Deanna M. Herst is an art historian specialized in media technology in art and design.

Valérie Lamontagne is a PhD scholar researching Performativity, Materiality and Laboratory Practices in Artistic Wearables at Concordia University, Canada.

Kristina Andersen is a researcher and storyteller primarily concerned with how we can allow each other to practice the future through the making of new exploratory objects.

The Vermont Maker movement: collaborations among artists, scientists and technologists in the US

Ralf Voncken works at Lego where his job is to come up with new ideas, make simple prototypes and then conduct tests with the potential user group.

David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino and researcher at Medea, analyzes the boundaries between technology, arts and society.

Patricia Charlton is a researcher on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and technology enhanced learning.

Alex Schaub, manager Fablab Amsterdam.

Tomas Diez, Fablab Barcelona, specializes in digital fabrication and its implications on future city models.

Tiffany St James is a social media strategist, trainer and international speaker, advising governments and industry on embedding social media and digital engagement in global businesses.

Katerina Avramides, London Knowledge Lab, is involved in projects developing learner-centred technology for teenagers and supporting teachers in assessing student learning through evidence-based methods.

Chadi Romanos is editor in chief of ARTE’s online platform which explores new interactions between broadcast and webcast, films and any other types of storytelling.

George Wright is head of the Internet Research and Future Services Team at the BBC which builds new prototypes, demonstrators and services across all digital platforms.

Jay David Bolter, Georgia Tech, is a renowned speaker and author of books in digital media.

Jason DaPonte has over 15 years experience working at the junction where media and technology collide.

Tiffany St James is a social media strategist, trainer and international speaker, advising governments and industry on embedding social media and digital engagement in global businesses. This lecture is on digital citizen engagement.

CHRIS SALTER is an artist, Director of Hexagram-Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technology and Associate Professor for Design + Computation Arts. His solo and collaborative work has been seen at major international exhibitions and festivals in over a dozen countries. He is the author of Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance. The Hexagram center he directs is known as Canada’s largest pole for research-creation in the many intersecting points between art and technology.

Jeannette Ginslov, performer, choreographer and artistic director, talks about the developmental stages of the AffeXity project, the interdependence of the collaborators, the relational and dynamic formation of technical and human intervention, the encounters of the carnal and the digital, the dialogic and temporal scaffolding of encounters of techne and the hands that attempt to capture affect.