Julie Andreyev is a Vancouver-based new media artist whose work has been shown across Canada, in the US, Europe and Japan. Her work is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, The British Columbia Arts Council, Foreign Affairs Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University, Vancouver and co-curator of Interactive Futures Conference, Victoria, Canada.

Stella is currently a professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. Other positions Atkins has held include the Director of Center for Systems Science and director of the SFU Medical Computing Lab. Stella's research interests include Medical Image Display and Analysis and telehealth issues.

Marian's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and can be found in a number of collections including the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Leslie is an experimental animator and certified Laban Movement Analyst.

Jim Bizzocchi's research interests include the future of video, interactive narrative and game design. He teaches courses in Narrative & New Media, Game Design, and Video Production. He is an active video artist, producing a series of works in the new genre of Ambient Video.

Sylvia Borda is an artist, theorist and media producer with interests in information convergence, popular culture, film, new media and graphic user interface systems. She maintains an active international conference portfolio, and has authored numerous papers on digital media, heritage and curatorial practices. Sylvia has also won awards for her new media projects.

George is Canada's first Poet Laureate and one of Canada's most prolific writers of poetry, short stories, and novels with over 80 titles.

Working with the superimposition of time and sculptural elements, Fiona’s work has been exhibited in Europe and North America.

Colin is a filmmaker, poet and visual artist. Areas of interest include documentary and innovative film production, poetry, fiction, screenwriting, poetics, and interdisciplinary performance. He has a new book, The Shovel, to be released from Talonbooks this spring.

Mark Bullen has 25 years experience in distance education and e-learning and has expertise in course and program development and the planning and management of e-learning. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Athabasca Master's in Distance Education and the UBC Master in Educational Technology.

Dennis is a composer for film and television with over 75 films to his credit.

Harold Chaput is a Technical Director at Electronic Arts where, most recently, he led the engineering team for the FIFA common gameplay engine in the acclaimed FIFA 08 and FIFA 09. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 for his research in robotics and infant cognition. He also founded the Austin Museum of Digital Art, the world's first museum of digital art, in 1997. Dr. Chaput has been a research consultant in educational virtual worlds for Northwestern University and North Dakota State University, user interface for Compaq Western Research Labs, and machine learning for Motorola Advanced Research Labs.

Villy Christensen is one of the leading developers of methodologies for ecosystem modeling; his research being related to sustainable management of the world’s oceans. His current work if focused on how to communicate complex science finding through visualization techniques and development of decision support systems for ecosystem-based management.

Megan Cole is a social media consultant, building web strategies and implementing technology and social media tools to assist companies in community outreach.

Megan comes from a background in web design, social web marketing and broadcasting. She has had the fortune to live and work across Canada, with a wide range of clients, from grass-roots to corporations. She has been a speaker and has attended international technology conferences and events. While her clients are coast to coast, Megan happily makes the thriving hub of creativity and technology that is Vancouver her home.

Professionally, Megan enjoys sharing knowledge, experiences and expertise, and in turn, connecting with and learning from people with common interests and goals.

She can be found at megancole.org, where she writes about technology and community.

Actor with Derek Walcott's Trinidad Theatre Workshop; soloist with the José Limón Dance Company of New York; dancer, choreographer, theatre and performance lecturer in Germany and the UK; Artistic Director of Full Performing Bodies, Henry Daniel is an Associate Professor of Dance and Performance Studies in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He attended the Boston Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School in New York City as a dancer. Henry has an MA in Dance Studies from City University (The Laban Centre, London) and a Ph.D in Dance and Performance Studies from the University of Bristol.

John Dill’s current research interests include visual analytics, information visualization, and HCI. Dill is a member of ACM Siggraph's Advisory Board, the IEEE Information Visualization Symposium's Steering Committee, and has just completed his second term as EIC of IEEE's Computer Graphics and Applications Editorial Board. Dill also served on the US National Visual Analytics Center's National Research Agenda Panel and was recently appointed as the first NVAC Scholar.

Mike Dobson (PhD Educational Technology) has over 10 years experience in Simulation and Intelligent Multimedia for learning in UK, Europe and Canada and is currently PI with the $4 million Simulation and Games in Education (SAGE) SSHRC program. He is project lead with HEALTHSIMNET: A game for training HIV/AIDS care worker teams, and TEAMVIEW: A visual analytic tool for teams to reflect on game play strategies.

Dick Dolan has been the Dean of the School of Business, BC Institute of Technology, since June, 2000. The School of Business is comprised of seven departments, 4200 full time equivalent students and 170 full-time faculty and staff.

Arne Eigenfeldt is a composer and creator of interactive music systems, whose music has been performed throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East at many conferences and festivals. His current research involves creating intelligent digital tools and systems for composers.

Ronald Fedoruk teaches Scenography in the Theatre Program at UBC. His theatre career spans more than thirty-five years, and he has created designs for many Canadian Theatres, including a dozen productions for the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. His work was exhibited in the prestigious Prague Quadrennial Scenographic Exposition in 1995, and he has been a Canadian representative to the International Theatre Design Organization (OISTAT).

Dr. Sidney Fels research interests include human-computer interaction, biomechanical modeling of the upper airway, speech synthesis, and neural networks. Some of his projects include: Glove-TalkII (a virtual artificial vocal tract that turns hand gestures into speech), ArtiSynth (a biomechanical modeling toolkit), and the Iamascope (an interactive artwork).

David is currently employed as a game designer at Radical Entertainment.

Uwe Glässer is the founder and director of the Software Technology Lab at SFU. Uwe's research interests include computational system modelling and intelligent systems.

Peter's research interests include Situated Synthetic Cognition, or how machines can think, act and communicate like humans in naturally constrained scenarios. At the MIT Media Laboratory he used computer games to study humans and machines in such scenarios. He has been implementing some of the resulting designs in his work as AI Programmer/Lead at Mad Doc Software, a computer game development studio.

Composer/performer/programmer, Martin Gotfrit's work includes electroacoustic and acoustic scores for feature and documentary film, video, theatre, dance and the concert stage. As a sound designer he has worked as a practitioner, consultant and teacher. Actively engaged in computational art for many years, Gotfrit was one of the founders of the federally funded Centre for Image and Sound Research (1988 - 1992) and the facilitator of the "Computed Art" Summer Intensives at SFU in the 1990s. He has been on faculty at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University since 1981 where he currently holds the position of Director.

Barrie is a photo artist who combines a number of concepts and techniques in his work known for its focus on the human figure.

Bozena Kaminska has over 25 years of academic and corporate experience as a researcher, engineer, entrepreneur and educator. She is presently Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Wireless Sensor Networks, focusing on the research of new micro-sensors and communication technologies. She adopts microelectronics and computing to the development of a new generation of medical devices and methods for preventive, non-invasive health care.

David Kaufman is the Leader of the pan-Canadian network on Simulation and Gaming Environments for Learning (SAGE), which is addressing learning with new-technology games and simulations. He is interested in instructional methods, educational technology, gaming and simulation for learning, as well as continuing professional development and medical education.

Ms. Kearns is an Instructional Development consulting with BCIT's Learning Resource Unit.

Dr. Krug is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies and a faculty associate with the Institute for Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems (ICICS), Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) at UBC. From 1993-2002, he taught at The Ohio State University and held an associate faculty appointment with the Advance Computing Center for Art and Design and the Center. He has been conducting research on digital media, the arts, cognition and learning since the early 1990s and has given keynotes at international congress' on these topics in Austraia, Brazil, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, and the United States.  Dr. Krug's work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Inukshuk Wireless Inc., the Getty Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, and Arts21 and PBS (the Public Broadcasting Service) through a partnership with Davis Publications.

Colleen Lanki is a professional theatre artist who teaches Asian theatre and performance creation. Her research concentrates on experimental theatre, interdisciplinary work, and intercultural performance practice.

Maria Lantin is interested in the creation of visualizations and perceptualizations for the communication of abstract concepts such as quantum information science, human dialogue, and narrative structures.

Brian Lewis did his degrees in filmmaking and film theory. Brian is currently interested in the social impact of new technologies, management of technological change, and the applications of new technologies in education and entertainment sectors.

Ze-Nian Li is interested in computer vision and multimedia.

James Little’s research interests include computational vision, robotics and artificial intelligence.

The goal of Alan K. Mackworth’s research is to understand and build intelligence systems.

Milton McClaren has long been involved in extending and enriching learning opportunities through the use of information technologies. In the summer of 2006 he co-authored (with Dr. Gerri Sinclair and Mr. Michael Griffin) the E-Learning discussion paper for the Campus 2020 Initiative of the Ministry of Advanced Education and co-facilitated the launch of the new B.C. Virtual Learning Society. He is currently teaching graduate students both on-line and face to face and is designing, developing and implementing courses and programs for E-Learning and face-to-face environments.

Phillip McCrum is currently interested in painting and digital media and the developing relationship between 'the traditional practices' and the development of new forms of expression.

Manuel Piña is a visual artist who has participated in individual and group exhibitions around the world.

Morgan Reid is a media wrangler, MA student, and a member of UBC's ISIT department in the Faculty of Arts. Morgan's research interests include media in environmental education, critical analyses relating rationales for using information and communication technologies and virtual environments in education. His theoretical interests are in the areas of post-structuralist social theory, complexity theory, constructivist learning, and critical media studies.

Cathy Robertson brings 20 years of dramatic and documentary filmmaking to her teaching and professional work. Recently she was the cinematographer on "Strength", an interactive musical experimental film which has shown in Europe, South America and Louisiana. She has taught dramatic and documentary filmmaking and cinematography at Emily Carr University, University of British Columbia and Vancouver Film School. She collaborated on the Visual Storytelling course for Great Northern Way. Her interests are in developing community visual storytelling and interactive films.

John Robinson's research interests include sustainability and community engagement, information visualization, adaptive interface design, gaming and simulation of sustainable futures, environmental philosophy, sustainable energy systems; and business and sustainability.

Stephen Sheppard teaches in sustainable landscape planning, aesthetics, and visualization. Steven's current research interests include perceptions of climate change.

Mike Van der Loos, PhD, is adjunct professor in Mechanical Engineering at UBC, teaching design courses and pursuing research in the CARIS Lab on personal and rehabilitation robotics.  His background includes 25 years at the VA Palo Alto Rehabilitation R&D Center in California in rehabilitation robotics and a long-time member of the teaching team of ME310, Stanford University's flagship globally-distributed, industry-sponsored, Mechanical Engineering graduate design course.

Jeffrey Ventrella is a developer of virtual worlds and artificial life, with a Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab. A gifted artist at a young age, Jeffrey discovered programming at 26, and has since applied visual language to many areas of software engineering, including scientific data visualization at Syracuse University. He has taught at Syracuse University, Tufts, and the University of California in San Diego, and has published chapters and presented his artificial life work internationally. In 2008, Jeffrey taught the Building Virtual Worlds course at the Centre for Digital Media.

In '97 Jeffrey became co-founder and Principle Inventor of the virtual world, There.com, where he was the lead designer for avatar-centric communication. Later he served as Senior Developer at Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, where he invented Flexies, FollowCam, and avatar-related technologies. Jeffrey has worked at Adobe Systems on Acrobat 3D, and developed the home page for NASAImages.org while working at the Internet Archive. His interactive gems can be found at www.Ventrella.com

Son Vuong's research interests include techniques and tools for the design, validation, implementation and testing of communication protocols.

Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe is an art and architecture scholar. He has many publications and has won numerous awards.

Rita Wong is an Assistant Professor in Critical and Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her work investigates the relationships between decolonization, social justice, ecology, and contemporary poetics. A recipient of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop Emerging Writer Award, she is the author of two books of poetry: monkeypuzzle and forage (shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2008). Wong’s poems have appeared in anthologies such as Ribsauce: a CD/Anthology of Words by Women, The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War, Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry, Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literatures in English, Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry, as well as publications like Woo, West Coast Line, CV2, XCP (Cross Cultural Poetics), Open Letter, Parser, Ms, and more. Her essays can be found in Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English, BC Studies, Essays on Canadian Writing, and more.

David's career interests include science, technology and environmental education.

Barbara has most recently been exploring the integration of digital technology into printmaking practice in the UBC Print Media Research Centre that she supervises and founded within the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory in 2002. She is currently producing a series of digital prints that confront issues of ecological degradation in British Columbia marine habitats.