Dr. Tom Calvert is Emeritus Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU Surrey. His research interests focus on e-learning systems, computer animation and computer based tools for user interaction with multimedia systems. His work on computer animation has resulted in the Life Forms system for dance choreography and the SFU spin-off company Credo Interactive Inc. that markets and develops this software. Tom has degrees in electrical engineering from University College London, Wayne State University (MSEE) and Carnegie-Mellon University (Ph.D.).

Robert Gardiner has designed scenery and/or lighting at numerous theatres in Canada and the US, and worked as a director, technical director, stage carpenter, scenic artist, and actor. His award-winning designs have been included in a number of exhibitions, including the Canadian National Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial in 1998. Robert's present artistic interests involve integrating imagistic design with dramaturgy and new script development.

Chris Jaques is an educator and has spent much of his time teaching economics, business, and business strategy, to both post secondary students and to business people. Chris has worked in and with a number of industries in middle and senior management positions, and for several years ran his own business/management consulting firm. He is actively involved with the fundraising activities of his son's school, and coaches soccer to U-11 boys in the Richmond Youth Soccer Program. Chris holds a masters degree in economics from the University of Alberta.

Harry Killas is in his third year at Emily Carr University, where he has taught courses in Film, Video and Integrated Media, and Media History. Before that, Harry taught documentary filmmaking and film history at the Vancouver Film School for seven years. His award-winning dramatic films have been screened at several international festivals including Bilbao, Toronto, Palm Springs, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Torino and Vancouver. His documentaries have been broadcast on the CBC, CHUM, NHK, Knowledge Network, and CTV. He is a graduate of Stanford University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Rick Mischel currently serves as the President of Reach Games - a company specializing in the creation of digital assets for the gaming and animation industry - and serves as an Executive Producer at Rainmaker Animation. Rick previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Mainframe Entertainment and prior to this position, he served as President and COO of The Harvey Entertainment Company in Los Angeles. Rick began his career as an entertainment attorney with O'Melveny & Myers in 1987 and has held an impressive list of executive titles since then.

Dr. Gerri Sinclair's cross-domain career includes more than 20 years' experience spanning the fields of internet and new media technology, entrepreneurial business, academic research, and government policy.

Sinclair is the Executive Director of the Masters of Digital Media Program and CEO of the Centre for Digital Media - a high-tech facility that houses the MDM Program at Great Northern Way Campus (GNWC). In 2006, GNWC received a $40.5M government grant from the BC Government to establish a world-leading Graduate Degree Program in the field of Digital Media. This powerhouse Master's Program is already garnering awards and attracting the best and brightest students from around the world.

Prior to joining MDM and GNWC, Dr. Sinclair was the chair of The Telecom Policy Review, advising the Federal Government of Canada on the policy and regulatory environment required to support an advanced telecommunications framework. She was formerly the General Manager of MSN Canada, as well as the founder and CEO of NCompass Labs, an Internet web content management company spun out of Simon Fraser University in 1996 and acquired by Microsoft in 2001.

A former IBM Consulting Scholar as well as a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research in New York, Dr. Sinclair was also the first President of the British Columbia Government Premier’s Technology Council, and the founding director of the ExCITE lab at Simon Fraser University, the first new media technology R&D centre in Canada.

She has served on several government and corporate boards including Telus Corporation and BC Telecom, as well as Canada’s Information Highway Advisory Council and the National Broadband Taskforce. She is currently a director of the Toronto Stock Exchange, Ballard Power, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Canadian Communications Research Council, and Genome BC. She recently was appointed to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Dr. Gerri Sinclair is the recipient of the YWCA Woman of Distinction award, the Canadian Women in Communications Woman of the Year award, the Canadian Women in New Media Pioneer award, the Influential Woman in Business award, the Sarah Kirke award for the most outstanding Canadian woman in High Tech. In 2005 she was honoured with the Canadian Consumer Choice Award for Business Woman of the Year. Most recently, she was recognized by the Canadian Public Policy Forum as a Testimonial Award Winner for her outstanding contribution to the quality of public policy and public management in Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance drama as well as an honorary Doctor of Science in Computing Science from the University of British Columbia.

Professor Robert Woodbury holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carleton University where he was awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal in Architecture in 1981. He earned his Master of Science and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He was a faculty member in Architecture and the Engineering Design Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University from 1982 to 1993, at Adelaide University in South Australia from 1993 to 2001, at the Technical University of British Columbia from 2001 to 2002 and is now at Simon Fraser University. He was founding Chair of the Graduate Program in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU. Currently he is Scientific Director of the Canadian Design Research Network, the national association of design researchers in Canada.