Ian Lawrence
Ian Lawrence is a founder member of the Ubuntu Brazil community and a member of the Open Web Foundation which is an independent non-profit dedicated to the development and protection of open, non-proprietary specifications for web technologies. He is the author of the book 'Professional Ubuntu Mobile Development' and works at The Nokia Institute in Manaus, Brazil.
Julian Bleecker
Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design in Los Angeles and the Near Future Laboratory. He investigates emerging social practices and networked interaction rituals. His focus is on hands-on design, physical construction, prototyping, observation, prop-making and designed science fictions as a way to raise questions, tune in weak signals, reveal hidden insights and yield innovations that could make the world a more habitable, playful place.
He has a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in computer-human interaction. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz where his doctoral dissertation focused on science, fiction, technology and culture.
Peter Horvath
Peter made his mark as a Technologist at O'Reilly Media and a blogger for Make Magazine, where he celebrated hacking, tweaking and bending technology. Later he went on to co-found Ignite Toronto, a wildly popular festival of geek culture.
More recently he can be found connecting the planet with Project Noah, which began as an app for people to share their nature sightings but has evolved into a scientific and culturally relevant tool for both the masses and experts. It's been featured on Wall Street Journal, CNN, New York Times, Huffington Post, Slate and is officially partnered with National Geographic.
He attend the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.