Jan Merckx
Jan Merckx is UHF Gen2 RFID expert, coFounder of Time2Trace (T2T) focussed RFID solutions with a vision to move RFID into the personal experience environment.
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Christian Nold
Christian Nold is the Creative Director of Softhook Design which is working to develop new participatory models for local change. Since 2004, Nold has led many large scale participatory projects with diverse academic local and gernmental partners. In particular his ‘Emotion Mapping’ project which reinvisages the way we expereince and negotiate our local environment has received large amounts of international publicity and been staged in 50 towns with over 2000. Nold is currently working on new town scale toolkits for bottom-up ecological change.
Martijn de Waal
Martijn de Waal is a writer and researcher, who has specialized in the relation between technology, media and (public) culture. Together with Michiel de Lange he founded The Mobile City, a think tank and knowledge network on digital media and urban culture. He is also part of the New Media, Public Sphere and Urban Culture research project, supervised by prof. Rene Boomkens at the department of practical philosophy at the University of Groningen and a guest researcher at the department of media studies at the University of Amsterdam. In the spring of 2009 he was a visiting scholar at MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media, a collaboration between MIT's Medialab and Comparative Mediastudies. He serves as a member of the board at the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund and as a member of the board of advisors at Virtueel Platform, the national Dutch sector-institute for e-culture.
Florian Michahelles
Florian Michahelles is the global research coordinator of the Auto-ID Labs network comprising labs at Fudan, KAIST, Keio University, MIT, Cambridge, and ETH Zurich/St. Gallen. At the Information Management lab at ETH Zurich Florian Michahelles directs research at the forefront of mobile commerce innovations and global standards for supply-chain optimization.
Michahelles received a PhD from ETH Zurich for his research in participative design of wearable computing applications and the development of innovative business cases for ubiquitous computing. He holds a M.Sc (Diplom-Informatiker Univ.) degree in computer science and psychology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and was an MIT Sloan Visiting Fellow in 2000. Michahelles has published 50+ papers in international journals, conferences and scientific workshops. He is the program chair of the Internet of Things Conference (IoT2010) in Tokyo, Japan in November/December 2010.