Paolo Barattini
Dr. Paolo Barattini, MD PhD, after working as a Researcher in human Physiology and Circadian rhyhtms in Salt Lake City (Utah) and in Geneva CH) became (since 1993) a consultant in hardware and software biomedical devices. He founded a company (Ridgeback s.a.s.s) that has been working in many advanced products developments, between them the ESA projects MARES (the device currently is permanently housed on board the International Space Station), and HEWS, the EU FP7 project Theraedge, project LOCOBOT, project BURBA.
He has a kink for devising new services enabled by the creative use of technology, especially Information Technology, concocted with sound knowledge about Ergonomics of Human Machine and Human Robot interaction.
Pierre Métivier
A French citizen by birth and a world citizen by heart, Pierre Métivier is the co-founder of NET-7, a French IT executive and consultant network. As a specialist in product marketing and innovation, he helps companies to integrate new technologies such as contactless and the Internet of Things in their strategy and development.
Gill Wildman
Gill is a Director at Plot, and has been quietly exploring the softer side of the Internet Of Things, through research, film making, designing and developing and facilitating workshop interventions with industry. This includes an interactionary in 2005 around the affordances of RFID, a workshop for companies "The Elephant in the Room: Bringing Innovation into RFID Applications, presenting RFID in supporting everyday life situations. In 2006, she took her film, Everyday Intelligence, to the annual RFID industry forum to provoke discussion about how people then felt about these technologies, what they wanted, and most importantly, what they didn't. Since 2008, she has been working on a joint Plot and BDH project as a part of the Sandbox Media initiative. Here she has been exploring the delicate challenge of being able to support people being happy using pervasive media.