Usman Haque
Usman Haque is CEO of Connected Environments and has recently launched Pachube, a web service that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world.
Maurits Kreijveld
Maurits Kreijveld carries out a foresight study on Wisdom of the crowd and the future of decision making at STT, the Dutch Study center and think tank for Technology Trends. In the past years Maurits worked at the Ministry of Economic Affairs on Innovation policy and the ICT and new media policy. Maurits holds/has a Master’s degree in applied physics. He is particularly fascinated by the interaction between technology and society and how this shapes the future of our society and organisations.
Régine Debatty
Régine Debatty blogs on we-make-money-not-art.com, contributes to several European design and art magazines and lectures internationally about the way artists, hackers and interaction designers (mis)use technology.
Slava Kozlov
Slava Kozlov is founding member of Summ()n, a newly opened creative consultancy that helps people to imagine and explore possible futures, and change themselves toward them. He helps business and organizations to innovate and transform, and the 'recipe' combines future studies, experience design and interactive art (and a bit of magic too ). An array of digital tools is used to support and enable the process, including social web, virtual worlds, multiplayer online games, and hybrid interactive and experiential environments. Slava is a psychologist, social scientist, mathematician, blogger, player, photographer, climber; a practitioner philosopher. Before establishing Summ()n, Slava spent ten years with Philips Design’s Strategic Futures Design team in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.