Juliana Rotich is a Kenyan blogger, digital activist and environment editor of Global Voices Online, an online media platform that publishes reports in 18 different languages that are normaly not heard in mainstream media. Digital activism, renewable energy, Africa and non-profit work that involves technology, are here special interests.

Alexander Rose is the Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation, an organisation devoted to promoting long-term thinking. He has facilitated projects such as the 10,000 Year Clock with Danny Hillis, The Rosetta Project, and the Long Now’s Seminars About Long Term Thinking.

Susan Neiman is Director of the Einstein Forum, Potsdam. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard and the Freie Universität Berlin, and taught philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University.

Régine Debatty is a blogger, curator, critic and lecturer whose work focuses on the intersection between art, science and social issues. She runs the blog we-make-money-not-art.com and contributes to European art and culture magazines.

Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborative Computing at Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Laboratory where he explores novel communication technologies for rich and dynamic social interaction.

Maja Kuzmanovic is founder of FoAM, a transdisciplinary organisation guided by the motto ‘grow your own worlds’. With an academic background in Design Forecasting and Interactive Media, she was named by MIT as one of the world’s top 100 ‘Young Innovators’ in 1999.

Nicola Triscott works in the performing, interdisciplinary and visual arts. In 1993 she founded The Arts Catalyst, a British interdisciplinary arts organisation commissioning artists’ projects that experimentally and critically engage with science.

Writer, art historian and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is director of the Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Torino, and will be artistic director of Documenta 13, taking place in Kassel in 2012.

Bruce Sterling aka Bruno Argento is a renowned science fiction author who helped define the cyberpunk genre. He is commentator for technology and design, and professor at the European Graduate School. His latest research focuses on the notion of atemporality.