Programme
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Speakers
Keynote
Jamais Cascio covers the intersection of emerging technologies and cultural transformation, focusing on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking. Cascio is an affiliate at the Institute for the Future and a fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Cascio co-founded World Changing.com and now blogs at OpenTheFuture.com.
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Stowe Boyd is a thinker, writer and an authority on the theory and practice of social web application design and development and their impacts . He coined the term "social tools" in 1999, the same year he started blogging and hasn't looked back since - according to Technobabble - Stowe is one of the top ten analysts currently blogging.
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Rachel O'Connell is Vice President of People Networks and Chief Safety Officer at Bebo.com and is considered to be one of Europe's foremost experts in internet safety. She reports directly to CEO, Michael Birch and focuses on the area of Corporate & Social Responsibility for the company in the US and Europe. Dr O'Connell's experience includes more than 7 years of involvement in researching how various end-users use new and emerging technologies - and she has gone on to use this evidence base in the development of programmes designed to educate and empower children, young people and adults in various capacities ( e.g. parents, teachers, social workers etc) with the tools, knowledge and skills to navigate the internet safely.
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Adam Greenfield is perhaps best known for the book Everyware, regarded as the first work for general audiences on the consequences of a sensor and computer-saturated environment. He is also credited with having coined the word moblog.
Adam is a leading authority on user experience design and ubiquitous computing and an expert on next-generation computing and the human-friendly interface. His personal website, v-2.org, was nominated for a Chrysler Design Award in 2000. Adam is the Head of Design Direction, Nokia
http://speedbird.wordpress.com
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Tom Ilube is CEO of Garlik, the personal identity company, Garlik was founded by Tom, Mike Harris, founding CEO of Egg plc and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, former BCS President.
Garlick was the first company to develop a web-scale commercial
application of semantic technology, enabling consumers to find and
understand what personal information is in the public domain about them
and manage how their identities appear online.
Tom's technology
career spans 20 years including Goldman Sachs, PriceWaterhouseCoopers,
The London Stock Exchange, Cap Gemini and BA. He was also founding CEO
of Lost Wax, a software company.
Presentation
James Marriott is a writer, artist, activist and naturalist. He is a founding member and Co-Director since 1983 of PLATFORM. PLATFORM works across disciplines for social and environmental justice, combining the transformational power of art with campaigning, and the rigor of in-depth research with an inspiring vision to promote alternative futures. Since 1996 his work has focused on the oil and gas industry and its global impacts. Recent productions include "And While London Burns" an operatic audio walk about climate change and "The Next Gulf – London, Washington & the Oil Conflict in Nigeria" (Constable 2005).
Usman Haque has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances. His skills include the design of both physical spaces and the software and systems that bring them to life. He has been an invited researcher at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, artist-in-residence at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Japan and has also worked in USA, UK and Malaysia. As well as directing the work of Haque Design + Research he was until 2005 a teacher in the Interactive Architecture Workshop at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London.
Tapio Mäkelä is a researcher and a media artist based in Manchester, UK and Helsinki, Finland. He is currently an AHRC Research Fellow with department of Creative Technology, School of Art and Desigh, University of Salford. He is a co-founder with Marko Peljhan, of Marin Association and M.A.R.I.N. (Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network), an art, science and ecology research residency and network initiative.
Dave Griffiths was raised on an early education in weaving, bell ringing and 8bit computers, and is now dedicated to changing the world with free software, live animation and noise. He works as a self employed artist/programmer with the FoAM art laboratory and performs as part of slub - a livecoding band.
Aaron creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork. Koblin's work has been shown internationally and is part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
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Ewan McIntosh is an leading expert in advising on how social media can be harnessed for to improvelearning in the organisation, leadership and communication. He currently works for Channel 4 Television Corporation’s Innovation for the Public Fund, as Digital Commissioner for Scotlandand Northern Ireland and has consulted for organisations including the BBC, British Council, General Teaching Council of Scotland, RM and Scottish Enterprise.
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Lee Bryant co-founded Headshift in 2002 to focus on the emerging area of social software and social networking. He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, and has a strong belief in the empowering potential of the internet. He is also a board member of a social enterprise, Involve, and a trustee of the Foundation for Science Technology and Culture. Pre-Internet, he wrote and researched in the field of International Relations, working as a media consultant for the Bosnian government in London and Sarajevo during the war.
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Christian Nold is an artist, designer and educator working to develop new participatory models for communal representation. In 2001 he wrote the well received book ‘Mobile Vulgus’, which examined the history of the political crowd and which set the tone for his research into participatory mapping. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2004, Christian has led a number of large scale participatory projects and worked with a team on diverse academic research projects. In particular his ‘Bio Mapping’ project has received large amounts of international publicity and been staged in 16 different countries and over 1500 people have taken part in workshops and exhibitions. These participatory projects have a strong pedagogical basis and grew out of Christian’s formal university teaching. He is currently based at the Bartlett, University College London.
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Jonah Brucker Cohen is a researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor of communications at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). He has worked as a Research Fellow at Eyebeam, Media Lab Europe, and Interval Research NYU-ITP. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications and his work has been shown at a number of major international exhibitions.
Mike Bennett is a postdoctoral researcher and interaction designer in the CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, at the School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland. He was also a Research Associate at Media Lab Europe, in the Palapable Machines Group. His work explores the futuristic implications of an individual centered and adaptive world. In particular he is exploring examples of malleable objects and spaces. His work has been shown at events such as Ars Electronica (04), Transmediale (04), CHI (04, 06), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03), Observatori (03), Microwave Festival (04), and has been written about in The New York Times, Neural, Rhizome.org, and others.
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Mario Cacciottolo BBC Journalist, photographer, blogger Mario initially created the www.someoneoncetoldme.com website as a means of improving his photography. His idea of getting people to pose for photographs holding a placard with something that someone once told them written upon became an instant success and the site now receives submissions from around the world
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Yuri Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1980. Between 1999 and 2005 he worked for Japanese art group Maywa Denki, where he developed a strong interest in music and technology. In 2005 he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art. During this time worked for the designer Moritz Waldemeyer and after graduating in 2008 opened his own studio. He is currently showing work in Nowhere_Now Here (Laboral AICC in Asturias, Spain) and presenting his first solo exhibition, The Physical Value Of Sound (Clear Gallery, Tokyo, Japan).
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David Gunn is the Director of Incidental, an organisation specialising
in cross-disciplinary work including websites, installations and
performances.
His work focuses upon using new media to explore
notions of authorship, establishing forms of “diffuse creativity”
where the lines between reading and writing, artist and audience are
significantly blurred.
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Stefan Agamanolis is the Chief Executive and Research Director of Distance Lab, a research institute bringing together technology, design and the arts to overcome the disadvantages of distance. Stefan has over 10 years of experience inside MIT's Media Lab Europe, were he led the Human Connectedness group, an interdisciplinary team that explored the future of human relationships as mediated by technology. His work and that of his researchers has won a number of awards and has been exhibited in diverse venues including Ars Electronica (Austria), the Osaka National Museum of Art (Japan), the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), and the Wired NextFest (USA).
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Tristan Thielmann is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Research Center at University of Siegen, Germany. His cross-disciplinary research and practice explores the aesthetics and history of geomedia with a focus on navigation systems, geobrowsers and geo surveillance technologies. Tristan is visiting fellow of Software Studies lab, where he is doing oral history interviews with pioneers in mobile cartography and GPS technology. More information on his research can be found at
www.spatialturn.de/english.htm.
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Alfie Dennen is a creative technologist working mainly in mobile centric projects. After working as a marketer in print publishing at Sportbusiness International and The Media Cell, alfie co-founded Moblog.net in 2003, and still heads up Moblog on a day to day basis. In 2005 Alfie created 'We Are Not Afraid', a website dedicated to non-violent protest against the terrorist attacks of 7/7, which was the subject of a BBC documentary. In 2006 Alfie founded the Stopped Clocks Foundation, a charitable body engaged in documenting all the stopped public clocks in the UK and restoring them to working order. Alfie is currently focused on projects around locative art and locative media, most recently Britglyph which created the largest Geoglyph ever made, and 'What Is The Question', a location based quest in London.
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Selene Kolman is co-founder and head of R&D at bliin, the live community that allows for media to be shared with the world on maps of the earth. bliin participates in the European Space Agency’s Technology Transfer programme. Selene is also founder and director of Nimity, an initiative to conduct research into the Satellite Economy. In 1994, together with Stef Kolman, she started an emerging media and art projects company KKEP. Selene has previously lectured in the MA studies New Media & Digital Culture at Utrecht University.
Christian Licoppe is currently the head of the Social Science department at Telecom Paristech, after managing social science research at France Telecom R&D. Among other things he has worked in the field of mobility and communication studies for several years. He has used mobile geolocation and communication data to analyze mobility and sociability patterns of mobile phone users. He has studied extensively (with Yoriko Inada) one of the first location aware communities (the Mogi players in Japan 2003-2008) and the rich configurations of augmented encounters its evolving culture supports. He is also interested from a social and juridical perspective in the way systems based on Bluetooth recognition of proximate mobile terminals may provide serendipitous opportunities for spurious and enriched encounters, in collaboration with several firms (RATP, Mobiluck).
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Helen Aspell is Head of Digital at Equality and Human Rights Commission UK .Helen has a background in championing digital marketing and delivering innovative, reliable and flexible online solutions. Helen has been member of the Voluntary & Community Sector ICT best practice group.
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Roland Harwood is Director of Open Innovation at NESTA. All his work is underpinned by the idea that the best innovations happen through extreme collaboration. Flagship projects include working with Tim Berners Lee on the future of the web, successfully implementing open innovation with P&G, Oracle and Virgin, and working with Imperial College and the RCA on an Interdisciplinary Business Incubator. He also sits on various boards and committees including Distance Lab, Design London, EPSRC, and several start-up technology companies.
For the past 12 years Roland has also worked freelance as a music producer for SonyBMG, writing soundtracks for TV and film, including for American Psycho, Property Ladder and the Cosby Show.
Participant
Roger Malina is an astronomer, currently acting director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence. His expertise is in space astronomy instrumentation and currently involved in projects in observational cosmology on dark energy. He is also President of the Association Leonardo in Paris and Executive Editor of the Leonardo publication at MIT Press.
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Simon Cross is a Principal Web Developer for bbc.co.uk. He's currently working some new products to modernise and refresh bbc.co.uk by making it more dynamic and more social.
Previous projects Simon's worked on include the BBC Podcast Directory for the web and iPhone - and range of projects across the BBC Radio sites from Radio 1 to BBC 7 and events such as Glastonbury and Electric Proms. Before working at the BBC, Simon worked in the commercial radio sector building podcasting and other audio-on-demand applications.
Simon's particular interests are in the realtime social web, application of Semantic Web technologies to the social media space and the distribution of audio and video over the web for browsers, mobiles and IPTV.
Chair - Mobile
Katie Lips is currently creating a new 'personal mobile content' project in secret stealth mode at Kisky Netmedia and is 'instigator' at Appostles - a new European mobile collective focussing on creating the best in Android and iPhone applications. Katie helps clients make the move to "new mobile", and is an evangelist for iPhone and Android platforms as they offer enhanced mobile experiences to consumers and endless opportunities to independent developers.
