Adam Bly (CA) is the founder and CEO of Seed, an online science magazine, as well as the initiator of the visualizing.org data visualization site. He has given speeches and made presentations at the World Economic Forum, MoMA, the Royal Society and Harvard University.
http://www.aec.at/thebigpicture/en/2012/08/08/the-big-picture-symposium/
Manuel Lima (PT/US) works for Microsoft Bing. He initiated VisualComplexity.com for the mapping of complex networks and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Prior to Microsoft, his employers included Nokia and Siemens. Lima is one of the leading experts in information visualization.
http://www.aec.at/thebigpicture/en/2012/08/08/the-big-picture-symposium/
Golan Levin (US) designs artifacts and experiences that investigate new forms of expressing reactions. In his work, he concentrates on the design of systems to simultaneously produce, modify and depict images and sounds. Levin teaches and does research at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the recipient of an Award of Distinction in the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica’s Hybrid Art category.
Paola Antonelli (IT/US) is a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and one of the world’s foremost experts in contemporary architecture & design. She has designed numerous exhibitions (e.g. Workspheres and SAFE) and written books about design. She teaches the history of design at UCLA and Harvard.
