Organizers
	Marcelo Coelho (MIT Media Lab) Marcelo Coelho is a Graduate Student at the MIT Media Lab. His work explores how technology can refashion communication by incorporating computation into common substrates and materials. Some of his projects include shape-changing textiles, flying robots and edible circuits. Marcelo also holds a BFA in Computation Arts from Concordia University and, before joining the MIT Media Lab, he was a research partner at XS Labs developing wearable technology and interactive textiles.
	Sajid Sadi (MIT Media Lab) Sajid Sadi is a first year PhD candidate and research assistant at the Media Lab. He is interested in creating interfaces, both physical and digital, that allow people to connect more naturally and intuitively to the creative and generative capabilities that modern technology allows us. He is also interested in the social consequences of technology and the ways in which they change the way that people live and think.
	Pattie Maes (MIT Media Lab) Pattie Maes is an Associate Professor of Media, Arts and Sciences at MIT. Her areas of expertise are human-computer interaction, artifical life, artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, and intelligence augmentation. She founded and runs the Ambient Intelligence research group at the MIT Media Lab. Previously she founded and ran the Software Agents research group.
	Joanna Berzowska (XS Labs, Concordia University) Joey is an Assistant Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University and a member of the Hexagram Research Institute in Montreal. She is the founder and research director of XS Labs, where her team develops innovative methods and applications in electronic textiles and responsive garments. She received her Masters of Science from MIT.
	Neri Oxman (MIT Department of Architecture, MIT Media Lab) Neri Oxman is an architect and researcher currently based at MIT where she is a Presidential Fellow working towards her PhD in Design and Computation. She is the principle of MATERIALECOLOGY, an interdisciplinary research initiative that undertakes design research in the intersection between architecture, engineering, computation, and ecology.
	Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, CITA) Mette Ramsgard Thomsen is Associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, where she leads the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture [CITA]. Her research focuses on the conceptualisation, design and realisation of spaces that are defined by computational as well as material dimensions. She has also taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture and worked in multiple international research centres including the Fraunhofer Institute, Germany and the Human Interface Technology Lab, University of Washington, USA.
	Jennifer Leonard (IDEO) Jennifer Leonard is a member of IDEO's Design Community in California. Her craft is content creation and communication. Her tools are research and writing. Her work has been published in Details, Nylon, Azure, Shift, Seed and Saturday Night. She also co-authored Massive Change with Bruce Mau, a book on the future of design. As a result, she has delivered several keynote lectures at design conferences around the world.
	Michelle Addington (Yale School of Achitecture) Michelle Addington is Associate Professor at the Yale School of Architecture and she also serves as an adviser on energy and sustainability for many organizations, including the Department of Energy and the AIA. Michelle researches discrete systems and technology transfer, and her writings on energy, environmental systems, lighting, and materials have appeared in many books and journals. She recently co-authored Smart Materials and Technologies for the Architecture and Design Professions.