Juan Manuel Barrientos

Colombia
www.elcielococinacreativa.com

Chef at El Cielo restaurant. Special guest for Colombia at Madrid Fusión 2013, where he was honored and the chef most interviewed by the media.

Gisele Trudel

Canada
www.aelab.com

Gisèle Trudel is an artist. In 1996, she cofounded Ælab, an artistic research unit with Stéphane Claude, who is an electroacoustic musician and audio mastering engineer. She is also Professor at the École des arts visuals et médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal , Director of Hexagram-UQAM, the Center for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies and Co-director of Hexagram | CIAM, the Interuniversity Center for Media Arts.

Weng E. Bagadion

Philippines
www.mediamaticsglobal.com

Weng Bagadion is the Founding President of the Creative Economies Council of the Philippines (2011 to present), a non-profit private-sector-driven umbrella organization of IT-enabled creative industries including animation, game development, interactive media, audiovisual (film, television, music, post-production), design, publishing and print, and advertising. She was former President of the Animation Council of the Philippines (2009-2011), and member of the Board of Directors of the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (2009-2011). As an industry leader, Weng represents the Philippines in various international forums and initiatives, particularly those relating to digital creative content.

Barbara Layne

Canada
www.subtela.hexagram.ca

Barbara Layne is a professor at Concordia University in Montreal. He has lectured and exhibited internationally, including most recently The Kaunas Biennale in Lithuania, Sensual Technologies at ISEA, Istanbul, This Pervasive Day in Edinburgh, and Electromode at the Vancouver Olympics.

Joana Berzowska

Canada
www.slabs.net

Founder and Research Director of XS Labs, a design research studio that innovates in the area of electronic textiles and sensitive garments. A central component containing development of enabling methods, materials and technologies - in the form of smooth electronic circuits and composite fibers - and exploration of the expressive potential of light reactive structures.

ying gao

Canada
www.yingao.ca/bio

Fashion designer and professor at UQAM, winner of the Phyllis Lambert Design Montreal award, Ying Gao, questions the notion of clothing that we know in relation to urban design, architecture and multimedia. She is inspired by the transformation of the social and urban environment to explore the construction of the garment.

Solange Farkas

Brazil
www.videobrasil.org.br

Curator and director of the Associação Cultural Videobrasil, Solange Farkas is also creator and general curator of the SESC_Videobrasil International Contemporary Art Festival, an event that will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2013 and has become a benchmark for artistic production in the geopolitical South of the world (Africa). , Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, part of Asia and Oceania).