biographies

Adriene Jenik
Telecommunication media artist from the United States. She works at the Department of Visual Arts at University of California.

Alberto Magno
Executive director of M1ND Corp. (game developer), president and founder of ASTV (Digital TV capture and broadcasting company).

Alexandre Matias
Journalist, besides having published in the main culture vehicles, has implanted the Agência de Notícias Trama Universitário, editor of Trabalho Sujo website and Vida Fodona podcast.

Amyris Fernandez
Digital marketing consultant, researcher and professor at FGV and IBMEC, in the fields of communication, electronic commerce and information technology.

André Lemos
Professor at Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Director of International Centre of Cyberculture Studies and Research and member of awards jury at “Ars Electronica” for “Digital Communities” field.

Andreas Blazoudakis
Expert in information technology and president of Yavox (solution integration company for data transmission via mobile phone market).

Christian Wiener (Meshes)
New media, interactive interfaces and robotics researcher and e co-founder of Spielraum, Startup ZADU and Instinctive Technologies .

Daniel Oelsner Lopes
Director of Easy Trak Rastreamento which developed, partnership with Claro, Blob, a mobile phone with Super LBS tracking system.

David Cavallo
Adjunct director of Laboratório do Futuro da Aprendizagem and “One Laptop per child” organisation, both linked to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Felipe Albuquerque Pereira
Multimedia Business Manager at Vivo, Premium Offers Division.

Fernando Teco Sodré
Mobile Mixer General director, specialised in creating audiovisual content for mobile phones and other types of mobile media.

Gilson Schwartz
Professor at Arts and Communication School of University of Sao Paulo (USP) and director of Cidade do Conhecimento, USP extension and research centre.

Giselle Beiguelman
Post-graduation course Professor in Communication and Semiotics at PUC_SP, awarded artist in Brazil and abroad with projects that involve mobile communication devices via internet, SMS, MMS and bluetooth

Graham Brown-Martin
Founder and general manager of Handheld Learning Ltd., consultant, software publisher and changes catalyser in the educational technology sector.

Gustavo Mansur
Manager of content distributed by carrier TIM, has worked with digital content since the first steps of Brazilian internet. He’s worked in the teams of the main content portals in Brazil like Zip.Net, Universo Online and AOL Brazil.

Heather A. Horst
Anthropologist of Annenberg Center for Communication, developed studies on information and communication technologies and, development in countries like Ghana, India, Jamaica and South Africa, author of “The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication”.

Hyejin Choi
User Interface Designer for Mobile Phone for LG Electronics, Korea.

Jason Lewis (Cityspeak, Citywide)
Poet, digital media artist and software designer, professor at Concordia University, where he has founded and directs Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media.

Jinwoo Chung
User Interface Designer for Mobile Phone for LG Electronics, Korea.

Juan Carlos Zuñiga Torres
Engineer researcher in the ASP, NET and SVG areas (Scalar Vector Graphics). Developer of Mobile Bank Project for Bank Boston, Brazil.

Juca Varella
Photography sub-editor de fotografia and coordinator of Photo-Reporter project, at O Estado de São Paulo newspaper.

Leonardo Xavier
General director of Tell Vox (company of the entertainment market via mobile phone), Ligaki (main Tell Voz brand) and M2A (Mobile Marketing Agency).

Lucas Bambozzi
Develops studies on the expressiveness of audiovisual language, he was resident artist at CAiiA-STAR Centre.

Lucie Bélanger (Cityspeak, Citywide)
Computer Science Researcher at Concordia University, explores the relationships between humans and machines.

Marcelo Nunes de Carvalho
Partner-director of Devworks Game Technology and president of ABRAGAMES (brazilian Association of Electronic Games).

Maroussia Lévesque (Cityspeak, Citywide)
Computation ArtsResearcher at Concórdia University and concept leader at Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media.

Max Leite
Industrial engineer, Texas University MBA holder, nowadays is PDC director at Intel

Max Schleser
Max Schleser is conducting the mobile-mentary project in the PhD program at the CREAM Research Centre at the University of Westminster. His research project will illuminate the process of mobile filmmaking and distribution via online and user communities.

Otakar Svacina
Economist specialised in Marketing and Services, manager of new businesses and partnerships in Latin America, of Gemauto do Brasil (leader in the intelligent cards segment, Smart Cards).

Paulo Henrique Ferreira
Journalist, communication and strategy director at Accenda, consultancy specialised in marketing and communication for IT and Telecom companies.

Pedro Paranaguá
Member of Centre of Technology and Society (CTS), Law School at Fundação Getúlio Vargas do Rio de Janeiro (FGV - RJ).Creative Commons Brazil.

Rob van Kranemburg
My trajectory to Ambient Experience Design ( neighbourly words are Locative Media, Pervasive Computing) started in 2000.

Suely Rolnik
Psychoanalyst, essayist and head professor of Pos Graduation in Clinical Psychology at PUC/SP, where she coordinates the centre of studies on Subjectiveness.