J.C. Herz is cofounder of IonChannel, a data and delivery platform for software supply chain intelligence and OSS devops. In 2006, she founded Batchtags, a startup that pioneered novel visual interfaces for large, highly interconnected networks. Batchtags was acquired by a defense firm in 2012.
Golan Levin is Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the School of Computer Science, the School of Design, the School of Architecture, and the Entertainment Technology Center. As an educator, Golan’s pedagogy is concerned with reclaiming computation as a medium of personal expression.
Drew Davidson is a professor, producer and player of interactive media. His background spans academic, industry and professional worlds and he is interested in stories and transformational experiences across texts, comics, games and other media. He is the Director of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and the Founding Editor of ETC Press and its Well Played series and journal. He also served as the interim Director for Randy Pausch’s Alice Project.
Clark has been a tech strategist involved with startups for over 25 years. His current focus is ubiquitous mobile awareness, resulting in hyper-personalization, which he developed during his tenure on the Dubailand leisure/entertainment project, 2007, managed by McKinsey. Genuine mobile awareness requires lots of AI, context, sensors, security…and batteries.
Dr. Christy Dena is Program Co-ordinator of the Master of Creative Industries at the SAE Creative Media Institute, Brisbane. Previously she was the Chair and Department Coordinator of Games at SAE Creative Media Institute. Christy completed her Ph.D. on Transmedia Practice at the University of Sydney and wrote the definition of ‘transmedial fictions’ for The Johns Hopkins Encyclopedia of Digital Textuality.
As the Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Entertainment and Learning Technologies, Charles Palmer oversees the design and development of ventures in new and emerging technologies, serves as the Program Lead for the undergraduate Interactive Media program, is an adviser to the Learning Technology Masters of Science program, coordinates the High School Gaming Academy, and mentors students on research projects in the fields of augmented and virtual reality, mobile computing, web application development, video production, desktop manufacturing (3d printing), motion graphics and inter
Dr. Caroline “Caro” Williams-Pierce is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Theory & Practice at the University at Albany, SUNY. Caro specializes in designing and analyzing technology for mathematical play, with a particular focus on how players construct mathematical understandings through playing videogames.
Dr. Magerko is an Associate Professor of Digital Media & head of the ADAM Lab at Georgia Tech. He received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon (1999) and his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan (2001, 2006). His research explores the intersection of creativity, cognition, and computing.