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Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, The New Yorker, and the CBC.

Thorp’s award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia and all over the web.

Jer has over a decade of teaching experience, in Langara College’s Electronic Media Design Program, at the Vancouver Film school, and as an artist-in-residence at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Most recently, he has presented at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art, at Eyebeam in New York City, and at IBM’s Center for Social Software in Cambridge.

He is currently Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times, and is an adjunct Professor in New York University’s ITP 

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Naomi is a designer and illustrator passionate about creating beautiful, intuitive user experiences for the web and mobile. Active in the design industry for almost a decade, she has held senior positions at three leading brand, web, and advertising agencies in London with world renowned clients such as Audi, British Telecom, Macmillan Cancer Support and Aviva. She's a regular contributor to .net magazine, been branded as a Rising Star by Design Week, awarded The Next Big Thing at The Critters, and a nominee for 'Designer of the Year 2011.

An avid photographer and gallery-goer, Naomi is co-founder of web animation startup Animatable [http://animatable.com], runs her own design studio [http://naomiatkinsondesign.com] in Newcastle upon Tyne, and always wears a coat in winter.

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Dominic Smith is an artist and curator who's practice explores open source methods of project development through a hands-on, open approach to working with art & technology. He recently completed doctoral research with CRUMB at Sunderland University examining the relationship between open source production methods and methods employed by artists and curators. He is currently in post at the Tyneside Cinema as Digital Media Projects Manager running the Pixel Palace digital media arts programme.

The mission of Pixel Palace is to bring as many people as possible together to experience, enjoy and engage with the past, present and future of cinema and the Pixel Palace programme extends and delivers this mission by working with new media artists, technologists, curators and audiences to not only reflect upon cinema's past, but also its expanded present and all-pervasive future.  

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In addition to being the Founder and CEO of Codeworks, Herb is Founder & Director of the Thinking Digital Conference which takes place annually in May at the world renowned Sage Gateshead. Since its founding in 2007, the Conference has quickly grown to become one of Europe's best known events of its kind.

Herb has been honoured to be included in Wired Magazine's 2011 Wired 100 list in the UK as well as in the Guardian Newspaper's Media Guardian 100 list for 2010.

Previous to Codeworks, Herb spent 15 years in various management posts in the Internet, media & mobile sectors including O2, Bertelsmann, Blackwell's, IBM & Dow Jones. 

Herb earned his MBA from the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University.

He has lived in the UK since 1997 but was born in Brooklyn, NY to Korean parents.

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Documentally is not a speaker but he will be there taking photographs and asking all the right questions. 

Originally a professional photographer for the UK dailies, Social Technologist and early adopter, Christian Payne (AKA @Documentally) has diversified to become one of the freshest and most dynamic voices exploring new and social media.

Having spent years experimenting with social technologies, Christian now talks and gives workshops around mobile media making and Social Tech Internationally. His past projects include documenting the plight of Iraqi refugees for the United Nations; Video Blogging for the British Council in Pakistan and working alongside Reuters on groundbreaking projects with the UK's political leaders.

 Christian champions story making with mobile devices and although a card carrying journalist he prefers to be called a blogger as he shares his content across multiple platforms. Some of his social media places can be found at http://Documentally.com

 This year Christian will be talking on technology at various events internationally and giving workshops on video for the web, mobile story making and social media practices.

 Follow Christian Payne on Twitter @Documentally