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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

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Steve Gibson is a Canadian media artist, interface designer, electronic musician, DJ, and media curator. He completed his Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo, where he studied music composition with Louis Andriessen. He also completed postdoctoral research in media and technology with Arthur Kroker at Concordia University in Montréal. He currently serves as Reader in Interactive Media Design at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He was curator for the Media Art event Interactive Futures from 2002-07. Simultaneously deeply involved with technology and deeply suspicious of its effects, Gibson’s work celebrates both the liberation and paranoia of techno-fetishism. Influenced by a diverse body of art and popular movements his work fuses electronica, immersive art, game art, montage and post-minimalism. He works in a range of media, from live electronic music to virtual reality installation.Steve Gibson’s installations and compositions have been performed in such venues as:Ars Electronica; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Banff Centre for the Arts; Digital Art Weeks; the European Media Arts Festival; ISEA; Interface3, Hamburg; the San Francisco Art Institute; 4 & 6CyberConf. His work has been published internationally by St. Martin’sPress (US), The MIT Press, New World Perspectives (Canada), Turnaround Productions (UK), Future Publications (UK), Urra Apogeo (Italy), and Passagen Verlag (Austria). He co-editeda volume entitled Transdisciplinary Digital Art which was published by Springer (Germany)in Spring 2008.

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Conor Clay (AKA Psifork) is a 16 year-old chip musician and artist. 

Always carrying a way to express himself, whether its musically through his game boy or through pen and paper. He has written and released 4 albums using only his game boy, of which 2 are of the glitch-chipmusic genre. His work is available to download for free at his bandcamp or soundcloud

Currently working on his newest album, he is experimenting with mixing the natural tones of ukulele with glitch and chip music from his gameboys. As well as working at school on his a-levels and on his music, Conor also has interests in programming, entering in Young Rewired State 2011 and Imagine Cup 2012 

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Jeremiah is a multi-award winning games design and digital entrepreneur. He set up his first business straight out of University in 2006, with no funding, no connections and no experience. Within a few years, he had built a business with an international reputation, multiple awards (including a MEGA for most Innovative Application of 2010) and numerous high profile clients (including Chanel 4, the Tate and NESTA). He consults, writes, designs, codes and even facilitates workshops in schools, what he doesn't do, is sleep much.

Recognised for his creativity, entrepreneurship and ideas. He was a finalist in the British Council's UK Young Interactive Entrepreneur 2009. He has represented the best of the UK digital sector in the UKTI Digital Mission to LA & San Francisco, and the UK creative sector as a part of the Arts Council delegation to Texas for SXSW 2010. He has spoke at numerous events including the launch of the British Council's International Young Interactive Entrepreneur 2010 in China.

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~Flow is part of Artists taking the lead, one of twelve extraordinary public art commissions funded by the UK Arts Councils for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad to help celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The winning commissions were selected by independent panels of artists and producers.

- ~Flow is a tidemill - a floating building on the River Tyne that generates its own power using a tidal water wheel. The building houses electro acoustic musical machinery and instruments that respond to the constantly changing environment of the river, generating sound and data. 

- ~Flow spans artforms, blending contemporary and traditional methods. It has wide appeal, combining sculpture, cutting edge technology, hand crafted wooden instruments, architecture, precision engineering and electronic music to create an astonishing audio-visual public artwork. 

- Everyone’s experience of ~Flow will be completely unique as the instruments respond to the changing state of the river and can also be influenced and even manipulated by the visitor. 

- ~Flow will bring together people of all ages and interests to contribute to an inspiring cultural project that is accessible, free and open to all.

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Janet E Davis is an art historian, artist and writer who uses and creates things in digital media.

She has worked for or with public cultural institutions and charitable trusts across culture domains: historic environment, museums and galleries, archives, and library special collections.

During the first eleven years of her career, working at English Heritage, she taught herself to use a PC and immediately started creating prototype databases in spreadsheets. She went on to develop systems to help in the management of complex heritage site projects and in forward planning, both at regional and national level.

She has led, planned and reviewed some cultural heritage digitisation projects during the past decade. When leading the Tyneside Life and Times project (part of the NOF Digitise initiative), she worked with a former colleague from the Institute for Image Data Resarch at the University of Northumbria to provide a CBIR search tool on the website.

She is interested in cultural metadata, and has developed a couple of controlled vocabularies: historical photographic media; and a very extensive historic parks and gardens one.

More recently, she has focused on the potential of social media for cultural institutions, and has looked at how QR codes could be used.

For many years, Janet has been using digital tools to produce art and design, most obviously in her photographs but also in the development of her other work, including her two artworks in the V&A Museum’s permanent collection. 

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Bettina Nissen is a Newcastle based product designer creating contemporary furniture and home accessories with a twist. Her pieces often feature contrasting elements and diverse materials with the aim of creatingcurious, thoughtful and witty products. Utilizing new technology fused with her unique sense of humour Nissen’s designs are light-hearted takes on daily life objects.

Born in Germany, Bettina Nissen earned her MA from the University of Art and Design Halle (Germany) and studied at the Danish Design School in Copenhagen (Denmark) before working for Boym Partners in New York and Cohda Design in Newcastle. Her designs have been exhibited internationally in the US, Europe and the UK. 

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Paul (@nrocy) is a self-confessed geek who just can’t get enough of new things to learn from, or tinker with. He’s had a weakness for 3D since his days of building software renderers and cobbling together POV-Ray scripts on a battered old 386. Should RSI loom, he can usually be found with a soldering iron in his hand. Or a beer. Occasionally both!