Andrew DeVigal, Director of Multimedia, The New York Times     
DeVigal has worked in the media business since 1993 as a staff artist, graphic journalist, web designer, product developer, researcher and journalism professor. Since October of 2006, he has taken on the role as multimedia editor of The New York Times.

Besides shaping the paper's approach and presentation for multiple-media storytelling, he enjoys this phase in his career as an opportunity to work daily with dedicated and talented journalists, designers, artists and technologists to push the multimedia envelope in the industry. He also co-founded DeVigal Design and runs Interactive Narratives.  

Julia Dimambro, Managing Director EMEA/APAC, Julia Cherry Media Holdings     
Julia Dimambro has spent the last 10 years in new media design and communications. Starting her career with London based digital design agency, Deepend, she successfully launched and integrated the first interactive division London Advertising Agency, J. Walter Thompson, working on interactive campaigns for Kelloggs, RAF, Barclays and some of the first Interactive TV ad trials for Sky.

She later moved to New York, as Client Services Director to help launch Deepend’s flagship US office. After September 11th, she returned to Europe and spent 2 years working for Private Media Group, where she managed all of Private’s Internet content partnerships. She later joined the newly founded Wireless Department as Commercial Director and set up some of the first mobile content deals and marketing campaigns in the world for Private. In September 2003, she founded Cherrysauce, one of the first companies globally offering adult entertainment directly to consumers. The company has since become one of the leading players in global mobile entertainment for adults and has won more awards than any other company in the same space.

Today Cherrysauce delivers erotic and adult entertainment via distribution partnerships in over 30 territories worldwide as well as offering both soft glamour and adult services direct to consumer. Julia is a regular writer and speaker on mobile erotica and adult entertainment for mobile, she has been voted as one of the top 50 mobile content executives for 3 consecutive years and has also been recognised as one of the top 50 women in mobile.

Bob Drogin, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times  
Bob Drogin is the author of "CURVEBALL: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War," published in Norway as "Kodenavn Curveball." The widely-praised book won the Overseas Press Club of America "Cornelius Ryan Award" for the best non-fiction book on international affairs in 2007, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors book award. Parade Magazine, America's largest Sunday newspaper magazine, selected CURVEBALL this year as "must reading" for President Barack Obama.

Drogin is a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, where he has covered intelligence and national security in Washington for the past decade. He also covered the 2008 presidential campaign, chasing John McCain around the country for six months and updated members of President Obama's national security transition team on the "Curveball" story after the election in 2008.

Drogin spent the 1990s as a foreign correspondent, reporting on Nelson Mandela's election as president of South Africa, the genocide in Rwanda, the Persian Gulf War, and other news from nearly 50 countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Bob has won or shared numerous journalism prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, two Overseas Press Club of America awards, two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards, an International Center for Investigative Journalism Award, and a George Polk Award. 

Javier Errea, Designer, Errea Communicaction  
After a long journalistic career as reporter, editor and designer, Javier Errea owns his own design and communication studio based in Pamplona. Errea has a degree in Journalism at the University of Navarra, Spain, and worked for different regional newspapers in his country. Among his positions, he worked as AME News at Diario de Noticias or as AME Visuals at Heraldo de Aragón. He is currently the president of the Spanish Chapter of the Society for News Design, director for the Mediterranean Europe region, and chairman an coordinator of the Malofiej Infographics Awards and Summit annually for consecutive eight years.

Errea is an associate professor at the School of Communications in Navarra and an Innovation consultant as well. Some of his recent projects have been awarded. Eleftheros Typos in Athens, Greece, was picked as best designed national newspaper in Europe 2007. Diari de Balears has just been selected as best designed local newspaper both in Spain, Portugal and in Europe 2008. Previously, Heraldo de Aragón, Diario de Noticias and Expresso (Lisbon) were awarded as best designed regional, local and weekly newspapers in Europe 2003, 2004 and 2006 as well. SND awarded El Economista (Spain) and Expresso (Portugal) among the five best designed newspapers in the world in 2007 and 2008.

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) selected Expresso, Eleftheros Tipos and El Economista as three out of ten most influential design projects in the world in the last three years.

Adrian Holovaty, Founder, EveryBlock.com
Adrian Holovaty, a journalist and computer programmer, is the founder of EveryBlock.com, a local news Web site that filters news by street address. He is probably the best-known industry advocate for "journalism via computer programming" and previously developed database journalism Web applications at a number of newspapers, including the Washington Post.

Holovaty co-created Django, an open-source framework for the Python programming language that makes it fast and easy to build Web sites. It is used by tens of thousands of people around the world. His 2005 project chicagocrime.org was one of the original Google Maps "mashups" and helped influence Google to create a free mapping API. 

Andrew Keen, Writer  
Andrew Keen's international hit "Cult of the amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture" has been pubished into 15 languages and is an essential critique of the of the enthusiasm surrounding user generated content, peer production, and other Web 2.0-related phenomena. Andrew Keen is English, educated at London University in Modern History, at the University of Sarajevo and at the University of California where he mastered in Political Science.

Keen has worked as a pioneering Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founding Audiocafe.com back in 1995.His bestseller took him to CNN, BBC, Fox News and The Today Show amongst others, and he has written for publications like The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and The London Guardian and has a weekly column in the London Independent newspaper and the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant. At andrewkeen.typepad.com you can read his blog: "The Great Seduction - On media, culture and politics". 

Christina Lamb, Correspondent, Sunday Times
Christina Lamb is an award-winning British war correspondent who has reported conflicts around the world from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe for 20 years.  Senior foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times, Lamb is an Oxford graduate and combines her writing career with motherhood, charity work, talks and TV punditry. One of Britain's leading journalists, she has been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times and has been named Inspirational Woman of the Year by both She magazine and the ASHA Foundation. A friend of the late Benazir Bhutto she was the only journalist on the bus when it was bombed. She is the author of five books including the bestselling "The Africa House". Her most recent book "Small Wars permitting" is a collection of her reportage. She is on the boards of Institute of War and Peace Reporting and a patron of Afghan Connection which helps Afghan children and mothers. Christina will be moving to Washington in the summer to take up her new post as US editor of the Sunday Times.

Siri Lill Mannes, News Anchor, TV 2
Siri Lill Mannes is a news anchor at TV 2, Norway. She has a degree in Political Science, Russian Language and History with focus on Chechnya. She also trained as an officer in the Norwegian Army.

In 2003 her book “Lifeguard in hell”, about a Russian soldier working as a lifeguard for several Generals in Chechnya, was published. Siri Lill Mannes has worked for TV 2 since the launch of the channel in 1992. Before she became news anchor, she worked as a reporter in international news.

Peter McEvoy, Executive Producer/Supervisor EP Factual, ABC Television       
Peter McEvoy has been a journalist for 25 years and received a host of prestigious media awards, including the Australia's top award for journalism, the Gold Walkley. Before applying his journalism skills to criticising other journalists, he criticised politicians, professionals, business leaders and bureaucrats, while investigating air crashes, medical malpractice, natural disasters, business scams and prisons.

Peter McEvoy is now Supervising Executive Producer of Factual for ABC Television (Australia). 

Vivian McGrath, Chief Executive/ Executive producer, Gecko Productions  
Vivian McGrath is CEO of Gecko Productions, her own independent television production company launched in 2006. Prior to Gecko Productions McGrath ran Redback Films, owned by The Television Corporation and was an Executive Producer at Mentorn. There she was known for some of the most high profile and highest rating Channel 4 Body Shock and Channel Five Extraordinary People documentaries.

Before coming to the UK in 1999, Viv was Senior Producer, running the Asia Bureau in Hong Kong for FOX NEWS covering the Clinton visits to China, Japan & Korea; and the NATO bombings of Kosovo. In Hong Kong she also ran her own independent news bureau, Newsasia in Hong Kong, representing broadcasters across the world during the HK handover to China and was a foreign correspondent for Channel Seven Australia. 

Virginia Mourseler, Chief Executive Officer, The Wit   
Virginia Mouseler from France is the co-founder of The WIT – World Information Tracking – the leading agency specialized in research and information on TV programs worldwide.

After graduating in philosophy and psychoanalysis, she graduated from a top tier business school. In 1996, Virginia founded The Wit, which has become the most extensive source of information on TV & WebTV programs developed and aired worldwide.

The WIT’s reports and on-line services are used by the most active broadcasters, producers and distributors around the world to develop new ideas or acquire licenses. In the meantime, Virginia is continuing her activities as a therapist.

Alan Rusbridger, Editor, The Guardian
Alan Rusbridger grew up in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, where his father was the Director of Education. He started off as a reporter for the Guardian in 1979 and has been editor of the paper since 1995. Rusbridger has been at the helm during several important transitions in the newspaper’s recent history: The launch of Guardian Weekend and the G2 section, and the implementation of the Berliner format in 2005.

Rusbridger was also in charge for the development and launch of Guardian Unlimited. The web site has been hailed as one of the greatest successes on the internet developed by a traditional newspaper organisation. Rusbridger is a board member of the Guardian Media Group and the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian. He is a visiting Professor in history at the Queen Mary University of London and a visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Rusbrdiger has written three books for children.

Magnus Scheving, Gründer and Superhero, LazyTown  
Magnús Scheving is a writer, world-class athlete, entrepreneur and producer. He has been the producer and host of popular health-related children’s TV shows as well as producing and acting in other TV productions and commercials. Scheving also produced and hosted his own talk show, being a well-known comedian and public entertainer in his home country.

In 2004, Scheving was awarded the Nordic Public Health Prize for his work in motivating children through the world of LazyTown. LazyTown, was sold to 96 countries in only 8 months, making it the fastest sold children’s TV show in the world. Today the show is aired in 118 countries.

LazyTown won the BAFTA awards in 2006 for the best international children’s TV program and has been nominated for three Emmy Awards, as well as receiving the German Emil Awards and the Icelandic Edda Awards. 

Deborah Scranton, Journalist, Clover & a Bee Films
Deborah Scranton made her feature film directorial debut with the award-winning documentary The War Tapes, which premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and won Best Documentary Feature. Hailed by the New York Times as "raw, honest and moving … one of the formally most radical films of 2006" and described as "the first indispensable Iraq documentary", it went on to win Best International Documentary at the 2006 BritDoc Festival, was named an official selection at the Rome Film Festival and IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam), and was released to critical acclaim in over 120 cities.

Her latest production is a vivid, first-person account of the new realities of war in Iraq --  "BAD VOODOO'S WAR". Currently she is in production on an untitled feature film looking at the dimension of forgiveness in post-war Rwanda.

In 2007 she was a visiting fellow at The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University working with the Global Media Project in the Global Security Program and taught a senior seminar on documentary filmmaking and social change.

As a speaker, Scranton often lectures on her innovative "integrative" filmmaking and the new frontier in storytelling: the intersection where web 2.0 meets technology meets documentary. Scranton started her career in television covering a variety of world-renowned events including the Tour de France, the Winter Olympics, and US Open Tennis for ABC Sports, CBS Sports, MTV Networks, ESPN, and was also a special assignment reporter.

Louis Theroux, Journalist, BBC / Freelance  
Louis Theroux is a British television presenter, best known for his investigative series for BBC2. His unique faux naive style separates him from his colleagues. He has had three major television series, "Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends", "When Louis Met.." and a "Third Series".

Theroux's first journalism job was at Metro Silicon Valley, an alternative free weekly newspaper in San Jose, California. In 1992 he was hired as a writer for Spy magazine. He got his break in television working as a correspondent on Michael Moore's "TV Nation" series, for which he provided segments on off-beat cultural subjects, including Avon ladies in the Amazon, the Jerusalem syndrome, and the attempts by the Ku Klux Klan to rebrand itself as a civil rights group for white people.

When "TV Nation" ended he was signed to a development deal by the BBC, out of which came "Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends". He has guest-written for a number of publications including Hip-Hop Connection and he continues to write for The Idler.