Emil Abirascid, journalist writes on innovation that becomes new enterprise.
He is chief editor of Innov’azione, bi-monthly magazine fully dedicated to the Italian innovation ecosystem, published by Polo tecnologico di Navacchio and available online at www.lobbyinnovazione.it.

Carlo Antonelli is the director of Rolling Stone (italian edition) and he was Artistic Director for Sugar Music. He published ‘DiscoInferno. History of dance in Ireland 1946-2006‘. He actually teach Sociology of Fashion for Bologna University

Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project and CTO of tinker.it. He has worked for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas. He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institue Ivrea as Associate Professor.

Moshe Bar is a technologist, author, investor and entrepreneur and philantropist.
An Israeli and US citizen, he is a co-founder of Qumranet. Qumranet was sold to Red Hat in 2008 for US$ 107 million.
He previously founded the company behind the Xen software, XenSource, which was sold to Citrix for US$ 500 million in 2007. Before that he founded Qlusters Inc, and was the founder, main developer and project manager of openMosix.

Roberto Borri, Direttore della Ricerca e Sviluppo di CSP - Innovazione nelle ICT (http://rd.csp.it) coordina le attività di cinque laboratori tecnologici raggruppati in tre aree di ricerca in cui la convergenza digitale dei sistemi e le comunicazioni su rete IP costituiscono riferimento indiscutibile. Considera la sperimentazione sul campo e la prototipazione fasi essenziali per lo scouting tecnologico, in particolare per l’applicazione dell’informatica alle altre Scienze.

Jasper Bouwsma is the European Affiliate and Sr. Consultant of the Enterprise Development Group (EDG), where he consults clients on innovation strategy, systems, management and practices. Besides corporate consulting, Jasper supports start-ups in their development through his company Vujàdé Ltd.

Andrea Branzi, is Architect and designer, has been working with industrial and experimental design, architecture, urban planning, teaching and cultural promotion. He is Associate Professor at the Third Faculty of Architecture and Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic

Dario Castelletti, Journalist, speaker for radio and television. He has collaborated since 1998 with Radio Flash, from 2000 with Radio Popolare Network, and since 2004 with Radio Radio. He has been television speaker for two seasons of Torino Fc for Rete7 Piemonte, he has participated also in the RAI show “Quelli che il calcio” . He is correspondent from Turin of the magazine Jalla Jalla of Radio Popolare Network.

Maurizio Cilli, is an architect. Born in Turin in 1963, founded the ‘Citta` Svelata’ (City Revealed) group. In 2005 he was one of the writers of geoblog, www.glocalmap.to. He is currently involved with research on the Drome territory of the Rhone-Alpes French region.

Alberto Cottica. Music and social sciences have always been my main interests. Unable to decide between the two, I decided to pursue both and ended up a strange mixture of folk-world musician and economist interested in human creativity as a development engine.

Luca De Biase Luca is chief editor at Nòva24 the science, technology and creativity section at Il Sole 24 Ore, the most influential financial newspaper in Italy.

Elio, is an italian artist. Born in an area of Milan, at a tender age he moved to another area of Milan, but always in the suburbs. After many years he went to live outside Milan, but not very far, where he still lives now, in the suburbs of the area where he went to at a tender age that I spoke about earlier.

Jennifer Higgie Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer and co-Editor of frieze magazine, based in London. Recent publications include ‘Scenes: David Noonan’ (2009); a compilation of writing  on humour in art, ‘The Artist’s Joke’ (2007); a novel,’Bedlam (2006); and the screenplay for the feature film, ‘I Really Hate my Job’ (2007). She is currently working on a new play, ‘Carnival Theory’ and a screenplay, ‘Everything is Interesting’.

Marco Ivaldi, born in Turin in 1979, is PHD candidate in Medicine and Life Sciences - specialised in Medical Physio-pathology and works in the Physical Education Research Centre of the Scuola Universitaria Interfacoltà di Scienze Motorie, Università degli studi of Turin.

Kai Zen is a narrative ensemble founded in 2003 in the Internet. Its members Jadel Andreetto, Bruno Fiorini, Guglielmo Pispisa and Aldo Soliani come from different cities in Italy (Bolzano, Bologna, Messina, Milano) and bring different lifestyles and imaginaries in the band. They write novels, tales, articles, music reviews.

Gioachino Kratter, Technical Coordinator of the Università Interfacoltà in Scienze Motorie (SUISM), Teacher of Human Movement Methodology and of Methodology of performance; he has been trainer of the Squadra Nazionale di Sci Alpino (National downhill ski team), a specialised trainer of Athletics, a preparatory tennis and rowing athletic trainer and the personal coach of many athletes.

Geoff Manaugh, is a writer, editor at Archinect and the author of BLDGBLOG. He had written for Dwell, Domus, Metropolis, Abitare, Volume, Icon, WorldChanging, 032c, and so on, including chapters in a variety of books and a bunch of other things here and there

Mao, a.k.a. Mauro Gurlino, born the sixteenth of April ninety-seventy-one, in Turin, as he likes to say “north of Foggia and south of Aosta”, where he currently lives. Graduated in History of Cinema and Film Critique with a thesis on the film “Yuppi Du” by Adriano Celentano, he cultivated the first artistic experiences ranging between singing school, gospel choirs, rock bands and working as a dj and a radio speaker to the sound of new beat.

Massimo Menichinelli is a designer working and researching on open collaborative projects (Open Design/Open P2P Design) and the systems that design them since 2005. He’s interested in the relationships between design, localities, communities and complexity, learning from Open Source, P2P and Web 2.0 software and adopting their principles and practices.

Nicolas Nova is both Researcher and the editorial manager of the LIFT conferences. He speaks and lectures widely in conferences and institutions such as O’Reilly’s Etech, Reboot, PicNic, GDC, Google, Nokia, Cisco, Mobile Monday, etc

Antonio Pascale is a writer. Born in 1966, lives in Rome. He published ‘The distracted city’ and ‘The maintenance of affections’ with Einaudi and other stories in various magazines. He won the 1st edition 2000 of the Sandro Onofri prize with ‘The distracted city’

Vittorio Pasteris, writes for Lastampa.it about tecnology, multimedia and innovation. He teaches “Multimedia Publishing” at the University of Turin (Degree Course in Communication Sciences) and at the Master in Journalism in Turin. He founded and chairs Torino Valley, a project dedicated to Piedmont that deals with innovation, technology and science. He wrote two books about internet: “Sesto Potere” and “Internet per chi studia”.

Nicola Perullo, teacher of Aesthetics in the Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche of Pollenzo, Bra (Cuneo). Italy.
Coorinator of the Integrative Teaching of the Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche of Pollenzo. Governor of Slow Food Italia.

Giorgio Olivero è un interaction designer. È tra i soci fondatori di ToDo, dove si occupa dell’attività di coordinamento progettuale e di direzione creativa.
ToDo (www.todo.to.it) è uno studio di design di nuova generazione fondato nel 2007.

Alberto Rainoldi is Director of the Research Centre of Physical Education in the Scuola Universitaria Interfacoltà di Scienze Motorie dell’Università degli Studi di Torino. Currently six doctorate students are collaborating with him. He is teacher of “Bio-Engineering”, “Research Methodology” and “Analysis Criteria of the complex systems in Physical Education”.

Gianluigi Ricuperati, is a writer. He wrote for Domus magazine, La Stampa and D of Repubblica magazine. He writes about music in Rumore and Il Giornale della Musica. Currently he is literary editor for Abitare magazine and publishing consultant for Alet Edizioni. In 2009 two new books will be published.

Peter Saville The legendary cover of the New Order single Blue Monday (1983) and the sleeve of the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures (1979), were to bring the Manchester graphic designer Peter Saville worldwide renown. Using a reduced, Modernist style Peter Saville has made key innovations in the field of visual communications, and in recent times he has had a profound effect on the interplay between art, design and advertising

Davide Scabin, is one of the most creative Italian cooks. Since many years his restaurant based in a wing of the Contemporary Art Museum of Rivoli has already given life to a highly innovative cuisine, at the same time supported by a remarkable technical and organizational preparation

Igor Sibaldi, is a writer, studies Theology and Religion History. He published numerous novels and essays on the Holy Scriptures and on shamanism. Since 1997 he regularly holds lectures and seminars on mythology and deep psychology all around in Italy

Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.