Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky is a writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media at New York University’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). He is particularly concerned with technologies of decentralization - peer-to-peer, grid, and mesh architectures - and with social software, software designed to support group interaction. He has published in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and Wired.

Alastair Curtis

Alastair Curtis, the Nokia Head of Design, holds Master of Arts degree in Industrial Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art in London as well as a Diploma of Engineering from the Imperial College and a Bachelor?s degree in Industrial Design from Brunel University.

He began working for Nokia as Designer Engineer in the UK where he was named Senior Designer in 1996. Alastair moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to help found the Nokia Design Center as a Global Operations Manager. He was made Design Director in 2000 and since then has held roles of increasing responsibility within the Nokia Design team.

Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky is founder of five successful companies in the past 20 years. Varsavsky is also president and founder of the Varsavsky Foundation, a private, independent organization dedicated to improving the quality of education world-wide. Because of his outstanding contributions to his country of origin, Varsavsky had been awarded the title of Ambassador-at-Large of Argentina from 2001 up to 2005.

Joichi Ito

Joichi Ito is an investor and the general manager of international operations for Technorati which indexes and monitors blogs and the chairman of Six Apart Japan the weblog software company. He is on the board of Creative Commons, the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Open Source Initiative (OSI). He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. His investment company Neoteny has invested in second generation Web companies including Flickr, Technorati, SixApart, Socialtext, and Last.fm.

Jukka Perko

Jukka Perko plays the sax like a 'little bird'. He records for Blue Note. He has played in the Dizzy Gillespie's 70th Anniversary Band and in several of his own line-ups. He has received too many awards. Such is the man’s stature that Huittinen, the rural town from where he originates, holds an annual saxophone competition in his honour. His latest album, Kuunnelmia, is available from Blue Note.

Nina Hyvärinen

Nina Hyvärinen is at the forefront of internationally acclaimed Finnish modern dance. She danced as prima ballerina at the Finnish National Ballet, and has now broadened her repertoire to modern and, most recently, Japanese dance. Helsingin Sanomat wrote that "Hyvärinen walks her own ways and it feels now that she has taken off her uniform of the ballerina." Dagens Nyheter called her a "brilliant soloist with strong charisma," with "technique so extraordinary that you nearly forgot you were watching a performance." Dance Magazine called her dance "soulful elegance", the Village Voice "refreshing".