Trevor Baylis OBE

Most famous for the creation of the ‘clockwork radio’, Trevor has built a career based on innovation and invention. During his early years he worked as a stunt man, escapologist, PE instructor for the Army, and proprietor of his own swimming pool company which successfully sold a pool of his own design to over 350 schools in the UK - many of which are still in use. During this time he also invented a group of products for the disabled called Orange Aids. Inspired by a television programme on AIDS in Africa, Trevor invented the clockwork radio, and in 1997 he was awarded an OBE for services to Africa. Always concerned about the neglect of inventors, inventions and intellectual property, he set up Trevor Baylis Brands plc (www.baylisbrands.com) to help inventors get their products to market.

Andy Black

Learning and Skills Support Manager, Becta

Andy has worked in the learning and skills sector for more than 15 years, primarily in the land-based college sector. His major interest is in the use of ICT to overcome barriers to learning in disengaged and disadvantaged learners, and he has written extensively on this subject. Andy joined Becta in July 2003 and is currently working on new build in Further Education Colleges. The project he is most proud of commissioning is one involving an ICT terms glossary in British Sign Language on the web: www.slcresources4ict.net. The project and a proof of concept mobile device version was showcased in October 2006 at Mlearn in Canada: www.mlearn2006.org. Andy lives online via his blog: andysblackhole.blogspot.com.

Donald Clark

Donald was CEO (and one of the original founders) of Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK e-learning market. He is now a board member of Ufi (learndirect), Brighton Festival and Caspian Learning, and a school governor. Donald has produced over 40 papers, dozens of book reviews and many articles on e-learning, and has been involved in games, simulations, mobile learning and informal learning. He has also won many awards for the design and implementation of e-learning, including the ‘Outstanding Achievement in e-learning Award’ at the World Open Learning Conference. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and a regular blogger: donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com.

Professor Lizbeth Goodman

Professor of Creative Technology Innovation
Founder/Director, SMARTlab Digital Media Institute and Magic Gamelab at UEL
Director of Studies, UEL PhD programme in Digital Media & Informatics

Lizbeth’s main fields of speciality are gender and representation in the digital media (performance, film, moving image and game) and the creation of learning games developed WITH, not only for, people with disabilities and ‘non-standard gamers’. In an earlier incarnation, she founded and led the Institute for New Media Performance Research at the University of Surrey, following on from eight years leading the BBC Open University's multimedia research teams in Shakespeare, Drama, Gender Studies and Literature. Lizbeth is the author and editor of some 13 books including a range of titles on best practices in media and technology tools creation, the implementation of live and online theatre games, women and theatre, the arts, representation and creativity. She won the Lifetime Achievement Award for volunteer service to women and children in 2003, and has just been named Microsoft Community Affairs Senior Research Fellow on Creative Technology Innovation.

Natalie Jeremijenko

Director, Environmental Health Clinic
Assistant Professor in Art, Environmental Studies and Computer Science, New York University

Named one of the inaugural top young innovators by MIT Technology Review, Natalie is now an Assistant Professor of Art, Computer Science and Environmental Studies at NYU where she is the director of the xdesign Environmental Health Clinic. Previously she was on the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD, and the Faculty of Engineering at Yale. Recently her work was included in the Whitney Biennial of American Art (Hudson River School 2.0) and the Cooper Hewit Smithsonian Design Triennial. She has a Model Urban Development on the roof of Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea, featuring seven residential housing developments, a concert hall, and other public amenities, powered by human food waste. Natalie’s work is described as experimental design, hence xDesign, as it explores the opportunity new technologies present for non-violent social change.

Mark Pearce

Director, theWorkshop

Mark has over 15 years’ experience in the development of innovative e-learning, training and education solutions for corporate and government organisations. He has worked on many Becta, DfES and Futurelab initiatives championing innovation, accessibility and personalised learning.

Tim Riches

Founding Director, Synergy TV

Tim is co-designer of Radiowaves (BETT/Becta Innovation winner 2004) and NUMU (a unique platform for young people to publishing original music, collaborate and compete in music charts). He brings experience of working across several user-generated content projects, as well as technical expertise. Tim is a musician with 16 years’ experience of composition using music hardware and software.

Eric Rosenbaum

MIT Media Lab

Eric is a graduate student at MIT Media Lab, in the Lifelong Kindergarten Group. He is currently working on the Scratch programming environment for kids. Previously at MIT he has worked on location-based simulation games, and the StarLogo TNG graphical programming environment for making 3D simulations and games. Eric’s other projects have included making curriculum with molecular dynamics simulations, and creating animations for music education. He holds an AB in Psychology from Harvard University, and an MEd in Technology in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.