Dr Jon-Paul Dyson is the Director of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) and Vice President for Exhibits at The Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

At ICHEG, Jon-Paul has supervised the growth of the collection to more than 60,000 video games and related artefacts and hundreds of thousands of related materials.

He is also in charge of highly interactive exhibits at The Strong that are visited by nearly 600,000 people a year.

Dr Alain Dufaux is a lecturer and co-director for PhD students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and the operations and development manager of the Cultural Heritage and Innovation Center at EPFL.

Alain's field of expertise is in signal processing for audio, with a dual profile in both academic and industrial worlds.

Rebecca Matthews is the Head of Content Management at the ABC, where she leads the archives, library and distribution teams.

Rebecca has been a part of the media industry for more than 25 years. She has worked in most roles in a newsroom, from journalist and producer, to Chief of Staff and State Editor. In recent years she has been a member of the ABC News Executive team, firstly as Head of Operations, and then as Head of State Coverage, where she led all the state newsrooms around Australia.

 Dr John Bradley is the Director of Wunungu Awara at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre.

Along with a group of Monash computer animators, John works with Indigenous communities to preserve Indigenous languages facing extinction, creating an archive of 3D animated films used as tools to reengage and revitalise interest in language continuation and preservation.

John has worked alongside Indigenous communities in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, in the Northern Territory, for more than 30 years. In that time, he has developed a close bond with the local Yanyuwa people and is now among a tiny minority of people who speak Yanyuwa fluently.

Fred Leone is the Project Manager for Wunungu Awara at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre.

Fred is an established arts and cultural facilitator, curator, educator, youth worker and creative producer. He is the Song man for the Guruman Dancers, an award-winning Australian Indigenous hip-hop artist and a current member of the Indigenous Advisory Group for the National Indigenous Music Awards.

A well-respected community leader, with strong Australian Aboriginal, Tongan and South-Sea Islander heritage, Fred and his family come from the Garawa of Far North-West Queensland into the Northern Territory and the Badtjala of the Fraser Coast region of Queensland South East Coast.

Claire is the part-owner and Managing Director of Grumpy Sailor, overseeing operational activities as well as Grumpy Sailor's strategic direction. 

Claire gets the opportunity to satisfy her creativity working as the internal creative and project lead on select projects like the Madhatters Tea Party for ACMI’s Wonderland, and continues to develop and produce long-form content such as Grumpy's first feature film – the award-winning 2017 documentary Kings of Baxter.

Ana is Head of Development and Strategy at creative technology studio Grumpy Sailor.

She previously led major digital engagement and audience-centred projects for cultural organisations, including at Museums Victoria. In the UK she has worked with Somerset House, the Barbican Centre, and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra to produce digitally-driven exhibitions, installations and interactive experiences.

Bill Peck is Chief Technology Officer at Twist Bioscience.

At Twist Bioscience he is instrumental in identifying technology opportunities for the Twist DNA synthesis platform across many industries including storing digital data in DNA.