Jason DaSilva (born July 26, 1978) is best known for the Emmy Award-winning documentary, When I Walk. He is a director, producer, writer and disability rights activist. He is also the founder of the non-profit organization AXS Lab and of AXS Map, a crowd sourced Google map based platform which rates the accessibility of businesses.

Hien Do is a newly qualified Management Accountant (CIMA) with a Masters in Finance & Accounting (distinction) and a strong track record in analysing and delivering cross-functional financial systems and processes in commercially-focused businesses. 

Am Johal has been the Director of SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement since December 2010. He is an associate with SFU's Centre for Dialogue, SFU's Institute for the Humanities and he is Co-Director of SFU’s Community Engaged Research Initiative. Received the 2020 Warren Gill Award for Community Impact.

Ron Wakkary is a professor in design in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University in Canada where he founded the Everyday Design Studio (eds.siat.sfu.ca). In addition, he is a professor and Chair of Design for More Than Human-Centered Worlds in the Future Everyday Cluster in Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Wakkary is the author of the book Things We Could Design for more than Human-Centered Worlds (MIT Press, 2021)

Front-end engineer/Outdoor’s enthusiast. Has worked for companies such as AT&T, General Motors, Visa & the national laboratory NREL. Holds a BSEE & MSEE and have a passion for hardware/software. Experience varies from building solar cells from scratch to native mobile application development.

Zagórski works mostly in Poland but also travels frequently. His activity in the field of education enables him to distance himself from his work. In the years 2007-2008 he lectured on visual communication at Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatan in Mexico. From 2012 until 2013 he taught the same subject at the Raffles Design Institute in New Dehli. Starting in 2013 he has been a lecturer at the Poznań School of Form.

Matea Kulić is the author of the chapbooks PAPERWORK (Anstruther Press, 2019) and FRAU L. (Perro Verlag Books by Artists, 2016). She lives in Vancouver, Canada on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). Currently Executive Director at The Association of BC Book Publishers.

Dr. Ron Burnett is the past President + Vice-Chancellor of Emily Carr University of Art + Design. In 2013, Dr. Burnett received the Order of Canada and in 2015, he received the Order of British Columbia. Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 2010. 

Born in Tehran, Yasaman is an emerging slow-making and Haute-Couture fashion and textile designer with an entrepreneurial spirit. Her designs are synonymous with prints in a kaleidoscope of colors.Her season-less designs are for anyone who dares to break the rules of fashion, bring a sense of playfulness to their wardrobe, be bold, and fun with what they wear. She is currently a third-year Industrial Design major at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, focusing on jewelry and shoe design.

After a decade-wide body of independent multimedia creative work as an artist, musician, and sound designer since 2006, including a music collective called "ISM" which he later adopted as a personal brand, His productions led to broader collaborations with a variety of teams, partners and clients. This path marked a shift in 2019 when he established the ISM Arts & Culture corporation as an end-to-end creative agency focusing on cross-stakeholder social innovation initiatives with governments, communities, companies, and research institutions at the local and global level. He has since worked with organizations like TED and TRIUMF (Canada’s particle accelerator centre). Show notes: ISM Arts and Culture - https://www.ism-ac.com