David is the Executive Director of Outward Bound Canada. Outward Bound is dedicated to the cultivation of resilience, perseverance, courage and servant leadership in its participants. Outward Bound uses both the wilderness and traditional classrooms in its teaching methods and has been at the forefront of experiential education for over 60 years.

Prior to joining Outward Bound as Executive Director, Mr. Wolfenden was the Director of Operations for DMB, a real estate development company, located in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mr. Wolfenden's career has also included being Senior Consultant and Practice Manager for RSM McGladrey's Organizational Effectiveness and Family Business Groups. His consulting practice focused on organizational design and performance coaching to family owned, and closely held companies, as well as to a range of Fortune 500 and not-for-profit businesses throughout North America.

Prior to joining RSM McGladrey, he was a Senior Consultant with Innovation Associates, best known for Peter Senge's work in the area of learning organizations and systems thinking. He has also worked extensively in the area of industrial psychology, senior executive selection, and held the position of Organizational Development Specialist at Mountain Equipment Co-op in Vancouver. In that role he designed and implemented a comprehensive management development and leadership program and coached the top management team on strategic business issues.

Mr. Wolfenden has a Master's in Behavioral Science and has studied and taught systems thinking applications to business teams throughout the world.

Ilona Posner is a Usability Consultant, working towards improving the user experience by making technology usable and useful. A lecturer at the University of Toronto she teaches 3Design of Interactive Computational Media2 to 200 3rd year Computer Science students.

She has consulted for Visa Canada Association, Human Factors International, National Research Council of Canada, Apple Canada, Sympatico.ca, Efficient Networks, Excite Canada, TVO and other companies in Canada and the U.S. She worked as a Senior Research Analyst at Digital 4Sight investigating the impacts of the convergence of internet, wireless, broadband, and pervasive computing on business strategies. At Expresto Software she helped develop and market Java based multimedia authoring software.

She was a Research Associate at the University of Toronto working on usability, multimedia and collaborative technologies for over a decade. She holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

Jerry is the Director/Coordinator of the Communication Studies Program at York University and Director of the Program's Collaboration Lab. Currently he directs courses and seminars on the social impact of new media technologies, networks, e-business and new media design. He writes extensively about new media, communication networks, new communication technologies, computer gaming and simulation, distributed learning and urban design.

Jerry has conducted applied research and assessment tasks, and supervised large-scale interdisciplinary research projects in Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Currently he is a member of a team developing a project "From Portal to Policy " which links digital infrastructures in visual arts and theatre research to larger communities while collecting data relevant to cultural and intellectual property policy.

Martha Ladly is an Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) specializing in interactive communication, experience design, and design research, within both the undergraduate and graduate programmes at the university. She is a faculty member and a mentor with the Interactive Art & Entertainment Programme, and the Interactive Project Lab, at the Canadian Film Centre's New Media Lab. Martha was a senior researcher with the Mobile Digital Commons Network (2005-7) and the Principal Investigator and conference leader of the Mobile Nation International Conference at OCAD in March 2007. Martha is the co-editor of the anthology Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms, published by Riverside Press, 2008. She is also a practicing designer and designated Registered Graphic Designer (RGD).

Prior to entering academic life, Martha was the director of Horizonzero (www.horizonzero.ca), a leading Canadian digital arts and culture website. Martha worked with artist and musician Peter Gabriel as the head of design for the Real World Group in the UK for ten years, leading design teams for numerous international award-winning entertainment and interactive media projects. In a previous incarnation as a musician and songwriter, Martha sang and played keyboards with Toronto new wave band, Martha and the Muffins, receiving two certified gold discs and a Canadian Juno award. She has toured and worked as a musician and recording artist with British artists the Associates, Robert Palmer, and Roxy Music.

Martha completed her MA in the summer of 2007 and is currently a PhD candidate pursuing her doctoral studies at York University, within the joint program in Communication and Culture.

Siobhan O’Flynn is an Assistant Professor in the Canadian Studies and English Departments of the University of Toronto and is on faculty at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab. She writes and researches on the interrelationship of identity, embodiment and place in literature and new media. At the Media Lab, she advises on the development of narratives across media, where her research and practice examines issues of adaptation and user experience. She has advised on numerous interactive narrative projects, including the Interactive Feature Film, Late Fragment, and most recently, with the inaugural Digital Development Labs in Vancouver with the CBC, BC Film and New Media • BC. She is on the advisory board for Hana Iverson’s Neighborhood Narratives, a series of locative media projects linking Philadelphia, Tokyo, London, and Rome, and the advisory boards for Next Media and Jigsee.com.

She is currently researching and writing on the following areas:

• Place, Dwelling and the Digital Context: a Post-Doctoral research project examining the use of emergent technologies to enhance our ability to “dwell poetically.” The framing questions for this project extend Heidegger’s thinking on authenticity, dwelling and technology within a digital context, and considers a range of projects and phenomena within specific urban environments (Toronto being key) and within a digitally enhanced experience of networked communities.
• Creative Non-Fiction as Canadian Autobiography: ongoing research and published work (2008).
• Narrativity and New Media: ongoing research as a faculty advisor at the Canadian Film Centre’s New Media Lab in the creation of new media projects.
• Adaptation and Digital Media: a book length inquiry into how interactivity affects the process of adaptation within digital media. An essay on this topic will be published in an anthology on adaption (2008/2009).

Past incarnations include:

A participant in the Toronto alternative music scene from its beginning, Siobhan was one of the first grrrl djs (long before the invention of the term). Siobhan was the co-founder, dj and installation artist of the legendary Pariah. She also spun at the Phoenix, running the city's first fusion night of alternative and hip hop music, as well as playing at the Bovine, Whiskey, Domino's, and too many other clubs to name. She was also co-creator of the ultra-cult clothing and accessory line, Grrrl Gear. On alternate evenings, she carved a path through Toronto's cooking community, working in many top restaurants, her favourite being a year at Centro (many good meals).

Susan LK Gorbet is a creative technology strategist, designer, and artist. She has been transforming cutting-edge technology into compelling experiences for the last sixteen years.

With degrees in computer science and psychology, Susan enjoys creating experiences that invite people to interact. At Gorbet Design, she focuses on designing strategic and conceptual frameworks that create depth and meaning for an experience.

After winning a fellowship for graduate research at Stanford in the early 90's, Susan spent many years working with software and websites in Silicon Valley, where she led research teams at Silicon Graphics, and was the Director of User Experience Design for Excite@Home and Snapfish.

Susan is currently on the faculty at the Canadian Film Centre's Media Lab, where she has created the curriculum for the Experience Design and Group Process courses, and the Ontario College of Art and Design, where she teaches Clever Devices and Principles of Interaction Design.