Rahaf Harfoush works with organizations to build authentic relationships by aligning their social media initiatives with their vision. She was involved in the extraordinary effort that helped bring President Obama to the White House in 2008.

Neil is the co-founder of Index Ventures, a venture capital investment firm famous for its investments in Skype, MySQL, and Betfair. He is on the board of organizations as diverse as Netvibes, Moo Print or Human Rights Watch.

Catherine works for France's most innovative TV channel, and explores the future of programs, a position that demands a developed sense of anticipation of social and technological changes. Along with Catherine Lottier, she will be part of a panel about the future of television and broadcast content, reflecting about recent evolutions and potential opportunities.

As a regular speaker in hacker and new media conferences, german futurist and film critic Christian Heller will talk about how to adapt to the privacy change caused by technologies and the transformation of personal and political identity patterns in the digital age.

Basile Zimmermann is interested in the circulation of technological objects from one culture to another: the design of social networking websites in China or music devices such as synthesizers, music software and turntables in contemporary Beijing.

Amelia Andersdotter has been elected to the European Parliament as a representative of the famous "Pirate Party" that rocked Swedish elections in 2009, and made it to the center stage using new tactics.

A geographer interested in how networked technologies recombine our relationship to our physical environment and lead to new forms of surveillance.

As a researcher in media studies, Jean Burgess investigates everyday media creation and use in relation to technological change, with a particular focus on the YouTube community as well as various other sites of user-led content creation, both online and offline.