Berlin based artist and photographer Lars Hayer graduated in Fine Arts at Beaux Arts Toulouse in 2004. His photographic journeys have since taken him from Russia to Northern Africa (where he grew up), traversing most of Europe on his way. He's been collaborating with KUNSTrePUBLIK and werkleitz as experimental web programmer since 2009, and took over the development of the (future) kom.post web platform in late 2010.
               
www.larshayer.com/

Jon Phillips is a developer contributing to society and building meaningful relationships. In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, founded the Open Clip Art Library, built Creative Commons‘ community and business development strategies from 2005 until 2008 and is growing the media company Fabricatorz with Cantocore Art Exhibitions, Laoban Open Soundsystems in Beijing, and is the community director for the open source social messaging service Status.Net (Identi.ca).

> rejon.org/bio/

Mark Surman is one of the world's leading proponents for open technologies and the development of a truly Open Net. His very business is that of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. As a community technology activist for over 20 years, Mark focuses on inventing new ways to promote openness, opportunity, and freedom on the Internet, for which Mozilla, Drumbeat, his international 'open everything' conversations and summits are but a few of the platforms manifesting his vision and goals. Together with transmediale, Mark and Drumbeat introduced the first ever Open Web Award.

Stephanie Hankey is Executive Director and co-founder of Tactical Tech (2003). She worked with the Open Society Institute, was editor-in-chief of Pulp and a creative director and producer for a number of London-based multimedia companies. She has a Masters in Information and Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art London, and a certificate in Campaigning and Lobbying from NCVO.

Vytautas Michelkevičius is an art and media curator and facilitator from Vilnius (LT). He is involved in free knowledge sharing practices: from 2005-2009 he was editor of the media culture magazine www.balsas.cc, since 2005 he is a lecturer at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and a workshop facilitator. He holds a Ph.D in Communication and is Artistic Director of the Nida Art Colony. He is interested in mapping and experimental social practices using free local resources (like picking herbs collectively, setting up a symposium in the forest or sauna).

Mindaugas Gapševičius (*1974) is an artist, facilitator, and curator living and working in London, Berlin and Vilnius. He has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions around Europe and is an active participant in conferences and workshops related to net culture. Gapševičius collaboratively initiated several major international cultural/educational projects including o-o Institutio Media, Migrating Reality, and Migrating Art Academies, co-edited Migrating Reality (2008) and Migrating:Art:Academies: (2010) books.

> triple-double-u.com

Shapeshifters is a knowledge agency for the global creative community. Their aim is to help people all over the world by locating resources needed to turn ideas into reality. Shapeshifters utilize a unique combination of global correspondents and database technology to provide reliable information about creative industries worldwide as well as brokering business opportunities with creative industries. Eric Poettschacher is founder and CEO.

> shapeshifters.net/

Christopher 'moot' Poole is the founder of 4chan, an image-based bulletin board. Originally a niche site for anime fans, 4chan is now one of the most influential communities on the net. With over 12 million users a month, many viral videos, internet phenomena, and memes start on 4chan. In 2010 Poole was a featured speaker at the TED Conference, and has been profiled by TIME, CNN, The Washington Post, and Technology Review. Recently he started Canvas, a project to find new and better ways for people to hang out and collaborate online.

> 4chan.org
> canv.as

Founded in 2004 Open Knowledge Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, registered in the UK. They promote open knowledge that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed, no matter who someone is or what they do. They run projects like Open Shakespeare, and develop tools and resources to help people create, find and share open material. In May 2010, Open Knowledge Foundation Germany was announced, it will collaborate with other organisations such as Open Data Network, to further promote open knowledge, increased transparency and open data.

Open Design City (ODC), is more than a workshop, it is a collaboration space in which new relationships and projects will be formed between its citizens. Founded in Berlin in 2010 by Jay Cousins, Chris Doering and Philip Steffan, it is a space that encourages the sharing of tools, knowledge, skills and exploration of Open Design principles, while pursuing the quest for finding new methods of monetisation and reward. The guideline for Open Design City is one word: Share. Share your tools, time ideas and yourself.

> odc.betahaus.de/

Kelly Sutton is a software engineer and lifestyle minimalist living in Brooklyn. Sutton has gotten rid of all his possessions as he felt that the ever-increasing number of available digital goods can adequately replace his physical belongings. Therefore, the minimalist is offering all his possession for sale on his website The Cult of Less, apart from his laptop, an iPad, an Amazon Kindle, two external hard drives, a 'few' articles of clothing, and bed sheets.

> cultofless.com/