will.i.am, Musician, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
Eyal Amir, Composer, Producer and Video Maker
Fred Armisen, Co‐Creator, Co‐Writer and Co‐Star, Portlandia
Neill Barham, Independent Filmmaker
David Blatner, co-creator, indesignsecrets
Christina Bonnington, Staff Writer, Wired’s Gadget Lab
Christopher Breen, Senior Editor, Macworld
Knox Bronson, Founder, P1xels—The Art of the iPhone
Russell Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe
Stephanie Calabrese Roberts, Documentary Photographer, LittlePurpleCow Productions
Serenity Caldwell, Associate Editor, Macworld
Jeff Carlson, Senior Editor, TidBITS
Michael Carrera, Manager, Faculty Technology Services, Berklee College of Music
Jacqui Cheng, Senior Editor, ARS TECHNICA
Wally Cherwinski, Videographer, Magic 22
Michael Clawson, Chief Fish, Big Fish Creations
Mark Coppin, Director of Assistive Technology, Anne Carlsen Center
Jeremy Cowart, Photographer, G-Tech
Robert Craven, Director, Technology and Media Services, Fullerton School District
Bill D’Agostino, Director of IT Training & Support Services, Berklee College of Music
Nicole Dalesio, 4th Grade Teacher, Pleasanton Unified School District
Karen Divine, Photographer
Mark Dohn, Technology Integration, Mobile Learning, and Curriculum Design Consultant
Dan Frakes, Senior Editor, Macworld
Lex Friedman, Senior Writer, Macworld
Josh Gad, Actor, Executive Producer, Co-creator “1600 Penn”
Tony Gama-Lobo, Executive Producer, IFC
Jeff Gamet, Managing Editor, The Mac Observer
Phil Goodman, Owner, Goodman Consulting
Richard Gray, Photographer
John Gruber, Writer, Publisher, Daring Fireball
Kelly Guimont, 1Password Support Jedi, AgileBits
Dave Hamilton, Publisher/Podcaster, The Mac Observer
Craig Hartin, Animation Producer, IFC
Koci Hernandez, Photographer
Hal Hinderliter, Principal, HHCS
Jack Hollingsworth, Owner, jackhollingsworth.com
Anna Elizabeth James, Filmmaker, Majek Pictures
Brian David Johnson, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
Chuck Joiner, Producer/, The MacVoices Group
Paul Kafasis, CEO, Rogue Amoeba
Ruben Kazantsev, Co-founder, iPhone Film Festival
Joe Kissell, Senior Editor, TidBITS
Michael Koerbel, Filmmaker, Majek Pictures
Julieanne Kost, Principal Evangelist for Photoshop and Lightroom, Adobe
Ashton Kutcher, Actor, Tech Investor and Producer
Chuck La Tournous, Editor/Publisher, RandomMaccess
Ted Lai, K-12 Education Development Executive, Apple, Inc.
Ted Landau, Columnist, Macworld and Mac Observer
Dan Marcolina, Photographer; iPhoneography Event Organizer
Jonathan Marks, Photographer, Jonathan Marks Fine Art
Tony Marvuglio, Assistant Vice President for Academic Technology, Berklee College of Music
David Mash, Senior Vice President for Innovation, Strategy, and Technology, Berklee College of Music
Mark Mautone, Lead Teacher, Applied Behavior Analysis Program, Hoboken School District, New Jersey
Don McAllister
Dan Moren, Senior Editor, Macworld
Tom Negrino, Author, Backup Brain, LLC
Alan Oppenheimer, President, Art Authority
Nate Park, CoFounder, iPhoneArt.com (IPA)
Cindy Patrick, Photographer
Andrea Pejrolo, Assistant Chair – Contemporary Writing Department, Berklee College of Music
Luis Perez, Graduate Assistant, iTeach Initiative, University of South Florida College of Education
Matthew Purcell, Teacher, Canberra Grammar School
Ryan Quincy, Director & Producer, IFC
Steven Sande, Hardware Editor, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Andrew Shalat, CEO, Shalat Design
Allison Sheridan, Podcaster, NosillaCast Mac Podcast
David Sparks, Editor, MacSparky
Rebecca Stockley, Cofounder, BATS Improv
Sumit Vishwakarma, iPad Artist / Animator, SumitStudio.com
Mitchell Waite, CEO, Mitch Waite Group
Ben Waldie, President, Automated Workflows, LLC
Bill Wiecking, sysop, Hawaii Prep Academy
Dave Wiskus, Airplane Mode
Marty Yawnick, Freelance Graphic Designer

 

will.i.am, Musician, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

will.i.am, a multi-faceted entertainer and creative innovator, is a seven-time Grammy Award winner. Known for his work with The Black Eyed Peas, who have sold 31 million albums and 58 million singles worldwide, he also works with some of the industry’s biggest names including Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, David Guetta, and film composer Hans Zimmer.

Frontman and founder of The Black Eyed Peas will.i.am has released three songs from his upcoming solo cd, #willpower on Interscope Records, due out in 2013. The three singles from the cd released in 2012 were: “T.H.E (The Hardest Ever),” featuring Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez; number one hit song in the UK, “This is Love” featuring Eva Simons; and “Scream & Shout” that has gone to number one on iTunes and radio play charts in multiple countries.

will.i.am is a founding shareholder in Beats Electronics, the creators of Beats by Dre™ headphones. Leveraging his experience in the consumer electronics industry, will.i.am hosted the world premiere introduction of his i.am+ foto.sosho camera accessory for iPhone4/4s and iPhone 5 in London in late November, 2012. Fusing the worlds of fashion, photography and mobile lifestyle, the i.am+ foto.sosho camera accessory line debuted in December, 2012 at retail, avaible exclusively at Selfridges & Co. department store in the UK.

Recognized and honored by numerous industry organizations, will.i.am is the recipient of multiple Grammy Awards, a Latin Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, two NAACP Image Awards, a VH1 Do Something Award, the BMI President’s Award and a 2008 Webby Award.

Eyal Amir, Composer, Producer and Video Maker
Eyal Amir is a new breed musician. Born in 1985, he is a composer/producer and video maker who is currently leading the way with new approaches for creating music.

He is known for his highly successful YouTube videos he is releasing under his own name and with his project – Project RnL.

Originally from Tel Aviv, Israel, Eyal has worked with most of the top local artists, writing, producing, playing keyboards and engineering. He has also engineered the most popular Israeli video of all times (Le Internet Medley – with over 22 million views to date).

In 2010, he started the duo Project RnL with vocalist Ray Livnat which featured Eyal’s unique blend of progressive rock, classical music, jazz and pop. The innovative combination of the complex, yet accessible music with the real time approach to videos has captured the imagination of fans, critics and fellow musicians, drawing over a million views on YouTube.

Currently Eyal lives in New York City and creates incredibly successful music videos with artists such as Grammy winner Ruslan Sirota (Stanley Clarke) and Grammy nominee Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater). He is also a trainer in the successful educational website MacProVideo.com.

Fred Armisen, Co‐Creator, Co‐Writer and Co‐Star, Portlandia

Fred Armisen is the co‐creator, co‐writer and co‐star of Portlandia. In 2012, he received an Emmy® nomination in the “Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series” category for his work on the series. Armisen is also in his eleventh season of Saturday Night Live. On SNL, he has engaged audiences with memorable impressions of former New York Governor David Paterson, Larry King, Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi, President Barack Obama, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the popular digital short “Iran So Far Away,” and Prince, the often‐silent host of the musician’s talk show “The Prince Show.” Other unforgettable characters of Armisen’s include the distracted court stenographer Elinda Nade, the political comedian Nicholas Fehn and Mr. Vogelcheck in the “too close for comfort” kissing family.

Armisen has landed on Rolling Stone’s “Hot List” and has been included several times on Entertainment Weekly’s “Must List.” He has appeared in countless feature films, including the animated feature The Smurfs, Cop Out with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, Easy A alongside Emma Stone, The Rocker opposite Rainn Wilson, Confessions of a Shopaholic with Isla Fisher and The Promotion with John C. Reilly. He has also appeared in the films Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny with Jack Black, The Ex with Zach Braff and Jason Bateman, as well as Eurotrip, and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

Armisen began his career as a musician in the Chicago‐based post‐punk band Trenchmouth as well as playing with the Blue Man Group. His transition to comedy came with the 1998 underground short film Fred Armisen’s Guide to Music and SXSW which followed him through the Austin, Texas “South By Southwest Music Festival” posing as a music journalist. In 2006, he interviewed Cat Power for the influential music website Pitchfork.com. He then combined his love for music and comedy by creating the role of drummer Jens Hannemann and releasing an instructional DVD, Complicated Drumming Technique, in 2007.

He has made guest appearances on NBC’s 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation, and the cable comedy shows The Sarah Silverman Show, Human Giant and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! He was also seen in the smash kids show Yo Gabba Gabba on Nickelodeon.

Armisen lives in New York City. His birthday is December 4.

Neill Barham, Independent Filmmaker
Neill Barham is a Seattle based independent filmmaker who attended the Vancouver Film School before turning to app development and co-founding the award-winning FiLMiC Pro. As CEO of Cinegenix, Neill’s unwavering dedication to the user experience has turned FiLMiC Pro into the gold standard for mobile video recording according to sources as diverse as; the BBC, the Wall Street Journal, MacWorld, Gizmodo, Time, Wired, CNET, the USA Today and countless others. Recently, the $4 FiLMiC Pro tied the $13,000 Canon C300, bested the $5000 Sony FS100 in blind testing at the Zacuto Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout when used with an iPhone 4S.  This year, Neill has been a featured speaker at Creative Live and the 2nd Annual Olleh Smartphone Film Festival (South Korea). When Neill isn’t composing a nice shot in a foreign place, he likes to rescue as many Rhodesian Ridgebacks and German Shepherd Dogs as his loft will allow.

David Blatner, co-creator, indesignsecrets

David Blatner is the author of 15 books that have been translated into 14 languages, including “Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe From Infinitesimal to Infinity,” “Real World Photoshop” “The Joy of Pi,” “Judaism for Dummies,” and “The Flying Book.” He is also the co-creator of InDesignSecrets.com and can be found at spectrums.com.

Christina Bonnington, Staff Writer, Wired’s Gadget Lab

Christina Bonnington is a staff writer with Wired’s Gadget Lab, where she primarily covers Apple, robotics, and the smart TV space. Her work has also appeared on Gizmodo, Wired magazine, and CNN.com. She holds a degree in electrical engineering and was a professional ballet dancer in a past life.

Christopher Breen, Senior Editor, Macworld

Chris Breen has been writing about Apple and its technology since the latter days of the Reagan Administration for such publications as MacUser, MacWEEK, and Macworld. He currently pens Macworld’s popular Mac 911 tips and tricks column as well as hosts the Macworld Podcast. Outside of Macworld he trains for Lynda.com and performs as a professional musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Knox Bronson, Founder, P1xels—The Art of the iPhone

Knox Bronson is founder of only curated site for the global iphonic art movement, P1xels—The Art of the iPhone, http://pixelsatanexhibition.com, featuring the work of the finest artists working the medium around the world. Knox produced the first ever juried gallery show of iphonic art three years ago and has since produced shows all over country and the world, garnering press all around the globe, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, and even representing the smiley face of the USA on a video feature for the Voice Of America network in the Middle East.

Russell Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe

Russell Brown is the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated as well as an Emmy Award-winning instructor. His ability to bring together the world of design and software development is a perfect match for Adobe products. In Russell’s twenty-seven years of creative experience at Adobe, he has contributed to the evolution of Adobe Photoshop with feature enhancements, advanced scripts, and most recently Flash panel development. http://www.russellbrown.com

Stephanie Calabrese Roberts, Documentary Photographer, LittlePurpleCow Productions

Stephanie Calabrese Roberts is an award-winning documentary photographer, the creator of LittlePurpleCow Productions, and founder of non-profit Lens on Life. She’s the author of the best-selling The Art of iPhoneography: A Guide to Mobile Creativity, Lens on Life: Documenting Your World Through Photography, and co-author of Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sisters Guide to Shooting from the Heart. Stephanie’s work has been featured in Life, Forbes, and Digital Photo Magazine, and she’s a contributor to Shutter Sisters.

Serenity Caldwell, Associate Editor, Macworld

Jeff Carlson, Senior Editor, TidBITS

Jeff Carlson is a writer, photographer, and late-nighter. He’s written best-selling books about the Mac, iOS, and photography, including “The iPad for Photographers,” “The iPad Pocket Guide,” “The OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide,” “Photoshop Elements Visual QuickStart Guide,” “The iMovie ’11 Project Book” and more. He’s also a Senior Editor at TidBITS, a frequent contributor to Macworld, and a Mac columnist for The Seattle Times.

Michael Carrera, Manager, Faculty Technology Services, Berklee College of Music

Jacqui Cheng, Senior Editor, ARS TECHNICA

Jacqui is Senior Apple Editor at Ars Technica and has spent the last eight years writing about Apple, Apple culture, gadgets, social networking, privacy, and more. She closely watches the intersection between humanity and technology, and how technology plays a role in people’s everyday lives.

Previous to Ars, Jacqui worked as a developer for several years before shifting her focus to writing. She’s a graduate of Purdue University with degrees Interactive Multimedia Development and Computer Information Systems Technology. In her nonexistent free time, she likes messing with gadgets, cooking, gardening, traveling, cycling, running, pretending to be a photographer.”

Wally Cherwinski, Videographer, Magic 22

Wally Cherwinski is a Videographer based in Ottawa, Canada. Starting with 16mm film, he has written and directed numerous documentaries and television features, including projects with Canada’s National Film Board. These days, he combines his passion for video with his love of travel. He has delivered video workshops at Macworld, at Macintosh User Groups in Canada and on four MacMania cruises.

Michael Clawson, Chief Fish, Big Fish Creations

Michael Clawson is ‘Chief Fish’ at Big Fish Creations, an advertising and digital media company in the Sierra town of Graeagle. His background began in Silicon Valley when Apple Computer and Adobe Systems first made their mark in Desktop Publishing. He was introduced to interactive media early in his career, transitioned to production artist, and later, creator and lead principal of an Interactive Department at a major advertising agency. Specializing in branding across multiple media platforms, his diverse repertoire includes a hybrid combination of designer and developer with emphasis on graphic design, branding, photography and communication.

Mark Coppin, Director of Assistive Technology, Anne Carlsen Center

Mark has 25 years of experience working in various capacities at Anne Carlsen Center, Jamestown, N.D. He began as a special education instructor in 1987, and served as director of summer programming and interim director of educational services. He was a classroom teacher until 1992 when he became Director of Assistive Technology and Director of IT. As Director of Assistive Technology, he coordinated the provision of assistive technology services for the Center. He is also a member of the outreach technology team, which provides evaluations and consultation services throughout North Dakota. Mark has presented Keynotes at state, regional, national and international conferences on such topics as technology and teaching, special education, video production, assistive technology, iPad and iPod touch, and autism.

Mark holds two bachelor’s degrees from Moorhead (MN) State University in speech communications and in special education and has a Masters in Educational Media Design and Technology. Mark is also a certified ATP (Assistive Technology Practitioner) through RESNA.

In 2009, Mark was chosen as an Apple Distinguished educator. He currently serves on the advisory board for the Apple Distinguished Educator program. Mark was also nominated for the 1988 North Dakota ARC Teacher of the Year and the 1992 National Association of Private Schools for Exceptional Children Teacher of the Year.

Jeremy Cowart, Photographer, G-Tech

Jeremy has taken portraits of many familiar names such as Taylor Swift, Tim Tebow, The Kardashians, Sting, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Heidi Klum, Gwyneth Paltrow, The Civil Wars, Emma Stone, Courtney Cox, and Ryan Seacrest, just to name a few. His clients, mostly entertainment based, include ABC, FOX, A&E, F/X, Discovery Channel, ESPN, People, US Weekly, VIBE, E!, Universal Records, Sony Records and Warner Brothers Records. His work has been published in Rolling Stone, ESPN Magazine, People Magazine, USA Today, Fast Company, NYTimes, TIME, Nylon and more.

There’s always something interesting going on in Jeremy’s world. His humanitarian projects have been featured on CNN.com as international leading headlines twice, he shot the cover of Tim Tebow’s NY Times best-selling autobiography, and he recently starred in an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Jeremy is something of a social media/technology guru. He’s a featured user on Google+ with over a million followers, he won the Celebrity TwitChange campaign last year that raised thousands of dollars to fight global poverty, and he’s currently working on his first iPhone app to be released Summer 2012.

Photography has taken Jeremy to six continents. He traveled with Britney Spears in 2009 as her “Circus World Tour” photographer, documented seventeen countries with the Passion World Tour in 2008, and has been on numerous trips to Africa and Haiti with various organizations. From all his travels, Jeremy has released 3 Photography books, “Hope in the Dark“, “The Poor Will Be Glad” and “Awakening“, and he’s currently working on a 4th new book, “What’s Your Mark?” with Zondervan Publishers due out Fall 2012.

Jeremy also spends his time on community projects, brainstorming innovative ways to use his camera to make an impact. In January 2010, after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Jeremy responded with his “Voices of Haiti” photo essay, letting the people of Haiti write their own thoughts and prayers on found rubble. This project was displayed prominently at the entrance of a very important gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in March of 2010. They were meeting to discuss the rebuild of Haiti and they ended up pledging ten billion dollars to the effort. On that day, Jeremy’s “Voices of Haiti” project proved that art can help change the world.

Knowing the value that a photograph can have in just one person’s life, Jeremy also founded Help-Portrait, a worldwide movement of photographers using their time, equipment, and expertise to give back to those less fortunate. On December 12, 2009, the first world-wide Help-Portrait event provided free portraits for over 40,000 people in 42 Countries. Those numbers have increased significantly over the last 2 years, with 169,523 photos given to date in at least 56 countries. Help-Portrait continues to grow, encouraging all photographers to use their platform to make a difference with their cameras.

Lastly, Jeremy’s speaking and teaching career has taken off as he spends his time annually traveling around the country speaking at conferences like TEDx, Catalyst Conference, Photoshop World, WPPI, Google Plus Photographers Conference, Photo Plus Expo and many more. He has also hosted 2 of his own LifeFinder Tour’s that have taken him all across the country. His LifeFinder Tour is based on his educational DVD, LifeFinder. Jeremy is also an instructor for Scott Kelby’s “Kelby Training” and has released 3 classes on the Kelby Training website.

Bouncing back and forth between Nashville and LA, Jeremy draws a lot of inspiration from his amazing wife, Shannon, and their two ridiculously cute and utterly fantastic kids, Adler and Eisley. They also have a dog and a cat, but they are not as inspirational.

Robert Craven, Director, Technology and Media Services, Fullerton School District

Robert EM Craven is an educator with a technology obsession. An educator for over 15 years now, Robert quickly realized the impact technology made on both his teaching and student learning; this discovery started him on his endless journey into the integration, development and practice of technology and curricular integration. Robert is an Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Certified Teacher, and was recognized as one of the 5 “Best of NECC” presenters in 2007, 2009 and 2010. Since 2009, he has served on the Computer Using Educators (CUE) Board of Directors and is currently Board President.

Currently, Robert is the Director of Technology and Media Services for Fullerton School District. Previously, he worked at Saddleback Valley Unified School District managing the educational technology department, as well as at the Orange County Department of Education as an educational technology coordinator managing online learning and professional development. His work involves 1:1 laptop and mobile learning deployments, professional development training, online learning, Bring Your Own Device programs, networking, emerging technologies and much more. Robert began his teaching career at South Gate Middle School, one of the largest middle schools in the country. He is a frequent speaker at conferences both in California and nationally speaking on topics including mobile devices, online learning, district level technology implementation, 1:1 rollouts, curriculum integration, iPads, iPods, Screencasting, Web 2.0 and more. When not presenting Robert can be found at the local coffee shop, airport, soccer pitch or baseball field plugged into the grid as digitalroberto.

Bill D’Agostino, Director of IT Training & Support Services, Berklee College of Music

Nicole Dalesio, 4th Grade Teacher, Pleasanton Unified School District

Feet in the trenches, head "in the cloud," Nicole is a fourth grade teacher whose specialty is creativity and technology in education. She also teaches technology workshops for educators both inside and outside of her district, is an instructor at the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College, and serves on the board for her local history museum. Nicole is an Apple Distinguished Educator, an Adobe Education Leader, and a Google Certified Teacher.

Karen Divine, Photographer 

Karen Divine was introduced to photography in the early 70’s and went on to study painting, drawing and alternative photographic processes.  After learning Photoshop in 2001 she began creating the images she imagined using just photos and in the past two years transferred that process to the iPhone.  While learning to create a beautiful single image is crucial to being a fine art photographer, the multi-image is what speaks to her heart.  She tells her stories by compositing seemingly random images and watching them evolve.  She has won numerous International Awards including Discovery of the Year with the International Photography Awards in NYC 2011, First Place in Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Eyephonegraphy #3 in Madrid on Tour through Spain 2013, WPGA Pollux Award First Place, exhibitions in Atlanta, NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boulder, CO, Texas Photographic Print Program, and the Center for Fine Art Photography just to name a few.  Her most recent awards include First Place Cell Phone WPGA, 2012 IPA First Place Award, 2012 Prix de la Photographie Fist Place as well as interviews with CNN. Karen teaches creative iPhone classes and will teach at the Santa Fe Workshops in March 2013.
http://www.iphoneart.com/kdivineboulder
www.karendivinephotography.com
www.karendivineblog.com

Mark Dohn, Technology Integration, Mobile Learning, and Curriculum Design Consultant

Mark Dohn has been a technology teacher and coordinator for the past fifteen years in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). He has an MS in Education Media Design and Technology from Full Sail University where his research focused on collaboration and the use of 21st century tools in the classroom. In addition to his teaching, Mark is part of a core group of  global educators who advocate for the use of mobile devices and apps for students with learning disabilities. He has worked for the educational nonprofit impossible2Possible (i2P) as Education Coordinator and was a participant on a ten-day expedition to the rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon to study biodiversity. Mark also conducts professional development and teacher trainings with an emphasis on technology integration and use from a collaborative and global perspective.

He has been honored for his innovative and creative teaching style by Apple computers (Apple Distinguished Educator 2009), the Los Angeles Unified School District and Computer Using Educators Los Angeles (CUELA 2011 Teacher of the Year).

Now living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mark is an independent consultant for technology integration, mobile learning, and curriculum design.

Dan Frakes, Senior Editor, Macworld

Dan Frakes is a senior editor at Macworld and TechHive.com, where he covers and writes about…well, pretty much everything. He’s also, as his Twitter bio says, a tech writer, AV geek, sports fan, and dad. Over the past 18 years, he’s written and edited books, published software, worked in IT, been a consultant, and had a fancy office as a public-policy analyst—not in that order, or in any other order that might make sense. His first tech claim to fame was publishing an ebook so long ago that they didn’t yet call them ebooks, and he’s also published two popular bits of Mac software, ChangeShortName and InformINIT.

Lex Friedman, Senior Writer, Macworld

Lex Friedman is a staff writer for Macworld. He covers Apple news, and also writes reviews, tutorials, and opinion pieces.

He frequently goes hands on with developers and users to get deep, nuanced stories about issues facing the Apple community.”

Josh Gad, Actor, Executive Producer, Co-creator “1600 Penn”

Josh Gad serves as an executive producer, co-creator and also stars as Skip Gilchrist, the president’s (Bill Pullman) clumsy, eldest son whose sincere attempts to do the right thing often go awry, in NBC’s family comedy “1600 Penn.”

Gad brings wit, humor and depth to the small and large screens and to theater. He began his career in theater after graduating from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He then turned his sights to comedy and co-created his own comedy troupe group – The Lost Nomads Comedy Troupe.

His television credits include “Back to You,” and ABC’s “Modern Family,” as well as the animated series “Good Vibes,” where he voiced the character of Mondo. Gad also starred in the title role in “Gigi: Almost American.” He also recently guest starred on FOX’s hit show “New Girl.”

Next, Gad will be seen on the big screen in “Thanks for Sharing,” opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. In addition, he will also be seen starring in the highly anticipated Steve Jobs biopic “Jobs,” opposite Ashton Kutcher,and co-starring in Fox’s film “The Internship,” opposite Will Ferrell and Owen Wilson which will be released on June 7th2013. His earlier films include roles in “21,” “The Rocker,” and “Love and Other Drugs.”

Currently, he is lending his voice to DreamWork’s animated film “Me and My Shadow,” opposite Kate Hudson and Bill Hader. He also voiced the character of Louis in “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” alongside Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez and John Leguizamo.

Gad took Broadway by storm starring as Elder Cunningham in the Tony Award-winning comedy musical “Book of Mormon,” written by the creators of “South Park,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Tony winner Robert Lopez (“Avenue Q”). Gad was nominated for a Tony, Drama League and Astaire Award, and won the Outer Critic Circle Award for his performance. Gad made his Broadway debut in the Tony-award-winning production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

Gad is currently co-writing the sequel to the hit comedy, “Twins” for Universal Pictures, set to feature Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Eddie Murphy.

Tony Gama-Lobo, Executive Producer, IFC

Tony Gama-Lobo and his writing partner (and wife), Rebecca May, spent seven seasons on FOX’s Emmy Award-winning animated series King of the Hill, rising to co-executive producers. While with the show, they were nominated for an Emmy Award, two WGA Awards and an Annie Award. They have written pilots for ABC, CBS and FOX. In 2012 they joined Out There as writers and Executive Producers.

 

Jeff Gamet, Managing Editor, The Mac Observer

Jeff Gamet is Managing Editor of The Mac Observer, writes the InBrief column in InDesign Magazine, and is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly. He also co-hosts the Apple Context Machine and We Have Communicators podcasts, is a member of the Mac Roundtable podcast team, and is actively involved in the blogging and social media world. Jeff is the author of "The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X," and travels around the U.S. speaking on design and Apple-related topics, including popular events like Macworld|iWorld and Mac Computer Expo. Jeff dreams in HD.

Phil Goodman, Owner, Goodman Consulting

Phil Goodman founded Goodman Consulting in 1987, a computer consulting firm specializing in Mac OS X, troubleshooting, portable computing and database development. For many years, Phil was a faculty member and textbook author at UCLA teaching computer literacy and programming and he is also the founder and President of the Los Angeles Portable User Group. He holds multiple Apple certifications for every version of Mac OS X since 10.1 and is also an Apple Certified Trainer. In 1989, Phil was a founding member of what is now Apple’s Consultant Network and was on the group’s Advisory Council for five years. As a professional database developer, he is also a member of the FileMaker Business Alliance. Phil is also a sought out speaker on Mac and iOS topics and has taught at Macworld Expo, Mac IT, Macworld | iWorld, MacTech, MacTech BootCamp, many Apple Stores and various local user group meetings.

Richard Gray, Photographer      

Richard runs the world’s first face-to-face course in photography with the iPhone in the photography department of one of London’s leading art colleges and at The Photographers Gallery http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian-masterclasses/iphone-photography-course. He is a prolific and eclectic mobile photographer (@rugfoot on Instagram), has exhibited various times and been judge on many international competitions. He has written for many publications, including The Guardian, he blogs at iphoggy.com, has spoken at many international conferences and is involved in a wide range of mobile photography projects. Richard is also a professional music photographer syndicated to Empics (Press Association).

John Gruber, Writer, Publisher, Daring Fireball

Kelly Guimont, 1Password Support Jedi, AgileBits

Kelly is a longtime Mac user who remembers when the CD-ROM was revolutionary and when floppy disks were actually floppy. She has been known to appear on the occasional podcast, and can generally be found doing software support for AgileBits or writing articles for TUAW.com.

Dave Hamilton, Publisher/Podcaster, The Mac Observer

Craig Hartin, Animation Producer, IFC

Raised on a farm in rural Alabama, Craig Hartin never thought he would see the bright lights of Hollywood… boy was he right. Doomed to stay in the South forever, Craig only made it as far as Atlanta, where sometime in the late 1970′s he met a guy who knew a guy that talked to a guy that needed an animator for a pilot called “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” Craig became that animator. Over the course of his twelve years on “Aqua Teen,” Craig worked his way up from animator to director / producer on that show, and has similar credits on many others including “The Brak Show,” “Sealab 2021,” “Perfect Hair Forever,” “12 oz. Mouse,” “Freakshow,” “Archer” and “Squidbillies.” Currently, Craig is working as Head of Production for Bento Box Animation Studios Atlanta on two new animated series – IFC’s “Out There” by Ryan Quincy and a new series for Hulu by Seth Meyers.

Koci Hernandez, Photographer

Richard Koci Hernandez is a national Emmy award-winning video and multimedia producer who worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work for the Mercury News has earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations and was awarded a national Emmy award for the New Approaches to Documentary category for his work on the film,Uprooted. In 2011 he presented a mobile photography Master Class at the TED2012 conference. Koci’s mobile photography and insights have been featured in The New York Times, CNN, Slate, The Atlantic, and Phototech Magazine. His recent iPhoneography is being published in a book by National Geographic.  See more of Richards work at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/koci/

Hal Hinderliter, Principal, HHCS

Hal Hinderliter serves the printing and publishing industries through his company Hal Hinderliter Consulting Services. A prolific author, Hal currently writes for the magazine Quick Printing and has published more than 120 magazine articles as well as 5 textbooks. In his former roles as director of the Graphic Communication Institute at Cal Poly State University and director of the Center for Imaging Excellence at the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, he created training programs for both industry clients and public workshops. A popular speaker on prepress and workflow topics, Hinderliter has delivered seminars at numerous tradeshows including MacWorld, Graph Expo, Graphics of the Americas, Seybold, FOLIO, Gutenberg and COMDEX.

Jack Hollingsworth, Owner, www.jackhollingsworth.com

Anna Elizabeth James, Filmmaker, Majek Pictures

Anna is a recent graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and came to visual storytelling my way of motherhood. Tired of seeing the same old movies for her children, the young mother took her writing skills to the next level by focusing her efforts on screenwriting in hopes of making a difference in Hollywood.  Since then she has sold a romantic comedy to Skydance Productions (Mission Impossible, WWZ) and has directed numerous projects including a teen pilot, “Diary of a Teenage Nobody.” Anna is currently writing her first feature, “Good Girls Guide to O.” (O as in Orgasm), which she can’t wait for women everywhere to experience.  The O Director resides in Los Angeles, loves window gardening, lounging by the pool and inspiring others like herself to pick up their phones and start shooting!  Please visit www.annaelizabethjames.com to see her work what else she’s been up to.

Brian David Johnson, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation

The future is Brian David Johnson’s business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, his charter is to develop an actionable 10 -15 year vision for the future of technology. His work is called “future casting”—using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Along with reinventing TV, Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and using science fiction as a design tool. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Science Fiction Prototyping: Designing the Future with Science Fiction, Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment Computing and the Devices we Love, Fake Plastic Love, and Nebulous Mechanisms: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter.

Chuck Joiner, Producer/, The MacVoices Group

Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of The MacVoices Group of internet shows that includes MacVoices, MacVoicesTV, MacNotables and The MacJury. His passion for technology fuels content that is curiosity-driven and designed to both entertain and inform. Chuck’s credentials include five years as Chairman Apple’s User Group Advisory Board, Macworld/iWorld  speaker, and seven-time User Group University faculty member.

Paul Kafasis, CEO, Rogue Amoeba

Paul Kafasis serves as the public face of Rogue Amoeba and handles product management for all of Rogue Amoeba’s applications, as well as tackling the innumerable tasks no one else wants.

When not working, Paul attempts to give the world a laugh through comedy writing on his site One Foot Tsunami, as well as via his Twitter account, @PBones.

Ruben Kazantsev, Co-founder, iPhone Film Festival

Ruben Kazantsev is co-founder of the iPhone Film Festival – an online film festival that is designed to give artists an avenue to show off their gifts to the world by simply using their talents, creativity, and their iPhone. His most recent project is the film “Departure”; an unchartered concept in filmmaking, that will premier at Macworld/iWorld 2013. “Departure” is a film utilizing three main locations, in three separate countries, the United States, France, and Belarus, and three distinct directors from those respected regions. Each filmmaker will contribute their assigned footage, shot exclusively on the iPhone apparatus, to form one complete project, one complete intertwining story.

Joe Kissell, Senior Editor, TidBITS

Joe Kissell is Senior Editor of TidBITS, a Web site and email newsletter about the Macintosh and the Internet, and the best-selling author of numerous print and electronic books about Macintosh software. He’s also a Senior Contributor to Macworld, was the winner of a 2009 Neal award for Best How-to Article, and has appeared on the MacTech 25 list (the 25 people voted most influential in the Macintosh community) since 2007. Joe has worked in the Mac software industry since the early 1990s, including positions managing software development for Nisus Software and Kensington Technology Group. When not writing or speaking, Joe likes to travel, walk, cook, eat, and dream. After living in Paris for 5 years, he recently moved to San Diego, where he lives with his wife, son, and cat.

Michael Koerbel, Filmmaker, Majek Pictures

Michael is a recent graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and came to visual storytelling by watching cartoon serials with his father as a young boy.  Over the past  decade Michael has sharpened his storytelling skills through a myriad of successful shorts and music videos, his most recent project being an international commercial campaign. With a love of feature storytelling, Michael has been focusing on writing his directorial debut, a sci-fi mind bender set to be shot later this year. In the meantime, the young director resides in Los Angeles, loves flying drone helicopters, jumping out of airplanes, and inspiring others with movie making principles by using only an iOS device! Please visit www.michaelkoerbel.com to see his work what else he’s been up to.

Julieanne Kost, Principal Evangelist for Photoshop and Lightroom, Adobe

Julieanne Kost is Principal Evangelist for Photoshop and LIghtroom at Adobe Systems, founder of jkost.com, publisher of the Daily Photoshop and Lightroom Tip (blogs.adobe.com/jkost), host of “The Complete Picture” a bimonthly instructional training program featuring Lightroom and Photoshop on AdobeTV, author of  “Window Seat – The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking” and  author of Photoshop CS6 Essential Training with Lynda.com.

Ashton Kutcher, Actor, Tech Investor and Producer

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, tech investor and producer. In 2000, he co-founded Katalyst, a media company creating original content for digital media, television and film. In 2011, he co-founded A-Grade Investments, a venture fund.

In 2010, Kutcher was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People. In that same year, his company, Katalyst, was named one of the year’s Top 50 Most Inspiring Innovators by Ad Age and one of Fast Company Magazine’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies.

Currently Kutcher stars in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. Averaging over 14 million viewers per week, the show ranks as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television.

Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the series That 70’s Show. He went on to star in a variety of films, including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.

In 2011, Kutcher created a venture fund, A-Grade Investments, with Ron Burkle and Guy Oseary. To date, A-Grade has invested in multiple tech companies including Spotify, Airbnb, Foursquare, Fab, Uber, Dwolla and Path.

Katalyst film credits include No Strings Attached, Killers, The Butterfly Effect and Guess Who. Television property credits include Punk’d and Beauty and the Geek. Katalyst Digital includes programming for major brands such as the Levi’s Curve ID campaign, winner of the 2011 OMMA Award for Best Integrated Online Fashion Campaign; Nikon “The Chase,” Mountain Dew “DEWmocracy,” and United Nations “Malaria No More.”

Chuck La Tournous, Editor/Publisher, RandomMaccess

Chuck La Tournous (twitter.com/ChuckLaTournous) is a writer, marketer, musician, speaker, podcaster, pundit, art director, web developer and all-around geek. In addition to writing for The Mac Observer, Chuck speaks about technology and marketing issues and appears on podcasts like the MacJury and Your Mac Life. Once a year or so, he dusts off his bass guitar to play with the Macworld All-Star Band.

Ted Lai, K-12 Education Development Executive, Apple, Inc.

Ted Lai is a veteran teacher and EdTech advocate. He is currently a K-12 Education Development Executive with Apple, Inc., and has a long history in education. After two years performing school assemblies, he worked as a classroom teacher for almost a decade. He left the classroom to train educators on strategies to transform teaching and learning with technology. Most recently, he was the Director of Technology & Media Services at Fullerton School District, home of Robert C. Fisler School (a 1:1 laptop Apple Distinguished School) and Valencia Park Elementary (a 1:1 mobile device Apple Distinguished Program). Honored as an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2003, a GarageBand Advocate, an M-Audio M-Powered Educator, “Best of CUE” speaker 2010, and one of the “Best of NECC” presenters in both 2006 and 2007, Ted has been a featured speaker at local, regional, and national conferences, and has led sessions that include curricular integration of podcasting, mobile devices, and multimedia. A self-described "presentaholic," Ted was also the co-author of The Macintosh iLife in the Classroom series with Jim Heid. Ted is married to Trang Lai (ADE Class of 2007), and they have two children, Zoe and Genevieve.

Ted Landau, Columnist, Macworld and Mac Observer

Ted Landau has been writing about Apple products since the 1980′s, starting as a contributing editor for MACazine and MacUser. He is currently a columnist for Macworld (Bugs & Fixes) and The Mac Observer (Ted Landau’s User Friendly View). He is a regular guest on podcasts, most notably MacNotables with Chuck Joiner.

In 1996, Ted founded the MacFixIt website where he remained as editor for the next 6 years. Ted is the also the author of several troubleshooting books — from the #1 bestselling Sad Macs, Bombs and Other Disasters to Take Control of iPhone iOS.”

Dan Marcolina, Photographer; iPhonegraphy Event Organizer

Dan Marcolina is the owner of Phila-based Marcolina Design Inc.  Over the last 20 years their passion for design and digital tools has spurred the company to keep reinventing themselves and in the process have become recognized leaders in print, web, video design. And now the new division Marcolina Slate llc, introduces touchable design for mobile devices. Through their varied work for clients like Adobe, Business Wire and Discovery Channel they have been called digital design masters and have been featured in dozens of books and magazines including CA, Graphis and The Macintosh Bible.

Having always used digital/photographic imagery as a corner stone of his design process along with shooting personal "fine art" work in many traditional formats his images have appeared in many venus worldwide. Over the last 2 years Dan has recently found a perfect bridge between his digital design side and traditional alternative photo side, iPhoneography. This new obsession has reinvigorated his love for both photography and visual experimentation, inspiring him to Author the iPhone Obsessed series which includes the critically acclaimed Book, iPhone Obsessed and 2 New and Notable iPad eBooks iObsessed Companion and recently AppAlchemy.
Twitter: marcolinadesign Instagram: @marcolina

Jonathan Marks, Photographer, Jonathan Marks Fine Art

As a skinny kid with short hair, long legs, and the inability to ever enter the 7-11 store near his home again after trying unsuccessfully to steal balloons at the age of 12, Jonathan discovered photography as a means of expressing himself during his awkward early teens.  Since then he’s filled out (well, a little!), his hair has grown (a lot), he’s mastered the art of balloon animals (more or less), and his photographic style has developed to the point of becoming a well known visual storyteller/artist with his iPhone. His work is guided by a feeling the moment he captures the initial image, be it a person, a place or a thing, and while always grounded in reality, his final creations are embellished by his vivid imagination and myriad iPhone Apps.

Having started his own licensed music and entertainment apparel business in the mid-1980′s working with internationally renowned acts ranging from the Beatles and the Grateful Dead (for whom he was the first to ever merchandise the iconic Dancing Bears), to the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Gibson Guitar and Madonna, Jonathan built his business up to a multi-million dollar international success story. With boundless energy devoted to the creativity desired in the designs he produced, the pursuit of the licensing rights needed to market and sell his full line of adult and children’s apparel and accessories, and with his “never take no” for an answer attitude, Jonathan’s business grew both domestically and internationally, gaining a level of notoriety in Japan normally reserved for actors and musicians of worldwide acclaim. What emerged as a result of this travel around the globe and the fact that every trip he took found him accompanied by his assorted pro camera gear was a passion for capturing his travels photographically in a most unique and creative manner. Where others saw mundane Jonathan captured magic. Where others shot quickly Jonathan captured quietude. Indeed, from his travels the artist within emerged.

Many years later and now having shot for private commissions, commercial clients, and fine art with his 35mm and medium format equipment, Jonathan has more recently developed an uncanny way of capturing and processing images exclusively with his Apple iPhone in such a manner as to allow the viewer an opportunity to see his creative, unique, and somewhat introspective take on the world around him, from the mundane to the magical, the absurd to the banal, and always with an eye toward balance between his sense of aesthetics and the technique used to communicate this. Regardless of the subject matter Jonathan finds that every image has a voice and emotion, a feeling associated with it that if given the opportunity, will emerge with honesty and sincerity.

Be it with his iPhone or his 35mm/medium format equipment, Jonathan is versed in all types of shoots and productions and is available for private commissions, commercial, advertising, and editorial assignments, and yes, even weddings, though be forewarned he does have a predilection for breaking out in an uncontrollable urge to dance.

Jonathan’s work has been exhibited in the US and Japan and is in private collections in the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Additionally, Jonathan is currently seeking gallery representation and licensing opportunities in all categories with an emphasis on limited edition prints and paper goods.

For more information or to speak with Jonathan about licensing, iPhone photography presentations and/or leading seminars around the world, he can be reached at www.jonathanmarksfineart.com.

Tony Marvuglio, Assistant Vice President for Academic Technology, Berklee College of Music        

David Mash, Senior Vice President for Innovation, Strategy, and Technology, Berklee College of Music

David Mash is Senior Vice President for Innovation, Strategy, and Technology at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, the world’s leading institute of contemporary music. As a leading authority on music technology and education, David Mash has been featured on national and international media broadcasts such as 3-2-1-Contact, Newton’s Apple, World Monitor, CBS Evening News, All Things Considered and Voice of America. He was featured in Apple Computer’s video Macintosh, Music, and MIDI – The Open Door as well as BMG Victor’s video Macintosh Music Bible Video – Volume 1 . He has been a pioneer in music and multimedia, was affiliated with the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine, has collaborated on development and artistic projects with leaders in the multimedia and music industries such as Adobe Systems, Avid, Roland, and Korg and has consulted on product development for many manufacturers of music technology products. Rolling Stone magazine has called David “the industry’s leading evangelist for the marriage of music and technology.” In 1996 David was named an AppleMaster by Apple Computer for his contributions to the fields of music, technology, and education.

Mark Mautone, Lead Teacher, Applied Behavior Analysis Program, Hoboken School District, New Jersey

Mark Mautone has over 18 years experience in special education and is currently a lead teacher for the Hoboken School District in New Jersey at their Applied Behavior Analysis Program for children with autism.  Mark is also the designer/developer of ITPADD iPhone/iPod Touch app, which was named one of 27 life changing apps for people with Tramatic Brain Injury by Brainline.org, an organization funded by the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center.  He is an Apple Certified Associate in iWorks Suite.  Mark has extensive knowledge in assistive technology that includes adapting and creating individualized technological curriculum using iWorks and iLife. He effectively harnesses standard curriculum with iPad/iPod Touch applications to create a seamless learning experience.  Mark is also the President of ITPADD-Integrated Technology for Persons with Autism and Developmental Disabilities. A technology company that provides training, 1:1 instruction, program development and technology support for children and adults with autism.

Don McAllister

Dan Moren, Senior Editor, Macworld

Tom Negrino, Author, Backup Brain, LLC

Tom Negrino is the author or co-author of more than 40 books, covering such diverse topics as iCloud, Dreamweaver, JavaScript, Keynote, Microsoft Office, CSS, and more. His latest book is "10 Things To Do Before Upgrading to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion" (Peachpit Press, 2012). He is a longtime contributor to Macworld and other magazines. He’s lived in the Sonoma wine country with his wife and frequent collaborator, Dori Smith, since they fled the Los Angeles area in 1999.

Alan Oppenheimer, President, Art Authority

Alan B. Oppenheimer, president and founder of Open Door Networks, Inc. worked for Apple Computer from 1983 to 1994, helping to design the AppleTalk network system for the original Macintosh computer and playing key roles in such products as the LaserWriter printer, AppleShare file server, Apple Internet Router and Apple Remote Access.

Alan founded Open Door Networks in 1995. Open Door is an Apple-focused Internet company, specializing in mobile apps and Internet security software. Under Alan’s direction, Open Door shipped the first Macintosh firewall in 1998 and shipped iPhone and iPad apps on the first day possible for each of these groundbreaking devices. Alan is co-author of the books “Internet Security for Your Macintosh and iPhone: A Guide for the Rest of Us” and “Inside AppleTalk,”as well as the creative force behind the top-selling Art Authority app line. He is also president of the Alan and Priscilla Oppenheimer Foundation.

Nate Park, CoFounder, iPhoneArt.com (IPA)

Nathaniel Park is the cofounder of iPhoneArt.com (IPA), a leading online community for mobile artists. Together with his partner, Daria Polichetti, IPA produced the LA Mobile Arts Festival which opened in August 2012. The inaugural exhibition was the largest exhibition of mobile artistry to date, and garnered widespread acclaim from The Los Angles Times, The Huffington Post, CNN, NBC, Daily Mail, CNET and many others. Following the success of the festival, IPA launched The iPrints Store, an innovative new platform offering select mobile artists a highly visible, curated venue for promoting, producing, selling, and shipping their creations to galleries and art buyers around the globe.

In addition to his work in the mobile arena, Park is a veteran visual effects editor with a stream of award-winning films to his credit such as Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, Argo, Superman Returns, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and others. In his free time, Park enjoys watching sports and coaching basketball.

Cindy Patrick, Photographer

Cindy Patrick In addition to being a highly sought-after wedding photographer, Cindy is an award-winning fine artist whose work has been exhibited globally, most recently in February 2012 at the Latitudes International Photography Festival in Huelva, Spain, where her work was selected to be shown alongside that of many world-renowned photographers from the esteemed Magnum Photo Agency. Her unique digital artwork has also been exhibited at the prestigious Arthaus Gallery in San Francisco, the Lunchbox Gallery in Miami, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in Los Angeles, the Giorgi Gallery in Berkeley, and the Santa Monica Art Studios in Santa Monica, CA.

Her fine art work has been published on numerous iPhoneography blogs and online publications including iPhoneogenic, where she was named one of the 50 most promising, influential, creative, and encouraging mobile photographers/artists of 2011.
http://www.iphoneart.com/cpatrickphoto
www.cpatrickphoto.com
www.cpatrickphoto.com/blog

Andrea Pejrolo, Assistant Chair – Contemporary Writing Department, Berklee College of Music

Andrea Pejrolo (www.apejrolo.com) is the Assistant Chair of the Contemporary Writing and Production department at Berklee College of Music in Boston. 

Andrea is a composer, producer, music technology expert, audio engineer, and bassist. He is the author of Creative Sequencing Techniques for Music Production (1st edition 2005, and 2nd edition 2011) and Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer (2007) and has written several articles for music magazines, including Sound On Sound, Bass World Magazine (USA), Muralann and Boheme Press (Canada), and Il Capitello Publisher (Italy). Andrea has extensive and active professional experience as a sound designer, audio engineer/producer, MIDI programmer and composer for film, TV, theater and multimedia. Some of his recent collaborations and projects include Traits de Marque in Paris, iAcoustica Studio drum library, iDrum Rock Edition for iPhone/iPad in collaboration with Izotope, arrangements and recording with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Kevin Bacon’s “Lover Boy”, Harry Davis’ “MVP”, Don Sebesky, ABC, CBS, Cy Coleman, Burning Petals Music Production (U.K.), the Broadway Show "Swing" (St. James Theater, NY), and the Grand Canyon Music Festival.

Andrea holds a Ph.D. in jazz composition/performance from New York University, a Master in Composition for Film, TV, Theater and Multimedia from the University of Bristol (U.K.) and a Music Diploma in Jazz Performance from  Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

Luis Perez, Graduate Assistant, iTeach Initiative, University of South Florida College of Education

Luis Pérez is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Special Education at the University of South Florida (USF). His dissertation focuses on the lived experiences of graduate students with visual disabilities. Other research interests include qualitative research methods, Universal Design for Learning and assistive technology. Luis is the author of the upcoming Mobile Learning for All from Corwin Press (to be published Spring 2013), and he has published several book chapters and peer-reviewed papers on universal design for learning and mobile pedagogy in publications such as the Journal of Special Education Technology and Teaching Exceptional Children. Luis is a frequent presenter at national and international technology conferences including: the International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN), Closing the Gap, and the International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE). 

Luis is also a technology integration specialist  with the Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT). At FCIT, he is on the staff for the iTeach Initiative, a program that provides training and support on Apple Technologies to faculty and students in the USF College of Education. Luis was selected to join the 2009 class of the Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) Program. ADEs are a select group of K-12 and higher education professionals with an identified expertise in educational technology.

Matthew Purcell, Teacher, Canberra Grammar School

Matthew Purcell is a secondary school teacher at Canberra Grammar School, teaching Year 9 Web Design and Application Development, Year 10 iPhone and iPad Application Development, and Year 11/12 Software Design and Development. He is also the coordinator of the Code Cadets group (http://www.codecadets.com) – an extra-curricular group of sixteen students at Canberra Grammar School who are interested in information technology. The Code Cadets are currently attending Macworld | iWorld 2013.

Matthew is probably better known as The Silicon Kid from The Canberra Times (http://www.siliconkid.com.au) where he has been providing computer advice to the Canberra community for the past 14 years. He is also an iOS developer, most notably for being the author of the award-winning Bike Brisbane app. Matthew has also attended the 2008 thru 2012 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco.

In 2010 Matthew was awarded the ACT Microsoft Innovative Teacher of the Year Award, for innovations in the way he uses technology within his Software Design and Development classes. As part of this award he travelled to Phuket, Thailand in March 2011 to represent the ACT and Canberra Grammar School at the 2011 Microsoft Asia-Pacific Regional Innovative Education Forum.

Ryan Quincy, Director & Producer, IFC

Ryan Quincy moved from Nebraska to Los Angeles in 1997 to work in animation and began working on South Park from 1998 to 2012, where he was a two time Emmy®-winning animation director and producer. Quincy’s most proud of his upcoming animated show, Out There, premiering in February on IFC. Quincy’s personal work combines elements of the ordinary and the strange, and features a cast of hairy, animalistic characters. How they look on the outside is a reflection of how they feel on the inside. It’s a world of childlike innocence mixed with the bizarre and melancholy that make you smile and sometimes cringe. He also functions as director, character designer, and voice of the main character, Chad Stevens.

Steven Sande, Hardware Editor, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Steve Sande is currently the Features Editor at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW.com), an AOL Tech property. Since 2008, Steve has written over 1.5 million words of Apple news, reviews, and editorials for TUAW. He’s also the face of TUAW TV Live, a weekly live streaming video show, and the voice of the TUAW Daily Update podcast.

When he’s not writing for TUAW, he’s writing books for a number of publishers. Steve and fellow TUAW blogger Erica Sadun are the founders of Sand Dune Books, LLC, an electronic publishing house that has published such best-selling tech titles as Talking to Siri and Pitch Perfect.

Steve has over 34 years of experience in the Engineering and IT professions, holding management, project manager, and business analyst positions.

Steve and Barb, his wife of 33 years, enjoy traveling, collecting art, and being patrons of the performing arts.

Andrew Shalat, CEO, Shalat Design

Andrew Shalat is a graphic designer who also happens to write, and teach. He is currently Head of both the Graphic Design Dept and Digital Arts Dept. at Sessions College of Art (an online distance learning institution), and adjunct professor at Chapman University. He has written for Macworld, Macworld UK, Macweek.com, and many other mac-centric publications, and has been a speaker at Macworld Expo for many years.

Allison Sheridan, Podcaster, NosillaCast Mac Podcast

Allison Sheridan is the host of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast hosted at http://podfeet.com.  She reviews gadgets and software, all with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias.  With over 7 years of podcasting experience and 400 episodes, all delivered with her own sarcastic and entertaining style, she’s a professional speaker.  She’s delivered Macworld | iWorld Tech Talks, spoken at Blogworld Expo, and of course she supports local user groups as well.  In November she was one of the featured speakers on the Mac Mania Cruise in Australia.

David Sparks, Editor, MacSparky.

David Sparks is a trial attorney in Orange County, California, where heʼs been eating other lawyersʼ lunch for years using Apple Technologies. David is also the editor of MacSparky.com and the co-host of the popular “Mac Power Users” podcast (macpowerusers.com).

David speaks and writes often about Apple technology. David is a past speaker at Macworld | iWorld and a regular faculty member for the American Bar Association’s TechShow, the premier technology conference, held annually in Chicago where he speaks on the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and productivity. David published two books for Wiley Press, “Mac at Work” and "iPad at Work". David also publishes the MacSparky Field Guides including the best selling iBooks Author book, Paperless.

Rebecca Stockley, Cofounder, BATS Improv

Since the 80s, Rebecca has been teaching and performing improvisational theatre. Rebecca is co-founder of San Francisco’s critically acclaimed BATS Improv www.improv.org where she can still be found lurking about.  In addition to acting, directing, improvising, and teaching these skills, Rebecca’s company, Improv Lady, www.improvlady.com provides instructional design for leadership training. Some of her clients include Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm, DreamWorks Animation, and Stanford University.

Sumit Vishwakarma, iPad Artist / Animator, SumitStudio.com

Sumit Vishwakarma is an iPad Artist based in San Francisco, USA. He is featured artist at Macworld iworld conference sketch-station in 2012. He exclusively creates art and animation on iPad using different apps, his fingers or a stylus. His work can be seen at www.sumitstudio.com.

One of his artwork is selected as the winning entry at “iPad Art” contest conducted by MacWorld.

Sumit is on a mission to promote iPad art / animation among kids/teen and adults. With this goal he works with public libraries and local organizations to conduct free iPad-Art workshops. So far he has done 10 such workshops in Silicon Valley Bayarea (San Jose, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Milpitas ) and flagship Apple Store in San Francisco. 

Few more of his workshops are coming at Los Altos, Palo Alto, Union City, Newark public libraries.

Sumit work has also been featured and Auctioned at the ‘Los Angles Mobile Art Festival’

Sumit develops various tutorials on using iPad for creating realistic paintings and  animation. He is writing a book on this topic.

Sumit created illustrations and artwork has been showcased in various blogs including the popular Autodesk Sketchbook News.

Mitchell Waite, CEO, Mitch Waite Group

Mitch Waite is a best selling author of computer books, former CEO of the Mitch Waite Press publishing group, and developer of iBird Explorer, the award-winning app for the iPhone and iPod touch. His 30-year career on the leading edge of computing technology is characterized by a continual quest for knowledge, a desire to inform others, and a practical ability to turn his discoveries into commercial success.

In 1979, after building a weather station using an Apple I computer purchased from Steve Jobs’ garage, Mitch hosted a curious Steve on his Sausalito houseboat and was asked to write about a new computer from Apple. The Computer Graphics Primer, featuring the new Apple II computer, became a best seller. This was followed by a string of best selling primers, bibles and how-to computer programming books, including the C Primer Plus, Turbo C++ Bible, Visual Basic How To, Windows API Bible, and Fractal Creations. Some of these titles became evergreen classics that are still used today for teaching computer programming.

After 15 years writing and developing books on cutting edge technologies, Mitch saw computer books become a commodity market. He sold his publishing company to Simon and Shuster and turned his focus to his other passion, nature.

As a long time birder, Mitch found the lack of intelligence in conventional field guides frustrating. Using only the table of contents and index of a book to identify species was difficult. Determining that this was a problem technology could solve, Mitch developed whatbird.com, a free online resource to help birders identify species. Whatbird.com featured an innovative and patented Web-based search engine (U. S. patent number 7,363,309). The search engine was unique in providing a step-by-step parametric approach that always provided the user with a result, and it drew rave reviews.

Having helped millions of people search and identify birds online, Mitch was determined to give birders access to this information in the field, where they needed it the most. By harnessing the power of new mobile computing technology and combining it with the capabilities of whatbird.com, he would be able to add intelligence to an 800-year old page turning technology called books. At the same time, he could help stop the devastating environmental damage being caused by the production of paper.

Winged Explorer for the Windows Mobile platform was developed, using the search principles and core content from WhatBird.com. The success of Apple’s mobile computing devices prompted Mitch to port Winged Explorer to the new platforms. The iBird Explorer series of iPhone and iPod touch based electronic field guides became instant best sellers.

iBird Explorer has been hailed by industry analysts as having cracked the code for successful eBooks (Ned May, Finally, an eBook Worth Reading, January 2008). It has been featured in multiple Apple TV commercials, has won the prestigious MacWorld 2009 App Gem award for best reference app, and was selected by Apple as one of the top 25 apps of 2009.

With nine iBird Explorer apps in the Apple iTunes app store, and more apps in the pipeline, Mitch continues to push into new territory coupling nature and technology. The Google Android and Palm Pre platforms further stretch the horizon for mobile computing and provide new opportunities for Mitch create intelligent books that don’t damage the environment.”

Ben Waldie, President, Automated Workflows, LLC

Ben Waldie is president of Automated Workflows, LLC, a company offering AppleScript, Automator, workflow, and productivity consulting services to Mac-based businesses. For years, Ben has developed professional workflow solutions for companies such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., CNN, Microsoft, NASA, PC World, and Time Magazine. Ben is the author of “Automator for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide” (Peachpit Press) and “AppleScripting the Finder” (Automated Workflows, LLC), has written content for Apple.com, Macworld, MacTech, MacScripter.net, Peachpit.com, and more, and is the host of the “Mac Automation Made Simple” video podcast series (Peachpit Press). Ben is also the author of an AppleScript training CD for the Virtual Training Company, and is a frequent presenter at Macworld and other industry events.

Bill Wiecking, sysop, Hawaii Prep Academy

Dr. Wiecking and his students are testing the latest in HDR and VR programs and equipment, to integrate them into a new, enhanced VR experience. Bill and his students live in Kamuela, on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Dave Wiskus, Airplane Mode

Dave Wiskus is a musician, designer, and Apple enthusiast from Denver, CO. He writes rock songs about girls and stuff.

Marty Yawnick, Freelance Graphic Designer

“I have a camera. Sometimes, I use it to make phone calls.”

Marty Yawnick is a freelance graphic designer and he owns Type A Design, a small graphic design studio based in Dallas/Fort Worth. He holds a degree from College of the Canyons, where he majored in Fine Arts — theatre, art, music and film. Marty also writes and publishes Life In LoFi, one of the world’s leading iPhone photography blogs.

In addition to travel, baseball, and various genres of music, his interests also include art and photography, and is a respected iPhoneographer as well. His works have been featured locally and globally, including “Pixels at an Exhibition: The Giorgi Gallery Show”, the first EYE’EM Berlin exhibit, and the first “Pixels at Apple” shows.

“I grew up around photography. When I was a kid, my dad and I would process Kodak Plus-X Pan that we’d shot in the bathroom after dark. Later in school, photography was something I took throughout junior high and high school.

“I’ve been shooting with an iPhone since I got my 2G in June of 2008. I loved the digital lo-fi qualities of the camera — the color qualities and the noise the 2G added to an image. I love how the iPhone’s camera is practically invisible. You can get the camera places that you cant do with other cameras without affecting the subject or the scene. Most recently, I’ve been shooting with an iPhone 5, but I still shoot occasionally with the 2G.”