North america and oceania
Digital Media Director
The Playroom
Cora is a Digital Business Executive who also produces websites including 12 Canoes which was the UN World Summit Global Champion for eCulture & Heritage in 2013.
Director
CFC Media Lab
Ana is the founding Director of CFC Media Lab, a world-renowned new media research, training and production think tank environment created in 1997 at the Canadian Film Centre (CFC). As director of CFC Media Lab, she provides strategic and creative leadership for all of the Centre’s new media initiatives, including the development and production of a diverse range of critically acclaimed interactive narrative projects. In 2000, Ana produced Canada’s first user-generated personal storytelling project – the Great Canadian Story Engine, which has since influenced the development of other large-scale digital storytelling projects around the world. A three-time Canadian New Media Award-winner, including Visionary of the Year, Ana most recently produced Late Fragment, North America’s first interactive dramatic feature film which premiered in September 2007 at the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Ana is a lead advisor in the digital media practice at MarS and is active on the boards of Artscape, Kapisanan, and several start-up companies focused on interactive entertainment. She adjudicates awards for the Webby, CNMA, and others, and frequently speaks at new media and film festivals throughout the world about the future of storytelling and entertainment.
Co-Founder
U-TOUR
Alejandro Machorro Fernández, age 34, is Mexican born in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas. Since very little showed interest in music and technology. When he was a teenager he got involved in a rock band and from that moment he has devoted a great deal of his time to investigate the use of technology on live shows. He studied Economics at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), leaving his studies on the last year of his bachelor’s degree to start a company.
Alejandro has been a self-lerner student on information technologies, its extensive experience and his deep understanding on ITC's led him to develop products that have won international contests for world renowned companies such as Phillip Morris International and Phillips.
From a very early age, Alejandro has been an entrepreneur starting projects and companies that are always ahead of the market. In 2000 he and Rudy Laddaga founded Media Innovations, a digital signage company that became the 4th worldwide and the most important in Latin America. The company was sold in January 2007. Since then Alejandro has founded four new companies: NERD, a specialist in interactive digital lighting; Modern Media Technologies, a leader in implementing ITC's for Below the Line marketing strategies; Mandalah, the first trend research firm in Mexico and Poink Technologies, a Studio that helps new media talents to start their own companies by providing offices, communication services and finance and legal advice. He is also, with Rudy Laddaga, the co-founder of U-TOUR.
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
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