Ira Bailey (Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika, Te Atiawa) is an activist and entrepreneur, experienced developer in platform, security and cloud infrastructure. He has worked with Indigenous communities in Australia on is currently founder of CoShop, a community-led food platform.

Dr Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa and Gujarati) is nationally and internationally recognised as a leader in Indigenous food systems and Māori food and soil sovereignty. Dr Hutchings also holds a range of governance and leadership roles in the science sector, and is a founding Trustee of the Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust that works to uplift Māori kai and soil sovereignty and hua parakore. Jessica is the host of Hua Parakore, currently showing on Whakaata Māori.

Tanya Ruka (Ngati Pakau Ngapuhi) is an artist, activist, Executive Director for Native Land Digital and Lecturer Mātauranga Māori in Design at School of Design Innovation and Programme Lead for Design for Social Innovation Te Herenga Waka.

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Julian Oliver is an award-winning educator, artist and digital activist. He is the co-author of the Critical Engineering Manifesto and co-director of Nīkau, a consultancy providing information and operations security support for front-line defenders of human rights and the environment. He has given numerous workshops and masterclasses including in data forensics, creative hacking, computer networking, counter-surveillance, software art, object-oriented progamming, and radio, worldwide. julianoliver.com/about.

Jack Gittings is a designer, musician, and co-founder of Mouthfull - a collective working with physical and digital spaces.

Dr Sophie Jerram is a curator and social entrepreneur; the co-founder of Letting Space, Urban Dream Brokerage and a Trustee of the Vogelmorn Community Trust which owns and runs Vogelmorn Bowling Club. She wrote her PhD on the practice of spatial commoning and continues to investigate tools of collectivity.

Kate Genevieve is an artist and researcher, founder of chroma.space studio, and runs the Cosmoimaginaries programme which approaches cosmos and commons through creative practice. In recent months, Kate has collaborated on cosmic LARPs with Furtherfield Gallery and ArTechLaw in Australia. Her workshop for Beautiful Signals shares her research with the Emerging Practices Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). kategenevieve.com

Mix Irving is a programmer, former teacher, and gardener of community. Has been building peer-2-peer tech for 10 years, and work in and on community-first organisations for longer (Ao Tawhiti, Loomio, Enspiral, Secure Scuttlebutt). Part of Mātou, Protozoa Coop, and contracting on Entropy Cryptography

Shanshan is a Newtown-based artist, educator, designer and gardener. She’s an independent student of Environmental Psychology at Waikato University. Having grown up in the Mountain City of China, next to the expansive river of Yangtze, with a name that literally means mountains or “the wilderness” – she feels an inherent fascination and connection with nature, from individual rocks and plants, the complex systems within nature, to the generative process of the universe (and the philosophies that this generative process inspires such as Taosim). She draws wisdom and lessons from nature daily, and is passionate about sharing her learnings through art-making and collaborative storytelling.

Clay Joy Smith (Tangata Tiriti | they/them) is a local music lover from Te Whanganui-a-Tara who believes that community and knowledge are too important to be gatekept by profit-driven, unelected power hoarders. Moved by their vision of community-owned spaces that spark our commitments and feed our spirits, their multidisciplinary work seeks to stitch our contextual fabrics into collective power, providing alternate narratives to rising techno-tyrannies. With a background including hospitality, event production, permaculture and software product management, they believe in creating conditions for experimentation, play and learning, especially together.