Keynotes include

Nigel Thrift University of Warwick (UK)
Halos: new apprehensions of political time and space

Nina Wakeford Goldsmiths University of London (UK)
Everything is all Going on at the Same Time

James E. Katz Rutgers University (USA)
Perceptions of Future Mobile Applications:
cultural values and usage patterns

Marc Davis Yahoo (USA)
Context, Content, and Community: inventing the future
of mobile media

Parmesh Shahani, Mahindra & Mahindra
Mobile India: glimpses and opportunities

Tom Perlmutter, The National Film Board of Canada
The Role of A Public Sector Producer in A Digital Age

Confirmed speakers include

Matt Adams BlastTheory (UK)
Day of the Figurines: a pervasive game for SMS

Julie Andreyev Emily Carr Institute
FWDrift [remix]

Stuart Duncan Bight Games (Canada)
Opportunities and Challenges for Innovative Mobile Games

Joanna Berzowska Concordia University
Electronic Textiles and Reactive Garments

Barbara Crow York University
From Participatory Design to Participant Creation

Rupinder Deol, Banff New Media Institute (Canada)

Sara Diamond President, OCAD
Greeting From OCAD

Judith Doyle, OCAD
Warmware : Mnemonic art and design research

Anne Galloway Carleton University
Towards Issues-based Art and Design Research

Paula Gardner, OCAD
Mobile Sphering: methods for making virtual spaces public

David Gauthier, Banff New Media Institute (Canada)

Judy Gladstone Bravo!Fact (Canada)
Shorts in Motion

Nathon Gunn Bitcasters (Canada)
Mobile Web 2.0: the identity continuum

Drew Hemment Imagination@Lancaster and
Future Everything (UK)
Roots not wires: or, why mobile nations are local

Bruce Hinds, Martha Ladly co-authors, OCAD
A Walk in the Park

Heather Kelley, Moboid

Raja Khanna QuickPlay Media Inc (Canada)

Martha Ladly, OCAD
A Walk in the Park

Angus Leech, Banff New Media Institute
Tracklines: mobile media and the problem of
knowing the world

Jason Lewis & co-authors, Concordia University
Immobile Nation

Michael Longford, Concordia University
The Haunting: voices from beyond in mobile
experience design

Douglas MacLeod, CDRN

David McIntosh, OCAD
Being There: imagination, improvisation and intensity
in rapid prototyping design charettes for The Haunting,
a mobile locative media game

Shawn Micallef [murmur] (Canada)
Storytelling Goes Mobile

Leena Saarinen Medialab UIAH (Finland)
Mobile Text Messages as Part of an Interactive
Television Drama

Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University
Locative Research for Locative Media:
The 5 D's of user-integrated testing

Gabe Sawhney, [murmur] (Canada)
Mobile Media for Regular Humans

Thecla Schiphorst, Simon Fraser University
(softⁿ) Survival Strategies for Interaction

Ana Serrano, CFC Media Lab

Geoffrey Shea, OCAD
Inside Out Experience Design

Rob Shields, University of Alberta (Canada)
Mobile Phone Imaging as Gesture and Momento

Suzanne Stein, University of East London (UK)
Morality, New Technology and Play

Maria Stukoff, MIRIAD
Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
Mobile Public Art and the Urban Screen

Minna Tarkka Centre for New Media Culture (Helsinki)
Crowd Sources: Notes on the social production
of participation and place

Vincent John Vincent Gesture Tek Inc (Canada)
The EyeMobile Engine

David Vogt, The University of British Columbia
Adventures in Mobile Culture Media

Ron Wakkary, Simon Fraser University
Informing Design through Ethnography and Informances

Rob Woodbury, CDRN

Eric Zimmerman, GameLab (USA)
Play as Research: the iterative design process

Jan-Christoph Zoels Experientia (Italy)
Deep Places: Mobile 2.0 and spatial experiences

Interactivity and Sensor Workshop Leaders:

Tom Donaldson, Banff New Media Institute (Canada)
Technology and Mobile Platform

Daniel Jollieffe, Simon Fraser University Surrey
Arduino: an introduction to Arduino, the open-source prototyping platform

Tek-Jin Nam, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology (Korea)
Interactive, tangible and augmented prototyping with MIDAS

Interactivity and Sensor Workshop Featured Designers

Jim Budd, Carleton University
PageCraft: a tangible interactive storytelling platform
to meet the needs of kids on the go

Steve Daniels, Ryerson University
The Mobilization of Art Practice: body metaphors and the desktop world view

Leslie Sharpe, Indiana University Bloomington
Hauntings across the Atlantic: the Marconi Trilogy