Christian Guellerin: is the Executive Director of L’École de design Nantes Atlantique, France an institution of higher education in design, and Honorary President of Cumulus, the International Association of Schools of Art, Design & Media.  He is also President of the France Design Éducation and Honorary Consul of the Republic of Estonia for the West of France since 2009. He was appointed Knight of the National Order of Merit in November 2016.  Under the presidency of Guellerin, Cumulus has known significant growth, going from 80 to 178 members, particularly in countries outside Europe.

During his mandate, Guellerin signed in 2008 in Japan the “Kyoto Design Declaration” which reflects the new responsibilities of designers towards the challenges of sustainable development. He was re-elected in 2010 for a second term, which ended in 2013, he is now Honorary President. Since July 2018, Guellerin is the Honorary President of the Chinese French designer’s association.

Erik Stolterman Bergqvist – Professor of Human Computer Interaction & Senior Executive Associate Dean at the Luddy School of Informatics, Indiana University, USA.
He is also a professor at the Institute of Design at Umeå University, Sweden. Stolterman is co-Editor for the Design Thinking/Design Theory book series by MIT Press, and on several editorial boards for international journals (The HCI journal, International Journal of Design, Design Studies, Design, Economics and Innovation, International Journal of Designs for Learning, Studies in Material Thinking, Human Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Artifact). Stolterman’s main work is within the areas of interfaces, interactivity, interaction design, design practice, philosophy and theory of design.

Stolterman has published a large number of articles and five books, including “Thoughtful Interaction Design” (MIT Press) and “The Design Way” (MIT Press) and “Things That Keep Us Busy–The Elements of Interaction” (MIT Press, 2017).