Matt is a History teacher and eLearning Coordinator at St Scholastica's College, an independent Catholic school for girls in Sydney. Matt holds a BADipEd, Master of Learning Science and Technology, an MA in Modern History and is currently studying towards a Master of Research into teacher professional development. He knows the value of investing in education. Matt has been heavily involved in the growth of the TeachMeet community in Sydney and around Australia, in partnership with many other teachers. Matt believes that it has never been a more exciting time to be a teacher, if only we take a few risks in our pedagogy and see what we can achieve. He was recently awarded the Professional Teachers' Council Outstanding Service Award for 2013. Matt can be found as @mesterman on Twitter.

Atul is a serial entrepreneur. He has previously founded Wisekangaroo, an online English language school that empowers non-native English speakers around the world on their customized path to English fluency as per their specific learning needs. Atul has always been passionate about Edutech and founded Sydney Educational Technology community in Feb 2012 while looking for like minded people interested in EduTech. In his past life, Atul has worked as an Information and Data Management Consultant responsible for delivering enterprise level solutions from strategy development through architecture, design and delivery. Atul graduated with a dual degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Penn State University, USA. Atul can be found as @atulpandey on Twitter.

Wai-Yat is passionate about how technology can facilitate sustainable and effective learning. He is a principal project leader in technology enabled learning and practice and an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney. He is affiliated with the Centre for Research on Computer supported Learning and Cognition. Wai-Yat had won several research grants to build interactive and collaborative online learning environments. He publishes widely his works on learning technology and applied computational intelligence. Earlier, he was a computer scientist at the CSIRO and a lecturer in information technology at the University of Newcastle. Wai-Yat held commercial co-patents using machine learning for user profiling and digital television program recommendation. He co-received a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Systems that Achieve Collective Excellence for Unit of Study Management and a CSIRO Award for Research Contribution to Multimedia Delivery Technology.

Bron Stuckey has been engaged in educational community and games in learning development for the past 15 years. She is now a post doctoral research fellow of the Arizona State University Center for Games & Impact. She has worked to explore virtual worlds, games in learning and how we can cultivate identity, agency, citizenship, leadership, and community for students and teachers. Her role in the global educational communities of PLANE, The Massively Minecraft Project and Quest Atlantis has lead to some breakthrough understandings about how gaming and digital citizenship need to be treated as a lived curriculum. Bron speaks internationally on issues of games in learning and gamification. Bron can be found as @bronst on Twitter.

Cameron is the Head of Learning & Teaching, responsible for the strategic leadership of learning and teaching, innovation, and promoting excellence in teaching practice, at Shore School in Sydney. He has taught in the teacher education program at Harvard and now leads a study group at the annual Project Zero Classroom. He holds four Masters degrees, including a Masters in Education from Harvard University, he has received several awards for leadership and teaching, and he was a top fifty nominee for the Global Teacher Prize in 2015. He is a Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and the Australian College of Educators. Cam can be found as @cpaterso on Twitter.

Terry Hilsberg has been a founder of, investor in and advisor to, education technology companies since 1998. He has also been a founder of and investor in technology companies in China since 1995. In prior years he was the senior Australian Commonwealth Government official in charge of innovation and technology programs and subsequently raised an early stage venture fund from Japan to invest in Australian technology startups. Terry can be found as @terryhilsberg on Twitter.

Jackie Slaviero is a STEM education expert, International Ambassador of the Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy and a member of the NSW Board of Studies Consultative Committee for the new Australian Curriculum. Selected as a top ICT teacher in the 'Technology Leaders Program' at Macquarie University Innovations Centre, Jackie works to promote, develop and share strategies in 21st Century Education and technology, Gifted and Talented Education, Aboriginal Education, Special Education and Multicultural Education.