Anne-Marie Scott is Deputy Provost at Athabasca University in Canada (Alberta's open and online university), and the Board Chair of the Apereo open source software foundation. Prior to Athabasca Anne-Marie was Deputy Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services at the University of Edinburgh where she led the delivery of a large number of open educational technologies. She is an advisor to the OpenETC in British Columbia, a member of the After Surveillance and #FemEdTechnetworks and is often sought after by educational institutions and other organizations as an expert in digital education and digital strategy.

Clint Lalonde, MA (Learning & Technology). Wrangler of learning technologies by day, Dad, cyclist, soccer fan & home roaster of coffee by night, Clint is an educational technologist and advocate for the use of open educational resources and open education practices in higher education. Clint has worked in the British Columbia post-secondary system for 25 years and is currently a project manager with the BCcampus Open Education team leading the open homework systems project. A founding member of the BC Open EdTech Collaborative, he is also Associate Faculty in the School of Education & Technology program at Royal Roads University, and an occasional Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Victoria. Clint's educational interests include network learning, social learning, education technology, and open education.

Brian Lamb is Director, Learning Technology and Innovation, at Thompson Rivers University. His team is responsible for the production and maintenance of more than 600 fully online and distance Open Learning courses, and he also oversees the learning technology environment and support for face-to-face and blended learning needs across the institution. Brian has spent more than twenty years working with the open web to promote learning, communication and collaboration. He is a co-founder of the OpenETC, which is dedicated to providing and supporting open ed tech in British Columbia, and is a contributor to the Higher Education After Surveillance collective. He blogs at https://abject.ca.

Marc Singer is Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at SUNY Sullivan in New York. He has spent most of his academic career working to improve educational options for nontraditional and adult learners. He has led programs and initiatives in the areas of online learning; integration of student services and mentoring into the curriculum; prior learning assessment, including portfolio development and assessment; credit-by-exam programs; and the review of training programs, licenses, and certifications for college-level equivalency. Marc has also led efforts in the areas of competency-based education and the effective utilization of open educational resources. He has created partnerships and consortia to streamline and scale processes, strengthen standards, and provide greater flexibility and access to adult students. For seven years, Marc served as director and chair of the National Institute on the Assessment of Adult Learning.

Marc was founding Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Prior to that, he was Vice Provost, Center for the Assessment of Learning, at Thomas Edison State University in Trenton, NJ. Previously, he led academic initiatives for the College Board's College-Level Examination Program and other assessment programs; at Educational Testing Service, he was an assessment specialist responsible for the Advanced Placement US History and Human Geography programs, and was a program director for the PSAT/ NMSQT program.

Marc taught history and humanities at institutions in New Jersey and North Carolina for 12 years, and worked as a consultant in history for various museums and television networks, including ESPN Classic.

Dr. Karen Cangialosi is the Program Director of the Regional Leaders of Open Education (RLOE), an OE Global/CCCOER network designed to build OE leadership in postsecondary institutions across North America. She is also a co-founder of the Institute for Racially Just, Inclusive and Open STEM (RIOS) and serves as the RIOS Director of Open Ed and Open Science. She is frequently invited to present and consult about open education in the U.S. and abroad.

A biology professor and fierce student advocate, she incorporates open pedagogy into all her courses, and she leads faculty development efforts in open and critical digital pedagogy. Because she believes that scientific investigation should be transparent, widely collaborative and designed to serve the public, she advocates for integrating the principles and practices of Open Science into the undergraduate STEM curriculum. She has also been a long-time street activist and lesbian feminist who has marched, chanted, organized actions, and led many community organizations fighting for women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, anti-racism, and social justice.

Amanda Larson is the Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant at The Ohio State University where she creates professional development opportunities for staff, librarians, and instructors around open pedagogy and open educational practices. Previously, she was the Open Education Librarian for University Libraries at Penn State University where she coordinated affordable content initiatives across all Penn State campuses.

Dr. Glenda Cox is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Cape Town and her portfolio includes Curriculum projects, Teaching with Technology innovation grants, Open Education Resources (OER) and Staff development. She completed her PhD in Education and her research focused on using the theoretical approach of Social Realism to explain why academic staff choose to contribute or not to contribute their teaching resources as OER. She is passionate about the role of Open Education in the changing world of Higher Education.

Dr. Glenda Cox is currently the Principle Investigator in the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project, funded by the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Her current research includes analyzing the role of open textbooks for social justice.

Irwin DeVries teaches in the online Master of Learning and Technology Program at Royal Roads University. His experience includes instructional design, curriculum development and open education. Most recently he was director of curriculum development and interim associate vice-president of Open Learning at Thompson Rivers University. In his early career Dr. DeVries was a course designer for the original BC Open Learning Institute and since then worked in both professional and higher education settings. He holds a PhD in Education from Simon Fraser University.

Dr. Sarah Lambert is a leading researcher, collaborator and practitioner of social justice and widening participation in higher education. Currently an Honorary Research Fellow at Deakin University (Australia), her research explores gendered and socio-cultural barriers to education mediated by technology. Sarah recently led the Australian research project ‘Open textbooks as social justice: a national scoping study’ funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE). She is an award-winning researcher and writer of academic publications and an experienced editor and mentor of up and coming research-writers.

Martin Weller is Professor of Educational Technology, in the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at the UK Open University, and holds an honorary Chair in Open Education from the Commonwealth of Learning. He is currently the Chair of the Open Programme, the Open University’s flexible, multi-disciplinary degree. He developed the OU’s first fully online course in 1999, which attracted over 15,000 students annually.

He was the OU’s first Virtual Learning Environments Director, and is the Director of the OER Hub team, who undertake research into aspects of open education. He is the author of The Battle For Open, The Digital Scholar, and 25 Years of Ed Tech and maintains a popular blog at blog.edtechie.net.