Dr. Victoria Lemieux is a Senior Public Sector Specialist (Information Management) and an Associate Professor of Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia (on leave). She has held positions as a professional archivist, records manager and risk manager within the public sector and private sectors, and in higher education as an administrator and educator. She has also consulted previously for the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the World Bank. Her current research is focused on risk to the availability of trustworthy records, in particular in financial contexts, and how these risks impact upon transparency, financial stability, public accountability and human rights. She holds a doctorate from University College London (Archival Studies, 2002), which focused on the information-related causes of the Jamaican Banking Crisis and, since 2005, has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Nadya is a Software Engineer turning to Visual Data Science. She is interested in the intersection between Design Research, Visual Analytics and Data Analytics to inform the design of interactive visual interfaces to support decision making. Nadya is currently a PhD student in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University where she builds and studies discovery tools for analysis in areas such as civic technology, citizen engagement, and social media analysis for social sciences inquiry and policy decision making.

Brian is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University and Associate Director of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) at the University of British Columbia. He is also a member of the SFU Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences (IRMACS), and the UBC Brain Research Centre and Institute for Computing, Intelligent and Cognitive Systems. His research focuses on the cognitive science of human interaction with information systems, with the goal of developing new theories, methods, and methodologies for development and evaluation of technology to support human understanding, decision-making, operation management, and collaboration. Brian is a member of the Leadership Board of VACCINE, the US DHS Center of Excellence in Command, Control and Interoperability. He has served as General Chair for IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2010 and continues as a member of the VAST Steering Committee.

Jeff Hemsley is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies where he teaches classes on data visualization. He is a social scientist who uses computational methods and draws on theories from sociology and communication to study social media. His current research looks at information diffusion in social media networks, with an emphasis on social movements and political events. He builds tools that collect, curate, visualize and analyze big data sets and employs exploratory data analysis and confirmatory statistics in addressing research questions. He is co-author of Going Viral (Polity Press,2013), which explains what virality is, how it works technologically and socially, and draws out the implications of this process for social change.