Becky Stern is a DIY guru and director of wearable electronics at Adafruit, an educational electronics manufacturer and kit company in downtown New York City. Every week, she makes a new do-it-yourself craft+tech project tutorial and video, and hosts “Wearable Electronics with Becky Stern,” a weekly live show on YouTube. She was 5 years old when she first wielded a video camera, cloned her first Beanie Baby at age 8 and has been combining textiles with electronics since 2005. Becky studied at Parsons The New School for Design and Arizona State University and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design grad program. She is a member of the Brooklyn art combine Madagascar Institute and the internet-based group Free Art & Technology (FAT).

When Matt left Google’s research team at 22, he wanted to create environments in which people interact with computers in an intuitive, natural way. Matt founded Reactrix, where he formed the technology team and provided the key computer-vision innovations behind the interactive floor displays that let millions of people play with virtual koi ponds and soccer balls. When Matt first saw Microsoft’s Kinect, he recognized the huge spectrum of computer-vision applications it could power. He chose to focus Matterport on building models of real things because of the potential to help millions of people communicate in 3D. When Matt isn’t rallying the team at Matterport, he likes to organize community hacking events. Matt earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Stanford University.

RJD2 began his career in Columbus, Ohio, as a DJ in 1993. After working as a DJ in the rap group MHz, he signed with Fondle ‘Em Records, releasing Your Face Or Your Kneecaps. A year later he signed with the Definitive Jux record label and released his solo debut album Deadringer. His second solo album, Since We Last Spoke, was released in 2004, which was lauded as one of the year’s 40 best albums by Spin. RJD2 released another solo album, The Third Hand, in 2007. His career reached a marked turning point after he scored “A Beautiful Mine,” the theme to the hit AMC series, Mad Men. In 2010, he released The Colossus, the first album released on his own label, RJ’s Electrical Connections. More Is Than Isn’t followed in 2013.