John Schwartz serves as edX Head of Global Business Development. He is part of the team that drives edX's engagements with prospects and partners including Foundations, NGO’s, Corporations, and Governments both local and international. John has extensive experience in Asia and the Middle East. John's career has been focused on driving business development for companies in a variety of industries including education tech, automotive, pharmaceutical, publishing and finance. He also has experience in strategic marketing and branding with an emphasis on experiential design. Most recently, John was a Board Member and Chief Strategist at Hudson & Cutler, a technology driven marketing and communications company. John is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Joseph Paradiso directs the Responsive Environments group, which explores how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception.

After two years developing precision drift chambers at the Lab for High Energy Physics at ETH in Zurich, he joined the Draper Laboratory, where his research encompassed spacecraft control systems, image processing algorithms, underwater sonar, and precision alignment sensors for large high-energy physics detectors. He joined the Media Lab in 1994, where his current research interests include wireless sensing systems, wearable and body sensor networks, sensor systems for built and natural environments, energy harvesting and power management for embedded sensors, ubiquitous/pervasive computing and the Internet of Things, human-computer interfaces, space-based systems, and interactive music/media. He has written over 350 publications and frequently lectures in these areas. In his spare time, he enjoys designing/building electronic music synthesizers, composing electronic soundscapes, and seeking out edgy and unusual music while traveling the world.

After receiving a BS in electrical engineering and physics summa cum laude from Tufts University while working on precision inertial guidance systems at Draper Lab, Paradiso became a K.T. Compton fellow at the Lab for Nuclear Science at MIT, receiving his PhD in physics there for research conducted with Prof. S.C.C. Ting’s group at CERN in Geneva.

Günter Wallner is Professor for Game Computing at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and holds positions at the Eindhoven University of Technology and Ontario Tech University. His research interests lie at the intersection of games user research, data analytics, and information visualization. His work particularly centers on understanding player behavior in games and on researching methods to explore and communicate the collected data to derive actionable insights for game design and development. As part of this, he is working on data visualizations to support the analysis of increasingly large-scale player behavioral datasets used in game analytics.

His work has been published in international journals and conference proceedings, such as CHI, CHI PLAY, FDG, Computers & Graphics, and Entertainment Computing. He is editor of the 'Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment' book.

Bart Preneel received the Electrical Engineering degree and the Doctorate in Applied Sciences from the KU Leuven (Belgium). He is currently full professor (gewoon hoogleraar) at the KU Leuven. His main research interests are cryptography, information security and privacy. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications and is inventor of five patents. He was program (co-)chairman of 20 international conferences (including Eurocrypt 2000, SAC 2005, CHES 2011 and FC 2014) and has been a member of more than 300 international program committees. He has served as member of the Editorial Board of several journals, including Journal of Cryptology, the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, the ACM Transactions on Information Security and the Journal of Computer Security.

He received the European Information Security Award in the area of academic research (2003), an honorary Certified Information Security Manager(CISM) designation by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) (2003), the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics (2014), the IFIP TC11 Kristian Beckman award (2015) and the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award (2017). In 2015 he was elected as fellow of the IACR and in 2021 he received the IT Person of the Year award from Computable. He frequently consults for industry and government about security and privacy technologies. He was involved in the design of the Belgian eID Card and the Belgian evoting scheme and he is technical lead of the development of the Belgian Coronalert app. He is co-founder and Board Member of the start-up nextAuth, Board member of Approach and member of the Advisory Board of Tioga Capital Partners and Nym Technologies.

Marina Bosi is a pioneer in the field of digital audio coding and has enjoyed a distinguished career as a researcher, leader, and educator in the fields of digital media technology, digital rights management, and IP licensing. While at Dolby Labs, Marina was a member of the research team that created AC-3 (aka Dolby Digital) and led the MPEG-2 AAC (the core coding technology used in Apple's iTunes, etc.) development. She then devoted herself to sharing her hard-won knowledge with the next generation of audio engineers by launching a university course on perceptual audio coding at Stanford University and by writing the acclaimed textbook “Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards” (Kluwer/Springer 2003). Together with the head of MPEG, Leonardo Chiariglione, Marina cofounded the Digital Media Project, an organization promoting successful development, deployment of rights management and the use of digital media.

Established author of technical publications and patents, She has received several awards including the AES Silver Medal for her outstanding achievements in the development and standardization of audio and video coding and of secure digital rights management and the ISO/IEC 1997 Project Editor award for her work leading the MPEG-2 AAC develpment. A Past President and a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Marina is currently a Board member and the Treasurer of the AES. She is also a founding director of the Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards body and Chair of MPAI’s Context-based Audio Enhancement Development Committee.