Cyril is a Digital Interaction Artist, Coder and Professor at ECAL, where he is also Head of Media & Interaction Design. After graduating from Les Gobelins in 2008, Cyril co-­founded the award­-winning collective LAB212 along with 5 other artists. With a sensible and poetic approach, their interactive installations cast a new light on technology that surrounds us. Since March 2015, Cyril is also in a long-term residency at the Google Cultural Institute Lab in Paris. Together with a few other artists, engineers and content teams, they leverage the power of modern and experimental technologies to find new connections between millions of cultural assets, institutions, and people.

Steve is a Gray Area Creative Code Immersive alum and designer of mobility and transportation related products and systems. He applies design thinking to complex problems and information experience design throughout the process. The best parts of his design are invisible, but he also has a great eye for visual and UI design. Currently, Steve is a Principal User Experience and User Interface designer at MobileIron. He works on enterprise, software-as-a-service, web-based software platform, desktop applications, and mobile applications on platforms including Android, iOS, Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Kevin Byrd is Director of Curation & Visual Experience at Dolby Laboratories, overseeing artist collaborations and brand design for the San Francisco-based technology company.  Born in Charleston, SC, Kevin holds a BA in architecture and works at the intersection of design and art. He was recently spotlighted on Sight Unseen and in Fast Company’s feature,  "The Spectacular Tech-Inspired Art Of Dolby's New Headquarters.

Swissnex in San Francisco is an initiative of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). Our vision at Swissnex in San Francisco is to connect tomorrow by empowering the next generation of innovators to collaborate and create futures where the planet and society thrive.