Mari Suoheimo is an Associate Professor of Service Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. Her main research focus is on how to approach wicked problems in service design. Suoheimo has publications at highly ranked journals and is also part of the editorial board of The Design Journal.

Peter Jones is a Distinguished Professor of Systemic Design at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City, and is also an associate professor at Toronto's OCAD University. Dr. Jones is Editor in Chief of the SDA journal Contexts, and a co-founder of the Systemic Design Association. Jones is founder and managing partner of the design research firm Redesign Network. He has published four books and 50 peer-reviewed articles.

Sheng-Hung Lee is a designer and PhD researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AgeLab and MIT Ideation Lab and a Board Director at the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). While working at IDEO, he was inspired by multiple domains of knowledge and perspectives. Lee also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Shih Chien University, Taiwan.

Birger Sevaldson is Professor Emeritus at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and a design researcher who has developed a designerly approach to systems thinking in design called Systems Oriented Design. He is the founder of the "Relating Systems Thinking and Design" symposium, a central contributor to the emergence of Systemic Design, and a co-founder of the Systemic Design Association. He is the author of the book Designing Complexity, The Methodology and Practice of Systems Oriented Design.