About Hide and Seek

A spin-off from the UK's first festival of pervasive games, Hide&Seek make social games and playful experiences.

Alex Fleetwood is a producer and games designer. He founded Hide&Seek with Gideon Reeling in 2007 after attending Come Out and Play in New York and believing it was the future, man. As well as Hide&Seek he works with artists and broadcasters on lots of things, including The Eternity Man, a film opera for Channel 4, and The Soho Project, an ARG for the London Games Festival.

Holly Gramazio curates the Sandpit, Hide&Seek's monthly pervasive gaming night. The rest of the time she designs her own games, pervasive and otherwise; helps other people and organisations to design theirs; writes short stories about the London Underground; and bakes quite a lot of cakes. She recently completed her PhD in online fiction. More information about her projects is available at Several Bees.

Justin Pickard is the Playmakers community person. Having worked behind the scenes on "massively multiplayer forecasting game" Superstruct, and contributed to UK version of Wired as an editorial intern, he's looking forward to applying his interests in participation, collaboration, and digital media.

About NESTA

NESTA is a unique organisation that works to support innovation in the UK across a wide range of sectors.

Rohan Gunatillake is the digital lead in NESTA Connect, who manage a series of experimental projects which all explore how fruitful innovation can be encouraged by bringing together unusual combinations of  people and organisations.  In addition to a past life as a management consultant Rohan once ran an online community exploring urban wellbeing, and he has a deep belief in using the power of the web to connect rather than isolate.

About Think Public

ThinkPublic is an agency that works to address social challenges and improve service experiences in the public sector.

Ivo Gormley has worked in media and the public sector for four years since graduating with an MA in Social Anthropology. Ivo has worked on projects with the BFI, the Open University, BBC and Channel 4. Working at thinkpublic, he has led numerous projects in the public sector aiming to increase participation in public services across health, education and social care.

Matan Rochlitz is a videojournalist by trade and a musician by calling. Last year, he produced a documentary for Al-Jazeera English and worked closely with Ivo Gormley on Us Now, a film about how the Web can reshape the future of government. He is also the organizer of the Roman Pillow Fight, now at it's 4th edition. His work and music can be found here.