Artist, designer, writer, entrepreneur Mohammed Jogie studied Fine Art and Graphic Design. He is founder of Creative Week Pxl_shft and principal of my main mojo, a specialist creative consultancy.

Amanda is a recognized face within the eventing and communications industry. She is the founder of Kadoro Events and Communications, one of South Africa’s leading Brand Activation companies. She holds many qualifications in both the communications and hospitality arena and has produced some of SA’s largest and most prestigious events. Amanda is also the co-founder of Creative Week Pxl_Shft.

Is an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor in over 10 apps. She¹s helped agencies and individuals transition from Freehand and publishers deploy InDesign and InCopy workflows. Carla is also a CompTIA CTT+ Authorised Instructor in South Africa. She manages both the InDesign User Group (Johannesburg & Mauritius) and the Jhb Adobe User Group.

Andrew studied materials science and has a doctorate in engineering. An Internet pioneer, he ran the digital agency Grey Matter and worked for the then largest digital media company - marchFirst in New York City, where he worked with major brands like Audi and Mercedes Benz. His extensive awards experience includes working with the One Club, the Art Directors Club and the London International Advertising Awards. He has been managing the country's leading brand communication awards - the 'Loeries' since 2005.

Andrew was voted 2007 Advertising Industry Person of the Year by Jeremy Maggs' 'The Annual' and 2008 AdReview Advertising Person of the Year. He has judged the Epica Awards in Paris, the Gecko Advertising Awards in Namibia, the Footprint Marketing Awards, the Business and Arts South Africa Awards, and was on the 2010 Adreview Agency of the Decade panel. He is editor of Migrate magazine, a 2008 Gold Loerie winner, and voted the best mag to have in the loo by the creative industry.

Robin Olivier is one of the founders of Digicape, adding a specialist dimension in colour management, printing and publishing to the service offering from the organisation.

Is a highly strategic marketer who delivers new age thinking and marketing communication innovations in the creative industry. He is a creative at heart having done media studies and marketing.

Award winning photographer Matt Raven is regarded as the guru of adaptive and creative studio photography lighting in South Africa.

Igno van Niekerk uses Photographs to share inspirational stories. He is an Adobe Certified Expert on Photoshop and Lightroom and will be talking about the new features photographers can look forward to in Photoshop CS5.

Stephen is a practicing Graphic Designer with over 22 years experience, Lead Creative for an international bicycle brand, writer, illustrator and lecturer. He has worked as an authorised trainer for Macromedia and Adobe internationally. He has shared an intimate relationship with Photoshop for many years, having trained and demonstrated the application locally and internationally, at all levels since the early 90s.

Skye has been running Keyline, KZN’s first Adobe Authorised Partner for the last 6 years. He has also been instrumental in converting various major companies to the Creative Suite products. Keyline has been directly responsible for training and placing over 250 students into industry in KZN over the last 5 years.

An art and design major and has studied both graphic design and new media. Miguel is an industry expert with many years of training and consulting experience under his belt. As a senior trainer he works across a broad spectrum of industries including fashion, print, web and video. He is based in Johannesburg and works across the continent.

Lisa Taylor has always been passionate about colour. She lives by the codes of good design and represents a combination of scientific fact and tangible artistic knowledge – a role which in 1999 got her appointed by NCS Stockholm Sweden as the sole distributor for Southern Africa (SADC) and most African regions. NCS was then made the South African Colour Standard in 2004 - see SANS 1091 - 2004.

Lisa advises local corporate leaders, institutions and professional design practitioners about the power and significance of colour. Expounding the logic and accuracy of the Natural Colour System across the business landscape, she is almost single handedly changing the way South Africans think about colour and colour specification with more than 1760 students having passed through the NCS Colour workshops since 2000.

Tebogo Serobatse is Head of the Animation and Graphic Design departments at Nemisa - the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa. She describes herself as a Graphic Designer, pseudo-Academic, teacher, and glorified lackey.

Armed with a Bachelor of Commerce degree specialising in Marketing & Management from UKZN, Tanya currently heads up the part-time division of Vega, The Brand Communications School. With over 8 years of experience gained in the advertising, marketing and communication world, Tanya has enjoyed building her career within renowned brands such Old Mutual and Woolworths. Tanya revels in the pleasure of education, and can be found studying something, somewhere, always. Currently, she is pursuing her Bachelor of Theology degree through UNISA and various short courses that allow her the space to explore her creativity.

15 years ago Julian made the transition from airbrush, board and ink to the digital medium and has never looked back. After graduating from The Johannesburg College of Art he has worked in a number of ad agencies, before going freelance and concentrating on illustration and retouching. He produces illustrations for a wide variety of clients such as ad agencies, design studio's,authors, publishers and companies. Most of his work is produced in Photoshop followed by illustrator and dabbles in Painter and Strata 3D.

A digital artist, photographer and ideas person, Muhammad Yaseen concentrates his effort in translating brands from imagination through the gift of pixel shifting. He works on some of the top worldwide brands daily.