Terry O’Gara is an award winning independent music solutions consultant based in New York City. Of the new paradigm processes he helped develop and champion, Mix magazine wrote, they "may just portend to the future of all music production professionals." Since then, his insight into music and meaning have contributed to the successful delivery of thousands of audio assets for hundreds of brands, including AT&T, Disney, Guinness, HBO, Mastercard, McDonald’s, Nestle’s and Viacom.
New York, USA
Asunción Álvarez is a Founding Partner at Soluciones Semánticas, a
communications consultancy specialising in the analysis and evaluation
of business and brand discourse through the use of computational
techniques. She holds a B.A. in Computational Linguistics and an M.A.
in Cognitive Science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as
well as a Ph.D. in Philosophy from King’s College London.
Madrid, Spain
Albena Todorova is currently at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia where an innovative semiotics offer includes courses on advertising & consumer culture. In 2009 she wrote a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe in popular culture. Albena is now doing PhD research on Poe mythology & symbolism globally from Baudelaire through to Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo, 60s horror movies, Lou Reed, Antony Hegarty, contemporary emo, manga & gaming subcultures and online interest groups.
Sofia, Bulgaria