Professor Jennifer Loy leads the newly formed Proactive Living Lab in the School of Engineering at Deakin University, Australia. She is Professor of Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), and has a background in Industrial Design with a particular interest in design for health and wellbeing in a digital era.

Dr David White, Director of the AUT BioDesign Lab, is a strong advocate of interdisciplinary research around breathing technologies and is very active in the New Zealand Medical Technologies Centre of Research Excellence providing medical device design expertise. With a strong industry and academic background in mechanical design, David has focussed on applied and design-centric research focussing on innovating breathing devices and therapies and is listed inventor in five patents.

Dr Stephen Reay, Associate Professor in Art and Design, is director of Good Health Design, a collaborative design studio at Auckland University of Technology. As one of a multidisciplinary team, whose aim is to develop better health and wellbeing experiences, Steve's research focuses on how the design of products and services may have a positive impact on people's health and wellbeing. Good Health Design enables designers to engage with clinical experts, healthcare professionals as well as researchers from other disciplines, to share and test ideas and develop unique solutions.