| Adam Cheyer | Co-Founder of Siri and Viv Labs | Interpretable and Executable Text |
| Adam Kampff | Neuroscientist at the Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre and Founder of Voight-Kampff | The Brain’s Past Will Define Text’s Future |
| Alan Kay | One of the earliest Pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, graphical user interfaces (inventor of the overlapping window and icon “Parc GUI”), and computing for children | Something about The Future Of Text |
| Alessio Antonini | Research Associate at Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University | The future is text: the universal interface |
| Alex Holcombe | School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney | Combining the writings of researchers, in their millions |
| Amaranth Borsuk | Poet, Scholar, and Book Artist, Associate Professor, University of Washington, Bothell, and Author of The Book | Embodying Text |
| Amira Hanafi | Writer and Artist | Text for an opaque future |
| Amos Paul Kennedy Jr | Artist Printer | Future (POSTER) |
| Anastasia Salter | Associate Professor, University of Central Florida. Author of Jane Jensen. Co-author of A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy, Adventure Games | (un)proprietary texts |
| Andries (Andy) van Dam | Co-founder of Brown University’s CS department and its first chairman, Brown’s first VP of Research, Co-designer of Hypertext Editing System and many hypermedia systems, Co-author of Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics and of Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice | Thoughts On The Present and Future of Text |
| Andy Matuschak & Michael Nielsen | Software Engineer, Designer and Researcher. Quantum computing and modern open science movement Pioneer | Timeful texts |
| Ann Bessemans & María Pérez Mena | Professor and post doctoral researcher at PXL-MAD School of Arts / Hasselt University, research group READSEARCH. Typography and type design teachers BA graphic design and MA Reading Type and Typography | New Reasons to Design Type |
| Anne-Laure Le Cunff | Founder of Ness Labs | Textual Maps |
| Anthon P. Botha | Director of TechnoScene Ltd | The Future Of Text. A Mind-Time Journey |
| Azlen Elza | Designer, researcher and software experimentalist | The Architecture of Writing |
| Barbara Beeton | Editor of TUGboat (TeX Users Group), retired from the American Mathematical Society | The future of technical text |
| Belinda Barnet | Swinburne University, author of Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext | There Must Be a Different Way to Pay |
| Ben Shneiderman | Professor, author and Human Computer Interaction pioneer, University of Maryland | Text Goes Visual, Interactive and Social: The Dynamism of the Screen |
| Bernard Vatant | Former consultant at Mondeca and Linked Data Evangelist | Quantum Mechanics applied to Text |
| Bob Frankston | Co-creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet for personal computers | Text Is The Future |
| Bob Horn | Senior Researcher, Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR) Stanford University and Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science | Explanation, Reporting, Argumentation, Visual-Verbal and The Future of Text |
| Bob Stein | Founder of Criterion, Voyager and the Institute for the Future of the Book | A Unified Field Theory Of Publishing In The Networked Era |
| Catherine C. Marshall | Texas A&M University and Hypertext developer | A Meditation on Ephemeral Text |
| Charles Bernstein | Poet, essayist, editor, and literary Scholar | Immmemmorabillity Alll Ôvęr Agon |
| Chris Gebhardt | Software engineer and researcher, The InfoCentral Project | Decentralizing Text in a Global Information Graph |
| Chris Messina | Hashtag inventor, product designer, technologist | The Linguistic Inner Tube |
| Christian Bök | Associate Professor, Charles Darwin University | Statement About Books |
| Christopher Gutteridge | University of Southampton and Developer of academic repositories | Linear time – Linear text |
| Claus Atzenbeck | Hof University & General Co-Chair of the 2019 ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media | The Future of Text is Fragmented |
| Dame Wendy Hall | Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton | The Future Is Fake |
| Daniel M. Russell | Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness at Google | The future of texts is relationships |
| Danila Medvedev | Leading Russian futurologist and architect of NeyroKod | Language 2.0 |
| Danny Snelson | Assistant Professor of English, UCLA, Editor, Archivist and Author of EXE TXT | Rolling Millenia: Searching for The Ground Itself 2.0 |
| Dave King | Founder of Exaptive Inc. | Future of Text Book |
| Dave Winer | On the net since mid-70s. Started two Silicon Valley companies. Wrote for Wired. Fellow at Harvard and NYU. Founder of podcasting, blogging, RSS and Open Web. | The Future of Text |
| Daveed Benjamin | CEO Bridgit.io Author of first-of-its-kind augmented reality book, Pacha’s Pajamas: A Story Written By Nature that features Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Cheech Marin | Ubiquitous Context |
| David De Roure | Professor of e-Research, Oxford e-Research Centre | Qui ex Machina (dialog with AI) |
| David G. Lebow | CEO & Chief Learning Scientist at HyLighter LLC | The Future of Earth is Bound to the Future of Text |
| David Jablonowski | Artist | The Census of Bethlehem |
| David Johnson | Co-author of Law and Borders, The Rise of Law in Cyberspace | Inference Arrows: Dynamically Entailed Text |
| David M. Durant | Associate Professor/Federal Documents and Social Sciences Librarian, and author of Reading in a Digital Age | The Multi-Format Future of Text |
| David Millard | University of Southampton | Here are the Hypertexts |
| David Owen Norris | Head of Classical Performance, Professor of Music University of Southampton | Symbol & Gesture |
| David Price | DebateGraph Co-Founder | WordWorldWhirled |
| David Weinberger | Author of Everyday Chaos, Too Big To Know, Everything is Miscellaneous, Small Pieces Loosely Joined and Co-Author of The Cluetrain Manifesto | Punctuation as Meaning |
| Dene Grigar | Professor and Director, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program; the Electronic Literature Lab; Washington State University Vancouver | The Future of Text May Require Preserving Text |
| Denise Schmandt-Besserat | Professor Emerita of Art and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and author of How Writing Came About | From Tokens |
| Derek Beaulieu | Director, Literary Arts, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | If You Don’t Share You Don’t Exist |
| Doc Searls | Editor-in-Chief of Linux Journal, Author of The Intention Economy & Co-Author of The Cluetrain Manifesto | The Future of Text |
| Don Norman | Engineer, Scientist, Designer, and Author of The Design of Everyday Things and Things That Make Us Smart | Old technologies seldom die |
| Douglas Crockford | JSON Inventor | The Future of Text |
| Duke Crawford | th.ai visual vocal actionable text | #TEXT2030 |
| Ed Leahy | Former advertising creative on Madison Avenue, Professor of Advertising, Syracuse University | Evolution and the Future of Text |
| Elaine Treharne | Stanford University Text Technologies | The Future Of Text |
| Élika Ortega | Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado Boulder | Print-Digital Literary Works |
| Esther Dyson | Executive founder, Way to Wellville | A Few Words About Words |
| Esther Wojcicki | CEO Globalmoonshots.org, Founder of Palo Alto High Journalism, Creative Commons Advisory Council and Author of How to Raise Successful People | Text |
| Ewan Clayton | Calligrapher, Teacher and Author | Five Thousand Years |
| Fiona Ross | Typographic consultant and Professor in Type Design, University of Reading | Future Of Text |
| Fred Benenson & Tyler Shoemaker | Data enthusiast, Artist, and Creator of Emoji Dick. PhD Student, University of California, Santa Barbara | A Font of Fonts |
| Frode Hegland | Developer of Author, Reader and Liquid, and Host of the Future of Text Symposium | Liquid Author(ship) & Reader(ship) |
| Galfromdownunder | aka Lynette Chiang, Author of The Handsomest Man in Cuba | Metalude |
| Garrett Stewart | James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of Iowa, and Author of The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text | Fu/text/ure |
| Gyuri Lajos | TrailMarks Founder | The Future Of Text Is In Our Past |
| Harold Thimbleby | See Change Digital Health Fellow at Swansea University and Author of Press On | Intentionally Parallel Text |
| Howard Oakley | Mac Developer and Technical Writer | Richer Text |
| Howard Rheingold | Educator and author of Net Smart & Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-expanding Technology | Language As Trance |
| Ian Cooke | Contemporary British Collections, The British Library | Future Of Text In Libraries: A National Library Perspective |
| Iian Neill | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | Codex Futura |
| Ismail Serageldin | Founder & Director Emeritus, Library of Alexandria | POSTSCRIPT |
| Jack Park | TopicQuests Foundation, co-founder | On Well-Connected Human Thoughts |
| Jakob Voß | Information Scientist and Software Developer | Document Models |
| James Baker | Senior Lecturer in Digital History and Archives at the University of Sussex | Mass Observing Fears For The Future Of Text |
| James Blustein | Associate Prof. of Computer Science & Information Management at Dalhousie University, Canada | Text as Process |
| James O’Sullivan | Lecturer in digital humanities at University College Cork. Author of Towards a Digital Poetics. jamesosullivan.org | Text Is Dead, Long Live Text! |
| Jane Yellowlees Douglas | Author of pioneering hypertext fiction, including I Have Said Nothing, one of the first published works of hypertext fiction. | Digital Text ≠ Skim Reading |
| Jay David Bolter | Wesley Chair in New Media, Georgia Tech and author of The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media | Literature And Books In A Digital World |
| Jeremy Helm | Communication Advocate, Systems Engineer and California Bay Area Organizer of 2020orBust.org | True Hypertext & a mechanism for wisdom in the age of machine learning: Solving humanity’s original & persisting ‘values alignment problem’ by inverting the filter bubble |
| Jesse Grosjean | Developer of WriteRoom and TaskPaper at HogBay Software | Future of Text |
| Jessica Rubart | Professor of business information systems, OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts | The Future Of Text |
| Joe Corneli | Researcher working at the intersection of collective and artificial intelligence | You’re Making Me Tense. Notes On Text And Futurity |
| Joel Swanson | Artist and Assistant Professor, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder | Play With Your Food |
| Johanna Drucker | Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, UCLA and Author of The Visible Word & Diagrammatic Writing | [THIS TEXT IS SUBJECT TO EXEMPTION 508.6c under the LINGUISTIC STATUTES VI.33 of the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE on DISCOURSE] |
| Johannah Rodgers | Independent Artist, Scholar, Author of Technology: A Reader for Writers, former Associate Professor and Founding Director First Year Writing @ City Tech, The City University of New York | The Future Of Text: More Questions Than Answers |
| John Armstrong | Writer & performance artist | Forward To The Past With The Emblem Book |
| John Cayley | Poet, Programmatologist, Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University and author of Grammalepsy | No future, no future, no future for … |
| John-Paul Davidson | Producer, director and author of Planet Word | The Future Of Text |
| Joris J. van Zundert | Senior Researcher and Developer in humanities computing, department of literary studies at the Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands | Code As Text |
| Judy Malloy | Electronic Literature pioneer; Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | The Words Of The Creators |
| Kari Kraus & Matthew Kirschenbaum | Co-Directors, BookLab, University of Maryland | Sensorius Ink |
| Katie Baynes | Aspiring Author | Words that you can feel |
| Keith Houston | Author of The Book and Shady Characters | Emoji |
| Keith Martin | Senior Lecturer, London College of Communication, writer and inventor of live word count | Blame your tools |
| Ken Perlin | Professor of Computer Science, New York University and Director, NYU Future Reality Lab | When Text Will Be Everywhere |
| Kenny Hemphill | Technology Journalist and Copy Editor | A Recipe For A Healthy Future |
| Leigh Nash | Publisher at Invisible Publishing | The Way Forward Is Backward, And Then Forward Again, And Then — |
| Lesia Tkacz | PhD Researcher at University of Southampton | The Quantum Physics of My Imagination, Language Technology, and a Future With Creative Text Generation |
| Leslie Carr | University of Southampton, Professor of Web Science | ??? |
| Leslie Lamport | Inventor of LaTeX | LaTeX |
| Livia Polanyi | Linguistic Discourse Theorist, NLP Researcher and Poet | The Future Of Text |
| Lori Emerson | Associate Professor and Director of the Media Archaeology Lab, University of Colorado Boulder | “Insanely Great” |
| Luc Beaudoin & Daniel Jomphe | Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science & Education at Simon Fraser University, co-founder of CogSci Apps, owner operator of CogZest. Cognitive productivity enthusiast | A manifesto for user and automation interfaces for hyperlinking: How hypertext can enhance cognitive productivity |
| Manuela González | Handwriting for Branding Expert | Does Handwriting Have A Future In The Digital World? |
| Marc Canter | CEO of Instigate.ai and co-founder of Macromedia | Instigate.ai |
| Marc-Antoine Parent | Developer of IdeaLoom and HyperKnowledge | Perspectives And Overview |
| Mark Anderson | University of Southampton, PhD graduate | Augmentation Of Text In The Post-Print Era: Casting Off The Drogue Of Paper Paradigms |
| Mark Baker | Author of Every Page is Page One and Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process | The Best Future for Text Requires a Change in Author’s Culture and Tooling |
| Mark Bernstein | Eastgate Systems, developer of hypertext software Tinderbox and Storyspace | The Future Of Writing Lies… |
| Martin Kemp | Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, Trinity College, Author of several books on Leonardo Da Vinci as well as Visualizations | AI And The Arts – Human Texts In The Future |
| Martin Tiefenthaler | Book and Graphic Designer, Teacher of Typography and Semiotics at ›die Graphische‹, Vienna/Austria; Co-Founder of tga (typographic society austria) | tl;dr vs. ts;nec / [too long; didn’t read vs. too short; not enough content] |
| Maryanne Wolf | Director, UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice, Visiting Professor and author of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World and Proust and the Squid | Deep Reading, Democracy, and the Future of Text |
| Matt Mullenweg | Co-founder of WordPress | Digital Text Gave Us Radical Power. Agency and Dignity Should Be Next. |
| Michael Joyce | Hyperfiction pioneer, Theorist, and author of Remedia: A Picaresque | The future of text as a two-level impurity lies in its past |
| Michael Nutley | Writer and Editor specialising in online media and marketing | The future of text |
| Michele Canzi | Strategist turned Tech operator. Essayist and Angel investor | Lakes, ponds, rivers and rains: history and future of text |
| Mike Zender | Editor, Visible Language. Professor, Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design, University of Cincinnati | The Future Of Text |
| Naomi S. Baron | American University, Author of ‘Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World’ | Picture This: Could Emoji Replace Writing? |
| Nasser Hussain | Senior Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University | The Future Of Text |
| Neil Jefferies | Head of Innovation, Bodleian Digital Libraries, University of Oxford and Director, Data Futures CLG | Paths Among The Stars – Reconstructing Narratives In A Distributed World |
| Nick Montfort | Poet, Professor of Digital Media at MIT and Author of The Future | Free, Open Data And The Future Of Text Technologies |
| Niels Ole Finnemann | Professor Emeritus. Department for Communication, University of Copenhagen | The Future of Text in the Era of Networked Digital Media |
| Panda Mery | Productive Irritant | Manipulation Of Words |
| Patrick Lichty | Assistant Professor, Animation/Multimedia Design, College of Arts and Creative Enterprises, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi | The Janus Complex: A Crisis of Futurism And Archival |
| Paul Smart | Philosopher and Author of Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration | The Story Of Our Lives: Human ‘Heptapods’ And The Gift Of Language |
| Peter Cho | Head of Design at Pocket, Type Designer, Creative Coder | How might we express more with our type? |
| Peter Flynn | Principal Consultant at Silmaril Consultants and former Head of Research and Academic Computing Support at UCC | In The Midst Of Nowhere |
| Peter Jensen | Moleskine Chief Brand & Innovation Officer with Melissa Morozzo | The Future of Text |
| Phil Gooch | Founder & CEO Scholarcy | The Future Of Scholarly Communication |
| Pip Willcox | Head of Research, The National Archives, UK | If I Cannot Inspire Love, I Will Cause Fear |
| Rafael Nepô | Information Architect and Founder of Mee.cc | Everything Begins With Text |
| Raine Revere | Developer of EM | Text As Process |
| Richard A. Carter | Artist and Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Roehampton | Signal Generators—Digital Text In A Damaged Ecology |
| Richard Price | Head, Contemporary British Collections, The British Library | The Future Of Text |
| Richard Saul Wurman | Author of 90 books including Information Architects, Information Anxiety, Co-Author of Information Design and Creator of the TED conference | Dot |
| Rollo Carpenter | Artificial Intelligence Developer of Cleverbot | The Future Of Text |
| Sage Jenson & Kit Kuksenok | Artist focused on speculative biology and emotive simulation. Natural language processing Software Developer. | Biological Ink: Extending The Scribe Through Digital Simulation |
| Sam Brooker | Assistant Professor, Richmond University UK | The Future Of Text |
| Sarah Walton | Author and Digital Consultant | Soul Writing – The Value Of Writing From Your Intuition |
| Scott Rettberg | American Digital Artist and Scholar of electronic literature based in Norway, co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization | Future? Book? |
| Shane Gibson | Technologist and Political Scientist | Combating Confirmation Bias: Defeating Disinformation Campaigns In The Future By Extending Information Security |
| Shuo Yang | User experience designer at Google and Author of Google data visualization design guidance | How would I design the future of text? |
| Simon Buckingham Shum | Director & Professor of Learning Informatics, Connected Intelligence Centre, University of Technology Sydney | The Future of Text in Three Moves |
| Sofie Beier | Associate Professor, Head of Centre for Visibility Design, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK) | A Text That Reads You |
| Sonja Knecht | Copywriter, Design Writer, Lecturer in Verbal/Visual Communications at Berlin University of the Arts and other institutions | Text, Sex, Scheiße |
| Stephan Kreutzer | Hypertext Systems Implementer | Future Of Text |
| Stephanie Strickland | Poet in print and digital media, author of How the Universe Is Made | Future of Text |
| Stephen Lekson | Curator of Archaeology, Jubilado, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History | Text? Books? |
| Stevan Harnad | Editor, Animal Sentience, Professor of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science, McGill University and Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Southampton | The PostGutenberg Galaxy: Eppur si muove |
| Steve Newcomb | Consultant | Three Conjectures |
| Stuart Moulthrop | Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Founding Board Member of the Electronic Literature Organization. Author of Victory Garden, Reagan Library and Hegirascope | Generated from www.smoulthrop.com/lit/twft/ |
| Ted Nelson | Visionary, Interactive Media Pioneer and coiner of the term ‘hypertext’ | Hypertext Reflections |
| Teodora Petkova | PhD student at Sofia University and author of Brave New Text | You Say Digital, I Say Dialogue |
| Tiago Forte | Productivity Expert and Creator of Building a Second Brain | Future Of Text |
| Tim Ingold | Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and Author of The Perception of the Environment | The Pen Of The Future |
| Timothy Donaldson | Author of Shapes for Sounds, Typographer, Typeface Designer, Letterworker and hopeful Anthropogogic Dust Disturber at Falmouth University | For The Future Of Orthography (I Prefer This Word To *Text*), I Want The Following: |
| Timur Schukin & Irina Antonova | Partners, NakedMinds Lab, Russia | Exocortex |
| Todd A. Carpenter | Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization | The Thoughts Between the Words: Capturing meaning between the characters of text |
| Tom Standage | Deputy Editor of The Economist and Author of Writing on the Wall | An Ai’s Views On The Future Of Text as told to Tom Standage, deputy editor, The Economist |
| Tor Nørretranders | Author of The User Illusion and coiner of the term ‘exformation’ | The Future Of Context |
| Vinton G. Cerf | Internet Co-Inventor & Pioneer | INTRODUCTION |
| Ward Cunningham | Inventor of the Wiki | Future Of Text |
| Zuzana Husárová | Poetess, Electronic Literature Researcher, Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava | Texts For Futures |