James Jorasch – Founder and CEO, Science House Foundation

James is the founder and CEO of Science House Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing the excitement of science to kids around the world. James is the creative director of Science House Foundation’s educational projects, including MicroGlobalScope, Terrabotic (a global, school robotics project) and PlanetCheckup (a student environmental initiative). James is also the producer of Video Science, a virtual toolkit of inexpensive and easy to setup science demonstrations starring Dan Menelly. James is a trustee of the Museum of Mathematics, an organization focused on creating the nation’s first museum exclusively for math.

In James words – “The kind of impact we want is to have kids go ‘wow’ and see the world in a different way.”

Rita J. King – Executive Vice President of Business Development

Rita’s lifelong passion for science started in childhood when she first learned about quarks. In 2006, she founded Dancing Ink Productions, a company with global clients focused on a new culture and economy. With collaborator Joshua Fouts, she most recently co-directed IMAGINATION: Creating the Future of Education and Work, an interactive project for educators focused on science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics.

She’s currently a Senior Fellow for Social Networking and Immersive Technologies at the Center of the Study of the Presidency and Congress in Washington, DC, and recently served as Innovator-in-Residence at IBM Analytics Virtual Center. Her art explores the creation of meaningful common space. She currently serves as Futurist at NASA Langley’s think tank, the National Institute of Aerospace.

Joshua Fouts – Executive Director, Science House Foundation

Joshua Fouts is a technologist, futurist, gamer and entrepreneur who has worked at the forefront of exploring and chronicling the evolving use of emergent science and technology for culture, journalism, public policy, academia and the private sector.

Since 2007 he has been collaborating with Rita J. King the founder of Dancing Ink Productions on a groundbreaking series of projects that explore the development of a new global culture and economy. Their 2011 project, “IMAGINATION: Creating the Future of Education & Work,” explored the intersection between K-12 science education, technology evolution and 21st Century workforce preparedness.

Joshua co-founded and directed two think-tanks at the University of Southern California, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, the first foreign policy think-tank dedicated to exploring public diplomacy; and the Online Journalism & Communication Center which published the Online Journalism Review, the first digital publication of its kind. In 2005, he was the first person to propose and direct a project illuminating how virtual worlds could be used for cultural relations. He began his career as a Presidential Management Fellow at the US Department of State.

He is a senior fellow for Digital Media and Public Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress and a Next Generation Fellow at The American Assembly. He speaks Brazilian Portuguese.

Dalibor Frtunik – Regular Contributor

Dalibor is a Sydney-based entrepreneur working on renewable energy and IT projects. He has also worked on quantum computers, protein crystallography, and nanomaterial synthesis. Dalibor has a B.S. (Hons) from the University of Sydney and was its first graduate with a major in Nanoscience, also majoring in Biochemistry.