Minjoo Ham is a type designer, typographer and graphic designer from South Korea. After her graduation from the Seoul Women’s University, she worked for several years at Seoul’s successful S-Core (CoreFont) foundry as a type designer. She completed the TypeMedia master course at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague in 2015. She concentrated on research and type design of a Latin and Hangul multi-script. Currently, she lives in Berlin, producing multi-script font families for corporate clients.

Gerry Leonidas teaches and researches typography and typeface design at the University of Reading, UK. He supervises MA and PhD research, and lectures widely.
He consults on publication and typeface design, reviews bodies of work, and runs knowledge transfer projects with a simultaneous focus on global business development, and new education initiatives.
He is the president of ATypI, a founding member of Granshan Foundation, and helps organise ICTVC and other conferences.

Berlin-based type designer and letterer Ulrike Rausch holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Design from Potsdam University of Applied Science (Germany). In 2009 Ulrike founded her own type foundry called LiebeFonts, providing high-quality typefaces and hand-crafted letterings with a charming personality and obsessive attention to detail.

Trained as a research physicist and having more than a decade experience on magnetic and superconducting materials, Hin-Tak Leung has been involved in a fair number of projects such as editing (emacs), displaying (various CJK terminals), typsetting, printing CJK characters (ghostscript), and printer drivers, his Font Validator is perhaps considered to be his 3rd diagnostics project.

Sahar Afshar is a type designer and researcher from Iran. Her interest in typography led her to the University of Reading, from which she holds an MA in Research in Typography & Graphic Communication. Since graduation, she has been working on the design of Arabic typefaces and researching the printing of non-Latin—specifically Arabic and Indic—scripts. She is currently based in the UK, and is a doctoral candidate at Birmingham City University, where she is researching Punjabi printing history and culture in post-war Britain.

Vivek Vadakkuppattu has more than 13 years of global experience in managing and evangelizing products in hi-tech for startups, and later stage companies. He currently runs the AR/VR and IoT product portfolio at Monotype. Vivek previously headed product management and marketing at Azimuth Systems owning the product and commercial strategy for the entire product portfolio, and all aspects of marketing. He holds a MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business, a MSEE from WINLAB, Rutgers University and a BSEE from the University of Madras where he was a Gold Medalist.

Jason is the Senior Director of Design and Technical Strategy at Isovera. He is a seasoned design and user experience strategy leader with over 20 years’ experience on the web in both creative and technical roles. Jason also researches and writes on the subjetct of typography for the web; he’s the author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly, articles for .Net Magazine, PRINT Magazine, HOW, Typecast Blog, Fonts.com, and is also a frequent podcast guest.

Ferdinand Ulrich is a typographer and a design researcher. At p98a.berlin he explores with Erik Spiekermann how letterpress can be redefined in the twenty-first century. Ferdinand regularly teaches typography and gives guest lectures. Since 2015 he has been working on a PhD at the University of Reading, researching the transition of type design technologies in the early digital era. The project is supervised by Gerry Leonidas and Sue Walker in the UK.