Dr. Chip Crotts is Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Director of Bands at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Highly active as a professional trumpet player, Chip has performed and recorded for the Disney Company in Europe and the United States, and as a first call player, maintains an active career of national touring shoes, regional symphony dates, and local performances throughout the year.

Karen Milchus is a Senior Research Engineer at Georgia Tech's Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation. Her research focuses on how technology and strategies, particularly computer-based solutions, can be used to help employees and students with disabilities participate in workplace and in school. Karen is also a musician, occaisionally playing English horn or oboe with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra. She is excited about the opportunity to combine her interests for this evening, and the idea that some of tonight's designs might enable a broader group of people to take an active role in making music.

Klimchak builds and plays unusual musical instruments, using them to compose electro-acoustic music for film, theater, dance, and live solo performance. Recent performances include Flux Night 2016 (using instruments made from decommissioned guns with Bent Frequency in Pedro Reyes Disarm), Art in Odd Places Orlando (playing music on a theremin bike for the solo piece, Pied Pipers Payback), and Dancing in Arctic (composed music for Jody Sperling at Brenau University about dancing on ice). In March 2015, Klimchak premiered his solo show, Cooksnotes, in which he makes music on kitchen implements while cooking dinner for the audience.

Jayson Kerr Dobney is the Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of the Department of Musical Instruments at The Metropolitan Museum. He was recently the curator of the exhibition Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll (2019). Past exhibitions include The Sau-Wing Lam Collection of Rare Italian Stringed Instruments (2013), and Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York (2011). Publication highlights include "Asian Musical Instruments at The Metropolitan Museum" in the Arts of Asia magazine (2019 the article "Royal Kettledrums from the House of Hanover," in the Galpin Society Journal (2016), and as a co-author of the Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015) among others. He is also currently the president of the American Musical Instrument Society. In addition to his scholarly activities, Jayson is a keyboardist and percussionist, and served as the organist and music director of Memorial United Methodist Church in White Plains, NY from 2008 to 2016.

Sam Cape is an audio-visual artist who aims to integrate the artificial sounds of electronic music with the natural human element of performance. He played guitar in numerous bands in styles ranging from funk to death metal to classical wedding music. As a composer he's worked with saxophone quartet, world instruments, chamber ensembles, and most recently, modular synthesizers.

Peter C. Evans is the Managing Partner of the Platform Strategy Institute and passionate about the intersection of music and technology. He is currently leading a project in collaboration with the Music Division, which explores the many benefits available to companies from developing a comprehensive, enterprise-wide sound strategy. He is the founder of MusicTech Connect, a thought leadership forum aimed at advancing the city of Atlanta as a global music tech hub. Peter is an active DJ in the Atlanta electronic music scene, mixing deep house, tech house, and speed garage at a wide range of venues under the name DJ Provost. He has served as an advisor to startups including Rap Plug, a platform where record labels, corporations, artists, and industry professionals discover each other, collaborate, and monetize together. He received his master's degree and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.