Meet some of the best news designers in the world – in Oslo in April 2010:

Juan Antonio Giner

 is the president and founder of INNOVATION International Media Consulting Group and he is based in the UK. He was the first European Director of the SND, founder of the SND Spanish Chapter and the Malofiej Awards.

Simon Ewings

 is a Senior Architect with Snøhetta and has been influential in developing several key projects, notably the recently completed National Opera in Oslo where he was Snøhettas design team leader and senior site architect.

Dr. Mario Garcia

 is CEO and founder of Garcia Media. Mario has 39 years of Design and teaching experience and has redesigned over 550 newspapers/publications/websites worldwide.

Kinga Sandén

 is international news editor and reporter at the regional Swedish daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet. She won the Bonnier Great Journalist Award, Renewer of the Year 2009, for her use of the microblog Twitter for research, finding new soursces and involving readers in the journalistic process.

Sven Egil Omdal

 is a journalist and syndicated media columnist. he has been managing editor, arts editor and multi media editor of Stavanger Aftenblad. He is a former president of the Norwegian Union of Journalist and the Norwegian Press Council, He is an assistant professor at the University of Bergen, working on a project on financing quality journalism in a changed media landscape. He is currently living in Washington DC.

Mark Porter

 is an editorial designer. He was born in Scotland and studied modern languages at Oxford University. Initially selftaught, he learnt from some of London and New York´s best art directors.

Terry Watson

 is one of the Founding directors of Palmer Watson, and have a record of creating respected, innovative and durable designs for newspapers and magazines across the world.

John Einar Sandvand

 is editor at Media Norway Digital, where he is responsible for developing joint digital services for Aftenposten and three other news sites.

Kjetil Palmquist

 is Head of Digital Product Development for Aftenposten. He is spearheading development of the company's products for new digital platforms such as iPad and ePub.

John Grimwade

 is Graphics Director of Condé Nast Traveler magazine, and has his own information graphics business. He has freelanced for over 30 other magazines. Before moving to the U.S, he worked for 14 years in newspapers in London.

Kenny Bogø

 works as Business Development Manager at Adobe Systems Nordic where he focuses on rich internet experiences and how companies can expand existing business models with creative use of digital content.

Hjärta Smärta

 is an award winning independent graphic design studio in Stockholm, established in 2001 by Angela Tillmann Sperandio and Samira Bouabana.

Luke Hayman

, partner in the New York based design company Pentagram, former design editor at the New York magazine

Anna W. Thurfjell

 has worked as an editorial newspaper designer since 2000 with the majority of that time spent as Art Director of Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm.

Espen Egil Hansen

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Jacek Utko

, is a polish designer, based in Warsaw. After obtaining an architectural degree, he began his career as an architect. After a few years, he became the art director for Puls Biznesu (a newspaper run by Swedish Bonnier Business Press), and then later advanced as the design director for the whole BBP group for eight Central European countries.

Bente Kalsnes

 is communication adviser at Origo.no, a Norwegian social network and the community tool for 50 local and regional newspapers.