People

People and nature are what make dinacon! Here are details about the humans you will be joining! This page will get more filled in as we get closer to the event, but you can check out cool Dinasaurs from events past!

Node Leaders

These are cool folks who are helping with pre-organization and spending part of their dinacon leading public projects you can join with!

Michael Ang (Mang)

Michael Ang (Mang)

Michael Ang (aka Mang) is an artist, professor, and engineer…

William Kennedy

William Kennedy

At Dinacon 2025:  I would like to explore some spontaneous…

Dinoj Mahendranathan

Dinoj Mahendranathan

We (Sumugan, Luci and Dinoj) plan to collect ocean plastic…

Shalaka Jadhav

Shalaka Jadhav

At Dinacon: In fall 2023, while carrying out research for…

Joel Murphy

Joel Murphy

At Dinacon: I will be bringing some biosensing hardware to…

Pom Prasopsuk

Pom Prasopsuk

Project: Pom will be working on eco art, a combination…

greyscale profile photo of Saad Chinoy, by Muaz

Saad Chinoy

BioPlastics and Kombucha SCOBY Leather – experiments in kitchen science.…

Scott Kildall

Scott Kildall

At Dinacon: (1) Data Sensing Toolkit: this is an architecture…

Harold Tay

Harold Tay

At Dinacon: During Dinacon I’ll make a cargo bike using…

Don Undeen

Don Undeen

At Dinacon: I plan to bring my musical system WeCanMusic,…

Sumugan Sivanesan

Sumugan Sivanesan

We (Dinoj, Luci, and Sumugan) plan to collect ocean plastic…

Lucinda Dayhew

Lucinda Dayhew

We (Dinoj, Luci, and Sumugan) plan to collect ocean plastic…

Kyle Chisholm

Kyle Chisholm

At Dinacon: At Dinacon 2025, I’m interested in exploring the…

Chairs

Dinacon 2025 is organized by:

Paula Te

Paula Te

Paula (she/her) is an interface designer & technologist focused on…

Sid Drmay

Sid Drmay

sid is a queer non-binary trans interdisciplinary artist who loves…

Andrew Quitmeyer

Andrew Quitmeyer

Dr. Andrew Quitmeyer is a hacker adventurer studying intersections between…

L Wilkins

L Wilkins

L Wilkins is a cyborg based in Toronto, Canada. They…

Local Partners

The amazing local partner of Dinacon 2025 is Sea Communities! They are a super cool group in Les Village on the outskirts of Bali island who run community projects to improve the nearby environment (like coral restoration!)

Participants

This could be you! This list gets updated as accepted participants fill out their profile to connect to each other!

close face shot, libi looks into the camera with a crooked smile. she is white with blue-green eyes and wearing a red hoodie, her brown hair sweeps across her face to the left.

libi rose striegl

Project (at the moment): Sculptural Solar Radio Bio By day,…