Nadia Caidi is a Professor at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Dr. Caidi is an information science scholar specializing in digital diasporas and techno-religious practices. She is a Faculty Affiliate with the Data Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto. Dr. Caidi was the 2011 President of the Canadian Association for Information Science, and the 2016 President of the Association for Information Science & Technology.

Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Coleman is an anthropologist of religion and renowned pilgrimage expert. He came to the University of Toronto in 2010 from the University of Sussex, where he had been Head of the Department of Anthropology. Prior to that, he had been Reader in Anthropology at the University of Durham, and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health at Durham. He obtained his undergraduate degree and PhD from the University of Cambridge.