Are you a traditional arts practitioner wanting to upskill, or a science / engineering / education specialist keen to bridge the creative gap? Find out about experience and interaction design, programming electronics and collaborative multi-media creative practice and how you can get involved. Tom Hogan has pulled together a panel of interactive technology experts. Jane Venegas is a Virtual Reality content producer whose focus is on creative education and gender rebalancing in the technology space, with her company Nested Realities. Abhiruchi Chhikara is an engineer who studied Robotics and Mechatronics and then changed course into interaction design and electronic arts - she teaches at Sydney University under the title, Creative Technologist. Agnieszka Golda and Jo Law are the team leaders behind a fascinating project funded by the University of Wollongong's Global Challenges, a collaboration between contemporary arts, materials science and climate change, that saw the combining of traditional textile processes including embroidery, with graphene, hand-made electronics, and climate data - the project produced the exhibition Spinning World at the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences last year.