Alexandre Bussutil is the head of business development at bolt.observer, a bitcoin-native startup providing monitoring and management tools for lightning node operators. He is also a mentor and visiting professor at IE Business School where he lectures on Bitcoin and digital assets. Before this, Alexandre worked with Fulgur Ventures to conduct research on hyperbitcoinization.

Johns is a hybrid product designer and software engineer from a tiny island in the Caribbean, researching user experience of bitcoin payments and privacy, whose presence within the Bitcoin Design Slack is as ubiquitous as bitcoin itself. Johns is also a co-organizer of the popular BOLT.FUN and "Shock the Web" hackathons where Lightning developers come together regularly to tackle existing challenges in Lightning.