IInger-Lise Kansa Olsen (b. 1960). Former principal at a Montessori school, business manager, teacher in primary schools and adult education, cultural consultant, project manager, youth leader, self-employed, social worker. Owner of Kjerringrokk, which runs bed and breakfast, lectures, courses, rental of barbecue cabins and lavvo.

Writer, producer and organizer of various national and international events, Smith founded Norway Communicates in 2004, and is the managing owner in the company. He began a collaboration with Steven Van Zandt in 2011 with projects that have included Wild Telemark (with Ian Brodie and Per Ole Hagen), the documentary Bluestown Rising, Notodden Film Conference, Halden International Music Film Festival, and now the Telemarken saemien festival.

Kjell Bitustøyl is a writer, nonfiction author and photographer. Kjell has written seven books, three of them about reindeer herding in southern Norway: Hardangervidda, Setesdalsheiane and Jotunheimen. Has been focused on the Sami culture both through his interest and commitment to the reindeer and the surrounding culture, but also as a music journalist with articles about Joik/Sami music. Kjell Bitustøyl has also been involved in two Norwegian folk music festivals, both of which have featured Sami artists.

Geir Børre Jensen, (born 1959). Comes from Senja in northern Norway. A former carpenter, factory worker, healthcare worker, cinema machinist, builder/carpentry teacher in the Swedish Peace Corps/ NORAD and self-employed in roofing, Geir moved to Notodden in Telemark in 1987. Works with Duodji (Sami craft) mainly in leather, wood and horns.

Partner in Norway Communicates, Per Ole Hagen is a trained musicologist. He worked as music manager at NRK P1 from 1993 to 2009, and then as music rights manager at NRK. He has taught at various educational levels, including university lecturer at the University of Oslo. Per Ole Hagen is a photographer for Getty Images, and in 2021 he and Arvid Skancke-Knutsen received the award for this year's music journalism for the book Da musikken stilnet, about live music during the pandemic.

Dag Herbjørnsrud (b. 1971), farmer in Heddal, non-fiction writer, historian of ideas, former journalist/commentator in Aftenposten, also the Managing Editor in New Times. Herbjørnsrud has researched Sami conditions in Telemark in the book "Norway - a small piece of world history" (2005). A guest lecturer in Cambridge University, Royal Holloway (UK), Howard University (USA) and Halle University (Germany), Dag Herbjørnsrud is head of the Center for Global and Comparative History of Ideas (SGOKI): www.sgoki.org.

Ian Brodie is an award-winning cinematographer and expert in film tourism. In Norway, Ian Brodie has lectured on film tourism and worked on film and film-related projects such as Birkerbeineren, Kampen om Tungtvannet and Wild Telemark. He has written 22 books, and in 2005 received the New Zealand Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to tourism and literature, and was also honored with the New Zealand Platinum Award for The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook.