Brad Reddersen, Founder and CEO of Stranova, is a consultant in strategic planning and innovation development focusing on the art of innovation, organizational turnarounds, and startups. Much of his background is in the computer industry, including leadership of some of the first high-speed optical data recording efforts in the 1970s, advanced disk drive development (for Storage Technology), automatic data capture and wireless networks (for Spectra-Physics), and as SVP of the Graphics Division at Silicon Graphics. He also created the Stranova podcast series, specializing in interviews and commentary on strategic innovation in business. He holds 30 granted patents, with others pending.

Colin Bulthaup Liotta recently co-founded Self Aware Games which aims to fuse social-networking with pervasive mobile gaming. Prior to Self Aware, Colin co-founded Squid Labs, a Venture Technology firm which has spun-off several companies including Instructables, Makani Power, OptiOpia, Howtoons, and Potenco, which Colin helped run for several years. Prior to Squid Labs, Colin founded Kovio, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that uses very high-resolution printing techniques to create low-cost circuits. Colin earned his Masters degree from MIT and was awarded the Collegiate Inventors Award by the US Patent Office, the TR100 award from Technology Review, and won the MIT 2.007 and IDC robotics competitions.

Dale Dougherty is the editor and publisher of MAKE, and general manager of the Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media, Inc. Dale has been instrumental in many of O'Reilly's most important efforts, including founding O'Reilly Media, Inc. with Tim O'Reilly. He was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial Web site which launched in 1993 and was sold to AOL in 1995. Dale was developer and publisher of Web Review, the online magazine for Web designers, and he was O'Reilly's first editor. Prior to developing MAKE, Dale was publisher of the O'Reilly Network and he developed the Hacks series of books. Dale is the author of "Sed & Awk." Dougherty was a Lecturer in the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley from 1996 to 2000.

Executive Director, The Webby Awards
Executive Director, International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Chairman, Internet Week New York
Passionate about the intersection of technology, culture, and business, David-Michel Davies is the executive director of the Webby Awards, the chair of Internet Week New York, and the executive director of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS).

Under his leadership, The Webby Awards have grown significantly receiving a record 10,000 entries from over 60 countries this year alone. In the last two years, The Webby Awards have also launched several new initiatives, including The Webby Film and Video Awards and WebbyConnect, an annual conference featuring past Webby winner, Academy members, and industry leaders.

Most recently, Davies served as chairman of the first-ever Internet Week New York a weeklong festival celebrating the city’s Internet industry.

Davies’ analysis of internet culture, news, and trends has made him a trusted source for media outlets worldwide, including Good Morning America, CBS’ The Early Show, Wall Street Journal, CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety.

Elizabeth Stark is a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale College. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded the Harvard Free Culture Group. She serves on the board of directors of the international organization Students for Free Culture, dedicated to promoting access to knowledge, technological freedom, and participatory culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked with the Advocates for Human Rights as a founding member of the Anti-Torture Group. Elizabeth conducted research for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and has taught courses in Cyberlaw, Technology and Politics, and Electronic Music. She has collaborated with organizations such as Creative Commons, SPARC, the Free Software Foundation, and One Laptop per Child. Elizabeth has lived and worked in Berlin, Singapore, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, and speaks French, German, and Portuguese.

Co-founding partner of Squid Labs, CEO of Instructables
Eric earned his SB, SM, and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where he developed methods to print electronics and micro-electromechanical systems using nanoparticles. Eric co-founded Squid Labs in order to have impact through early-stage innovation. He spun Instructables out of Squid Labs as an independent company, which he now runs with a passion. He loves building kite-powered contraptions, cooking breakfast, and demystifying technology so that even his Grandmother can use it.

Founder, TreeHugger.com and Vice President, Interactive of Planet Green
Alternately described as serial entrepreneur, do-gooder and designer, Graham Hill certainly enjoys variety although now finds this future happily confined to the social entrepreneurship arena. Hill and the TreeHugger.com team recently joined the Discovery Communications family of networks as part of its Planet Green multi-platform, global environmental initiative. Additionally, he owns a product business that sells a New York souvenir he designed a few years ago, which is available in 175 stores including MOMA. Graham has a Bachelor of Architecture with distinction from Carleton University in Ottawa and did advanced studies in Industrial Design at E.C.I.A.D, Vancouver. Graham has lived all over the world and his guiltiest sin is air travel (offset of course). He speaks English, French, German and Spanish and is addicted to squash.

Heather Ford is an Information Science Professional who has worked on information policy projects in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Heather graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism degree and has a certificate in Telecommunications Policy, Law and Management from the University of the Witwatersrand Link Centre. After working in the United Kingdom for Greennet and Privacy International, she went on to Stanford University in 2003 where she worked as a fellow in the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program. She went back to South Africa in 2004 to start Creative Commons South Africa and a programme entitled ‘Commons-sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons’ at the Wits University Link Centre. From 2006-2008, she was the Executive Director of iCommons, an international charity linked to Creative Commons and open source organisations around the world. She then went on to co-found South African non-profit organisation, 'The African Commons Project' with the goal of mobilising communities through active participation in collaborative technology.

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard
Isaac Mao is the first blogger in China and leads various kinds of free culture movements in China including Creative Commons, Wikiepedia, Chinese Blogger Conference, Digital Nomads and more initiatives with Social Brain Foundation he co-founded 2005. He is now fellow to Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University developing his Sharism theory the philosophy behind all web 2.0 and key to future open society.

Director of Games R & D, Institute for the Future
A pioneer in the field of alternate reality gaming, her projects include Top Secret Dance Off, CryptoZoo, Superstruct, The Lost Ring, World Without Oil, Cruel 2 B Kind, and I Love Bees. She is an expert on applying game design and game theory to real work and real business, and has run game events in more than 30 countries on 6 continents. She blogs at avantgame.com and has a PhD in performance studies. She has taught game design and game studies at UC Berkeley and at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Jessica started her first internet company at the age of 13, finished high school at the age of 15, and is now studying computer science at U.C. Berkeley. Through speaking engagements and side projects, shes been teaching young people how to get a jump-start in entrepreneurship and their future careers. In the past few months, Jessica has been working on internshipIN.com as a way to help fellow students in finding internships, and has since helped dozens of students explore their passions through real life experience.

Vice President, Area/Code, Adjunct Professor, NYU ITTP
Kati London designs and develops opportunities for interacting with others — whether that be for people and plants, residents of Gaza City and Tel-Aviv, or gamers playing tag with tiger sharks in the Great Barrier Reef. Her collaborative projects have been featured in the Museum of Science & Industry, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, and the Design Museum of London. She frequently speaks on digital/physical hybridization at conferences like Burda Media's Digital Life Design Conference, The Institute for the Future and is on the board of O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference. Her projects have been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic, Der Spiegel, the BBC, and Wired Magazine, among others. Kati is Vice President and Senior Producer at Area/Code Entertainment where she works with clients that range from: the BBC, the Carnegie Institute/Girls Math and Science Project, Disney Imagineering, the UK's Department for Transport, Nike, Discovery Channel, CBS, MTV, and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Kati is also Adjunct Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

CEO, Business Blogging
Co-Founder, The Knowledge Foundation

Kiruba Shankar is CEO of Business Blogging Pvt Ltd and Director of F5ive Technologies. He has 12 years of experience in the Internet space. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com. He is based in Chennai, India.

Kiruba is one of the founders of The Knowledge Foundation, the group behind successful events like BlogCamp, India's Biggest Unconference on Blogging, Proto.in, premiere event showcasing startups. He also regularly organizes MobileMondays and BarCamps. He is on the advisory board of Brand Asia Summit.

Kiruba loves teaching and teaches at Asian College of Journalism, Anna University, Madras Advertising Club, SRM University. He has lectured on Social Media at IIM Kozhikode, IIM Bangalore and IIT Madras.

He authors technology columns at the New Indian Express and Business Standard Newspaper. He is an official blogger for NASSCOM and IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India)

He is a professional podcaster and hosts a show called 'The Kiruba Show' where he interviews CEOs of Indian IT companies. BusinessWorld Magazine ranks his blog Kiruba.com as one of India's top blogs.

Kiruba is a rowing champion and has captained the Sify Rowing Team to four championship titles. He has participated in Chennai and Bangalore marathons. His recent passion is Ultimate Frisbee.

Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Founder, Stanford's Center for Internet and Society
Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

For much of his career, Professor Lessig focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. His current academic work addresses a kind of "corruption."

Linda Rogers is responsible for developing strategies that connect Sun Microsystems with some of the most important communities of long-term, critical importance to the company. She brings 15 years of experience in the technology and consulting industries to her current role as Director of Global Communities at Sun. Global Communities is globally dispersed team that collaborates with governments, academic institutions, student communities and civil society organizations to drive an understanding of how technology can be used to transform opportunity in both emerging and developed nations.

Linda concurrently also serves as the Director of the Sun Giving Fund, which focuses on empowering and enabling participation of global citizens and communities by leveraging Sun's technology portfolio, as well through cash grants and other in-kind donations.

Prior to her current positions, Linda was the Chief of Staff to the EVP and Chairman of Europe, APAC and Emerging Markets at Sun and has held multiple strategy and human resources roles throughout her six year career there.

Before joining Sun, Linda held various management and consulting positions with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and Allied Irish Banks. She holds an Master of Science Degree in Training and Human Resources from the University of Leicester and multiple Strategy and Planning, Organization Design and Human Capital qualifications from University of Southern California and National College of Ireland.

Designer, User Interface Specialist, Technologist, Journalist, Hardware Hacker, Researcher, etc. etc.
Nick has worked in numerous different industries within the context of design, research & development, technology and storytelling. He is currently the Design Integration Editor for The New York Times and the User Interface Specialist & Researcher for The New York Times Research & Development Lab working on a variety of research projects and exploring technologies that could become commonplace in the next 2-10 years. His work in the R&D Labs includes exploring and prototyping content and interaction on futuristic flexible digital displays, a vast array of mobile applications and devices, Times Reader, Print-to-mobile SMS, Semacode integration, content in the living room and context aware sensors. Nick is also the co-founder, with Michael Young, of Shifd.com, a startup within The New York Times that helps people shift content easily between multiple devices. Shifd recently won 'Best overall Hack' at last years Yahoo! Hack Day. Nick's work has been profiled regularly in multiple books, magazines, newspapers and websites.

Outside of The Times, Nick teaches at User Interaction Design and Future Journalism at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunications Program. He also helped co-found NYCResistor, a hacker space in Brooklyn which offers hardware and programming classes and allows people to collectively work on innovative open source hardware and robotics projects.

Executive Coordinator, Overmundo Instituto
Before joining Overmundo, Oona coordinated the Open Business Models - Latin America project for the Center for Technology and Society at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A graduate of the Journalism program at the Cásper-Líbero University, she is a founding member of Intervozes, the Brazilian Social Communication Collective and has worked at other institutions including São Paulo's Municipal Government, the British Council and VisitBritain.

Patricia G. Lange is an Anthropologist conducting research at the Institute for Multimedia Media Literacy at the University of Southern California. She analyzes video sharing practices on YouTube and among video bloggers. Lange’s work has appeared in a variety of books and journals including: The Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube; The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication; and The Scholar & Feminist Online. Recognized as an expert in digital interaction scholarship, she was an invited speaker at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and an invited curator for Pixelodeon, the first independent video blogging festival, held at the American Film Institute.

Phoebe Ayers is a reference librarian at the University of California, Davis, specializing in computer science and engineering. Ayers has an MLIS from the University of Washington. She has been involved with the Wikipedia community since 2003, and has helped organize the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual Wikimania conference in Boston, Taipei, Alexandria, Egypt and Buenos Aires. Ayers is coauthor of How Wikipedia Works: and How You Can be a Part of It (No Starch Press, September 2008), a GFDL-licensed book about using, understanding, and contributing to Wikipedia. Her interests center around effective use of collaborative tools, and how trustworthy information is created on- and off-line.

Simon Dingle is an independent writer, broadcaster and speaker from Johannesburg, South Africa. He covers technology for the country's leading financial weekly, Finweek Magazine and website Fin24.com. As a broadcaster Simon hosts shows on Talk Radio 702 and weekly tech podcast the ZA Tech Show. He also writes about lifestyle technology and travel for Live Out Loud magazine and contributes to open content movements.

The Playtime Anti-Boredom Society is an independent game design and consulting collective comprised of Sean Mahan, Sam Lavigne, and Ian Kizu-Blair. The trio launched SFZero, the world's first online/offline mission-based game, in 2006. Since beginning in San Francisco, SFZero has grown to include players in Alaska, London, Baghdad, and many places in between. The group's other games include Flashback, created for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's American History and Civics Initiative; Ghosts of a Chance, produced for the Smithsonian American Art Museum; and Journey to the End of the Night, a free street game. In all of its projects, The Playtime Anti-Boredom Society creates new ways of experiencing the world through play.

Tiffiniy Cheng co-founded the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) in 2005 as a means for building software that could open up the media industry and system to public participation. Her political work and writing has focused on how political power relates to access and consolidation. Tiffiniy is also a co-founder of the Participatory Politics Foundation, which builds tools to make the political process more open and therefore more engaging. A website called Open Congress is a first step in creating a political process that involves the public and the public's interest. She has worked on public policy issues at Solutions for Progress and Public Knowledge.

Xeni Jardin (say: /SHEH-nee zhar-DAN/) is a tech culture journalist, co-editor of the collaborative blog Boing Boing, and host and executive producer of the daily internet video program Boing Boing Video.

She is a Contributing Writer for WIRED, technology contributor for National Public Radio's "Day to Day," and host of NPR's "Xeni Tech" podcast.

Frequently quoted as an expert on technology issues in news outlets including CNN, ABC World News Tonight, Fox News, G4TechTV, Fine Living, NBC Today, and PBS News Hour.

Her work has appeared in online and print venues including the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, WIRED News, Playboy, Popular Science, Gotham, Nerve, Grammy Magazine, Make, and elsewhere.

Online culture projects include the SENT phonecam art show, and the digital culture event "Live From the Blogosphere."

She has hosted, produced, and/or created tech culture events including Wired Magazine's Nextfest, and the Investment Capital Conference (which, in its 15th year, is the world's longest-running venture capital conference)

Previously, she was Vice President of Rising Tide Studios (RTS), the publishing company behind Silicon Alley Reporter, Digital Coast Reporter, and other tech publications. Xeni served as Senior Writer and oversaw the company's annual conference series, which included The Rising Tide Summit (hosted by Charlie Rose of "The Charlie Rose Show" and "60 Minutes II"), Silicon Alley 2001, Wireless 2001, The International Network, Internet Healthcare 2001, The Venture Capital Summit, Digital Coast 2000, as well as a series of invite-only CEO gatherings. Participants and speakers included CEOs, authors, artists, and thought leaders from business, media, academia and government.

Before joining RTS, she worked with former executives from Sun and BEA to launch an internet technology company in Silicon Valley.

She was previously Supervisor of Enterprise Web Technology at Latham & Watkins, one of the world's largest law firms. The online litigation support projects she directed were cited as industry-leading examples of legal technology.

Based in Los Angeles, she travels extensively, and has studied over a dozen languages including Maohi (Tahitian), Quiché and Kakchikel Maya (Guatemala), Nahuatl (an indigenous language of Mexico), Mandarin Chinese, and Yoruba (Nigeria)