John Seely Brown was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation until April 2002 as well as the director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) until June 2000 - a position he held for twelve years.

John, or as he is often called-JSB-is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of AAAS and a Trustee of Brown University, the MacArthur Foundation and In-Q-Tel. He received the 1998 Industrial Research Institute Medal for outstanding accomplishments in technological innovation and more recently, he was presented with a 2002 Visionary Award by the Software Development Forum. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Annenberg Centre and Annenberg School of Communication at USC.

Dr Tan is the Chief Technology Officer at the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore. He is responsible to provide leadership and guidance on matters technical within IDA and to communicate IDAs vision for infocomm directions to stakeholders across Singapore.

Dr Tan participates actively in Boards and Committees. These include the advisory boards of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments in both NUS and NTU; the Information Communication Institute of Singapore (ICIS); IDAs subsidiaries; A*STAR Thematic Research Programme Review Panel; Convenor of the UWB and Pervasive Computing Thematic Research Track. Dr Tan holds a B.Sc in Electronics and Communications from Birmingham University and a Ph.D in Digital Communications from Cambridge University, UK.

Paul Reynolds is Chief Executive of BT Wholesale and a member of the BT plc Board.  He is also the Board sponsor for the company's 21st century network programme.  He joined BT in 1983 and holds a PhD from London University. Paul is a non executive director of E-Access.

David Tennenhouse is an Intel Vice President in the Corporate Technology Group and Director of Research. Tennenhouse previously served as Chief Scientist and Director of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's Information Technology Office. At DARPA, he directed a research program focusing on information technology issues of strategic concern to the U.S. government. As Office Director, Tennenhouse formulated DARPA's PRO-Active Computing research strategy which emphasizes the networking of embedded and autonomous systems.

Tennenhouse received his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees from the University of Toronto. In 1989, he completed his Ph.D. at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. He then joined MIT, where he held appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and in the Sloan School of Management.

Mike Horton co-founded Crossbow Technology and has served as its President and CEO since its inception. Horton has led Crossbow from its founding product line of digital MEMS accelerometers and tilt sensors to its current market-leading inertial sensor and wireless sensor networking platforms. To this point in time, he has co-authored four patents.

Horton was named one of the Top 100 Innovators in the MIT Technology Review and was named one of Young Tech Entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek magazine, and one of the Top 50 Movers and Shakers in high technology by Electronic Business Magazine. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering. He was nominated for the University Medal and won the Warren Y. Dere Design Award.

Adrian David Cheok is director of the Mixed Reality Lab National University of Singapore. He has worked in real-time systems, soft computing, and embedded computing in both Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (Osaka, Japan) and National University of Singapore (NUS).

He is currently an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore where he leads a team of over 20 researchers and students. He has been a keynote and invited speaker at numerous international and local conferences and events. He is invited to exhibit for two years in the Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, launching in the Ars Electronica Festival 2003. He was IEEE Singapore Section Chairman 2003, and is presently ACM SIGCHI Chapter President.

Tim Harper is the founder & President of CMP Científica, and the CEO of London based Científica Limited, the business research and consulting arm of CMP Científica. He is also the Co Author of the Nanotechnology Opportunity Report", described by NASA as "the defining report in the field of nanotechnology", and the founder of the World NanoEconomic Congress. Tim is also the Founder and Executive Director of European NanoBusiness Association and is an advisor to many organisations around the globe including the US NanoBusiness Alliance and International Engineering Consortium.

Tim was formerly an engineer at the European Space Agency's research and development centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. He managed the micro and nanoscale characterisation facility, and has published extensively on analytical techniques and characterization of advanced materials.

Prof. Santosh K. Mishra received his doctorate degree in Biophysics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1986 working in the area of electronic structures of proteins. As a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he was key in the design, development and implementation of the GenBank nucleotide sequence database. In 1989, he joined the Washington University Genome Centre where he successfully produced the first comprehensive genetic map of the human genome.

From 1994 till 2003, Prof. Mishra worked in the pharmaceutical industries where he was responsible for setting up Bioinformatics infrastructure to enable target and drug discovery. Currently, he is the Executive Director for Bioinformatics Institute of Singapore.