Troy Angrignon - Troy Angrignon is currently Emerging Technology Strategist at Business Objects. A socially and environmentally aware entrepreneur, athlete, adventurer, technologist, and capitalist (in no particular order), his passions are business, technology, society & community, nature & the environment, and health & fitness. He blogs at www.troyangrignon.com and specializes in Business Planning, Emerging Technology Analysis, Macro Pattern and Trend Analysis, and Business Development.
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Tony Bowden - Tony Bowden, currently with Socialtext, was co-founder of BlackStar video and is founder of Twingle. Northern Ireland born, he currently resides in Estonia and blogs here: http://nothing.tmtm.com/.
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Ron Dennis - Ron Dennis, based in Hawai'i, is co-founder of Golden Gate Angels Investment Group, and is on the board of an investment group working with Los Alamos National Laboratory to commercialize software written at national laboratories. He has guided several Internet start-ups, from Navisoft (1994) to Livemind (2001). He led the third-party developer group at AOL, and created AOL's Web Hosting Service and Software Greenhouse.
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Jeremy Geelan - Jeremy Geelan is Founder & Publisher of Social Computing Magazine. He blogs at The New Web Blog and is the winner of the 2006 Roundarch Interactive Experience Award for his [from the Award citation] "sober, well informed and insightful evangelization of today's interactive possibilities."
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Dion Hinchcliffe - Dion Hinchcliffe, a well known enterprise architect and business strategist, is founder and Chief Technology Officer for the leading Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 advisory and consulting firm Hinchcliffe & Company, based in Alexandria, VA. He is a popular blogger on ZDNet and is also Editor-in-Chief of Social Computing Magazine.
While Dion spends most of his time helping clients become successful with Web 2.0, he is also a highly sought after keynote speaker at leading technology and business conferences around the world and publishes extensively about Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0 and SOA. He is nearing completion on a book about Web 2.0 for O'Reilly. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of AJAXWorld Magazine and Web 2.0 Journal and is co-editor of the recently-released Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters. He is creator of the The Enterprise 2.0 TV Show, recorded in Times Square.
He also operates Web 2.0 University, the world first and only dedicated business and technical education program for building the cutting-edge skills and acumen required to be successful with Web 2.0 design pattern and business models.

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Patrick Hynds - Patrick Hynds is President of CriticalSites (http://www.criticalsites.com) and a Microsoft Regional Director. Named by Microsoft as the Regional Director for Boston, he has been recognized as a leader in the technology field. An expert on Microsoft technology and experienced with other technologies as well (Websphere, Sybase, Perl, Java, Unix, Netware, C++, etc.), he previously taught freelance software development and Network Architecture. A graduate of West Point and a Gulf War veteran, he stays technical and in the trenches acting as Project Manager and/or developer/engineer on selected projects throughout the year.
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Alex Iskold - Alex Iskold is adaptiveblue's CEO and a contributor at Read/WriteWeb. He's currently building browser-based personalization technology, having already relased BlueOrganizer, a smart-browsing tool for Firefox and Flock with an incredible array of features and a focus on parsing the semantic meaning of web pages it interacts with.
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Ajit Jaokar - Ajit Jaokar, co-author of the book 'Mobile Web 2.0,' is also a member of the web2.0 workgroup. He currently plays an advisory role to a number of mobile start-ups in the UK and Scandinavia, and works with the government and trade missions of a number of countries including South Korea and Ireland. Ajit chairs Oxford University's Next-Generation Mobile Applications panel. He is the founder and CEO of a publishing company - Futuretext - and spoke recently at the Stanford University's Digital Vision program. He also featured recently on CNN money. Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He writes most of his books to the background of music from his favourite band ZZ Top and other guitar bands and believes in the philosophy of Ayn Rand.
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James Milbery - Jim Milbery is SVP/CTO at Chicago Growth Partners, a private equity group. He is responsible for technology strategy and operations for CGP's portfolio of midmarket investments. He has s pent his entire career in the software and technology business, serving companies as a technology manager, and consultant in enterprise software for many well-known software companies and venture capital firms. He blogs at http://jmilbery.blog-city.com/.
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Duane Nickull - Duane Nickull, based in Vancouver, is currently Senior Standards Strategist at Adobe. He wrote major portions of the ebXML Technical architecture and has spent lots of time developing other Service Oriented Architecture standards and implementation guides. He blogs at http://technoracle.blogspot.com/ and maintains a personal site at www.nickull.net.
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Simeon Simeonov - Simeon 'Sim' Simeonov is a technology partner of Polaris Venture Partners, based in the company's Boston office. He joined Polaris in March of 2002 and invests primarily in Internet, mobile and enterprise technologies. Prior to joining Polaris, Sim was vice president of emerging technologies and chief architect at Macromedia (now Adobe). Before Macromedia, he was a founding member and chief architect at Allaire which went from a tiny startup to become one of New England?s most successful IPOs.
Sim has a master's degree summa cum laude in computer science from Boston University and bachelor degrees summa cum laude in computer science, economics and mathematics from Macalester College. He is on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) and blogs at simeons.wordpress.com.
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