Paul Campbell,
Founder, HyperTiny

Paul is a web guy from Dublin, Ireland. He is co-curator of Funconf and a maker of fine web apps at HyperTiny.

Brian Doll,
Application Performance Engineer, New Relic

Brian Doll is a business-focused technologist who has been building things on the web since the paleolithic days of sticks, mud and cgi-bin. He has extensive experience in retail, media, technology and financial service industries in both start-up and large enterprise environments.
Brian enjoys writing and speaking on lean engineering, systems architecture and scalability while helping teams all over the world scale their apps at New Relic.

Brian Flanagan,
Founder, HyperTiny

Brian Flanagan is an interface and visual designer for web applications, and a co-founder of Hyper Tiny, an app development outfit based in Dublin, Ireland. He's designed a couple products, namely Ketchup (useketchup.com) and Tito (titoapp.com), in addition to an abundance of varied client work.

Pieter Franken,
Co-founder & Director, Safecast Japan

Pieter Franken is the co-founder and director of Safecast Japan.
Together with a few others he founded a volunteer group that is focused on measuring the environment, and radiation levels in Japan in particular. Not happy with the quantity and quality of the data available in Japan, Safecast is focusing on measuring radiation as a independent group, striving for full transparency and open access. The creation and growth of Safecast as a lean .ORG has become an inspiration of many for how to leverage open hardware, open software and social networks to create phenomenal impact in the society and empower citizens to become a scientific and social force. Pieter is also a Senior Visiting Researcher at Keio University doing research on sensor networks, as part of the ScanningTheEarth project.
Pieter invented the iGeigie, a radiation sensor that docks with your iPhone to create a versatile geiger counter.

Janice Fraser,
Founder, LUXr

Janice the founder of LUXr, a design program for Lean Startups. She's an entrepreneur, designer, and advisor to early stage companies. Janice has raised capital, founded both successful and failed startups, and consulted to both large enterprises and aspiring entrepreneurs.
long the way Janice has learned a lot about what makes some teams thrive and others fail. Prior to starting LUXr, Janice was a founding partner of Adaptive Path and served as the company's first CEO.

Jesse James Garrett,
Co-founder and Chief Creaive Officer, Adaptive Path

Jesse, co-founder and chief creaive officer of Adaptive Path, is one of the world’s most widely recognized technology product designers.
He supports the company’s designers and strategists with creative guidance and helps them advance the company’s thought leadership position.
Everyday, product designers around the world depend on Jesse’s tools and concepts, which have been published in more than a dozen languages. His book, The Elements of User Experience, has been called “brilliant” and “essential” and is considered one of the seminal works on user-centered design. Jesse is a frequent keynote speaker, addressing audiences around the world on product design, user experience and innovation. His writings on these topics have appeared in numerous publications.
In 2005, Jesse gained worldwide attention for coining the term “Ajax” and defining the concepts behind this emerging trend in web technology. Since then, Ajax has become one of the driving forces in web product design, and Jesse’s leadership role in this trend has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Business Week.

Chiaki Hayashi,
CEO, Loftwork Inc

Born and raised in the United Arab Emirates, Chiaki later earned her bachelor degree of arts in Commerce from Waseda University and master degree in Business Journalism in Boston University. She is the co-founder of the Japanese creative agency Loftwork, Inc. She now serves as the CEO of Loftwork Inc. as well as the Project Co-ordinator at Creative Commons.

Hiroyuki Kato,
Executive Service Producer, netprice.com

Hiyoruki joined Atlantis Co., Ltd. as its CTO after graduating from university. He is now engaging in R&D; (Research and Development) as well as new business development projects at netprice.com, Ltd.
He likes Rilakkuma.

CJ Kihlbom,
Founder, Elabs

CJ Kihlbom has been building web applications since 1998. He is the founder of Elabs, an agile software development consultancy in Sweden. He is very passionate about agile and software quality. And whisky.

Eric Lagier,
Co-founder and CEO, Memolane

Eric Lagier, co-Founder and CEO of Memolane, a social network build on great memories. Before Memolane, Eric founded Tigertag.com, the world's first free lost and found network, harnessing the power of goodwill.
Eric Lagier is an accomplished entrepreneur as well as an intrapreneur with more than 15 years of GM, BD and product experience from leading Mobile and Internet companies including Oracle and Skype. Successfully launched a number of “first” products, including launching the first Skypephone, Skype on Nokia phones and Oracle’s global partnership with Vodafone. He has since long advised and supported other entrepreneurs on early stage ventures.

Hironori Maeda,
Managing Partner, Open Network Lab

Managing Partner of Open Network Lab, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program based in Tokyo.
Previously, Hiro founded a web development firm in New York and has been in charge of investment and business development at Netprice.com, a listed company in Tokyo.

Ian McFarland,
CTO, Digital Garage Group

Ian was working on worldwide distributed hypertext systems with Ted Nelson a couple years before Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web, HTTP, and HTML. He was on the launch team at HotWired, the first company to bring a revenue model to the Internet. (Banner ads. Yes, we still use them. 468x60 for evar!) He was employee #4 at Friendster, the company that kicked off this whole Social Media thing. And for the seven years Ian was at Pivotal Labs, he's been sharing insights into agile development with companies large and small, and helped to grow Pivotal Labs from a small company to a world renowned team of over 100 developers. Since joining Digital Garage as Group CTO in August, he's taken these ideas back to Japan, the country where both Lean and Ruby come from. He is more likely to be found in San Francisco than any other city, though your odds are probably about 50/50.

Takehiro Miyajima,
Vice General Manager
Kakaku.com, Inc.Tabelog Division

Takehiro earned his Master Degree from the Graduate School of Science at Tokyo University.
As he was working as a system developer for Yahoo Japan Auction, Takehiro has gained knowledge on large-scale system operation. He was also greatly influenced by the business model of auction systems.
Since Takehiro's joining Kakaku's "Tabelog.com" as its System Manager in June 2005, the site has grown from 0 visits to 3,000,000 user visits per month. He is now supporting Tabelog's overall operation from design to system development and application, as well as business development.

Joe O'Brien,
CEO, EdgeCase

Joe O'Brien is a father, business owner, speaker and developer. In 2006 he co-founded EdgeCase, a leading Ruby and Ruby on Rails training and consulting company. In 2009 he took EdgeCase international by opening up an office in Edinburgh Scotland. EdgeCase has had a tremendous amount of success helping companies as large as Ingersoll Rand, GAP and AT&T; Interactive as well as those startups still in the inception stage. Joe is a speaker and has spoken at conferences ranging from RailsConf to numerous regional conferences and countless user groups. In addition to his role as CEO of EdgeCase, he has been giving training for well over six years on testing and development with Ruby on Rails.

Mutsumi Ota,
Co-Founder & CEO, giftee, Inc.

Born in 1984, Mutsumi is the Co-Founder and CEO of giftee, Inc.
He first joined Accenture Technology Solutions in 2007 upon his graduation from Keio University, then joined a web production company. He started gifee in 2010.

Ray Ozzie,

Ray Ozzie is an independent software entrepreneur, most recently having served as Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft he was best known for his work in the area of social productivity as the creator of both Lotus Notes and Groove.

Earlier in his career Ozzie developed Symphony for Lotus. He worked on Lotus 1-2-3, worked on VisiCalc and TK!Solver at Software Arts, and did distributed OS work at Data General.
Honored as a distinguished alumnus by University of Illinois, Ozzie has been recognized by numerous organizations including the IEEE and World Economic Forum. He has been inducted as a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Chris Palmieri,
Co-founder & Managing Director, AQ

Chris Palmieri is managing director at AQ, a Tokyo-based design studio, where he helps local cultural organizations, global brands and hungry startups create websites and apps that work.
Chris moved to Tokyo in 2001 to begin his design practice after studying graphic design and Japanese language and aesthetics at the University of Illinois.

Michael Peng,
Design Lead and Co-founder
IDEO Tokyo studio

Mike Peng is a Design Lead and co-founder of the IDEO Tokyo studio. Since his arrival at IDEO in 2006, Mike has led the firm’s design research and strategy efforts in industries ranging from education and hospitality to financial services and consumer electronics.
Currently, Mike leads project work and client relationships across Asia and mentors designers within the region. He is also working closely with colleagues on the future strategic vision for IDEO Asia.
Before he moved to Tokyo, Mike helped start IDEO’s office in New York, where he led several projects and experimented with new methods of inspiration-gathering and storytelling to stretch the Human Factors practice.
He moonlighted as an adjunct professor at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, teaching public policy, urban planning, and nonprofit management students how to use design thinking to solve complex problems.
Prior to IDEO, Mike graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in cognitive science and an emphasis in neuroscience. He then joined Johnson & Johnson, where he worked on global strategy, user interface design, laboratory informatics, and process excellence initiatives in the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors. He also trained as Six Sigma black belt.
In his spare time, Mike is a competitive tennis player (his high-school court is named after him!) and an amateur hip-hop dancer who finds solace in reality TV and celebrity gossip.

Kate Rutter,
Co-Founder and Principal, LUXr

Kate is a User Experience strategist and designer with a talent for bringing companies and customers closer together through lean strategies, inventive design and participatory practices. Before joining LUXr, Kate was with Adaptive Path, where she specialized in user research and design for complex and emerging digital systems, bringing customer empathy and collaborative design practices to companies such as Nokia, Travel+Leisure Publishing, Globo Networks, and Greenpeace.
Kate’s background spans technology, marketing, interactive media, business management and organizational development. She’s worked with corporations, nonprofit organizations and early stage companies to helpthem rapidly grow, change and successfully chart new paths in ambiguous times and shifting markets.

Dan Sythe,
CEO, Iospectra - International Medcom

Dan Sythe is co-founder and CEO of Iospectra - International Medcom, manufacturer of radiation detection instruments and systems since 1986.
Since 1978 he has been a consultant and instrumentation provider to many individuals and communities affected by the nuclear age, including those surrounding Nevada Test Site, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
He was appointed by Three Mile Island Public Health Fund's blue ribbon Scientific Advisory Board to develop a radiation monitoring system that addressed deficiencies identified in offsite monitoring programs.
A pilot system,which ran for ten years, implemented the first integration of real time data on a web-based GIS system. He is Executive Director of Whalesong Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring stewardship of the world's oceans.
Whalesong Project has webcast the live songs of Maui's Kohola (humpback whales) for eleven seasons. Previously Dan was Senior Electronic Design Engineer at Astec BSR USA Ltd., and co-founder and Director of Instrument Research at Solar Electronics International.

Takashi Tsutsumi,
Venture Capitalist

After working at Nichimen Corporation (now: Sojitz Corporation) and Worldview Technology Partners, Takashi has been working at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company since 2003 and he has been engaging in investment activities across Asia as well as Japan-U.S. He has earned his bachelor degree from Tokyo University of Science and master degreel from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. He has also translated books including Clean Tech Revolution and The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

Toshihisa Wanami,
Blog Owner of “Lean Startup Japan”

Toshihisa is the blog owner of “Lean Startup Japan.” As an IT consultant specializes in project management and service management, he has experienced failures in IT projects and has been searching for the causes of the failures. He has discovered that adopting the traditional waterfall development model for a system that users have never been exposed to is the key reason why these projects failed. Toshihisa has been sharing the concepts and knowledge of Lean Startup via his blog “Lean Startup Japan” since October 2010.
facebook:http://www.facebook.com/LeanStartupJapan
twitter:@leanstartupjp

Mikihiro Yasuda,
Director of Media Incubation Division, Digital Garage

Current board member and director of Media Incubation for Digital Garage, Mikihiro Yasuda has more than 15 years of experience in the web industry.
He developed his career as a programmer, being involved in both inside and outside of Japan for developing ISP platform for Netscape and managing Technology team for Digital Garage.
Mikihiro joined Kakaku.com in 2004 as CTO, where he oversaw technology driven service developments.In 2007, Mikihiro was appointed as COO.
From 2010 until July 2011, Mikihiro was the Group CTO of Digital Garage.
He is also a Visiting Professor at Digital Hollywood University Graduate School and CEO of seed accelerator program Open Network Lab.