Paul Campbell,
Founder, HyperTiny

Paul is a web developer from Dublin, Ireland. He is the founder of HyperTiny, an agile web development team specialising in the production of polished minimal viable product web applications built within very tight timelines. HyperTiny have garnered strong international acclaim in the 2 years since starting up, having launched a string of successful projects with Engine Yard, Ian McFarland, Jonathan Siegel and Joi Ito as well as launching their own product, Ketchup, an online meeting notes tool. Paul spoke last year at RailsConf, RubyConf, Scottish RubyConf, the Dublin Web Summit and a number of other regional conferences and meetups. Paul also co-curates FunConf (http://funconf.com), a boutique web conference hosted in amazing locations in Ireland.

Abdur Chowdhury,
Chief Scientist, Twitter

Dr. Chowdhury is Twitter's Chief Scientist working on search,　recommendations, extractions and finding the signal in the noise.
Previously, Dr. Chowdhury was Chief Architect for Search at AOL, held positions at Georgetown Computer Science Department and University of Maryland's Institute for Systems Research.
Dr. Chowdhury came to Twitter via the acquisition of Summize which he co-founded.

Hitoshi Hokamura,
General Partner, First Compass Group

Hitoshi Hokamura is a General Partner of First Compass Group where he is in charge of incubation and strategic consulting. In Spring of 2000, Hitoshi started an Internet streaming technology company along with an engineer from Apple, Inc. Hitoshi successfully raised $12M and sold the company. Hitoshi Hokamura is also an active board member of SVJEN, a networking group for Japanese who work in Silicon Valley. Hitoshi advises several high tech companies both in Japan and the U.S. He his a graduate of Faculty of Engineering The University of Tokyo and received a MBA at IMD Business School in Switzerland.

Andrew "bunnie" Huang,
Managing Director, chumby industries Pte Ltd

Andrew "bunnie" Huang, Managing Director of chumby industries Pte Ltd and Owner of bunnie studios LLC, is a hardware hacker and a product designer; his daily responsibilities include the architecture, design and production of chumby devices, as well as the strategic planning and ecosystem development of the broader chumby open-source platform.
With a PhD in EE from MIT, he has completed several major projects, ranging from hacking the Xbox (and writing the eponymous book), to designing the world's first fully-integrated photonic-silicon chips running at 10 Gbps with Luxtera, Inc., to building some of the first prototype hardware for silicon nanowire device research with Caltech.
bunnie has also participated in the design of 802.11b/Bluetooth transceivers (with Mobilian), graphics chips (with SGI), digital cinema CODECs (with Qualcomm), and autonomous robotic submarines (with MIT ORCA/AUVSI). He is also responsible for the un-design of many security systems, with an appetite for the challenge of digesting silicon-based hardware security.

Aaron Huslage,
Crisis Response ICT Specialist

Aaron is in the process of starting Tethr. Tethr provides crisis response management services worldwide. The company's first product, tethr.it, will provide Internet access to people in crisis situations around the world. He is also a founding partner of Carbon　Imagineering , a UK-based technology think tank incubating a number of technology startups.

Previously, Aaron was a System Administrator and System Architect for major corporations such as Microsoft and Major League Baseball. He has also contributed his expertise to various media properties like GigaOm and O'Reilly Media. Aaron was formerly on the organizing committee for O'Reilly Media's ETel conference. He is currently helping to shape Contact , a conference that seeks to explore the greater promise of social media.

Ishitani Isana,
CEO, isana.net, inc.

Isana has over 13 years of experience in the software industry. Since he founded Isana.net, Inc. in 2001, he has been engaged in more than 100 mobile software development projects including movie codec, one-seg TV, Flash Lite, AR, geo social and financial services.
Isana is now leading Isana.net to become one of the leading smart device technology companies.
Isana.net has lately attracted attention with its smartphone application, "Blackout timetable search", which won No.1 downloaded app in Apple App Store and is very popular among Android users.
Isana is also a board member of Axis, Inc., a software service provider for the pharmaceutical industry.
Isana holds a Bachelor Degree in Policy Management from Keio University.

Takehiko Koyanagi,
Staff Writer of the Nikkei & Media Director for the Nikkei Online Edition.

Journalist mainly covering IT, Internet, media, telecommunications, while directing website development and operation. Previous positions: Silicon Valley Bureau in Palo Alto, CA 2001-2005 (2003-2005 bureau chief); Staff Writer of the Nikkei 1988-2001, covering equity market, financial industry, venture capitals, IT industry, auto industry, etc. Studied Political Science at Penn State University Graduate School. B.A. in Political Science and French Language, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Major interviewees in recent years include: Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com), John Chambers (Cisco Systems), Bob Eiger (Walt Disney), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Tom Glocer (Thomson Reuters), Andy Grove (Intel), Steve Jobs (Apple), Larry Page (Google), Eric Schmitt (Google), Masayoshi Son (Softbank), Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel laureate economist), Howard Stringer (Sony), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook).

Michelle Levesque,
software engineer

Michelle Levesque just finished a 5-year stint as a software engineer and manager at Google where she worked on Google's social products and AdWords. She also led both Google's testing grouplet and code readability grouplet.
Previously, Michelle worked at the Citizen Lab where she wrote software to study internet censorship around the world. This software is still the leading tool used by researchers to learn more about internet filtering trends and how government and corporate censorship can be circumvented.

Phil Libin,
CEO, Evernote

Phil Libin is the CEO of Evernote.
He is an entrepreneur and executive who has led two Internet companies from the very beginning to proven commercial success, and helped three others through rapid growth. Prior to joining Evernote, Phil founded and served as president of CoreStreet, currently one of the top companies providing smart credential and identity management technologies to governments and large corporations throughout the world.
CoreStreet was aquired by ActivIdentity (ACTI) in 2009. Previously, Phil was founder and CEO of Engine 5, a leading Boston-based Internet software development company acquired by Vignette Corporation (VIGN) in 2000, where he went on to serve as principal architect and chief technologist for applications.

In addition to his operational expertise, Phil is a software engineer by training and started his career by building complex systems for ATG, Exchange Applications and EF.
Phil is an active technology author and public speaker, having appeared in numerous events and publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, CNET and others. In 2004, Phil was named an "Innovator of the Year" by InfoWorld magazine. He is a named inventor on four issued technology patents.

Jun Murai,
Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University

Born in 1955. Murai is a Japanese computer scientist, known as "the father of Japan's Internet". He is the Dean and a professor of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University. Murai is also the founder of JUNET and WIDE Project, and commissioner of JPNIC. Murai graduated from Keio University and received a Ph.D. in science and engineering.

Akira Ninomiya,

Born in 1986. Graduated Shushin University, and Kyoto Institute of Technology.

From 1997 for 2 years Akira made digital web magazines for handmade Japanese papers.
During this time, Akira made digital archives of Artisan workshops and art galleries using QuickTimeVR.

After studying art design in university, Akira started his web production career.

On March 2005, Akira started "QTVR Diary," a panoramic movie information blog.
The site is popular internationally. In the beginning of 2011 Akira started a website "Panormania," a community site for panorama specialists.
He plans to launch "LiveMotionVR.com," a 360 panorama live streaming web service.

Kohei Nishiyama,
Founder and Chairman, elephant design co., ltd.
Founder, CUUSOO.com

Kohei Nishiyama is a founder of CUUSOO.com, an online user community that collects wishes from people. He matches most desired wishes to manufactures to make them come true. Since 1997, sixty wishes have been realized both in products and services. Currently 140,000 users, 3,000 designers and 500 manufactures participate in this platform.

CUUSOO is used in universities as official curriculum and more than thousand students have benefited from this entrepreneurial educational experience.

Kohei was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he primarily handled new product development projects. He is a recipient of the Kuwasawa Design Award (2001) and the Japanese government’s Good Design Award (2001). He has been a judge on the Good Design Award committee in the New Frontier Category since 2002, and is also a member of the Innovators Network, Japan Society. He was selected as a member of the Young Global Leaders (YGL) in 2007 and also of the Global Agenda Council (GAC) in 2008, both by the World Economic Forum. He was also selected as a Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2009. He is a member of The International Selection Committee for the 2014 designation of World Design Capital (WDC) by International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), and also became a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in 2011.

He holds BA from the University of Tokyo and majored in product design at the Kuwasawa Design Institute, prior to founding CUUSOO.com and elephant design.

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.

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.

Hiroko Tabuchi,
business, economics, and technology reporter, The New York Times

Hiroko Tabuchi is a Tokyo-based business, economics, and technology reporter for The New York Times. Hiroko was formerly a Tokyo Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal and a Reporter at THe Associated Press. In the year 2000 Hiroko graduated at the London School of Economics.

Hiroyuki Tsuruta,

Hiroyuki Tsuruda is 20 years old, born in Nagasaki prefecture. He is currently studying environmental information at Keio University. Since he was 13 years old, he started producing web services and media.
He also is very active in photography and filming. In 2011, Hiroyuki established Labit,inc., a development and production firm for web media and smartphone applications.
On the night of the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake, Hiroyuki built "prayforjapan.jp," at an evacuation zone with no electricity. Kodansha is planning to publish a book on April 25th with the title "PRAY FOR JAPAN - 3.11 The Day When The Entire Word Started Praying".