Mark Anderson is CEO of Strategic News Service (SNS) and publisher of the weekly SNS Global Report on technology and the global economy (www.stratnews.com), read by Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Vint Cerf, Michael Dell, Paul Allen, Craig Venter, Jeff Bezos, Bill Janeway, Paul Jacobs, Leroy Hood, and technology executives and investors worldwide. He is CEO of SNS Conference Corp. and chairman of the Future in Review (FiRe) conference (www.futureinreview.com) - now in its 14th year - which the Economist has named "the best technology conference in the world."

David is a green energy-conscious Entrepreneur and Veteran of the US Navy. He is a decorated Naval Aviator, having spent most of his 9-year Naval career flying and instructing in the mighty H-60F/H SeaHawk helicopter.

TimeLike Systems is a small company offering products and services related to model-based engineering simulation of complex hardware-software systems, such as cyber-physical systems.

Lee is skilled at clearly identifying business and customer opportunities and applying or creating effective solutions. He has led the identification and creation of leading edge products that are in use in over 170 countries. These products transact more than $500M in annual revenue, enabled over $100M in annual cost savings, and created a platform for new products. Lee has created 7 startup businesses as an entrepreneur and intrapreneuer. Additionally, he has negotiated and closed complex multi million deals for new products and services on four different continents....

A trusted authority to Wall Street, Brad Holtz is arguably the most well-recognized analyst voice in engineering software today. His incisive views on the CAD market are based on a keen understanding of technologies and careful observation of their impact. Holtz's Cyon Research Stock Index has consistently outperformed the NASDAQ.

For the past 28 years, Brian McInerney has worked in the Hydrology and Meteorology fields forecasting spring snowmelt runoff, river flows, river and flash floods, debris flows from intense rainfall events, droughts, and climate changes impact on local and national weather patterns. With the forecasted warming of our atmosphere, our weather and water picture will change dramatically. Brian has been educating municipalities, water districts, all aspects of government to the impending changes brought on by a warming climate. He welcomes being part of the E2MS Team and looks forward to forecasting future weather and hydrologic events.....

Nathanael Miller has worked as an aerospace engineer in the Engineering Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center for the past 10 years. Over his time with NASA, he has designed and integrated test platforms for scientific instruments and technology development missions. With a background in mechatronics, Nathanael has developed ground-based robotic platforms, unmanned aerial vehicles, and suborbital space systems which have supported a range of applications, including inflatable planetary entry systems, Mars surface sensors, and aviation safety research.

Kevin Montgomery, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University, identifying, developing, and deploying advanced telemedicine technologies around the world. Previously, he was the technical director of the National Biocomputation Center, a collaboration between NASA and Stanford to develop advanced technologies for next-generation medicine, including computer-based surgical planning, intraoperative assistance systems, surgical simulators, and anatomical atlases, as well as wireless telemedicine and telemetry.

After some years as a carpenter, Hans-Peter Plag studied mathematics and geophysics in Berlin and obtained his Ph.D. in Natural Sciences in 1988 from the Free University of Berlin. From 1988 to 1997, he was head of a research group in geodynamics at the University of Kiel, Germany. During that time, he was also active in environmental movements and later a member of the Green Party. Among others, he was the lead author of a concept for waste reduction and recycling, which contributed to a significant reduction in waste and an increase in recycling. In his teaching, he introduced the students to the concept of sustainability and challenged them with the question of how earth sciences can contribute to a successful quest for a sustainable development.

Innovation, internet, and technology are Roy Popiolek's passions. As a serial entrepreneur, he has developed and delivered software solutions, educational programs, and GIS mapping solutions for international clients...

Philip Vafiadis is a longtime serial entrepreneur who now commercializes technologies that will form the foundation of future industries, and processes that will define how we participate and collaborate.