Ellen Dunham-Jones is Director of the Architecture Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She is an award-winning architect and frequent author on both contemporary architectural theory and contemporary urban development patterns.

Fred Collopy,   Professor of Cognitive Science Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University received his PhD in decision sciences from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has done extensive research in forecasting, design and visual programming.

Gerald Fliegel is Senior Vice President “Research and Development” – Business Administrator Siemens VAI Technologies GmbH. Born 1961 in Salzburg, he began studying at the Technical University of Graz in 1979 and graduated there in the field of Mechanical Engineering in 1984.

Greg Van Alstyne is Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), and Director of Research at Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab), Toronto. He is a design educator and consultant with 20 years experience in communications and creative direction.

Born 1946 in Essen, Germany . Since 1992 Professor of Sociology at the "Justus-Liebig-Universitaet "in Giessen, Germany. 1989 - 1997 Director of the "Institut fuer Sozialforschung" in Frankfurt. Doctorate at the University of Bielefeld in April 1973. Habilitation at the University of Bielefeld in April 1978.

Ilya Prokopoff co-founded a practice at IDEO called Transformation that helps clients use the tools and methods of design to work in new ways, to address the challenges of the future, and to effect change in their organizations.

JEFFREY INABA and Peter Zellner are the co-founders of VALDES, an institution dedicated to the cultural promotion of low-density urban areas, or for lack of a better word, what have until now been called ‘suburbs.’ From 2000-2003 he was a principal of AMO, the research consulting office based in New York and Rotterdam founded by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.