Tony Byrne | Founder, CMS Watch

Tony is founder and editor of CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral technology analyst firm. Byrne also consults with leading global enterprises and public agencies to help them select and implement the right content technologies. A former reporter, publisher, international educator, and 16-year internet veteran, Byrne previously headed the engineering and production groups at an IT consulting firm. He is the author of The CMS Report, and publisher of the Enterprise Search Report and Records Management Report.

Diane Cerra | Executive Editor, Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Diane Cerra is executive editor at Morgan & Claypool Publishers, where she publishes the HCI Series and other computer and information science-related series in the Synthesis Digital Library. She is former publisher at Morgan Kaufmann, an imprint of Elsevier, where she founded and published books in the MK Series in Interactive Technologies, among other classic texts and references.

Dirk Knemeyer | Founding Principal, Involution Studios LLC

Dirk has founded four companies, including Involution Studios and Spivot. He is also involved in a variety of industry non-profits, including serving as the President and a founder of the User Experience Network (UXnet). Dirk has published more than 100 articles on topics of design strategy, business management, and user experience, along with making presentations at most major industry conferences.

Peter Morville | President, Semantic Studios

Peter Morville is co-author of the "polar bear book" on information architecture and the author of Ambient Findability. He is a founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute, a faculty member at the University of Michigan, and a popular speaker at user experience events. He blogs at findability.org.

David Weinberger | Author, Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society

David Weinberger, Ph.D., is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined. His new book, Everything is Miscellaneous (Times Books, 2007), is about the effect of the new principles of digital organization on business, culture, and knowledge.

John Zapolski | Principal, Management Innovation Group

John is a founding principal of the Management Innovation Group and an accomplished strategist, researcher, and designer. He is a member of the national board of directors of the AIGA, the professional association for design, and programmed the first ever Designing for User Experiences (DUX) conference.

Jeffrey Zeldman | Founder and Creative Director, Happy Cog Studios

Zeldman is an internationally known web designer and author. A leading architect of the web standards movement (and author of the ground-breaking Designing With Web Standards), he publishes A List Apart magazine "for people who make websites" and The Daily Report at zeldman.com.