Marcia Conner
Marcia L. Conner works at the intersection of social media and learning to increase organizational IQ. A former Fortune 500 learning chief and author of Creating a Learning Culture, she is managing director of Ageless Learner and writes the Fast Company column Learn At All Levels. As an advisor to public and private sector organizations, she focuses attention on nimble solutions that appeal to digital natives while meeting the ongoing needs of talent across all generations. Marcia was Vice President of Education and Information Futurist for PeopleSoft, Senior Manager of Worldwide Training at Microsoft and Editor in Chief of Learning in the New Economy magazine. Her work has proven to build clients’ market position, strengthen culture, and align learning with dynamic business goals.
Doug Engelbart
Douglas C. Engelbart, founder emeritus of the Doug Engelbart Institute, has an unparalleled forty-year track record in predicting, designing, and implementing the future of organizational computing. From his early vision of turning organizations into augmented knowledge workshops, he went on to pioneer what is now known as collaborative hypermedia, knowledge management, community networking, and organizational transformation. Well-known technological firsts include the mouse, hypermedia, display editing, windows, outline processing, and groupware. Doug has received numerous awards for outstanding lifetime achievement and ingenuity, including the National Medal of Technology, the ACM Turing Award, and the IEEE John Von Neumann Medal.
Richard Gabriel
Richard P. Gabriel is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research, looking into the architecture, design, and implementation of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems as well as development techniques for building them. He is on the Board of Directors of the Hillside Group, a nonprofit that nurtures the software patterns community by holding conferences, publishing books, and awarding scholarships. Richard received a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1998. He has been a researcher at Stanford University, company president and Chief Technical Officer at Lucid, Inc., vice president of Development at ParcPlace-Digitalk, a management consultant for several startups, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is author of four books and a poetry chapbook, with two books of poetry in preparation. He has won several awards, including the AAAI/ACM Allen Newell Award. He is the lead guitarist in a rock ‘n’ roll band and a poet.
Ade Mabogunje
Ade Mabogunje is the Associate Director for Stanford’s Center for Design Research. He is currently working on the NSF-sponsored project, Digital Libraries for Distributed Innovative Design Education and Teamwork (DIDET), and on the Real-time Venture Design Laboratory for Creating Sustainable Ventures in Economically Challenged Communities. His research interests include learning, engineering, and entrepreneuring processes in design teams; interaction of representations, questions, and emotions during new product development; and design process performance metrics. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Christine Peterson
Christine Peterson is cofounder and President of Foresight Institute, a nonprofit that educates the public, the technical community, and policymakers on nanotechnology and its long-term effects. She also works with Freedom Technology Ventures LLC, and serves on the Advisory Board of Alameda Capital. She coauthored Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution (Morrow 1991) and Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work (knOwhere Press 1997), and is credited with coining the term “open source software.”
Henry Poole
Henry Poole is an Internet Strategist with three decades experience in information technology and over ten years with online communities and commerce. Henry was the first technologist to setup a blog for a member of the US House of Representatives. He co-founded CivicActions LLC in the summer of 2004 to provide network-centric Free and Open Source technology solutions for organizations focused on transforming the world. He is currently participating in engagements with Amnesty International, WITNESS, RARE Conservation, and NDN, and he was a guest lecturer at the Stanford School of Journalism on New Media Entrepreneurship. Henry is a member of the Board of the Free Software Foundation and Virtual Artists and is the publisher of the Affero General Public License, the first copyleft license for web services.
Gail Taylor
Gail Taylor is the founder and chair of Tomorrow Makers, a nonprofit that assists groups with processes and tools for thinking, working, and bringing common goals to life in ways that elicit and enact the imagination and creative abilities of the community and its members. She has four decades of experience in group facilitation, instructional design and experiential learning. Gail has taught in public and private schools. She brought her philosophy in education to business and government when she and her husband, Matt Taylor, co-founded MG Taylor Corporation and knOwhere Inc. Together, they blended their talents and created a system of collaborative environments, work processes and tools to catalyze breakthrough and innovation in high-performance teams.
