Max Burnet graduated from Melbourne University with a BSc (hons) in electronics in 1962. He joined Digital Equipment Corp Aust in 1967, and spent 31 years with them, to become the longest serving employee in Australia. During that time he sold hundreds of early mini-computers. He was Managing Director of Digital in Australia for 7 years until 1982. For twenty years he partnered with DECUS, which had up to 5000 loyal members in Australia. In 1998 he took early retirement a few days before the Compaq takeover, not wishing to be 'compaqted'. During his time at Digital, he collected a museum of all the early DEC computers and was known around the company as 'Museum Max'. In 1998 he established a company called BACK Pty Ltd, ( Burnet Antique Computer Knowhow ) and uses his museum collection to provide for porting of old media and all manner of technical, historical and display activities. He was a founding member of the Australian Computer Museum Society.

Dr. Andrew Chiou is a senior academic and researcher at CQUniversity Australia. He has carried out advanced research in the area of computational intelligence techniques with applications in intelligent decision support systems, robotics as a competitive and gaming platform, and digital editions of strategic and tactical board games. Dr. Chiou actively promotes the use of educational robotics as a delivery medium to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics, science and technology based subjects. He has organised international workshops relating to computational intelligence. Dr. Chiou is the Co-founding Chair of the CQ Junior Robotics Competition held annually in Queensland since 2002.'

"Following a maths degree and commercial programming experience I joined CSIRO in 1974. I supported the Parkes Radio Telescope control software and developed the networked multi-computer control system for the Australia Telescope Bicentennial project. In 1991 I joined the CSIRO Wireless Networking project which culminated in the IEEE 802.11 'WiFi' standard of 1999. This work has been recognised by CSIRO Chairman's Medals in 2009 and ATSE's Clunies Ross Awards in 2010 to me and the other four patent holders. I retired in 2003 and have been President of the Australian Computer Museum Society since 2007. Publications include 7 books, 13 papers and 2 patents. "

Rolf Ernst is a professor at TU Braunschweig, Germany. He chairs an institute covering embedded systems research from computer architecture and real-time systems theory to challenging automotive, aerospace, or smart building applications. His Spin-off, Symtavision, provides system level analysis and optimization solutions to companies worldwide. He chaired major events, such as ICCAD or DATE. He is a member of the European ARTEMIS strategic research agenda team and served as an expert for the respective German embedded systems roadmap. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, acatech.

Brian Fitzgerald studied law at the Queensland University of Technology graduating as University Medallist in Law and holds postgraduate degrees in law from Oxford University and Harvard University. He is well known in the areas of Intellectual Property and Internet Law. From 1998-2002 he was Head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia and from January 2002 Ð January 2007 was Head of the School of Law at QUT in Brisbane, Australia. Brian is currently a specialist Research Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation at QUT and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. In 2009 Brian was also appointed to the Australia GovernmentÕs ÒGovernment 2.0 TaskforceÓ and to the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP).

Dr. Fox co-founded and is Chairman/CEO of Novator Systems Ltd., a provider of eRetail services and software since 1994. Novator's client list includes: Florists Transworld Delivery, Time Warner, American Express, Lucasfilms, and Shoppers Drug Mart. Dr. Fox co-founded Carnegie Group Inc. in 1984, a software company that specialized in intelligent systems for solving engineering, manufacturing, and telecommunications problems, and was its Vice-President of Engineering and President/CEO. Dr. Fox is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and past holder of the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Enterprise Integration at the University of Toronto where his research focuses on Enterprise Integration and Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Fox is known for his work in Constraint-Directed Scheduling which underlies current logisitics, supply chain management and scheduling solutions, and for his work in Ontologies for Enterprise Modelling. Dr. Fox received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1983, where he was an Associate Professor (tenured) of Computer Science and Robotics until his return to Toronto in 1991. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Lorenz Hilty is Head of the Technology and Society Lab at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, and Professor of Informatics and Sustainability at the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich. He published fundamental work on Environmental Informatics and related fields. His current research interests include the assessment of ICT with regard to sustainability, applications in the contexts of environment or development, as well as methods and principles that lead to sustainable solutions.

Bart Jacobs (1963) is a professor of software security and correctness at the Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). His work covers both theoretical issues (semantics of programming, category theory, coalgebras) and practical ones, notably in security. In 2008 his research group received worldwide with the breaking of the Mifare Classic chipcard. More recently he got interested in quantum computing.

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Penelope Sanderson is Professor of Cognitive Engineering and Human Factors at The University of Queensland. She is Director of the ARC Key Centre for Human Factors and holds appointments in The University of QueenslandÕs School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, School of Psychology, and School of Medicine. Professor Sanderson has conducted human factors research and consulting activities in the USA, Canada, and Australia, focusing human interaction with complex systems. Her specific interests are human-system integration in power generation, transmission and distribution, air traffic control, air defence, and critical care medicine. She is the Research Leader in Cognitive and Organisational Systems Engineering (COSE) for NICTA in Australia and is also QRL Research Group Manager for NICTA's Making Sense of Data theme. She is the author of over 130 refereed papers (five receiving international paper prizes) and over 80 further papers on human factors. Professor Sanderson is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and in 2004 she received the Distinguished International Colleague Award from the USA-based Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

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Hiroshi Takeda MD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus, Osaka University and has been a heart physician since 1971.

As Professor of Medical Informatics and Chief Medical Information Officer (1998-2010) of Osaka University Hospital, his team has developed a totally paperless hospital information system. He was Vice President, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) from 2004 to 2010. He is also a pioneer for patient safety in Japan as Director of healthcare quality management of the University Hospital (2001-2008) and President of Healthcare Quality Management Association of Japanese National University Hospitals (2002-2008).

Prof SH (Basie) von Solms is a Research Professor in the Academy for Information Technology at the University of Johannesburg in Johannesburg, South Africa. Basie specializes in research and consultancy in the area of Information Security and has written more than 100 papers regarding this field - most of which have been published internationally. In addition, he has supervised 16 Ph.D. students and more then 85 Master students. In 2009 his book, 'Information Security Governance', co-authored with his brother, Prof Rossouw von Solms, was published by Springer. Prof von Solms is the President of IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing (www.ifip.org). He is a Fellow of the Computer Society of South Africa, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP).

Hai Zhuge is a professor of the Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing at Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology. He is the chief scientist and the former director of the academy's Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing. He is the chief scientist of the China National Semantic Knowledge Grid Research Project and the founder of the China Knowledge Grid Research Group. His research concerns the Knowledge Grid methodology, Resource Space Model (RSM), Semantic Link Network model (SLN), Knowledge Flow, and Cyber Physical Society. He presented over ten keynotes in international conferences. He initiates the International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG, www.knowledgegrid.net), and was the chair and program co-chair of several international conferences. He is an associate editor of the Knowledge and Information Systems and the IEEE Intelligent Systems. He also serves as the reviewer of several national foundations such as NSF of Australia, NSF of China, SFI of Ireland, and NSF of USA. He is the author of The Knowledge Grid and The Web Resource Space Model. He was the top scholar in relevant area during 2000 to 2004, according to a Journal of Systems and Software assessment report. His publications appeared in CACM, Computer, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TPDS, JASIST and ACM TOIT. His work was cited by IEEE TKDE, JPDC, ACM TAAS, WWW, ICSE and ISWC. He received 2007's Innovation Award of China Computer Federation for his fundamental theory of the Knowledge Grid. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.