Walter Baets is a professor of Complexity and Knowledge Management and Director Graduate Programs at Euromed Marseille – Ecole de Management where he is the academic coordinator of EcKM, the Euromed center for Knowledge Management. Previously he was the Philips Chair in Knowledge Management and Virtual Learning at Nyenrode University, The Netherlands Business School where he was the director of Notion, the Nyenrode Institute for Knowledge Management and Virtual Education. Previously he was Dean of Research at the Euro-Arab Management School in Granada, Spain. He pursued a career in strategic planning, decision support and IS consultancy for more than ten years, before joining the academic world. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Aix-Marseille (IAE), GRASCE (Complexity Research Centre) Aix-en-Provence, ESC Rouen, KU Leuven, RU Gent, Moscow, St Petersburg, Tyumen and Purdue University. His research interests include: innovation and knowledge; complexity, chaos and change; the impact of (new information) technologies on organisations; learning, and complex adaptive systems; the a-causal structure of business; and on-line learning and work-place learning. He is also the author of numerous books on knowledge management, organizational transformation, virtual learning and more. His blog: Complexity, Innovation and Knowledge.

Rod Boothby lives in San Francisco with his wife, Cindy, their dog Johnny and an angry cat called Bo. His background: economics and financial derivatives. His current job: a manager with Ernst & Young's Financial Services Advisory practice. Says Rod: "For much of my career, I have been an 'ideas guy'. I’ve usually worked for large companies. Sometimes, I had success pushing my innovative ideas. Often, I have run into significant resistance, despite having a strong business case. In my current job as a Management Consultant, I have had an opportunity to talk with many senior executives and a few CEOs. I found they shared my frustration. These executives all want the innovation creators in their organizations to succeed. They know that their people are capable of generating the equivalent of the next iPod. Their struggle has been how to create a culture of constant successful innovation. InnovationCreators aims to address that question." His blog: Innovation Creators.

Don Dodge has been in the software business for more than 20 years. He started his software career with Digital Equipment, aka DEC, in the database group and worked with 5 software start-ups over the next 12 years. Forte Software was the first multiplatform object oriented development environment. AltaVista was the first search engine on the web. Napster was the first P2P file sharing network. Bowstreet was the first web services development environment. Groove Networks was the first secure P2P collaboration platform. He's now at Microsoft where he works with VC's and start-ups in the greater Boston area. The goal: to help VC's and start-ups be successful with Microsoft, and together, provide great products for his customers. His blog: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing.

Brent Edwards has used his research background in Engineering and Psychology to develop novel ways of applying technology to auditory perception. He was the Director of Research at GN ReSound where he headed the development of several innovative technologies for the hearing impaired, including advanced processing for the first programmable DSP hearing aid. He helped start Sound ID where as Vice President of Research he developed new technology that integrated consumer electronics into hearing-impaired devices. He currently heads a research center in Berkeley, CA that he created for Starkey Labs and that is an innovation within its industry: a center that integrates startup entrepreneurialism and academic research into a large corporation. In all positions he has developed corporate strategies for patent development and led university relationships, and he has contributed to competitive positioning in sales and marketing when corporate silos haven't been a roadblock.His blog: Innovation Science.

Greg Eisenbach is a New Product Development Manager for a small, growing, packaged goods firm. Originally from Rochester, NY, Greg now lives in Lancaster, PA. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University, and a Master of Science in Product Development from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was also recently anointed the Marquee of Tefalonia. His blog: Grassroots Innovation.

Chuck Frey is the founder of Innovation Tools, a leading information portal for business innovation, creativity and brainstorming. He is the author of the popular Innovation Weblog, and recently authored an e-book on mind mapping software. His goal is to help executives and entrepreneurs to connect with key tools, strategies and resources to help them become more innovative. Chuck is a keen observer of business trends and technology, and has 20+ years of experience in PR, marketing, business strategy and information services.

Paul Gladen is the founder and president of Muzeview, a New York based provider of innovation research and advice for professional services firms. Paul writes the Chief Innovation Officer blog. Prior to founding Muzeview, he spent 14 years with Arthur Andersen where he was a founding member, and the Partner responsible for operations, in Andersen's Center for Research & Innovation. He also played a key role in the development of Andersen's Global Technology, Media and Communications Industry Practice. Paul has a Masters degree in Mathematics from Oxford University, an MBA from Manchester Business School, and is a UK Chartered Accountant - but still manages to think innovatively.

Gordon Graham is in Taiwan, Republic of China, completing post-graduate research into Taiwanese firms’ innovation strategies. Gordon has spent the last 16 years working in the education and training industries in Taiwan, Australia and Saudi Arabia, where he designed, marketed and delivered courses for various companies and education providers. He is very interested in low-cost Internet technologies and small business development, business education, innovation management and entrepreneurship. Gordon is originally from Scotland and operates Broken Bulbs, a Blog on innovation and innovation management in Asia and beyond.His blog: Broken Bulbs: Innovation.

Steve Hardy is the founder of Creative Generalist, a popular weblog for curious divergent thinkers. He is formerly the Business Director of 2004's Magazine of the Year Maisonneuve (eclectic curiosity) and is currently a Creative Producer of wireless media at Airborne Entertainment. His blog: Creative Generalist.

Egils Milbergs is president of the Center for Accelerating Innovation LLC. He held previous positions as president of the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing, was Deputy Assistant Secretary for productivity, technology and innovation at the US Commerce Department, and executive director of President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness. His blog: Accelerating Innovation.

Michael Osofsky is passionate about innovation and its origins and went to MIT to study the topic under such greats as Eric von Hippel. There he helped found the MIT Innovation Club and continues to focus on the study of ideas, creativity and innovation in both his work and blog - Michael Osofsky on Innovation.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is a research director and blogger-in-chief at the Institute for the Future, a Silicon Valley think-tank. He holds a Ph.D. in history of science from the University of Pennsylvania. In his previous life as an academic, Alex taught at U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Davis, and wrote on Victorian solar eclipse expeditions, scientific visualization, and contemporary American technology and culture. In his current work, he's charting the future of science, the social consequences of pervasive computing, and exploring tools for long-term thinking. His blog: The End of Cyberspace.

Jeffrey Phillips has worked in marketing, product development, business process design and enterprise systems in Fortune 100 firms and in small startups. His interest in innovation and idea management springs from working with entrepreneurs: "It’s pretty easy to see that ideas and creativity simply aren’t enough – it’s putting an idea into action as a new product or service that adds real value." Jeffrey says he's interested in innovation as a process, managing ideas from first concept to new product or service. "Dean Hering and I created OVO to define a business process that supports innovation called Concept to Cash. Additionally, we build custom and packaged software applications to support technology commercialization, idea management and workgroup productivity." Jeffrey writes several blogs and speaks and writes about innovation and workgroup productivity. His blog: Thinking Faster

Boris Pluskowski is a Director at Imaginatik Research, a branch of Imaginatik, the Ideas Management software company founded in the UK in 1994. Imaginatik Research produces regular reports and papers on Idea Management, Knowledge Management, and Innovation Management as well as produces the Corporate Innovation Newsletter - a monthly newsletter that is read by over 3000 innovation managers and experts around the world - of which Boris is the Chief Editor. Boris is a recognised expert in Knowledge and Innovation Management, with over 9 years of experience working with and within companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Seagram, The Inter-American Development Bank, Cadbury Adams, CapitalOne, NCR and IBM. In addition to various speaking engagements and press interviews throughout the year, Boris is the author of numerous reports on KM, Idea Management, and Innovation Management with a particular focus on the human elements of working within such systems. His blog: Corporate Innovation Blog.

Joyce Wycoff is a co-founder of the Innovation Network, an organization focused on helping organizations develop a core competency of innovation. Wycoff has a broad background in management and marketing and a deep understanding organizational innovation. She is the author of several books on innovation and creativity, including Mindmapping, Transformation Thinking, and To Do … Doing … Done! She has worked with organizations from top Fortune 500 companies to small entrepreneurial ventures and non-profit organizations. Wycoff holds a bachelors in economics from Oklahoma State University, an MBA with a finance emphasis from National University and, in a prior existence, was a Certified Management Accountant. Her blog: Heads Up on Organizational Innovation.