Donna Benjamin, of Melbourne Australia, runs Creative Contingencies that specialises in customised web application services, research and facilitating meetings and events.A passionate advocate of Free and Open Source Software solutions for small business and education, Donna contributes to the FOSS community by organising great events. Recent projects include running the internationally recognised linux.conf.au conference in Melbourne, Australia. As the first woman to take on the role of 'lead organiser' or 'Grand Pajamaran' of LCA she oversaw a geekfest involving 700 bodies and lived to tell the tale.  

Alex Inman has been noted as an innovator in the field of educational technology by several publications.  In 1999, he started one of the earliest 1:1 laptop programs at University Lake School in Hartland, Wisconsin.  In 2005, he directed the launch a 1:1 program at Whitfield School in St. Louis, Missouri using SUSE Linux on the laptops.  Alex currently serves as the Director of Technology at Whitfield School.  During his time there, Whitfield has been named a Computerworld Honor's Program Laureate and one of IBM's “Top Innovators.”  Alex has presented keynotes and breakouts at international, national and regional conferences.  In 2006, he organized a global network of teachers and school technology administrators to create Educational Collaborators, a consulting firm comprised of many of the best practitioners in the field.

Chris Lehmann – clehmann [at] scienceleadership [dot] org – Chris is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy, a progressive science and technology high school in Philadelphia, PA. Chris has returned to his native Philadelphia after nine years as an English Teacher, Technology Coordinator, Girls Basketball Coach and Ultimate Frisbee coach at the Beacon School in New York City, one of the leading urban public schools for technology integration.

In 2006, the National School Board Association named Chris one of "20 to Watch" among American administrators. In 2001, Chris was honored by MOUSE as a Champion of Technology and Education for his work on building the portal at the Beacon School. Chris has spoken at educational conferences all over the world, including the Building Learning Communities conference, the National Educational Computing Conference, the Philadedelphia Area Educational Technology Conference, The Council of Educational Facilities Planners Regional Conference, the K12-Online Conference, the International Conference on Technology and Education and at LinuxWorld, and he has worked with many schools and districts in the U.S. and England as a consultant.

 David is an award-winning futurist, author and consultant whose clients range across the public and private sector, both in the United States and in Brazil. His razor-sharp focus on the fast-paced world of modern computing and communication media, project-based learning, 21st century skills, and open source software has placed him in constant demand as a keynote speaker and workshop leader for schools, foundations, and governments. As the founder and Director of Global Operations for the Thornburg Center he conducts research and provides staff development in the several area. He helps clients to think intelligently about the future and is active in exploring ways that telecommunications and multimedia will change the face of learning, both at home and in the classroom. He is also deeply engaged in ways to address the severe shortage of students interested in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) – a shortage that places our country at great risk of losing its competitive edge.  

 Dr. Bradley C. Wheeler is highly regarded within the state of Indiana, nationally, and internationally for fostering new models of collaboration that have changed the economics of information technology (IT) in higher education. Dr. Wheeler led the Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure Research Taskforce in 2005 with its resulting plan to support the university's goals for doubling funded research and scholarship, especially in the life sciences, an area critical to economic development in the state. Dr. Wheeler led Indiana University's collaboration with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, Purdue University, and IBM that resulted in doubling the capacity of the Big Red supercomputer. He serves on the board of directors for the Indiana University Research Technology Corporation.  Dr. Wheeler has been a pioneer in leveraged models for university collaboration. He serves in leadership roles for over $25M of shared university investments in open source software and was a co-founder of the Sakai Project and co-principal investigator on its $2.7M in grants and the $500K Open Source Portfolio project. He was a co-founder of the original Kuali Project, and now chairs the Kuali Foundation, Inc. board of directors. He has been a co-principal investigator on $4M of Kuali grants and three of the foundation