Patricia Seybold is a consultant and best selling author with 30 years of experience working with customer-centric business visionaries and
technology pioneers.

Paul Gillin is a veteran technology journalist with more than 24 years of editorial leadership. His forthcoming book, The New Influencers, chronicles the changes in markets being driven by the new breed of bloggers and podcasters. Paul was the founding editor-in-chief of TechTarget.

David Beisel: David Beisel is a principal with masthead Venture Partners in Cambridge, MA. Previously, Beisel co-founded Sombasa Media and held senior positions with About.com and Adobe Systems.

Michael Arrington is the editor of TechCrunch, a weblog, dedicated to profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. The blog profiles new and existing companies making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.

Prat Moghe writes the Data Auditing Blog at blog.tizor.com. He is the founder and CTO of Tizor Systems and is an acknowledged thought leader on compliance, security, networking, and systems management topics. He is widely quoted on identity theft and emerging security trends.

Gabe Rivera is the editor of Techmeme.com, a technology news portal that specifically searches for breaking news coverage on blogs. Rivera created a software program to search sites and pull the most important tech news being written by a mix of industry insiders, passionate independents, and established journalists.

Technorati: the recognized authority on what's happening on the “World Live Web,” right now. The site searches, surfaces, and organizes blogs and other forms of independent, user-generated content increasingly referred to as “citizen media.” The blog rapidly indexes tens of thousands of updates every hour and monitors the live communities.