Brian T. Horowitz is a freelance journalist covering topics such as mobile technology, innovation, and the convergence of technology and health. He has contributed to more than 20 publications, including Computer Shopper, Fast Company, FOXNews.com, More, NYSE Magazine, Parents, USA Weekend, and Womansday.com, as well as other consumer and trade publications. He holds a B.A. from Hofstra University in New York.

Steve Smith, CEO, Roving Eyeball, Inc., is a former media and American Studies academic (Brown Ph.D., 1990) who taught at Brown and University of Virginia through the mid-nineties when he left university life to pursue a consulting and writing career in new media. He has covered all aspects of the digital transition in the page of Mediapost’s OMMA and Media Magazines and as their Mobile Insider columnist, one of the first regular chronicles of mobile marketing. He programs and hosts numerous Mediapost conferences, including OMMA Mobile, OMMA Behavioral, OMMA AdNets and OMMA Publish. He also covers the digital transition of the magazine industry in the pages of Media Industry Newsletter. He has consulted with a number of old and new media companies on their digital strategies.

James Kendrick has been using mobile devices since they weighed 30 pounds and shares his insights daily on mobile technology at jkOnTheRun. James is the Founding Editor of jkOnTheRun, a CNET Top 100 Tech Blog; the blog was acquired by GigaOM in 2008 and is now part of that prestigious tech network. James is also a member of the prestigious Mobius group; an invitation extended to true experts in the world of mobile technology. James’ writing has appeared in many print magazines: Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine, Information Week and Laptop Magazine to name a few. James' coverage of the mobile technology sector regularly appears in the New York Times, Salon.com and CNN/ Fortune online. Not just a writer, James has filmed numerous video reviews and how-to’s that have garnered over a million viewers. He has appeared on local news segments and been interviewed by the Associated Press on mobile technology topics. Additionally, James is a co-host of a popular weekly podcast: MobileTechRoundup.

Michael’s insight was refined during an illustrious career that spanned such ad agency icons as Chiat/Day and Doyle Dane & Bernbach, and further enhanced by a remarkable career in software marketing, publishing and the Internet, where he helped pioneer such emerging categories as desktop publishing, personal communications and online marketing.

Michael was born on the Caribbean island of Aruba, is half-Chinese and speaks Dutch natively ― factors that have contributed to his global vision.

Rob Enderle is identified by firms like the Kensington Group and publications like Technology Marketing as one of the most influential technology analysts in the world. As President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, a forward looking emerging technology advisory firm, he provides regional and global companies with guidance in how to better target customer needs; create new business opportunities; anticipate technology changes; select vendors and products; and practice zero dollar marketing. For over 20 years Rob has worked for and with companies like Microsoft, HP, IBM, Dell, Toshiba, Gateway, and Sony. Currently Rob writes for a wide variety of publications. For eWeek he is one of the Mobile Editors and does a bi-weekly column on mobile technology. For TechNewsWorld he writes a weekly column on technology events, with a focus on emerging technology, trends, and news. For Internet Week he does a monthly column on broad technology market trends and news. And for ComputerUser he does a monthly column on emerging personal technology. Rob also does a weekly radio spot for Wall Street Journal radio on consumer technology.

Purdy is the Vice President and Chief Analyst with the North American Information & Communication Technologies Practice. As a nationally recognized industry authority, he focuses on monitoring and analyzing emerging trends, technologies and market behavior in the mobile computing and wireless data communications industry in North America. Since joining Frost & Sullivan in June 2006, Purdy specializes in mobile and wireless communications, communication services and communications infrastructure.

Patrick Tucker, M.A. is the senior editor of The Futurist, an international consumer magazine about social and technological trends, available on newsstands coast to coast. He's been quoted as an expert on the future in such publications as The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Elle Canada, The Edmonton Journal, Ottawa Citizen, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Halifax Daily News, Victoria Times Colonist, Nanaimo Daily News, Winnipeg Free Press, Windsor Star, Wired.com, and Smart Money.com and has been a guest on such radio networks and programs as WTOP in Washington, the Dave Rutherford Show (770 CHQR Canada) The World Today and the Christy Clark show (980 CKNW Canada), and the Joan Hamburg (710 WOR New York). Patrick also serves as the director of communications for the World Future Society, publisher of The Futurist, a scientific organization based outside of Washington DC.

William E. Halal is Professor of Science, Technology & Innovation at George Washington University, Washington, DC An authority on the knowledge revolution, emerging technology, strategic management, and institutional change.Bill recently substituted for Peter Drucker in giving a talk to 2000 executives at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Halal's work has appeared in journals such as Nature/Biotechnology, The California Management Review, Business in the Contemporary World, Strategy & Business, Knowledge Management Review, The Academy of Management Executive, Human Relations, Systems & Cybernetics, and Technological Forecasting, as well as popular media like The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Advertising Age, Executive Excellence, and The Futurist. Macmillan's Encyclopedia of the Future listed Bill among "The World's 100 Most Influential Futurists," which included H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Alvin Toffler, Daniel Bell, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Alan Hedge is a Professor in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University and a Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University. He directs the Human Factors and Ergonomics teaching and research programs and he also is co-director of the Design Concepts Laboratory in the department. His research and teaching activities have focused on issues of design and workplace ergonomics as these affect the health, comfort and productivity of workers.

Bakhshi is Director of the Wireless & Mobile Network Infrastructure program. He plans and directs IDC's worldwide research efforts pertaining to mobility, including mobile phones, converged devices and mobile applications (both consumer and enterprise related). In addition to Mobility Markets, he directs and oversees IDC's Worldwide Handheld and Mobile Phone Q-Views as well as IDC's Mobility Metrics research. Along with his team, he provides research and consulting services in areas covering mobile industry dynamics, mobile technologies, competitive strategies of industry players, as well as the end-user needs shaping the handheld device market.

Shim is a Research Manager with IDC's Personal Computing program. He provides insight and analysis on the worldwide and US desktop and notebook PC industries by commercial and consumer market segments for his clients. Subscribers to the Personal Computing program vary from PC hardware manufacturers to service providers. Core documents to the program include forecast reports on PC client sub form factors, notebook by screen size and technologies embedded in PCs as well as annual studies of consumer and commercial PC buying behavior based on survey results.

Michael Gartenberg is a noted technology strategist, author and speaker, currently employed at Interpret, LLC as Vice President of Strategy and Analysis. Specializing in coverage of personal technology, Michael is responsible for strengthening and expanding Interpret’s custom and syndicated research products for consumer technology clients. He also works closely with Interpret’s practice leaders in the video games, mobile, theatrical/home entertainment, digital media and advertising sectors to provide clients with incomparable cross-media analysis. Michael is a frequent contributor to many news and media outlets providing broadcast commentary and print analysis and also writes a monthly column on business technology for Computerworld. Prior to joining Interpret LLC, Gartenberg was Vice President and Research Director at Jupiter Research where he led coverage on emerging consumer technology platforms. Leveraging Jupiter Research’s expertise in these areas, he launched Jupiter’s PC & Console Games service, Wi-Fi Mobility service among others as well as Jupiter Research’s analyst weblogs. Before joining Jupiter Research, Gartenberg had the roles of Managing Director at Hudson Ventures, a Manhattan-based venture capital firm and Vice President and Research Area Director of Gartner Inc., leading the Personal and Distributed Technologies research area. At Gartner, his research focused on personal and mobile computing. He was also recognized at Gartner and throughout the technology industry as the leading watcher and analyst covering Microsoft Corp. Michael holds both his B.A. and M.A. from Yeshiva University in New York.

Mike Liebhold is a Senior Researcher with California's Institute for the Future, focusing on the mobile and abundant computation, immersive media and geospatial web foundations for context-aware and ubiquitous computing. Previously, Mike was a Visiting Researcher, Intel Labs, working on a pattern language based on semantic web frameworks for ubiquitous computing. In the 1990s, Mike was a senior consulting architect at Netscape Communications and a founding member of Netscape’s Strategic Investors board. Previously, Mike was Vice President, Chief Technology Officer for Times Mirror Publishing. For ten years prior, he was Senior Scientist for Apple Computer researching and developing media technologies, geospatial information systems, and high-speed communications. Mike served as principal technology policy adviser for Apple Chairman John Sculley and drafted core recommendations on the National Information Infrastructure which were later incorporated directly in the Clinton-Gore Technology Initiative. Mike is a frequent speaker on the topic of the geospatial web and has authored a number of papers, including one recently published in a special edition of the IEEE Journal on Pervasive Computing, “Data Management in the World-Wide Sensor Web.”

Tim is recognized as one of the leading industry consultants, analysts and futurists, covering the field of personal computers and consumer technology. Mr. Bajarin has been with Creative Strategies since 1981 and has served as a consultant to most of the leading hardware and software vendors in the industry including IBM, Apple, Xerox, Compaq, Dell, AT&T, Microsoft, Polaroid, Lotus, Epson, Toshiba and numerous others. His articles and/or analyses have appeared in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek magazine, Businessweek and most of the leading business and trading publications. His various columns and analyses are syndicated in over 30 countries. Mr. Bajarin is known as a concise, futuristic analyst, credited with predicting the desktop publishing revolution three years before it hit the market, and identifying multimedia as a major trend in written reports as early as 1984. He has authored major industry studies on PC, portable computing, pen based computing, desktop publishing and multimedia computing.