Bill Buxton is Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research and the author of Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Previously, he was a researcher at Xerox PARC, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Chief Scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc.
Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and Director of the Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He writes a blog and a newsletter on innovation and execution.
John Hagel and John Seely Brown are co-chairman and independent co-chairman, respectively, of Deloitte LLP's Center for Edge Innovation. John Hagel writes a blog at Edge Perspectives. Their monthly column, Innovation on the Edge, explores what executives can learn from innovation emerging on various forms of edges, including the edges of institutions, markets, geographies and generations. Sign up here for an RSS feed.
Krisztina Holly is vice-provost for innovation and executive director of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation at the University of Southern California. Holly is a serial entrepreneur with a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to USC, she was founding executive director of MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation.
Saul Kaplan is the founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory. BIF is a non-profit real world laboratory exploring systems level innovation. He also founded Innomodels to help organizations realize the value of business model innovation. Previously he was the Executive Counselor to the Governor of Rhode Island on Economic Growth and Community Development. Saul also blogs at It's Saul Connected.
Lara Lee is a directing associate of Jump Associates and former VP of Enthusiast Services at Harley-Davidson.
G. Michael Maddock is founding partner, and Raphael Louis Viton is president, of Maddock Douglas, a company that invents, brands and markets products for "companies driven by innovation".
Roger Martin has served as dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto since 1998. He was previously a director and co-head of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass. He is director of Thomson Corporation and Research in Motion and has just published his second book, The Opposable Mind (Harvard Business School Press).
Jeneanne Rae is the co-founder and president of Peer Insight, a consulting firm focused on services innovation and customer-experience design for S&P; 500 firms. She has worked in the field of innovation and design for over seventeen years, consulting and educating dozens of leading companies in a multitude of industries. In 2005, BusinessWeek named Rae one of its "Leaders of the Year."
Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World, is the founder and chairman of nGenera Insight. Other books he has authored or co-authored include Wikinomics, Paradigm Shift, The Digital Economy, and Growing Up Digital.
Sohrab Vossoughi is Founder and President of ZIBA Design, the company he started in 1984. The recipient of more than 30 patents and over 200 design awards, Vossoughi was named BusinessWeek's Entrepreneur of the Year in 1992. He continues to direct projects for clients including Nike, Microsoft, Xerox and Hewlett-Packard.