Clayton Christensen is professor at Harvard and a NY Times bestseller. Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, praises his work. So does David Gergen, presidential advisor to e.g Reagan and Clinton.

Steve Mann is the father of wearable computing and one of the founders of MIT's Wearable Computers group in the Media Lab. Currently, he is working on a "Silicon Brain"

Richard Shusterman is professor at Florida Atlantic University. The Chinese designed their pavilion at the Venice Bienalle in 2010 with direct inspiration and reference to his work.

Eric von Hippel is professor at MIT and best known for his seminal work developing the concept of user innovation. He is also the world's foremost authority on lead user innovation.

Tom Erickson is a veteran researcher at IBM's Research Center in New York. Before that, he spent nine years at Apple Research.

Alan Dix is Professor at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of one of the most widely used textbooks on Human-Computer Interaction used across the world.