Toby Daniels: Toby is an entrepreneur with 10 years experience of running businesses in digital media. He’s the founder of Social Media Week, an annual conference and cofounder of BrandExposure, which connects senior brand marketers with social media thought leaders. In July 2009 Toby also helped to launched ThinkSocial, which advances public interest initiatives through social media. Before moving to the US in 2006, Toby was the Managing Director of Online Creative Communications, a London based digital agency which he managed for 7 years. (Twitter: tobyd)

Shaun Abrahamson / Colaboratorie Mutopo: Shaun identifies new business opportunities and gives them life, sometimes successfully, other times not-so-much. He draws on his early experience at MIT where he researched the process of new product development at the MIT CADLAb. In addition to his role as questioner, instigator and distractor, at Colaboratorie Mutopo, Shaun is also an early stage investor and advisor. He has an MBA from the Berlin School, a Masters of Science from MIT and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Cape Town. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa and has been accused of living the future, but he lives in New York with his wife Andrea and sons Max and Oli. On Twitter: @shaunabe.

Marcel Botha /Colaboratorie Mutopo: Marcel is an energetic product developer with an international education in design, engineering and media arts. Prior to joining Mutopo, Marcel was COO and Director of Design at SNIF Labs, a MIT Media Lab inspired startup developing Active RFID products for commercial and healthcare applications, where he managed the tangible product development process, manufacturing and overall product launch. Prior to SNIF, his MIT research focused on mass customization and digital fabrication, conducted in association with the Digital Design Fabrication Group and the Center for Bits and Atoms. At the MIT Media Lab he collaborated with the Smart Cities Group and the Design Laboratory on Innovation consulting projects for GM, Mercedes and the RATP. (Twitter: marcelbotha)

Graham Hill: A serial Designpreneur, Graham has built, run and sold a number of companies including web shop SiteWerks, product company WeAreHappyToServeYou.com and TreeHugger.com which is now part of Discovery. He studied Architecture and Product Design and schemes daily about how he can help humanity avoid rapid extinction. Follow him at twitter.com/ghill.

Courtney Nichols: Courtney is an entrepreneur and consultant specializing in developing and growing high-technology companies. Currently incubating an unannounced media company, Ms. Nichols has served as interim CEO for Wemix Inc, founding COO of Verified Identity Pass and President of Mail.com (now EasyLink Services -NSDQ: ESIC). Courtney is currently a board member and advisor for Dadlabs Inc., PopRule (Acting President), SmartyPants Inc (co-founder) and Catchr Technologies. Nichols volunteers her time bringing attention to the global water crisis and is advisor to Charity:Water and Blue Planet Run Foundation.

Rob Kramer: Rob has spent the past 20 years as an entrepreneur and executive in the media, technology, environmental, and non-profit sectors. Rob is the co-founder of PopRule, a distributed democracy platform and application for taking and distributing rapid political action.

Brynn Evans: Brynn has a deep interest and passion for the social use and application of technology. She has researched how people think, act, and behave for 10 years, from psychological and anthropological perspectives. Most recently, her work has focused on the role of social interactions during search (so-called “social search”), and how to design online systems that support collaborative question-answering. In her current work, she brings user-centered design principles and tactics to the burgeoning world of social technologies. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog)

Saneel Radia: An atypical hybrid talent, Saneel Radia oversees Denuo’s modern creative practice, Alchemy – a unit that places media sensibility at the core of the creative process. He’s been recognized as an Internationalist “Agency Innovator” (2009), an Advertising Age “Twentysomething” (2005) and a MediaWeek“Media All-Star” in the Non-Traditional category (2006). Most recently, he graduated with honors from the executive MBA program at the renowned Berlin School for Creative Leadership. You can find him on @saneel and blog)

Benjamin Linder: A professor at Olin College and a maker hooked on entrepreneurship, Ben develops techniques and approaches that further a more ecologically connected and socially informed design practice. He regularly advises and delivers workshops on sustainable and human-centered design. Lately, he has been co-organizing the International Development Design Summit that brings people together from over 20 countries to build local, creative design and entrepreneurial capacity.

Ryan Jacoby: Leads IDEO’s Business Design discipline. He is based in New York, where he designs new experiences for users and growth businesses for his clients. Working across industries such as retail, financials services, healthcare, and consumer goods, Ryan helps clients to uncover and architect new ventures, envision new brand platforms, and design new communications, products and services. An expert on innovating for growth and leading innovation, Ryan is a frequent speaker and author. You can follow him via his blog do_matic and on twitter (@jacobyryan). Ryan loves to read. Ryan hates to go running, but he loves to come back from running.

Leland H. Nolan: Mr. Nolan is an attorney, resident of New York City and a partner in Life Community Home Ltd., a company that designs and manufactures pre-fabricated houses for low-income families in several developments around the world including Haiti, The Dominican Republic and Southern Africa. He has lived between Europe and the US for more than thirty years and has extensive worldwide experience in entertainment, technology and finance.