Arthur Attwell is a publisher and entrepreneur with a passion for technology, and experience producing commercial and open-licensed content as part of a sustainable business. Arthur is building a web-based rights marketplace called Paperight, a website that turns anyone with any printer and an Internet connection into a print-on-demand bookstore.

Catharina is an intellectual property lawyer specializing in international copyright law and policy, the interaction between law and technologies, and the question of standardization in the open licensing ecosystem.

After two decades of progress in web infrastructure and technologies, Dan believes the time is finally at hand to realize the widespread annotation of human knowledge. He is the founder of Hypothes.is, a non-profit focused on enabling this vision through the development and deployment of open software and services.

Daniel Lombraña González is a computer engineer with a PhD that loves open source software and new technologies. He's worked with the Citizen Cyberscience Centre as a researcher and a developer and also collaborated with the Open Knowledge Foundation.

David wants to push the field over the tipping point and create a world where open educational resources (OER) are used pervasively throughout secondary schools, community colleges, and universities. In his vision of the world, OER supplant traditional textbooks for all high school, associates degree, and undergraduate general education courses.

Esra'a Al Shafei is the founder of CrowdVoice.org , an open source platform that tracks voices of protest from around the world by curating and crowdsourcing valuable data. She is a recipient of the Berkman Award from Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society for "outstanding contributions to the internet and its impact on society".

Originally a publisher, Gavin has developed the Live magazine over the course of the last decade, overseeing the transformation of a grassroots magazine into a powerful youth engagement and communications channel for thousands of disadvantaged young people in London, UK. He now wishes to replicate the model in the townships of South Africa.

Jaisen Mathai is not actually a photographer of any kind. He simply has a lot of photos which are extremely valuable to him. He believes that others do too. Our photos collectively tell others about our life, society and generation. He's working on Trovebox to make sure everything we've captured is preserved.

Jonas Öberg is crafting technology that makes digital life easier by leaving some of the hard work to computers. His current work focuses on making the context of a digital work -- such as the license or creator of a work -- an integral part of the work itself. This will reduce the barriers for re-use and challenge the way we think of the value of digital works.

Kathi is focusing on how to foster an ecosystem of innovative tools and services around an education highway (metaphorically) made of open education resources (OER).

Marcin Jakubowski is passionate about creating the open source economy. He is currently working on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), a modular, open source platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 industrial machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts.

Moxie Marlinspike is a researcher and software developer working in the security and privacy space. His security research has focused primarily on SSL, one of the internet's fundamental secure protocols, of which he has published numerous attacks and proposed solutions over a 10 year period. He was the co-founder and CTO of Whisper Systems, a mobile security company, which was acquired by Twitter, where he ran the product security team.

Andrew Rens was Intellectual Property Fellow for the Shuttleworth Foundation from 2007 to 2010. To continue working on the legal aspects of everything open after his fellowship he founded opencounsel a specialist legal consultancy, he blogs at ex africa semper aliquid novi. Andrew is currently based at Duke University where he is teaching on access to medicine and is completing a doctoral dissertation on the use of public licences for open educational resources.

Francois Grey is focusing on Open Science, specifically Citizen Cyberscience, a collective term for a diverse, grass-roots movement that is enabling ordinary citizens to participate in real scientific research thanks to the Web.

Kabir Sanjay Bavikatte is an environmental lawyer supporting communities to secure their rights to their territories and cultures.

Mark Horner works in the area of Open and Collaborative Resources and believes in the liberation of information and supporting education in South Africa.

Mark Surman was Open Philanthropy Fellow, providing support and thought leadership on how community, networks and all things ‘open’ can increase the impact of the social innovations

Paul Gardner-Stephen is making the open-source Serval Project the premier mesh telephony platform, empowering individuals and communities to meet their own telecommunications needs and to maintain telecommunications capacity when infrastructure is unavailable or unaffordable.

Philipp Schmidt focuses on the future of higher education. He is co-founder of Peer 2 Peer University, using open educational resources to create communities for self learners.

Rufus Pollock is working to promote Open Knowledge around the world, including any kind of content or data from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata, which is freely usable, sharable and reusable.

Steve Song works in the area of telecommunications. He provides thought leadership on access to communications infrastructure and its impact on innovation and growth.

Steve Vosloo is 21st Century Learning Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. He believes mobile phones, games and digital media are the future of Africa's education.