Marilu Goodyear is the Chair of the Department of Public Administration at the University of Kansas. Formally, she held the position of Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer at the University in which she lead all campus-wide software, hardware and networking technology services, printing services and the KU libraries. Her research areas include organizational change, and mentoring.

Ben Hammersley is a British journalist and deputy editor of Conde Nast's Wired UK magazine. He is also a freelance reporter for the BBC. He previously worked as the first Internet reporter for The Times, where he was shortlisted for one of the British Press Awards, and as a reporter for The Guardian and the UK arm of MSN.