Tim Rowe is the Founder and CEO of the Cambridge Innovation Center. CIC houses over 450 startup technology companies, and is perhaps the densest collection of startups anywhere in the world. He is also the founder of the Venture Cafe Foundation dedicated to promoting connections among entrepreneurs through a weekly networking gathering; and chairman of Lab|Central, a shared wet laboratory space. Rowe's past work includes the Boston Consulting Group in Boston, Madrid, Tokyo, and Singapore.

Lee McKnight is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University; a Research Affiliate of the Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence at MIT; and President of Marengo Research, a consultancy. His writing, research interests, and consulting span policy, economic, business and technical aspects of the emerging global information economy.

Paul Levy was CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center from 2002 to 2011. Previously, he was Professor of Urban Studies at MIT, where he was actively involved in the restructuring of the electric power and telecommunications industries. He is currently Senior Adviser at Lax Sebenius LLC, a negotiation consultancy firm.

Johannes Fruehauf is Executive Director of LabCentral, a new shared lab facility in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a serial biotech entrepreneur, a co-founder of ViThera Pharmaceuticals, Deltix, and Cequent Pharmaceuticals, and an advisor or Board member to numerous life sciences companies and non-profits.

Richard J. Cohen is the Whitaker Professor in Biomedical Engineering at MIT. His research focuses on the application of physics and engineering to solve problems in biology and medicine, particularly in developing cardiovascular diagnostic and therapeutic technologies.

Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland directs the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. Together Sandy and his students have pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Social Physics, published by Penguin Press, and Honest Signals, published by MIT Press.

Bhaskar Pant is the Executive Director of MIT Professional Education. Prior to joining MIT, Mr. Pant held senior leadership positions in academic and corporate organizations around the globe.

Markus J. Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT. Professor Buehler pursues new modeling, design and manufacturing approaches for advanced bio-inspired materials that offer greater resilience and a wide range of controllable properties from the nano- to the macroscale. He received many distinguished awards, including the Feynman Prize, the Drucker Medal, the J.R. Rice Medal, the Leonardo da Vinci Award, the Washington Award, and many others. Buehler is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. 

Bruce Cameron is the Director of the System Architecture Lab at MIT and a co-founder of Technology Strategy Partners, a consultancy. His research interests include technology strategy, system architecture, and the management of product platforms.

Timothy Simpson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include product family design and platform-based product development, multidisciplinary design optimization, trade space exploration, and additive manufacturing.