Dr. Allan Falconer, is currently the executive director of the Mississippi Space Commerce Program at Stennis Space Center. He has served on numerous campuses where as full professor he directed research programmes in the application of remote sensing and GIS. He has advised on numerous graduate programmes. At Utah State University, Dr. Falconer led the development of state-wide data systems integrated with national and state land management agencies.
Bill Daul is a world-wide consultant and business relationship strategist, and has been instrumental in the formation of a large number of successful business partnerships and collaborations over the years in Silicon Valley and beyond. Bill’s skills are particularly attuned to discerning the highest-leveraged way to combine innovative technologies with people and organizations who can bring these emerging ideas to market.
Claudia Welss of Berkeley, California is founder/executive director of NextNow Collaboratory, a 'collaboration laboratory' matching needs with resources to benefit social projects that use information-visualization tools for raising awareness about the relationship between human activity and Earth changes, and collaboration tools to mobilize collective action in response to the raised awareness. (See NNC Digital Earth ISDE5 for an example).
Joe Sterling is President of Sterling Insights, Inc. a privately held Management Consulting company established in 1997. His company provides strategic planning, change management, and graphic facilitation services. Previously, Joe was a Strategic Planning Consultant at Management Sciences for Health and Graphic Strategic Modeling Consultant at Western Corporate Federal Credit Union.