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.
André Skupin is an associate professor of Geography at San Diego State University. He received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Cartography at the Technical University Dresden, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has worked in the geographic information systems (GIS) industry in Germany, the United States, and South Africa.
Shoji Sadao, Executive Director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc. from 1991-2003, architect Shoji Sadao collaborated with both R. Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi on many important projects. Sadao met Fuller while studying architecture at Cornell University, and it was Fuller who introduced him to Noguchi. Shoji Sadao began working with Fuller in 1954, and in 1965 formed Fuller and Sadao, P.C., whose first project was the large geodesic dome for the U.S. Pavilion at EXPO 67 in Montreal.
Carolyn Shadle has spent her life equipping adults with the skills and tools to build effective organizations, a sustainable environment and healthy relationships. She has written numerous publications, hosted a TV interview show and offered training in communication, planning, and change for corporate, public and non-profit audiences, as well as for parents and grandparents.
