Mr Pete Denman is a senior designer in Intel Labs specializing in User Interface design and User eXperience. Using his fine art background Pete connects technology to human need through interaction and design. Labs is the R&D area of Intel and has given Pete the opportunity to work on future generation of products and design for the cutting edge of technology. In recent years Pete redesigned the interface used by Stephen Hawking, helping the Professor to speak and interact with his system more easily.

Ms Paula Sotnik is Project Director for the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Chair of the International Committee, Institute for Community Inclusion and School for Global Inclusion and Social  Development and Principal Investigator and Director, National Service Inclusion Project and Community  Capacity Building. Ms Sotnik is a recognized expert consultant, trainer and author on diversity and inclusion, access, accommodations, Universal Design; nonprofits and disability legislation.

Mr Osama Manzar is a convert social entrepreneur spearheading the mission to overcome the information barrier between India’s rural sector and the so-called developed society, through Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) –– the not-for-profit organization founded to accomplish the mission.

Mr Nitendra Rajput is a senior researcher and research manager at IBM India Research Lab. He defines and leads the MobileFirst agenda for IBM Research in India and also drives the global IBM research strategy for MobileFirst by collaborating with research labs across Latin America, Asia and Europe. Mr Rqjput is broadly interested in mobile interactions, HCI, statistical signal processing, recommender systems and multimodal search. He authored a book with Amit Anil Nanavati titled “Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments”.

Prof Narend Baijnath is Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa, with a diverse range of management and governance responsibilities. He has extensive experience in open distance and e-learning, organizational architecture, business intelligence, and strategic planning. Prof Baijnath is responsible for ICTs, organisational architecture, procurement, OERs, ODeL, academic planning, community engagement.

Mr Mohammed Khalifa is the CEO of Khalifa Computer Group since 2011 and was working professionally in ICT since 1992. He gained the RAMP (Riti Advanced Management Program) in 2010. Mohammed has got his company awarded for innovative solutions and products several times. The first award was by (Suzan Mubarak) the president wife’s of Egypt for best kids’ educational software in 2000. The last awarded price was for a software/Cloud solution for persons with hearing disability by MCIT in Egypt.