Dr. Oren Etzioni
Dr. Etzioni is the founder of Farecast, a company that utilizes data mining techniques to anticipate airfare fluctuations. He was the Chief Technology Officer and a board member of Go2net (acquired by Infospace in 2000), and a co-founder of Netbot. (acquired by Excite in 1997). At Netbot, Etzioni helped to conceive and design the web's first major comparison-shopping agent. In 1995, Etzioni and his student Erik Selberg developed MetaCrawler, the web's premier Meta-search engine for several years – now being run by Infospace. He is a co-founder of Clearforest, a text-mining startup (acquired by Reuters in 2007), and has served on the board of Performant (acquired by Mercury Interactive in 2003). Finally, Etzioni has served as a consultant or advisor to Google, Microsoft, Northern Telecom, SAIC, Infospace, Excite, Askjeeves, Zillow, Vivisimo, and others.

John Harbison
John is CEO of TechSpin LLC, a firm which specializes in helping emerging commercial start-ups secure new business. Prior to TechSpin, he served as CEO of SilentRunner (a network security software company) where he led a successful turnaround and sale of the company. Before that, he was president of Raytheon Commercial Ventures Inc., where he created a successful venture group which completed five spinouts in 2 years, including two which achieved liquidity events. Earlier in his career, he did strategy consulting for 20 years as a partner at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he led the firm’s Aerospace/Defense Practice and Strategic Alliance Practice each to global prominence. He is co-author of Smart Alliances, the leading book on alliances and M&A for five years. He is also Vice President of the Orange County Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels, the leading angel investment group in the U.S. He earned an MBA (1st Year Honors) from Harvard Business School, and an AB (cum laude) from Harvard College.

Dr. Steven Minton
Dr. Minton is an internationally recognized leader in Artificial Intelligence. After receiving his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon he began his career as a Principal Investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center. Steve later joined the faculty at the University of Southern California, where, together with Craig Knoblock and Yigal Arens, he led the research efforts that were eventually spun off to create Fetch Technologies. In addition to his work as a project leader and faculty member at USC, Steve founded the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), one of the leading Computer Science journals, and served as its first Executive Editor. He has received numerous awards for his work in artificial intelligence, and was elected to be a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1998.