Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach

Rebecca Moore is a computer scientist and longtime software professional. At Google, she conceived and now manages the Google Earth Outreach program, which supports nonprofits, communities and indigenous peoples around the world in applying Google's mapping tools to the world's pressing problems in areas such as environmental conservation, human rights, cultural preservation and creating a sustainable society. Her personal work using Google Earth was recently instrumental in stopping a plan to log more than a thousand acres of redwoods in her Santa Cruz Mountain community. Rebecca earned her undergraduate degree from Brown University in Artificial Intelligence, Masters from Stanford in Cognitive Psychology and spent several years in the Stanford PhD program in Computer Science before taking leave to join a Silicon Valley startup. See: http://earth.google.com/outreach

Patrick Crehan                    of CKA

Patrick Crehan is the founder of CKA - a Brussels based consulting company focused on the management of research and innovation. Before this he worked in industrial policy for the European Commission. His job was to link policies for industry, the single market and external affairs with that of international R+D collaboration in ICT. Among other things he was involved in the early development of the World Wide Web consortium. He is a leading expert on Foresight and on the design of processes for strategy, policy and governance. He advises both the public and private sectors on issues relating to the organization and execution of policies for research and innovation