
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a Greek-British bitcoin advocate, tech entrepreneur, and author. He is a host on the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast and a teaching fellow for the M.Sc. Digital Currencies at the University of Nicosia.

Nick Bilton is a British-American journalist and author. He is currently a special correspondent at Vanity Fair.

Christopher Fabian is a technologist who co-founded UNICEF's Innovation Unit with Erica Kochi in 2006. He currently runs UNICEF Ventures - and makes investments into open source technologies that can provide solutions to societal problems, particularly those facing children. Between 2007 and 2015 he held the role of Senior Advisor on Innovation to the Executive Director at UNICEF. Fabian spent a year (2010) as Senior Advisor on Innovation to the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.

Jason Matthew Daniel Pontin is an English journalist and was the editor in chief and publisher of MIT Technology Review, a role he held from 2005 to 2017.

Sheizaf Rafaeli is an Israeli researcher, scholar of computer-mediated communication and newspaper columnist. He is professor and dean at the School of Management Haifa GSB, University of Haifa Israel and additionally director of the Center for Internet Research Center for Internet Research and the Games for Managers Project. In the 1980s and 1990s he served as head of the Information Systems area at the Graduate School of business in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a senior research fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy, Technion.

Bright Simons is a Ghanaian social innovator, entrepreneur, writer and vice-president at IMANI. He is also the founder and president of mPedigree.

Jason Cranford Teague is a web designer and author. He designed Computer-Mediated Communications Magazine, the first online magazine, in 1994.