Myron Gutmann is the Assistant Director for the National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as the Head of Directorate for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at the NSF. He was among the first of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partners, and played a key role in shaping the Library of Congress partnership network. His project has been highly successful in demonstrating the practical utility of a distributed preservation network, as well as in bringing at-risk data under stewardship. As a result of his fine work, the Library named Gutmann a Digital Preservation Pioneer. Receiving his Doctorate from Princeton University in the 70s, Gutmann has taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Texas at Austin.

Stephen M. Griffin joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences in January 2012 as Visiting Professor in Cyberscholarship.  He comes to the School of Information Sciences after a 32-year career at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, DC.  During that time he served as a Program Director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) for the period 1994-2011.  Prior to that period, he was engaged in program planning, development and evaluation for the Division of Advanced Scientific Computing and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).  Mr.

Carly Strasser is a Data Curation Project Manager at the California Digital Library University of California Curation Center (UC3).  She received her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program and has since transitioned to working on issues related to scientific data sharing. She currently is the project manager for the the Data Curation for Excel (DCXL) project at UC3.  The goal of this project is to facilitate data management, sharing, and archiving for earth, environmental, and ecological scientists; more information is available at http://dcxl.cdlib.org. 

John Kunze is an Associate Director at the University of California Curation Center in the California Digital Library. With a background in computer science and mathematics, his current work focuses on data set curation, "data papers", creating long-term durable information object references using ARK identifiers and the N2T resolver, archiving websites, and promoting lightweight Dublin Core "Kernel" metadata. Parts of his work have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Library of Congress. Previously, he contributed heavily to the standardization (RFC's, NISO specifications) of URLs, Dublin Core metadata, and the Z39.50 search and retrieval protocol. In an earlier life he created UC Berkeley's first campus-wide information system, which was an early rival and client of the World Wide Web.

Bob Hanisch is a Senior Scientist for the Space Telescope Science Institute, as well as the Director of the US Virtual Astronomical Observatory. He is currently focusing on fostering multi-facility/multi-wavelength astronomical research through the virtual observatory. He has also worked in the areas of image restoration, electronic publications, and software system design and management.

Bob Hanisch is a Senior Scientist for the Space Telescope Science Institute, as well as the Director of the US Virtual Astronomical Observatory. He is currently focusing on fostering multi-facility/multi-wavelength astronomical research through the virtual observatory. He has also worked in the areas of image restoration, electronic publications, and software system design and management.

Kelvin K. Droegemeier earned a B.S. with Special Distinction in Meteorology in 1980 from the University of Oklahoma, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric science in 1982 and 1985, respectively, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the University of Oklahoma faculty in September, 1985 and in 1987 was named a Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Droegemeier's research interests lie in thunderstorm dynamics and predictability, variational data assimilation, mesoscale dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, massively parallel computing, and aviation weather. An expert in aviation forensic meteorology, he has served as a consultant to Honeywell Corporation, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, the National Transportation Safety Board, and Climatological Consulting Corp.

José-Marie Griffiths joined the leadership at Bryant University as vice president for academic affairs and university professor in 2010. An internationally acclaimed policy expert, researcher, and administrator with more than 35 years of experience in academic, corporate, and government settings, she has served in a number of U.S. Presidential appointments, two requiring U.S. Senate approval.

She has also served on numerous blue ribbon panels covering every U.S. administration, including President Obama’s.