Professor M P Ranjan is a senior member of the faculty of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad , India and Chair of the Task Force on GeoVisualization set up by the Government of India. Since 1976 he has been responsible for the creation and conduct of numerous courses at NID, dealing with design theory and methodology, product and numerous domains of digital design. He has conducted research in many areas of design pedagogy, industrial and craft design and on the role of design policy in various sectors of the Indian economy. Ranjan continually explores cultural, ethical, technological, and social issues that pose intellectual challenges for the design community. As a professional designer and Chairman of NID's Design Consulting Office he has handled many design projects for industry, government and international agencies in areas of product design, interior design, exhibition design, craft design and design policy. He headed NID's Publications and Resource Centre, and managed Information Technology initiatives in his capacity as Chairman of the Computer Centre and Head of the Apple Academy at NID.

Kentaro Toyama is assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India, in Bangalore, where he supports the daily operation and overall management of the lab. He additionally heads an interdisciplinary group that conducts research to identify applications of computing technology to international development and is currently also the acting manager for the digital geographics research group.  From 1997 to 2004, he was at Microsoft Research in Redmond , where he did research in computer vision and multimedia. In 2002, he took personal leave from Microsoft to teach mathematics at Ashesi University , a private liberal arts college in Ghana . He has consulted for ABB and DLR, the research arm of the German Aeronautics and Space Administration. Kentaro graduated from Harvard with a bachelors degree in physics and from Yale with a PhD in computer science. 

Dr. Orville Leverne Clubb is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in HCI. He has recently concentrated on the Internet and its effects on society. Dr. Clubb started his computing career in 1966, at the Bank of America. His first full-time academic post was Senior Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1977. Dr. Clubb has extensive experience as an academic administrator. For example: he has been the Dean of Engineering and Technology at the Asian University in Thailand; Head of the Division of Computer Studies at City University; and Associate Principal of the College of High Vocational Studies (now City University's Community College). Dr. Clubb has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Hawaii; a Diploma in Chinese Law from the University of East Asia (Macau); a PhD in Computing from the University of Sunderland U.K.

Lalitesh works in Google engineering and his interests are in geo data, machine vision and machine learning. Before joining Google, Lalitesh briefly served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon and went on to found a robotics start-up which was acquired by Google. Lalitesh has presented papers for and chaired several conferences in Space Robotics, and is responsible for initiating and leading the CMU Lunar Rover program. At Google, Lalitesh co-founded Google India and was its founding Joint Center Head for two years. He co-started several projects including Google Finance, Hindi Transliteration and is currently working on maps.
Lalitesh recieved his Ph.D. from CMU in Robotics and a M.S. from the CMU school of Computer Science. He also holds a M.S. from Stanford University's Design Division, and a M.S in Aerospace from Iowa State. His B-Tech was from IIT-Bombay in Aeronautical Engg.