Ayse Birsel is the founder of Olive 1:1 Inc. (www.olive1to1.com) in New York City, a product design company committed to the innovative design of office and home products. She has been extensively published around the world and featured in many shows and presentations. A graduate of the Pratt Institute, where she was a Fulbright scholar and earned a masters degree in industrial design, she has taught at the Pratt lnstitute and institutions in France and Turkey.
	Gareth Branwyn is a contributing editor to Wired and the author of five books, including Jargon Watch: A Pocket Dictionary for the Jitterati and Jamming The Media, a guide to do-it-yourself media hacking. He is also editor-in-chief of Street Tech (www.streettech.com), a "sucks less" consumer electronics review site and managing editor of Digital Living Today, a syndicated Web program featuring "lifestyle plug-ins for the wired age."
	Alberto Gaitán is a programmer and composer. He has designed interactive, computer-assisted art installations as well as database and Internet applications. His work has been exhibited internationally as a member of the collaborative group Art Attack International (artattackinternational.org) and as a solo sound artist. He has served on boards of numerous national and local arts organizations and peer review panels.
	An excellent trumpet player, Nzomo performs regularly in New York City with "Chinese Tough Guys," his African/Jazz group. He also owns two lines of women's clothing, "Nzomo" and "Miss New York City," which he sells out of his Soho store. Besides running his own gallery on the Lower East Side he also manages to publish a monthly e-zine, "RocketBilly" and sits as a judge in "Pet Court," a cable access TV show that deals with pet issues. Nzomo is also the creator of "Overruled!" a legal board game and "BrainBrian" a word puzzle game that is syndicated on RocketBilly.com.