Jay Cross has been passionate about harnessing technology to improve adult learning since the sixties. Fresh out of college, he sold mainframes the size of Chevy Suburbans. Later, he designed the University of Phoenix's first business degree program. He took a training startup to national prominence, capturing 80% market share and training a million professionals to make sound decisions and sell services. He has managed several software startups and is the former president of MegaMedia WorldWide. Jay founded Internet Time Group in early 1998 to help organizations learn. He advised CBT Systems during its transition to SmartForce, the eLearning Company, and helped Cisco e-Learning Partners plan, implement, and market their initial web-based certification programs. His articles have appeared in LINEZine, Learning Circuits, Training and Development, Technology for Learning, American Banker, and other publications. He is CEO of eLearning Forum, a 400-member think tank and advocacy group in Silicon Valley. Jay is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, and has also studied instructional design, systems analysis, leadership, information architecture, decision-making, direct marketing, and design. He lives with his wife Uta, son Austin, and two miniature longhaired dachshunds in the hills of Berkeley, California.

Bill Daul is a world-wide consultant and Business Relationship Strategist, and has been instrumental in the formation of a large number of successful business partnerships and collaborations over the years in Silicon Valley. Bill’s skills are particularly attuned to discerning the highest-leverage way to combine innovative technologies with people and organizations who can bring these emerging ideas to market. Bill’s vision is to build organizations through stronger relationships, both internally and externally. Bill has held positions at a wide variety of high tech companies, including Sun Microsystems, Informix Software, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, Tymshare, and the United States Geological Survey. In all of these positions, Bill took a leadership role in helping organizations reach new levels of innovation and success by forging unexpectedly powerful creative links to other people and organizations -- often in different fields, and highly synergistic. In 1999, Bill founded the Nosotros Salon, a group of visionaries he selected to meet regularly to explore and transcend creative and intellectual boundaries -- from the past...to the here...to the new. Nosotros has lead to a number of new startups and business partnerships. In 2001, Bill brought together a number of thought leaders in the field of learning to co-found the Meta-Learning Lab (MLL). The MLL is dedicated to increasing people's capacity to learn, thereby improving the performance of individuals, groups, and organizations. Bill is member of Douglas Engelbart's pioneering research team at SRI - International, and has been affiliated with the Bootstrap Institute since 1988. Bill is also a member of the South Bay Organizational Development Network for 10 years, and the Society for Organizational Learning, West Coast. He is also a member of the Electronic Multi Media Foundation (EMMA). EMMA Foundation encourages the creative, technical and professional development of digital media on a world-wide basis.

Claudia L'Amoreaux works at the intersection of metacognition and technology to create significantly improved learning conversations, resources, communities and environments. Consulting clients span Education (UCSC, Virtual High School), Entertainment (OZ Interactive, multiplayer 3D gaming), Business (Perceptronics, E-learning), Government (UNESCO's World Heritage Centre, E-learning). She was Education Channel Editor for Deja News in its heyday as the first web portal to UseNet. She was the Executive Editor of the award-winning Planetary Dialogues website created in cooperation with UNESCO's World Heritage Centre. Writing and presentations include co-authoring Creating Learning Communities (Solomon Press, 2000); presentation with Paul Pangaro on Gordon Pask, inventor of first intelligent tutoring systems, at the American Cybernetics Society Conference, Vancouver, Canada, May 2001; invited expert for University of California Santa Cruz Distance Learning Forum (November, 2000); presentation at Virginia Polytechnic University on designing distributed learning networks (July, 2000). Her work as a global "edge-ucator" has been featured on BBC World Radio in their Essential Guide to the New Millenium, 3/2000, and on the internationally syndicated television show, New Media News. Current areas of focus: Video-based collaborative learning, video authoring tools and environments, adaptive and intelligent web-based educational systems--historical and current state of the art. Role of dynamic learning styles and strategies, 3D imaging, animation, haptics, sonification, brainwave biofeedback, artificial intelligence, a-life, microworlds and intelligent tutoring systems in advanced distributed learning environments. She has worked in the Pacific Islands, North and South America, the Middle East and Europe.Claudia founded Edge-ucation in 1995 to take a leading role in creating the future of learning.