George Coulouris is Visiting Professor in Residence at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge where he is pursuing research in sentient systems and Emeritus Professor of Computer Systems at Queen Mary, University of London.

Jean Dollimore was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London until her retirement.

Tim Kindberg (@timkindberg) is the founder of creative technology company matter 2 media and the research director of the Pervasive Media Studio. Until recently he was a senior researcher at HP Labs, Bristol UK and Palo Alto USA, and a visiting professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Bath.

Gordon Blair is a Professor of Distributed Systems in the Computing Department at Lancaster University and is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tromsø in Norway.