Pierre Chappaz (president)
Founder and CEO of Kelkoo (1999-2004), the leading european shopping engine. President, Yahoo Europe (2004). Currently co-CEO, Netvibes (Ajax start page), and Chairman of Wikio (Personalized info page). Pierre is also Chairman of the board of Photoways, inc. a pioneer and leader in the European online photograph printing market.

Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel.

Ouriel Ohayon
General Manager of LightSpeed Gemini Internet Lab, an israeli VC investing in early stage Internet startups. Ouriel sits on the board of Wikio and Ads-Click. He's also the editor of the french version of TechCrunch and of his personal blog and the founding member of iDrink, one of the main internet social event in Israel. Ouriel graduated from HEC School of Management.

Jasper Bouwsma
The Swiss national operator Swisscom has an active incubation & venturing program for internal as well as external opportunities and actively pursues early stage investment opportunities.
It is the job of the Incubation team to keep their eyes and ears open, meet entrepreneurs and jointly discuss possibilities for a beneficial relationship.
Examples? www.cocomment.com, www.whisher.com www.starfruit.ch www.kyte.tv

Fred Destin
Fred Destin is a General Partner at Atlas Venture, focused on technology enabled business and digital media. For Atlas Venture he sits on the boards of DailyMotion, Zoopla, PriceMinister, Sporever, KDS and Realeyes3D. He previously ran OM Technology Investments where he served on the board of numerous companies including SGI-spinoff Kasenna, Xerox-PARC spinoff Inxight Software (acquired by BOBJ), CapitalIQ (acquired by S&P) and Rainfinity (acquired by EMC). Fred writes a widely read blog at www.freddestin.com where he attempts to share how VCs think about the business of funding innovation. Fred had a previous career in investment banking and was Executive Director with Goldman Sachs before leaving for seed investor Speed Ventures in the late 90's.

Faris Sabeti
Faris is the head of Business coaching at CTI Start-up (Swiss Innovation Agency-commission of technology and innovation). Responsible for screening and selection of technology companies in Romandy + Basel and Bern regions. Member of the selection committee. Evaluator for company’s milestone reviews. Built a coaching team of 30 top business professionals, a running portfolio of 130 companies and 120 qualified label carriers with use of best practices for development of the technology start-ups in Switzerland.