Peter Brantley

Peter Brantley is the Executive Director for the Digital Library Federation, a not-for-profit international association of libraries and allied institutions. His background includes significant experience with research libraries and digital library development programs. He has served as the Director of Technology at the California Digital Library, New York University, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. He was the first IT Manager for Rapt, a private SF firm providing pricing optimization for online advertising delivery, and eons ago worked as a systems analyst in the mass-market division of Random House. Peter is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Digital Publishing Forum. He was first introduced to computing via the CDC Plato system.
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Liza Daly

Liza Daly is a software engineer who specializes in applications for the publishing industry. She was the lead developer on major online products for Oxford University Press and has designed products for Columbia University Press, Rosen Publishing and SAGE Publications. Currently she is an independent consultant and the developer of threepress.org, an open source platform for distributing ebooks and online reference material.
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Laura Dawson

Laura Dawson is a 20-year veteran of the book industry, having worked in e-commerce (Barnes & Noble.com), libraries (SirsiDynix), and publishing (Doubleday and Bantam). She is now an independent consultant offering expertise on the digital transition, and she writes a bi-weekly newsletter about issues in that transition called "The Big Picture". Her clients have included McGraw-Hill, Alibris, Ingram Library Services, Bowker, and Muze.
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Kate Eltham

Kate Eltham is a writer and creative industries professional based in Brisbane, Australia. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Queensland Writers Centre and has previously worked as a small business consultant focusing on micro enterprises, non-profits and individual artists in the creative sectors.
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Joseph J. Esposito

Joseph J. Esposito is President of Portable CEO, an independent consultancy specializing in strategy built upon hands-on operating experience. His clients cover a wide range, from Old Media companies seeking to work with digital media, to telecommunications companies and online service companies seeking guidance in developing a strategic overview, to New Media companies in search of management discipline. He has worked with large companies and small, public companies and private. His practice is influenced by his experience of having served as CEO for three companies: the venerable Old Media firm Encyclopaedia Britannica, Internet start-up Tribal Voice, and SRI Consulting, a combination business research and consulting company.
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Bill McCoy

Bill McCoy is General Manager, Digital Publishing Business at Adobe Systems Incorporated. Bill has been involved in publishing technology for over 20 years, playing significant roles in the development of Adobe PostScript and PDF, and serving as founder and CEO of PictureIQ Corporation, which developed server solutions for rich media transcoding and delivery. Like many others, Bill began his quixotic pursuit to eliminate paper at Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto. Bill serves on the Board of Directors of the International Digital Publishing Forum.
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Allen Noren

Allen Noren is Director of Online Marketing at O'Reilly Media. He's been with the company since 1992 when one of his first jobs was to maintain the O'Reilly Gopher site. He was a founding member of the GNN team that built one of the first commercial web portals, and was part of the group that created Safari Books Online and SafariU. He is currently helping to drive O'Reilly's digital efforts. Allen also occasionally edits trade books for O'Reilly, including Hackers & Painters, We the Media, Revolution in the Valley, and Devices of the Soul. Allen is the author of Storm: A Motorcycle Journey of Love, Endurance, and Transformation.
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Andrew Savikas

Andrew Savikas is the General Manager of O'Reilly's TOC division, and is the program chair for the Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. He's been hacking away at publishing and authoring tools within O'Reilly since 2002, including helping to design and build an XML content delivery platform based on the Atom Publishing Protocol. He regularly speaks at conferences and to other companies about XML publishing and content management. Andrew is also the author of Word Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Your Text. He holds a degree in Media Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the High Tech MBA program at Northeastern University in Boston.
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Mac Slocum

Mac Slocum is the Managing Editor of TOC. He's worked as an online editor/producer/writer at a variety of outlets -- including CNET, AOL Digital City, and EH Publishing -- and he's taught Web journalism and technology courses at Emerson College in Boston. His fascination with publishing and technology started in college when he put the student newspaper online (fortunately, that early effort has been expunged from the Internet record). Mac holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Richmond and a master's in journalism from Emerson.
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