Eddie Hold is the Vice President of The NPD Group's Connected Intelligence business unit. In this role, Eddie is responsible for managing the overall unit, maintaining the direction, creation and expansion of the content. He also works closely with clients to help shape their strategies within the connected ecosystem as the market adapts to embrace convergent devices and the blurring of home and mobile strategies for device, content, and broadband access. He is also a leading spokesperson for the wearable market, looking at the technology, adoption and ongoing use of these devices.

Shel Israel is a writer, speaker and occasional company advisor. He is co-author with Robert Scoble of Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data & the Future of Privacy and is currently collaborating with Porter Gale on a sequel, Resurrecting Trust, the Future of Business in the Age of Context. He currently writes The Contextual Beat column at Forbes and provides bylined editorial content to many companies of all sizes. Previously, he also wrote Naked Conversations, a seminal book on why business should use social media. On his own he wrote Twitterville, and Stellar Presentations. All four books have been critically acclaimed at Amazon.com and elsewhere. He has contributed editorially to BusinessWeek, Dow Jones, FastCompany and American Express OpenForum. Most of his writing focuses on how disruptive technologies impact business and life.