Julia Lane is a senior managing economist and Institute Fellow at American Institute for Research, professor of economics, BETA University of Strasbourg CNRS, Chercheur, Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, and professor, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research, University of Melbourne. She was formerly director of the National Science Foundation's Science of Science and Innovation Policy program, senior vice president at NORC at the University of Chicago and senior research fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau.

Dr. Lane has authored over 65 refereed articles and edited or authored seven books. She has been working with a number of national governments to document the results of their science investments. Her work has been featured in Science and Nature, and she has testified on the topic to both the U.S. Congress and the European Parliament. In 2014 she has co-authored and published Privacy, Big Data, And the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement.

As a senior researcher and distinguished fellow at IFTF, Mike researches and disseminates information about the technological underpinnings of tomorrow’s world, including the mobile web, immersive media, and context-aware and ubiquitous computing. With a deep background in information architectures, network services, and technology policy, Mike is a frequent speaker and commentator on the futures of computing and telecommunications. Mike has authored a number of papers for publications including IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communications of the ACM. He has been a visiting researcher at Intel Labs, a senior consulting architect at Netscape Communications, vice president and chief technology officer at Times Mirror Publishing, a senior scientist at Apple Computer, and administrative director for the Systems Research Group at the Atari Sunnyvale Research Laboratory.