Fred Brown is the Founder and CEO of Next IT Corporation—a company changing the way people interact with technology through advanced A.I. Prior to Next IT, Fred was founder, president and CEO of LineSoft Corporation. At LineSoft, the calf-roper turned entrepreneur broke new ground in the energy industry with the development of software systems that are now considered industry standard worldwide. With Next IT, Fred continues to revolutionize technology's impact on business with his newest vision–personalizing and humanizing user interactions with technology. Fred is also actively involved in organizations serving the northwest educational and scientific communities, serving on the Board of Trustees at Gonzaga University as well as founding WIN Partners LLC, a private investment fund for aspiring technology entrepreneurs in Spokane, Washington.

Nova Spivack is a technology futurist, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and one of the leading voices on the next-generation of search, social media analytics, artificial intelligence, and the Web.

Nova is presently CEO of Bottlenose, which uses big data mining to discover emerging trends for large brands and enterprises.

In 1994, Nova co-founded one of the first Web startups, EarthWeb, which led to a record-breaking IPO in 1998, and a second IPO of spinout, DICE.com, in 2007.

He then worked with Stanford Research International (SRI), to co-found their startup incubator, nVention (which launched Siri), and participated in the DARPA CALO program one of the largest artificial intelligence projects in US history (in which much of the original research that became Siri was developed). Following that, he co-founded Radar Networks, which produced Twine, one of the first consumer applications of the Semantic Web.