Gilad Lotan is the VP of Research and Development at SocialFlow where he leads the data science team focused on analyzing networked audiences, information flow and attention in Social Media. Gilad is a leading researcher and authority on deriving insight from social streams. Previously, Gilad built social data visualizations at Microsoft’s FUSE labs.

Rob King is Senior Vice President, Editorial, Digital & Print Media at ESPN, an 8-year veteran of the world wide leader in sports. He oversees the editorial direction of ESPN’s industry-leading portfolio of digital and print properties, which includes all text, audio, video and multimedia content for ESPN.com, ESPN Mobile, espnW, fantasy sports, Grantland.com, ESPN The Magazine and ESPNHS.

Emily Bell is a Professor of Professional Practice and the Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She was director of digital content for Britain’s Guardian News and Media from 2006 to 2010. Previous to that post, Bell was editor-in-chief of Guardian Unlimited from 2001 to 2006. Under Bell, the Guardian received numerous awards, including the Webby Award for a newspaper website in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009, and British Press Awards for Website of the Year in 2006, 2008 and 2009.

Tom Rosenstiel is the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an author and professor of Journalism Studies and vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, an initiative engaged in conducting a national conversation among journalists about standards and values, which he co-founded and formerly managed. A journalist for more than 30 years, he worked as media critic for the Los Angeles Times and chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek magazine.

David Nordfors is the president of IIIJ - The International Institute of Innovation Journalism and Communication. He coined the concepts of Innovation Journalism and Attention Work. He is an adjunct professor at IDC Herzliya in Israel, and a visiting professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, as well as at the Deutsche Welle Akademie, Germany. He is advisor to the executive director of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Mónica Guzmán is a digital life columnist at The Seattle Times and Northwest tech news startup GeekWire and a community strategist in media and startups. After two years of daily beat reporting for the Houston Chronicle and the Midland Daily News, she dove into digital in July 2007 as the first online-only reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where she developed the awarding-winning Big Blog with an eye toward social media and community collaboration.

David Boardman is Executive Editor and Senior Vice President of The Seattle Times. He has oversight and responsibility for the news department of Washington state’s largest newspaper and for its website, seattletimes.com. Under his leadership, The Times won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, presented for print and online coverage of the assassination of four police officers.

Shawn P. Williams launched DallasSouthBlog.com (now ShawnPWilliams.com) in June of 2006 where he serves as publisher and editor. In 2008, Dallas South was one of a select number of blogs nationwide to be awarded credentials for the Democratic National Convention. The website has been featured on NBC Nightly News, The Chicago Tribune, CNN, NPR, BBC, and many other national outlets.

In June 2009, Shawn helped to organize Dallas South News, a nonprofit news organization that utilizes technology, social media, and journalistic principles to empower and inform underserved communities.

Aminda “Mindy” Marques Gonzalez, Executive Editor and Vice President of The Miami Herald, began her journalism career in 1986 as a summer intern in The Herald’s Neighbors community publication. As a reporter, Mindy covered everything from the Hialeah Santeria case that made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court to the migrant workers in South Dade. As an editor, Mindy helped run government coverage and oversaw the city desk, state desk and Neighbors as Deputy Metro Editor.

Michael Riley became Managing Editor of Bloomberg Government in 2010. Prior to that, he was the Editor and Senior Vice President of Congressional Quarterly and the editor of The Roanoke (Va.) Times in 1998. He created and launched allpolitics.com, a leading political Internet site founded by TIME magazine and CNN. Riley spent a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University learning about digital technology and the online world. He had been a senior correspondent and bureau chief for TIME and spent much of a decade there covering national politics, including the 1988 and 1992 presidential campaigns.