Seth Godin is the author of nine international bestsellers, including the New York Times bestseller The Dip. His other books include Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, All Marketers are Liars,and Small is the New Big.  He is the founder and CEO of Squidoo and one of the most popular business bloggers in the world.

Through his writing and speaking, Seth has changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages, and his ebooks are among the most popular ever published. He is responsible for many words in the marketer's vocabulary, including permission marketing, ideaviruses, purple cows, the dip and sneezers. His irrepressible speaking style and no-holds-barred blog have helped him create a large following around the world.

Daniel H. Pink is the author of A Whole New Mind, a New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller that has been translated into 16 languages, and Free Agent Nation, which Publishers Weekly says “has become a cornerstone of employee-management relations.” His next book, to be published in April 2008, is The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, the first business book for a western audience in the Japanese comic format known as manga.   Dan's articles on business and technology appear in many publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired, where he is a contributing editor.  He also lectures to corporations, associations, and universities in the U.S. and abroad on economic transformation and the changing world of work.  Dan lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and their three children.

Rich Sloan is the co-author of Startup Nation: Open for Business, a bestseller he wrote with his brother, Jeff Sloan.Prior to the book, the Sloan brothers formed StartupNation® in 2002, an online community that offers entrepreneurs the ultimate resource for starting and growing a company. Through StartupNation’s broadcast, online, print, and event channels, entrepreneurs can access much needed advice from a variety of experts and peers who’ve been through it before.

Today, the Sloan brothers are two of the country’s top small business experts, speaking frequently at entrepreneurial forums and acting as resources for top media venues nationwide. They co-host the nationally-syndicated StartupNation Radio call-in program and have been featured in media such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune Small Business, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and FOX News.

Debbie Weil is a corporate & CEO blogging and social media consultant based in Washington DC. Her clients include Global 100 and Fortune 500 companies, including GlaxoSmithKline.

She is the author of the widely praised The Corporate Blogging Book, published in the U.S. by Penguin Portfolio. Her book has just been published in Mandarin Chinese. She also writes BlogWriteForCEOs.com, a Technorati Top 10,000 blog (out of over 100 million blogs).

She is a graduate of Harvard with a degree in English. She also has an MBA from Georgetown University and a Masters in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin. She previously worked for Network Solutions, Inc., the original dot com company. Before that, she was a journalist (reporter and editor) for several leading U.S. newspapers, including Roll Call.

Debbie has parsed the implications of Web 2.0 for thousands of executives and entrepreneurs at conferences and events in the U.S., the UK, Europe and, most recently, in China.

She has been quoted on the topic of corporate and CEO blogging in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Business Week, The New York Times, CNN.com, The Guardian and numerous other publications. She was interviewed recently on NPR's MarketPlace and was featured in Writing a Blog Can Help You Land a New Job, a TV segment that aired on ABC network affiliates.