Hon Dr. Megan Woods – Minister for Research, Science & Innovation; Energy & Resources; Greater Christchurch Regeneration; New Zealand

Hon Clare Curran, Minister for Broadcasting, Communications & Digital Media; and Government Digital Services; New Zealand

Satoshi Matsuoka – Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Fellow, Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. Director, Joint AIST-Tokyo Tech Open Innovation Lab on Real World Big Data Computing

Mohamad S El-Zein, PhD – John Deere Fellow, Materials. Manager, Advanced Materials & Mechanics – Moline, IL, USA

Dr. Vicki Compton – Principal Adviser, Minister for Primary Industries, New Zealand

Ruud van der Pas – Distinguished Engineer, SPARC Processor Organization at Oracle, Santa Clara, California, USA

Dr. John Gustafson – Visiting Scientist at A*CRC, Singapore and Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Former Director at Intel Labs & Chief Product Architect at AMD (USA)