Kris is a technology entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience building and growing software companies. Prior to co-founding netomat, Kris was the Founder and CEO of MemberTree.com, an internet startup with operations in the US and India helping "brick and mortar" communities such as professional societies, trade associations and other not-for-profit groups use the internet to strengthen and broaden their community relationships.

Before MemberTree.com, Kris ran U.S. operations for Financial Models Company, Inc. a global financial software company based in Canada. During his tenure, he helped grow the US subsidiary from a 3-person team in New York to a profitable division with offices in New York, Chicago and San Diego and, in the process, building their customer service, consulting and business development organizations from the ground up. Kris also played a key role in landing some of the world's largest investment firms as clients, including Citibank, Barclays, Bankers Trust, Invesco, Janus, MFS and UBS.

Kris sits on the Board of SDR, a medical drug delivery startup in New Jersey, and is an investor in and advisor to SearchWarriors.com, an outsourced internet search and research service based in India, and Vyapin Software Services, Ltd., an offshore software development company also based in India.

Kris holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and an M.B.A. in Finance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. His wife is a leading ear and skull base surgeon in New York City. He spends most his spare time chauffeuring his 4 kids from one extra-curricular activity to another and sneaking off to play Ultimate Frisbee.

Creator of the netomat software, Maciej Wisniewski is an internationally respected digital artist and programmer whose work focuses on the underlying social impact of technology and networks.

Most recently, Maciej worked as an Advanced Programmer at ibm.com (formerly known as the IBM Corporate Internet Programs) where he was responsible for developing ibm.com's XML strategy as well as numerous advanced web prototype applications. While at IBM, Maciej also co-authored a chapter for the XML Handbook by Charles Goldfarb, the creator of SGML.

Maciej has also been responsible for the creation of many high profile digital art projects which have featured the synthesis of powerful, cutting-edge technology, forward thinking ideas and engrossing presentations. Maciej's projects -- including Tele-Touch, Jackpot, Scanlink, Turnstile and netomat -- have been shown at museums and galleries throughout the world including the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, the San Fransisco Art Institute, the New Media Center at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany and the Guggenheim Museum, SoHo.

Maciej earned his M.F.A. at Hunter College, New York and completed post-graduate studies at the Institute for General Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Alan has spent the last twenty years at the intersection of entertainment, technology and social entrepreneurship. He is currently Co-Founder and Managing Partner of E-Line Ventures, a 'double bottom line' early-stage venture fund focused on empowering individuals, small businesses and disenfranchised communities through innovative uses of personal fabrication, digital media and on-demand business services.

Prior to E-Line, Alan spent seven years as CEO and Co-Founder of netomat, a leader in mobile-web community solutions. As CEO, Alan helped to transform a network-based art project into a pioneering software company, raising funding from VCs, Strategic Investors (Motorola, WPP, Forbes), and Foundations (Rockefeller's ProVenEx double bottom line fund) and securing partnerships with leading technology and content providers such as Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, Motorola and Miramax. netomat was selected as a Technology Pioneer at the 2007 World Economic Forum at Davos.

Before co-founding netomat, Alan spent six years at Activision, a global leader in entertainment software. He was a member of the executive management team which rebuilt Activision from bankruptcy into a profitable industry powerhouse with more than a billion dollars in revenue. At Activision, Alan served as Senior Vice President of Activision Studios where he supervised all product development at the company's Los Angeles studios. Titles released under Alan's leadership include Civilization: Call to Power, Asteroids, Muppet Treasure Island, Spycraft, Pitfall, Zork and Tony Hawk Skateboarding.

Before Activision, Alan spent nearly ten years in the film industry where he worked in development, production and post-production with credits on such films as Waiting for the Light, To Sleep With Anger, Reversal of Fortune and Homicide. He also directed the award-winning documentary The Expatriates.

As a writer, Alan was a film critic for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and co-author of "Game Plan", a book about the computer and video game business published by St. Martin's Press. His articles and photographs have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Filmmaker Magazine, Cinema India-International and Bowler's Journal.

As a speaker, Alan has presented at a wide variety of conferences throughout the world; PC Forum, Sundance Film Festival, Games for Change, CTIA, Mobile Imaging Summit, Game Developers Conference, Milia/Cannes, LAX Conference, Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, CTIA and the World Economic Forum.

Alan currently serves on the Board of Directors of FilmAid International, which screens films for refugees and displaced people throughout the world, Games4Change which enables social change through computer and video games and Sustainable South Bronx, which drives environmental justice through economically sustainable projects. Alan serves on the Advisory Board of Scenarios USA, Personal Technology Solutions, netomat. and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center For Educational Media and Research.

Tamas has been responsible for curating some of the world's most high-profile digital and multimedia art. Born in Hungary and educated as a visual artist in Poland, Tamas earned a Masters degree in sculpture and environmental design and a postgraduate degree in stage and film set design. He has practiced stage design and co-directed plays in major theaters in Poland including the National Theatre in Warsaw, Teatr Stary in Krakow and Teatre Opole as well as the Castle Theatre in Budapest, Hungary. He has practiced as a sculptor and conceptual artist and exhibited in various countries including Poland, Hungary, Italy and the United States.

Tamas was recently New Media Curator and co-owner of Postmasters, a renowned contemporary art gallery. The gallery was founded 15 years ago and recently moved from SoHo to the new center of art activity in New York, Chelsea. Postmasters is the only New York gallery that has consistently been presenting innovative digital and internet-based art since 1996.

Tamas curated the now seminal exhibition "Can You Digit?" in 1996 followed by "MacClassics" in 1997 and "Password:Ferdydurke" in 1998. His shows have been reviewed in art press and popular magazines such as Wired, The New York Times, CyberTimes, Time Out, Village Voice and The New Yorker. They have attracted thousands of viewers and included many of today's top digital artists and designers including Ken Feingold, Perry Hoberman, Sawad Brooks, Erik Adigard, Terbolizard, Lew Manovich, Thomas Muller, Natalie Jermijenko, David Karam and Jodi and John Simon. His exhibitions in April/May 2000 presented the subsequent Webby winners entropy8zuper! followed by international web collaborative etoy.CORPORATION.

Neil Gershenfeld directs the Center for Bits and Atoms, a part of the MIT Media Laboratories, and heads its Physics & Media research group. His laboratory investigates the relationship between the content of information and its physical representations, from developing molecular machines, to smart furniture, to virtuosic musical instruments (including a hypercello for Yo-Yo Ma), to new types of power sources. These projects have led to new paradigms for computation, including the development of tangible interfaces using everyday objects, affective computers that recognize and respond to human emotion, wearable computers sewn with electronic embroidery and powered by human motion, a ground-breaking demonstration of quantum computation, and even interspecies information technology for animals. These projects have been supported by fundamental studies of mechanisms for manipulating information, from discovering electronic inks for printing displays and logic, to quantum-mechanical computers that process information stored in molecules.

A prolific author, Gershenfeld received a BA in physics with high honors from Swarthmore College, a PhD from Cornell University, and was honored as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows. Prior to coming to MIT, he was a member of the research staff at Bell Labs.