Micah L. Sifry is co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, a website and annual conference that covers the ways technology is changing politics, and TechPresident.com, an award-winning group blog on how the American presidential candidates are using the Web and how the Web is using them. In addition to organizing the annual PdF conference with his partner, Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. In that capacity, he has been a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation since its founding in 2006.

Justin Hamilton is a senior adviser to the Chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee whose focus is strategic communications. He has worked in the Congress to broaden the public's role in the policy making process by leveraging new media, crowdsourcing and advanced technology. Prior to working for Congressman Miller, Justin helped compile the successful three-count ethics complaint against former Majority Leader Tom DeLay while serving as the Legislative Director for Congressman Chris Bell. Originally from Houston, Texas, he is a veteran campaigner who is happily married with 0 kids and a dog.

Andrew Hoppin was appointed as the first ever Chief Information Officer for the New York State Senate in February 2009 with a mission to dramatically improve government transparency, citizen participation, and operational efficiency for the Senate through technology. The CIO's Office works in three main realms: opening up the Senate's legislative and administrative data for public access (for transparency), overhauling the Senate's internal communications and collaboration infrastructure (for efficiency), and launching new Web 2.0 / social media technologies for the Senate (public participation). He was also elected by his peers to serve on the New York State CIO Leadership Council, and selected by GovTech as the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year.

Previously, Andrew co-founded the NASA CoLab program at NASA Ames Research Center, which increased efficiency and transparency at NASA by building new partnerships between NASA and external communities of practice such as the entrepreneurial technology community, the global open-source software movement, and constituents in the virtual world
of "Second Life."

Andrew has also founded several startup technology companies and has served as a strategy consultant, Advisor, or Board member for leading technology and political organizations such as the Craigslist Foundation, Netroots Nation, the Space Generation Advisory Council, the New Organizing Institute, and Civicspace Labs.

He got his start in online politics through organizing the New York for Clark movement in 2004, and then helping to manage the national Clark for President campaign's data and web applications.

Full bio and contact information at: http://globehoppin.com/about

W. David Stephenson is a leading e-gov., Web 2.0, homeland security and crisis management strategist and theorist. He is known for innovative strategies empowering the public to be full partners in government strategy and services through creative use of personal communication devices and Web 2.0 devices and applications, including data visualization. He writes the leading homeland security blog, emphasizing creative technology use and protection of civil liberties. Stephenson has been active in liberal politics since the 1960s. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, and speechwriter and press secretary to former Mass. Governor Michael Dukakis.

Jeanne Holm is the Chief Knowledge Architect at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. She leads NASA’s Knowledge Management Team, facilitating access to knowledge gathered over NASA's missions and to help drive innovation. She was at the helm of NASA’s web during some of the largest Internet events in Government history. Her team’s solutions help people manage space missions, learn virtually, and share lessons learned using virtual worlds, social networking, and Web 2.0 capabilities. She chairs a U.N. group setting standards for how space missions should manage knowledge in the future.

Silona Bonewald is currently focused on creating the League of Technical Voters. Previously she has worked in the gaming industry, creating high visibility web presences, content management systems and large database back-end integrations. She was also the program chair at a technical college. Silona volunteers for the ACLU and EFF on technology-based civil liberties issues, and has lobbied on various issues. The combination of her involvement in political activism, educational activism, psychometrics for gaming communities, lobbyist work, netizen activities and large systems architecture make her uniquely suited to envision the framework that will make the LoTV system all possible.