JOHN LINDSTROM John Lindström is a senior project manager at the Centre for Distance-spanning Technology, Luleå University of Technology. John graduated as a MSc at the Royal Institute of Technology/Luleå University of Technology, 1995. He also holds an Executive MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics, 2002. Certified as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISSP, by (ISC)2. John has a technical background from various industries and also has held different management positions within project management, software development, IT-management and IT/information security, business development, program management and sales. Currently, John is responsible for "IT/information security and safety" within the wearIT@work project.
	PASCALE HUGUES Pascale Hugues is project manager within the Assembly, Robotics, Digital Manufacturing and Virtual Operations team, EADS Innovation Works. She has been leading research projects on “Mediated Worker” topic, dealing with mobile and interactive systems, from multimedia document authoring to information access, including user interfaces. The common aim of these projects is to validate the use of new communication and information technologies in industrial processes and to introduce innovation within the different business unit of EADS. Pascale Hugues was the leader of FP6 project SNOW (Services for NOmadic Workers). She holds an engineer diploma in computer sciences in 2000 (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse).
	KAI KUNZE Kai Kunze is a researcher and PhD candidate of Prof. Paul Lukowicz at the Institute for Embedded Systems at the University of Passau, Germany. He has worked over 3 years in the wearable computing field, focusing on context and activity recognition. His professional experience includes internships at PARC Palo Alto, Sunlabs Europe Grenoble and the Research and Innovation Center of the German Stock Exchange (Deutsche Boerse Systems) Frankfurt. He received his MSc and BS degrees in Computer Science from the International University, Bruchsal, Germany.
	DR.-ING. CARSTEN MATYSCZOK Dr.-Ing. Carsten Matysczok is senior consultant at the UNITY AG and works in the competence center digital factory. His fields of expertise are virtual engineering as well as the technology consulting for virtual reality, augmented reality and mobile computing. Dr. Matysczok studied information science and business management at the University of Paderborn. Afterwards he was scientific assistant at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn. In 2004 he received his PhD in mechanical engineering with a dissertation on augmented reality.
	RACHEL PEZZLO Rachel Pezzlo is a researcher at Edna Pasher PhD & Associates. Her contributions to EU-funded studies include: wearIT@work – focusing on the social aspects of introducing wearable computers into the workplace, Open Futures – assessing and the intangible value of Future Centers as sustainable innovation labs, SMART – evaluating the impact of participating in EU-funded RTD-ICT projects has on regional innovation, e-Legislation – assessing the impacts and benefits and the growth and scalability of existing e-legislation tools in Europe. She currently is serving on the faculty of the Rephael Recanati International School of IDC Herzliya as a teaching fellow to Dr. Oded Brosh in the field of defense and security strategy. Having recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya with a degree in Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy, Ms. Pezzlo has a unique interdisciplinary perspective on public administration and business.
	MARCO LUCA SBODIO Marco Luca Sbodio graduated from Politecnico di Torino (Italy), and currently works at Hewlett-Packard Italy Innovation Center, where he is a Solution Architect and a Software Engineer specialized in open source software. Marco has worked is several large and international customer projects, and since 2004 he is actively contributing to a number of FP6 and FP7 European projects. His current interests include service oriented architectures, distributed applications, context awareness, and particularly knowledge representation, semantic web and web 2.0.