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• Dr. Mario Albrecht, Group Leader, Molecular Networks in Medical Bioinformatics, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
• Chris Asakiewicz, Ph.D., Affiliate Professor of Information Management, Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology
• Andrew Berridge, Bsc, Delivery Advisor, Informatics, Pfizer
• Richard Bickerton, Medicinal Informatics, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
• Bernd Bischl, Fakultät Statistik, Technische Universität Dortmund
• Phil Butcher, Head of Systems, Sanger Centre
• Lars Carlsson, Ph.D., Global Safety Assessment, AstraZeneca R&D, Mölndal, Sweden
• Dr. Andrew Chadwick, Principal Consultant (Life Sciences and Healthcare), Tessella
• Karim Chine, Software Architect and Coordinator, Biocep
• Guy Coates, Ph.D., Group Leader, Informatics System Group, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Chris Dagdigian, Founding Partner and Director of Technology, BioTeam, Inc.
• Panos Deloukas, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Human & Medical Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Jacob DeVlieg, Ph.D., Global Head, Molecular Design & Informatics, Schering Plough
• Thomas Eickermann, Ph.D., Head of Networking Division, Forschungszentrum Jülich; Project Manager of PRACE
• Christian Herhaus, Ph.D., NCE Technologies, Merck KGaA         
• Professor Andrew L. Hopkins, D.Phil., FRSC, SULSA Research Professor, Translational Biology & Chair, Medicinal Informatics Division, University of Dundee
• Wayne W. Jones, Shell Global Solutions
• Oliver Karch, Ph.D., Bio- and Chemoinformatics, Merck Serono
• Kimmo Koski, Managing Director, CSC – IT Center for Science, Ltd.   
• Maria Krestyaninova, Ph.D., Medical Informatics Coordinator, MolPAGE Project, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
• Camille Laibe, Software Developer (Computational Neurobiology), European Bioinformatics Institute
• Jerry Lanfear, Ph.D., Head, Data Support and Management, Research CoEs, Pfizer
• Hermann Lederer, Ph.D., Head, High Performance Application Group, Max Planck Institut Fuer Plasmaphysik; Member, DEISA Coordination Team
• Hans Lehrach, Ph.D., Founder, Alacris Pharmaceuticals; Director, Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Institute; Professor in Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin
• Nick Lynch, Ph.D., Chemistry Domain Expert, AstraZeneca
• M. Scott Marshall, Ph.D., W3C HCLS IG co-chair, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam
• Carsten Möller, Ph.D., Lab Head, Therapeutic Research Group, Women’s Healthcare, Bayer Schering Pharma AG
• Ian Mulvany, Product Development Manager, Nature Publishing Group; Project Manager, Nature Network and Connotea
• Ingela Nyström, Ph.D., Director of UPPMAX, Centre for Image Analysis, Uppsala University
• John Overington, Ph.D., Team Leader, EMBL-EBI
• Julen Oyarzabal, Ph.D., Head, Drug Discovery Informatics Section, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
• Tommaso Piazza, Eng.D., Chief Information Officer, Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (ISMETT)
• Corrado Priami, Professor of Computer Science, University of Trento; President and CEO, The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (CoSBi)
• Philippe Rocca-Serra, Technical Coordinator, EMBL-EBI and NERC-NEBC
• Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Coordinator, EMBL-EBI and NERC-NEBC
• Raza Shaikh, Associate Director of Informatics, Chemical Biology Platform, The Broad Institute
• Sándor Szalma, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, R&D Informatics, Centocor R&D, Inc.
• Josef Scheiber, Ph.D., Research Investigator/Knowledge Engineering Consultant, NITAS/TMS, Novartis Pharma AG
• Reinhard Schneider, Ph.D., Team Leader, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
• Ola Spjuth, M.Sc., Bioclipse Coordinator, Uppsala University
• Eike Staub, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Bio- & Chemoinformatics DA, Merck-Serono R&D, Merck KGaA
• Mats Sundgren, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Global Clinical Development, AstraZeneca R&D
• Fabio Triolo, D.d.R., M.Phil., Ph.D., Technical Director, Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy Unit, Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (ISMETT)
• Matthew Trunnell, Manager, Research Computing, Broad Institute
• Tibor Van Rooij, Bsc, Bioinformatics Director, Génome Québec & Montreal Heart Institute Pharmacogenomics Centre
• Jörg Kurt Wegner, Ph.D., Scientist, Integrative Chem-/Bio-Informatics, Tibotec (J&J, Belgium); Blogger, Mining Drug Space; Project Administrator, Open Source Development
• Edgar Wingender, Ph.D., President & CSO, BIOBASE; Professor and Director Dept. Bioinformatics, UMG, Univ. of Goettingen
• Hans Winkler, Ph.D., Senior Director, Global Head, Oncology Biomarkers, Ortho-Biotech Oncology R&