About the panelists

Steve Wozniak, CEO, Wheels of Zeus
After co-founding Apple Computer, Steve has been a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades. He has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products - the Apple I and II, and he influenced the design of the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, the President of the United States awarded him the the National Medal of Technology, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators, in 1985.

Mike Hawley, Director of Special Projects,
MIT Media Lab
Mike Hawley, founder of MIT's GO Expeditions programme, was named as one of the 1000 most creative individuals in America in 2001. Hawley has a passion for exploration. As Director of Special Projects at MIT Media Lab and a faculty member for a decade, he has worked on a wide array of creative projects. At MIT he produced A Day in the Life of Cyberspace in 1995 and his team developed a number of new inventions for the 1997 WEARABLES event. In 1998 his research team deployed technology for the American Everest Expedition. Working with Steve Jobs, Hawley was a principal engineer at NeXT, where he developed the world's first library of digital books. He co-founded Things That Think, a groundbreaking research programme that explores the limitless ways digital media will infuse everyday objects. He also founded and led Toys of Tomorrow, which engaged many of the world's leading toy companies to invent wonderful new playthings, and Counter Intelligence, to explore domestic technologies from the kitchen countertop and beyond.

Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist,
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Simon Phipps is responsible for spreading Sun's vision for "smart" Web services based on the "network is the computer" architecture. A computer industry insider for more than 20 years, Phipps has worked as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst to strategist in some of the world's leading computer companies. He worked with OSI standards in the eighties, on the first commercial collaborative conferencing software in the nineties, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM. As the Chief Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems, Phipps is responsible for expounding and explaining the "big picture" of connected computing solutions.

Steve Gillmor, Contributing Editor ZDNet,
Executive Producer The Gillmor Gang,
Co-Creator of Attention.xml
As a principal reviewer with Byte magazine, Steve Gillmor covered areas including Visual Basic, NT open systems, Lotus Notes and other collaborative software systems. After stints as a contributing editor with InformationWeek Labs and as editor in chief of Enterprise Development magazine, and as editor in chief and editorial director of XML and Java Pro Magazines, he joined InfoWorld as Test Center director and columnist. Later, he wrote CRN's Emerging Opp's blog, and then became eWEEK OpEd columnist and contributing editor. Today, Gillmor is a ZDNet contributing editor and host and producer of Podshow.com's Gillmor Gang and Gillmor Daily Web radio podcasts.