Fred Collopy is Professor and Chair of Information Systems and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He received his PhD in decisions sciences from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has done extensive research in time series forecasting, information systems and strategy, and design. He is an editor of the International Journal of Forecasting and is on the editorial board of Information and Organizations. His research has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Forecasting, the International Journal of Forecasting, Interfaces, and Chief Executive.

He has also designed software including The Desk Organizer (published in 1982 by Warner Communications), TimeScope (a rule-based forecasting program) and Imager (software for playing abstract visuals). His work on the latter has been presented at ISEA, SIGGRAPH, Sonic Light, and the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and been published in Leonardo and elsewhere. He was a visiting scientist at IBM’s Watson Research Laboratory in 1989-90 at Cornell Univesity's Human-Computer Interface Laboratory in 2006 and he has performed visuals live with the jazz ensemble Kassaba, electronic musicians Dino Felipe and Henry Warwick, as well as his own Rhythmic Light Ensemble.

Dick Boland is Professor of Information Systems at Case Western Reserve University and a Senior Research Associate at the Judge Institute of Management at the University of Cambridge. He was founding editor of Information and Organization and does qualitative studies of individuals as they design and use information. His interest is in how people make meaning as they interpret situations in an organization or as they interpret data in a report. He has studied this hermeneutic process in a wide range of settings and professions, but primarily has focused on how managers and consultants turn an ambiguous situation into a problem statement and declare a particular course of action to be rational. He has approached this in a variety of ways, including symbolic interaction, metaphor, cause mapping, frame shifting, language games, and exegesis. Most recently he is fascinated with narrative and design as modes of cognition that are systematically undervalued, yet dominate our meaning making.

Youngjin is Associate Professor of MIS at Temple University and adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University and Viktoria Institute. He is interested in bringing design and management together.