Abby King is a Professor of Health Research & Policy and Medicine and is the Director of the Stanford Aging Research & Technology Solutions Laboratory. Her research focuses on public health interventions and policy-level approaches to achieve large-scale change in chronic disease prevention and health promotion. Her current research on wellness uses a collaboration platform, applying “citizen science” perspectives to investigate the influences of the built and social environments on health behaviors and outcomes, and applies state-of-the-art communication technologies to address health disparities and expand the reach and generalizability of interventions.

Kathy Bries is the Senior Director and General Manager of Cisco Collaborative Knowledge, a breakthrough knowledge and learning digital workplace technology solution for Cisco customers and partners. This new offering was developed within the Learning@Cisco organization, an award-winning education service focused on skills training and networking certification. The Collaborative Knowledge initiative is the centerpiece of the Learning@Cisco strategy to connect and empower knowledge workers and the Learning@Cisco’s Technology Delivery Investments to customers, business partners and the Cisco community. Bries brings over 15 years of networking market knowledge, business unit P&L experience, product/engineering management, operations support, and cross-team project management leadership to her current position. She holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard, and resides in California.

Aman Kumar is a member of the IMPACT leadership program in the Office of the CEO at SAP, where he focuses on consumerization, simplification, and business agility. He is also special advisor to the CIO of the Republic of Estonia and advisor to startups in Silicon Valley and Boston. Aman was previously the head of strategic marketing at MobileIron, Inc., an enterprise mobile startup in Silicon Valley, prior to its 2014 IPO. He began his career in product management at Apple and Google. Aman serves on the board of directors of the American Institute for Stuttering and is the 2005 United States Presidential Scholar for California.

Since joining Minolta Inc. (current Konica Minolta Headquarter in Japan), Mr. Hiroshi Tomita has over 20-year experience in software development for office automation, and the development of image processing technology for color and B&W Multi-Function Product. When moving to San Francisco in 1999, he was promoted to General Manager of the Imaging Division, then later in 2001 appointed as President. Mr. Tomita has been responsible for all R&D activities in the US, overseeing core technology development and research collaborations with US companies, universities, and research institutes in the areas of IT, environmental energy, and healthcare. Konica Minolta Laboratory USA (KMLUS) has been an active member of mediaX since 2006. Mr. Tomita is the former President and current Executive Advisor to the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California (JCCNC).

Rahul Basole is a Visiting Scholar at mediaX at Stanford University. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing and the Director of the Tennenbaum Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Basole is also a Fellow of the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Enterprise Transformation. Rahul's research and teaching focuses on computational enterprise science, information visualization, and strategic decision support to understand and manage technology and innovation in complex enterprise systems. He has published in leading computing, engineering, and management journals outlets, and his work has been recognized by the media, including the New York Times, Fortune Magazine, CIO.com, and CNBC. He holds a PhD in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech.