Oshani Seneviratne is the Associate Director of the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an Assistant Professor in Computer Science. She was previously the Director of Health Data Research at the Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Applications. Oshani obtained her S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Oshani's current research interests span data integration, knowledge representation, provenance, and decentralized systems. Oshani has authored over 50 scientific publications and received the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges award for her dissertation work on the HyperText Transfer Protocol with Accountability. Furthermore, Oshani cofounded and co-organized the AIChain workshop series co-located with the IEEE Blockchain conference, the Personal Health Knowledge Graph workshop series, the Healthcare and Life-Sciences and Decentralized Knowledge Graph Symposia at the Knowledge Graph Conference, and the AAAI Symposium on AI for Social Good. Oshani has served on the organizing committees of the International Semantic Web Conference, the Web Science conference, and several Blockchain conferences.

James Hendler is the Tetherless World Chair of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI and the Director of the Rensselaer-IBM AI Research Collaboration. One of the originators of the "Semantic Web," Hendler is a Fellow of the AAAI, BCS, IEEE, AAAS, ACM and the US National Academy of Public Administration. Hendler has served as the Open Data Advisor to New York State, a member of the US Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee, a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, and is currently a member of the Director's Advisory Committee for the National Security Directorate of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His most recent books (other than this one) are Social Machines: The Coming Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networks and Humanity (Apress, 2017) and Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist - Third Edition (ACM Press).