Chris Dellarocas is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Boston University’s School of Management. He is one of the world’s most cited scholars in the fields of online reputation and social media. His thinking has also been featured in business books and trade publications ranging from the New York Times, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal to Variety and Slate. Other interests include collective intelligence, online advertising and the economics of media industries.

Dellarocas holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from MIT. Prior to Boston University he taught for eight years at MIT's Sloan School of Management and for five years at the University of Maryland’s R. H. Smith School of Business. Before pursuing an academic career he was a management consultant with Accenture and McKinsey.

Dellarocas is Senior Editor of Information Systems Research, the most respected academic journal in the field, and has chaired some of the most prestigious international conferences in Electronic Commerce. He has received numerous teaching and funding awards including the National Science Foundation's CAREER award, as well as grants from DARPA, Google and Microsoft. He holds 9 patents and is co-founder and advisor of a number of companies in the technology space.

Arun Sundararajan
Associate Professor - New York University

Arun Sundararajan is the NEC Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business, where he also directs the IS doctoral program, where he has recently been deeply involved in charting the institution's  India-directed strategy. He has published widely on the economics of IT, social media and networks, and has given over 200 conference and invited presentations internationally. His research has won three Best Paper awards, has been profiled by numerous trade publications, and has been supported by organizations that include Google, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo!

Professor Sundararajan's opinion pieces have appeared in CIO Magazine, the Economic Times, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Knowledge@Wharton and the Mint, InformationWeek. He was a founding co-chair in 2005 of the NYU Summer Workshop on the Economics of IT, and in 2009 of the Workshop on Information in Networks, a consortium of the leading academics studying social networks across marketing, management, economics, computer science and sociology. Follow him on Twitter @digitalarun

For 2010-12, he is also the SRITNE Distinguished Academic Fellow at the Indian School of Business, and is co-director of their Identity Initiative, an inter-disciplinary multi-institute collaboration that studies the impact of India's ongoing nationwide UID rollout.

Arijit Sarkar
Director, Online Sales - Google

As Director of Online Sales at Google, Arijit’s chief responsibilities include Operations, Sales, Key account management, solution delivery and project management primarily in the internet space panning search related advertising and recruitment management solutions.

Before Joining Google in February 2006 as an online sales and operations manager, Arijit was the General Manager of operations at Jobstreet.com - one of the leading Internet Recruitment websites in the Asia-Pacific - where he was responsible for Heading Business development for Application Tracking System Division, solution delivery and Customer care. Before Jobstreet.com, Arijit was the Area Sales manager for Blow Plast Limited - A young leading plastics industry player involved in the manufacture of products for use in the pharmaceuticals, paints, edible oil, cosmetic products, lubricants, chemicals and power industries.

Kaushal Sarda
Chief Evangelist, Kuliza Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Kaushal is an enthusiastic technologist with experience in building successful technology based consulting & product businesses. At Kuliza, Kaushal plays the role of a Chief Evangelist, and is mainly responsible for sharing the group's understanding and views about advances in social technologies with clients, partners, and peers. He is also responsible for the overall brand, communications, culture, research initiatives, and partner relations.

Suresh is responsible for strategic direction and expansion efforts at Ybrant Digital. Prior to co-founding two successful companies USAGreetings and Ybrant Technologies, he worked in various roles across different industries in Fortune 500 companies, such as Caterpillar, Chrysler, SBC(PacBell) and Charles Schwab.

Suresh holds an M. S. in Engineering from the Iowa State University and B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Ravi Bapna's research interests are in the areas of economics of information systems, online auctions, e-market design, Grid computing, and the design of the IT organization. Bapna serves as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly and as an associate editor for Information Systems Research. His research has been extensively published in a wide array of journals such as Management Science, Informs Journal on Computing, Statistical Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of Retailing, MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, CACM, Naval Research Logistics, DSS, EJOR and ITM. His views have featured in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, LiveMint, India Knowledge at Wharton, The Economic Times and Business Today.

Bapna heads the CIO Academy at the Indian School of Business as well as co-directs the Identity Initiative, an inter-disciplinary research initiative aimed at assessing the socio-economic impact of India's Unique Identity (UID) project.

Tarun Jain is affiliated with the Indian School of Business (ISB) as a resident faculty in the area of Economics and Public Policy. Prior to joining the ISB, he was working with the University of Virginia as an Instructor. In his career span, he has also worked with Charles River Associates Inc., Oliver Wyman, Braun Consulting, and Eastern Economic Journal.

His areas of research are Development Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, and Experimental Economics. He is a PhD as well as an M.A. in economics from University of Virginia. He graduated in Mathemati8cs and Economics from Franklin and Marshall College.

Nishtha Langer is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Her research looks at the economics of Human Capital and the business value of Information Technology (IT). Her research has been published at top tier journals, including Information Systems Research and Interfaces, and widely presented and acclaimed by both academic and industry audience.

Prior to joining ISB, Dr. Langer worked as a Systems Analyst at Arbella Insurance, Boston, MA and as a Systems Engineer at Tata Infotech Ltd., India (now part of Tata Consultancy Services). She holds a Bachelor in Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Management (with specialization in Information Systems) from the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.