Anthony has been researching the implications of new technology on cities and public institutions for over a decade. His goal is to bring a scientific, rational approach to forecasting and to avoid the temptations of easy sound bites and unwarranted forecasts of doom.

At IFTF, Anthony's work focuses on several inter-related topics:

• mobility and urbanization
  
• science parks, incubators and regional innovation systems
  
• sustainability and telework
  
• pervasive computing
  
• future R&D models
  
• tourism and entertainment
  

Bob has worked for more than 30 years as a forecaster, exploring the human side of new technologies. He has a deep interest in the future of religion and its impact on business, society, and individuals. Bob works mainly with senior corporate executives across a wide range of industries. He has rich experience in presenting IFTF's foresight and then drawing out insights-inputs to strategy-and-action steps.

Cesar Castro is a Research Director at the Institute For The Future, working both with the Technology Horizons Team and the Health Horizons Team. His primary areas of research include open innovation, crowdsourcing, hybrid business models, and new models for online cooperative communities.

David Pescovitz is co-editor of the popular weblog BoingBoing.net and also editor-at-large for MAKE:, the DIY technology magazine. Pescovitz co-wrote the book Reality Check (HardWired, 1996), based on his long-running futurist column in Wired magazine where he remains a correspondent. He has also written for Scientific American, Popular Science, New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, and New Scientist, among many other publications.

Jane McGonigal is a game designer and a games researcher who specializes in networked experiences for real-world spaces. As a lead designer for 42 Entertainment, she uses ubiquitous computing technologies and metaphors to explore new social architectures and to create massively-scaled, collaborative play. As a researcher, she focuses on the ways in which collective gaming has long-term and persistent impacts on the cognitive frameworks, social relations, public participation, and personal identities of players in their everyday lives.

Jason Tester's interests in interactive technology began the old-fashioned way, tinkering one-on-one with the equipment he had at hand. With his work on technological voting, however, he saw the possible effects of computer-human interaction on the future of society as a whole.

Jeff oversees institutional and programmatic communications, event planning, web presence, research project messaging, and assists with production management.

Before joining IFTF, Jeff worked at EPRI (Electric Power Research
Institute), with over ten years of research communications and project management experience for the Nuclear and Fossil Generation programs. He graduated from Saint Mary's College (Moraga, CA) with a B.A in business.

As a Research Manager for the Technology Horizons program, Jess is interested in the future of media, particularly music, and how new technologies will shape the way we make, access, share, and appreciate media content. She covers the San Francisco music scene for TheOwlMag and her own blog, SFJukebox and has participated in panels sponsored by the Bandwidth Conference and the Bay Area Video Coalition.

Lisa serves as the editorial assistant in IFTF's production department. She edits various deliverables and helps to organize the flow of projects that runs through IFTF at all times. In addition to her work as an editor, Lisa supports the Director of Communications in any way needed. Her interests lie in all things language-related: literature, editing, writing, etc. Lisa holds a BA in English literature, with a specialization in 18th Century British fiction, from Mills College in Oakland, CA.

Lyn is a cultural anthropologist who has spent the last 25 years living and working between California and mainland China. Her current research interests include the development of the Chinese language Internet, global families and changing daily life, the future of mobility, and youth and work. Lyn brings expertise in ethnographic methods and analysis to IFTF and has worked in all of its research programs. She has led numerous research tasks for individual clients and is a practiced content facilitator. Lyn is fluent in Mandarin.

A native of Odessa, Ukraine, Marina is particularly suited to see things from a global perspective. She has directed international programs and led international development projects for SRI (formerly Stanford Research Institute) in China, Japan, Vietnam, India, and Eastern Europe. Marina has also authored publications on international business and economics, with an emphasis on regional innovation and competitiveness.

Matt serves as a research manager working on and leading special organization and research projects assigned by the Executive Director of IFTF. His background is in physics, planetary science, and foreign policy, and brings to the team a deep interest in emerging issues for science and technology policy, international affairs, and humanitarian issues. In addition to his work on research projects, Matt supports the Executive Director in all leadership and management demands for IFTF, including strategy, operations, board and client relations, and staff development.

Mike Liebhold is a Senior Researcher focusing on the mobile and abundant computation, immersive media and geospatial web foundations for context-aware and ubiquitous computing. Previously, Mike was a Visiting Researcher, Intel Labs, working on a pattern language based on semantic web frameworks for ubiquitous computing.

Mike researches and designs online collaborative spaces to improve interaction between IFTF researchers, its expert network, and its members. He is interested in the use of interactive visual tools to help find patterns in large sets of data. He has a degree in mathematics from Stanford University.

A self-described nerd growing up, Sean read all he could about science as a kid, and immersed himself in maps for hours at a time. He also set his chemistry set on fire a few times, took junior high computer classes on a TRS-80, and was on his high school ecology team. In college, he switched from mechanical engineering to polymer science when he learned that polymer grads often went on to technical sales. The idea of technical sales piqued his interest, and an entrepreneur was born.