Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel, born in 1954, is President and CEO of the Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT-Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam. He is full professor for computer science with a chair in Internet Technology and Systems. His research focuses on IT-security engineering, teleteaching and telemedicine. He is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers, chief editor of “ECCC – Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity” and “IT-Gipfelblog”, chairman of the German IPv6 council and member of various scientific boards and program committees.
	Constantinos Pitris received the B.S. Honors degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Medical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2000. He also received a degree in Medicine (Magna Cum Laude) from the Harvard Medical School in 2002. He has worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Wellman Center of Photomedicine of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He was appointed a member of the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus in June 2002. He serves as a reviewer for the European Comission, FP7 research programs, and the Ministry of Commerce of the Government of Cyprus. Dr. Pitris is also the co-founder of two strart-up companies in the area of medical diagnostics. Additional teaching activities include an adjunct lecturer appointment at the Cyprus International Instiute for the Environment and Public Health, in association with the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an active member of IEEE, OSA, SPIE and a reviewer for Optics Letters, Applied Optics, Journal of Biomedical Optics and Nature publications.
	Dipl. Ing. Reiner Götzen, Germany is born in Rheinhausen, 25.4.1954 and has 3 children. He graduated as engineer of electrical engineering with specialization electronic and precision engineering. Mr. Götzen worked for Fraunhofer institute for microelectronic circuits and systems, Duisburg; for Thyssen-Krupp Duisburg and Robot Düsseldorf. He is founder and CEO of microTEC für Mikrotechnologie mbH, managed there industrial projects and also national and European funded research (MCSP, LIKA, Healthyaims, INOS, Ultra). Reiner Götzen holds a wide range of patents in Microsystems applications and production  technologies, has published several articles and invited presentations. In 1998 he was awarded with Innovation award Ruhr area.
	V. Duval da Silva, MD graduated in Medicine in 1991 at FURG, Rio Grande RS, Brazil and is a licensed pathologist with a PhD degree in Medicine at UFRGS, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil and Post-doctoral Scholarship at the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center (USA, 1998-99). He is currently Head, Department of Pathology and Radiation, PUCRS School of Medicine, Head, Pathology Service, Sao Lucas Hospital of PUCRS, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil and Research Fellow, Brazilian Council of Research (CNPq). His main areas of research are quantitative pathology and predictive and prognostic markers in cancer.
	Ruben Tous received his his Ph.D in Computer Science and Digital Communication from UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) in 2006. From 2000 to 2001 he worked as a consultant at CapGemini Ernst&Young in Barcelona, From 2001 to 2005 he worked at the Department of Techology of UPF. Since 2006 he is a researcher at DMAG (Distributed Multimedia Applications Group) of the Department of Computer Architecture of UPC (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) and an Assistant Professor. He is an expert for the Asociacin Espaola de Normalizacin y Certificacin (AENOR) and has been participating as spanish delegate in ISO/MPEG and ISO/JPEG. His research interests include semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval, knowledge representation and reasoning for multimedia understanding (multimedia ontologies) and semantic alignment.
	O.Ferrer-Roca MD. PhD. Born in Barcelona, studied Medicine in the Central University of Barcelona from 1966-1972 with Honors. Got the PhD with “Cariotyping and tissue culture of tumors” in 1974 with Honors. Specialized in Pathology in 1974 being trained in Paris, Milwakee-USA and London. Working as pathologist in the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona since 1972 got the Assistance Professorship in Pathology in 1974 and the Chair of Pathology of the University of La Laguna in 1982. Commercialized a pathology image analysis system TEXCAN ® ™ specialized in visual textural analysis of the cell chromatin and DNA and immunohistochemical quantification. Founded the CATAI association in 1993, being the president since then. Got the UNESCO Chair of Telemedicine in 1999 for the University of La Laguna. Since 1996 train on Telemedicine the students of medicine and Computer Science, creating the European Master of Telemedicine and Bioengineering applied to Telemedicine in 2004, at distance. Editor of 8 books and 202 Publications is the author of the first textbook of Telemedicine Handbook of Telemedicine. Amsterdam: IOS-Press, 1998, containing the Ontology of Telemedicine
	Alexander Horsch is professor at the Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology (IMSE) of the Technische University München (TUM) and adjunct professor at the University of Tromsø (UIT). He got his Ph.D. in computer science 1989. 1987-1995 he was head of the medical computing centre of the university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar. From 1992 on he gives lectures in medical informatics and biomedical engineering. He was manager of several projects in telemedicine and computer-aided diagnosis. From 09/1998 to 09/2007 he was chair of the working group Medical Image Processing of the German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS). He is German representative in the EFMI Council and chair of EFMI Working Group on Medical Image Processing, member of scientific program committees of MIE and CARS as well as for national conferences. He is author or co-author of more than 100 publications in conference proceedings, scientific journals, and books. He is reviewer for IEEE, IJMI, Methods, and other journals and scientific societies, and he is involved in telemedicine actions of EC, ESA and WHO. His main research interests are telemedicine, eLearning, medical image processing and computer-aided diagnosis.
	Anastasia N. Kastania was born in Athens, Greece. She received her B.Sc. in Mathematics (1987) and her Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Medical Informatics (1993) from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. From October 2005 – May 2008 she was awarded a Post-Doctorate Fellowship in Bioinformatics at the Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens, Greece. Research productivity is summarized in various articles(monographs or in collaboration with other researchers) in International Journals, International Conference Proceedings, International Book Series and International Book Chapters. She is an adjunct Assistant Professor (PD 407/80) of Informatics in the Department of Accounting and Finance in the Athens University of Economics and Business. She works in the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business since 1987. She has participated in many Research Projects in Greece and in European Union. She is the co-Editor of the Greek Handbook of Telemedicine and a writer of many didactic books in the areas of Informatics and Statistics. Since July 2004 she is the Greek Chapter Chair of the IEEE Education Society. Currently she is a Collaborating Researcher at the Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics Team, Centre of Basic Research, Biotechnology Division, Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens and a Visiting Scientist at the Laboratory of Experimental Physiology, Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
	Maria Esther Vidal, Caracas, Venezuela. Bachelor on Computer Engineering in 1987, Master on Computer Science in 1991, and PhD on Computer Science in 2000 from the University Simón Bolívar, Caracas Venezuela. She is a Full Professor of the Computer Science department at the University Simón Bolívar and has been Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies in the University of Maryland (UMIACS) (1995-1999), and Visitor Professor at UMIACS (2000-2008) and in Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (2003). She has reported her research on AAAI, IJCAI, SIGMOD, CoopIs, WIDM, WebDB, ICDE, DILS, DEXA, ALPWS, ACM SAC, CAISE, OTM, EDBT, SIGMOD RECORDS and TPLP Journal. Current research interests are query rewriting and optimization in emerging infrastructures. Prof. Vidal is member of SIGMOD.
	Professor Stephen G. Lipson is Professor of Physics and incumbent of the El-Op Company Chair in Electro-Optics at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He is the author of two textbooks, "An Introduction to Optical Stellar Interferometry" (2006) and "Optical Physics", which was first published in 1969 and has seen three editions; a fourth edition is currently in preparation. His research work centres around optical investigations of non-linear dynamic processes, and he has also worked on adaptive optics applied to the human eye.