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.
	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 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.
	Carlo Maria Medaglia was born in Rome, Italy in 1974, he had his degree in physics at “Sapienza” University of Rome in 1999. He has got his PhD in Remote Sensing at the Engineering faculty of “Sapienza” University of Rome in 2004. Since 1999 he has been working at several international research institutions around the world as ISAC-CNR (Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate), NASA (National Atmospheric and Space Administration), ESA (European Space Agency), NOA (National Observatory of Athens) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Admospheric Administration). He also worked as visiting professor in several universities as: University of Madison-Wisconsin, University of Baltimore, University of Washington. Now he is working as consultant in the RFID/Wireless Group of the CNIPA (National Center for Informatics in the Public Administration), as full professor of Human Computer Interaction at Mass Communication Department of “Sapienza” University of Rome  and as Coordinator of the RFID Lab of CATTID (Centre for the Applications of Television and for Distance Learning Techniques) of “Sapienza” University of Rome. He has more than 70 contribution in peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings. His principle research activities are RFID, Geolocalization, satellite remote sensing and mobile/wireless communication.
	Dr. med. Martin Götz, was born in. 20.7.1972 1992 – 1994 Studies Human Medicine at the University of Heildeberg 1994 – 1998 Studies Human Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilians- University of Munich (Dir.. Univ. Prof. Dr. P.R. Galle). Main point: Morphologic, functional and molecular Bildgebung by in vivo confocale Microscope. 2000 - Promotion to Dr. med. at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. 1999 - 2000 doctor in Praktikum II. Medical Clinic, Grobhadern Hospital, Munich (Dir. Prof. Dr. G. Paumgartner). 2000 Until today I. Medical Clinic and Mainz Clinic, Universitary Clinic 2005 Specialist's acknowledgment "inside medicine". 2007 "Gastroenterologie".
	Prof. Josep Roca  MD, PhD   Current  responsibilities - Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona and Director of the Lung Function Unit at the Hospital Clinic (Barcelona). Leader of the Integrated Care team at the Hospital Clinic and Member of the Advisory Group of experts providing strategic view to the Catalan Ministry of Health for the implementation of  new models of care for chronic patients. These activities include leadership on  evaluation of deployment  of ICT to support integrated care. Scientific and professional background - Author of 180 original articles in peer-reviewed journals (> 70% first quartile); editor of three books and author of several book chapters and revisions. Frequent lecturer in two different fields: eHealth and respiratory physiology. Executive responsibilities in the European Respiratory Society as president during the 2000-02 period.
	Nicola Caporaso was born in Rome, Italy in 1975, and he has gotten his degree in Physics from "Sapienza" University of Rome in 2001. He graduated from his PhD in physics in 2005 at the university of Florence. He has been working as a post-doctoral researcher at several international research institutions such as MIT (Massacusetts Institute of Technology), CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), and the universities of Salamanca and Bilbao in Spain. He is lecturer of "Informatics and Technologies for Digital Communication" at the Mass Communication department of "Sapienza" University of Rome, and is supervising the Meteolab activities at CATTID - "Sapienza" University. His main research activities include computational physics, web accessibility, and ICT.