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Henry Chesbrough is best known as “the father of Open Innovation”. He is the founding Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he has served as an Adjunct Faculty member for 20 years. He is also Maire Tecnimont Professor of Open Innovation and Sustainability at Luiss University in Rome. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, an MBA from Stanford, and a BA from Yale University. He has written books such as Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), Open Business Models (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), Open Services Innovation (Jossey-Bass, 2011) and Open Innovation Results (Oxford, 2020). The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation, co-authored with Agnieszka Radziwon, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and Joel West, was published in March 2024. His research has been cited more than 110,000 times, according to Google Scholar.

As an academic entrepreneur, he launched the Berkeley Innovation Forum at Berkeley Haas in 2005, which currently has 30 member companies. He started the European Innovation Forum with Wim Vanhaverbeke in 2012. He started the World Open Innovation Conference in 2014, which annually hosts more than 200 scholars and managers. He originated the weekly Open Innovation Research Seminar, which has met online weekly since 2016. He has been recognized as one of the leading business thinkers by Thinkers50 several times. He received an Innovation Luminary award from the European Commission in 2014. He received the Industrial Research Institute Medal of Achievement in 2017, the Herbert Simon Award of the Rajk College for Advanced Studies in Corvinus University in 2020, the Viipuri Prize from Lappeenranta University of Technology in 2022, and holds four honorary doctorates.

Ted Okada is the head of the Technology Strategy Unit, where he has been leading strategic new business planning, collaborating with startups rooted in our core technologies, and developing a vision for the future of technology. Since joining the company in 1991, he has been involved in the development of local government systems in Japan, working not only to provide back-office business applications but also to create new businesses utilizing Fujitsu technologies. Through these efforts, he is committed to enhancing Fujitsu Technology's global presence.

Indradeep is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Fujitsu Research of America, Sunnyvale. He heads Fujitsu’s research efforts in North America and leads a team of researchers doing cutting edge research in AI, Quantum computing, and Convergence technologies. He has been working in industrial R&D for over 25 years in various areas of hardware and software analysis, quality assurance, and optimization.

Indradeep received the Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

Surya Josyula is Head of the Business Incubation Division at Fujitsu Research of America. He works on outbound initiatives for new innovations including technology incubation and co-creation with customers and partners. Prior to Fujitsu Research, Surya spent 15 years at Sun Microsystems in various engineering and marketing roles.