Dr. Jinpeng Huai, Host Representative of W3C/Beihang Host, is the President of Beihang University and the Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently he works as member of the Advisory Committee for the State Informatization, and Vice Director of China Aeronautics Federation. He has been awarded the National Science Fund for Outstanding Youths and has made significant contributions to the national strategic R&D planning and industrialization of the information technology, especially computing in China. Dr. Huai has Chaired many conferences including IEEE, SRDS2007, and WWW2008, and has given more 20 keynotes speeches in academic conferences at home and abroad.

Xudong Liu is a PhD supervisor in computer science. Currently, he works as Party Secretary of Computer Science School of Beihang University. His main research interests include network software development methodology, trusted software technology, middleware technology, and information technology standards.

Alan Bird is the Global Business Development Lead for W3C. In this role, Mr. Bird leads W3C staff efforts internationally to strengthen the W3C Membership program, identify business development strategies, and seek new revenue streams to support the organization. Alan joined W3C in January 2011.

Ivan Herman leads W3C's work on Semantic Web technology. Ivan joined the W3C staff as Head of W3C Offices in January 2001 while maintaing his research position at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2006 he became Semantic Web Activity Lead. Ivan is also member of IW3C2 (International World Wide Web Conference Committee), responsible for the World Wide Web Conference series, and of the SWSA (Semantic Web Science Association) for the International Semantic Web Conferences.

Chunming Hu is an associate professor at School of Computer Science, Beihang University. He got his Ph.D degree in Computer Science in 2006. Since then he has been working as the part-time coordinator in W3C China Office. Now he is also the Vice Dean of School of Computer Science, Beihang University. His research interests include distributed systems, software middleware, system virtualization and resource scheduling in cloud systems.

Angel Li joined the W3C China Office in the year of 2006. She has been working as the business manager and then communication officer in the Office. Now she manages the operation of the W3C/Beihang Host, and is responsible for business development in China as well.

Veronica Thom is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the World Wide Web Consortium. In this role she has cross-W3C responsibility for finance, budget, financial plans and controls, and with her combined business/finance background, will advise W3M on future initiatives.