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Bob Doppelt is Executive Director of Resource Innovations, a sustainability research and technical assistance program; and The Climate Leadership Initiative at the Institute for a Sustainable Environment (University of Oregon). He is also a principal in the consulting firm Factor Ten Inc.

His work focuses on assisting organisations in implementing sustainability change management programs. He has also served on the Western Division of The President's Council on Sustainable Development and on the U.S. EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology.

Doppelt is in addition an adjunct faculty of systems and management at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and is a graduate of the International Program on the Management of Sustainability, Ziest, The Netherlands. He speaks and leads workshops on systems thinking, climate change and related organisational change, governance and personal leadership for sustainability.

Prof Karoly is an internationally-recognised expert in climate change and climate variability, including greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and interannual climate variations due to El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

He was heavily involved in preparation of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in 2007. Professor Karoly was Chair of the Premier of Victoria's Climate Change Reference Group during 2008 and 2009, and is a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and the Australian Academy of Sciences' National Committee on Earth System Science.

Professor Karoly joined the School of Earth Sciences in May 2007 as a Federation Fellow funded by the Australian government.

Dorjee started Carbon Conservation to finance the preservation of tropical rainforests and provide carbon credit revenues to local communities via Avoided Deforestation.

He was the founder of a recruitment software company with offices in Melbourne and London, and an award winning education company which mentored over 25,000 students through Sydney and Melbourne.

His interest in animation and webTV led to the founding of the creative agency Joosed. With an interest in viral marketing and social media software, Dorjee also started VirtualVillager.com, a software company building virtual villages for business and government. The company's projects include AsiaGroove.com, the world's first Asian youth pop-culture collaborative community and MyAutosalon.com focusing on youth car culture.

He has spoken at the Future Summit, AsiaConnect, The World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, participated at the Australian Davos Leadership retreat and other think-tanks.

Dr. Patwardhan has more than 22 years of experience in sustainable solutions, watershed management, sustainable planning, water quality analysis and management and total water management.  He has received two U.S. patents, authored more than 45 technical papers and publications and has worked on over 50 watershed studies.  Most recently, he worked as a Project Manager delivering Sustainability services for Masdar, the world’s first carbon-neutral community in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.  As manager, senior consultant, and technical advisor, Dr. Patwardhan has developed and applied emerging and established technologies to a broad range of projects in the U.S., Canada, ASEAN/India, China, Middle East, North Africa and United Kingdom.

Gabrielle has significant experience in Australia and the USA working on policy alignment, cross-government capability and new products development for a global market. Her board memberships include the South Australian Film Corporation, South Australian Natural Resources Council, the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Adelaide Film Festival.

In 1990, with the Sundance Institute, Gabrielle produced one of the first climate change documentaries. She has also interviewed global political leaders for US and UK television.

She is the founder of the influential Australian International Documentary Conference and Southtalk, a successful model for community leadership program and citizen engagement in modern life and politics. She has played a significant role in the vision and early implementation of the Playford North Project- one of Australia's largest urban and social regeneration projects.