Dr Bruce Walker is the Director of the Centre for Appropriate Technology Projects Pty Ltd (CAT), Australia's national Indigenous science and technology organisation. CAT focuses on the role of technology in improving conditions and prospects for people in remote communities. 

Dr Walker was awarded the 1999 Clunes Ross National Science and Technology Medal. He is a member of the steering committee for Desert Knowledge Australia and has worked to develop the aspirations of Indigenous people for a Desert Peoples Centre as a catalyst for change in the desert.

Professor Grahame Webb is Managing Director of Wildlife Management International and an Adjunct Professor at Charles Darwin University. He is also Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the Crocodile Specialist Group.

Professor Webb is regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on crocodilian research and management, and on the concept of conserving wildlife through sustainable-use programs. He has been actively involved in the conservation, management and traditional Indigenous use of wildlife resources.

Dr Margaret Friedel has devoted 33 years to the study of the ecology and management of rangelands in arid Australia. She has conducted research on the ecological impacts of pastoral land management, the population dynamics of trees and shrubs in relation to fire, weed ecology, management and rangeland condition assessment.

Dr Friedel was the winner of the Desert Knowledge Research Award at the 2007 Northern Territory Research and Innovation Awards.​

Ms Bronwyn Langworthy is a leading science exponent and her career spans many years in the education, primary industries and business sectors.

She was responsible for the development, preparation and publication of school curricula, a program for behaviourally challenged teens and extracurricular programs including leadership.

Ms Langworthy played a fundamental role in the establishment of the Australian Technical College (an independent Senior Secondary School) in Darwin, along with its programs and operations.

A microbiologist, Ms Langworthy has worked in the areas of Poll Herford Breeding for meat production, Jersey cow breeding for the production of milking cows for small rural holdings, and Merino X Border Leicester breeding and wool production.

Ms Langworthy is a partner in Energy Systems International (IES) and has also had considerable involvement in the management of Powercorp. These companies create and produce innovative technology which support and integrate small- to medium-sized hybrid and renewable energy systems.​

Mr Steven Rowe is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of SRA Information Technology and creator of the Envirosys™ product. Envirosys™ is a cutting edge environmental monitoring system that can be adapted to virtually any organisation's needs.

Mr Rowe had a string of successes in 2007, winning both the Minister for Business, Economic and Regional Development's Innovation Award and the premier Chief Minister's Research and Innovation Award at the 2007 Northern Territory Research and Innovation Awards.

Dr Graham Mitchell is an advisor on innovation to the Victorian Government and since 1996 has been one of the principals of Foursight, an advisory service in science, technology, research and development.

Dr Mitchell is recognised as one of Australia's leading biological scientists. His expertise extends over a wide range of fields in science and technology, including the control of parasitic diseases and 'the biotechnology revolution’. He has worked extensively overseas and with the World Health Organisation for many years. Author of more than 350 publications, he has received numerous awards for scientific achievement and in 1993 was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to science.

Professor Jonathan Carapetis is the Director of the Menzies School of Health Research. He holds qualifications as a medical practitioner, specialist paediatric physician and specialist public health physician, as well as a PhD.

Professor Carapetis has researched Group A streptococcal and pneumococcol diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, vitamin deficiency in refugees and urinary tract infection in children. Professor Carapetis has focussed his research career almost entirely on the health of Indigenous Australians and the populations of developing countries.

Professor Barney Glover is the Vice-Chancellor of Charles Darwin University. He took up his position in February 2009.

Professor Glover brings to CDU and the Northern Territory a record of success in university management and leadership, particularly in research, intellectual property management and capital development.

Previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Professor Glover also has significant business leadership credentials through board membership in corporate organisations and state and national centres covering the areas of health and medical research, energy, mineral exploration and processing and telecommunications.

Before relocating to Newcastle in 2006, Professor Glover held several positions at Perth's Curtin University of Technology. He has a strong research publication record and has co-authored four texts in mathematics education. Previous to his appointment at Curtin, Professor Glover held a number of positions at the University of Ballarat in Victoria. ​