Dr.ir. Bastiaan van Loenen is Associate Professor of Geo-information Science in the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Bastiaan is chairing the TU Delft’s Knowledge Center Open Data, as well as the Geo-information infrastructure committee of the Dutch Geodetic Commission, and the scientific coordinator of the EU project Towards a sustainable open data ecosystem (ODECO).
Currently his main focus is on the governance of open data and approaches towards sustainable open data ecosystems with a focus on geographic information. Of special interest is the concept of the open (data) city where citizens, companies and government together, with equal information positions, design and develop the city of the future.

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Steven Alter is a Professor Emeritus at the University of San Francisco. His experience as vice president of a manufacturing software start-up and author of four editions of an IS textbook led to development of the “work system method,” a systems analysis and design approach that business professionals can adapt and use for their own understanding and for collaborating with IT professionals, consultants, and vendors. The underlying ideas were formalized as work system theory, which has been extended in many articles and conference papers over several decades. His continuing research aims to articulate a broader work system perspective that can serve as an integrated lens for high level discussions of sociotechnical and totally automated work systems while also providing paths for exploring specific aspects of work systems in substantial detail.