Gabriele Piccoli is a full professor and Edward G. Schlieder Endowed Chair of Information Sciences at Louisiana State University. Dr. Piccoli is also affiliated with and has held positions with numerous universities both in the U.S. and abroad. His research, teaching, and consulting expertise is in strategic information systems and the use of information systems to enable customer service.

Federico Pigni is a Professor of Information Systems and director of the Global Tech program at the Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) in France. Dr. Pigni participated in various research projects funded by Italian, regional, and EU agencies, private industry, and government partners. He has published articles in California Management Review, MIS Quarterly Executive, and Production Planning & Control. He is currently researching value creation and appropriation opportunities stemming from big data and digital data streams.