Shaykh Ahmed Abdur-Rashid
…is a lecturer, writer and consultant in education, dialogue, NGO development, and conflict resolution, and an authorized teacher of five orders of Sufism. In 1979, he founded Legacy International, which has been instrumental in creating domestic and international programs in leadership training, environmental awareness, inter-community dialogue and tolerance.
TOPIC: The Spiritual Challenge of  Human and Environmental Ecology: Living the Trust of Allah swt

Mohamad A. Chakaki
…has a MA in Urban Ecology and Environmental Design from Yale University, and undergraduate degrees in Religion and Biology from George Washington University. He has worked in parks and gardens across the US, with the Peace Corps in Central Africa, and the United Nations in Syria. He now consults on environment and community development projects in both the US and the Middle East.
TOPIC: Seeing the Environment as a Child: the Need to Return to the Fitra (knowledge we were born with)

Musa Waldbaum
…is a principal with Technology Development, Inc, helping to develop innovative businesses in fields as diverse as desalination, geothermal technology, biofeuls, and healthcare delivery, situated in many parts of the world including the US, SE Asia, the Gulf, and Eastern Europe. He is a highly skilled executive with expertise in financing, conflict management, and cross-cultural relations.
TOPIC: Muslim Presence and Green Consciousness (with video and slides)

Dr. Masood Ahmad
…is an energy expert with a PhD in engineering and the director of planning at a federally regulated power facility. His particular concentration is to project the states' need for electricity twenty years into the future, and to understand the available resources for meeting those needs.
TOPIC: The Cost and Consequences of Not Going Green (what scientists and economists predict, what studies show)

D. Inayat von Briesen
…is a faculty member in the Futures Institute at Central Piedmont Community College. He has been in charge of connecting the seven campuses of the college together by information technology to streamline teaching activities, and is currently working on projects in the 3-D virtual world and the Center for Sustainability. He is a frequent khatib at masajid and a popular lecturer on information technology and distance learning topics.
TOPIC: The Big Jihad: Changing Ourselves to Change Our Environment.

Shaykh Nooruddeen Durkee
…is an author. translator and teacher, and director of the Islamic Study Center. He also or many years has worked on appropriate technology and traditional architecture, including Dar al Islam in Abiquiu, New Mexico as well as several other communities. His message will be that the solutions to current and future problems rest upon the return to frugality (faqr) and the necessity of scrupulousness (wara') in daily life.
TOPIC: The written Qur’an (tadwini) and the created Qur’an (takwini)