• Richard Anthony, Richard Anthony Associates/CRRA/GRC/ZWIA, San Diego, CA, USA “Why Zero Waste is the cultural, legal and scientific direction for public health and resource management. Why a dialog, the Publication, the Review Panel and the Next Steps.”
• Jared Blumenfeld, Director, San Francisco Department of the Environment, San Francisco, CA, USA “Welcome to San Francisco"

• Michael Paparian, CA Integrated Waste Management Board, Sacramento, CA, USA “Zero Waste and Sustainability: Strategic Goals of Cal-EPA and CIWMB”

• Dr. Neil Seldman, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington, DC, USA “From Integrated Waste Management to Resource Management and Zero Waste”
• Gerry Gillespie, Manager, South East Australia Department of Environment and Conservation, Sustainability Programs Branch, Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia “Zero Waste: A Systems Approach”

• Dr. Patrick Lucia, GeoSyntec, California, USA, “A comprehensive review of landfill environmental issues and regulations for the CIWMB.”
• Peter Anderson, RecycleWorlds Consulting, Madison , WI , USA , “The need for new regulations governing landfills and bioreactors”
• Mal Williams, Zero Waste, UK, Cardiff , Wales, “The EU Landfill Directive: What it is and how different countries are implementing it”
• Eric Lombardi, GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN), Boulder, CA, USA, “Landfill’s role in a Zero Waste system”

Addresses “Which is more sustainable: exporting recyclables for offshore manufacturing or utilizing them in local industry”' and “How should recycling policy relate to economic and land use policies?”

• John Gundlach, Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Chino,CA. USA, “Case study of anaerobic digestion of municipal and agricultural feedstocks”
• Manny Calonzo, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), Quezon, Philippines “How and why the Philippines banned incineration”
• Ralph Anthony Ryder, Communities Against Toxics and Zero Waste UK Alliance, Chesire , UK, “Environmental and economic impacts of thermal technologies and how EU classifies them”

• Dr. Jeffrey Morris, Sound Resource Management, Seattle , WA , USA "Zero Waste Economics - Global Benefits, Local Costs"

• Karen Asp, Gartner Lee, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada “Successful Extended Producer Responsibility Programs”
• Jean-Marie Savino, Espace Environment, Belgium, “Producers and retailers role in social marketing for Zero Waste”
• Dr. Bill Sheehan, Product Policy Project, Athens, GA, USA, “ EPR for Local Government and NGOs: Looking Beyond Computers to Zero Waste”
• Gil Friend, Natural Logic, Inc., Berkeley , CA , USA , “How Sustainable Businesses are approaching Clean Production and Zero Waste”

• Miriam Gordon, Algalita Marine Research Foundation, Long Beach, CA, USA, “Plastics and Zero Waste”
• Captain Charlie Moore, Algalita Marine Research Foundation, Long Beach, CA, USA, “Impacts of Plastics on the Marine Environment”
• Gwen Lattin, Algalita Marine Research Foundation, Long Beach, CA, USA, “Plastics in Urban Runoff and from Plastics Manufacturers”
• Pete Myers, OurStolenFuture.Org, USA, “Toxicological Effects of Plastics on Humans and Other Species”
• Pat Costner, Greenpeace, Eureka Springs, AR, USA, “Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Plastics Incineration”

• Dr. Dan Knapp, Urban Ore , Berkeley, CA, USA, “Twelve Master Categories”
• Didier Toque, President, Décentralisation & Initiatives Locales, Paris, France, “How municipalities in France are reacting to the concept of Zero Waste.”

• Resa Dimino, GrassRoots Recycling Network, New York City , USA , "Citizens Zero Waste Plan”
• Sonia Mendoza, President, Mother Earth Unlimited “A zero waste strategy for Candon city: ecological waste management in the Philippines ”
• Shibu Nair, Thanal Conservation Action And Information Network, Keralam, India “Zero Waste Kovalam , India”
• Mary Jean O’Donnell, MJ Waste Solutions, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, “Zero Waste Plan: Nelson, British Columbia ”

• Brenda Platt, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington, DC, USA,  “Beyond 50% Waste Diversion Through Reuse and Recycling”
• Bill Worrell, San Luis Obispo County California Waste Management Authority, California, USA “Reuse and Recycling, California Style”
• Mark Gorrell, architect, Berkeley, CA, USA, “Resource Recovery Park Design Considerations”
• Sanjay Gupta, Toxics Link, New Delhi, India, “Zero Waste Business”

• Jack Macy, San Francisco Department of the Environment, “Food Waste Composting – Key to getting to Zero Waste”
• Dr.  Paul Connett, Grass Roots & Global Video, Canton, New York, USA, “
  Halifax, Nova Scotia organics processing systems”
• Mila Andrade, Municipal Agriculturalist, Altavas Province, Philippines “How
  composting helped get them to almost Zero Waste”

• Richard Anthony, Richard Anthony Associates
• Bill Worrell, San Luis Obispo County Integrated Waste Management Authority
• Portia Sinnott, MicroServices Plus
• Gary Liss, Gary Liss & Associates/GRC/ZWIA