Allen Gunn from Aspiration (www.aspirationtech.org) organizes and facilitates events for the tech sector and non-profit organizations, bringing together practitioners to talk and share knowledge from their particular backgrounds and experiences.

Allison Hewlitt, programme officer for Bellanet (www.bellanet.org) inside of IDRC is an experienced facilitator that is also engaged in multiple reflection spaces around Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing topics for the development community.

The Unconference is a format that is gaining popularity in the tech and business community.

Sarah Weinman is an editor for GalleyCat, mediabistro.com's publishing industry news blog, the Baltimore Sun's crime fiction columnist and writes "Dark Passages," a monthly online mystery & suspense column for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. She finds herself moderating and participating in plenty of panels,

Guy Kawasaki, software entrepreneur,posted some advice last year on "How to be a Great Moderator", based on his experience on technology and business conferences. He seems to be against the use of Power Point or video aids during panels, and encourages to get the audience involved. What do you think?