Joseph Kohl became an early innovator in form-based coding through his work with Dover, Kohl & Partners since 1987. His clients have taken him across the United States and around the world to create master plans and development regulations for existing neighborhoods and new communities. Joe has co-authored form-based codes for several Florida municipalities and for Hercules CA, Beaufort SC, Lemont IL, and Jeddah Saudi Arabia. His current projects include a comprehensive plan and code for El Paso, Texas. Joe has degrees in architecture and urbanism from Virginia Tech and the University of Miami. He is a founding board member of the Form-Based Codes Institute.

Marina Khoury is a partner at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company and Director of its Washington D.C. office since 2007. She is a licensed architect with 20 years of professional practice. Her 15 years at DPZ have brought her extensive national and international experience in regional and community planning, sustainable urban development, downtown revitalization plans and form-based coding throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. As project director, she spear-headed Miami 21, and was instrumental in helping to successfully transform the City of Miami's use-based zoning code into the largest-known adoption of a form-based code. She has lectured nationally and internationally. Marina earned two masters degrees, in architecture and urban planning from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee after attending the “Ecole Speciale D'Architecture” in Paris, France.

Amy Groves joined Dover, Kohl& Partners in 2002. As a Senior Project Director, she guides the work of the studio team to create implementable plans using the principles of smart growth, sustainable planning, and traditional neighborhood design. Amy has participated in over 40 Dover-Kohl charrettes, functioning as both Project Director and Town Planner for downtown master plans, redevelopment plans and form-based codes, as well as new neighborhood and town plans. Amy received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami, and a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia. She is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and is a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). Amy is also certified by the National Charrette Institute (NCI) as a charrette planner.

Kevin Klinkenberg is principal of K2 Urban Design in Savannah, GA. He brings 18 years of professional experience to his committment to designing human scale, walkable communities. He seeks a balance between the practical and the visionary in projects of all scales, from individual sites to neighborhoods and entire regions. Kevin is a Fellow with the Knight Program in Community Building through the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation and a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) since 1997. He has been active in setting new standards for context-sensitive transportation policy through the CNU and is working with several national colleagues on the formation of XNU, the next stage in the development of New Urbanism. He is a frequent speaker, writer and instructor for FBCI and recently lectured at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Architecture & Urban Design. His volunteer activities include serving as 2010 president of AIA/Kansas City and board tenure on the Urban Society of Kansas City, Housing Choices Coalition, along with numerous volunteer committees.