Allister Frost is an experienced B2C and B2B marketer who helps businesses achieve their potential by connecting with customers through digital communication channels. As Head of Digital Marketing Strategy for Microsoft, he specialises in emerging online marketing techniques and is reengineering how brands like Windows 7, Office365, and Xbox 360 use the social web to achieve their business goals. He regularly speaks at business and academic seminars about the rapidly changing social media landscape, and shares advice about how brands can benefit from the end of the broadcast era and how creative marketing in a digital world can help unlock fresh business opportunities. Allister posts his ideas and perspectives to his popular digital marketing blog at http://allisterfrost.com and contributes to Microsoft’s Digital Learning curriculum. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Allister managed consumer goods brands including Andrex, Huggies and Kleenex. These days he can mostly be found darting between Reading, London and Cyberspace.
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 Cathy manages IPC Media's Social Media development and Digital Analytics, covering more than fifty brands including Wallpaper*, MarieClaire and NME .  Her focus is on strategy and cultivating a culture of community empowerment and smart use of actionable insights.   Previously, she has worked as a sociologist on Wikipedia, a social user experience designer for Yahoo! and a social media consultant at Vodafone.

Kerry Bridge is part of Dell’s Global Corporate Communications team, reporting into the Global Communications Director for Dell’s Public Sector business unit.

Kerry leads Dell’s approach to social media communications worldwide for the Public Sector business.  As well as leading a team, Kerry manages Dell’s Enterprise blog (Inside Enterprise IT), and forms part of Dell’s global social media leadership team. Together they drive Dell’s outreach to customers and key stakeholders by proactively joining relevant conversations on the web and managing the companies’ blogs, wikis and forums.  You can connect with Kerry on Twitter: @KerryatDell.

Lars Silberbauer holds the position of Global Social Media Strategist at the LEGO Group and is responsible for driving the strategic development and implementation of all major social media initiatives for the LEGO brand. He comes from a background in digital and broadcast media from his previous position at the Danish Broadcast Corporation.

Besides working on numerous social media projects and with digital media, Lars has been working as Creative Project Manager for the light projections at the new DR Concert House in DR Byen. The concert hall was built by the French architect Jean Nouvel who has created a world class venue where architecture and media are closely connected.

Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp., grew up in Rochester, NY. In 1986, Juszkiewicz and his partners acquired Gibson Guitar from the Norlin Corp. Juszkiewicz's aggressive management style again effected an immediate turnaround, and Gibson became profitable within a month's time.

With creative and innovative marketing tactics he concentrated on the consumer rather than the retailer - a reflection of his personal experience as a guitar player. Refocusing the company on achieving the highest possible standards of quality and customer service, he drove Gibson from the brink of closing to a company that has regained worldwide respect with annual average growth of 20 percent over the last decade.

 Christer Holloman is the author of The Social Media MBA published by Wiley, resident blogger at Sky News Tech Talk and Chairman of First Tuesday, UK’s largest network for high growth technology SME’s and their investors. The Evening Standard named Holloman one of London’s Most Influential Individual Within New Media.

From Crème Egg, Wispa, Toblerone and Dairy Milk chocolate, to Belvita, Mikado and Oreo biscuits, Philadelphia and Dairylea cheese, Maynards and Natural Confectionery Company candy, Trident gum, Kenco and Carte Noir coffee, Kraft has some of those most well-loved brands in Europe. Sonia’s role is to help these brands meet their business objectives by reaching, engaging and servicing more consumers through the digital channel. Cadbury is the Official Treat Provider for the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games and Sonia is particularly proud and excited to be managing all digital activity within this sponsorship.

Jonathan Hudson joined Shop Direct Group in 2004, initially managing sales across the contact centres and then working in digital advertising before moving into e-commerce. Jonathan leads Social and Mobile development in the E-Commerce team and has a true passion and enthusiasm for all things digital. 

Jonathan is currently focussed on driving social and mobile activity across the Shop Direct Group brands which include Littlewoods, Very, isme, and Woolworths. He is also product owner for apps and has a passion for all things video.

Elizabeth is responsible for global interactive marketing, marketing communications, public relations and corporate communications initiatives on behalf of the Four Seasons brand and its properties around the world.  With an ever-expanding portfolio of hotels in more than 35 countries, building the brand’s reputation and leadership in the luxury sector through strategic marketing activities is both challenging and rewarding.

Her scope of responsibility encompasses the company’s brand-level communications activities in interactive, digital, advertising, promotions, direct marketing, and the Four Seasons magazine and newsletters.  Elizabeth also oversees strategic media relations outreach; crisis management; corporate social responsibility initiatives and reputation management.

Ian is a veteran in digital advertising with over 14 years experience including over 10 years in Search marketing. Ian started work at Google over 8 years ago and was responsible for verticalising the UK business. He then went on to run the finance team across Europe, considered Google most advanced sector globally and also led several key global projects around monetization.

 Colin joined LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional online network, in 2011 and is responsible for leading the growth of LinkedIn´s Marketing Solutions business in the UK.

In this role he leads the team that helps marketers to identify, target and engage the world's most influential professionals (http://marketing.linkedin.com). Before joining LinkedIn, Colin was Head of Trading for Yahoo! UK & Ireland, leading the senior-level relationships with Yahoo!’s agency partners & key brands

Prior to this, Colin worked at AOL. as part of the advertising.com business initially, later being part of the leadership that launched AOL’s Platform-A , where he gained invaluable experience leading a fully integrated digital offering across portal, behavioural, affiliate, video, mobile, ad network & contextual offerings.

With over 30 years of TV viewing experience, Stacey is currently the head of LG Electronics Smart TV organization where he has helped develop the core connected device proposition and strategy for the UK and Europe. 

Before LG Stacey was Joost's senior vice president of international content acquisition and business development.  As such, he was responsible for identifying opportunities for Joost's expansion overseas as well as developing strategic partnerships. He also led the international content acquisition team. Stacey joined Joost in 2006 as vice president of content strategy and acquisition. In that role, he led the company's content strategy and acquisition efforts and negotiations.

Kyle Thorne heads up the team responsible for delivering the Virgin Atlantic approach to social media. Our Social Relations team serve, sell and socialise in our off site social communities, particularly our branded Twitter and Facebook pages.
 

 Lisa has over 20 years experience developing propositions, launching products and brands, managing above the line advertising, developing CRM programmes and delivering exceptional commercial results.
Industry expertise includes entertainment, gaming, mobile, broadband new media and healthcare, for companies such as Bupa, AOL, T-Mobile and Nintendo.

 

Damien leads SEO thought for the Consumers' Association, publisher of award winning which.co.uk, working on behalf of all consumers. Through client and agency side appointments, Damien has delivered business success through search marketing across a number of vertical markets for numerous global brands.

As Senior Digital Campaign Manager for major record label Polydor Ltd., a subsidiary of Universal Music Group UK, I’m responsible for all online activity for our artists such as Snow Patrol, Cheryl Cole, Elbow and many more. My role involves developing valuable band & fan relationships through the use of social media, interactive content and innovative, highly targeted campaigns. I strongly believe that data and insight breeds creative results in all digital marketing campaigns. I'm currently managing group-wide strategy in regards to social gaming, location-based marketing, and virtual goods all of which I strongly believe the music industry can benefit from.

Ian is a key member of Virgin Media’s digital entertainment team and integral in launching the UK’s first next generation digital entertainment platform: Virgin Media: TiVo® Service. Ian has over 20 years experience in the communications, IT and media sectors where he has specialised in defining, developing and delivering internet, IPTV, interactive TV and broadband services for global blue chip organisations and start-ups.

Delphine Remy-Boutang is WW Social Media Marketing Director at IBM. She joined IBM 11 years ago and is based in London. Prior to her current role, Delphine held a number of positions within IBM communications, marketing and Sales. Before joining IBM, Delphine worked at EURO RSCG and Alain Carre in Paris where she was responsible of Public, Press Relations.

In her current role, she drives digital influence strategy and execution at IBM focused on driving innovative marketing capabilities via the web. This in support of IBM's strategy of enabling and activating IBM's 400,000 employees as representatives of the brand. IBM has the largest employee population active in social media anywhere in the world. She is a frequent speaker at seminars, internal IBM conferences on the subject of social media marketing and its effective use.

Simon Frost is Head of TV Marketing, Ericsson, driving all aspects of communications and marketing for TV in Ericsson. He has more than 15 years TV experience spanning strategy, business development, pre-sales, solution design and technical selling for operators in all TV market segments, and a worldwide focus.

Lee Griffin is the Commercial Director for TBG Digital. Lee has worked in online marketing for over ten years. Starting at Coca-Cola, Lee went on to launch the first online DVD rental business in the UK, which was later acquired by LOVEFiLM. More recently, Lee spent five years at TradeDoubler as an International Director, working with blue chip brands including Dell, RBS Group, British Gas, BT, Vodafone and Apple. Lee joined TBG Digital in January 2010, and has been responsible for signing key clients such as Sony, SFR, Mothercare, and Deutsche Telekom.

Charles Yap is Director of Global Brand Communications for InterContinental Hotels Group, and heads up the brand social media strategy for each of the group’s seven hotel brands, including InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza and Hotel Indigo. A former journalist with TTG Asia, Charles has been with IHG for 6 years. He worked in regional corporate and brand PR for the group in Asia Pacific, and was most recently Global Director of Brand Public Relations for InterContinental Hotels & Resorts. Charles is a top worldwide online travel influencer; and has been mentioned in various industry digital rankings. Charles tweets at @HotelPRGuy.

Peter oversees LivingSocial’s UK and Ireland markets, communicating LivingSocial's core strategy and overseeing growth as the next great consumer brand. Based in London, Peter is responsible for LivingSocial’s numerous markets in the UK and has developed a strong footprint in the UK group-buying space.

Prior to LivingSocial, Peter developed a number of startups including VoIP company Howler Technologies, Gissing Software, and iView Multimedia where as CEO Peter oversaw its acquisition by Microsoft. He also founded Biometric Distribution, supplying fingerprint readers and iris scanners to leading companies before selling to Kyotec Securities.

Dan is VP Digital Media with proven track record in growing digital audiences for commercial media businesses. For the past 4 years he's headed up MTV Networks UK & Ireland's digital portfolio of music and entertainment properites in the UK as well as overseen multi-platform execution for MTV shows such as Geordie Shore.

Ignacio Villoch manages de Laboratory of Innovation in Communication and Branding of BBVA , engaged in a restless quest for optimising stakeholders engagement, metrics through branded content and new user experiences.

With a 20 year track in the financial industry across 4 continents  Ignacio, an early adopter of Social Media himself, speaks, writes, lectures and twits passionately on how to explore, -and eventually exploit- , the uncharted waters of social enterprise sharing insights on those experiences that worked, as well as those than eventually did …differently..

Dave has over 12 years experience working in the online media space. He currently serves as the Director of International Operations at Yelp. In this role Dave leads the operations, business marketing, and partnerships of Yelp outside of North America. Dave joined Yelp in 2010 after spending 5 years at Google where he led various sales and marketing teams in the US, India, Poland and Ireland. Dave has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor's degree in

Christian Taylor is the founder and CEO of Payvment, Inc., the #1 Facebook ecommerce platform. From 2002 to 2007, Taylor was President of Xcreative Interactive, a successful, interactive media and web development firm that helped media and entertainment clients like Disney, Lionsgate and Universal Studios build their brands on Facebook and engage audiences. There, he saw the opportunity to create an easy-to-use technology platform that would make brand-to-social consumer connections more valuable and actionable. With this vision, in 2009 he and co-founder Joelle Musante created Payvment and today, more than 100,000 retailers of all sizes use the award-winning Payvment platform to engage with customers and sell millions of products right from their Facebook pages. In 2011, Payvment launched the first Shopping Mall on Facebook to market all its sellers’ products to Facebook’s 800 million users. Payvment is growing rapidly, adding hundreds of storefronts and tens thousands of products per day.

 

Gideon Lask is CEO and founder of BuyaPowa, a new player in the social commerce space that harnesses the collective buying power of shoppers. Gideon has vast experience in e-commerce having run HMV.com with a turnover of £100m a year. He also owned and ran LetsBuyIt.com – the first group buying site (between 2001 and 2004). Following its launch last year, BuyaPowa is going from strength to strength. It recently raised $5m and already boasts clients including Volkswagen, Pfizer and Hearst.

 Simone started working with online communities in 2002, taking a detour to complete a PhD in online video before YouTube and the changing relationship of humans and technology. She has since combined her deep knowledge of digital media with digital marketing expertise both agency- and client-side and currently oversees the implementation of VisitScotland’s Social Media Strategy, which she created. Simone is also a geek and a gamer, currently in the final stages of the coop mode in Rayman Origins!

Passionate about employee engagement and social media.  As Head of Internal Communications at Bupa, Jennifer gained valuable first-hand experience driving social media participation via the award-winning Bupa Live (Jive) platform, to enhance engagement, empower employees and facilitate collaboration across an international, disparate workforce.  Jennifer has recently moved to TalkTalk Group heading up Engagement and Internal Communications.  Twitter: @jennidixon

Azeem Azhar is an Internet entrepreneur and investor with a background in journalism having worked previously at The Economist and Guardian. Azeem has been active developing services on the Internet since 1992, as a student.

Tom Ollerton is Marketing Director at We Are Social a global conversation agency, with offices in London, New York, Paris, Milan, Munich, Singapore, Sydney & São Paulo. We Are Social help brands to listen, understand and engage in conversations in social media

Oliver Ripley is the Head of Mobile for Travelex. The mobile represents a key channel for Travelex as our customers are almost always away from home and therefore rely on their mobile handset to access information on currencies and for the traditional mobile banking services. 

However Travelex is also committed to developing the mobile channel as more than just a currency/mobile banking platform and is now developing the mobile services to create rich user profiles, for the delivery of location based services and as dynamic, interactive marketing platform.Additionally the mobile channel gives Travelex the opportunity to develop the brand into the broader mobile travel space as we supply our customer with travel planning and destination information services through a freemium based revenue model.

After starting his career within various digital departments of the Music Industry, Roshan focussed on email marketing, managing high profile clients such as HSBC and Screwfix. Joining Facebook Preferred Consultants, Gamaroff Digital in early 2011, Roshan brings his experience in various realms of digital marketing to the social table and is instrumental in the development of ground-breaking strategies that help to keep Gamaroff at the cutting-edge of social media marketing innovation.

Rebecca has nearly 10 years of experience in online media, marketing and technology, across North America and Europe. She joined the Wildfire team in 2011 as Director of EU Strategy and Operations to build Wildfire's presence in the European and Asian markets. While in London, Rebecca has worked with Accel Partners, a leading venture capital firm and has consulted for a variety of European, venture-backed start-ups.  Prior to her move to Europe, she was the Director of Website Optimization for Comcast Interactive Media, and was the first Strategic Account Manager for ClickEquations, a search marketing software company.  Rebecca holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Bucknell University.

Technical Strategy Consultant, Capgemini specialising in SCRM/Social Media, and Co-founder of the Social Media Governance Forum. Been in the digital space for about 14 years, last five or so in social. Started the use of social media within customer service at The Carphone Warehouse in 2008.

Ben Padley is a results-orientated, dynamic digital marketer, with more than 15 years’ experience. Ben has a proven track record of driving commercial success through all forms of marketing, from traditional to digital, including social media.

Guillaume Pech-Gourg is senior director of Global CRM at EMI Music. He’s leading EMI’s cross channel Consumer Strategy. His work is focused on fan loyalty and engagement improvement as well as fan base monetization.  He’s been working at various digital marketing, CRM and e-commerce position in the music industry for 12 years. He graduated from ESCP – Europe in 2000.

Nick Burcher is Global Head Of Social Media and Digital Innovation at ZenithOptimedia Worldwide, one of the world's largest global media services agencies and a part of the Publicis Groupe. With 15 years industry experience, he has worked with a wide number of UK and international clients across a range of channels and is the author of the new book 'Paid, Owned, Earned: maximizing marketing returns in a socially connected world' ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/81930820/Paid-Owned-Earned-by-Nick-Burcher)

A patented inventor, James spent a decade designing civil and military secure communications before the term cyber security became a common term. He then co-founded the Open Digital Policy Organisation to research internet policy to achieve the best balance between the sometimes competing demands for open networks, innovation & growth, ethical use of private data and security.  His current work focusses on trust, privacy and emerging economic models for digital economy.

Margaret Donnelly, the former VP of Marketing & Business Development of JitterJam, spearheads the marketing efforts for Meltwater Buzz. Meltwater Group acquired JitterJam in March 2011.

Andreas is a creative and strategic marketing and communications expert with experience gained in the early 90’s in Telecoms and Cable TV, where he saw the birth of fibre-optic networks and multi-channel TV for consumers, to publishing a youth lifestyle magazine in 1997 with a focus on high quality design and content with regional distribution. More recent years have seen his skills used in the education and training sector where he pioneered the use of Virtual Learning Environments in many schools both in the UK and overseas, enhancing the use of ICT and ensuring access to greater numbers of learners via the internet.

In 2007 Andreas joined Aviva as B2B Marketing Manager developing campaigns to support business growth for brokers. His skills as a communicator led him to take on the task of working with the Internal Communications teams where he focused on developing the employee journey and brand. His mantra has always been, “when developing technology for real people, make it simple and make it work”

  Roland is Managing Director of Wowcher, A&N Media’s daily deals business. He has overseen the growth of the business since the acquisition of Wowcher.co.uk in March 2011.  

Roland joined A&N Media, the consumer division of DMGT, in 2007 as Strategy Director for Digital Media, where he was instrumental in the re-shaping of the portfolio via acquisition and divestment. During this time Bryan also led commercial development and cross-portfolio deals. In 2009 he became Managing Director of ‘localpeople’ before taking the role of Managing Director of Digital Media, overseeing the wider Northcliffe Digital portfolio.  

Prior to his time at A&N Media, he was Head of Content Acquisition at Virgin Media, working on content and channel strategy and negotiating numerous channel deals. Before that, Roland was a Principal / Associate Partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants. He spent over seven years at the management consultancy firm from 1999, where he led the delivery of major strategy projects across UK and Europe in the Media and Entertainment sectors, specialising in Digital, Publishing and Broadcast media industries.

Veteran technology and management executive Reggie Bradford is founder and CEO of Vitrue. Founded in 2006, Bradford, armed with over 20 years of experience across technology, Internet and marketing sectors, has developed Vitrue into the leading provider of social marketing publishing software for global brands and agencies.

Anchored by its industry-leading Vitrue Social Relationship Management (SRM) platform, Vitrue provides a comprehensive, turnkey solution to manage, measure and maximize value across Facebook, Twitter and the social web. Vitrue’s SRM platform is currently being used by global brands such as McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble and Best Buy, as well as more than 75 agencies worldwide. To date, the Vitrue SRM platform is collectively managing its clients’ more than 815 million social connections in 47 countries across 3,000 Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Peter Bale is the Vice President and General Manager of CNN International Digital. Bale reports directly to KC Estenson, Senior Vice President and General Manager of CNN Digital.

Bale was appointed to this newly created position to lead the editorial and commercial functions of CNN Digital outside the US, articulating the content, product, digital distribution and partnership strategy for the business.

  David is Director of Business Development and Partnerships within the Orange France Telecom group.

He is part of Orange's Next.com team, a digital innovation unit responsible for initiating major directional changes within the group.
By looking at the evolution of customer usage trends and ecosystem transformations this team initiates new mass-market digital experiences across the Orange businesses.

David currently focus is on Business Development activities around Social TV with TVcheck, meeting with major TV channels and key agencies representing advertising accounts in order to convert advertising budgets for 2012

In 2007, David created a program called Mobile Open Communities, a framework for aggregating user generated content and social networking communities activities including Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, AirG for Orange Mobile customers. Through bundling with data tariffs in major European countries, this initiative has lead to an uplift in mobile offers sales.

Prior to Next.com David was Head of the Orange Partner program, EMEA.

David is also a guitar player, and a paraglider.

Mark Jones is Global Communities Editor for Reuters News where his particular focus is on building professional networks with Reuters journalists at their core. Mark is also involved in guiding Reuters journalists on their work on social networks. He was previously the editor of Reuters AlertNet -- the community-powered humanitarian news portal run by the Thomson Reuters Foundation -- and was Global Editor of Reuters Television from 1997-2000. Mark was formerly a business reporter and producer at BBC Radio and Television and started his career in journalism with Euromoney.

Andrew Burke has been involved in technology innovation within H J Heinz for the past 18 months, focusing on the development and introduction of value added applications. This has included leading the introduction of an internal social media to the business, which has now grown into a global solution.

As Chief Executive Officer, Patrick is responsible for Gigya’s overall business strategy and day-to-day operations. Patrick previously held the position of Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Gigya, driving retail product strategy and operations as well as strategic partnerships including relationships with the top social networks and identity providers including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. He was also instrumental in building and managing Gigya’s high-performing sales development organization.

Patrick has also held positions at Gigya in business development and corporate sales, driving adoption of Gigya’s technology across more than 500,000 websites, and delivering some of Gigya’s lighthouse enterprise clients. Before joining Gigya, Patrick co-founded a suite of social network applications and games and served as Associate Consultant for L.E.K. Consulting, a strategy consulting firm. Patrick holds a Bachelors degree from Harvard University.

Marc began his marketing career in the rough & tumble world of California politics. After 5+ years of experience in offline marketing, Marc helped design and build a mobile social network from the ground up. Marc’s experience as President of Mobileplay gives him an insider’s view of the importance of data-driven decision-making & maximising marketing ROI that he brings to crafting creative social marketing solutions for customers. With Context Optional, Marc helped develop some of the most successful Facebook marketing campaigns of all time including Chase Community Giving, Kohl’s Cares for Kids, Expedia FriendTrips and many others. Blinder holds a B.A. with high honours in Political Science from Princeton University.

Volker is the Global Head of Business Development – Games for Research In Motion (BlackBerry) where he arrived via the acquisition of mobile social gaming platform Scoreloop where he was Chief Strategy Officer. He is also a co-founder of Blue Beck, a game and app development studio.

Volker has been in mobile since 1999. He worked with music artists like Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg and Duran Duran on the world’s first mobile artist services and has been in the mobile games sector almost from its start with Mforma/Hands-On Mobile and Connect2Media (which he co-founded) where he oversaw licensing and corporate development and worked with Marvel, Hasbro, Activision, LEGO, BMW, Konami, the World Poker Tour, Universal, Viacom, as well as with game developers like Rovio, Vivid Games or Machineworks North-West along the way. He also struck more than 200 distribution deals with carriers and OEM around the world.

Kelly Thomas is Head of Marketing for PruProtect and Head of IFA Marketing for PruHealth.

Kelly is a commercially focussed business manager with a substantial track record of leading high performance teams in a dynamic, online and offline sales environment.  Proven ability to influence at every level, to initiate and deliver fast paced organisational change, and drive superior results.

For PruProtect, Kelly is responsible for all the marketing from distribution, product launches, digital, design, brand, events, research and technical marketing.

 

Matt McAlister is Director of Digital Strategy at the Guardian. McAlister began his online media career in Silicon Valley marketing Internet software in 1994. He then spent nine years at IDG leading the online businesses at The Industry Standard, Macworld and InfoWorld magazines. He joined Yahoo! in 2005 in the Platforms division where he led several open strategy initiatives such as RSS, social media and the Developer Network. In 2008 he joined the Guardian in London to establish the Open Platform.

Matt is now building a new business at the Guardian called n0tice.com - a public noticeboard platform for local communities

Nick joined The Times in February 2012 as Social Media & Campaigns Editor. He is responsible for The Times' use of and approach to social media as well as developing and coordinating The Times' strategy for campaigning journalism. Before joining The Times he worked as a Community Manager at The Telegraph and a content coordinator at The Guardian.

Eric Guillaume helps companies transform and understand the impact of digital media by creating consumer value. Most recently Project Director for ITV, he led the strategic review and business transformation of the ITV news and sport division on digital platforms, including connected TVs.

James joined Bauer Media in 2010, after previous roles at Greenlight Search Marketing and SEGA Games Europe. He primarily focuses on search marketing and content strategy, but has been involved heavily in the growing influence of social media on Bauer’s market market leading set of lifestyle and radio brands, such as FHM, heatworld, Kiss FM and Grazia. He spent a large proportion of 2011 driving social media training and integration across the group.

Regan joined Cineworld Cinemas in 2011 having previously worked at Transport for London and New Zealand’s Inland Revenue Department. With experience managing large traffic fluctuations and a commitment to user centred design practises, Regan is leading Cineworld’s ECommerce Strategy. The projects arising from the strategy will see Cineworld iteratively converge its mobile, social media and web channels.

Gert Wim ter Haar, Social Media Hub Manager, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Responsible for 24/7 social media service on Facebook and Twitter. Answering to all customer related to both flight bookings and the company itself. Aiming to respond within the hour and to offer a solution within 24 hours.

Peter has spent the last five years applying rigorous communications discipline and business thinking to the social media space, both in the PR/digital agency world and in house at Skype and Expedia. He has developed a deep understanding of the opportunities to harness and nurture customer and influencer communities to drive awareness, acquisition, conversion and retention.

Media Injection is a software firm specialized in social media metrics & management.

It's enterprise grade management platform brings together all social disciplines from engagement, campaigning, monitoring and social (crm) intelligence, into ONE dashboard.

Melissa is VP Business Development EMEA, where she is responsible for developing the Company’s alternative payments and digital services business.  She’s been working with the mobile industry for 11 years, and her background lies in growing revenue across online, mobile and interactive TV through business partnerships and directly to consumers.

Luca is a digital media executive with more than twelve years of experience, nine of which with a pan-European scope and focus. Prior to joining Buddy Media, Luca was global digital measurement firm comScore's third employee in Europe and was instrumental to the development of the company's sales, client service and account management teams.

With full responsibility of the European sales and client relationship management teams, Luca managed clients ranging from all major agencies and brands to top publishers and advertising networks.

Daniel Cowen is Co-founder and CEO of Echo Labs Limited - the award winning start-up behind highly anticipated mobile app and social network Echoer, winner of the LeWeb 2011 Google People's Choice Award. The iPhone app helps shape and explore the local thoughts events and discoveries happening around you. Echoer has launched in Canada and will be available in the UK later this year.

 

As Global Director, Social Media Technology, Ivan ensures that clients have access to the greatest possible understanding of platforms such as blogs, forums and social networks. In line with the agency’s philosophy of “People First, Better Results”, he works with all major clients in all major markets to reinforce MediaCom’s position as the agency that best understands consumers in the digital sphere.

Previously, as Head of Planning for MediaCom Beyond Advertising and MediaCom Digital Investment in the UK, Ivan was responsible for helping domestic clients understand the nature and the impact of the social media conversation around their brand.

He led MediaCom UK’s development of market-leading tools that enabled clients to see this information in real-time and helped MediaCom Beyond Advertising win the social media briefs of VW, E.ON UK, Brita, Audi, Tomy and others. He has also worked on T-Mobile’s award-winning Life’s for Sharing campaign in the UK and on global/regional projects for EA, Shell and Deutsche Bank.

In his spare time, Ivan enjoys watching football and is a keen cinemagoer.

Zoe Sands is Head of Digital Marketing at Juniper Networks and is responsible for digital marketing and social media across EMEA. She is an experienced Digital Marketer since 1997 with PRINCE2 practitioner status, during this period Zoe has successfully launched many new online innovations for Juniper Networks, Cisco, Dialogic, the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and Hyundai, including content managed and e-commerce based websites to integrated social media programmes. She has International exposure running projects globally, regionally and at a country level.

Jamie is ultimately responsible for heading up the SEO offering, both within OMD International and across OMG EMEA, directing SEO processes, best practices and products. He has a varied background in SEO, spanning multiple verticals and with strong experience in web design, technical SEO auditing, content development and link building strategies. He began his SEO career working in-house in the ultra-competitive online betting sector at Ladbrokes, before moving agency-side where he serviced clients at Razorfish including ASDA, Audi and Levi’s. At OMG since April 2010, Jamie has led the delivery of SEO strategies for key client accounts including GE Capital, Sony PlayStation and Alamo. Jamie is also an analytics specialist, familiar with all common platforms and holds a current Google Analytics Individual Qualification.

Guy Clapperton has been a journalist since 1989 and a freelancer since 1993. He has contributed extensively to the Guardian, Times, Sunday Telegraph and Independent and writes occasionally for the Mail on Sunday. In the magazine world he writes the business column for “The Market”, he co-wrote the Radio Times special on the relaunch of Doctor Who in 2005 and writes many one-offs for other publications.

A journalist turned social media evangelist, Bian’s career saw her start out as a reporter for India’s first online venture, Rediff.com. She then went on to be Associate Features Editor for ELLE Magazine before moving to England. Since then, Bian has worked for the likes of the Times Education Supplement and spent over 10 years at BT in various roles, both editorial (as Managing Editor of BT Tradespace and Production Manager for BT Business). She now works as Head of Social Media Innovation within BT Customer Service where sets the strategy for and manages BT's social media channels for customer service

Sid is Content Services Manager for Samsung Electronics Europe. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of Smart TVs, smart phones, tablets and PCs.

Sid defines platform strategy for Samsung Smart TV and manages the ever expanding TV App Store across Europe. Previous experience includes content marketing at Samsung headquarters in South Korea and software engineering for Samsung Digital TVs in India.

He holds an MBA from GSB-SKK South Korea and a Bachelor of Engineering from NITK Surathkal India.

Dan is managing director of Text 100 London and brings over a decade’s experience in driving corporate and technology campaigns for some of the world’s most exciting technology brands. 

With a passion for storytelling, and understanding what makes audiences tick, Dan has run award-winning international and UK PR programmes for companies including IBM, Intel, AMD and Nokia, as well as a range of innovative start-ups. Dan will be speaking on “The changing role of PR in the social media environment”

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As a independent consultant and as VP & Principal Analyst of Constellation Research, Paul Papadimitriou delivers intelligence on online media, its impact on how brands & individuals communicate and the ongoing redefinition of social norms through new technologies. He speaks to companies, business executives and public audiences alike, helping them seize the opportunities of the new media engagement & digital influence, bringing more than ten years of experience as a lobbyist and business consultant.

Lloyd Salmons is co-founder and director at Outside Line (www.outsideline.co.uk) – the social agency for brands such as Beck’s, British Gas, Budweiser, Cravendale, Lurpak and Stella Artois.

Lloyd has chaired the Internet Advertising Bureau’s social media council and has spoken at numerous high-profile industry conferences, most recently, the L2 Think Tank, Media Trust and Our Social Times. Lloyd was responsible for pioneering online marketing techniques in the music industry, in the early days of the Internet. He set up the International New Media Marketing Network at EMI and has created a variety of award-winning campaigns for artists including, The Beatles, Queen, Blur, Gorrilaz, Radiohead and Robbie Williams.

 After graduating in '96 Al discovered during a Masters in Publishing Studies at Stirling University that the future of publishing was, as Frank Zappa said, all about the eyebrows.  Al quickly grew his digital publishing pedigree at Caspian Publishing before veering into the parallel world of publishing retail at leading ethical catalogue business, http://www.NaturalCollection.com. Al is now at the helm of EMP Media's digital, marketing and business development activities primarily for http://www.OutsourceMagazine.co.uk but also for http://www.AtHomeMagazine.co.uk and the recently launched http://www.JobsAndCareersMag.com. You can connect with him via twitter @altepper.

Iain Dendle has been with Shazam since 2008 and has responsibility for building and managing relationships with all European OEM’s and mobile operators as well as Business development for Shazam for TV in Europe. He has more than 11 years of experience in the mobile and technology industry in all aspects of business development.

Prior to joining Shazam, Iain worked with leading mobile and technology companies such as Motorola where he held a number of Sales and Product roles, including being Head of Music with responsibility for creating a compelling mobile music experience for the EMEA region.  He also managed mobile operator relationships at Hugh Symons Group and a B2B sales force for AlfaTronix.

Lars Plougmann is the Enterprise Adoption Strategist for tibbr, striving to maximize the value our clients get from their investment in the tibbr social enterprise platform. With a strong background in social business design and enterprise 2.0 workplace collaboration, Lars brings over 15 years of experience defining and driving strategic technology-enabled business change. For more than a decade, Lars lived in London which is where his interest in social software took off leading to a role with Headshift, an innovative social software consulting and implementation firm. Lars is an economist by trade and lives in Austin, Texas.

 David Babbs helped found 38 Degrees in 2009. Since then the organisation has grown to almost 1 million members who work together both on the internet and in the real world.

38 Degrees has played a key role in some significant campaign victories including halting government plans to privatise England’s public forests, persuading Alistair Darling to introduce a bankers’ bonus tax, forcing a rethink of Andrew Lansley’s plans for the NHS, securing better protection for victims of Human Trafficking and preventing a large-scale cow factory farm being built in Lincolnshire.

Before launching 38 Degrees, David worked for Friends of the Earth, where he led the successful mobilisation to persuade the government to enact the world’s first Climate Change Act.

David grew up in Leicester, and now lives in East London.

 

Seven years, multiple brands (Sony, Activision, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks), two continents (UK and US) and one social network (MySpace) later Paul finds himself back in the motherland (based in central London) overseeing social strategies for clients including HSBC, Unilever, Ford, Jaguar as Head of Social for Mindshare.

Tom Smith has been producing global research in the social media and online space since 2005. He started Trendstream and the GlobalWebIndex tool to provide the most detailed exploration of internet adoption, attitudes and motivations ever compiled. Previously Tom worked at Universal McCann where he produced a series of research called Wave that tracked social media adoption over time and regularly speaks at conferences to provide insights on the evolution of social media adoption and impact.

Miles joined Shazam in February 2012 as Vice President, Advertising Sales to spearhead the growth of the Shazam for TV advertising sales efforts in the UK and Europe as well as the Pacific Rim.  Today, Shazam has more than 180 million users with more than 1.5 million new users joining the service every week and it is available in 30 languages in over 200 countries.

Marco is one of the Founders and the Managing Director of the independent new media marketing agency, 77Agency Ltd.

Marco graduated in Turin in Business and Economics in 1999 and then started his career in investment banking in London. As a banker Marco was involved with the creation and launch of online bank IWBank which was ultimately sold to Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS).

An award-winning digital marketer, Catriona has held senior agency and in-house marketing roles both in the UK and New Zealand. She was European B2B Marketing Director for mobile internet company AvantGo, helped to launch CDMA mobile networks for the New Zealand business market for Telecom Mobile, and headed up Metia’s customer reference programme practice for clients such as Microsoft and Dell.

Candy is a social media strategist, currently responsible for driving the growth of Facebook Developer Garage London in the UK. In this role she works with the team to support and engage the UK's most influential Internet professionals as well as further shape FDGL’s strategic aims. Prior to this, Candy was Project Manager at iPlatform, the UK’s first Facebook Preferred Developer Consultant, where she managed the planning and execution of Facebook applications, and provided consultation to major brands such as Tesco, ITV, O2, Sport Relief, Jack Daniel's, Sony, HP, The British Monarchy and Facebook. Shortly after graduation, Candy was sponsored by the Arts Council England to talk about Facebook, and managed to get herself published by Routledge, as well as working on research funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is also an Internet artist, having graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with a degree in Fine Art. She is a Singaporean and lives and works in London, UK.

An experienced sales and business development manager, Ben joined Wildfire’s Palo Alto office in March 2010 and was appointed Director of EU Sales & Client Services in July of that year. In October 2010 Ben moved to London to head sales and service in Europe. Since starting the London office, Ben has worked with key clients including Virgin, McCann Worldwide and Pepsi.

Pieter van Nuenen has over a decade of experience in communications. In his role as Director of Corporate Communications at NXP Semiconductors he is responsible for strategic communications planning, digital communications, the management of the global agency network that NXP is working with, and the supervision of the Employee Communications team within NXP.

As founder and CEO of Brandwatch, Giles has led the company to become one of the world’s premium social media monitoring tools and a pioneer in crawling the web, Natural Language Processing and big data analysis.

Giles has been recognised as a key figure in technology start-ups in the UK and was recently invited to speak at Downing Street on Entrepreneurs and Angel Investment, with Prime Minister David Cameron and Investor and “Dragon” Peter Jones amongst his audience.

Vaqar Khamisani works as a Customer and Partner Experience (CPE) Manager at Microsoft UK. As part of the CPE team, he is responsible for designing and implementing systems that listen, analyze, and respond to technical audience feedback on Microsoft technologies and programs. The feedback is received through solicited and unsolicited means and in both structured and unstructured formats. The systematic analysis of feedback provides insights that help improve Microsoft business processes, services, and product design.

Danny Blackburn is Editor, Digital Production, at the Press Association – the UK’s national news agency. He is leading the company’s work on social media and has played a key role in developing live blogging as a storytelling tool. Danny is responsible for the Press Association’s digital output across news, sport and entertainment. He is also operational lead for PA’s Content For Marketing team, which provides bespoke content for corporate websites. Prior to joining the Press Association in 2006, Danny was a news editor and reporter at the Shropshire Star newspaper.

Nick Reynolds is Public Accountability Executive in BBC Online. His role includes the use of social tools (e.g. blogs, twitter) to make the work of BBC Online more accountable and transparent. His previous role was Social Media Executive, BBC Online which included running the BBC’s moderation service, community site H2G2 and editing the BBC Internet blog.

BBC Internet blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/nick_reynolds/

Nick’s personal blog is Nick Reynolds At Work: http://nickreynoldsatwork.wordpress.com/

Follow Nick on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/#!/nickreynoldsatw

Content and Motion Managing director and founder of online PR agency Content & Motion, Roger has a wealth of experience in web, technology and PR-related communications. Prior to this, he was director of PR for IBM Europe and has also run campaigns agency-side for household names such as HP and Toshiba. He has also spent time working with web and tech-related start-ups.

Andrew is Managing Director of Escherman Limited, a specialist online PR, SEO and analytics consultancy. He is also approved Trainer in social media and SEO for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and PRCA (Public Relations Consultants Association) in the UK.

With a career spanning 25 years of public relations and journalism, he has developed and implemented many highly successful strategic PR and marketing communications programmes for some of the world's biggest brands including IBM, CapGemini, MySQL, Apple (FileMaker) and Checkpoint.

Charlotte leads UK media and analyst relations as well as providing executive communications support to two of Lenovo’s executive board – the senior vice presidents of EMEA and Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Charlotte has worked in the technology PR sector for 16 years, leading campaigns at both a UK and global level for brands such as Cisco, Sony, PlayStation, Vodafone, Symantec and Fujitsu. Her work has included an array of product campaigns, crisis management, executive profiling and brand work.

Prior to joining Lenovo in September 2011, Charlotte headed up the UK PR account for Fujitsu at leading technology agency Harvard, part of the Bell Pottinger Group.

Charlotte has lived and worked in Germany and Singapore, working for Hutchison Telecom (now Orange) and Hill and Knowlton.

  Simon is a media innovation specialist and film-maker.  Simon started his working life as an investment banker with JP Morgan, before moving into the media industry, most recently as SVP Product Development & Innovation at EMI Music and previously co-founder and COO of Swopex and Business Development Director/MD at peoplesound/protein.  His first feature film "Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle" was the first Scottish Gaelic film to achieve cinematic distribution and  was nominated for 3 Scottish BAFTAs.

At zeebox Simon helps set the product vision and works with programme-makers and broadcasters to augment their existing shows upon the zeebox second screen platform and invent new shows using zeebox second screen technology from the ground up.

Claire heads up FremantleMedia’s central new media division FMX.
FMX has overall responsibility for FremantleMedia’s digital activities across the world, helping FremantleMedia Enterprises and FremantleMedia Production divisions maximise the value of FremantleMedia brands across digital platforms. It is also a development and production unit for digital originals. FMX projects include Emmy-nominated multiplatform experimental comedy PrintFriends, leading social media cooking community SORTED which was awarded Best Online Program – Entertainment at the 2011 Interactive Rockies, and MySpace online drama Freak which won the Rockie Award for best online original programme in 2010. Claire also oversees the global relationship between FremantleMedia and YouTube.
Since joining FremantleMedia in 2001, Claire has been involved in a number of high profile new media projects, most notably the online and mobile activations of the Idols, Got Talent and X Factor programmes around the world, as well as the deployment of FremantleMedia’s famous gameshow brands such as The Price Is Right and Family Feud on a number of interactive platforms.
In addition to her FMX responsibilities, Claire manages FremantleMedia’s central drama unit Worldwide Drama.

Dan Purvis heads up Meltwater’s global PR and is currently responsible for PR agencies across seven countries from Europe, North America and Australia/New Zealand.  While consistently balancing the need for sustainable, impactful PR campaigns that incorporate social/digital media in the mix, I ensure that game-changing PR strategies are aligned to our commercial goals and objectives.

Emma Marlow is Director of New Media at IMImobile, helping broadcasters and production companies engage audiences through social media and mobile. Recent successes projects include Sky 1’s ‘Got To Dance’. Before heading up the New Media team at IMImobile she was Group Operations Director at WIN plc for 4 years. Emma’s has a background in consulting and early-stage start-ups, and a can be found online at @AntiEmT.

Benjamin is a prolific blogger, author and speaker on social media topics. He has worked at the cutting edge of communications technologies for over two decades. He has been an IT manager, a consulting engineer, a product manager and on the executive team of a number of UK and US-based companies. He combines an engineering background, practically applied psychology and more than ten years of marketing and management experience to transform how businesses communicate with and about technology. Redcatco has won a number of industry awards for their innovative use of Social Media in projects crossing the globe.

Keith is an extremely experienced, media‐savvy operational Marketing Director with extensive general /commercial management and brand  ‘nouse’, including 2 years as UK MD at Motorola Cellular, where he was the  first consumer marketer to join the mobile business in the UK in 1990 (when the market was still B2B)

Tim recently joined OMD UK as Digital Development Director to help drive the agencies proposition, capabilities and delivery around earned / owned media, and helping define how to ‘influence’ consumers in new ways. As social is one element of earned / owned, Tim is leading the development of our social offering within OMD UK’s dedicated social media team.

Previous to OMD UK, Tim spent over three years at Word of Mouth agency 1000heads where he was Group Development Director. There he devised and executed social strategies for the likes of P&G, Universal Music & EA, before that he worked in DM and Digital as an Account Manager.

 

Paul has deep expertise in social media and most areas of eMarketing and eBusiness. Paul specialises in Social Media marketing and enterprise communications. He is a Managing Partner of Viapoint, the leading social media services provider.

Paul cuts through the hype and takes a pragmatic approach on how to adopt social media helping organisations getting to grips with social media networks. He backs up his practitioner experience with grounded applied academic research. Paul publishes articles on social media with Oxford University and lectures at Henley Business School. Paul holds a Masters Degree with Distinction in Digital Marketing and eBusiness from Oxford where his research was focused on social networks.  As a recognised specialist, Paul often speaks and host panels at Digital Marketing, Social Media and  eBusiness conferences.

Richard is Managing Director of MiNetwork and is the Associate Editor of The Drum. He edited The Drum magazine and website from 2001 to 2011 before moving across to put the knowledge and contacts that he has built up during a decade writing about media and marketing to good use heading up MiNetwork. With spells as Media Editor at The Scotsman and his editorship of magazines such as Adline, The Marketeer and The Firm, Richard now works closely with MiNetwork’s agency members to ensure that their profiles are as high as possible and they are being talked about in all the right places.

 

Karina Buch joined CrowdEngineering as Chief Operating Officer for EMEA in 2012. Previously Karina has held international leadership positions for Oracle and most recently she was the Chief Information Officer for the international auction house Christie’s, where she was responsible for the IT strategy and operations.  Karina has a wealth of experience in ensuring IT investment is closely aligned to and demonstrates benefits to the business.

At CrowdEngineering Karina helps CrowdEngineerings partners and customers get maximum value from their social CRM investment and is responsible for the continued rapid growth and success of CrowdEngineering across the EMEA region.

Jennifer Mallegni was born in Tuscany, Italy, however she considers herself more of a world citizen. After graduating in “Science of Tourism” from the University of Pisa, she has worked for two years as Multimedia Editor for the Official Tourism website of Tuscany (www.turismo.intoscana.it). In the beginning of 2011, she moved to Düsseldorf, Germany to work for trivago GmbH. Today, Jennifer is responsible for the international social media communications at trivago

 As head of digital for Domino Recording Co. Kurt oversees digital business development, social media, strategic commercial partnerships, D2C marketing and digital operations. Domino, a leading independent music label for nearly 20 years, is home to such artists as Franz Ferdinand, Animal Collective, Arctic Monkeys, Four Tet, The Kills and Dirty Projectors.

Recent projects include Domino Radio, a week of originally programmed radio broadcast from 90.7FM in London and at http://dominorad.io, which was nominated for a BT Digital Music Award.

Prior to joining Domino, Kurt managed enterprise-level software projects and strategic initiatives for Fortune 500 clients and the US Department of Defense by day and worked with great friends on creative projects by night.

Owen is currently Director of Digital Communications at the London-based headquarters of international NGO, Amnesty International, where he is leads on development and implementation of a global digital strategy for the organisation as well as its use of technology and open innovation for social change. Prior to this, Owen was Brand Director for New Media & New Product Development at BSkyB, Commercial Director, New Media, ITN and more recently, at Southbank Centre, as Head of Media Services.

Vikki Chowney is news editor for Econsultancy, an independent publisher focused on digital marketing.

Prior to this she was content editor for the JaguarFuture.com project, created by Jaguar to tell the stories behind the C-X16 concept car.

A former journalist and broadcaster with the BBC, Neil moved into telecoms in 2001 and has enjoyed working with some of the biggest names in media and telecoms. Neil joined British Gas in April 2011 as business owner for mobile services. He has responsibility for developing mobile channels to help customers maintain their accounts and keep in contact with British Gas.

He has a passion for delivering great solutions which address real problems for customers, and claims to be a very difficult consumer to please. His approach to work is straightforward, “create simple solutions that enable customers to do what they want to, in a helpful and easy way”.

 Head Of Shopping for moneysupermarket.com the UK's largest Price Comparison service.

Simon has been with moneysupermarket.com for almost 6 years during which time he has developed the shopping comparison from a simple white label into a best in class comparison site. He was also integral to launching the Vouchers section of the website and developing the award nominated* moneysupermarket vouchers iPhone app (*Carphone Warehouse Appys 2011 Best Money Saving App and EMMA 2011 Most Effective Mobile Application - b2c)

As Senior Strategy Consultant at the GlobalWebIndex I am currently responsible for leading all GWI insight generation as well as consulting with agencies and corporates to build comprehensive strategies for communications, product development, and business planning. I have a global remit at GWI which has allowed me to develop a knowledge of markets and online cultures across the globe and gives me a unique global perspective.

Adam is the CEO and Founder of Crisp Thinking, Crisp’s Software as Service platform intelligently classifies User Generated Content from Social Media and Forums - automating moderation, prioritizing comments and delivering insight - highlighting key users, trending topics and categorized sentiment. Crisp deals with over 600 million pieces of User Generated Content each month, working with over 100 global brands helping them prioritise content and manage their online communities.

As SVP of Marketing, Malcolm Faulds is responsible for building awareness of BzzAgent’s social media and word-of-mouth offerings.

Malcolm brings 16 years of marketing experience to this position.  Prior to BzzAgent, Malcolm was the director of E-Marketing for Valassis, where his team developed analytically driven loyalty and social marketing programs for clients like IKEA, Genzyme, CareerBuilder, and others.  Malcolm also spent 5 years with Euro RSCG where he ran the global online marketing account for Symantec, developing acquisition and loyalty programs for both B2B and B2C audiences in North America, Europe, and APAC. At the dawn Internet marketing Malcolm worked with pioneering interactive agency THINK New Ideas, managing programs for Proctor & Gamble’s Millstone and Tampax brands, as well as Rockport shoes. Malcolm started his online marketing career by working with Seth Godin at Yoyodyne Entertainment, developing some of the world’s first online promotions.

He is a graduate of Binghamton University with BA and MA degrees in English Literature.

Nick joined the IAB as its first head of regulatory affairs in April 2008. He leads the sector, both in the UK and at EU level, in working for the optimal policy environment for digital advertising, in particular on privacy issues, and helping to boost the understanding of digital media and its benefits within regulatory and political circles.