Conference Enterprise Social Media Speakers
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Sarah has been with Asda for seven years and for the last five years has been part of the Colleague Communication team at Asda House. She is currently responsible for the management of key strategic communication events, such as the annual conference, and also looks after the engagement planning process that supports Asda's operational activity plan.
As Senior Director of EMEA Product Marketing at salesforce.com, Tim Barker has shaped and proven his profile as accomplished product manager, product marketer, entrepreneur as well as passionate advocate and spokesperson for enterprise cloud computing. Barker joined salesforce.com in 2007 with the acquisition of the SaaS Content Management company, Koral, which he co-founded. During the acquisition, he successfully led the integration of Koral into the Force.com platform and launched the application now known as Salesforce Content.
David heads up D2C, a consulting firm which provides business and social media consulting as well as Cloud based solutions for accounting, content, collaboration, and web publishing. He is Vice Chair of the UK's Intellect Software as a Service Group, and a director of EuroCloud UK.
Thomas Power is Chairman of Ecademy founded in 1998 with Penny Power and Glenn Watkins. Ecademy is the oldest
Tom has been involved in Social Media since 2000 when he built the first commercial beta version of the BrainJuicer crowd-sourcing application (now an AIM-listed company.) He went on to co-found NixonMcInnes, one of the UK's first and largest agencies dedicated to Social Media. 
Joanne Jacobs consults in social networking technologies and has been Director of a production house for social networking platforms. Hailing from Australia, Joanne focuses on user led technologies, providing advice to large firms on how to generate benefits from emerging technologies, and she has a long history in academia, lecturing extensively in strategic use of information technology and strategic internet marketing. She was co-editor of the book, Uses of Blogs, published in 2006, and she is currently preparing her next book on other social networking applications and changes in business as a result of collaborative communication.
David Bashford is an expert on Enterprise Social Business Applications and has worked on projects with global brands including IBM, Citrix and AT&T. David runs his own consulting business, is a partner at MajorDealTeam and is a Board Director of SITEFORUM Group. David’s previous roles have included CIO at the Economist Group and Vice-President IT at the Walt Disney Company.
Anup, an avid entrepreneur, is a 15 year veteran of the technology industry. Before founding MangoSpring, Anup successfully founded ThumbSpeed in 2004, which was acquired by OZ (now part of Nokia) in 2007. Prior to founding ThumbSpeed, Anup lead product management and engineering teams at AOL, Go2Net/Infospace and American mobile.
Defying his mother’s advice that ‘the internet will never take off’, Andy began tinkering with the web in the mid-nineties before starting his career at Fibernet Group plc as the company’s European webmaster in 2001.
Rob Howard is the vision behind Telligent’s product development and innovation and is known throughout the industry as an authority in community and collaboration software. As Telligent’s Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Howard oversees product development and the company’s technology roadmap.
Yann oversees Webjam's business strategy and day-to-day running of the company. Prior to establishing Webjam, Yann was the VP of Product Management for the Yahoo! Group in Europe as it was merging with Kelkoo and Overture. His role involved overseeing various teams and business units. While at Yahoo! he experienced first-hand all the highs and lows of the boom, bust and recovery of the early 21st century Internet economy.
Pete Swabey is editor of Information Age magazine, the UK’s leading enterprise IT monthly. Working his way up through the editorial ranks, Pete has researched and written about topics ranging from corporate battle simulation to the Ukrainian offshoring industry. He has tracked the adoption of social media and Web 2.0 technologies by corporations for a number of years, and is interested by the impact of social technologies on the often-dysfunctional human organisation that is the enterprise.
Helen joined Virgin Media as Head of Internal Communications in March 2008. She is responsible for internal communications strategy development and execution.
Simon Revell is an Associate Director responsible for Online Collaboration and Web Technologies in the Pfizer Global Research & Development Informatics group. In this role he has the remit to explore the potential for using Web 2.0 inspired technologies and approaches for internal use within the company. Simon has responsibility for the Pfizer-wide wiki, 'Pfizerpedia' and is involved in a number of projects aiming to implement other Web 2.0 technologies. Simon has been in the IT industry for 15 years, starting as a software developer and later graduating to being a Technical Team Leader and Project Manager. He is based in the UK.
Alan is co-founder of the technology strategy and system design consultancy Broadsight. Prior to that, he was a consultant at McKinsey &Co and has worked in various VP, MD and COO roles in other technology, internet and telecoms based service delivery companies.
Dave Briggs is the Community Evangelist at Learning Pool, the public sector learning exchange. A prolific commentator on the use of online social tools in the public sector for the last 5 years, Dave has worked at all levels of government, from small district councils to 10 Downing Street.
Robin Hamman leads the Social Media team at Social Business Consultancy, Headshift. He has over 10 years professional experience devising, implementing and managing social strategies for businesses. Robin joined Headshift from the BBC where he helped content producers map their existing editorial processes onto social tools, often gaining efficiencies whilst reaching out to new audiences and deepening engagement.
As Vice President with Involver, Martin Wesley is responsible for all business development, sales and client service initiatives within the industry’s largest and fastest growing social media marketing platform.
Alison Coward is the Founder/Director of Bracket, an agency that helps creative businesses use social media to collaborate on projects effectively. In 2007, she completed an MA Enterprise and Management for the Creative Arts, where she investigated the use of social media as collaboration tools for organisations and developed the concept and model for her business. Her background is in creative business support, working as a project manager, business advisor and university lecturer.
Jemima is an award-winning business consultant and author of “Monkeys with Typewriters: myths and realities of social media at work” (Triarchy Press, 2009). A former TV producer, Jemima founded iKnowHow in 2002 to address the need for digital innovation across the creative industries. She has worked on strategy for Fulcrum TV, Skillset, RDF Media and Women in Film & Television, and produced seminars for the UK Film Council and Pact.
Anthony Frost is Head of Corporate Communications for Santander’s UK businesses, Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley savings. Prior to joining Abbey in November 2006, he was Head of PR for the UK and Europe for Prudential and before that Head of Group Media Relations at RBS. 
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Per Rombouts is a Project Manager Intranet & Social Media in the Web Expert Centre of ING Group. Being an experienced professional in using social media and technology within commercial organisations, he knows his way around with the opportunities and challenges that these developments offer. According to him, taking everything in consideration is key to the success of Social Media within the enterprise.
Sonia Carter is responsible for the strategic direction of the electronic channels for employee communication, engagement and information management at AXA UK. She has worked in digital marketing and communications for over eight years, in both agency and client-side roles. She enjoys the unique perspective her digital marketing background gives her when coming up with innovative ways to 'market' information and tools to employees. Interact With Us
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"Corporate Social Networking helps today's businesses to find creative ways to recruit, engage, and retain their employees and facilitate strategic knowledge sharing across the enterprise.” The Human Capital Institute
"As companies expand and employees are spread across the country or across the globe, increased use of corporate social networking applications is playing a significant role in allowing companies to still function as a single team and drive business development and growth.” crmbuyer.com
