Aug
27
2010
The Leading Authority on What People are Really Doing Online
Bill Tancer is the world’s preeminent expert on online behaviour and author of the New York Times bestseller, ‘Click’. He is the general manager of global research at Hitwise, the world’s leading online competitive intelligence services. As well as writing weekly columns for Time and The Wall Street Journal, he is widely quoted and is a frequent media guest. He is brilliantly adept at understanding the patterns in his company’s database of more than 10 million Internet users every day.
“For his presentations, Bill customizes his research to address an audience’s specific interests”
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Jul
15
2010
Inventor, Founder & Chairman of Twitter, Co-founder of easy-payments-by-plastic startup Square
Jack Dorsey is an American software architect and businessperson best known as the creator of Twitter. He took Twitter through an order of magnitude of growth and two major rounds of financing, while safely navigating some very rocky waters that would have taken even more experienced leaders down with the ship. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the new credit card payment device Square. MIT’s Technology Review named him in the TR35, an outstanding innovator under the age of 35.
BusinessWeek called Jack Dorsey one of technology’s “best and brightest”
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Jun
18
2010
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. Now with the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he directs the W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organisations whose objectives are to realise the full potential of the Web. During 2009 Tim also advised the UK Government’s “Making Public Data Public” initiative.
“The man behind the World Wide Web”
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May
31
2010
The World’s Preeminent Authority on the Economic & Technological Impact of Virtual Worlds
Cory Ondrejka is the co-creator of the Digital World, Second Life. In life after Linden Lab and Second Life, he was a visiting professor at University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. He is currently the Executive Vice President of Digital Strategy for EMI Recorded Music. He is an expert on the interrelation between innovation and learning, as well as the technological and social requirements of product development.
“A relentless innovator”
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May
10
2010
Web 2.0 Strategist, New Media Expert, Co-author of ‘Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom’
Dr. Matthew Fraser is a recognized Web 2.0 strategist and new media expert who speaks insightfully about the impact of Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube on business, politics and society. He has long experience as a business journalist/author, academic and technology policy adviser. He was Editor-in-Chief of Canada’s national daily newspaper, National Post, and co-hosted a prime-time national television show, Inside Media, on Canada’s public all-news network, CBC Newsworld.
“A recognized Web 2.0 strategy new media industries expert”
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Mar
15
2010
Telecommunications Visionary, Former CTO & CIO of AT&T
Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi is recognized within the scientific community as one of the foremost thought leaders and technological scientists of the high tech age. He is currently Chairman & CEO of 2020 Venture Partners and Chief Technical Advisor of Ericsson Inc., helping them build a worldwide eco-system converging wireline and wireless, using IP based technologies. He advises several companies and the Government on their IT strategies.
“A bold, yet pragmatic visionary” BusinessWeek
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Jan
08
2010
Chair Professor of Communication Technology & Society
Manuel Castells is Professor of Communication and the holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. He is a Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the co-editor of the International Journal of Communication.
“Governments can no longer govern; they can only negotiate”
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Oct
23
2009
Global Business Strategist
Akio Miyabayashi was a former CEO of Minolta Europe, responsible for the launch of Minolta Europe in 1965, and Minolta’s own distribution network in the USA 1966, he became CEO Minolta Europe in 1975.
His clear understanding of the criteria and driving forces of global competitiveness enabled him to successfully develop the European Operations of this multi-national corporation from a staff of 17 in 1965 to 5,200 in 1995 when he became a senior corporate adviser for the Minolta worldwide. His ability to understand the different cultures of the world and utilizing it for the successful growth, enabled Minolta to become a major player in the European market, with 44 companies and subsidiaries and 2 factories throughout Europe, including Eastern Europe and some parts of the former Soviet Union.
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Oct
16
2009
Founder of Pentacle Business School
Professor Eddie Obeng is Founder Director of Pentacle the world’s first virtual business school and the first organisation to offer an integrated management approach specifically designed to meet the challenges of our fast changing, complex 21st century. He was previously an Executive Director at Ashridge Management College, having begun his career with Shell. Professor Obeng pioneered the concept of the ‘New World’ throughout the 1990′s.
‘Agent provocateur’ and a ‘…leading revolutionary’ Financial Times
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Oct
13
2009
Professor of Business & Technology and Dean of External Relations at INSEAD
Soumitra Dutta is an authority on technology and innovation strategy. He has advised top management of major multi-nationals, leaders of major governments and has been showcased in major business and general news media. He is currently Robert Berger Professor of Business & Technology and Dean of External Relations at INSEAD and has co-written several books on technology-enabled business innovation.
“Refreshing global perspective on technology-enabled business innovation”
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