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Social Business — Stowe Boyd

Stowe is the producer and director of the Social Business Edge event, and is an internationally recognized authority on social tools and the impact on media, business, and society. He is a futurist, analyst, consultant, and advisor, and is best known for his worldwide public speaking, and his writing, principally here, at www.stoweboyd.com.

Social Media As Creative Platform — Baratunde Thurston

Baratunde Thurston is a comedian, vigilante pundit and television host. He is the co-founder of Jack & Jill Politics, one of the top 10 black blogs and also blogs for The Huffington Post and his own site www.baratunde.com. He has authored three books, including Keep Jerry Falwell Away From My Oreo Cookies, was nominated for the Bill Hicks Award for Thought Provoking Comedy, declared a Champion of the First Amendment by Iowa State University, and called “someone I need to know” by Barack Obama. He hosts “Popular Science’s Future Of” on the Science Channel, and is the Web and Politics editor for The Onion.

Business Is Social: Toward A New Metaphor For Business — Josh Ross

Josh serves as SVP, Fleishman Hillard Digital, and formerly head of consulting at O’Reilly Media. His focus is applying Web 2.0 principles to deliver competitive advantage, from new business model development to customer engagement and communication strategies. Mr. Ross has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University and has spoken at conferences related to technology and digital strategy around the world. Past clients include Washington Mutual, Accenture, Best Buy, Autodesk, and Polycom. He writes for O’Reilly Radar and Forbes.

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Being Human — Euan Semple

Ten years ago, at the BBC, Euan was one of the first to introduce what have since become known as social media tools into a large, successful organisation. He has subsequently had years of unparalleled experience working with organisations such as Nokia, The World Bank and NATO, helping them learn how to make the most of this wired-up world of work.

Next Level Listening: Reactive To Proactive — Debi Kleiman

Debi Kleiman has been a good listener all her life. Luckily now, that’s part of her job description. As VP Product Marketing & Strategy, Debi helps Communispace clients make the most of their private online communities to deliver game changing insight. She spends much of her time listening and learning from clients, community members and industry experts to continuously improve Communispace’s solutions. Debi is also passionate about marketing, customer service and consumer behavior, reading and writing about it whenever she can. She has a BS from Cornell, an MBA from Harvard and is an active mom/wife to her fabulous family.

Open Systems, Closed Systems, And The Rebooted System Of News — Jay Rosen

Rosen is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org), for which he received the Reporters Without Borders 2005 Freedom Blog award for outstanding defense of free expression; he also blogs at the Huffington Post. In July 2006 he debuted NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. The first one was called Assignment Zero, a collaboration with Wired.com. A second project is OfftheBus.Net with the Huffington Post; author of What Are Journalists For?; he served the director of the Project on Public Life and the Press, funded by the Knight Foundation; Rosen is also a member of the Wikipedia Advisory Board.

Social Business Inside And Out — Lee Bryant

Managing director, Headshift; Lee has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, and has a strong belief in the empowering potential of the internet. He is a trustee of the Foundation for Science Technology and Culture.

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Digital Kids — Amanda Mooney

As senior social media strategist for Edelman Digital, Amanda helps clients understand key trends and insights related to audience technographics and community cultures online. In addition to her role as senior social media strategist, Amanda is a co-lead of Edelman’s global youth marketing group, 8095 and is a digital lead for Edelman’s goodpurpose team.

The Power Of Pull — John Hagel III

John Hagel III, the internationally acclaimed author and strategist, has agreed to join us at the Social Business Edge in April. He serves as the co-chairman of the Deloitte Center For The Edge, and has had a long and stellar career in strategic advisory roles.

John is the author, with John Seely Brown, of The Only Sustainable Edge, and is the author of other works, including Out Of The Box. He will be releasing a new book that he wrote with John Seely Brown and Lang Davison called The Power Of Pull the week before the show.

Social Leadership: What Happens To Top Dogs In A Bottom-Up Organization — Jemima Gibbons

Jemima is a writer and management consultant with a background in broadcast journalism. She ran the award winning Technical Change, a ground-breaking mentoring programme for Women in Film & Television. Her latest project is Monkeys with Typewriters: Myths & Realities of Social Media at Work, a book for Triarchy Press on the impact of web 2.0 technologies on business.

Making Social Business Work: How Enterprises Will Move Into The 21st Century — Dion Hinchcliffe

Dion runs Hinchcliffe & Company, an internationally recognized business strategist and enterprise architect with an extensive track record of building enterprise-class solutions with clients in the Fortune 500, federal government, and Internet startup community. Dion writes on ZDNet’s influential Enterprise Web 2.0 Blog and the Web 2.0 Blog, as well as the Microsoft Architecture Journal, AjaxWorld Magazine, SOA/Web Services Journal, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Social Computing Journal.

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Building A Collaborative Culture — Venessa Miemis

Author of Emergent By Design, Venessa is a futurist, media theorist, researcher. MA candidate in Media Studies at The New School. Venessa’s main area of interest is in exploring the impacts that social technologies are having on human culture and society. Her passion has led her to begin developing a framework dubbed ‘metathinking,’ which consists of a series of methods and strategies for understanding an increasingly complex and changing world. She is a member of the Space Collective community, and has contributed guest posts to Blogging Innovation, MediaRights, gnovis, and Memebox.

Privacy In An Open World — Adina Levin

Cofounder, Socialtext; over 13 years of experience in strategic marketing and product planning in a variety of emerging high-tech markets. At Vignette Corporation, a leading provider of Internet content management software, Levin served as Senior Director of Corporate Strategy.

Grassroots Change In Business — Deanna Zandt

Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet and Jim Hightower’s Hightower Lowdown, and hosts TechGrrl Tips on GRITtv with Laura Flanders. She is the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking (forthcoming: Berrett-Koehler, May 2010). Zandt specializes in social media, and is a leading expert in women and technology.

The State Of Social Listening — Rob Key

Rob is Founder and CEO of Converseon, the award winning full service social media consultancy that provides the listening/engagement/workflow technologies, operational consulting and paid/earned/mobile activation services required to help brands meet their business objectives in a social environment. Founded in 2001, Converseon is arguably one of the industry’s first pure play social consultancies and has gained an enviable reputation for innovation and programming excellence. Recent awards include the SAMMY for Best Social Media Agency and the Forrester Groundswell Award for in the Business to Consumer Talking category. Prior to joining Converseon, Rob was a member of the WPP.com board and head of the Innovations Group at a division of Young & Rubicam. He has been in digital marketing since 1995 and social media for nearly a decade. He is also a former Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research.

Soylent Twitter: The Future Is People — Jamais Cascio

Author, Open The Future; co-founder WorldChanging.com; research affiliate, Institute For The Future. Jamais Cascio writes about the intersection of emerging technologies, environmental dilemmas, and cultural transformation, specializing in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future. His work focuses on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking, emphasizing the power of openness, transparency and flexibility as catalysts for building a more resilient society; Foreign Policy magazine considers him one of the world’s most influential thinkers.

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