Deb Berman, Managing Director, Justmeans

Deb helps corporate clients and non-profit organizations develop and implement their social media and communications strategies. In this role, she works with companies to develop creative ways to leverage Justmeans to promote good work, including corporate social responsibility, corporate philanthropy, sustainability and environmental initiatives. Prior to joining Justmeans, Deb worked with companies and organizations helping them to build their capacity and develop and implement strategic growth plans. Deb is the founder of Camp Starfish, a non-profit program for emotionally disturbed children with one-to-one camper to staff ratio which she ran for eight years. Deb attended Colgate University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Education, Boston University, where she received an M.B.A. and Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Lee Bryant, Director, Headshift

Lee Bryant is an online community and social networking specialist, and co-founder of the leading social computing consultancy Headshift (part of the Dachis Group), which helps companies use lightweight social tools to create meaningful applications and purposeful social networks. Headshift's social business design team operates internationally, with clients across Europe, the UK, Australia and North America, which gives us an insight into the diversity that makes for healthy networks. We help put IT at the service of business, not the other way around, and apply the lessons of what works on the public internet to the real needs of businesses, both internally and externally. Our clients include several top 10 global law firms, consultancies, FTSE-100 companies, media and governmental and public sector bodies.

Tim Callington, Associate Director, Edelman Digital

Tim is an associate director at Edelman Digital UK. With over eight years experience working in the technology and digital communications spaces, Tim has advised a range of clients on their digital and social media strategies and delivered programmes for brands including HP, the BBC, Diageo and Chrysler. A background in public relations advising clients including Total and Microsoft, for whom he championed social media engagement activity, led Tim to his current role specializing in the digital space. He now works with clients to develop integrated digital campaigns that combine Edelman's communications, web design and development expertise. Away from Edelman, Tim spends his time entertaining his two children and rock climbing, when given the opportunity. He can be found online at cutoutandkeep.posterous.com and on Twitter at @timcallington.

Jo Confino, Head of Sustainable Development & Executive Editor, The Guardian

Jo Confino is an executive editor of the Guardian and head of sustainable development at Guardian News and Media, which includes the Guardian, Observer and Guardian Unlimited. He is also sustainability advisor to the parent company Guardian Media Group. Jo has been a journalist for 24 years, including stints as Wall Street correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and business and finance news editor at the Guardian. He is responsible for ensuring that the values of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian, maintain their vibrancy across editorial, commercial and operational departments. His responsibilities include the publishing of its award-winning annual social, ethical and environmental audit 'Living our Values.' He is also currently project manager of a multi-million pound integrated development programme in a rural community in Uganda.

Bjorn Edlund, Executive Vice President, Communications at Royal Dutch Shell plc 2005-2010

Björn Edlund is an experienced public affairs and communications practitioner with a special interest in the societal role of business. Over the past 20 years, he has provided guidance, support and challenge to 11 CEOs in the three corporations where he has served as head of corporate communications, as well as to dozens of other executives and project leaders in his years as a consultant. He retired from Shell on March 1, 2010. As Executive Vice President and Head of Group Communications at Royal Dutch Shell plc, he was responsible for the energy group’s global branding and stakeholder communications. With the team he assembled, he realigned the global function for proactive business support and interactive stakeholder engagement through holistic brand management; more focused messaging and more assertive external interactions. Edlund in 2005 joined Shell from ABB Ltd where he helped integrate corporate responsibility and other sustainability aspects into business planning and practices, adding human rights considerations to business risk assessments and closely engaging stakeholders in annual dialogues in the main countries. In 2009, Henley Business School in the UK appointed Edlund a Senior Visiting Fellow, and the same year, Bjorn Edlund received one of The Holmes Group’s first ever SABRE Awards for Individual Achievement in Europe.

James Farrar, Vice President Sustainability, SAP

James Farrar is Vice President of Sustainability for SAP in the EMEA and his role encompasses strategy, product development, marketing as well as SAP’s own operational performance. Prior to joining SAP he was worked in various Finance management roles before joining the newly formed Sustainable Business Unit at British Airways. Later James went on to serve as COO at Global Witness and also worked with the UK Amnesty International Business Group. In 2009 James was named by Ethisphere Magazine as one of the Global 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics.

Ed Gillespie, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Futerra

Ed co-founded Futerra, one of the first specialist sustainability communications agencies. There he is responsible for driving the creative direction of Futerra’s work with the aim of making sustainable development so desirable it becomes normal. He brings a deep knowledge of sustainability and considerable creative skill to challenging briefs. In 2007/8 Ed travelled around the world without flying. He is a leading advocate of the Slow Travel movement, writes one of the most viewed blogs on the subject, www.lowcarbontravel.com. and is a regular contributor to The Guardian on environmental communication. He is also a Member of the International Visual Communication Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and holds Masters degrees in both Marine Conservation and Leadership for Sustainable Development. Before co-founding Futerra he worked for the SURVIVAL Natural History Film Unit, as a marine biologist in Australia, New Caledonia and Orkney, and on environmental issues for Transport for London.

Stuart Handley, EMEA Communications Director, Dell

Stuart is Communications Director for Dell Public globally and EMEA. He has worked at Dell since November 2007. He is responsible for the Public Relations and Corporate Communications strategy for Dell’s Public Sector business unit. Stuart has over 18 years public sector, corporate, technology, business-to-business and consumer communications experience. Before Dell, Stuart was (founding) partner of Purple Rabbit, a communications consultancy specializing in targeting the small business sector. Before that he was Managing Director Corporate Communications at leading international PR consultancy, Hill & Knowlton UK. Prior to this he was founder and CEO of AUGUST.ONE Communications. He started his career with leading international technology PR company, Text 100. Stuart studied English and Drama at Surrey University and is married to Judy and they have two children.

Neville Hobson, Head of Social Media Europe, WeissComm Group

Neville Hobson, ABC, is an IABC-accredited communication practitioner with over 25 years’ experience in public and media relations, marketing communication, employee, compensation and benefits communication as well as investor and financial relations. He helps companies use effective communication to achieve their business goals. He is Head of Social Media Europe for WCG, an integrated communications company focused on the marketing and communication needs of the world’s leading businesses, based in the London office. Throughout his career, Neville has been a passionate advocate for new and emerging technology tools and channels and how they can be deployed as effective agents of change in better aligning organizational needs with the marketplace and the needs of employees, customers and other stakeholders. Neville blogs at NevilleHobson.com, at the intersection of business, communication and technology. He is co-presenter with Shel Holtz of the twice-weekly "For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report," the communication profession’s first business podcast started in January 2005.

Jon Ingham, Executive Consultant, Social Advantage

Jon Ingham is a leading edge thinker and practitioner in the area of strategic people management. As a consultant, Jon works mainly with employers that already have sound approaches to people management and helps them extend their HR agendas to gain further improvements in the capabilities and engagement of their people, and the effectiveness of their organizations. Some of Jon’s clients include: Barclays, BT Global Services and several UK government departments and agencies. Jon also works as a researcher, speaker, trainer and writer, focusing on two main areas: strategic human capital management / HCM and HR 2.0 (the management of people and the development of organizations to accumulate social capital – including through the use of web 2.0 / social media tools). He has also lectured in strategic management, change management and human resources on executive MBA courses in both West and East Europe. Jon has a BA in Psychology, a Masters in Engineering and an MBA and has published over a dozen articles. He is the author of a book titled ‘Strategic Human Capital Management: Creating Value through People’ (2006). Jon blogs regularly about HCM and HR 2.0 and hosts a podcast show, Talking HR. Jon is a dynamic and compelling keynote speaker and has recently spoken in the US, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Tim Johns, VP Corporate Communications, Unilever

Tim Johns is vice-president of corporate communications for Unilever, responsible for media relations, internal communications, and category communications globally. A PR professional for almost twenty years, he was previously director of media relations for British Telecom, and prior to that appointment held senior communications roles at the retail chain, Sainsbury’s and at Homebase. Tim has degree in Government from Essex University and took the Advanced Management programme at Wharton Business School. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, and vice-chairman of the English Chamber Choir.

Antony Mayfield, SVP Social Media, iCrossing

Antony joined iCrossing in 2006 and founded its content & social media team. Working with brands including Coca-Cola, Toyota, Channel 4 and Marks & Spencer, Antony and his colleagues at iCrossing have developed new thinking, approaches and technologies for brand and media owners. He began his career in media and communications in public relations and joined iCrossing from Bell Pottinger Group, where he was a director in its technology arm, Harvard, working with clients including Vodafone, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Fujitsu. Antony blogs regularly about the web, media and brands on the iCrossing UK blog Connect (http://jm.ly/ib1Trs) and his personal blog Open (Minds, Finds, Conversations) (http://antonymayfield.com). He has also written three e-books about media, marketing and the web (http://jm.ly/4EWBed) and a book about personal online reputation, Me & My Web Shadow, which will published by Bloomsbury’s business division, A&C Black, in March 2010.

Amit Mehra, Founder and Managing Director, Reuters Market Light

Amit is the Founder and Managing Director of Reuters Market Light (RML), a pioneering business that sells a highly personalized professional information service over mobile phones to the farming community. RML’s revolutionary service was sold to nearly 200,000 farmers in over 15,000 villages in India and through sharing, it is estimated to have been used by over a million farmers. This pioneering business has been widely covered in leading publications such as The Economist, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Sunday Times, and International Herald Tribune and is a case study at London Business School, Cambridge University, UNDP and the World Bank. It has also featured in a few books including the path-breaking book of Prof. C.K. Prahalad “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”. Prior to RML, Amit worked in a variety of business development, strategy and operational roles in Thomson Reuters, Mitchell Madison Group, and a German government project. This covered the media industry, strategy consulting, and international trade development spanning parts of Asia, Europe and Africa. Amit is a frequent guest speaker at leading institutions including London Business School and Cambridge University. He studied at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and Delhi School of Economics, and holds a full-time MBA from London Business School.

Dr. Dan McQuillan, Head of Digital, Enterprise UK, and Co-founder, Social innovation Camp

After a Ph.D in Experimental Particle Physics, Dan worked with people with learning disabilities and as a mental health advocate. He founded Multikulti, a community-led multilingual site for asylum seekers & refugees which won a Global Ideas Bank Social Innovations Award, and SocialSource, a collective advocating for open source in the voluntary sector. After some personal experiences of human rights abuses, Dan joined Amnesty International as Director of Ecommunications where he introduced blogging and social networks. He headed Amnesty’s first delegation to the UN’s Internet Governance Forum. Dan is a former Director of The Open Rights Group and a consultant for NGOs in Central & Eastern Europe who are using crowdsourcing and mashups to promote anti-corruption. His current post is Head of Digital for Enterprise UK which campaigns for an entrepreneurial culture in the UK. In 2007 he co-founded Social InnovationCamp which brings together geeks and social innovators to create social startups in 48 hours. He blogs at www.internetartizans.co.uk and you can find him on Twitter @danmcquillan.

Robert Nuttall, Managing Director, Green Mandate

Robert has over 20 years’ in-house experience working in senior communications and change roles for organizations including Marks & Spencer, Cable & Wireless, GlaxoSmithKline, the BBC and Citigroup. Whilst at Marks & Spencer, he played a key role in devising and implementing the internal and external brand and communications strategy for ‘Plan A’, one of the most comprehensive and acclaimed corporate sustainability programmes in the UK. Following M&S, he joined Clownfish, a corporate responsibility consultancy acquired by Aegis Media in 2008. As Managing Partner, he advised a range of large and small corporates, and non- governmental organizations on their sustainability strategies. In June 2009, he joined Mandate Communications as Managing Director of Green Mandate offering strategic advice on organizations’ sustainability strategies. Mandate, part of the Engine Group, is a 100+ person consultancy specializing in public affairs, PR, brand and health. Robert has an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

Renate Nyborg, Founder, Madhouse Collective

Renate advises clients in media, technology, music and charity on using social media, off-line events and word-of-mouth marketing to engage people. She is passionate about using insight, innovation, and creative content to connect the dots between global brands or causes and consumers. Renate previously ran global marketing for Poken (www.poken.com) in San Francisco, and co-founded interactive events company Madhouse Collective. Prior to that Renate managed the European Leadership Programme across Europe, and advised a number of tech and media companies on strategic marketing projects. Renate also co-founded Twestival (www.twestival.com), a global charity project run by volunteers through Twitter. Their landmark events in February and September 2009 simultaneously took place in 200+ cities and raised over $750,000 for charity, with further campaigns planned in 2010. Renate is of Dutch/Norwegian nationality and speaks fluent English, Dutch, and Norwegian. In addition to being a tech and media geek, Renate is passionate about music and will gladly chew your ear off about her favourite bands, DJs and producers. She also loves skiing, running and connecting good people. Renate graduated from Cambridge University with a BA (Hons) in Philosophy.

Jean-Philippe Renaut, Program Manager, SustainAbility

JP leads SustainAbility's successful Engaging Stakeholders Program, and specialises in corporate transparency, accountability and engagement. He takes immense pleasure in reading a large number of printed corporate sustainability reports every year, but is relieved to be witnessing the transformation of corporate engagement around sustainability as companies experiment with different media. He previously worked in Canada with a large IT consultancy, and also as an independent consultant. On moving to London, his love for the outdoors has been channeled into becoming a die-hard commuter cyclist, and living vicariously through his friend's outdoor Facebook pictures. JP tweets occasionally, @jprenaut.

Marcia Stepanek, Founder & Publisher, Cause Global

Marcia Stepanek is founder and publisher of Cause Global, an acclaimed new group blog about the use of social media in social advocacy and innovation. Ms.Stepanek also serves as social enterprise editor for Justmeans.com, as well as blogs regularly for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, msnbc.com and PopTech. Ms. Stepanek, who has covered the evolution of the internet and its impact on society, commerce, and the workplace since 1994, has received a variety of awards for her work, including a George Polk award for consumer journalism, a National Press Club award for Washington correspondence, a New York Newswomens’ Club Front Page award for internet commentary, a Society of Proefessional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for explanatory journalism, and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Ms. Stepanek is a frequent speaker on the subject of social media and new trends in philanthropy, and she moderates and produces New Conversations for Change, a Manhattan forum series highlighting social entrepreneurs and innovation in social change advocacy. She is also Founding Editor-in-Chief of Contribute Media, a New York-based media company that covers the new people and ideas of giving. Her latest book, Swarms, about the rise and evolution of Web-wired, self-organized groups and their impact on business, culture, philanthropy and society—for better or worse—is due out later this year.