reconnect 2- digital: you, your business, our planet

Reconnect 2: 13 Sept 2011

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The theme for our second Reconnect event of the year is about Leading In a Digital Age. Whether it's our own personal leadership "brand", the challenges posed to our business models and relationships with our customers and colleagues or how human rights movements are shaped and connected, the internet and social media platforms are changing everything.

•  Should you be using Twitter and Facebook? •  How can the accelerating development of online tools

improve your business performance?

•  How can social media crowd source improve philanthropy and mass social action?

A world class line up of speakers will address these questions - and no doubt more!

We hope you can join us.

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Reconnect 2: 13 Sept 2011 Digital: You, Your Business, Our Planet

Richard Sambrook

Global Vice Chairman, Edelman Jacob Bøtter Founder, Wemind Tim McCoy Director of Communications, Starbucks UK Dan Cobley Marketing Director, Google Anne Marie Huby Co-Founder, JustGiving Patrick Meier Director of Crisis Mapping & Partnerships, Ushahidi

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When & Where Tuesday 13th September 2011 Starts 08:30 Finishes after drinks at 20:00

Somewhere to stay? If you need overnight accommodation Wavelength have secured a preferred rate of £159 (excl VAT) for B&B at No 10 Manchester Street hotel. http://www.tenmanchesterstreethotel.com/

Click on corporate rates & enter code “wavelength”

Reconnect 2: Digital: You, Your Business, Our Planet

Logistics

13 Sept 2011

Venue: MC Motors, 28 Millers Avenue, E8 2DS This venue is not at the end of a tube line (although its much easier to get to than Sheepdrove!) so please plan your journey carefully! Map link: http://bit.ly/qqveLj Your options are: 1.  By train to Dalston Kingsland station via the

Overland, then it’s an 8 min walk. The Overland runs from Richmond in the West to Stratford in the East, stopping at Highbury & Islington Tube stop, for example.

2.  Or it’s a 5-10min cab ride from Highbury & Islington Tube.

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Reconnect 2 Digital: You, Business, the Planet 13 Sept 2011

DIGITAL: YOU We will examine the digital revolution and how it impacts relationships, the nature of work, and what it means to you and your personal leadership. We will hear from Richard Sambrook, Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer for Edelman where he takes a strategic lead on developing media content for clients and heads the crisis and issues practice. Previously he was a 30 year veteran of BBC News, most recently as Director of Global News, responsible for radio, TV, and digital services for 230 million people each week. He was a producer and editor on many of the BBC's major news programmes and directed coverage of many big news events. He is a regular speaker at the World Economic Forum and elsewhere on digital media and served on the Advisory Group for the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum.

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DIGITAL: YOUR BUSINESS We will explore how and why businesses are reengineering themselves in a digital age. Jacob Bøtter founded Wemind in Denmark in 2005. He has no formal education but is nonetheless a very experienced entrepreneur. Jacob has been blogging since 2003 and was one of the first Danes to podcast and tweet. Jacob has previously worked as a graphic designer and run his own design agency with over 250 associate designers in more than 50 countries. At Wemind, Jacob works with concept development and he has the final responsibility for the companyʼs products and services. Tim McCoy Director of Communications Starbucks UK & Ireland Tim joined Starbucks in 2009 as the company focused intently on the reputation of its business, seeking to build new levels of trust with customers and stakeholders. He came across from the PR agency Blue Rubicon where he had advised global brands, ranging from energy multinationals to retailers and Government departments. Before entering the world of Public Relations, Tim was a programme editor at BBC News and worked at home and abroad on TV and radio news. He begun his journalism career in local newspapers.

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DIGITAL: YOUR BUSINESS & OUR PLANET Dan Cobley is a Marketing Director at Google, where he connects customers and businesses, helping both navigate digital space to find what they need. In 2006, Dan Cobley was appointed director of marketing at Google for central and northern Europe. He shows customers the best way to use Google products to find the information and services they’re searching for, while working with businesses to demonstrate how a search engine can help them find interested customers. We will consider how digital is reinventing our ability to tackle some of the planet’s biggest problems. Dan will also talk to us about how Google.org uses Google’s strengths in information and technology to build products and advocate for policies that address global challenges. We focus our efforts on activities that are uniquely suited to Google’s engineering teams, global infrastructure and user-driven approach, taking advantage of our ability to innovate and scale. Our products and projects include Google Flu Trends, Google Powermeter, RE<C, Google Earth Engine and Google Crisis Response.


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Anne Marie Huby Co-Founder of JustGiving trained in journalism but after university, she turned her sights towards humanitarian aid and became employee No2 at the newly formed international secretariat of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Brussels. Within a month, she was sent to Zagreb to support MSF’s attempt to evacuate the hospital in Vukovar, the Croatian town besieged by Serbian troops. Though the operation went wrong – the MSF convoy came under fire and several MSF colleagues were wounded – it proved to MSF the value of press relations in high-profile emergencies. Anne-Marie was given free rein from then on, opening a press and campaigning office in Nairobi in 92 and relocating MSF’s international press office from Brussels to London in 93. She became MSF’s UK Executive Director within a year, raising the organisation’s public profile and turning it into a major contributor of both funds and medical talent to the MSF movement. In 1999, MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace prize. This is when she met Zarine Kharas, who came to MSF to present her fledgling idea for JustGiving. Immediately bowled over by the power of the idea, Anne-Marie decided to leave MSF and partner with Zarine to develop the company.


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Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping & Partnerships at Ushahidi is an international networker and connector. He is the co-founder of the International Network of Crisis Mappers and previously co-directed Harvard University’s (HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning. He has consulted for many international organizations including the UN, OSCE and OECD on numerous crisis mapping and conflict early warning projects in Africa, Asia and Europe. Patrick is a recognized expert and thought leader on the intersection between new technologies, early warning, civil resistance, human rights and humanitarian response. He has written extensively on these topics and has presented his work at numerous high-profile conferences worldwide. Patrick is also completing his PhD at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and is currently a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Program on Liberation Technologies. He is on the Board of Digital Democracy, the Meta-Activism Project and the Konpa Group. Patrick has an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University and is an alum of the Sante Fe Institute’s (SFI) Complex Systems Program. He blogs at iRevolution.net and can be reached at patrick(at)ushahidi.com and @patrickmeier.


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