Dr Jillian Ney is the UK’s first Dr of Social Media and a Digital Behavioural Scientist.  She is a consultant to marketers, helping them to analyse and use social data to tap into their audiences’ non-conscious thinking and behaviours.

She believes that marketers are currently measuring the wrong social metrics.  Dr Jillian believes that by measuring non-conscious triggers, drivers, heuristics and brand cues, brands can more effectively grab, provoke and convert audience attention.  Her proprietary People Science for you Social Data framework helps marketers to get to the data that matters to marketing success and business growth.

Dr Jillian has worked with brands and agencies including EAIE, PwC, Serco, Adidas, CreateFuture and GfK.

Andy Hood is Head of Emerging Technologies at AKQA. He founded and leads the Creative Research & Development team, which specializes in rapid design and development of new digital products and services for clients, and in demonstrating how new technologies can be applied to solve business and consumer problems.

Andy was a key figure in the development of the Fiat Eco:Drive connected-car system that drives behavior change around fuel consumption, the Heineken Star Player live dual-screen Champions League game and the Nissan IDx virtual reality experience for Oculus Rift at the Tokyo Motorshow.

Andy was featured in AdWeek as one of the ‘Top Ten Creative Minds’ in Digital and included in the BIMA 100 of 2016. He is regularly called upon by the press to offer expert commentary and presents at influential global events such as 2nd Screen Summit at CES, Dmexco, Mobile Convention and the Guardian’s Changing Advertising Summit. Andy has also been a member of the Cannes Lions Mobile jury.

Studies: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

Career: 20 years of TV career from reporter to producer

Now:

-Producer and presenter of Zona IT, the most important technology TV show in Romania, broadcasted weekly on TVR1

-Coordinator of zonait.tv website, one the most popular tech websites in Romania

Interests: Technology, film&photo, 3D graphics, design etc.

Mona Opran is COO of Centrade | Cheil, a regional communication hub for South-East Europe, with headquarter in Bucharest and local offices in Belgrade, Zagreb and Budapest.

Mona started her carrier in communication and business management 19 years ago, pioneering the communication field in Romania. Since then, she gathered a wide knowledge of the advertising industry, both as a client and as an agency person.

Between 2013 and 2016, as COO of Centrade Saatchi & Saatchi, Mona coordinated agency’s operations through two major changes: from Centrade Saatchi & Saatchi to Centrade (ending the affiliation to Saatchi), continuing as an independent communication agency and further, starting an affiliation with Cheil Worldwide as Centrade | Cheil, regional hub for South-East Europe.

This period was also marked by a business model change towards integrated communication centered on people insights and brand needs by enhancing a broad range of skills and services across digital, technology-driven solutions, content production and events.

Mona is also a board member of UAPR (Romanian Association of Advertising Agencies), PWN (Professional Women Network, Romanian Chapter) and Casa Ioana (local NGO).

Hugo has 15+ years experience in Business Development, Marketing, Data and Digital, in both B2B(2C) and B2C contexts in the Media, Publishing, Advertising and Technology industries.

He has led global projects and managed matrix-organisation teams in both startup, agency environment, and large corporates like MTV and Telefónica, where he created and implemented innovative programmes: Data for social good across Digital Channels, Integrated Media monitoring for Broadcast industry, Global Social Media programme, Global content planning for Technology.

He is now leading Innovation Services at IBM Interactive Experience and works with Innovation Leaders and C-suite to help the largest organisations in the world on the journey of digital reinvention, while leveraging the Design Thinking, Technology, Business Strategy and the ecosystem of talent, partners and technology from IBM.

@rjrodger / richardrodger.com
Richard Rodger is co-CEO (previously CTO) and co-founder of nearForm.com. Richard is an expert and thought-leader in next-generation enterprise software delivery, with a focus on Node.js and microservices. He is currently writing The Tao of Microservices (available on early release from manning.com/books/the-tao-of-microservices), a comprehensive guide to designing and building microservice systems. His first book Mobile Application Development in the Cloud (Wiley, 2010) is one of the first major works on the intersection of Node.js, Cloud, and Mobile.
Richard was previously CTO of FeedHenry, a mobile application platform provider that was acquired by RedHat for €63.5m in 2014.

Since Richard co-founded nearForm in 2011, the company has become the world’s largest Node.js and microservices consulting company.
Richard has long been an active member and influencer of the open source software (OSS) community, specializing in OSS for enterprise. At nearForm, he has placed OSS at the heart of how the company works. He is the maintainer of senecajs.org, a microservices framework for Node.js that is a key component of nearForm’s software development and delivery capability. Richard is the host of the Dublin Microservices Meetup.

Hubert is a marketing and brand expert. He manages global technology PR, at both agency and in-house levels as well as his own business ventures. He has led marketing innovation in travel, consumer tech, startup and A-brand, with particular talent in experiential and new media methods.

A director at StartupHelp.eu and GWorks business consulting, he is a regular industry commentator and live project coordinator at UCD Smurfit Business School Dublin for its Msc Digital Marketing course.

He’s co-author of the Little Black Book of PR 2016, covering social entreprenueship and modern marketing topics.

“I like to seek and work with companies and folk who are up for a challenge. I’m ambitious but not obsessed with winning at ‘all costs’. I like to bring the team with me. I like the do-ers.” – Hubert Grealish.

@hubertgrealish

Consultant and author Adam Bien is an Expert Group member for the Java EE 6 and 7, EJB 3.X, JAX-RS, and JPA 2.X JSRs. He has worked with Java technology since JDK 1.0 and with Servlets/EJB 1.0 and is now an architect and developer for Java SE and Java EE projects. He has edited several books about JavaFX, J2EE, and Java EE, and he is the author of Real World Java EE Patterns—Rethinking Best Practices and Real World Java EE Night Hacks—Dissecting the Business Tier. Adam is also a Java Champion, Top Java Ambassador 2012, and JavaOne 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Rock Star. Adam occasionally organizes Java EE workshops at Munich’s airport (http://airhacks.com).

Angular Google Developer Expert. I am a Computer Science Engineer specialised in Web. International speaker and trainer. I am an Angular fanboy and a community activist fighting for the JavaScript revolution. I have lived and worked for all sorts of companies in Germany, Brazil, UK and Spain. I am always up for a good challenge. I enjoy running AngularZone London, mentoring students, participating in the community, giving talks and writing technical articles at Medium.

Rowan is a Developer Advocate at Google, which means he works with partners to build real-world applications to prove and shape new technology. Aside from the obligatory exposure to BASIC as a child, the web has always been his natural home for coding. From early Perl-based guestbooks, through Python CMS integrations, onto PHP in more places than seems healthy, he’s seen how a high performing web app is critical to success in any business.

Lucia Ciucă started working in research during college, and succeeded at it for almost 10 years.

In 2011 she joined eMAG team as Research Manager and in March 2012 she was named Marketing and Communication Director. She spent more than 3 years with the team of the biggest e-commerce site on local market.

Starting August 2015 she is the Managing Director of Quantum Data Science, the newest DATA Company in Romania, specialized in data technology. The company is member of thegroup, the biggest independent communication group in Romania.

Jason oversees GWI’s research and insight teams, directing its global research study across 34 markets and authoring the company’s flagship reports on social networking, mobiles and media consumption. He also blogs for titles like the Huffington Post and MediaPost and is a frequent contributor to stories on media outlets such as BBC News, CNN, the Guardian and Bloomberg.

Prior to this, Jason was Head of Insight at Future Foundation; during his time there, he launched the company’s US service, oversaw its Beyond 2020 innovation series and served as an Account Director for a number of global brands.

Jason first began working with trends as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Building on a PhD in the Social Sciences, he published a book through Cambridge University Press and presented at a number of international conferences.

Ellen Anthoni is trend researcher at Trendwolves, a full service trend and marketing agency and THE reference in European Youth Intelligence. Since 2007, Trendwolves makes businesses future proof. Starting from insights in youth trends and young family culture, they develop strategic advice and valuable implementations.

As one of the Trendwolves, Ellen is experienced in identifying youth trends and key influencers, and is editor-in-chief of the European Youth Trend Report. Her view on consumer trends is formed by her background in sociology and design: analytical with a creative edge. She has a sixth sense for emerging cultural movements and coolness, and shares her insights as a keynote speaker and lecturer at the University College Ghent. Together with clients she imagines possible future scenarios and develops future strategies.

Sven Ruppert has been coding Java since 1996. He is a Fellow (Head of R&D) for reply based in Munich.

In his free time he is regularly speaking at Conferences like JavaOne/Jfokus/Devoxx/JavaZone/JavaLand and many more  and contributes to IT periodicals, as well as tech portals.

Blog: www.rapidpm.org

Web: www.sven-ruppert.de

Twitter: @SvenRuppert

Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/profile/svenruppert/

Publications: http://www.rapidpm.org/publications/index.html

Talks: http://www.rapidpm.org/conferences/index.html

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svenruppert

José Pereda, PhD in Structural Engineering, works as a software engineer at Gluon. Being on Java since 1999, he is a JavaFX advocate, developing JavaFX applications for mobile and embedded platforms, while he also works on open source projects (JFXtras, FXyz, https://github.com/jperedadnr), co-authoring a JavaFX book (JavaFX 8 Introduction by Example), blogging (http://jperedadnr.blogspot.com.es/), tweeting (@JPeredaDnr) or speaking at conferences (JavaOne, JAX, JFokus, JavaLand, JBCNConf, JCrete…). José lives with his wife and kids in Valladolid, Spain.