Alfonso Arbaiza is the Managing Director for Fundetec, whose mission is to increase the use of technology by raising the awareness of its importance and capabilities to the general public and businesses. In order to drive the adoption of technology, Fundetec draws on the resources of public sector organizations, together with the management capabilities and experience of the private sector. Alfonso has more than 20 years' experience within the IT sector, in addition to a degree in Biology from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, a MBA from the Instituto de Empresa and a PDG (Progama de Direccion General) from the IESE.
Carl Redman has worked in the IT Industry for over 30 years with 23 years of this time spent within the Volkswagen Group and Volkswagen Financial Services Group of companies. Carl's career at Volkswagen has taken him from being a Analyst Programmer working on Mainframe systems, through to Project Management, PC Networks, Head of IT Operations, a two and half year posting in Germany working for VW Bank to his current position being Head of IT Development and Business Analysis. Carl is responsible for a team of approximately 40 people providing development and business analysis services covering a wide range of systems on primarily Web and SAP platforms. His most recent development achievement was that of a new Mobile Stock Audit Application based on the BlackBerry smartphone, enabling auditors to stock check funded vehicles from data directly sent to the device and then sent back to a host audit system. This was developed using RAD Agile techniques over a 5 month period.
Enrique Dans is Professor of Information Systems at Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain), where he currently serves as IS/IT Area Chair and Academic Director of the IT College. He received his Ph.D. from the Anderson School at UCLA, an MBA from Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain) and a B.Sc. from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. His research interests include the Internet and electronic commerce in a broad sense, dynamics of consumer and firms responses to electronic markets, application of IS/IT to small and medium enterprises, CRM and, from a methodology perspective, the application of multivariate methods to IS research. Professor Dans has been teaching and consulting in the IS field since 1990 and is a frequent contributor and columnist in the business and economic press in Spain and Latin America, where he writes about the Internet, new technologies and their applications.
Franz-Reinhard Habbel is Speaker and Media Adviser to the German Association of Towns and Municipalities in Berlin. Prior to this he worked as Speaker to the North-Rhine-Westphalian Association of Towns and Minicipialities. Habbel served as an expert in the field of ICT including the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and the German Parliament's Select Committee on New Media. He was a member of several committees serving different ministries such as the D21 campain - Germany's Way into the 21st Century. He was on the jury for a number of competitions, including the KPMG competition "eGovernment in State and Communal Administration". Habbel has also served on the advisory board of several research projects, such as Mobile Multimedia Services, under the umbrella of the Ministry of Trade and Commerce and Technology. He has published a lecture in the field of new media, die Internet, e-government, globalization and reform in administration. Habbel is member of the European Society for e-Government, Bonn.
James is editor of Growing Business magazine and growingbusiness.co.uk. He previously worked as an editor and business journalist covering small and mid-sized companies for UK and US publications and has interviewed an array of entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Kat Hannaford has been News Editor at T3.com for over a year, where she works all hours to sniff out breaking news and cover the big product launches. Prior to T3.com, she was Editor of Tech Digest at Shiny Media, a new media start-up which she joined in 2005. She is an accomplished and flexible technology journalist with experience in writing, editing and publishing successful websites and blogs.
She is often quoted by newspapers including The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, and the Evening Standard, and appears regularly on Sky News, BBC News and various radio stations as a technology expert.
Kevin Michaluk is the Founder and Community Manager of CrackBerry.com - a popular BlackBerry community that attracts over 10 million visits and 70 million page views per month. Kevin started the site in 2007 after realising many other people shared his passion and affiliation with the BlackBerry brand. In addition to CrackBerry's active member community, the site covers the news and provides reviews, tips and other relevant content to help BlackBerry users get the most out of their ownership experience while a million BlackBerry owners visit the site's ShopCrackBerry.com store each month to fulfil their BlackBerry accessory, software and smartphone needs.
Laurence is a Principal Solutions Architect/Consultant at British American Tobacco (BAT) working across infrastructure projects covering mobility/wireless, security and networks. He has over 12 years project and service delivery experience across insurance, media, financial and corporate services, central government and education, leading multi-disciplined virtual teams from varying suppliers. Over the past three years he has been greatly involved in mobility/wireless solutions using BlackBerry and leads the team at BAT HQ which delivered a strategy and roadmap of exploiting the platform with applications for added business value resulting in achieving the WES 2008 award for Innovation in the Private Sector.
Mary Branscombe is a freelance journalist covering anything from a mobile phone to a mainframe if it makes a difference to people. She writes for a wide range of titles including the Financial Times and technology titles like ZDNet, PC Plus, TechRadar, T3, Know Your Mobile and Tom's Hardware, as well as editing IT Expert, a magazine for consultants working with small businesses.
Tim Green is executive editor of Mobile Entertainment, the world's only dedicated trade magazine for the mobile content community. The magazine was launched in 2005 and is now firmly established as the journalistic authority in the sector, complemented by its web site, email digest, awards and networing events. Tim has been writing about mobile content since the market's inception in 1999, first as mobile editor of MCV (the games industry trade magazine) and then as a senior analyst with market forecaster Screen Digest.
Uli Ries is a fully qualified journalist with more than ten years professional experience. He used to work for publications like CHIP and PC Professionell and is now working for c't magazine, heise security, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Computerwoche, PC Welt and others as well as online publications like sueddeutsche.de and notebookjournal.de. He held the position of editor-in-chief of notebookjournal.de.
Uli Ries specializes in Mobility, Networks and IT-Security. Furthermore he is an independent moderator and speaker and talks on topics like "Security of wireless networks", "Voice-over-IP-Security" or "Green IT". He is attending IT security events worldwide like Blackhat, Defcon, CCC or Hack-in-the-Box and is working as an IT expert in front of and behind the camera for TV programs like "W wie Wissen (ARD)", "Planetopia (Sat1)", "Heute Journal (ZDF)".
Yvan Nicou is responsible for Messaging & Mobility at a large French retail bank where he and his team manage desk-based and mobile messaging services for their 45,000 users. Prior to joining the bank, Yvan managed the Messaging and Systems Architect team for an assurance company. Previously he has also led the System and Network team for KPMG France and was Systems and Messaging Manager for SFR.
Stephen Chilton is the Director of ICT at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He has accumulated 17 years of NHS ICT experience that has enabled Stephen to combine leadership, research, innovation and drive to deliver value to the NHS.
Stephen is an active member of the British Computer Society, the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers and the Information Technology Service Management Forum.
As a protagonist of operational and business led change supported by agile ICT - Stephens department has featured in a significant number of case studies that have demonstrated measurable improvements to quality of care and patient experience.
