Conference Speakers
Cedric BlumChef de projet Service Client, Société Française de Radiotéléphone Service Client |
Dr. Willms BuhseDirector Marketing, CoreMedia AG Dr. Willms Buhse is member of the CoreMedia executive team since November 2003, has been active in the field of technology strategy for many years. Early in his career, he worked as a consultant in technology and strategy projects at the German top management consultancy group, Roland Berger & Partner and advised companies such as Volkswagen and Deutsche Bahn. After this, from 1999 to 2003, he worked with Bertelsmann AG and BMG in Gütersloh, Hamburg and New York, USA, where he co-founded Bertelsmann Digital World Services, a pioneer in the field of digital music business. He has also written and edited several books, and has spoken at more than 150 conferences on Internet technology. In addition, he advised the European Commission and several parliaments. |
Olivier CreicheVP & GM EMEA, Six Apart As the General Manager of EMEA, Olivier Creiche is responsible for business operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Olivier has rich experience in sales and marketing at such companies as Danone, Pepsico, BBDO and DDB. He cofounded two companies, one of which was Ublog, a French bloging service acquired by Six Apart in 2004. Olivier joined Six Apart as the Business Development Manager for EMEA in 2004 and recently stepped up to the General Manager position. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of South Dakota and is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. |
Diego GianettiSenior Manager, Marketing & Sales Intelligence, BTicino S.p.a. Diego Gianetti is the senior manager for Sales & Marketing Intelligence at BTicino S.p.a. He is responsable for Customer Relationship Managment, Customer Anlysis and Marketing Operations. |
Dion HinchcliffePresident & CTO, Hinchcliffe & Company Dion Hinchcliffe is a well-known business strategist and enterprise architect, who speaks, writes, and works prolifically hands-on with clients in the Fortune 500, federal government, and the Internet startup community. Mr. Hinchcliffe also helps lead the industry by evolving the thinking around Web 2.0 in the enterprise for ZDNet and the SOA Web Services Journal. |
| Kenneth Lavrsen Electrical Engineer, Motorola A/S Kenneth Jahn Lavrsen is an electrical engineer at Motoral S/A in Denmark. He manages a team of hardware Engineers that develop professional radio systems at Motorola in Copenhagen. He is also a "closet software engineer" playing with computers and software at home and in charge of a TWiki installation at Motorola in Copenhagen for an ISO9000 Quality Management System. |
Jamil OuajCommunications Manager, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany
Jamil Ouaj is responsible for the worldwide and cross-divisional online communication in the division Group Technology and Operation at Deutsche Bank. He is actively involved in the strategy around Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 at Deutsche Bank and leads on internal projects such as dbWiki, an online encyclopaedia and dbClub a social networking platform. |
Florian RiedlSenior Manager Global Web Platforms & Web Services, Vodafone Deutschland Florian Riedl is Senior Manager Global Web Platforms & Web Services and is in charge for the various webbased information and knowledge management systems. |
Jeff SchickIBM Vice President Social Software, IBM Jeff Schick is currently Vice President, Social Computing Software, in the IBM Software Group. He is responsible for IBM's social computing and software business initiatives, including strategy, requirements, development, marketing, sales, services and support. In January 2007, Schick was instrumental in launching the first integrated social software platform for business. These new social computing capabilities are being used at IBM today, as well as, in government institutions and businesses around the world. Schick's leadership in Social Computing solutions for the enterprise has been well recognized, with numerous appearances on news and technology programs including Sirius, CNBC and CNN, and in newspapers and trade publications around the globe including The NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Business Week. |
Euan SempleIndependent Advisor, euansemple.com Euan Semple is a well-known writer, thinker, public speaker and independent advisor on social computing for business. As the former head of Knowledge Management for the BBC, Semple pioneered the use of weblogs, wikis and on-line forums, enabling the staff to work more effectively. |
Wieland StützelSenior Manager, Knowledge Management, Fraport AG |
Simon WardleySoftware Services Manager / Cloud Computing Strategist, Canonical Ltd. |



Cedric Blum
Dr. Willms Buhse
Olivier Creiche
Diego Gianetti
Dion Hinchcliffe
Jamil Ouaj
Florian Riedl
Jeff Schick
Euan Semple
Wieland Stützel
Simon Wardley









