WidgetWebExpo London Speakers

Jonathan Allen, Search Marketing Specialist, Incisive Media
Jonathan Allen’s background is in literature and philosophy which makes him not a geek. But may make him a nerd. Since then he has pursued a career in online marketing and has over 6 years expertise in SEO/SEM, web analytics and mobile.
By day Jonathan is the search marketing specialist at Incisive Media. He joined VNU Business Publications in 2005 where he optimised online job boards for the IT and finance sector. Since VNU’s purchase by Incisive Media in 2007 he has managed search engine optimisation strategies for all sites across the combined IT, Finance & Legal trade press and events portfolio.
By night Jonathan Allen likes to tinker on random projects and is a co-founder and director of www.moblogtech.com, managing marketing initiatives and monetisation strategies for www.Moblog.net. Currently his favourite project is a mobile site called www.Microhappy.us – very short stories to read at the bus stop.
See Jonathan speak at: Widgets & SEO: Fragmentation, transformation, distribution

Larry Berkin, VP Ecosystem and Corporate Business Development, ACCESS
Larry Berkin is the Vice President, developer ecosystem & technology acquisition for ACCESS. He is responsible for worldwide developer related activities for the company and leads a team in the evaluation and acquisition of technology for incorporation into the ACCESS Linux Platform™ and NetFront, the company’s mobile browser installed on 500 million mobile phones worldwide. Prior to joining ACCESS, Berkin held senior management positions in product development, marketing and business development at Excite@Home, Island Graphics and Broderbund Software. In addition, Berkin founded Jumpin’ Jack Software, an entertainment software company that produced videogames for LucasArts, Sega and 3DO. Berkin earned a bachelor’s degree in economics/computer science from the State University of New York and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He has been a frequent speaker at Jupitermedia’s Game MarketWatch Conference, Games Developers Conference, CES, CTIA Wireless, Open Source in Mobile and Digital Hollywood.
See Larry speak at: ACCESS NetFront Browser Mobile Widget platform

Andre Bonvanie, General Manager, NewsGator Europe
Andre Bonvanie is general manager for NewsGator Europe. He is responsible for the overall development and expansion of the company’s business in the European market.
Prior to NewsGator, Andre was CEO and founding partner of Atlantic Crossings, a Dutch communications strategy company running pan-European sales and marketing programmes for major companies, including Microsoft, SAP, Ingram Micro, and ING. Previously, he worked for several years at Microsoft in various management positions.
See Andre speak at: Widgets Get Sophisticated: Analytics Elevate Value of Agile Ad and Content Syndication Technology

David Cushman, Digital Development Director, Bauer Consumer Media
David has worked in media for 20 years – in newspapers, magazines, radio, the internet and mobile. His role as Digital Development Director at Bauer Consumer Media (the world’s largest private media company) sees him tackling the new strategic challenges facing us all as we come to terms with a community-dominated, networked world.
He regularly shares his thoughts on this at his blog http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com
He is currently co-authoring a book about the disruption the media industry is going through.
Most likely to say: “That which the network touches, it disrupts”.
Least likely to say: “Relax, it’s business as usual.”
See David speak at: The User is the Destination Now. Widgets Role in the Eighth Mass Media

Greg Doone, Managing Director, Collective
Greg joined digital creative agency Collective in December 2006 as part owner and Managing Director, and in under two years has taken the business from 15 to 40 people, increased its annual turnover from £1.5m to £3.5m, and retained and grown Honda as its key client as well as bringing onboard high calibre brands such as Sega, Electronic Arts, learndirect, Snickers and Doritos.
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Greg began his digital career at the prestigious Massey University where he studied a Bachelor of Technology in Product Development, completing internships at Ericsson , EDS and the New Zealand Police.

See Greg speak at: Delivering a micro brand experience

Gi Fernando, CEO, Techlightenment
Following several years working in amongst the corporate giants, a budding entrepreneur popped out, and for the past 6 years has been building on his vision for customer-centric dialogue.
Gi has helped HSBC, Standard Bank, Egg, British Council, HMRC, World Food Programme, Impregilo, BT, Samsung, Paramount Pictures, SonyBMG amongst others.
See Gi speak at: How to Think Properly to Market Successfully in Social Media for Brand Awareness or Lead Generation

Prior to joining KickApps, Simon was Director of Business Traveller Products and Internet at B2B Travel Information provider OAG, where he re-work internet strategy and delivered new technology product streams . He joined OAG from being European Major Accounts Director at Macromedia and before Macromedia’s acquisition of Allaire, he was responsible for the launch of Allaire’s Coldfusion and CMS solutions in Northern Europe. He also spent several years running international distributors at Bay Networks and 5 years running Northern Europe and European product sales at Attachmate.
See Simon speak at: Widgetizing the web – Widgets will change the way we build websites

Soren Hojby, Evangelist, youcalc
Soren has been working with dashboards and management analytics for the past 5 years. He currently works for mashup & analytics platform youcalc.com with a personal mission to create new insight from structured online data by mashing it into meaningful dashboards.
His current title reflect that he is difficult to shut up once he gets started talking about the future of “analytics 2.0”. Soren holds a Master of Science in strategy and management from Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus
See Soren speak at: Build an enterprise widget/mashup

Jenni Lloyd, Senior Consultant, NixonMcInnes
Over the last two years she has taken a lead role in developing and delivering their focus on social media, as well as designing the user experience for websites across the spectrum.

Latest projects have included developing a blog in support of search strategy for MORE TH>N; designing the user experience for widgets for Oxfam, Sugar magazine and Fat Face and creating sites for clients as diverse as a fine wine merchant and a manufacturer of stairlifts.
Having cut her teeth in digital design as far back as 1995, Jenni has a love of new technologies, a keen understanding of brand and design and a wealth of experience across different platforms and markets. Now though, it’s less about technology ndash; and more to do with what our new inter-connectedness means culturally, socially and commercially.
Jenni is the mother of two children devoted to Club Penguin, Moshi Monsters, Neopets and all things online, a proud resident of Brighton and keen on a nice cup of tea…
See Jenni speak at: ‘I don’t know where you live’ – Designing for a fragmented world

Rasmus Aaen Madsen, CEO & Founder, youcalc
Serial IT-entrepreneur, started his first company straight out of business school 13 years ago. Founded web agencies, software companies, and web-based businesses. Co-founder of major web agency AHEAD, which was acquired by stock exchange listed VALTECH. Sits at the board of Composite Software (as co-founder) and ISSUU (issuu.com). “But I have also had one total failure, where the company was shut down!”
Rasmus holds an MBA (London South Bank University) and a M.Sc. International Business Administration (Copenhagen Business School).
See Rasmus speak at: Build an enterprise widget/mashup

Eyal Magen, Co-founder and CEO, Gigya
Eyal has more than nine years of experience in Internet executive positions. Prior to Gigya he served as VP Products and General Manger of Hotbar.com, a leading contextual advertising company with more than 10MM active users and a revenue stream of $25MM/year. Before that Eyal served as Director of Business Development at, Kidum ltd, a leading global eLearning enterprise. Eyal holds a B.A. in psychology and sociology from Tel Aviv University.
See Eyal speak at: Keynote

Matt Nash, European Business Development Director, Clearspring UK
Matt is the European lead for Clearspring Technologies and has over 10 years experience in the internet space. He was previously the Managing Director of Faceparty.com the UK’s first social site, and has held management positions at the Guardian and Ajilon. He recently advised HMV on the launch of their new social discovery site Getcloser.
Matt is currently driving adoption of the Clearspring platform across Europe and at the same time introducing various commercial models to those widget owners and advertisers.
See Matt speak at: Generation S: Who is Generation S?

Ivan Pope, CEO & Founder, Snipperoo
Ivan Pope is an Internet industry veteran, having founded the The World Wide Web Newsletter in 1994, the UK’s first web development agency, Webmedia in 1994, domain name registrar NetNames in 1997 and widget management company, Snipperoo in 2006. He is a blogger and authority on the subject of web widgets. On 6 December 2007 he created Europe’s first conference in digital Brighton dedicated to web widgets – known as Widgety Goodness.
See Ivan speak at: Widgets and Social Networks

Scott Rafer, CEO, Lookery
Scott Rafer has been helping Internet publishers and users jump on What’s Right Now! since 1995. Today, that means delivering services for social publishing and discovery. Scott is CEO of Lookery, as well as co-founder of Mashery and chairman of Winksite. Lookery is an ad network and user-targeting service that is supporting the growth of social applications starting with Facebook. Mashery manages API and developer programs on behalf of web services providers. Winksite helps publishers large and small assemble active mobile communities around their brands based on the content they already syndicate.
Just before all that, he was CEO of MyBlogLog until Yahoo! acquired the company in January 2007. Before MyBlogLog, Scott tried and failed to build blog search companies in both 1998 and 2003. Before the first dotcom boom, Rafer led the Internet products group at Kodak Hollywood, worked in investment banking, and graduated from the Management of Technology program at UPenn.

Isabel Sabadi, Widgadget
Isabel Sabadi is CEO and co-founder of Iris Experience, an online marketing agency created in 2005 in Barcelona. Winner of several awards including the Digital Innovation price of bDigital Global Congress, Iris Experience creates innovative spaces of online communication and provide web marketing solutions for firms and Internet users. The company counts clients in Spain, France, Australia and South America with Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Applus, TNC, Mercafutbol, Universitat Ramón llull, La Redoute, Lonely Planet, etc.Isabel’s new project is the development of Widgadget.com, a community portal for widgets creation and distribution. She has a 10 years experience of online marketing in several innovative companies in the Telecom, Internet, Media & Entertainment sector.
Apart from the company she owns and manages, Isabel is also Emarketing Teacher in the Marketing Management Program at Fundemi-IQS, and Services Marketing Program Coordinator at IDEC-UPF. She is also actively involved in sector conferences and papers in Spain and all over Europe.
Isabel is graduated in Management and Marketing from IDEC-UPF in Barcelona, with a PhD in Marketing (Madrid). When she is not online, she enjoys the sunny beach, travelling the world and sailing.
See Isabel speak at: Widgets VS Banners, a Social Way of Promotion

Bryan Smith, Principal advisor – Digital media. Communications & External Relations, Rio Tinto
Bryan Smith is Principal adviser, Digital Media, working in the Communications and External Relations team in Rio Tinto plc (a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK). He’s worked in corporate marketing and communications for nearly 20 years, with over 10 of those years online. Bryan’s current role includes rolling out best practise in online communications and reputation management across the Group, which currently has more that 65,000 employees in over 65 countries. He’s been very busy!
See Bryan speak at: “Highly illogical, captain” Widgets and the Enterprise

Asokan Thiyagarajan, Technology Evangelist, Ecosystem & Market Development, Motorola
Asokan Thiyagarajan serves as a technology evangelist at the Ecosystem & Market Development team of Motorola. As an evangelist, he is responsible for recommending strategies to address market and technology trends as well as strategic alliances with key developers. He is a respected speaker at international conferences on technology. He authors technology and visionary articles for leading magazines around the world. Asokan has over 19 years of international experience in high technology sectors, developing software and communication systems. Asokan has skills blended in technology, business, engineering and management, and is very effective in Technology Management.
Prior to Motorola, Asokan held a variety of senior development, operations and strategic management positions at companies such as Nokia, Ericsson and Compaq (HP). He also has entrepreneurial experience, having co-founded a technology company. Asokan holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, from Madurai University, India.
See Asokan speak at: Mobile Phones, Web2.0, Motorola’s MOTOMAGX and the Future

Chris Thorpe, Developer Platform Evangelist MySpace Uk and Founder of Jaggeree
Chris has been involved in projects as diverse as social worlds for 7-11 year olds, video archives of Nobel Prizewinners telling their life stories, a James Bond Premiere Webcast and putting contemporary sculpture on Trafalgar Square’s FourthPlinth. He’s recently formed Jaggeree, a social media consultancy and is also working with MySpace UK as their Developer Platform Evangelist
See Chris speak at: Evangelising Social Networks