Global Keynotes
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| Ben Scott, Policy Advisor for Innovation of US State Department
Ben Scott is Policy Advisor for Innovation at the US Department of State, where he works at the intersection of technology and foreign policy. In a small team of advisors to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he works to help steward the 21′st Century Statecraft agenda with a focus on technology policy, social media and development. Prior to joining the State Department, for six years he led the Washington office for Free Press, the largest non-profit organization in the US dealing exclusively with media and communications policy. As policy director for Free Press, he headed a team of lawyers, researchers, and advocates, and directed a public interest policy agenda to expand affordable access to an open Internet and to foster more public service journalism. He was frequently called as an expert witness before the US Congress.Before joining Free Press, he worked as a legislative aide handling telecommunications policy for then-Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds a PhD in communications from the University of Illinois. He is the author of several scholarly articles on American journalism history and the politics of media regulation as well as co-editor of two books. |
| Borja Perez, VP of Digital & Social Media of Telemundo
As VP of Digital Media and Integrated Solutions, Borja Perez has been working closely with the COO, President of Studios, SVP Network Sales and the EVP Digital Media, to bring awareness to the importance of following market trends and up and coming client demand around 360 Integrated Digital and Social Solutions. He has successfully developed and initiated the Social Media Strategy for Telemundo, working closely with Digital Media and the different Social Media owners across the organization (Marketing Promotions Programming). He also helped to position Telemundo as the most innovative US Hispanic Media in terms of multiplatform solutions, gaining the respect of organizations such as IAB, where we won Silver/ Ford and bronze/Sprint awards and AdAge Gold for Multiplatform Branded Entertainment with Ford. |
| Don Tapscott, CEO of The Tapscott Group
Don Tapscott is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology. For over 30 years, he has introduced many ground breaking concepts that have embedded into contemporary understanding. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit, The Digital Economy changed thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet, and two years later he defined the Net Generation and the “digital divide” in Growing Up Digital. His 2000 work Digital Capital introduced seminal ideas like “the business web,” described by Business Week as “pure enlightenment.” Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and has been translated into over 25 languages. The Economist described his newest work Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World a “Schumpeterian story of creative destruction,” and the Huffington Post said the book is “nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world.” His work continues as the Chairman of the innovation think tank, Moxie Insight, a member of World Economic Forum and an Adjunct Professor of Management for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. |
| Fabio Coelho, CEO of Google Brasil
Fabio Coelho is Country Director at Google Brazil. He is an executive with 20 years of international experience in sales, marketing and general management positions. With 10 years at AT&T/BellSouth, he’s been successfully running large wireless and publishing operations in 3 countries. His last position was to run US$920M digital division of AT&T Advertising Solutions in Atlanta, GA for 5 years. He was also the former Marketing VP for BellSouth International coordinating 11 countries, former President of the leading Brazilian directory company (Listel) for 2 years and orchestrated the sale of the asset. He held a previous position with P&L responsibility for a $700M wireless operation for BellSouth in Brazil. |
| Guilhem Fouetillou, CPO & Co-founder of Linkfluence
Guilhem Fouetillou is cofounder & CPO at linkfluence, a social media monitoring & research firm which analyses trends and opinions on the social web for major brands, Governments, NGOs, and communication agencies such as L’Oréal, Ferrero, Adidas or McDonald’s. He’s also an associate professor at Sciences Po Paris. He’s a computer scientist, with a master in cognitive sciences and he was writing a phd in information science when he created linkfluence. He’s an expert at social media research and monitoring, nethnography, information visualization and the dynamics of influence. He writes regularly for academic reviews, newspapers and magazines. He’s a regular keynote speaker in many international conferences. |
| Henry Mason, Head of Research & Analysis of Trendwatching
Head of Research & Analysis at trendwatching.com, Henry Mason is an accomplished trend watcher, consumer analyst and presenter. He holds a first class degree in Politics & International Relations from the University of Nottingham, and has been fascinated for many years with understanding change, whether in society, business, or politics. Henry started his career at KPMG, performing financial and strategic due diligence for a wide range of clients, including HSBC, RBS and Mitsubishi. Henry’s passion for ideas led him to join trendwatching.com in June 2010, where he and his team are responsible for coordinating all of trendwatching.com’s research activities. Henry has been quoted as a trend expert in numerous business publications, including The Guardian, the Financial Times, El Pais, The New York Times and The Economist, and has presented at business conferences in Sweden, France, Latvia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Portugal, United Kingdom and India, and has appeared on television networks such as Al Jazeera and Brazil’s Globo News. |
| Joaquin Alvarado, SVP of Digital Innovation of American Public Media
Joaquin Alvarado joined American Public Media I Minnesota Public Radio in January 2010 as Senior Vice President for Digital Innovation. Alvarado leads strategic development of APM’s Public Insight initiatives, as well as developing models for deepening audience engagement, widening digital reach and increasing digital revenue growth across all operating divisions. Henry started his career at KPMG, performing financial and strategic due diligence for a wide range of clients, including HSBC, RBS and Mitsubishi. Henry’s passion for ideas led him to join trendwatching.com in June 2010, where he and his team are responsible for coordinating all of trendwatching.com’s research activities. Alvarado came to APMIMPR from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where he led successful initiatives in broadening the reach and diversity within public media as Senior Vice President for Diversity and Innovation. Prior to joining the CPB Alvarado spearheaded many key projects and companies furthering new frameworks for public media, education and community leadership in the Internet age. In 2008, he initiated CoCo Studios, promoting media collaboration and information sharing for fiber and mobile networks. Alvarado was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University. During his time leading INGI, the group developed the Digital Media Advisory Council and Digital Sister Cities initiatives, enabling communities across the globe to connect and further advance digital growth, diversity and economic development. In 2004, Alvarado began the National Public Lightpath, advocating high-speed fiber optic network as the next generation of the internet with public media, education and community leadership. |
| Leonardo Tristao, Business Director of Facebook Brazil
In the past, Leonardo Tristao has been the Business Director at Google Brazil and Head of Business Development at Google in San Francisco. |
| Macon Phillips, White House Director of New Media of The Whitehouse
Macon Phillips is the White House Director of New Media with oversight responsibility for Whitehouse.gov. Phillips’ efforts at Whitehouse.gov will be closely coordinated with internet operations at the Democratic National Committee, which has responsibility for administration of the BarackObama.com domain and website. During the Inauguration of Barack Obama, Phillips oversaw the conversion of Whitehouse.gov, the official website of the President of the United States. He posted the site’s first blog entry, titled: Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov. Philips’ new media efforts during the 2008 United States presidential election helped raise vast sums of money for the Obama presidential campaign, while his text messaging, online videos and social networking skills led the campaign in many organizational and informational ways. Blue State Digital created and managed Obama’s campaign site, which brought in a million Facebook friends and about $500 million. |
| Paul Adams, Global Brand Experience Manager of Facebook
Paul Adams currently works in the product team at Facebook. Prior to that he led social research at Google. In Nov 2011, Fortune magazine described Paul as “one of Silicon Valley’s most wanted.” He is broadly recognized as one of the leading thinkers on the emerging social web, and his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, AdWeek and many more leading publications. His work on describing the next evolution of social networks, “The Real Life Social Network” is one of the most viewed and downloaded presentations ever published on the web. At Facebook, Paul works on developing new products for advertisers and marketers. He works on research, design and product strategy. He often works directly with the worlds biggest marketers and ad agencies, helping them understand the foundational changes taking place in their industry. At Google, Paul’s work formed the foundation for Circles, the primary feature in Google+. He also worked on Gmail, YouTube and Mobile. |
 Soichiro Tahara Journalist |
Soichiro Tahara, Journalist
Soichiro Tahara was born in 1934 in Shiga Prefecture. At 60, he joined Iwanami Film Mfg. Co. and at 64, started broadcasting in joining with (TV Tokyo now) Tokyo Channel 12. To 77 years free. TV live until morning, “TV Asahi! In “” Sunday Project ” opens up new horizons of television journalism. 98 years, award-winning broadcast journalist Mataichi Kido choose one of the postwar period. Currently, in addition to the lectures at the graduate school as a professor at Waseda University Mission, where he is also Jukuto Juku “Okuma”. TV live till morning! ” Hassles “(TV Asahi)”! Cross Fire “, including the moderator (Asahi BS), a large number of television and radio appearances. In addition, the “war on Japan” will be absolute terms “(Shogakukan),” (all five volumes) Soichiro Tahara author’s edition “! “One last word of Soichiro Tahara Horiemon responsible editor” “such as the Japanese economy (Ascom), and many other books. |
 Toshinao Sasaki Journalist   |
Toshinao Sasaki, Journalist
Born in Nishiwaki, Hyogo Prefecture in 1961. Okazaki, Aichi Prefectural High School graduate, dropped out of Waseda University Department of Political Science, department of politics and economics. He joined Mainichi Shimbun in 1988. Through the (Nagoya) branch office in Gifu, central news department, social department headquarters in Tokyo. A police investigation department, responsible for such Yugun, equivalent to murder and kidnapping coverage, international terrorism, such as the Aum Shinrikyo incident. In 1999 he moved to ASCII, ASCII monthly editorial department desk. Retired in 2003, has been covering the field of IT primarily as a freelance journalist. |
| Valerie Buckingham, Head of North America Marketing of Nokia
As Director of Head of North America marketing for Nokia, Valerie Buckingham oversees marketing activities in North America. She has held various Nokia roles in ecosystem, brand and marketing roles since 2002, and took over North America marketing responsibilities in July 2011. She reports to the EVP of Nokia Americas. Most recently at Nokia, As Director of Brand Management for Nokia Developer, Valerie Buckingham oversaw brand strategy and positioning for Nokia’s developer organization; and led influencer marketing. Prior, Valerie was the Director of Technology Marketing for Nokia Corporate Strategy, responsible for promoting Nokia’s technology leadership in the USA. Valerie joined Nokia to manage investments in the early stage venture group, Innovent. Before joining Nokia, she held a number of early stage roles in Silicon Valley start-ups; founding venture-backed privacy software company Meconomy in 1999, and an early employee of marketing analytics technology firm, Personify. Valerie started her career as a designer at Paramount Digital Entertainment’s lab in Boulder in 1996; and later held a business development role in Motorola’s Internet Products and Services organization. A native of Canada, Valerie holds an MBA from the University of Victoria; and an MFA in Intermedia from the University of British Columbia. |
