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Afzal Bari is a Senior Technology and Telecommunications Analyst with Bloomberg Government. He spent five years as a strategy consultant at the Corporate Executive Board. Bari is a Level III candidate in the Chartered Financial Analyst program. He holds an MBA from Duke University and undergraduate degrees in information technology and government.

Francesco is Vice President of Product at social analytics firm Pulsar, Chief Innovation Officer at innovation consultancy FACE and Co-Founder at the Visual Social Media Lab. He designs systems and research frameworks that help analyse social data and extract insights from social data using computational social science and data visualisation. He is a regular speaker at research, innovation and technology conferences such as Big Data Week, Social Media Week, Social Data Week, Strata, WARC, MRS, Esomar, Virtual Worlds Forum, World Business Forum.

Anna Edwards co-anchors Countdown with Mark Barton broadcast live from London every weekday from 6am to 8am London time. Anna has more than ten years experience in business news having previously worked at CNBC Europe and freelanced for CNN in London. Before working in TV Anna was an equity analyst at UBS and qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

While at CNBC Europe Anna most recently worked as part of the morning anchor team, presenting 4 hours of live TV every weekday, including the flagship show Squawk Box Europe. During her time at the channel she presented all of the CNBC Europe shows either on a permanent or stand-in basis. She interviewed business leaders, politicians and key economy figures including Bob Diamond, Sir Richard Branson, Justin King, Paul Walsh, Michael O’Leary, Ben Verwaayen, Alistair Darling, Lord Digby Jones, Christine Lagarde, Bill Gross, Jim Rogers, Paul Krugman, Steven Roach, Nouriel Roubini, and hundreds more.

Delphine Remy-Boutang is the founder & CEO of the social bureau.

The social bureau is a London/Paris based, social business consulting agency. The Social Bureau main areas of expertise:

• Social Business strategy
• Customer engagement
• Workforce engagement
• Cultural change management

The social bureau clients today are: La Poste, Orange, Fnac, ColorMatrix, Bloomberg etc…
She is the former world­‐wide head of Social Media for IBM.

Simon Wardley, based in the UK, is a Researcher for the Leading Edge Forum and his focus is on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies. Simon’s most recent published research (December 2012) is entitled Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts: Strategies for an Increasingly Open Economy. His previous published research covers subjects including Learning from Web 2.0 and A Lifecycle Approach to Cloud Computing.