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Tim is a medical doctor specialising in health and wellbeing improvement, motivational interviewing and behavioural medicine. Tim has a diploma in occupational medicine, a degree in sports medicine and is a member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine and the British Psychological Society. He is a member of Dame Carol Blacks Occupational Health Sounding Board and is medical advisor to the Rugby Players Association.

Tim has worked in a variety of clinical, occupational health and public health settings, including cardiology, psychiatry, addictions, research, exercise medicine and physical activity promotion and has helped establish healthy living centres, integrated occupational health services, cardiac rehabilitation and chronic pain programmes. A popular trainer and speaker Tim has presented at numerous international conferences on health, wellbeing, HR and coaching topics and helped the Dept of Health create and implement the ‘Let’s Get Moving’ Physical Activity Care Pathway. A former international pole vaulter and decathlete, Tim was a contender on ITV’s Gladiators and was one of the ‘Slough 50’ in the BBC documentary: ‘Making Slough Happy’.

In 2011 Tim established Applied Wellbeing and is working with colleagues to develop a suite of e-health apps to help people recover, protect and improve their health, resilience and wellbeing.

Jorge Armanet is a technology and media entrepreneur and co-Founder of Health Unlocked. HealthUnlocked is a social network designed for people who care about their health and the health of others. Health Unlocked has hundreds of dedicated communities run by patient charities and health organizations and has a million users visiting monthly.

In 2000 he founded Plataforma Publico, an open source media lab that promotes cultural creativity and ideas; in 2002 he founded the popular network and magazine Hecho en Chile ­ a Chilean ‘Big Issue’ and support network for low­income students; in 2007 he founded DO TANK, a technology lab building functional prototypes for the private sector to test and scale new web business models.

Jorge has an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organization from Cambridge University, an MA in Digital Media from Goldsmiths and an Economics degree and an undergraduate degree in Engineering and Sciences from the Catholic University of Chile. He has held academic scholarships from the British Chevening, the Shell Centenary Fund, the Cambridge Overseas Trust and the Jesus College Foundation.

Mairi is the executive director for Healthbox Europe, leading the London accelerator program as well the larger European strategy. She has  a diverse background spanning entrepreneurial ventures, finance and technology in the healthcare, media and banking industries. Mairi previously worked at Circle—a clinician-led secondary care provider—for whom she helped raise investment and develop business from the National Health Services (NHS). Her professional experience also includes tenures as an executive director and top-ranked technology analyst at both Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers in Europe. She also previously co-founded a media promotions company, for which she and her partner received the Royal Award for Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Mairi received an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from the University of Victoria in Canada.

Maneesh Juneja has worked with ‘Big Data’ for almost 20 years. From supporting the Whitehall study at UCL, managing the Tesco database at DunnHumby, and most recently, working with the world’s largest U.S. health insurance claims databases at GlaxoSmithKline R&D. During his 9 years at GSK in the Worldwide Epidemiology team, Maneesh worked on observational studies providing “real world evidence” for drug & vaccine development, market access, and post marketing surveillance. He left GSK in 2012, and set up his own consultancy, MJ Analytics. Maneesh also founded the Health 2.0 London Chapter, gave a TEDx talk on his vision of 7 billion citizen scientists, and attended FutureMed at Singularity University. He’s also the co-founder of Who Owns Your Health Data?, and MD Global Health.

Manuela Maiguashca is a British filmmaker and media activist, now living and working in the Netherlands. She has produced and directed documentary, drama and hard-hitting advocacy films that deal with human rights, maternal health and child welfare. She has worked in Africa (Ethiopia), the UK, Romania, Germany and the Netherlands with international NGOs as an activist, director and producer.
Her film work has been broadcast and screened internationally and used in a wide range of educational and advocacy programmes including: UN Development Programmes, the British Universities and Video Council Permanent Collection (UK), The Lancet (UK), The Institute for Tropical Medicine (UK), The Dutch HIV Association (NL), as well as many other international initiatives dealing with reproductive health and human rights.

Ms Maiguashca is currently the Media Director for a Dutch national project “Mijn Backpack”, an interactive media project that uses documentary, animation and gaming to deal with the traumatic experience of leaving home and becoming a foster child. The project is commissioned by Kinderpostzegels.

Other current projects include “Lifeboat: HIV Daring To Share” a 70 minute web-documentary about families affected by HIV/AIDS. This new media project was developed in partnership with EsoDoc (EU funded social documentary programme) and funded by the Digitale Pioneers Academy (Kennisland, NL) and Open Society. It has been screened internationally in conferences and versions have been broadcast on Dutch TV. It is currently used by all Dutch hospitals offering HIV services.

Ms. Maiguashca has taught filmmaking, animation and new media for over 15 years to adults and youth in a wide range of schools and educational initiatives.

She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and using media as a tool for communication and social inclusion.

James Norris is the founder and CEO of DeadSocial & Social Media Strategist Ltd.

DeadSocial launched at SXSW on the 8th March 2013 and is an end of life planning and digital legacy tool. It enables us to say “goodbye” to our friends and family via Facebook and Twitter. Messages are created and only sent out to our various social networks once we pass away. In doing so we are able to bring closure to our friendships as part of our social media will.

James has spoken on TV, radio and presented at various events and at a Labour Party conference. He is also a guest lecturer and mentor at University College London (UCL)

• – More information about James Norris can be found at:  www.SocialMediaStrategist.co.uk/about
• – More information about DeadSocial’s end of life social media tool at: http://DeadSoci.al

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