#SMWLDN

Johnny was a founding campaigner at 38 Degrees where he ran the Save our Forests campaign and the campaign to protect the NHS. As Deputy Director of Campaign Innovation at Change.org he spends most of his days working to help more people bring about the change they want to see in the world. He is fascinated with the potential for mobile to change the way we campaign to change the world – he blogs on that at ourmobileworld.org.

The Nike Foundation believes that the most effective solution to ending poverty is to invest in empowering adolescent girls living in poverty. This is what they call the Girl Effect. Ben and his team work on global advocacy and innovation projects as well as programmes that are co-designed with girls in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Rwanda.

Prior to the Nike Foundation Ben spent time as a political journalist at Al Jazeera, a digital strategist working with global brands and in the marketing team at Nike Running. Ben believes that as a result of social and mobile there are new behaviors emerging that will lead to a fundamental shift in how we solve the biggest challenges the world faces.

Alice Klein co-founded and co-directs Radar, a communication rights organisation that trains citizen journalists in low-resource settings to report via SMS. Radar works in Sierra Leone, Kenya, India and the UK, and with some of the most vulnerable groups in society, including women and girls, people living with disability, slum dwellers and the rural poor. Reports – which often tackle sensitive subjects such as slavery, violence and corruption – are verified and published online, predominantly via social media. In its first year, Radar trained more than 250 reporters who sent more than 2,000 reports.

Alice is a qualified journalist who began her career at the Daily Telegraph and has worked as a freelance foreign correspondent in East Africa. With an MSc in Globalisation and International Development, she has worked with a variety of NGOs including ActionAid, Médecins Sans Frontières, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Marie Stopes International, War on Want and Merlin. She has written academic papers and chapters on citizen journalism.

In 2012 Bethany co-founded Technology Will Save Us – a business dedicated to sparking the imagination of young people using hands-on technology. TWSU are creating the most accessible ecosystem of DIY gadget kits and resources to help families, educators and young people make, play, code and invent using technology. Bethany holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design and a MSC in Responsibility and Business practice from Bath University and was a scholarship holder at Fabrica in Italy. Previously, she was a design director and social impact specialist at the international branding and innovation company Wolff Olins. She is also a founding faculty member of the Vermont College of Fine Art Design MFA programme.

“Oisin Lunny is part of the Market Development team at OpenMarket, looking at new verticals and strategic business and technology opportunities for the company.

Oisin’s background of over 21 years in technology and media includes roles as UK Managing Director for the worlds largest social space for teens, Habbo Hotel, and Global CDN Product Manager for Media Services at Interoute Communications, Europe’s largest network operator.

Oisin speaks and moderates at conferences across Europe, and maintains a profile as film composer, producer, DJ and occasional blogger.”

James leads the Greenpeace team responsible for using digital to engage people in its campaigns. Recent social successes include #iceclimb, where activists live-streamed the scaling of London’s tallest building the Shard to draw attention to Shell’s Arctic drilling. James previously led the digital side of Greenpeace’s Save The Arctic and VW Dark Side campaigns. Before joining Greenpeace, he worked for the BBC, UN and various grassroots groups. James is obsessed with using technology to make the world a better place, but is deeply cynical of ideas that don’t challenge the centres of power.

Kiki Ylimutka is chairwoman and founder of Super Sisters, a not-for-profit organisation empowering girls and young women to realise their true potential by helping them to discover their passion, creativity and innovation skills. After obtaining her B.Sc. (Econ.) at Hanken School of Economics, Ylimutka is completeing her Master’s degree in Arts Management at the Sibelius Academy and writing her thesis on Creative Fear. During her studies at Scandinavia’s leading Music University she co-founded the digital music service CLERKD that combines all the best sides of social media services into modern music listening. Passionate about creativity, music and photography, Ylimutka documents what she sees and the people she meets with her Contax analogue camera on black and white film.