Rob Anderson serves as Chief Technology Officer EMEA for the Isilon Products Group of EMC Corporation, in which role he engages with users in media & entertainment, life sciences, telecoms, finance, energy and other market sectors to discuss how Isilon’s breakthrough technologies can help accelerate results, manage growth and reduce management...

Dr. Paolo Balboni is Scientific Director of the European Privacy Association (EPA), as well as Cloud Computing Sector Director and Responsible for International Affairs at the Italian Institute for Privacy (IIP). In addition, he is a Research Associate at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) where he teaches the Master’s course “Liability of Web...

Alok is Vice President, Digital Insights & Analytics at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York. Prior to this Alok has been an Analytics Leader with more than 10 years of experience in Strategic Analytics. He has been in diverse management and leadership roles with GE Capital that included establishing and heading the offshore Analytics practice for GE ...

David Boyle's passion is helping people make better decisions using data. He is SVP of insight for the EMI Music Group, delivering regular, large scale research to EMI recorded music and publishing operations in 25 countries. The insight from more than 500,000 interviews in the last couple of years has reached the heart of decision-making at EMI...

Anne Brunsdon is Customer Marketing Director for Best Buy Europe. She heads up Direct Marketing and Loyalty operations for the group, across 10 Markets. She is a passionate Customer Marketer who enjoys developing innovative offer propositions and loyalty activities, for a wide range of customers; Then addressing the challenge of communicating...

Michael Bryan serves Hilton Worldwide as the Vice President of Enterprise Data Management where he is responsible for information architecture, control and delivery. His career spans 3 decades with leadership roles at The Nielsen Company, Sprint Nextel Communications, Price Waterhouse and financial services firms. In that span, he has driven...

Mike is the head of business analytics at JustGiving.com, the UK's largest online fundraising platform. He joined JustGiving in May 2010 to spearhead some exciting data mining and business intelligence initiatives in the world of fundraiser analytics. He has a wealth of experience in information management, statistical analysis and the strategic...

Paul Cook joined Just-Eat in October 2011 after working with them as a Consultant for almost a year as founder of Insight Bridge the data Insight consultancy. Just Eat’s growth over the last 2-3 years has been almost exponential (80%+ each year) and they have entered 6 new markets in the last year alone including...

Peter joined Orange Group in December 2007, responsible for developing a group wide customer engagement and development strategy. Orange needed a strategic vision for the way they engage their customers to help unify the business and really focus on their customer base. With Peter’s leadership, Orange now have an innovative customer engagement...

Tony Fish: entrepreneur, strategist and author with over twenty years of experience with leading brands, high growth companies and in venture capital. Tony is an experienced and qualified board level executive with professional experience crossing mobile, web and TV and divides his time between his non-exec roles and board advisory work. Tony is...

Katherine Fithen has been a leader in information security for more than 20 years. She is currently the Chief Privacy Officer at The Coca-Cola Company. Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company in 2002, Katherine was the Senior Manager of the CSIRT Program at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, and the Manager of the CERT®. Katherine has earned a Bachelor...

Michel has been a Silicon Valley technology leader for over 26 years, having served at the director through EVP levels in both early stage start-ups and public companies, including Knowledge Networks, Preview Systems, Optimal Networks, Systems and Networks, Xsoft, and Integrated Systems, Inc. As an expert in distributed computing, high...

Simon Hania has been a leader at the cross roads of telecommunication and information technology, business and regulatory affairs for over 15 years. Simon currently is Program Director Privacy and Data Protection at TomTom, ensuring the company to globally meet the growing expectations of customers and the increasing regulatory demands with...

A 17-year EMC veteran, Chuck is a long-time member of EMC’s management team, working on strategic aspects of marketing, business development and technology. He is a popular industry blogger (http://chucksblog.emc.com) and writes frequently about advanced IT leadership topics. Chuck’s writing is a direct result of the significant time he spends...

Brian covers emerging technology and its impact on business and IT for Enterprise Architecture Professionals. His research provides practical advice to architects and IT strategists seeking to leverage new information management tools and techniques while dealing with current-state challenges. In addition, Brian provides insights for enterprise...

Helen Kellie is Chief Marketing Officer for BBC Worldwide and a member of the Worldwide Executive Committee (WEX), joining in October 2008. Helen's role is key to BBC Worldwide's transition as it moves to become a more consumer-facing and brand based business around the world. She works across all BBC Worldwide business areas to build up its focus ...

Max Kelly is Managing Director of Virgin Insight, a data and marketing services company created and owned by the Virgin Group. He has been with Virgin since 2001 and in his previous role in the Corporate Development Division he created new Virgin businesses including Virgin Mobile USA, Virgin Mobile Canada, Virgin Health Bank and latterly Virgin...

Andy Kirk is a freelance data visualisation design consultant and trainer, and editor of the website visualisingdata.com, a popular data visualisation blog. After graduating from Lancaster University with a B.Sc (hons) in Operational Research, he held a number of business analysis and information management positions at some of the largest...

Arup joined ADCB in June 2005 and is currently an Executive Vice President of the bank heading the Consumer Banking business. Prior to ADCB, Arup has worked with Citibank in the UAE and Unilever in India.

Amy O'Connor is a business and technical executive with extensive experience driving growth and change. Amy leads Nokia’s Analytics team and is committed to driving Nokia towards a data driven decision-making process, ultimately delivering the best experience for consumers. Her charter includes the development and adoption of the Nokia Analytics...

As Chief Scientist, Mok Oh contributes to PayPal’s ongoing product innovation through the collection and analysis of a range of customer insights. For well over a couple of decades, he has been involved in researching and building technologies, products and businesses that help connect the offline and online worlds. Mok comes to PayPal from...

David has experience of marketing leadership across industries as diverse as the motor industry with Volkswagen, cable TV and telecoms with Nynex, utilities with British Gas, financial services with Goldfish credit card, travel with Hertz Europe and TV broadcasting with Viasat. David’s experience also covers a wide spectrum of marketing...

As the Head of Information Risk & Business Resilience for Santander, Michael is responsible for Governance, Risk and Compliance activities in respect of Information Security, Data Privacy, E-Crime Prevention, full life cycle Supply Chain Risk, Business Continuity Planning and Crisis and Incident Management across Santander’s UK operations and...

Nilan joined Holiday Extras in February 2009 as web and IT implementation director. Nilan's expertise in web and technical architecture, e-commerce experience, and strategy development and implementation has proved a valuable asset to the Holiday Extras team. Following the company restructure in December 2009, Nilan became chief marketing...

John Pomeroy brings more than 20 years of sales experience to MarkLogic, with expertise in building the European presence of U.S. software companies. John Pomeroy joined MarkLogic from the Sword Group, where he served in sales, senior marketing, channel alliances, and business development roles. He has worked with organizations ranging in size...

Mark Sear is the EMEA Technical Evangelist for Greenplum, a division of EMC. A lover of information, he believes that IT has been dominated by the 'T' for too long, and it is now his quest to make people understand the value of the 'I'. Mr. Sear's presentation style is more of a personal conversation than a lecture and is drawn from nearly thirty...

Joydeep is co-founder at cloud data processing startup Qubole. Before starting Qubole - he worked for a number of years at Facebook where he boot-strapped the data processing ecosystem based on Hadoop and started the Apache Hive project. Aside from leading the Data Infrastructure team - Joydeep was a key contributor on the Facebook Messages...

Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Head of the Web and Internet Science Group, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. With over 400 publications he has researched on topics ranging from cognitive psychology to computational neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence to the Semantic Web. He was one of the...

Ahmed is an Information Technology professional with background in architecture and planning. His areas of expertise include Software Development, Computer Aided Design, Geographic Information Systems, Document Management, Systems Integration, Strategic Planning and Project Management. Ahmed specializes in workflow modeling and process...

Neel Sundaresan is a Senior Director at eBay. He has headed eBay Research Labs since 2006 where he has been driving research and technology initiatives in diverse areas like Search, Machine Learning, User Science, Social Networks, Computer Vision, and Economics among others. Neel has inspired and conducted research in these areas with a Big-data...

Gaurav has specialized in the key focus areas for the enterprise software industry that range from strategic product planning, marketing performance management, brand strategy, persona-based marketing, marketing communications, demand generation, sales and partner enablement and competitive analysis. Most recently Gaurav lead solution strategy and ...

Flavio Villanustre, CISSP, is the Vice President of Information Security for LexisNexis Risk Solutions. With more than 20 years of experience, he is responsible for strategy around infrastructure and application security, and data security. Prior to joining LexisNexis, Mr. Villanustre held a variety of technical and management roles at various...

Head of Social Media @phones4u, Ex-Giraffe Keeper, Entrepreneur Magazine Columnist and Author of Sex, Brands & Rock'n'Roll.

Iain is an experienced BI leader and is currently the Head of Information Delivery at RBS where he is responsible for transforming Reporting and Analysis for Finance, Risk Management and Treasury across RBS globally. This is a key component of probably the largest ever transformation programme with the Financial Services sector. Prior to this Iain ...

Martin Willcox’s career in IT spans 13 years, 5 organizations and 10 roles. In his current role (Director of Platform and Solutions Marketing for EMEA), Martin is responsible for articulating Teradata’s strategy and the nature, value and differentiation of Teradata’s platform and solution offerings to EMEA customers, prospects and 3rd party...

Steve Wood is Head of the ICO’s Policy Delivery department. In his current role he is responsible for overseeing policy lines, advice and guidance related to Data Protection and Freedom of Information legislation. This includes sign-off responsibility for key FOI decision notices and overall responsibility for the ICO’s input into legal...

Matt Wood is a Technology Evangelist for Amazon Web Services. In his role Matt educates customers on the technical and business aspects of cloud computing, mentors start-ups and coaches developers throughout Europe. Before joining Amazon Matt worked in the field of life sciences and built web-scale search engines at Cornell University, sequenced...

David has spent the last 15 years selling technology and solutions into global Media companies both in the US and the UK. Those solutions have encompassed CRM, News and Information Provision, Search and Database technologies. With the advances in digital publishing and the digital content supply chain in that time, David has enjoyed the...

Ed Wrazen is VP Marketing International with Harte-Hanks Trillium Software, a leading provider of total data quality solutions. Working with customers, partners and industry analysts, Ed is responsible for the international marketing operations of Trillium Software. With over 30 years experience working in Information Management, Ed started his...

Roman is the Head of analytics at the Wikimart.ru. In Wikimart he is responsible for business intelligence, data science and web analytics as well as products on site that leverage Wikimart's data set. Some of these products include Buy After View, Similar Goods, Personal Recommendation and the other recommendation engines. Previous to...