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Next Generation Social Media For Greater Programmatic Impact

Friday, April 16, 2010

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Panel Discussion

Session Description

Tech literate social entrepreneurs are using mobile technology and the latest in social media tools to loop staff, beneficiaries and supporters together in new and innovative ways. Going beyond the often siloed departments of communications and fundraising, this session will focus on cutting edge strategies and uses of social media for greater impact on mission objectives. Move beyond Facebook and Twitter and redesign your social media strategy to dissolve distances, expand roles of beneficiaries, donors and staff, and to increase your programmatic impact.

 

Time & Location

Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Friday, April 16, 2010 BST
Speakers
  • Monty Metzger
    Speaker
    Founder and CEO, Ahead of Time GmbH
    Monty C. M. Metzger is an entrepreneur, author and trend-scout. He is CEO of Ahead of Time, an innovation agency focusing on social media marketing, and he is founder of the open think tank about the future of mobile media, Mocom 2020. Monty founded his first company in 1998 and managed a global trend research consultancy. He studied Business Administration and Marketing in Germany and Switzerland, and he has just published the book Mobile Future 2020.
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  • Marc Davis
    Speaker
    Chief Scientist & Co-Founder, Invention Arts
    Marc Davis is Chief Scientist of Invention Arts, which invents mobile and social technologies connecting people, the Web, and the world. Before Invention Arts, he was Chief Scientist and VP Early Stage Products for Yahoo! Mobile. As Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley School of Information, he directed Garage Cinema Research, which pioneered context-aware mobile media uploading, tagging, and sharing, and context-aware face recognition. Marc has transformed his ideas into over 150 patent applications, and numerous prototypes, products, and publications.
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  • Leila Chirayath Janah
    Speaker
    CEO, Samasource
    Leila Chirayath Janah is Founder and CEO of Samasource, a social business that connects over 600 women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to digital work. Samasource, a grantee of the Rockefeller and Mulago Foundations, is a recipient of the Netexplorateur Innovation Prize and has been profiled by CBS, CNN, and The New York Times. Ms. Janah serves on the boards of the San Francisco Social Enterprise Institute and Tech Soup Global. She received a BA from Harvard.
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  • Jim Fruchterman
    Speaker
    Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters, Benetech
    Jim Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur, a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech. After starting two successful machine learning companies, he went on to found Benetech, the award-winning tech nonprofit. He’s built tools which help people with disabilities read independently and human rights groups document and analyze abuses. His current nonprofit projects at Tech Matters include Aselo, a shared modern contact center for the crisis response field, and Terraso, a platform to bring better tools and more funding to locally-led sustainability initiatives to respond to climate change.
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