Conference Overview

As Senior Director / Head of Learning at TELUS (www.telus.com), Dan is responsible for the overarching strategy of Learning 2.0 at the company; the shift to a social, informal and formal learning and collaboration model for all 35,000+ team members. In addition to these actions, Dan is chair of the TELUS 2.0 Adoption Council; a cross-functional group of leaders aimed to help drive a culture of collaboration and engagement across the organization. He is uniquely skilled to ensure an organization can move from traditional based learning to non-traditional based learning inclusive of asynchronous modalities such as social media, video, eLearning, podcasts, virtual classroom and other social learning / social networking opportunities. Dan's career is interwoven with both corporate and academic experience, coupled with an MBA, BA, B.Ed and multiple industry certifications and accreditations. He was recruited into TELUS in Q4 of 2008, previously holding senior positions with SAP, Business Objects, Crystal Decisions and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).

Lisa Bonner is the Assistant Vice-President of Contemporary Work Practices. She is responsible for establishing policies and practices to further establish and promote The Hartford as a contemporary, competitive employer of choice. Lisa’s initiatives include expanding Flexible Work/Remote Work Arrangements and acting as an HR advocate for social media/collaboration tools by promoting understanding and piloting/modeling their application. Furthermore, Lisa actively partners with the Employee Resource Groups to attract and cultivate diverse talent, expand market share and tap into emerging markets.

Lisa joined The Hartford in 2005 with a leading role in ClaimNet, spearheading cost containment initiatives within P&C Claims Legal. Between 2006-2008, she led Corporate Support Services and then Workplace Operations in The Hartford’s Corporate Real Estate organization, with accountability of enterprise facilities management, capital projects, mail operations, food service, furniture acquisition, and move management. Lisa transitioned to Human Resources at the end of 2008 to lead Contemporary Work Practices.

Prior to joining The Hartford, Lisa served as chief operating officer of Stanpak Systems, an established niche software company. There she directed overall operations, including strategic planning; sales and marketing; customer service; quality; process improvement; and the company’s P&L. With over 20 years of business experience, Lisa is a seasoned professional who has had diverse experiences, including directing a physician hospital organization, and leading sales and marketing in health care and biotech environments. She has been recognized for her skills in effective relationship building, multi-generations in the workplace, social media/collaboration tools, remote work and leadership.

Lisa holds a Bachelors of Arts from Wellesley College in molecular biology. Lisa ‘models the way’ for work life balance as she is also the proud mother of very active, 13 year-old twin boys.

Erin Grotts is the Director of Internal Communications for SUPERVALU, one of the largest companies in the U.S. grocery channel. As America’s Neighborhood Grocer, SUPERVALU serves communities across the country though a network of approximately 4,300 stores. Erin leads all company internal communications for 135,000 employees in the traditional retail, Save-A-Lot, wholesale and supply chain areas. She has been responsible for the integration of social media as a primary information vehicle across the company. Prior to joining SUPERVALU, she managed communications functions at Starbucks and Harrah’s Entertainment.

Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry. He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He also began blogging at that time, both about Enterprise 2.0 and about his other research. McAfee’s blog is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati). He also maintains a Facebook profile and Twitter account. McAfee’s book on Enterprise 2.0 was published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press. In the July / August issue of Harvard Business Review McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson published “Investing in the IT that Makes a Competitive Difference,” a summary of their research investigating IT’s links to changes in competition. This work was the first to reveal that competition began to heat up in the US in the mid 1990s – to become faster paced, more turbulent, and more winner-take-all – and that this acceleration was greater in industries that spent more on IT. This research continues, and continues to highlight that technology appears to be significantly reshaping the landscape of competition. McAfee is the author or co-author of more than fifteen scholarly articles and ninety case studies and other materials for students and teachers of technology. This work has convinced him that modern information technology is the most powerful tool available to business leaders, yet also the most misunderstood and under-appreciated resource at their disposal. In 2008 McAfee was named by the editors of the technical publishing house Ziff-Davis number 38 in their list of the “100 Most Influential People in IT.” He was also named by Baseline magazine to a separate, unranked list of the 50 most influential people in business IT that year. He was invited by Prof. Gary Hamel to join a ‘renegade brigade’ of thinkers in the task of assembling a set of Moon Shots for Management, which was published in the January 2009 Harvard Business Review. He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world. McAfee is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.

Lisa Bonner is the Assistant Vice-President of Contemporary Work Practices. She is responsible for establishing policies and practices to further establish and promote The Hartford as a contemporary, competitive employer of choice. Lisa’s initiatives include expanding Flexible Work/Remote Work Arrangements and acting as an HR advocate for social media/collaboration tools by promoting understanding and piloting/modeling their application. Furthermore, Lisa actively partners with the Employee Resource Groups to attract and cultivate diverse talent, expand market share and tap into emerging markets.

Lisa joined The Hartford in 2005 with a leading role in ClaimNet, spearheading cost containment initiatives within P&C Claims Legal. Between 2006-2008, she led Corporate Support Services and then Workplace Operations in The Hartford’s Corporate Real Estate organization, with accountability of enterprise facilities management, capital projects, mail operations, food service, furniture acquisition, and move management. Lisa transitioned to Human Resources at the end of 2008 to lead Contemporary Work Practices.

Prior to joining The Hartford, Lisa served as chief operating officer of Stanpak Systems, an established niche software company. There she directed overall operations, including strategic planning; sales and marketing; customer service; quality; process improvement; and the company’s P&L. With over 20 years of business experience, Lisa is a seasoned professional who has had diverse experiences, including directing a physician hospital organization, and leading sales and marketing in health care and biotech environments. She has been recognized for her skills in effective relationship building, multi-generations in the workplace, social media/collaboration tools, remote work and leadership.

Lisa holds a Bachelors of Arts from Wellesley College in molecular biology. Lisa ‘models the way’ for work life balance as she is also the proud mother of very active, 13 year-old twin boys.

Yvette Cameron is Vice President and Principal analyst at Constellation Research, Inc., focusing on next generation HCM processes and technologies. A proven executive leader and visionary, she has over 20 years experience developing, marketing, evangelizing and implementing market leading HCM technology solutions. Cameron has deep process and technology expertise spanning social and collaborative talent management, talent acquisition, learning management, workforce management, enterprise social networking and web conferencing. She serves on advisory boards for the Institute for Human Resources for Social Media and Employee Communications and for an HR tech startup, Thrive Metrics.

Alan Lepofsky is Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Inc. focusing on enterprise collaboration software. Since 1993, he has been designing, marketing and helping customers deploy software solutions that enable people to connect with their peers and openly share information. Prior to joining Constellation, Alan spent 3 years as Director of Marketing at Socialtext and before that, 14 years in a variety of roles at IBM/Lotus. He's an active blogger and speaker in the "Enterprise 2.0/Social Business" community, where he shares his thoughts on the business benefits of open communication and collaboration.

Sara Roberts is President & CEO of Roberts Golden and a recognized thought leader in the Enterprise 2.0 space. She and her team have lead large-scale change management, employee engagement, culture transformation and innovation efforts for Fortune 500 companies including AAA, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, FedEx, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Safeway, Sprint and Virgin Media and consults and presents workshops on collaboration in the workplace. Prior to founding Roberts Golden, she held senior consulting positions within companies including Sprint, Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Ketchum.

Sara is the co-author of the best-selling book, Light Their Fire: Using Internal Marketing to Ignite Employee Performance and Wow Your Customers (Kaplan 2005), is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop presenter at leading industry events including Gartner, The Conference Board and Enterprise 2.0 on the topics of change management, innovation and enterprise social networking and has been quoted in numerous publications including BusinessWeek, Inc. and Forbes. She received her M.S. in Instructional Technology from the University of Nebraska.

Dr. Margaret Schweer, Vice President of Talent Insight, has more than 20 years of experience as a senior human resource executive. She has an established track record of building partnerships with leaders at all levels of the organization to create innovative, practical solutions to address their business needs. Her most recent consulting assignments have been on opportunities related to collaboration and employee engagement. While her current research focuses on how successful organizations drive performance by leveraging social networks.

Prior to working with Moxie Insight, Margaret worked in the global consumer products, hospitality, and university settings as a human resource generalist. She holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University with an emphasis in organization behavior. A popular and effective speaker in the area of talent management, she has presented at a variety of global and domestic conferences and symposiums. Her work in the area of leadership development is also profiled in such publications as Computer World, CIO Magazine, Network World, IT World, and SHRI Magazine.

Johna Till Johnson is President and Senior Founding Partner of Nemertes Research, where she sets research direction and works with strategic clients. She has decades of experience in technology design, deployment, and operations. Under her leadership, Nemertes has emerged as a leading trusted advisor to Fortune-50 and other world-class organizations.

Her recent work includes:

• Developing a next-generation network strategy for a Fortune-50 organization
• Architecting the data-center strategy and roadmap for a leading financial-services firm
• Developing a global WAN strategy for a pharmaceutical company
• Optimizing operations for a Global-2000 media firm
• Researching and writing a groundbreaking report correctly predicting today's Internet challenges

A widely regarded expert, Johna regularly speaks at numerous trade shows, conferences, and seminars, including Navigator360, IDG’s IT Roadmap, and Interop. She also writes an incisive column in Network World.

Johna draws upon diverse experience prior to founding Nemertes in 2002. She served as chief technology officer (CTO) at Greenwich Technology Partners, an infrastructure consulting and engineering firm; headed the Global Networking Strategies Service business unit of META Group; and oversaw the lab-testing program at Data Communications magazine. She also has designed and developed security, speech-synthesis, and free-space laser products at companies including Mosler Security Systems and Digitus Corp.

Johna holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering/computer science (BSEE/CS) from The Johns Hopkins University, has conducted graduate work in nuclear and particle physics at the University of Rochester, speaks three languages, and has published a science fiction novel. In her spare time, Johna is an avid urban kayaker.

Curtis H. Havard is a Director of Information Technology for Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Mr. Havard is responsible for directing strategic projects for the IT Solutions Infrastructure Services Group. These projects are intended to leverage technology to improve efficiency, increase affordability, and mitigate risk across enterprise infrastructure platforms.

Before taking on his current assignment for the Infrastructure Services Group, Mr. Havard performed the role of IT Director assigned to Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale facility at USAF Plant 42 and Edwards Air Force Base. Mr. Havard was responsible for the delivery of Information Technology services to support Engineering, Manufacturing, and Flight Test for the B2 Bomber, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and various unmanned aircraft including the Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft and X-47B demonstrator, the next generation carrier based aircraft for the USN.

Prior to joining Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2004, Mr. Havard worked for many years as a technical and business management consultant for various clients in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas.

A graduate of California Lutheran University, Mr. Havard earned an Associates of Science Degree in Computer Science and a Bachelors Degree in Business Management.

Mike Gotta is a senior technology solution manager for Enterprise Social Software at Cisco. He has 30 years of experience in the IT industry and was an industry analyst for 14 years. Mike maintains an active research agenda on social networking and collaboration, and is pursuing a Masters degree in Media Studies.