Jon Husband is a recognized expert about social software and how it is increasingly making an impact on the networked workplace.

He carries out ongoing research into the changing nature of business strategy, organizational structures and work design in the interconnected Knowledge Age.

Jon has been a banker and subsequently a management consultant, eventually becoming a Senior Principal for Hay Management Consultants in Canada and the UK.  His consulting focus involved organizational design and organizational change initiatives for major Canadian and multinational companies.

Since the late 1990’s Jon has also worked as an executive for several small hi-tech companies. He is currently a co-founder and executive of a leading Web 2.0 tools company, Qumana.

In the past couple of years he has offered workshops or seminars with Athabasca University's Executive MBA program, The CIO Summit in Toronto, at the Banff Centre's Leading Innovation program, with groups of consultants and researchers in western Europe and has recently competed a Trends Report titled Digital Capabilities, Digital Culture and Networked Markets and co-authored a comprehensive website chronicling the evolution of technology, economics and society from 1970 on.

He writes several blogs including the well-respected Wirearchy about social software, new media and the growing presence of the Web in business and our daily lives, and is an active speaker in Canada and internationally about the Web’s growing impact on enterprises.

Kathrin Hardie’s business experience spans over seventeen years in international advertising and marketing, and working – in the UK, Germany and the Americas – with many of the best agencies and biggest

brand names in the world. While she has been many things to many people, one thing has remained constant: her determination to make things happen.

For the last seven years, Kathrin has been an independent, hands-on consultant, providing semi-permanent support to small and medium-sized agencies, their clients and independent businesses, by helping them to manage the moment or to tackle the bigger picture. This involves applying international best practice across systems and procedures, as well as managing businesses, projects and people.

Prior to this, she was acting managing director for leading international creative consultancy World Writers in London following promotions up from the roles of creative group head and client services director. Clients during her seven years at World Writers included consumer and B2B brands such as Nike, Patek Philippe, Mars, the Pentland Group, Samsung, Sony, CeBIT, Fruitopia, Dreamworks, Tesa, Shimano, Amadeus, Delco Electronics, Lycra, Campaign Screen, TK Maxx, Olivetti, Fujitsu, EMC, Rover, Tektronix, VW and Continental.

Kathrin started her career in advertising in strategic planning for Wilkens Ayer (now FCB), in Hamburg, Germany. During her four years with the agency, her multi-national background gave her access to developing network collaboration and processes with agency partners around the world. In her role as international coordinator, she was involved in rolling out campaigns across Europe for Sharp, Olympus, BP, Europcar, Dornier and Nivea.

She is a Kommunikationswirt graduate in marketing and advertising from NAMK Hamburg, Germany. Genuinely bi-lingual in German-English, with a smattering of Dutch, French and Spanish, she was born in Berlin and educated in the UK, Hong Kong and Germany. Kathrin has been a member of the UK’s Institute of Directors (IoD) and the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce; in the UK she was a volunteer with the National Association of Gifted Children and also Victim Support; and in BC she has served on the Board of Choice School for Gifted Children.