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Andrea Brant, an account manager at DWG, is passionate about optimizing employees’ digital experiences. Prior to joining DWG, Andrea worked for Adobe for nearly 20 years. Most recently she led Adobe’s Digital Communication Channels team, driving the strategy for and implementation of Adobe’s internal digital communications channels to improve employee communication and collaboration, and increase executive transparency for Adobe’s 20,000+ employees worldwide. Adobe’s intranet, Inside Adobe, was a Nielsen Norman Group 2015 Intranet Design Annual Winner and received Honourable Mention in DWG’s 2014 My Beautiful Intranet.

Ephraim Freed has spent over 15 years working towards delivering a meaningful experience of work in the modern age, and likes to say that he takes the same approach Abraham Lincoln would to employee experience: Of the people, for the people and by the people. He does this by combining user experience design and strategic change management to deliver purposeful technology, communications channels and content. In various roles Ephraim has led employee communications teams, built user experience programs, facilitated industry workshops for digital workplace teams at Fortune 500 companies, helped clients launch new social intranets, and more. Today he is a Custom Success Manager, helping large enterprise clients get more business value out of Workplace from Facebook. In his spare time Ephraim strives to be an empowering father to his two young daughters, support the local schools and community in El Segundo, barbecue over charcoal every Saturday night, and make it into the Pacific ocean every week.

Nancy Goebel is DWG’s Managing Director for Member Services. In addition to heading up service delivery, Nancy is responsible for member engagement, retention and growth. Nancy also sits on DWG's Board of Directors. Prior to joining DWG, Nancy was an accomplished executive at JPMorgan Chase, where she built and led a global team in designing and implementing an award-winning intranet. She also led digital enablement and business re-engineering initiatives. Outside work, Nancy is an enthusiastic wine-maker, fundraiser, meditator, wife and mother of two. Outside work, Nancy is an enthusiastic wine-maker, fundraiser, meditator, wife and mother of two.

Shimrit Janes is Director of Knowledge at Digital Workplace Group. She manages the AskDWG knowledge service for DWG's members, bringing them research, insights and case studies in answer to their digital workplace queries. She also oversees the "Digital Nations" Research Centre within DWG, authors research reports, and is currently co-authoring DWG's next book, "Nature of Work" She was previously a Knowledge Project Leader at a global law firm.

As Associate Director, Digital Workplace at Seqirus, a CSL company, Dana has in her first year, established a Digital Workplace Experience programme that focuses on making colleagues' lives easier. She set out a collaboration and productivity roadmap and is already half-way in delivering the tools. A well-established name in the Intranet and Digital workplace community, Dana is one of the founders of the IC Crowd, supporting an online community of internal communicators and organising the now legendary 'the big yak' unconferences.

Business and social entrepreneur Paul Miller is CEO and Founder of Digital Workplace Group (DWG). His latest book, The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering digital workplaces fit for the future (co-authored with Elizabeth Marsh), was shortlisted for the Management Book of the Year 2016 Award, and his previous book, The Digital Workplace: How technology is liberating work, helped to popularize and explain the term “digital workplace”. Paul hosts the Digital Workplace Impact podcast, is Executive Producer of the 24-hour global digital experience Digital Workplace 24, and hosted the pioneering internet radio show Digital Workplace Live for five years. He has given many inspirational talks on the digital future of work, for audiences at Microsoft, IKEA, Google, Accenture, Harvard Business Review, Cisco, European Commission, IMF, Adobe and Oxford University. Paul was ranked one of the world’s Top 50 Social Employee Advocacy Leaders in 2015. Prior to founding DWG, he was Founder and CEO of communications company The Empowerment Group; Publisher and Editor of social and digital innovation magazine ‘Wave’; and, in pre-internet days, Co-founder of the Ideas Café salon. He lives in the Cotswolds in the UK.

Susan is a strategic digital professional with 20 years experience managing complex websites and intranets; leading high performing teams in the private and public sectors. She's passionate about how digital technology can be used to as a driver for making people's lives easier, now more important than ever.

By day, Dr. Lauren 'L' Vargas is a digital dragon wrangler with 19 years experience assisting organizations with their community and communication strategies. Vargas is an independent researcher and consultant of Your Digital Tattoo, as well as, a 'One by One' Research Associate with the University of Leicester - delivering a "practical approach to building digital literacies within specific museum contexts" for UK and US museums.

Rita is an experienced corporate communications practitioner, social media advisor and internationally certified executive coach, focused on helping organisations and their leaders be the most open, social and collaborative they can be. Before establishing her business, Rita led Internal Digital Communications at one of Australia’s top four banks, ANZ, to help the organisation realise the business benefits of enterprise social technologies. Her work has been widely recognised as a ‘textbook’ example of building digital capability in a way that has delivered real business value. As a consultant, Rita enjoys helping executives build their impact and influence by learning to become socially engaged. She also likes getting under the hood in organisations to get new social media and enterprise social initiatives up and running or work out ways to kick-start stalled attempts. Rita’s passion for social extends to sharing insights about social ways of working in social media and through her involvement as a co-host of fortnightly Twitter chat, #ESNchat. As a seasoned communicator who’s taken on the challenge of working with social technologies, Rita is in a unique position to provide a range of perspectives on challenges organisations face in wanting to try a more open way of working in the digital age and, most recently, an increasingly distributed world of work.