Meet the keynote speakers of the State of Social Media Summit!

Our chair: Linda Vermaat (VOER)
Digital Pioneer Linda loves to eat and combines the two in her work. Now she entames discussions about food and is s chair of the Youth Food Movement (YFM) Academy. After a fasting experience in Thailand, she decided she wanted to create change in the food chain. In 2010 she started here own campaigning company named VOER (FOOD). Food on eating.

Alan Crabbe (Fundbreak)
Alan Crabbe is a young Australian entrepreneur, he is one half of the creative duo behind the crowdfunding platform Fundbreak. Together with his business partner Rick Chen he is putting effort in social media technology, new generation enterprise and online social innovation. Fundbreak is a brand-new crowdfunding website and community for creative projects and ideas. It provides project creators with a platform to present their ideas to a worldwide audience. By providing a worldwide network of support sources, Fundbreak is aiming to be the biggest crowdfunding platform in Australia. Recently Fundbreak also launched the platform in the UK. www.fundbreak.com.au | www.fundbreak.co.uk

Adam Hyde (Floss Manuals)
Adam Hyde is a New Zealander based in Berlin. Adam is an artist with an international practice who works with software, online audio and video, sound art, new technologies and more traditional forms of broadcast. His career has been through many stages including managing radio stations in New Zealand, IT management at XS4ALL (.nl) and tactical media (Radio21, HelpB92). Adam has an established reputation as a free software programmer and is now solely focused on managing the development of FLOSS Manuals (http://www.flossmanuals.net). FLOSS Manuals aim is to document the world of free software. The documentation is created by the FLOSS Manuals community and is licensed under the GPL (http://www.flossmanuals.net/license). His latest project is called Booki, a paradigm breaking book production platform.
www.flossmanuals.net | www.booki.cc

Anna Maybank (Director Social Innovation Camp)
Anna Maybank went to university in Oxford, lived in NYC and is now based in London. Anna is Director of Social Innovation Camp, which brings together ideas, people and digital tools to build web-based solutions to social problems. Previously, she was a researcher for Charles Leadbeater’s book, We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity, and ran science and innovation events for the think-tank Demos. At the moment, Anna Maybank is working on a new project called Bethnal Green Ventures, a three-month school for people who want to use the internet to change the world.
www.sicamp.org

Sameer Padania (Owner Macroscope)
Sameer Padania is a London-based consultant with experience in working with media, technology and civil society in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas on initiatives that lead to better content, better campaigns, and better collaboration. In the last five years, he has specialised in new media platforms focused on facilitating and supporting global advocates and journalists to interact with global audiences. Most recently, he both contributed to and devised policy approaches that aim to incorporate human rights standards and safeguards into online platforms and other technologies for content creation and exchange. From 2007-2010 he worked for the human rights organization WITNESS and Global Voices Online.
blog.sameerpadania.com

Juliana Rotich (Program Director Ushahidi)
Juliana Rotich is originally from Kenya where she spent her early life and schooling. She later moved to the US where she majored in IT and has worked in the industry for over ten years. She collaborated with the online community and co-founded Ushahidi which is the Swahili word for testimony. Ushahidi is a web based reporting system that utilizes crowdsourced data to formulate visual map information of a crisis on a real-time basis. As a Program Director for Ushahidi she manages projects and aids in the development and testing of the Ushahidi platform. Juliana Rotich is the Environment Editor of Global Voices Online, contributing author on Afrigadget.com and also blogs at Afromusing blog with a focus on African tech and renewable energy. She is a budding African Futurist and a TED Senior Fellow.
www.ushahidi.com

Marietje Schaake (Member of the European Parliament, D66)
Member of the European Parliament for D66, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats of Europe Marietje Schaake is striving for an ambitious knowledge economy in the Committee for Culture, Media, Education,Youth and Sports. In this role she is the founder of an Intergroup on New Media, in which Members of the European Parliament come together to discuss developments in new media in an interdisciplinary way. Besides that she is part of the Committee on Foreign Affairs where she works on Europe’s position in the world to become more significant, through advancing human rights, free speech and democratization.
www.marietjeschaake.com

Hermineke van Bockxmeer
Hermineke van Bockxmeer is head of the media division at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. In this role she she was directly committed to the rise and development of Digital Pioneers. Besides that she is an active promoter of social media in the government herself.