Employee Portal Evolution Masters » Speakers

Tom Pryzgoda, Senior Director, Global eMarketing, Abbott Laboratories

Chair & Presentation
Successfully increasing your user adoption rate when deploying new tools or platforms

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Tom Pryzgoda is currently the Senior Director of Global Strategic Marketing with a focus on eMarketing for Abbott's Pharmaceutical Products Group. His responsibilities include developing internal communication portals, eMarketing, digital and social media strategies for more than 80 affiliates worldwide. For over 20 years, Tom has held a number of global marketing and eMarketing leadership positions at health care, technology and consumer product companies, including Abbott, 3Com, Life Fitness, Zenith and USRobotics. Tom also has a strong background in developing digital direct-to-consumer, e-commerce, SEO/SEM and marketing campaigns, and has, for many companies, including Skype, Dell, Fox Entertainment, CBS Sports and Walmart.

Stein-Ivar Aarsaether, Group Vice President Head, ABB Global Web Management, ABB Ltd.

Presentation
Social networking with SharePoint 2010 @ ABB Global

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Stein-Ivar Aarsaether is a Group Vice President of ABB and heading their Global Web Management activities from the Group’s global headquarters. His responsibilities include developing and driving implementation of the Group’s web strategies with regard to internet, intranet and extranet activities.
ABB is an engineering company focusing on process automation and power technology, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The company has approx 107’000 employees and is active is about 100 countries. The group has 53 country web sites presenting content in 28 languages.
In 1994 he was appointed Vice President Communications for ABB Norway and their global oil and gas activities. In this capacity he pioneered ABB’s first country web site, which led to his engagement by the Group’s headquarters to build its global web presence. Since 2000 he has been managing this activity from the Group’s headquarters in Zurich.

Thomas Garnier, Projects director, e-learning information system owner,
Orange - France Télécom SA / France

Presentation
Linking apps and mobile services – Integrating content and managing usability of intranets in a changing digital environment

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Start-up in the Internet business in 1995, then consultant in the banking Internet field.
Join the Orange - France Telecom Group in 1998, in charge of intranet portal and CRM for the international carriers business.
Move to the Orange training dept in 2001, building virtual classroom system.
Owner of the e-learning Information System, and leading the Mobile Learning expertise group.

Mark Morrell, Head of Intranet Strategy, BT Group plc

Presentation
Strategic intranet governance and business driven adoption of social media for increasing value @ BT

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Mark Morrell is the BT Intranet manager and leads on the strategy, governance and standards.  He is responsible for all online information, collaboration, training and business applications. BT’s intranet has been benchmarked with other global intranets on best practice and shown to be one of the best intranets in the world. Mark heads up a small team in Group Communications and leads BT’s online publishing community  measuring value, improving usability, navigation, accessibility and personalisation. Mark owns the corporate intranet portal, developing the portal design, format and features that meet business and user needs. Mark is heavily involved with social media.  People in BT collaborate using a mix of Sharepoint, RSS feeds, wikis, blogs and podcasts. Mark has been the BT’s intranet manager since 2002.  His background is in human resources, management training, employee and electronic communications.

Mikaela Terhi, Chief Intranet Coordinator, Wärtsilä Corporation

Presentation
Implementing social media features in intranet for effective employee engagement and internal communication

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Mikaela Terhi holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Advertising and Business Communication which she got in May 2005 and a Master of Arts, Communication Studies, from the University of Vaasa, Finland June 2009. Mikaela Terhi is working for Wärtsilä since May 2007 and as the Chief Intranet Coordinator at Wärtsilä since September 2008 she is responsible for all intranet & employee portal activities. Communications Trainee at Wärtsilä since May 2007

Wolfgang Jastrowski, Head of Unite Communications & Collaboration, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd.

Presentation
Establishing social software to drive expertise exchange and how to measure it

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Wolfgang Jastrowski is Head of Unite Communications & Collaboration at Swiss Re. His team is responsible for the implementation of global standard solutions for Collaboration & Communication. It started in 2008 when the Next Generation Collaboration Initiative, where he represented IT, established a roadmap to pursue Swiss Re’s collaboration platform strategy. Plans for 2010 and beyond focus now on external collaboration channels (website, external communities), and unified content and communications. Before his role here, Wolfgang led Swiss Re’s Portal Solutions team.

Richard Hare, Knowledge Communication and Collaboration Consultant, British American Tobacco plc

Presentation
Social computing and the collaborative intranet

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Richard Hare starts his career at Lotus Notes Groupware Team, where he from 1997 to 2002 responsible as a Deputy leader. From 2002 till now he is a member of the KM & Intranet strategy team of BAT Global.

Neil Morgan, Head, Global Intranet, WWF International

Presentation
Integrating collaboration – Linking in virtual workspaces with your intranet

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Neil Morgan has been developing, marketing and managing online projects for more than 15 years. In his current role with WWF International, his responsibilities are focused in two main areas. In implementing a strategy for Knowledge Management and Information Systems for the WWF Network, and in coordinating the development of WWF’s internal solutions. This includes identifying the needs for integrating new applications and acting as an advisor for online solutions to Senior Management and other offices in the WWF Network. After devoting the early part of his education to learning about the world around us, he wanted to find a way to make a real difference in helping to guide our society in understanding the important of caring for the future of our planet. During this time he has developed his skills in finding innovative and effective solutions for how organizations can manage the mass of data that they will be generating in the coming decades. Neil holds a Master’s degree in Ecological and Environmental Sciences from Howard University, Washington, DC and a Bachelor of Biology and Fine Arts from Barry University, Miami. Neil spends his free time snowboarding/hiking the mountains of Switzerland and playing the occasional pick up football game with his colleagues.

Helen McCarthy, e-Communications Manager (Internal Communications), Nestlé S.A.

Presentation
Business challenges in migrating a large intranet to an employee portal at Nestlé

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Helen McCarthy is originally from Ireland, with a background in retail management, teaching English and online management and writing. Helen McCarthy is working in Nestlé’s Swiss headquarters since March 2007, looking after internal communications to our 280,000 employees worldwide.

Michel Gelbart, formerly Chief Knowledge Officer, Fujitsu

Presentation
Global knowledge & collaboration programme at Fujitsu - Vision, strategy, design, pilot, deployment, growth & continuous improvement process

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Michel Gelbart is an accomplished business executive with expertise in transforming the way global companies engage with customers and employees through the use of cutting edge collaborative technologies. Michel has recently been leading and delivering a global collaboration & knowledge portal accessible to 170,000 Fujitsu employees. Prior to joining Fujitsu, Michel had over 20 years experience at Reuters, with the last 8 years as Head of Corporate Web (Reuters.com & group Intranet). Michel’s teams created award winning customer and employee portals as well as web 2.0 tools such as corporate wikis and blogs including Reuters CEO’s blog www.tomglocer.com. Michel’s experience also includes the innovative use of virtual world and social networking technologies to enhance collaboration of geographically dispersed teams.

Sean MacNiven, Head of Social Web Global Communications, SAP AG

Presentation
Intranet Governance & Implementation of Guidelines for the right and efficient use of social media tools and Intranet apps

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Sean MacNiven is fascinated by the relationships between people, and applies that fascination to his daily work in communications empowered by Web. His professional experience at SAP encompasses virtually every aspect of internal communications from executive through to grassroots, from static HTML to state-of-the-art collaboration suites. Sean aims to foster meaningful dialogue with the collective, whether that collective be a corporate intranet, or the sum total of all connected humanity. He holds degrees in linguistics, and computing and mathematical sciences.

Viviane Dupré, Coordinator Head of Web Management Public Affairs, Communications & Corporate Social Responsibility / Information Technologies, Bombardier Aerospace

Presentation
Overall strategy for employee portal evolution into an enterprise 2.0 platform and integration of effective use of social media for employee engagement and internal communication – Employee portal evolution: Start the dialogue to engage employees

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Combined with a 25 years experience in the Information Technology area, Viviane Dupré started working in the Web domain in 1997. She joined Bombardier Aerospace in 1999 and since 2003, she is responsible for the worldwide employee portal which won 2 important Canadian awards following its launch in 2004. Her mandate is now to put a formal governance in place and define the evolution of the employee portal and putting together the strategy for the deployment of internal collaboration and social networking tools for the 35,000 employees. She is also involved in the management of the company’s website, Bombardier.com, and other web projects.

Andrea Bargetzi, VP, Intranet Manager, CREDIT SUISSE GROUP AG

Working Group
Business alignment of extensive and diversified intranet portals

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Andrea Bargetzi is the Intranet Manager at Credit Suisse AG since 2008 
and responsible for the intranet platform and its projects and 
applications. She manages and drives the strategic alignment between 
the business, strategy an IT.
Prior to joining Credit Suisse AG, Ms. Andrea Bargetzi was the General 
Manager at Chorus Call Canada leading the creation of a start-up 
telecommunication firm with the expertise in financial events. She had 
previously served as Account Executive at Chorus Call SA managing the 
financial events of most blue chips within Switzerland. Ms. Andrea 
Bargetzi was at Morgan Stanley for one year and at UBS AG, where she 
started her career, for five years working in the Private Banking 
sector.
Ms. Andrea Bargetzi has graduated with an executive B.B.A. from GSBA 
in Switzerland and previously completed her Swiss commercial 
apprenticeship in the banking sector.

Martin Risgaard Rasmussen, Intranet Webmaster, Arla Foods amba / Denmark

Interactive Evening Session
Beginning the journey towards the next generation of intranet

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Martin Risgaard Rasmussen is a part of the corporate communication department in the dairy company Arla Foods with the primary responsibility for the internal online communication platforms.
His main task, as one half of a two-person team, is to look after the global Intranet – also known as My Workplace – mainly when it comes to daily support of the global editor network, but also the strategic development of the intranet to make sure that it meets the requirements of the employees as well as the company in the best possible way.
In addition to the intranet he is exploring social media and how these can be used for communication both within the company but also with the ‘outside world’. In his opinion it is extremely important for internal comms people to stay up to date with what’s going on in the World Wide Web since this is the yardstick used to measure your intranet. You may not be able to meet all demands, but the first step is to know what demands you need to meet!
Martin holds a degree in international sales and marketing and has been working internationally with online marketing and communication, both internal and external, in Denmark and the UK since 2002.

Johan Hillebrand, Head of Internal Communication, ABN AMRO

Presentation
Launch of a merged intranet and first steps to an integrated social media platform - Communicating Effectively and operating efficiently

Personal Information

Johan Hillebrand is currently Head of Internal Communication at ABN AMRO and Raad van Toezicht at Stichting Computerwijk.
In the past, he held several positions at at Fortis Bank Nederland. (Head of Internal Communication, Internet & Intranet Management  Head of Account and Project Management at Global Branding & Communications and Head of Investment Team)