Dear all,

As promised in our last post, we come back today to introduce the last two speakers who will be delivering a presentation on our big event on Wednesday: Stuart McRae and Paul Brennan. You will find here some brief information on their backgrounds, and the topic of their talks.

STUART McRAE

Stuart is an Executive Collaboration, Talent & Social Business Evangelist for IBM, where he helps business executives and strategists with their organisation's digital strategy and the effectiveness of their workforce.

He has spent his career helping organisations apply emerging technologies to improve employee collaboration, and his current focus is on how digital transformation is going to change the way people work. Stuart will use his expertise on the transformation of communications within organisations to give us more insight about this particular topic.

Talk title: The Cognitive Edge: Redefining Communications Within Organisations

PAUL BRENNAN

Paul is a Lead Web Consultant with over 10 years' experience in software development. As part of an award winning team at communication consultancy AHC, for the last 5 years he's been leading software projects that make heavy use of data analysis and manipulation.

He has worked with numerous FTSE* 100 companies to help shape their internal communication strategies and bring these into the digital age. He's generally involved in all parts of a project from initial ideas and scoping, right through to delivery and reflection.

*Financial Times Stock Exchange

Topic: Paul is going to talk about how best to use data to develop an effective communication strategy.