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Danny O'Brien
International Outreach Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Theme: Communication
Journalist, IT analyst and broadcaster, Danny O'Brien is a technology columnist for the Sunday Times and Irish Times. Working as a consultant, he has helped formulate online strategies for Intel, the Guardian, and Channel Four, and was responsible for creating Virgin Net's community programming during its startup phase. Danny's broadcast work production and presenting shows for shows for the BBC, Channel Four, Sky and ITV networks. He was the founding editor of Need To Know http://www.ntk.net/>, a weekly British industry newsletter which received a special commendation by BAFTA for its contributions to newsgathering. He is a co-founder of the Open Rights Group, a British advocacy organization, and works at the Electronic Frontier Foundation as their International Outreach Coordinator. He lives in San Francisco.
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Andrew Mitchell
Director, Global Canopy Programme
Theme: Earth
Andrew W. Mitchell is a leading international authority on forests and climate change. In 2001, he founded the Global Canopy Programme (GCP), an international network linking 38 leading scientific institutions in 19 countries focused on the research and conservation of tropical forests. He is the architect of the Forests Now Declaration, which calls on Governments to take action to halt deforestation and has the support of over 300 high level endorsers, including two Heads of State.
Andrew has been an impassioned advocate of forest conservation for over 30 years, with a career spanning scientific research, broadcast journalism, and environmental policy. Before founding the Global Canopy Project, he worked at Earthwatch, overseeing 130 field research and conservation projects in 40 countries.
Andrew acts as an adviser to governments and international institutions, and is senior advisor to the Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project, established in 2007. Andrew co-founded the UK Corporate Environment Responsibility Group, and has advised on environmental policy for companies including McDonalds, Barclays and British Airways.
Andrew is the author of seven books, including A Fragile Paradise, a Sir Peter Morris Conservation Book Prize finalist (1990), which was made into a six-part BBC Radio 4 series.
Andrew is a well-known and recognisable media figure. In 2007, he gave interviews to BBC World, Sky News and Channel 4 News, and was quoted in publications from The Independent and Daily Telegraph in the UK to the Washington Post and Time Magazine in the United States.
Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio
Managing Director, Global Climate Change Practice, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Systems Inc
Theme: Earth
Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio leads the Global Climate Change Practice of Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) - Cisco's Strategy & Innovation group.
The Global Climate Change practice focuses on the unique role that collaborative networks and information can play in low carbon development innovation in partnership with National Governments, International Finance Institutions, Economics & Policy Think Tanks, Scientific Research Organizations, NGOs and Corporations. The practice interests lie in areas as diverse as joined-up climate change science, economics of climate change, integrated assessment modeling, low carbon innovation scenarios, adoption of energy efficiency, deforestation business models, carbon markets and global to local risk modelling.
Prior to this role in IBSG, Juan Carlos led the Emerging Markets Public Sector team focused on technology enabled national public service delivery transformation, national social/digital inclusion programs, SMB economic inclusion programs, healthcare and educational reforms.
Prior to joining Cisco, he was a Partner for DiamondCluster where he led the financial services and telecom practices in Latin America. Prior to DiamondCluster, he was CEO for an industrial biotechnology start-up focused on biofuel technologies, an EVP Operations for a large brewery group, a VP for Corporate Strategic Development of a financial services group and a senior consultant for McKinsey & Company.
In his tenure as a research professional in the biotech industry he acted as a consultant to the Corporacion Andina de Fomento and to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
A native Peruvian, he graduated from the University of Cambridge, UK with a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering and with a M.Eng in Biochemical Engineering. He later graduated with an MBA from INSEAD in France. He is married to a Brazilian lady and has four children.
