George Pór - Emergence and Cocreation Panelist - is co-founder of CommunityIntelligence Ltd, a London-based transformation agency, the hub of an international network of consultants collaborating on larger projects. George is a pioneer of using social media for developing such strategic organizational capabilities as collaborative work and learning. His specialty is advising leaders about communities of practice as untapped engines of value creation. He brought the concept of "communities of practice" to the European Commission and guided a 3-year project to develop such communities. George’s clients have included Canadian Imperial Bank, Copenhagen Institute for the Future, European Foundation for Mgnt Development, Ford, Greenpeace, Intel, H-P, Procter & Gamble, Swedish Organizational Learning Association and World Wildlife Foundation among others. George holds  Senior Research Fellow position at the University of Amsterdam Business School, and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Knowledge Management. @technoshaman

Carol Sanford - Presenter; Creative Work Cultures Panelist - has consulted for 3 decades to Fortune 500 companies globally (incl. DuPont, Colgate Europe Africa and Latin Am, and Intel), policy makers (such as British Columbia Premier), policy advisors, Arab nations, entrepreneurial start ups (such as Seventh Generation and hundreds of others) - inventing new ways to work holistically and systemically. She  authored hundreds of works, including her recent acclaimed book, The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability and Success. Known for  breakthrough ideas, transformational initiatives and whole-brain approaches, her work has been featured in many publications (incl. HBR), on TV and radio business programs. Carol is one of the pioneers and practitioners of Living Systems/Whole Systems development in business and policy development. She leactures at universities incl. MIT Sloane, U Michigan, and U Washington among others, and serves as mentor/advisor to the Global Social Entrepreneur Competition at U. of Washington mentoring new businesses around the world www.CarolSanford.com  @carolsanford

Bill Smith, PhD - Presenter; Emergence and Co-Creation Panelist - President of ODII is an innovative thinker and practitioner in the field of leadership, organization and social development. He's developed new, creative approaches to organization for multinational corporations, governments, and villages all over the world. At Wharton Graduate School of Business, Bill discovered a natural organizing process that links purpose, power and action at any level, from individual to global systems. He calls this AIC - Appreciation, Influence and Control for the three universal powers at its core, whihc he writes about in his latest book, The Creative Power: Transforming Ourselves, Our Organizations and our World. Bill's applied the AIC process to large-scale complex projects, village development, and to the design of national and global system for orgnaizations such as The World Bank, the Unted Nations, Plexus Institute, Monstato Pharmacutical, British Airways, and in the Organizational Sciences Program of George Washington University among others.