Hosts

Particularly experienced in live TV, Philippa Forrester has presented everything from children’s TV to Tomorrow’s World and Robot Wars, as well as many wildlife programmes. From 2010, she produced four series of the very popular Halcyon River Diaries, which followed her family as they discovered and worked to conserve the ecology of a river at the bottom of their garden, in particular otters. Also an accomplished writer, Philippa has degrees in both English and Ecology & Conservation, and recently published On the Trail of Wolves after spending a year in the wilds of Wyoming studying these often controversial creatures.

Nancy Goebel is the Digital Workplace Group’s Managing Director for Member Services. In addition to leading service delivery and member engagement, Nancy is also responsible for global expansion. During her tenure with DWG, Nancy has been involved in account management, benchmarking, research, blogging and executive producing Digital Workplace Live and DW24. She has also been responsible for the global expansion of DWG’s Member Forum. Prior to joining Digital Workplace Group, Nancy was an accomplished executive at JPMorgan Chase, where she built and led a global team in designing and implementing an award-winning intranet. She also led digital enablement and business re-engineering initiatives. Outside of work, Nancy is a wine maker, fundraiser, reiki practitioner and meditator.

Shimrit Janes is Director of Knowledge at Digital Workplace Group. She manages the AskDWG knowledge service for DWG's members, bringing them research, insights and case studies in answer to their digital workplace queries. She also oversees the "Digital Nations" Research Centre within DWG, authors research reports, and is currently co-authoring DWG's next book, "Nature of Work". Shimrit was previously a Knowledge Project Leader at a global law firm.

Business and social entrepreneur Paul Miller is CEO and Founder of Digital Workplace Group (DWG). His latest book, The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering digital workplaces fit for the future (co-authored with Elizabeth Marsh), was shortlisted for the Management Book of the Year 2016 Award, and his previous book, The Digital Workplace: How technology is liberating work, helped to popularize and explain the term “digital workplace”. Paul hosts the Digital Workplace Impact podcast, is Executive Producer of the 24-hour global digital experience Digital Workplace 24, and hosted the pioneering internet radio show Digital Workplace Live for five years. He has given many inspirational talks on the digital future of work, for audiences at Microsoft, IKEA, Google, Accenture, Harvard Business Review, Cisco, European Commission, IMF, Adobe and Oxford University. Paul was ranked one of the world’s Top 50 Social Employee Advocacy Leaders in 2015. Prior to founding DWG, he was Founder and CEO of communications company The Empowerment Group; Publisher and Editor of social and digital innovation magazine ‘Wave’; and, in pre-internet days, Co-founder of the Ideas Café salon. He lives in the Cotswolds in the UK.

Priya has a strong track record of leading digital transformation, consumer-centric digital solutions, and product management for Fortune 1000 companies in the financial services, technology and e-commerce industries. Priya oversees global HR Digital Strategy & Innovation, including onshore and offshore resources, to develop, launch and maintain digital products related to global HR technology solutions at Prudential Financial. Prior to Prudential, Priya consulted at AIG Finance’s eBusiness Group overseeing a multi-million dollar digital life insurance portfolio spanning multiple countries. She launched growth strategy via omnichannel digital marketing programmes while improving product functionality, user experience and integration with other areas of AIG’s business. She spent two years with Hewlett Packard, serving as Program Manager of HP’s Asian e-commerce business, a $50 million business then and across 12 online stores and seven B2B extranet platforms.