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Join us to hear the latest thinking on social media and our wider social worlds from Google experts, academics and advertisers including the legendary Robin Dunbar (of Dunbar's number fame), Cadburys, Oxfam and senior Googlers.

This is the session where you can ask “How do I start?” or “I have a really naïve question but…” – no question is silly. Aimed at Startups or those who are new to Social Media we’ll focus on the three core themes: The What, How and So What

We're pleased to announce our February event will be held on the Thursday 16th as part of Social Media Week (SMW) London 2012.

A panel of graduate students in the Masters of Digital Marketing Program will be presenting perspectives from their local communities around the globe on how social media in their country has been affected by those issues or how those themes have changed the social media landscape.

Online freedom is a hot topic: from individual users, to the corporate world, to governments and lawmakers the challenges are coming thick and fast. This global keynote interview features Mark Stephens CBE, one of the UK’s leading legal minds, a veteran of Wikileaks & Hackgate, reknowned for his take on global freedom of speech and censorship.

It’s Valentine’s day and the billions of people using social media will be connecting, friending, ‘booking, liking, plusing, klouting, IMing more than ever before. How our relationships and our affections are being moulded by the technology? Join our expert panel to find out more...

Schedule: 10:30 Arrive 11:00 Start 12:45 Lunch 13:45 Further discussions 14:15 Drinks and Networking

Join us for an enlightening, interactive debate with a mixture of journalists and social media fanatics to explore how twitter is changing the news industry, how journalists use social media to connect to the story and how collaborative reporting is leading to activism and change.

Join Brandon Berger, Chief Digital Officer at Ogilvy & Mather, and top digital/social decision makers at Ford, Amex and IBM for a true insiders look at how social media is changing the world’s biggest companies.

This session will explore the digital industry’s seemingly insatiable appetite for social media skills. But where are the skills coming from? Academia? On-the-job learning? Is social media baked into the DNA of the digital natives? This session includes a buffet lunch starting at 12.30pm. Grab a place now.