Toni Cowan-Brown | SpeakerHub

Personal Details

Bio

I am Vice President, European Business Development at NationBuilder. I focus on developing NationBuilder's European expansion. Focusing specifically on growth and sales, marketing, brand development and new business development in Europe. http://nationbuilder.com/europe

As a digital consultant working at Burson-Marsteller I Helped clients address complex problems by developing cross-practices, cross-channel and cross-media programmes - where digital and social have an increasing role to play. As the EMEA Deputy Digital Practice Leader (then the EMEA BursonDigital lead) I worked on cross-market new business, supported the EMEA digital team and focused on digital business.

Working at the European Commission I worked on a variety of EU policy objectives - such as the Digital Agenda for Europe – to find long-lasting solutions that could be scaled up across Europe. This is where I discovered my passion for technology.

I have been asked to reflect the views of young digital entrepreneurs about the future of Europe (http://stateoftheeu.eu/), invited by Google to talk about trending online and brand creation, and a regular guest on BBC London 94.9 radio where I comment on the news of the day with a focus on the EU, digital communications and technology. In 2014, I was named by The Drum one of the UK's 30 under 30 in digital.

Current position (2)

VP of European Business Development

NationBuilder

Regular guest on BBC London 94.9

BBC

Degrees (3)

International Relations and Diplomacy

College of Europe

2009 to 2010

Relations Internationales

Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris

2007 to 2008

Politics and international relations with a minor in french

University of Kent

2005 to 2009

Presentations

Presentations (4)

Digital Diplomacy - Fostering a collaborative engagement

The Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia organised the conference “Digital Diplomacy: Fostering a collaborative engagement”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBvJN7-1ZE

What marketers can learn from political campaigns

Four Key lessons marketers and executives such as yourselves can learn from the political space, and specifically from political campaigns. Lessons that you can apply immediately to your businesses.

Because lessons learnt from one sector are absolutely valid in another. Even when it’s from one of the most archaic and traditional sectors - politics.

Platforms for leadership

The new communications revolution has been an immense force for change. Toni will look at how digital technologies and communications can boost the culture and infrastructure of leadership, encourage people to self identify as leaders and build communities of change around complex issues.

E-democracy - making software accessible

Desirability, accessibility and feasibility. There are a number of questions concerning how feasible and how desirable adopting online democratic programs would be for the UK. Making the necessary software accessible to the many (rather than the few) in order to offer the democratic process needed for politics in 21st century is a hard task but a vital one too.

Workshops (1)

Branding and organising online

4 hours

1. Going Digital - looking at the evolution of the online space (branding / presence and online communities). Our focus will be on the newer areas currently not being tackled; Online communities and why they are crucial.

Past talks (4)

Platforms for leadership

Leade.rs

Paris

December 31, 2015

What marketers can learn from the political space

A16Z tech Summit

London

December 31, 2014

Vision and Aspirations of the Next Generation: Renewing the Dream

State of the European Union

Brussels