Laurie Dean Baird is Managing Director at Laderium Media Group. Ms Baird focuses on emerging technology, social practices and business models in the changing media landscape, providing distinctive insights and actionable planning strategies, helping organizations leverage new forms of engaging digital media, mobile media, social media, transmedia and spreadable media storytelling for business success. Ms Baird’s experience is drawn from 20 years in corporate strategy, business development and R&D in digital media serving the Time Warner family, including Turner Broadcasting, HBO, Warner Brothers, Time Inc, AOL and Time Warner Cable, as well as AT&T, ESPN and Public Media International, among others. She is a research fellow at the Futures of Entertainment and a strategic consultant at the Georgia Tech - Institute for People and Technology and frequently speaks on the changing industry. Ms Baird advises several domestic and international organizations. She is a board member of the MIT College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Georgia Tech GVU Center, Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) Southeast Chapter, GlobalEXECWomen and Startup Chicks. She has repeatedly been named one of the Most Powerful Women in Cable Technology by WICT and CableFax Magazine and named a finalist for Women in Technology Woman of the Year. Baird earned a BS in physics and BA is sociology from St. Lawrence University, and a SM (MBA) from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She can be followed on Twitter @LawD.