Gareth Strangemore-Jones

Gareth is Co-Initiator of the Worldshift 2012 Movement, Group Managing Editor of Worldshift Media and a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest.

During a career in communications spanning more than 20 years, he has consistently delivered measurable business-generating and awareness-raising integrated regional, national, international and new media campaigns and communications.

For charities and social enterprises, Gareth has raised significant funds and awareness and effectively managed corporate social responsibility from a number of business sectors.  A Fellow of the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, he won an UnLtd Millennium Award and was featured in their publication: “What Makes a Social Entrepreneur?”

In January 2009, Gareth helped launch 999 It's Time, a new movement drawing attention to the state of Social, Economic and Environmental Emergencies we face combined with practical actions we can all take and effect change, even as individuals.  For more, see www.999itstime.org

In 2008, Gareth co-founded Events4Change as a social enterprise specialising in producing, programming and promoting tansformational events.  Events4Change is a Founding Partner of WorldShift.  For more, see www.events4change.org

In 2007-2008, Gareth founded Ecoshelter, a new social enterprise / charity coalition that seeks to provide sustainable and community living solutions for Disaster Relief, Poverty Relief and Environmental Relief.  

The day after Boxing Day in 2004, Gareth set up a new fundraising charity, Tsunami Relief, which focussed the public, Rotarians and sister organisations to raise more than £24million to help the physical, mental and emotional rebuilding of those communities shattered by the earthquakes off Indonesia and the subsequent infamous tsunami.  

In 2003 – 2004, Gareth promoted The European Social Forum that came to London for the first time, sitting on the influential Culture Working Group.  He soon realised that many creative people could align with the ESF’s principle that “Another World is Possible” and so founded The European Creative Forum and co-ordinated and promoted its monthly “Visions of Another World” events.  

In 2002, Gareth took a temporary consultancy with Brunel University.  This complicated change-focussed communications task involved gaining the support of the local authority, Hillingdon Council; the Greater London Authority; the Department of Education; business and other stakeholders; staff, students and residents.  During this term, Gareth took control as Head of PR.  The consultancy was interupted when Gareth was stabbed in a racist attack on a friend of his, an incident that made him more determined to use communications to create a more open and tolerant society.

In 2001 – 2002, Gareth helped turn Callserve from a DotCom start up to a rare telco success with global marketing communications for what was then Europe’s leading VoIP provider and their brand partners including Sony (The Sony Vaiophone); Freeserve (The Freeserve Webphone); Packard Bell; Real Networks and Microsoft (The xpPhone).  With Callserve, Gareth helped Microsoft launch Windows XP as VoIP communications was one of the most exciting features of their new Operating System.

In 2000 - 2001, in association with ImageLine (the UK’s leading Transport & Travel PR Agency), Gareth worked as Pan European PR Consultant for MOL (Mitsui OSK Lines – the largest shipping company in the World) and PANYNJ (The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey).  As well as launching the first Environmental Statement from a global shipping company, he was responsible for the rebranding of MOL from Mitsui OSK Lines through an integrated advertising and PR campaign.  For PANYNJ, he created and conducted their UK and EU communication strategy for their modernisation and expansion plans.

He is also a Freelance Reporter and Marketing Consultant with Worldshift Partner, Positive TV.

Gareth has two young children - Amora and Tommy.  He cycles everywhere in his hometown of Penarth, just outside Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, and catches the train to London every fortnight with work.

Dana Amma Day

Dana is CEO of Positive TV. Positive TV is an global IPTV news channel. Positive TV reports on what’s breaking through rather than what’s breaking down. From a local and global perspective there is a huge amount happening in the world to excite and inspire viewers however much of this news never gets reported. Positive TV looks to reach across generations and energise us with positivity at a time when we may feel overwhelmed by the negative prognosis for the future of humanity and the planet. Positive TV reports on people and events from around the globe that are helping to create and shape a Positive future at this critical time where we believe we are on the verge of a new renaissance.

Dana specializes as a journalist and adviser on issues and campaigns including working and reporting on: The Club of Budapest, Ecoshelter, The Ecologist, WWF / Nokia, IUCN Global Conservation Conference 2009, Greenpeace, Soldiers of Peace, Do The Green Thing , House of Lords Green Energy discussion groups with Edward De Bono Foundation, Green Books, Food for Life Partnership / Prince Charles, Soil Association, The Green Awards, Be The Change, Angel Film Awards and many other events and film festivals.

Dana is also an active executive producer in the UK film arena and current productions include the feature films Earth 2.0, The Glastonbury Grail and the feature documentary The Prophets Conference Tipping Point 2012.

David Woolfson

David Woolfson is a lawyer based in Toronto, Canada and a 'global futures' activist focusing on the many challenges and opportunities before humanity today. David has initiated and been a major participant in numerous organizations and initiatives working toward a sustainable and peaceful world, since 1988, including:

• Co-Founder & Coordinator, World Wisdom Alliance (now WorldShift Alliance) (2006 to date)
• Founder & President, The Club of Budapest Canada (2006)
• Co-conceiver & Co-Coordinator, World Wisdom Council (2004 to date)
• Producer, Club of Budapest’s “Planetary Vision Festival” (2001)
• Producer, “Tomorrow Today: a Planetary Vision”, CoB TV program (2001)
• Producer, “Great Millennium Global Singalong” (2001)
• Coordinator - Toronto Chapter, World Future Society (1998 to date)
• Community Liaison, Beacon Millennium Canada (1998 - 2000)
• Editor, “Jubillenium World Report” On-Line (1999 - 2000)
• Editor, “The Millennium Report” (1998 - 1999)
• Founder & Executive Director, Millennium Council of Canada (1996 - 1997)
• Director, The Great Millennium Campaign (1995 - 2001)
• Coordinator, World Millennium Network (1995 - 2001)
• Coordinator, “Foresight 2020 Forum” (formerly ‘Toronto 2000’) (1992 to date)
• Proposal to 100 world artists to create the “One World Foundation” (1988)

David is dedicated to promoting new thinking and actions to address the major societal and environmental challenges of our time, emphasizing ‘whole-system’ approaches and innovative solutions. The objective is to help discover a positive path to the future at this crucial time in our history.

Dominic Search

Dominic has a 20 year background in IT project management within UK social enterprises, having studied information systems and management strategy.  He has previously held positions as Technical Director at a specialist ISP helping it to attracted £3m of venture funding during the dotcom boom; IT Manager for a large reproductive healthcare charity; and Team Leader providing IT consultancy to SMEs, NGOs, & the public sector.  He also co-created the dot coop top-level Internet domain, and authored a multi-million pound funding proposal for an innovative community-lead waste reuse scheme in partnership with a London university and borough council.

Dominic began organising events in the late 1980’s when he joined the management team of what became the UK's longest running one-day event focused on environmental sustainability attracting 10,000 visitors a year (Kingston Green Fair). In 1995 he co-created the first cybercafé at Glastonbury Festival and powered all ten terminals entirely from solar energy. Currently he co-manages the UK’s premier conscious clubbing event (The Synergy Project) that has pioneered education within a nightclub environment in collaboration with NGOs and which regularly attracts audiences in excess of 2,500. He is also an accomplished photographer specialising in live music, which has earned him a reputation as one of the top image makers in the alternative festival and dance music scenes (Photographicon).

Gyorgyi Szabo-Byworth

Gyorgyi works closely with Professor Ervin Laszlo on many projects and has been involved in the endeavors of The Club of Budapest Foundation in different countries.

Over the last twenty years she has gained wide range of work experiences in the fields of business and operations management in countries such as Hungary, the USA, Germany, the UK and Italy.

Gyorgyi now lives in Italy with her husband and continues to travel extensively. She is presently preparing her PhD thesis in the area of energy healing, parapsychology and consciousness research.