We have just confirmed Bilal Randeree as a speaker at the FutureEverything Conference in  2012.

Bilal Randeree is Social Media and Online Producer for Al Jazeera English (AJE) based in Doha, Qatar. He works in the newsroom, using online tools and platforms for news-gathering stories from around the world.

He will be talking extensively about the Arab Spring and the role Al Jazeera played in documenting those events. He will also be looking forward into 2012, predicting what he hopes to see and what he envisages will actually happen both socially and politically in the Arab world.

Bilal was one of the first journalists to get in touch online with Tunisian protesters and activists during December 2010 events, and since then the use of social media and online platforms has become even more vital to his work, and to Al Jazeera's coverage. He is also responsible for improving and developing new platforms and strategies for AJE's coverage, most notably the popular live blogs. He spends his free time maintaining Al Jazeera's CC Repository.