Speakers
An intimate setting to network and spotlight your ideas to some of the industries most respected thought leaders.
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Jeremy Ettinghausen, Creative Director at BBH
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Previous to his post at BBH, Jeremy was Digital Publisher at Penguin Books where he was involved in the development and execution of Penguin’s digital publishing and communications strategy encompassing ebooks, digital audiobooks, gaming and app development and all aspects of digital publishing, online communications and social marketing.
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Greg Hadfield, Director of Strategic Projects at the award winning Cogapp
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Greg was the first national newspaper journalist to leave Fleet Street for the internet in the mid-1990s when his son, then aged 12, created Soccernet, the world’s most popular football website. A former education correspondent and news editor with The Sunday Times, he also created Schoolsnet, an education website profiling every school in the United Kingdom.
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Mike Hawkyard, Co-founder of 4T2 and Chairman of TIGA’s Casual Game Committee
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Multimedia agency 4T2 blasted onto the scene in 1998 and their first viral game was built for a pitch to Hubba Bubba one year later. Since then they have gone from strength to strength and their clients now include numerous international brands. The company now focus on the ethos of high quality online games being the most cost effective method of driving traffic and increasing brand loyalty currently available on the Internet.
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Dan’l Hewitt, European Strategic Account Manager for Demand Media
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Working for the online media company, Dan’l is responsible for expanding ‘Pluck’, its social media platform, to European brands and retailers. Prior to joining Demand Media Dan’l was director of digital strategy at Vice Media. Prior to working at Vice Media, Dan’l was director of digital at social network Bebo. He’s also worked for Yahoo advising the online company on its revenue/share licensing model.
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Matt Locke, Founder and Director of Storythings
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Before starting Storythings, Matt was Head of Multiplatform Commissioning at Channel 4 with a £7m budget for multi-platform projects around some of Channel 4′s biggest brands, including Million Pound Drop, Skins, Embarassing Bodies and Big Brother. And between 2001-2007, Matt Locke was Head of Innovation for BBC New Media and one of the creators of the BBC’s Innovation Labs.
He has taken his knowledge and embedded it into Storythings a company established in 2010 in order to experiment with new ways of telling stories, highly current and essential in todays digital world.
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Steve Pearce, Design Director at Skype
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Steve is the Design Director at Skype. His friends call him Buzz, but that’s another story altogether. After joining Skype in December 2008 he was responsible for all design disciplines within the platform team taking Skype to its world leading status today by moving the company to a software platform, rather than a single application download.
Prior to Skype Steve was Design Director at Poke, a company he joined right at the beginning and helped grow into a world leading design team.
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David Worthington, Chairman of Holmes & Marchant, Lloyd Northover and Designersblock
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Prior to his current work, David was Managing Director of the Conran Design Group for ten years.
A graphic designer and passionate believer in the commercial and social benefits of good design, David’s design career has centred on the retail, banking and leisure sectors, for companies such as Diesel, Nationwide, First Choice, the Design Council and Sainsburys.David is also chairman of CCSkills, the Sector Skills Council for the creative and cultural industries for the four nations and chairs the UK Design Alliance, an industry wide partnership set up to develop the skills of the design industry, and is a member of the recently formed Design Commission, where he is contributing to an enquiry into current design education.
He is a board director of the London Transport Museum and chairs the Museum’s trading board, prior to which he was consultant curator and art director for the Museum’s Design Gallery.
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Nicole Yershon, Director of Innovative Solutions at Ogilvy
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Nicole Yershon began her career in advertising 25 years ago at Simons Palmer and GGT, two of London’s most renowned creative agencies. In 2000, Nicole joined Ogilvy London with a brief from the Chairman to ‘bring the agency into the 21st century.’
Consolidated in 2007 into the Ogilvy Digital Innovation Lab (part of a worldwide network), the agency’s innovation activities have seen Nicole build partnerships between industries and across media channels to fuel unprecedented creative campaigns, and educate, both within the agency and beyond, speaking at global conferences and building clients Labs of their own.
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Mark Malone, Managing Director of Grape Digital
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Starting his career as a print designer in the film industry working his way up quickly to account director and one of the first to identify the huge benefits of Social Media for marketing and the brands that implement it. Founding Grape Digital in early 2009 to fill the gap for expertise in Social Media Marketing. Grape is now 25 people strong and working out of their very own East London pub. You won’t find anything more social than a pub for a social media company.
Grape work on many global brands from Social Media management through to full digital campaigns and Mark is one of the foremost authorities in Social Media especially when it comes to using it as an ever growing tool for marketing.
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Tony Williams, Executive Director for Economy at Bournemouth Borough Council
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Tony is responsible for the leading the work of the Council on expanding the creative sector in Bournemouth. Recognising the strong aptitude for the Arts that Bournemouth has, Tony is working on developing Bournemouth’s already enviable reputation in the design world for producing innovative and forward thinking graduates and agencies and ensuring that creatives in the area are supported in their work.
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Jeff Dodds, Executive Director, Brand and Marketing, Virgin Media
Jeff’s insight into brands and how to portray them to achieve astounding marketing results has made him an absolute leader in his field. Prior to his role at Virgin Media, Jeff has been the marketing chief for car giant Honda and director of brand for Callaway Golf. He is a regular contributor to the marketing and business press and as well as having an MBA and an MSc in International Marketing he is currently studying for a Doctorate in the area of branding and brand advocacy at Bournemouth University.
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Tim Malbon, Director of Made By Many
Tim has been creating innovative online community stuff since 2000 and was recently named as one of Revolution Magazine’s ‘Future 50′ – one of the the ‘marketers, authors, entrepreneurs, and thinkers who will shape the digital industry of tomorrow.’
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Michael McClary, Business Development Manager for Digital Solutions, Microsoft
Michael joined Microsoft back in 2006 after spending nearly ten years as a freelance trainer in web and database development. No longer ‘technical’, he specialises these days in using a combination of direct business development, presentations and marketing to drive digital and creative solutions with major UK brands. He’s always on the lookout for original thought and surprising uses of new technology.
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Mike Jones, Platform Evangelist – Game Development, Adobe
Prior to joining Adobe, Mike ran his own technical consultancy helping organisations design, develop and deploy Rich Internet Applications leveraging the Flash Platform. He is a published author and international speaker. When not blogging, tweeting, writing code or speaking at various conferences, he can usually be found, XBox controller firmly in hand, playing Call of Duty. Mike lives in Haslemere, Surrey with his wife, daughter and ‘coding’ cat, Jpeg.
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Systems and Software Manager, C4L
Andrew is responsible for creating and developing virtualisation and cloud computing solutions to suit C4L’s diverse client base. Prior to working for C4L, he worked at Deverill as a Senior Technical Consultant, offering customers a consultancy service in which he would identify and select the most appropriate solution to suit the customer’s requirements.
Andrew has been working in the industry for over 10 years, acquiring a wealth of IT knowledge which has been utilised in developing these solutions and is considered an expert within the technical field.
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Mary Hamilton
Mary Hamilton is a storyteller, news junkie, technophile, zombie herder, coffee drinker and all-round nerd with social skills, who occasionally commits random acts of journalism. By day she is the Guardian’s SEO subeditor, ritually doing obscure and possibly evil things to attract the attention of Google.
By night Mary runs the UK’s only bespoke portable zombie apocalpypse in the form of Zombie LARP. She is fairly familiar with the internal workings of various forms of toy gun and has usually formed a plan for escape in the case of zombie invasion within 3 minutes of entering a building.