Speakers
Speakers
James Clifton, COO at EVRYTHNG
James is the COO at EVRYTHNG. Prior to joining EVRYTHNG, James was the MD at Masher, a venture backed video service that was spun out of BBC Worldwide. James has also held senior executive positions at leading global digital agencies, including Board Strategy Director at AKQA and European Planning Director at Agency.com/TBWA, where he advised Fortune 500 companies including Nike, News International and British Airways. James was also the CEO & Founder of Memmo, a mobile tagging service. James is a recognised industry thought leader and has written numerous pieces for publications including Contagious and the FT, been a keynote speaker at the Cannes International Advertising Festival and was ranked as one of the Top 5 digital strategists by Campaign Magazine.
Omid Ashtari, Business Development Foursquare
Omid Ashtari is Director of Business Development for foursquare and is focused on expanding the European footprint through strategic partnerships. Before joining foursquare, Omid spent 7 years with Google in Dublin, London and San Francisco. During his Google tenure he held multiple positions in sales and business development, working with a broad range of clients and partners across the globe. Omid holds a bachelor's degree in European Business Administration from Cologne Business School Germany and graduated with Honors. He is currently based in London, UK.
Chris Gorell Barnes, Founder and CEO of Adjust Your Set (Showcase)
Adjust Your Set is the leading full-service creative agency specialising in branded video content across multiple channels including online, mobile, connected TV and in-store. Founded in 2008, Adjust Your Set delivers an end-to-end service covering strategy, creative ideas, technical and video production as well as analytics and syndication services across owned, paid and earned media. Adjust Your Set clients include Marks & Spencer, Thomas Pink, Debenhams, British Airways, M&S Money (HSBC) and Liz Earle. As well as the founder and CEO of Adjust Your Set, Chris Gorell Barnes is also non-exec director of Eagle Eye Solutions, the leaders in mobile vouchers and coupons for retailers and the co-founder of the Blue Marine Foundation, a body set up to fund the creation of a global network of marine reserves.
Andy McCormick, Editor of Innovation at UtalkMarketing
Andy has spent the last eight years covering the impact of digital on business and society. He joined us in December 2011 as Editor for Innovation to launch 12ahead. Andy was previously editor of Revolution magazine and deputy editor of Marketing.
Tim Brooks, Executive Fellow at London Business School and ex MD of Guardian News & Media
Tim Brooks is Executive Fellow in the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. His consultancy, 2Riders Consulting, works with companies and senior leaders in the media and related sector. 25 years of running media businesses (beginning with his own start-up) have included 6 years on the board of IPC Media, and, for the past five years, as Managing Director of Guardian News & Media, during which time he was also Chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association.
Gideon Lask CEO and Founder of BuyaPowa (Showcase)
BuyaPowa.com was founded by Gideon Lask in January 2011. It's a pioneer in the social commerce space - bring e-commerce and online marketing together. The've taken the offline model of co-buying and brought it online. Their pricing model is dynamic so the price drops as more people join the deal. By grouping individual consumers together in to the same transaction they are giving them access to 'wholesale pricing'. It's the first buying model to succeed in getting customers to share as buyers are motivated to bring in others buyers so that the price drops for everyone. Each co-buy generates a huge amount of buzz for the product and the brand involved.
Colin Cook, Director of Marketing The British Army
Colin Cook is Marketing Director, British Army Recruitment, responsible for attracting up to 20,000 Soldiers and Officers every year to full and spare time roles. In that role, he has won over 30 national and international marketing awards, many of which were for the Start Thinking Soldier campaign that fused on and offline media and pioneered the use of social media and online gaming within recruitment marketing. The Army's recruiting website has been recognised as the Best Large Employer Site in the National Online Recruitment Awards for the past 3 years.
Azeem Azhar Founder & CEO at PeerIndex (Showcase)
PeerIndex measures your status and reputation across the social web. The social ranking service that won The Grand Prix award at this year's Europas offers insights for social media users and brands about topic communities and influencers. Your reputation (or ‘social capital’) is calculated by looking at various factors including how your ideas and opinions spread, how other people interact with you, how interesting other people find your content, and the quality of your engaged network. Most importantly PeerIndex looks at how authoritative and interesting other people think you are, as well as what topics and categories drive that interest.
Chris Bibby, Direct Marketing & CRM Director at Virgin Media
Christopher Bibby is Virgin Media’s Direct Marketing & CRM Director, responsible for all direct marketing across the company’s products and services. Chris’ key responsibilities include all acquisition Direct Response communication, cross-sell and upsell, driving customer loyalty and education and overseeing all Virgin Media’s customer service communications. Chris has been with Virgin Media for five years, helping re-brand and launch the new company in 2007. Prior to Virgin Media, Chris was at Loyalty Partner GmbH in Munich and held a key role in the Payback Loyalty scheme, Europe’s largest customer loyalty scheme.
Donna Kelly, co-founder Dressipi (Showcase)
Dressipi is a unique new way to shop 1000's of brands to ensure you look and feel fabulous always. We make carefully edited style recommendations that are tailored specifically to you. It's like having the luxury of a personal stylist 24/7 - for free. Donna North is a seasoned digital media expert, and prior to co-founding Dressipi was Head of EMEA, IMG Digital where she oversaw all the digital media strategy and operations across the breadth of IMG clients and IMG companies in the areas of Fashion, Entertainment, Sport and Social Networks. Multi-award winning, she has a proven track record in the development and launch of new initiatives.
Sarah McVittie, co-founder Dressipi (Showcase)
Prior to co-founding Dressipi, Sarah was the co-founder and CEO of Texperts the world’s first text message question answering service. The company won numerous awards for its concept and technology. In 2008 the company was sold to KGB, owners of the 118118 directory enquiries service, in a multi-million pound deal. The Times recently called Sarah one of the UK’s “top rising female entrepreneurs”, and she was named by Management Today magazine as one of the top 35 female entrepreneurs under the age of 35.
Russ Hall, co-founder Hailo (Showcase)
Founded by three London cabbies and three tech entrepreneurs, Hailo is a new mobile app and driver network that enables Londoners to hail licensed black cabs with ‘just two taps’ from practically anywhere. No more flailing in the cold and rain, trying their luck with cab roulette. Customers can use cash, cards or account and pay just the meter, with no hidden or extra fees. Hailo cabs arrive (and even wait for 5 minutes) before turning on the meter. For London’s 23,000 black cabbies, the Hailo app is a real driver’s companion – offering jobs, credit card processing, private stats, driver-generated traffic/demand alerts and social features. The Hailo app is free to download for both passengers and drivers. http://hailocab.com
Anna Bateson, Director of Marketing YouTube, EMEA
Anna Bateson is Marketing Director forYouTube, in EMEA. Prior to joining Google she was Viewer Marketing Director at ITV, for 3 years, and before that at MTV. Previously to MTV she worked at Artsworld, WGSN and Bloomberg.
Peter Briffett, MD UK, LivingSocial
Peter oversees LivingSocial’s UK and Ireland markets, communicating LivingSocial's core strategy and overseeing growth as the next great consumer brand. Based in London, Peter is responsible for LivingSocial’s numerous markets in the UK and has developed a strong footprint in the UK group-buying space. Prior to LivingSocial, Peter developed a number of startups including VoIP company Howler Technologies, Gissing Software, and iView Multimedia where as CEO Peter oversaw its acquisition by Microsoft.
NIALL MCKINNEY, CEO & FOUNDER of UTALKMARKETING.COM
Niall is the Founder and CEO of UTalkMarketing.com, the largest website for marketers in Europe and leading digital training provider. Niall started his career in brand management at P&G but was sucked rapidly into the dotcom boom where he was involved in launching an early version of Myspace in 2000. He was a Marketing Director at the age of 24 at Time Warner UK where he oversaw the launch of Europe’s biggest selling men’s magazine. He then joined Travelocity Europe as CMO, and had a seat on the main board of this $2 billion turnover company.
Anna Rafferty, MD Penguin Digital
Anna Rafferty is responsible for Penguin Books' UK's award-winning websites, digital marketing and digital publishing including penguin.co.uk, puffin.co.uk, penguinclassics.co.uk and spinebreakers.co.uk as well as Penguin's eBooks, apps (like MyFry, Baby Touch Peekaboo, and Spot Goes to School), games, interactive reading and all sorts of other, new, imaginative story-telling tools.
Ottokar Rosenberger UK Country Manager, eHarmony
Austrian native Ottokar Rosenberger joined relationship site eHarmony in October 2010 as the UK Country Manager. His objective is to make this iconic brand as famous and more importantly as successful in the UK as it is in America, where the company is responsible for almost 5% of all marriages – that’s an average of 542 people getting married every day.
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