November 14-16, 2018 QEII Conference Centre, London

June Sarpong MBE is one of the most recognisable British television presenters and broadcasters. She’s also the co-founder of the WIE Network (Women:Inspiration and Enterprise) and author of Diversify and The Power of Women.

Ian is Planning Director at Facebook. He was the first comms planner at Facebook globally. Prior to this, Ian spent 14 years working as the head of strategy at some of the biggest agencies in London working on accounts as diverse as the Government, Lloyds Banking Group, Virgin Money, The National Lottery, AB Inbev, P&G, The Post Office Financial Service, Hiscox Insurance, IKEA, Orange, Diageo, Coca-Cola among others. Ian has recently had his paper “I believe in the Darwinian Evolution of brands” published in the book “What is a 21st Century Brand? New thinking from the next generation of agency leaders”. He also writes for Admap and the Huffington Post.

Betsy Fast joined Hearst UK in April 2017 in the newly created role of Executive Director of Digital Editorial Strategy, Hearst Digital Media. Her remit is to cultivate editorial excellence and drive digital audience growth across 13 of Hearst UK’s websites, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Digital Spy and Esquire.

Before relocating to London for her new role, Betsy served as Partnerships Director for Hearst Digital Media in the U.S., where she led Hearst’s ongoing partnership with A+E Networks. Prior to that, she spent four years as site director of Seventeen.com. Under her leadership, Seventeen’s site traffic grew to over four million unique monthly visitors and climbed to the number one spot in ComScore’s teen category.

Betsy has extensive editorial experience. Before joining Hearst she was Editor-in-Chief at Dosomething.org – one of the largest organisations supporting teens and social change in America – where she turned around performance and dramatically improved revenue streams. Before completing five years as a Senior Editor at Instyle.com, Betsy cut her teeth on Bauer Publishing teenage titles; Twist and J-14.

Dan is a Group Director at Facebook with commercial responsibilities across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. He leads several teams partnering with many of the world’s leading brands across multiple sectors to drive business results across the Facebook family of apps and services. In the past 6 years Dan has played a key role in building Facebook’s UK team, growing its advertising business and setting its go-to-market strategy.

He began his career at The Guardian where he spent 3 years before moving to the world’s leading out-of-home advertising company JCDecaux. As a Business Director he helped to launch their rail and retail propositions whilst overseeing many of the company’s leading agency and client partnerships.

In his spare time Dan loves spending time with his family and a healthy mix of yoga, video games, Spotify, Nottingham Forest and the occasional box set binge.

As the founding member of Reddit’s Brand Strategy team, Joe has paved the way for ad creative on Reddit with campaigns like Audi’s Think Faster series and Wieden+Kennedy’s Cozmo Lost in Reddit. Having led social media teams at Energy BBDO and Ketchum PR, his campaigns have performed among the top 95th percentile in Facebook advertising studies. With an anthropological approach to social media, Joe’s expertise is in finding the most impactful, organic ways to build affinity between brands and communities.

A serial social entrepreneur, Annika Small is co-founder of CAST, a non-profit that accelerates the use of digital technology to drive social change. Age UK, Breast Cancer Care, Centrepoint, Action for Children, Safe Lives, National Childbirth Trust and Parkinsons UK are among hundreds of charities supported by CAST to improve their service delivery.

Prior to CAST, Annika was founding CEO of Nominet Trust, which, under her leadership, invested more than £50m in early-stage ventures that deploy technology for social innovation. Before this, Annika founded Generation Global, which is now operational in 27 countries, bringing together young people from different cultures to learn directly with, from and about each other. Previously Annika was CEO of Futurelab, which uses digital technology to open up education to some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people around the world.

Annika is a trustee of Access, the social investment foundation; a trustee of the John Ellerman Foundation; a non-executive director of Lightful; and a member of the UK government’s Social Action Taskforce. Annika was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours for services to social innovation and digital technology.

Best known as an actor/writer on TV shows such as I’m Alan Partridge and The Day Today, David Schneider set up That Lot with David Levin in 2013. With around 400,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter, David brings his vast experience as a writer and director of TV and film to That Lot’s video output, as well as supervising its topical, satirical content, such as the Twitter and Facebook feeds for Have I Got News For You. David recently directed Channel 4’s groundbreaking Snapchat drama (a world first) to accompany their new show Ackley Bridge, and remains active in the world of TV and film. He is presently directing the third series of Josh for the BBC, and his latest movie, The Death Of Stalin, co-written with Armando Iannucci, premieres in October.

Bogdana is in charge of Poke London’s strategic output leading its strategy and data analysis teams. Before joining Poke, Bogdana worked as an Industry Manager at Google. Her experience includes work with leading brands in telecommunications, manufacturing and retail, having delivered work for EE, Nestle, Heineken, Coca-Cola and others. Her interests include paradigmatic changes in the field of content management systems, the semiotics of social media interaction and the wider field of service design.

Saskia started her career at social and digital agency, Deep Focus London, where she cut her teeth on providing strategic insight and measurement for clients such as Tesco Mobile, Renault & Sky.

During her five years at BBH, she’s built up the social and digital data offering. In doing so, developed world first brand measurement and embedded data and insight all the way through the creative process, informing and optimising our most effective and award winning work, across Tesco, KFC & Virgin Media.

Shaun W. Keaveny is the current host of BBC Radio 6 Music’s Breakfast Show where over one million people a week listen to his mix of irreverent humour, middle age shout-outs and “seemingly limitless supply of audio clips of Jeremy Vine” (inews.co.uk). Shaun is also an accomplished stand up comedian and has recently hosted his very own original podcast series – Show and Tell – for Spotify.

Tara O’Donnell has 20 years of consumer and corporate communications experience and joined Text100 UK in 2014 as Managing Director. In addition to managing the business, Tara is the global client lead for Kodak Alaris and Lebara. Prior to joining Text100 UK, Tara launched and led Text100͚s North American consumer practice for 8 years which included crafting strategies and providing counsel for clients such as MTV, Shazam, British Airways, Vimeo, KAYAK.com and many others. Immediately before joining Text 100, Tara spent five years leading North American Corporate Communications for Samsung Electronics, playing a pivotal role in shaping Samsung͚’s brand identity as a digital technology leader in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Jason Miller leads global content and social media marketing initiatives for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions helping marketers understand how to use LinkedIn to achieve their marketing goals and deliver real ROI. He is the author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller Welcome to the Funnel. Previously he was the senior manager of social media strategy at Marketo and responsible for leading the company’s global content and social media efforts. Before entering the B2B space, he spent ten years at Sony developing and executing marketing campaigns around the biggest names in music. When he is not building campaigns, creating remarkable content, and tracking the ROI of social, he is winning awards as a concert photographer, singing 80’s metal karaoke, and winning at Seinfeld trivia.