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In just three years at Dyson, Kate has risen from the role of global commercial manager of personal care to be the global head of social media. During this time, she successfully identified a gap in the business and filled it through creating a new social media function that leverages social listening insights and influencer relationships and effectively and brings together paid, owned and earned social to further develop the Dyson community.

Hear from Kate during an interview on the Brands Leader stage where she’ll underscore her commitment to a ‘learn quickly, fail fast’ approach to better knowing yourself as a marketer and your business and driving positive impact. She’ll also offer her thoughts on the industry as it stands today and projections as to what the future holds.

Leisha Santorelli is a senior BBC News journalist working across television, online and radio. She looks after the BBC World Service partnership with America’s biggest business programme, Marketplace, after having covered the Asia Pacific region for over a decade.

She has been deployed to cover some of the world’s biggest news stories, including the aftermath of Philippines Typhoon Haiyan and the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Leisha previously worked at Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong.

She received her degree in Comparative Literature and African Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Leisha lives in London with her husband Tom and a British shorthair cat called Mochi.

Dani Hughes is currently interim Head of Planning and Performance at the British Heart Foundation (BHF), this role sits within the Fundraising Strategy team which helps to drive forward excellence in planning, monitoring and evaluating across the portfolio of products, this directorate raises £121m per year to help fund life saving research.

Before this, Hughes was in Senior Strategist and Digital Marketing Manager roles at the BHF, during this time she stepped out of the charity sector and took on a Digital Marketing role at Frame – a class based fitness studio with 6 locations in London. Taking back to BHF the learnings from a fast paced start up environment to also set up lunch time meditation sessions for her team.

Dani has also been featured in the Drum’s Future 50 brand marketers and the 50 under 30 women in digital as well as Just Giving’s top 10 guest bloggers of 2017.

Leisha Santorelli is a senior BBC News journalist working across television, online and radio. She looks after the BBC World Service partnership with America’s biggest business programme, Marketplace, after having covered the Asia Pacific region for over a decade.

She has been deployed to cover some of the world’s biggest news stories, including the aftermath of Philippines Typhoon Haiyan and the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Leisha previously worked at Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong.

She received her degree in Comparative Literature and African Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Leisha lives in London with her husband Tom and a British shorthair cat called Mochi.

Alice’s career spans 10 years in high-growth businesses, and most recently three years at Europe’s fastest-growing company, Deliveroo. She describes herself and the company as “growing up together,” and she’s proud to be part of the team that’s propelled the brand through such astonishing growth.

Alongside her day job, Alice has a professional side-hustle as a personal development enthusiast – she’s on a mission to “make personal development mainstream.” Alice dedicates one working day a week to this alongside her role as a Senior Manager for regional marketing at Deliveroo. Alice found this calling after discovering the transformation impact that personal development can have on The Marketing Academy Scholarship – this inspired her to share its magic with others through speaking, training, writing and blogging.

Prior to Deliveroo, Alice enjoyed a varied career with stints in a wide variety of businesses, including FTSE 100 Whitbread and ‘agency-side’ at The Chartered Institute of Marketing’s 2014 Agency of the year, Cherry London. She’s gone full circle having begun her career starting up the business of ‘photographer to the stars’, Terry O’Neill.

Leisha Santorelli is a senior BBC News journalist working across television, online and radio. She looks after the BBC World Service partnership with America’s biggest business programme, Marketplace, after having covered the Asia Pacific region for over a decade.

She has been deployed to cover some of the world’s biggest news stories, including the aftermath of Philippines Typhoon Haiyan and the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Leisha previously worked at Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong.

She received her degree in Comparative Literature and African Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Leisha lives in London with her husband Tom and a British shorthair cat called Mochi.