Social Media ‘09
Social Media '09 is the UK's seminal social media event for professionals working in marketing, PR, advertising & corporate communications. At Social Media '09 on the 12th November we're expecting over 200 of the UKs best & brightest individuals from a wide range of organisations to get together for an afternoon of learning, demos and sharing of best-practice. This event is a half-day 'masterclass'/conference that will provide marketing, advertising, PR and corporate communications executives with the know-how necessary to develop, execute and manage a social media strategy that delivers value. The event will run from 2pm til 6pm on the afternoon of ...
Sarah Beeny, Founder – Tepilo.com & Channel 4 presenter
Sarah Beeny is a Channel 4 television presenter on the popular Property Snakes and Ladders prime time show. As well as being a well established property mogul Sarah also owns mysinglefriend.com, a social dating website, has written numerous books, and has recently launched Tepilo.com, her new free to use property website, which offers practical advice and the ability to sell your property through design, negotiation and marketing.
Robin Wight, President – Engine Group
As President of both Engine and WCRS, Robin was part of the management team that led the management buyout from Havas in 2004. Robin began his career by setting up a student advertising agency while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. After working as a copywriter in a number of agencies including Collett Dickinson Pearce and Partners, he co–founded Wight Collins Rutherford Scott with Peter Scott in 1979. Though Robin Wight has spent his whole career in advertising, he has always had a number of outside interests. From 1982 to 1984, Robin served as the marketing adviser to the Right ...
Chris Thorpe, co-founder – Jaggeree
Since he gave up playing with really big computers as a research scientist Chris has been trying to find more and more excuses to play with really big computers powering web applications. He's been involved in projects as diverse as bringing Which? to an online audience, social worlds for 7-11 year olds, video archives of Nobel Prize winners telling their life stories, a James Bond premiere webcast and putting contemporary sculpture on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. He is a co-founder of Jaggeree which is a consultancy which works in the spaces and intersections around content, play, people and data.
Penelope Lipsham, Social Media Planner – Altogether Digital
Penelope joined Altogether Digital as a Social Media Planner in August 2009 with the remit to strategically plan Social Media campaigns based on consumer insight and behaviour for Altogether’s clients, which include Abbey, Sony Audio and Kleenex. Prior to this Penelope worked for 2 Years as a Social Media Specialist for Greenroom Digital / Momentum Worldwide, where she worked on a number of research, strategy and implementation campaigns for Entertainment brands.
Giles Rhys Jones, Director – Interactive Ogilvy Group
Giles works across the whole of Ogilvy Group clients helping to deliver on their promise of digital heart/discipline head. He helped set up the Ogilvy Innovation Lab and their branded content division; Ogilvy Entertainment. Previously he worked at Saatchi & Saatchi, Agency.com, co-founded Agency Republic & helped set up The Brand Company in Hong Kong. His blog, interactive marketingtrends.blogspot.com, is in the UK top 5 advertising blogs and in the top 20 Global advertising planning blogs. He is passionate about how advertising needs to change its process not just its product.
Giles Palmer, Founder & CEO – Brandwatch
Giles is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch. He has taken the company from an initial project to build a local search engine for the UK government to a social media analysis system that has customers all across the globe. Work started on Brandwatch in November 2004, and really accelerated when the Company raised external capital to develop the system in May 2006.
Paul Borge, Head of Digital – Consolidated PR
I help clients understand and engage with the online space around their organizations and brands. I specialise in creating and implementing clear and objective strategies that encompass the myriad digital and social media channels, along with traditional PR, experiential and ATL activities. I'm a firm believer in integration - breaking marketing and communications campaigns into discipline or channel-specific silos doesn't deliver impact.I've been in the PR industry for over ten years, with over five years of digital and social media experience. This includes search engine optimization and marketing; website development and management; video / audio content production; online PR; social ...
Toby Gunton, MD – Altogether Digital
Toby started his digital career at Haymarket publishing in 1997 where he set up a digital team and launched Autosport.com. He founded Backend London in 1999, sister agency to Deepend and Glue. He was a Director of digital agency Perception from 2001 before it’s acquisition by DC Interact in 2003 where he went on to hold the role of Managing Partner. After the merger of DC Interact, Meme and Eyefall to form Altogether Digital, Toby took on the role of Managing Director. Altogether work with brands including Abbey, Andrex, Sony, Kleenex, Vertu and Glenfiddich.
Mark Pack, Associate Director – MandateDigital
In June 2009 I joined Mandate Communications as an Associate Director, Digital, having previously been Head of Innovations at the Liberal Democrats.I am a Fellow of the RSA and have a history PhD from the University of York, looking at nineteenth century elections. I've appeared on many media outlets, including BBC News 24, Newsnight, The Westminster Hour and LBC, and spoken at many events and conferences on politics, electoral law and internet matters. I was a member of the Electoral Commission's Political Parties Panel 2000-2009.
Andrew Grill – Digital Strategy Consultant
Based in London, Andrew is an internationally renowned thought leader and keynote presenter in the field of digital and social media networks.A former resident of Sydney, for the last 4 years he has been active in the European market, and such he has a deep understanding of the digital, mobile and advertising space and is well connected to leading advertising agencies in London. He also sits on the UK Committee of the Mobile Marketing Association.
Social Media '09
Venue
Hyde Park Suite Thistle Marble Arch 55 Bryanston Street London W1H 7EHPlease note registration opens at 1.00pm
Social Media ‘09 is the UK’s seminal social media event for professionals working in the marketing, PR, advertising & corporate communications sectors. At Social Media ‘09 on the 12th November we’re expecting over 200 of the UKs best & brightest individuals from a wide range of organisations to get together for an afternoon of learning, demos and sharing of best-practice. This event is a half-day masterclass/conference that will provide marketing, advertising, PR and corporate communications executives with the know-how necessary to develop, execute and manage a... [Read more]
