Ross Simmonds is the founder of Foundation and is a marketer passionate about all things tech. Over the last 10 years, Ross has worked closely with a wide range of brands across the globe ranging from Fortune 500 companies to up-and-coming startups. He’s been published in Forbes, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Venture Beat, BET, CBC, Social Media Examiner and more. Ross is known for his work in growth marketing, Slideshare, Instagram and digital marketing as a whole. He was named in Mashable as one of the top Snapchat marketers in the world, and he has shared his thoughts on marketing and tech around the globe at conferences and events, such as SearchLove, CTAConf, MozCon and more.

Michael Seaman is the CEO and founder of Raccoon Events - a dynamic, high-growth media business focused on health and wellbeing markets. Mike has worked in events for over 18 years and he's passionate about creating experiences that are community-led, cutting edge, and fun. Michael and his team run events that are well-timed, community-driven, tightly focused and passion-led. Raccoon aims to bring buyers and sellers together to see cutting edge innovations in a fun and exciting way.

A commercially focussed business leader, with a robust understanding of both the public and private sector, Lisa is founder and managing director of Unwritten Group, which provides a plug-in strategic marketing service to help businesses grow, and Fabric Academy.

Kashif Naqshbandi is Chief Marketing Officer at Tenth Revolution Group and comes with over 20 years’ experience within the recruitment industry. He takes the lead on product brand marketing strategies including market development, candidate acquisition, client and lead generation and customer experience. Kashif’s work on market focus and identifying opportunities for expansion has been crucial to Tenth Revolution Group's ongoing international success.

A passionate ambassador of the global events community for almost 14 years, Chloe Richardson spends her day-to-day championing the impact and value of corporate events all over the world. Over her career, Chloe has learned that effective event measurement is critical. The number of attendees, or revenue generated, is just not enough of a metric to measure the true success of your event and meetings program - and getting insights on the perception, behaviour, trends and expectations of your attendees is the real strategic KPI. A member of the EN 30under30 class of 2020 and judge for 2021, Chloe was featured as one of the Most Influential Women in the Events Industry and one of the Most Influential People in Virtual Events.

Juliet Tripp is Group Strategy Director at Make Events, driving and delivering the strategic objectives of the agency and its brands. The go-to coach for senior level event professionals, Juliet empowers them to level up and make it happen within their events careers, businesses and personal brands. In 2021 Juliet was featured on C&IT’s Corporate A List as one of the 20 Top Corporate Event Planners in the UK.

Derek Annan is currently the Head of Strategy at Bedrock Healthcare Communications, part of the Resonant Group. Derek has been in the medical communication industry for over 12 years with extensive experience in ensuring strategic programs are created and implemented according to the agency’s quality standards, program deadlines, and measurable objectives. Derek is passionate about helping to improve patient outcomes and the development of innovative strategies that support this.

Jennifer Stotts is Senior Marketing Manager for Customer Engagement Events at Springer Nature. She leads the Americas team to develop B2B and B2C event programing to the global scientific research community, focusing on Academic, Corporate and Commercial markets.

As Slido’s Events and Partnership Manager, Lisa Johannsen runs Slido’s events and webinars and partners with conferences and tradeshows around the world that are harnessing the power of Slido at their events. Lisa is on a mission to inspire event managers and organizers to run engaging, meaningful and inclusive events.

Listed as one of the most influential disabled people in the UK, Mark Webb is a public speaker and campaigner for all things disability and diversity.

Andrew Dipper is Head of Marketing at streamGo, a leading virtual and hybrid events platform. Andrew is an award-winning marketing leader with over 10 years of experience managing multifunctional marketing teams in SMEs and agencies. His work at streamGo focuses on customer engagement, lead generation and brand engagement. 

Joseph Charlton has been producing events for the last 8 years agency side mainly corporate B2B, events from 50 up to 5000 nationally and internationally. He launched his first business in August 2020 and most recently launched his second, Planit in June 2021. Joseph is passionate about transparency, authenticity and empathetic leadership and his mission is to create a new way of working in the event industry.

Kareem Mostafa is co-founder at chopcast, a content repurposing platform that helps you automatically turn event content into clips for social based on key moments. Kareem has personally worked with Fortune500 companies and startups to help them make the most of their event, webinar and conference content.

As Explori's Corporate Relationship Manager, Alex works with corporate event leaders worldwide, helping them to harness their data to build a more robust and effective event measurement program that proves the impact of their events and helps drive strategic, insight-based, decision making.

Beverley Warrington is a qualified Transformational Life Coach and Mindfulness Teacher and is passionate about helping others achieve their dreams. She set up Being You to help people be more creative and improve their wellbeing along the way.