This Year's Speaker Line-Up
The 2020 conference played host to sessions conducted by some of the industry's leading IT thought leaders and experts.
Guest Speakers
Andrew Vorster
Innovation Catalyst and Fractional Futurist
With over 30 years of identifying and tracking technology trends and business behaviours across a wide variety of industries, Andrew's colourful and engaging storytelling helps businesses to harness the current pace of change, identify the opportunities it presents and stimulate transformation. In his roles as innovation catalyst, start-up and business strategy adviser, Andrew has worked with media, technology, financial and blockchain organisations to prepare them for the future of their business success today.
Simon Blagden CBE
Chairman, Larkspur International.
Simon Blagden has 30 years experience in the IT, Telecoms and Digital industry. In June 2019 he stepped-down as non-executive Director at Fujitsu UK having been at the company for 14 years. Simon is currently Chairman of Larkspur International, non-executive Chairman at AES Engineering Ltd and non-executive director at IMI Mobile Plc and Principle Global Ltd. He is also Industry Chairman of the Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Group (All Party Parliamentary Group).
Julian Keetch
Currently a Business Manager in HPE’s Hybrid IT infrastructure team in the UKI, Julian has over 30-years’ experience working in Information Technology spanning a broad spectrum of roles from partner account management to factory production planning and business analytics. Since 2002, Julian has been instrumental in driving HPE ProLiant x86 Servers to their marketing leading position within the UKI market.
Mark Dempsey
HP UKI & I Sustainability Manager
“Sustainable Impact has been a core principle of HP since its founding, and today it is at the heart of how we do business. Our efforts have earned us recognition as one of the world’s most sustainable companies.”
James Clark
UK&I Workstation Technologist at Lenovo
Ian Stuart
Education Professional at Microsoft
Mark Rowland
Senior Product Marketing Manager - Surface SMB & Education at Microsoft
Tim Hearn
Director, VMware Cloud on AWS, Northern Europe
Rob Rance
Client Solutions Sales Specialist at Dell
Jackie Candlish
Head of Public Sector Sales UK at Jabra
Claire Dutton
Head of Corporate Sales UK & Ireland at Poly
Simon Burton
Account Executive at Dell EMC
Richard Trestain
Product Marketing Manager - EMEA North at Jabra
Jonathan Clark
Regional Product Marketing Manager EMEA, Poly
Rojan Modir
Adobe Sign Business Development Manager
Charlie Smith
Consulting Solution Engineer, Data Protection at Barracuda
Tim Smithson
Multi-Cloud Business Leader at Nutanix
Jeffrey Jackson
Sr Director & Principal Engineer - Internet of Things Group at Intel
Jonathan Lee
UK Director of Public Sector Relations/UK Director of Public Sector Sales at Sophos
Craig Robertson
Head of Channel Sales, UK&I at Pure Storage
Matt Elrick
Lead Architect – Productivity & Collaboration,
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Tom Barney
Senior E-Business Manager
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Jeremy Page
Go-To-Market Marketing Manager
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Santo Orlando
EMEA Cloud Technology Lead
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Wes Platel
UK Digital Innovation Lead
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Howard Daws
Head of Software Lifecycle Services, SAM and technology partnerships
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John Barrins
EMEA IoT and Mixed Reality Lead - Digital Innovation
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Charlotte Davis
Cyber Security Lead UK & EMEA
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Phil Hawkshaw
Director of Technology
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Craig Lewis
Apple Business Development Manager
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Phil Moore
Digital Innovation Lead - Public Sector
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Anna Home
EMEA Sales Enablement Lead
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Richard Hodgkins
Sales Manager - UK Police
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Gary Judge
Executive Account Manager
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Yoni Ramaswami
EMEA Tech Lead Data & AI - Digital Innovation
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