Speakers
Kelvin Newman - Chief Cat Herder, BrightonSEO & Strategy Director, SiteVisbility
Telling bad jokes and introducing speakers
As well as chief cat herder at BrightonSEO, Kelvin is the presenter of Internet Marketing, the world's most popular marketing podcast in iTunes, Strategy Director at SiteVisibility.
A while ago he wrote 'Becoming a Clockwork Pirate' a free ebook about link building. Kelvin also feels a bit of a tit referring to himself in the third person but that is the convention for these things right?
https://twitter.com/kelvinnewman
Kevin Gibbons - Director of Strategy, SEOptimise
20 Tools You May Not Have Heard Of, But Should Be Using
Kevin Gibbons, founder of SEOptimise, has presented at a number of industry conferences both in the UK and Europe.
He also frequently writes for sites such as Econsultancy, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch.
Dom Hodgson - CEO, EmberAds
Mystery Talk
Dom Hodgson is CEO of EmberAds, a brand new startup which is going to make online advertising a bit less rubbish.
Dom Hodgson is Head of Jelly Babies of Click N Mix, a fantastic way to buy sweets online
Dom Hodgson runs the awesome Think Visibility conference which Kelvin has said he is allowed to plug three times and that's it....
Nichola Stott - Founder & Director, theMediaFlow
Mobile Serendipity: How Google Plans to Send Search Results to Users, Before You've Even Thought to Look
Nichola has worked in online communications for fifteen years, eight of which in search; having spent five years at Yahoo! as head of UK search partners prior to founding theMediaFlow in 2009.
theMediaFlow is a boutique SEO agency providing high quality SEO solutions to UK businesses in highly competitive sectors.
Nichola is an active member of the SEO community regularly speaking at conferences and writing for Search Engine Watch, State of Search and SEO Chicks.
http://twitter.com/NicholaStott
Philip Sheldrake - Consultant, Author and Prime Number Fan, Meanwhile
Future SEO Vistas – the Semantic Web and the Internet of Things
Author of The Business of Influence (Wiley 2011).
Built a number of business, some of which worked out all right.
Ran the UK's first Internet of Things conference.
Samantha Noble - Digital Marketing Director, Koozai
How to launch or re-launch a brand or product online effectively
I am the Digital Marketing Director at Koozai, a UK Digital Marketing Agency based in London & Southampton. Our main specialisms are SEO, PPC, Brand and Social Media.
I have worked for Koozai for just over three years now but have been in the marketing industry for 9 years.
https://twitter.com/koozai_sam
Chelsea Blacker - Search Manager, SEOptimise
Sell the Sizzle, Not The Search: Tactics for Appeasing Marketing Directors
At SEOptimise, Chelsea is a Search Manager in the London office.
Chelsea has been working in search since the Big Daddy update, beginning at an integrated agency in New York City.
During this time, Chelsea has utilised her digital background to assist new business pitches.
http://www.twitter.com/chelseablacker
Glenn Jones - Founder/Director, Madgex
Microformats and SEO
Glenn Jones is a Founder/Director of Madgex. After 20 years in digital design he is equally as passionate about coding as interaction design.
He is currently addicted to exploring the semantic mark-up and data portability. He is an active member of the Microformats community and vocal developer in the area of reusing social media data. As well many international talks, Glenn builds website and software to demonstrate the power of semantic mark-up.
https://twitter.com/glennjones
Lexi Mills - Online PR Consultant, Distilled
How you can get BIG links from BIG media sites
Lexi Mills first discovered online PR through the music and nightlife industry. Since then she has worked a variety of SMEs and large corporate companies, covering everything from technology and travel to debt management.
Natural born enthusiast for all things creative she can generally be found at the nearest swing set, theatre or art gallery.
James Carson - Bauer Media
Rel="canonical" - What's the Beef?
I went to York Uni and studied English and History, then I became a copywriter and learned about this thing called SEO.
Now six years and four jobs later (working agency, inhouse and some big brands) I feel like I'm growing up, and I've added a few more skills than copywriting to my repertoire. I'm now a digital content strategist at Bauer Media working on FHM, Grazia, heat and Closer, although it seems to change quite regularly.
James Owen - SEO Manager, Hotels.com
Maximizing your SEO Agencies
Maximizing your SEO agencies is the key to a high ROI, little preparation will eat into your ROI long term.
I will be exploring the steps Hotels.com go through in preparation to work with a new SEO agency.
Charlie Peverett - Content Strategist, iCrossing UK
It's only words? Working with Content Strategy
Charlie's a web editor and writer who's equally fed up writing lovingly-crafted words that no-one reads as he is shifting copy for robots.
He joined iCrossing in 2007 as a journalist, and has worked as a content strategist since 2009, with brands such as Visit Wales and Virgin Atlantic.
He runs the Brighton Content Strategy Meetup and is co-author of the iCrossing ebook 'How to plan a content strategy: a guide for online marketers'.
Tony King - Head of Search Marketing, FindaProperty.com
Enterprise SEO Titties
Working with clients such as The Digital Property Group, Orion Publishing, The Daily Mail, Jobsite and ITV, I have over a decade of digital marketing experience across a variety of markets.
Specialising in enterprise level SEO, I have been developing digital strategies for FindaProperty.com since 2005 and more recently focused on the wider SEM portfolio strategy for the Digital Property Group, incorporating additional brands including PrimeLocation.com and Globrix.com
As a creative and strategic thinker, I enjoy tackling the plethora of challenges regularly presented in the huge, ever growing, pulsating industry we know as 'search'.
https://twitter.com/toastedteacake
Adam Lee - Managing Director, No Pork Pies
Killer Market Research for Peanuts
Adam's work within both on and offline marketing over the past 9 years have lead to a passion for integration between mediums to create an overall synergy.
Having worked for large brands such as the RAC, Revlon, Samsung, Thomson Local, Claims Direct and 2K Games, Adam has a vast amount of experience of working on Search and Social Media project for large and small clients.
This experience and passion lead to the creation of No Pork Pies 2 years ago, an integrated Social Media Agency.
https://twitter.com/noporkpies
Craig Lister - Client Services Director, Jellyfish
SEO & PPC Working Together in Harmony
Started making the tea and sharpening pencils in direct marketing agencies in the 1990s and then via being employee number 3 and Head of Market Development at Righmove.co.uk moved into search in 2001 and has leapt out of bed to work ever since.
www.twitter.com/jellyfishagency
Roland Dunn - Partner, Refined Practice, Freelance digital bloke, Cloud Shapes.
Searchbots: Lost Children or Hungry Psychopaths? What Do Searchbots Actually Do?
Worked in natural search for six years, engaging with high-street retailers and media companies through to small on and offline businesses. Specialise in relevance analysis and reputation development.
I regularly fiddle with technology, most recently experimenting with how to make large sets of data more accessible and interesting (possibly even exciting)
https://twitter.com/roland_dunn
Gary Preston - Strategy Director & Stefan Hull - Insight Director, Propellernet
Search marketing - from Panda to Black Swan
Gary has more than 10 years' search marketing experience and is one of the brains behind award-winning campaigns (six in the past two years alone) for our clients.
Stefan has two years' search marketing experience but a further 15 years or so experience working across a number of industries (from law and journalism, to education and leisure).
