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Eva Keogan considers herself a social media evangelist, with a healthy following on twitter and a high profile lifestyle blog focusing on her life in London. She belongs to handpickedmedia, the blogging community and is an active member of British Mummy bloggers, the pioneering group for blogging parents in the UK. She also writes for mumsrock, powderroom graffiti and good toy guide, among others. She is a corporate social media specialist by day and has recently completed a year long project to build the social media marketing efforts for lastminute.com from the ground up; the company was recently quoted in New Media Age predicting a £2m revenue stream from social media in 2010.

Flemming Madsen is the CEO and founder of Onalytica – a leading provider of forward-looking analytics. Flemming set up the company in 2004 with an initial focus on Social Network Analysis before shifting his attentions to the analysis of the online debate following an assignment with the UK Government’s COI. The company is now 26 strong following a recent heavy recruitment programme and continues to develop and enhance its solutions to support ambitious growth plans.

Prior to starting Onalytica, Flemming worked for a systems integrator in the defence industry and for the Danish Minister of Economics and Taxation.
 

Matthias came to Open Text through the acquisition of RedDot Solutions AG in 2006. He is currently working as a Solutions Consultant focusing on Web Content Management and Social Media. Prior to that, he headed the RedDot Field Marketing Team in EMEA and worked in the Open Text Web Solutions Product Marketing team. With more than 10 years in the Web business, Matthias always had a focus on Web technologies, Interactive applications and user experience. He started his career in Marketing and PR at CompuServe/AOL. After that, he joined TOMORROW FOCUS Technologies, a subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media, one of Germany’s largest publishing houses where he held the position as the Head of Marketing and PR.

Before co-founding full service digital agency Tangent One, Nick Gillett worked for market leading agencies in mobile marketing and online advertising. Prior to that he was launch ad manager for Guardian Unlimited.
 

Patricia Klein is a digital native, also with an extensive background in video production. She graduated in 1992 with Hons from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, School of Film and Television. She spearheaded digital and e-commerce in the mid-1990s and more recently worked in telecommunications, the diamond industry and now, with Cisco. “The beauty of digital is its fast-moving and highly intelligent beta state.”

Ralph is responsible for developing and implementing the marketing strategy for Lightspeed Research (part of WPP) across Europe. He joined the company in November 2005 and is key member of the senior management team, helping successfully grow the business year on year. Ralph has over 14 years marketing experience with over half being within market research.

Yann Motte is one of the co-founders and CEO of Webjam. After 5 years in investment banking helping small business owners sell their companies, he spent eight years with Yahoo!, overseeing various teams and business units. Most recently, as VP of Product Management for the Yahoo! Group in Europe, he contributed to the new organisation following the merger with Kelkoo and Overture. Yann established Webjam in 2006 being convinced that the rise in social media will shape consumer and brand behaviour on-line and off-line. He is a graduate from French school of management ESSEC and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Amaze is a pan-European integrated marketing and technology company with digital in our DNA and at the core of everything we do.

We are a New Media Age top twenty interactive agency with offices in London, the North West of England and Brussels.

By applying connected thinking, we work with clients to develop and execute transformational ideas, that enable them to compete, grow and operate more efficiently.

Our comprehensive range of services covers digital marketing and web-based business solutions, through to traditional marketing services including advertising and PR.

Amaze has a proven track record of working with clients including Advantage West Midlands, Coca Cola Enterprises, Lexus, ODEON Cinemas, Opal Telecom, Siemens Enterprise Communications, The Co-operative Group and Toyota.

At Cisco customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success. The concept of solutions being driven to address specific customer challenges has been with Cisco since its inception.

Gamaroff Digital is a growing social media and digital agency presently located in Woking, Surrey. We have recently been acknowledged by Facebook in their Preferred Developer Consultant Program so are perfectly placed to deliver cutting edge projects for our clients.

We develop and produce cutting edge social media and viral marketing campaigns for the biggest brands such as Vodafone, Guinness, Lucozade, Cadburys, Sprite, Carlsberg and more.

We spawned from the top NMA ranked digital agencies in London and broke away to pioneer the new and ever-changing social media industry where we have specialised and are now relied on for an array of strategic and production services. We know how to help brands maintain healthy conversations with their clients, grow their fan base and stimulate viral uplift.

We have a team of highly skilled developers and rich-media designers experienced in social networking APIs such as Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, Google and Hyves. We develop numerous mashups, widgets and applications that link in with the social tools provided by the networks - merging with other marketing channels to provide integrated social media solutions for brands big and small.

If you are looking for an intimate and personable team of individuals who can give you the acute attention you need to realise your goals in the sensitive arena of social media - and who have the added advantage of being fully experienced with premium brands - then you need simply to give us a call to talk through your needs. We have a flawless track record for timing and quality, and we simply do not compromise on any of it.
 

Onalytica is a provider of solutions that analyse the online debate. We analyse the millions of voices on the web to provide both public sector and businesses with insight they can use to action and improve the chances of success in the initiatives they are undertaking. 

This insight can be used as a leading indicator or to assist in strategic decision making as it is often an indicator of what is likely to happen in a particular industry.
 

Open Text is the market leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information. Our software seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, transforming information into knowledge that provides the foundation for innovation, compliance and accelerated growth.

Since 2001 Propel London has helped the digital industry to grow by providing a specialised recruitment service to job-hunters and businesses alike. In this fast-growing sector it’s all too easy for recruiters to make big promises and then fail to deliver. Propel London does things differently.

Propel London is made up of real human beings. We get to know the people that we work with and build relationships which last beyond the job hunt. Many of us have hands-on experience of the digital industry. All of us are professionals who have proven success placing candidates in the right jobs for a wide range of digital businesses.

We’re proud of our reputation for being honest with everyone that we deal with. Too often recruiters can seem to muddy the waters – we’re here to make things clear. So whether you’re hiring, want to be hired, or just need some advice, our specialist teams understand the market deeply enough to give you a frank appraisal of what’s available to you and how we can help.

Whichever role you’re looking for – online marketing, account management, media sales, web design, web development, search marketing or affiliates – Propel London makes it easier for you to fulfil your digital potential.
 

Tangent One is an award winning strategic digital communications agency.

Our core focus is to influence consumers through each stage of their engagement with a brand from initial awareness, through involvement and transactions into retention and advocacy.

The best ideas in the world are irrelevant if you can’t bring them to market. Tangent is an ideas business delivering through world class technology, created in-house, in London.
 

Webjam helps companies to connect with their customers by providing them with an easy, affordable solution for social publishing and engagement. Our clients manage their own branded and customisable social media environment in which content is created and shared easily, communities grow naturally and social media networks integrate seamlessly. 

Founded in 2006 and based in London, Webjam is a Guardian Tech Media 100 company and its platform is being used across a variety of sectors, from the world’s largest media and directory companies, to consumer brands and professional organisations.