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Thomas Power is a Professional Speaker and full time Non-Executive Director sitting on eight Boards.

Thomas' focus is aggregating and sharing cutting edge knowledge of the patterns, shapes and trends (memes) emerging from Silicon Valley as he believes without this data disruption can upset the strategy of any organization large or small.

Accidental discoverer of the concept of Open Random Supportive thinking in 2009 (ORS) Thomas acts as a digital companion (a sherpa or porter) to corporate executives and entrepreneurs helping them navigate "their" web minefield. Now working with his ghost-writers on books eight, nine and ten - "The Crowd, The Cloud & You", "LeadORS - The Emergence of Network Thinking" and "The Rise and Rise of Google+ (Plus)".

Thomas plans to bring a data streaming platform (StreamORS) to market in 2015.

Nichola is founder and Managing Director of theMediaFlow; a thought-leading UK SEO agency specialising in creative, earned-link strategies based on strong technical and analytical foundations. Nichola has over fifteen years experience in online communications including five years at Yahoo! as head of UK search partners, prior to founding the MediaFlow.

Mike is a journalist and entrepreneur who has worked with a range of dynamic businesses to build, engage and monetise online communities. His publishing credits include Your Better Business, LUX Worldwide and Entrepreneur Country Magazine, while writing regularly across the b2b press and worked with the BBC on a series of reports on the transparency of Facebook.

His experience of bridging the knowledge divide between corporates and small business has seen him work with startups, growth businesses and multi-nationals including IBM, Microsoft and Vodafone.

He founded TheSocialPro to help SMEs navigate the journey between content, social media and community and continues to advise some of the UK’s most exciting growth businesses including award-winning social money transfer startup Azimo.com and image digitisation specialists Photo Legacy.

Although a cliché, like so many entrepreneurial ideas, the business inspiration behind Emailmovers was conceived and developed by Duncan Gledhill in a small flat in London in 2002. Since then, the business has flourished and continues to successfully deliver email marketing solutions to clients across the UK. It is a genuine success story.

Prior to the foray into independent email marketing, Duncan gained five years experience with eCircle and Xpedite Systems before creating Emailmovers. Following incorporation in 2003, rapid expansion led to Duncan’s brother, Jamie, joining the business and the opening of the company’s first office outside London in 2005 based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire which became the company’s head office in 2007.

Nick James is the founder of http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com an online resource for entrepreneurs. Nick was previously Group Show Director of DMG Worldwide where he was responsible for the annual Daily Mail Ideal Home Show and five other home interest events. In the age of the Internet the combination of face-to-face and digital communication is powerful and Nick specialises in creating compelling content online and off-line.

Neil is a serial entrepreneur devoted to innovation and the excitement of turning a great idea from a vacuum into large scale substance.

He has been involved in a variety of businesses including plastics, paper, packaging, textiles, fibre optics, robotics, leisure, filtration and wellbeing. 5 years ago Neil saw the future of online was in video, and so set up MWP, an innovative video production company that uses video to deliver stunning online business results. Hear how Virgin Holidays increased their Upper Class seat sales by 30% with two videos! Neil will explain how to convert static, passive websites into interactive marketing tools that revolutionise customer interaction and online communication.

Francesca is a published author, journalist and blogger whose publishing credits include Fresh Business Thinking, The Institute of Directors, The Independent and The Guardian.

Francesca writes and produces content that spans a wide array of topics although in a personal capacity she specialises in entrepreneurship, technology and marketing for business.

In 2012, Francesca set up Fresh Content, a content business that helps companies and brands engage with prospects, customers and partners via relevant content creation and social media. Fresh Content, although in their infancy have worked with big brands and businesses including Dell and AXA Insurance

Peter Handley is Director of SEO at theMediaFlow with responsibility for all client campaigns, strategy and delivery

Working across a range of sectors and managing teams of contributors as well as keeping theMediaFlow blog up to date, Pete can also be found speaking and contributing to industry conferences and events.

Peter has almost a decade of experience in search engine optimisation, working on a range of campaigns in both b2b and b2c environments; from a multitude of business sectors including automotive, medical, insurance and financial, email marketing and a range of e-commerce stores.

Martin is Head of Technical SEO at digital marketing agency SiteVisibility and heads up a team of bright technical SEOs and Analytics experts. Martin joined SiteVisibility from Friday Media Group where he was responsible for the search and social strategies of a large and varied portfolio of websites in a broad range of niches. The types of websites included classifieds, ecommerce, services, job sites and more.

In a regularly changing industry, Martin has to constantly keep up to date with what works and what doesn’t in order to drive campaigns forward and achieve positive results for SiteVisibility’s range of clients.

Barnaby’s career first started at Lonsdales moving to a small agency in Clerkenwell from where he was headhunted to Ogilvy and Mather. After 6 years, he moved to creative hot shop Mellors Reay. When taken over by Grey, he moved again to join Dave Trott at a new agency WTCS. Again he was headhunted to become one of the youngest MD’s of a top 200 ad agency at 37. He bought the agency in 2001 from the founders and with it The Brand Bucket methodology.

The following 10 years were spent reformatting how marketing should be made to work for clients, concluding with the disbanding of the London office in 2010 and a move to an internet enhanced collaborative service approach that is thriving today.