Speaker biogs:

Jonah Bloom, Advertising Age
Jonah Bloom is the editor of Advertising Age. He oversees editorial operations across all platforms, including its print and online editions. Prior to this, Jonah helped to launch PRWeek magazine New York in 1998, and went on to become editor-in-chief. He has also reported on the media industry in Europe and was the editor of Campaign Media Business. Jonah’s other roles have included magazine editor on Press Gazette, news reporter on Accountancy Age and reporter on weekly print and packaging journal PrintWeek.

Julian Gairdner, group online editor, www.fwi.co.uk
Julian Gairdner has been online editor of the Farmers Weekly Group since October last 2006. Having worked for eight years as a farming consultant in East Anglia, Julian retrained as a journalist in 2001 before joining the group’s Crops magazine as deputy editor in 2002 and becoming group arable editor in 2005. In the past six months he has focused on developing the group’s website www.fwi.co.uk – both technically and through managing a change process within the editorial and production teams – during which time traffic to the site has doubled.

Matthew Gerry, online publisher, Haymarket Medical and Professional
Matthew Gerry is online publisher at Haymarket Media. Working across the company’s Medical and Professional Divisions, he launched Healthcare Republic, What Kit? and is developing community sites in the early years education, childcare and youth services sectors. Previously Matthew worked in a number of roles at VNU Business Publications including Head of eMedia and in the editorial team at Accountancy Age.

Ian Neild, BT Technology Office
Ian Neild is a disruptive evangelist who presents on technology trends and social/business impacts. He writes the technology timeline along with Ian Pearson, which lists possible technology changes and their impacts. It is used extensively by many companies around the world to think about future impacts in business. As an experienced presenter Ian has appeared around the world to a wide variety of audiences. Currently he is working on an area dubbed as the "Internet of Things" looking at disruptive technologies within BTs foresight team.