SPEAKERS

​There will be a wide range of speakers at our Digital Media Conference delivering varied insights to help your business improve its digital marketing and learn what your competitors are doing successfully.

Head to our book now page to see what your ticket includes.

Read on for more information on our speakers...​

Sam Jones

Managing Director, Tunafish Media

​Sam Jones is the founder of Tunafish Media, a content marketing agency he started in 2011 with Richard Brooks and James McDonald.

​In 2015, he also co-founded Not Just Soup, a homeless support network that connects local restaurants to the homeless community providing over 30,000 meals.

Mel Hill

Communications Manager, pro-manchester

Mel is in charge of pro-manchester's communications, including all forms of digital marketing the organisation uses. 

Mel fell in love with digital marketing after being tasked with updating social media accounts as a sports journalist when social media as a news source was just beginning and has since crafted her digital marketing experience in various sectors including sport, technology and charity.

Dan Nolan

Managing Director, theEword

Alongside his role as managing director of theEword, Daniel is also the president of the Manchester Publicity Association, a board member at pro-manchester and co-chair of their creative sector committee and has previously been recognised as the Digital, Media or Creative Professional of the Year at the Made In Manchester Awards.​

Rebecca Bishop

Founder, Buump Active
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Rebecca Bishop is a busy, working mum of two young girls from Manchester. 

A business development specialist by profession, Rebecca has spent much of her career in the third sector.

Always a great connector of people, Rebecca created Buump Active to introduce mums to each other and to inspire them to become the best versions of themselves through fitness and activity - using tech as the vehicle for connection. Buump Active is the first social connection app in the world, designed to keep you active after having your baby. Helping look after your physical and mental wellbeing and proudly supported by Sport England.

John Kershaw

Founder, M14 Industries

John Kershaw founded Bristlr, the dating app connecting those with beards to those who want to stroke beards.

After gaining international notoriety he grew the company and white-labeled the technology to become M14 Industries, who now build and manage apps for other people.

​He and his company went through the Ignite startup accelerator in 2015 and appeared on Dragon's Den in 2017. 

Eve Jane Deasy

PR Consultant

​Eve Jane Deasy is a Manchester and high peak-based PR consultant with 19 years’ experience working with consumer brands and businesses. 

Eve has worked agency side, in-house and as an independent consultant during her career, across a wide range of industries including food and drink, beers, wines & spirits, fashion, parenting, tech, health and lifestyle, and takes a bold approach to media relations in order to secure national press coverage and help to make brands famous. She enjoys working with everyone from large FMCG companies to new start ups.

Eve is currently managing the PR for Buump Active, after becoming inspired and invested in the exciting venture from the very beginning.

Sarah Glynn

Marketing Manager, Kuits 

Kuits is an award-winning, UK200 commercial law firm specialising in SMEs based in Manchester city centre. 
 
Sarah has over eight years’ experience in B2B and B2C marketing, having worked for a range of regional and international businesses across the professional services, publishing and charity sectors. 
 
Sarah won Marketing Professional of the Year (2019 Made in Manchester Awards) and sits on pro-manchester’s future.pro committee and the editorial committee for Manchester Law Society’s magazine, The Messenger. She has been quoted in national marketing / business press.
 
Sarah founded the Word on the Street initiative, bringing the gift of reading to Manchester’s rough sleepers.
 

​Sian English 

Head of Multichannel, seventy7

Sian leads multichannel operations for independent creative business, seventy7. With a 40-year history in retail, seventy7 work with fashion’s most innovative start-ups through to international luxury giants across London, Manchester and Mumbai.

For the past 10 years, Sian has worked in marketing focused roles for leading global B2B and B2C businesses including Speedy Services, Knauf, Yodel and theEword.

Driver, collaborator, speaker, innovator, creative and host, Sian is Chair of pro-manchester’s Retail and E-commerce committee, Vice Chair of the MPA and winner of Best Creative, Digital or Media Professional (2019 Made in Manchester Awards).

​​Viv Yau

Co-Founder, Bee Influence

Viv is Co-Founder of Manchester’s first dedicated influencer marketing agency, Bee Influence.

​She comes from an advertising background as an account handler at TBWA\Manchester. She then moved to London to represent the UK’s biggest influencers at Gleam Futures (the agency known for representing Zoella).

​Viv moved back to Manchester and co-founded Bee Influence in early 2018.

AJ Handley-Rowe

Freelancer

​Working in digital for over a decade AJ specialises in integrated strategy, organic, paid and content in all its forms.

Having worked agency side, in house and self-employed, AJ is pretty well placed on a panel about client/agency relationships. She’s got a good idea of what it takes to make those relationships effective, from both sides of the fence and has experience of the dynamics of all kinds of organisations and sectors.

Steve Kuncewicz

Partner

​Steve specialises in intellectual property, media, privacy and communications-related issues, working mainly with the creative, digital, technology and advertising sector with a nationally-recognised niche specialism in issues involving social media and online privacy.
 
Steve deals in both contentious and non-contentious matters, ranging from litigation before the High Court to regulatory investigations and adjudications involving the ASA and ICO to cross-jurisdictional disputes and complex advisory work, reducing commercial, reputational, regulatory and legal risk.
 
Working across the public and private sector, and with both agencies and those who buy from them, Steve leverages commercial expertise gained during his time in house and a passion for the sectors he works with for the benefit of his clients.