Asif Choudry is Sales & Marketing Director with resource, an award winning creative marketing and print provider. He is a CIM Fellow and Chartered Marketer.  He is the founder of #CommsHero @CommsHero the award winning conference that is a community celebrating the heroics comms people perform every day. Although a big fan of social media, he’s not afraid to use tried and tested comms channels like meeting IRL (In Real Life), speaking on the phone and handwriting a letter or three.

Arthur Smith is a comedian who will be performing at CommsHero After Party on 30th October 8-10pm.

Chief Marketing Officer at React and Share.

Nicky is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of The PR Network (https://www.thepr.network/ ), the world’s largest virtual PR agency and has spent the last 16 years delivering strategic programmes for clients including Dropbox, Snapchat, Vodafone and Workday. Now a Top150 PRWeek agency with global reach and the second fastest growing PR agency in the UK, The PR Network runs campaigns in over 40 countries annually via its network of senior freelance consultants. Prior to The PR Network, Nicky held director level positions at Citigate, Brands2Life and property specialist Phoenix and is both a Fellow and Council member of the PRCA. Nicky also featured alongside her Co-CEO and Co-Founder George Blizzard, as PRovoke Innovator 25 EMEA (2020 and 2019 respectively) and both featured in 2021 PRWeek UK Power Book.

Susan is the co-Founder of GWPR and a highly experienced communications consultant. She has been a board director at one of the UK’s top PR consultancies, head of communications for a large retail chain and run her own business developing global communications programmes for both consumer and business to business clients. An experienced advisor on brand development and issues management, Susan has handled a wide portfolio of UK and international clients, from FTSE 100 companies to top international sporting events.

Alice is a global headhunter, entrepreneur and talent expert, Alice helps global businesses from brand names to tech start ups find and secure c-suite talent and build modern day marketing teams. She launched her first business, the executive search firm, Hanson Search, in 2002, and has offices in the UK, Europe and Middle East recruiting in communications and marketing around the globe. Seeing how the market was shifting and the rise of the freelance economy, Alice later launched The Work Crowd, using the power of technology to help businesses connect and manage the way they work with freelancers, transform the freelance side of the recruitment market and facilitate more flexible ways of working.
She is passionate about improving standards in recruitment and diversity in the workplace, being a fellow of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, member of 30% Club, honorary member of the Global Women in PR and an Ambassador to the Ideas Foundation. Alice was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year at the FSB London Business Awards and Digital SME of the year at the Digi Awards.

Ana-Maria is a corporate communication specialist and a leading expert in crisis communication. Currently she is working with corporate clients to develop holistic PR strategies, especially in critical areas and situations. Her agency offers tailored PR solutions in areas such as: reputation management, social media, crisis communication, financial communication, PR measurement and evaluation. Ana- Maria is dedicated to the education of youth, sustains media literacy trainings, and works with other media organizations in addressing educational issues in Romanian school system. Ana-Maria is member of CIPR and President & Founding Member of Global Women in PR Romania.

Attiyah is responsible for EBM’s corporate communications & PR and is also leading its sustainability agenda. Part of her role involves being engaged in external and internal communication, PR for corporate and product brands as well as strategic sustainability and community initiatives including charity. She has over 15 years of expertise in the fields of communications, PR, brand and project management within the FMCG, banking, aviation and social sectors. Attiyah is an advocate of purpose driven work, enjoys solving problems and is vocal about economic empowerment of women, girl and child education as well as the need for creating livelihoods.

Ruth is the founder of Social Insight a behaviour change marketing consultancy that offers two things. One – a deep dive into your audience so you can increase impact, conversion and achieve change and two – Behaviour Change Marketing Bootcamp training. Launched earlier this year over 100 communicators from NHS, Fires Service, Public Health England and Local Government have been through this intense but invigorating one-day training.

Ruth’s experience in marketing and communications stretches almost 20 years across NHS, Local Government, Central Government and Not-for-Profit. Campaigns include national flagship campaigns such as Change4Life, Every Mind Matters, NHS Cancer Campaign. With over a decade’s experience in public health marketing, Ruth spent 2020 supporting the COVID-19 Public Health England marketing response. She has won the HSJ Award for Social Marketing, Antibiotic Guardian Award for Community Engagement and CIPR Award for insight into A&E attendance.

Her focus is to apply behavioural science for positive change and believes marketing can be used as a force for good. Her mission is to share how easy it is for in-house communicators to use behavioural science to uplevel their communications.
www.socialinsightmarketing.co.uk

Mark Webb is a disability advocate and public speaker, as well as Head of Communications for Shift.ms, a social network for people diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. He plays Wheelchair Rugby for Bournemouth Lions.

Mark’s international career, notably with Disney, David Lloyd Leisure and Dixons, has taken him through all flavours of PR and Comms roles. It was during his time with Dixons Retail, now Dixons Carphone, that he was diagnosed with MS, a chronic, progressive illness impacting the central nervous system.

Mark blogs at onemanandhiscatheters.com, and is writing a book. Slowly.