Alastair Campbell - Ex Comms Director, Labour Party

Alastair Campbell - Ex Comms Director, Labour Party

Best known as Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair. Campbell describes himself as a “communicator, writer and strategist”, while others have described him as Labour’s unelected, but hardly under-scrutinised, spin doctor.

Andrew Garner - CEO of Garner Associates

Andrew Garner - CEO of Garner Associates

Mentor to FTSE CEO’s, global leaders and governments, Andrew helps navigate these captains of industry through global expansion, boardroom coup to collapse of the financial systems. He’s been there, done it and helped fashion the make-up of Boardrooms across EMEA and the USA.

Warren Anderson - V.P of UK Supply Chain at McDonald's

Warren Anderson - V.P of UK Supply Chain at McDonald's

Warren has European Supply Chain responsibilities, leading a number of categories across the 41 countries in which McDonald’s operates in Europe. Warren will talk to us about the importance of integrity in the supply chain when you have a customer led business.

Rt. Hon. Michael Fallon - Minister for Business

Rt. Hon. Michael Fallon - Minister for Business

A rare opportunity to engage in an open Q&A with the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise.

He’s here to answer your questions!

WORKSHOP - How to access Finance

WORKSHOP - How to access Finance

Businesses need to borrow for many different reasons from an extra source of cash to help you through the quieter times through to funding plans for growth.
Whatever your reason Barclays can give you advice on the best option for you.

WORKSHOP - Digital & Online with Barclays

WORKSHOP - Digital & Online with Barclays

Smartphone banking will become de rigueur for businesses to increase their efficiencies and keep track of their cash flow, paying invoices and bills on the move.

Come and see how this works.

WORKSHOP - International Trade

WORKSHOP - International Trade

Trading overseas can be profitable but also involves risk. Barclays can help you find financial solutions to maximise your international and domestic trading potential, improve your cash flow, win business and trade confidently.

WORKSHOP - Effective Workplace Change

WORKSHOP - Effective Workplace Change

Do you shy away from making tough decisions about workplace change? Concerned about the impact on your people? h2h will share their tried and tested approach to achieving real workplace change.

WORKSHOP - Support for Business with Leeds City Region

WORKSHOP - Support for Business with Leeds City Region

Companies that do business overseas are more innovative, resilient and create more jobs than those that don’t. The LEP want to help companies realise their growth potential by taking advantage of opportunities in emerging markets.

WORKSHOP - The next top 10 technologies in the world!

WORKSHOP - The next top 10 technologies in the world!

Tim Harper, a former engineer with the European Space Agency’s R&D centre will discuss the the next top ten technologies coming into the world and what they mean for your business.

WORKSHOP - Why is Innovation dead in Yorkshire?

WORKSHOP - Why is Innovation dead in Yorkshire?

A panel discussion on why Yorkshire is under performing on innovation and who’s to blame; is it the banks? Individuals? Companies? Panel members are drawn from different areas of the innovation ecosystem.

WORKSHOP - Competition Law with Addleshaw Goddard

WORKSHOP - Competition Law with Addleshaw Goddard

Competition Law: everything you wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask. An interactive workshop on the essentials, including Q&A.

John Swarbrick - Head of Portfolio of BGF

John Swarbrick - Head of Portfolio of BGF

Established to help the UK’s fast growing smaller and medium sized
businesses the Business Growth Fund plans to invest as much as £200m in the next year. Top deal maker and Leeds University alumni, John is Head of Portfolio for Business Growth Fund.

Chris Brown- Senior Sales Manager at LinkedIn

Chris Brown- Senior Sales Manager at LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with 187m members in 200 countries. As a Senior Manager for Talent Solutions, Chris enables companies to find and connect with the right talent at scale. Hiring solutions represented 41% of new revenue for the company in 2012.

Michelle Mone - Founder of MJM International

Michelle Mone - Founder of MJM International

One of the UK’s most well known and successful female entrepreneurs and founder of international lingerie brand, Ultimo. From a 15 year old school leaver in Glasgow’s east end to a hugely successful business woman and media celebrity.

Jon Mell - European Social Business Leader, IBM

Jon Mell - European Social Business Leader, IBM

Move from “liking” to leading when you look beyond social media to see how social technologies drive real business value. “Social” is changing the way people connect and the way organizations succeed.

Jon is working right at the forefront of this space!

Russell Gould - Head of Wonga for Business

Russell Gould - Head of Wonga for Business

Wonga for Business provides finance to entrepreneurs looking to expand their business. Explore modern SME finance options which can help maximise opportunities for growth and success.
Hear from the Head of Wonga for Business and engage in an open Q&A.

Alison Munro - CEO of High Speed Two Ltd (HS2)

Alison Munro - CEO of High Speed Two Ltd (HS2)

Bringing the UK’s Victorian railway infrastructure into the 21st century via the single largest publicly funded transport project in UK history. A huge national story, here on stage.

Meet HS2’s £33bn CEO!

Rob Wilmot - ex CTO of Freeserve

Rob Wilmot - ex CTO of Freeserve

Internet pioneer, investor and serial entrepreneur. Rob will be giving an overview of social media, busting some myths and explaining how your business could and should be benefiting from it.

Tara Powadiuk - Marketing Director, Microsoft

Tara Powadiuk - Marketing Director, Microsoft

Tara leads £multi-million marketing campaigns to encourage consumers and businesses to choose and advocate Microsoft products.

Come and talk to Tara about “the customer experience in an ever-changing digital landscape”.

Jonathan Straight - CEO of Straight PLC

Jonathan Straight - CEO of Straight PLC

Listen to Jonathan talk about the good, the bad and the ugly… the realities of being an entrepreneur, how to cope and how to keep all the balls in the air.

David Aspin - CEO of Munroe K

David Aspin - CEO of Munroe K

Retail magnate with over £3bn of property under management, collecting £205m of rent annually.

Founder of Munroe K and owner of White Rose Office Park in Leeds. A very modern thinking developer, setting trends rather than following them.

Jas Hawker - Mission Excellence ex Red Arrows

Jas Hawker - Mission Excellence ex Red Arrows

Jas Hawker, former Leader of the Red Arrows, will be talking about the need for businesses to embrace “operational excellence”.

Hear from the youngest ever person to fly the Tornado ground attack aircraft on the front line!

Raja Saggi - Head of SMB Marketing at Google

Raja Saggi - Head of SMB Marketing at Google

Running over one million servers in data centers around the world, processing over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day and with 400 million users Google is one of the world’s top companies.

Carl Hopkins - MD at kloog

Carl Hopkins - MD at kloog

One of the first “Secret Millionaires”, Carl Hopkins is an ambassador for enterprise and entrepreneurship. Always opinionated and outspoken, Carl has acquired a tough, no nonsense reputation for telling it like it is.

He’ll make a great chair for our Billion Pound Panel!

Lawrence Tomlinson - Chairman of LNT Group

Lawrence Tomlinson - Chairman of LNT Group

He’s back for the third year!

From 23 and £500K debt to a £500m fortune. From care homes to high-performance cars. Lawrence is one of Yorkshire’s finest entrepreneurs. Come and see Lawrence on both days at The Billion Pound Panel.

WORKSHOP - Dealing with Auto-Enrolment

WORKSHOP - Dealing with Auto-Enrolment

When it comes to Auto-Enrolment pension arrangements, millions of people will be paying into a pension scheme for the first time, but the scheme also requires all employers to enrol their workers into a qualifying workplace scheme if they are not already in one. This clinic will delve into the Government’s plans.

Tim Kiy - Corporate Affairs Director of Barclays

Tim Kiy - Corporate Affairs Director of Barclays

Can banks be trusted?

With 48 million customers around the world, Barclays’ Tim Kiy is here to talk about the recent challenges Barclays have had and their current journey towards being the ‘go to’ bank for forward thinking “growth” companies.

Nicola Horlick - Chairman of Rockpool Investments LLP

Nicola Horlick - Chairman of Rockpool Investments LLP

Described as “Superwoman” for juggling her high-flying finance career with raising six children, Nicola took charge of an ailing part of Morgan Grenfell, taking its assets from £4bn to £22bn. Nicola will talk about her experiences of raising money for companies when times are tough.

Jonathan Jenkins - CEO of The SIB Group

Jonathan Jenkins - CEO of The SIB Group

The Social Investment Business Group (SIB) Group has made over 1300 investments worth over £311 million in its ten-year history. Jonathan’s here to talk about the thriving social enterprise scene in Yorkshire and how they are a key contributor to the local economy.

Colin Graves - Founder of Costcutter

Colin Graves - Founder of Costcutter

A passionate Yorkshire-man with even greater passion for Yorkshire Cricket, Colin Graves became Chairman of Yorkshire County Cricket Club Chairman after stepping down from the his role of Executive Director at Costcutter. Under Colin’s direction the stores saw sales over £1bn.

Kevin Gardiner - MD of Investment Strategy Barclays

Kevin Gardiner - MD of Investment Strategy Barclays

Can there be life after debt?

Even with the downgrading of the UK AAA status Barclays’ Head of Equity Strategy Kevin Gardiner tells us why he think the outlook for 2013 is brighter than before.