Announcing Our Second Confirmed Speaker – Russell Davies!

Those of you who didn’t manage to get tickets yesterday are not without hope – we’ve still got well over 100 left. which we’ll release in the coming weeks. Still, you blew our socks off yesterday. Those first 100 went in less than 40 minutes!

Now onto the real reason for this post – we have the great pleasure of announcing our second invited guest speaker, the very, very interesting Russell Davies.

Russell was born in Derby, enjoyed an uneventful childhood, did college, all that. After failing as a popstar and a joke writer he ended up in advertising and tried to do ‘interactive marketing’ way before anyone was interested. He ended up at Wieden + Kennedy working on clients like Microsoft, Nike and Honda. Then he went to work for Nike as Global Consumer Planning Director. He went freelance in 2006 and works with shadowy organisations like the Open Intelligence Agency and the Really Interesting Group. He also writes eggbaconchipsandbeans, occasionally organises ‘Interesting’ conferences, plays with things like speechification, dawdlr and slowpoke; and does columns for Campaign magazine and Wired UK. Russell’s latest project is Newspaper Club, a 4iP sponsored service created to help people make their own newspapers.

We are still looking for speakers for Ignite London. The deadline to apply is the 9th of February. Here are the details.