Velti is a leading global provider of mobile marketing and advertising solutions that enable brands, advertising agencies, mobile operators, and media companies to implement highly targeted, interactive, and measurable campaigns by communicating with and engaging consumers via their mobile devices.

The Velti mGage™ platform enables customers to use mobile and traditional media to plan, manage, and optimize mobile advertising and marketing campaigns, reaching targeted consumers, engaging them through the mobile Internet and applications, and converting them into customers. They have the ability to conduct campaigns in over 50 countries and reach more than 3.7 billion global customers. In 2010, 825 brands, advertising agencies, mobile operators and media companies used our platform to conduct over 2,700 campaigns. Velti is a publicly-held corporation based in Jersey, with over 900 employees, and trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol VELT.

www.velti.com  

Millward Brown focus on all things “brand” is fueled by their clients’ expectations for success and their own appetite for challenge, insight, solutions and innovation. With 78 offices in 54 countries, they work with 90% of the top 100 global brands and as a result they truly understand the importance of both a global and local focus.  From Europe to Asia to the Americas; automotive to technology; communications assessment to brand performance and marketing accountability; they are there.
0207 126 5000
www.millwardbrown.com

Albion is a creative agency, immersed in the world of disruptive business, technology and cultural ideas. For 7 years, we’ve been pioneering a new model for advertising agencies – one that works in the networked, real-time world.

We work with entrepreneurial people, whether in new growing businesses, or large established ones. People who want to create iconic modern brands by transforming the value they deliver to their customers. Our platform of clients includes Jose Cuervo, giffgaff an O2/Telefonica brand, Air New Zealand, Betfair, Milklink, Airmiles, Visit Britain, Epson and Absolute Radio.

We create conversations about brands, by giving people something interesting, involving, entertaining and human enough that they want to talk to each other about it. We use our understanding of technology to create the media that will allow us to do that.

www.albionlondon.com

Brand Learning is the leading international specialist in marketing capability development, and was set up in 2000 by co-founders and joint MDs Andy Bird and Mhairi McEwan – ex Unilever and Pepsi-Co VP marketing executives. We’re a dynamic consultancy and we seek to inspire and enable global organisations to add rigour to their marketing skills in order to drive better effectiveness and cut-through of this major corporate investment. Our client list includes Unilever, Shell, Diageo, Tesco, Astra Zeneca and Philips and last year we worked on client projects in over 44 countries.

We were very proud to be voted no. 3 in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies 2010, up from our no. 5 position in 2009. This success comes on top of prestigious awards within the industry: In 2008 we won the Marketing Society’s Grand Prix for our work with AkzoNobel (formerly ICI, and in 2009 the Marketing Excellence Award for Marketing Capabilities with our client Shell.

Tel:  +44 (0)208 614 8150
Web:  www.brandlearning.com

We are packaging design specialists.  Commercially effective design for ambitious individuals and organisations is our passion. Our Brand First creative philosophy gets their brands noticed and chosen while a hundred-strong team execute transformational design with efficiency and speed.

At jkr our branding specialists, graphic designers, structural engineers and packaging technologists collaborate with their marketing, supply-chain and commercial partners in clients like Mars, Unilever, Diageo, Kellogg’s and Waitrose.  We write a daily Design Gazette which discusses a way in which brand is using design to gain competitive advantage - you can follow it here.

020 7428 8000
www.jkr.co.uk

PHD London was the founding office of the first truly planning-led media agency in the UK. Today it is now part of a 70 office global network, home of PHD's worldwide management team and part of Omnicom Media Group. 
From its inception, PHD has always been one of the UK's most forward-thinking media agencies, renowned for challenging convention, breaking new ground in communications thinking and ultimately looking to find a better way in everything we do.
Finding a better way manifests itself in many ways - from being the first media agency in the UK to launch its own affiliates network to offering the most comprehensive media education programme to 200 clients, for free, to employing our own in-house recruitment specialist to ensure we attract the best talent and reduce the amount of money we spend finding them.

This approach, coupled with the buying power we offer through Omnicom Media Group’s centralised negotiation point OPera has attracted a diverse client list which includes Sainsbury's, Cadbury, Confused.com, Warner Bros., ING Direct, and our founding client The Guardian, who we have worked with for 20 years.

www.phd.co.uk

The inspiration of serial entrepreneur and angel investor Doug Richard, School for Startups is the UK’s leading provider of business training for entrepreneurs. We provide accelerated business training that helps entrepreneurs launch more successful startups and run more successful businesses.  Our face to face and online instruction covers topics like how to start a business, how to find investors, how to design great products and services, how to implement fast, cost-effective marketing strategies, how to build effective management teams and how to scale a business safely.  Our business networking events connect small businesses to create supportive, self-sustaining communities.

School for Startups’ overarching mission is to create a vibrant, dynamic culture and economy in the UK that supports and promotes innovation and entrepreneurialism. Our aim is to increase the number of innovative small businesses in the UK and provide them with access to world class business advice to help them succeed.

 

+44 (0) 207 099 7000

www.schoolforstartups.co.uk

Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognised as the world's largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.
When you visit www.google.com or one of the dozens of other Google domains, you'll be able to find information in many different languages; check stock quotes, maps and news headlines; look up phonebook listings for every city in the United States; search billions of images and peruse the world's largest archive of Usenet messages -- more than 1 billion posts dating back to 1981.
We also provide ways to access all this information without making a special trip to the Google home page. The Google Toolbar enables you to conduct a Google search from anywhere on the web. And for those times when you're away from your PC altogether, Google can be used from a number of wireless platforms including WAP and i-mode phones.

T:  +44 (0)20-7031-3000
W:  www.google.co.uk/corporate

Fallon London was born in 1998.  We are now 140 people strong and live by five core beliefs.

We are unreasonably ambitious -
Quite simply, we want to make the best work in the world and be the best place to work in the world.

We are powered by our clients’ causes -
We believe that creativity delivers an unfair advantage in the marketplace and we are proud that our ideas have created big step changes and hard business results for our clients such as Cadburys Kraft, Unilever, Orange, Skoda, Eurostar and SCA.

We are driven by the power of creativity to fuel culture and profits -
We create ideas that are talked about by kids in the playground and mums at the school-gates, in bars, chatrooms, airport lounges and across social networks – and to put the brands we work with at the heart of those conversations.

We are Fallon -
We are a creative agency working across all channels and categories. In the last 4 years, we have won a Grand Prix for Print and Film at Cannes and a Cannes Lion for digital. We believe that in the real world there is no ‘line’.

We love a good problem -
We use creativity to solve business problems and unlock new growth opportunities: for Skoda it was ‘children crying in the showrooms’;  for Cadbury it was ‘get the love back’.  When we pinpoint the right problem and gather different disciplines (from in and outside Fallon) around it great things happen

T:  020 7494 9120
W:  www.fallon.co.uk

IndustryApproved is less a name and more of a unique approach to innovation that produces positive output whilst building DIY capabilities. We’ve been delivering fresh innovations across industries for 10+ years incl. Film, Music, TV, Radio, FMCG, Education, Charity and Government.

 

Our conversations start around the need for better innovations, then quickly elevate into the need for better creativity in people, which in practise is a cultural challenge. The smart question is ‘where to start?’

We start by ‘using’ ideas as the touchstone to positively impact the culture from within the business. Which means giving individuals and teams the experience of innovating better ideas and then leaving behind the expertise to sustain these creative efforts. For the past year we’ve been training our very own ‘Wayne’ to be the IndustryApproved creative facilitator, working for people across multiple projects.

 

If you’re keen to meet Wayne, or explore new opportunities give us a shout - we’re always up for a stimulating coffee.

w: www.industryapproved.com
e: hello@industryapproved.com

 

Our Personal Leadership Programme provides a powerful springboard for generating the understanding and co-operation required for success as well as exploring abilities and expanding horizons and explains the fundamental elements of creating an environment where individuals can think clearly, deeply and creatively.

The Living Leader is headed by Penny Ferguson and provides Personal Leadership Development. We are committed to creating permanent positive change that impacts each individual we touch. Our philosophy is based on the belief that it is not important to simply be an outstanding leader but about how many leaders you can develop and our goal is to pass this on to delegates attending our courses. 


Over 35,000 delegates from across the globe have experienced our programmes, which are renowned for the fast and dramatic results that they achieve, both for the organization and for the individual.

T:  01635 276333
W:  www.thelivingleader.com