His business novel Jack’s Notebook features on reading lists from the University of California at Berkeley to Cambridge’s Judge Business School. An early career in broadcasting saw him winning an Emmy-award at Warner Cable’s QUBE, where he also earned a cable ACE Award for innovation.

After broadcasting Gregg had an entrepreneurial career in the software industry. He was a founder of Advanced Health/Med-E-Systems, and helped design the first wireless prescription system for physicians. Advanced Health went public in 1996. In 2010, while resident in the UK, he started up KILN, a London based firm offering innovation consultancy services and products to clients in Europe and North America.

He was named a Distinguished Leader by the Creative Education Foundation. He currently resides in Three Oaks, Michigan, USA.

Learning Pool is a multi award winning company that has built the biggest online learning community in the UK with one million learners at the latest count. Since returning home to Northern Ireland in 2000, Mary has worked in five NI based growing tech businesses in roles as varied as global CFO, Sales Director and CEO and she has assisted a number of other new companies in getting started. Her accountancy qualification has stood her in good stead when raising finance and in creating workable business models and her varied experience means she sees the bigger picture and knows what’s required. Mary has a passionate interest in helping start & grow indigenous tech companies and especially in working with very young entrepreneurs. She has been Chairman of Northern Ireland’s Digital Circle Steering Group since 2010.

Mary is well networked within and outside of Northern Ireland having worked for a number of years in London and Silicon Valley. She is a strong supporter of the Arts in Ireland and sits as a non-executive director on the board of Derry’s Millennium Forum & Theatre.

CultureTECH, a week-long festival of digital media, technology and music. It features over 100 individual events with a total expected audience of over 30,000 people, making it one of the biggest digital events in the country. In addition to the festival, CultureTECH also manages a year-round programme of events and activities designed to foster innovation at the crossroads of culture and technology. Prior to launching CultureTECH, Mark served as Derry-Londonderry's first Digital Champion and currently sits on multiple boards and advisory groups across both technology and the arts.

Ecommerce Expert for SmartInsights.com and an Econsultancy Trainer and Consultant. Ambition Digital are uniquely a Digital Marketing Agency from a pure Ecommerce background and the only agency in Ireland with staff providing Ecommerce and Digital Marketing Training on behalf of Econsultancy. Ambition Digital’s client list boasts Beaverbrooks the Jewellers, TM Lewin, Shoes.co.uk, Visit Britain, NITB, Donnellys Group, Linwoods Health Foods & Abbey Insurance among others.

Following 15 years of direct commercial experience helping businesses use the Internet more effectively, Gareth established Fathom in September 2011 to advise companies on how to get the most from the Internet by seeing the world from the perspective of their customers.

Previously Gareth was the MD of iON, a leading digital strategy and marketing company, headquartered in Belfast and with major clients in 15 countries. Prior to that he was the MD of Tibus, one of the largest and most successful web development agencies in Ireland, from 2002 to 2009 when it was sold to UTV Media. Since 1996, he has gained massive commercial experience advising blue chip clients in Ireland, UK and Europe (SPAR, DHL, Post Office UK, BBC) on Internet strategy and best practice.

A former Board Member of the Irish Internet Association, and Chairman of WeddingsOnline.ie, Gareth writes & lectures extensively on Internet related matters. He occupies regular columns in SiliconRepublic.com and the Irish Independent in the Republic of Ireland, and Business Eye magazine in Northern Ireland.

A previous double DANI Award-winning agency, where he leads an expert team providing web development and digital marketing services for clients across the UK and Ireland. Before joining Pierce in 2009 Barry worked as a corporate webmaster for technology multinationals, web consultant for SMEs, and in-house SEO specialist for Independent News & Media. Barry is a blogger and editor for award-winning search & social media blog State of Search and provides regular lectures on SEO, social media, and digital marketing for the University of Ulster and the Belfast City Council’s Enterprise Network.

Brian's team has responsibility for assisting with the strategic growth plans of companies within the Financial Services, ICT, Business Process Outsourcing and Television, Film and Digital sectors.

After qualifying as an accountant with Price Waterhouse, Brian spent 15 years working in corporate finance and business development with a number of private sector organisations before joining Invest NI as Director of Business Development in 2004. Since then he has worked with a wide range of businesses, both local and international, in areas of strategy development, market entry and new product development. In this regard he is acutely aware of the role that innovative design, creative marketing and strategic brand management play in growing product penetration in export markets.

Valerie has worked extensively with a broad range of public and private sector organisations in the design and implementation of organisational transformation. Her research and teaching focuses on how organisations are changing and the role digital communication is playing in facilitating and driving change. She is interested in the blurring of internal and external organisational communication; the shift from one way controlled messages to rich and messy, innovative but risky offline and online customer dialogue; and the increasing involvement of customers in co-creating value. Valerie plays a key role in the development and teaching of postgraduate programmes in Digital Media Communication at the University of Ulster.