Seminars

BNC Show Alec Mumford has decades of events industry experience starting working life as a DJ and years later overseeing corporate and celebrity events for thousands. 

In 2012 he partnered with Kim Paulden at The BNC and The BNC Show was born.

A creative person at heart, Alec always has a set of great solutions and ideas up his sleeve and is the ultimate master when it comes to attention to detail. 

Handing his years of logistics learning over to his team, Alec now focuses on developing the BNC brand and taking a lead on The BNC Show's sustainability policy - and how it can be improved with each passing Show. 

Alec has many highlights of working in events over the years but recalls meeting Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace a major one, if not the greatest. 

Invited as a leading representative of the events industry, Alec said it was the ultimate occasion and one that he will never forget. "Especially as I heard Prince Philip call Her Majesty 'Lilibet'. It was very touching and now more poignant than ever." 

Danielle is an experienced event manager, having worked in the industry for over 11 years.  She had become increasingly frustrated with the excessive amounts of single use items and waste created in the industry and this inspired her to make a difference. In January 2020, she launched her own sustainable event management and consultancy business - Reward Events. In line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, Reward specializes in creating memorable experiences with purpose, that reduce the negative impact on the environment and drive real positive change. Reward is all about reflecting on the event management process and looking at how we should be doing things differently. How can you re-imagine your event to consider all the impacts – both positive and negative? How can you have still have an amazing event, just without the bad bits?

I feel strongly about social and environmental sustainability and believe it should be embedded in everything we do. Carbon Consultancy gives me the opportunity to provide practical ideas about how sustainability can have a positive impact on our wonderful world of events . The time is now to create change to reduce our carbon footprint.

Sarah’s  career started in youth work, building youth provision in Surrey and including running events for the boroughs of Guildford and Waverley.  Events included international youth exchanges with various European countries.  Sarah joined ACS in 2007 as Events Coordinator, working her way up to Events Manager and then on to her current role of Head of Retailer Engagement. Sarah is not leaving events behind, but will continue to have responsibility for the growing portfolio, which is approximately 50 per year, including store tours and the annual ACS Summit. This role expands her responsibility to now includes overseeing all retailer memberships, encouraging more retailers to join and also to ensure that all retailers get the most out of their membership.

Jade Fletcher has worked in the entertainment industry for over 20 years, starting as a professional dancer and model booker, before moving into events after becoming injured.

Having produced her first fashion show in 2009, she went on to work on a series of shows and events, with a particular focus on strategic planning for the creative, music, fashion and entertainment sectors.

Highlights include: UKG Live concerts (Indigo2, Electric Ballroom, The Steelyard), Commonwealth Fashion Council launch (New Zealand House, Buckingham Palace), Red Bull Culture Clash (o2), MOBO Nominations Launch and Awards (Grand Connaught Rooms and SSE Arena Glasgow) and London Olympics (Mandarin Oriental, Olympic Stadium).

She has also worked across Europe, including Prague, Barcelona, Brussels and Rome.

Despite having a rare genetic eye condition which has led to being certified Sight Impaired (Partially Sighted), she continues to strive to reach new ambitions and combat stereotypes. She has a keen interest in social enterprise and the training and development of people from all walks of life, and her personal projects are aimed at empowering, motivating, and building confidence in individuals so they can also go on to fulfil their potential.

Jade won the RBS Inspiring Women in Enterprise award in 2013 and Jade Green Productions went on to win Lux International Magazine’s Best London Events Company 2017.

Event, Consultancy or speaking bookings: 

Beckie - bookings@jadegreenevents.com

Website: www.jadegreenproductions.com

Having spent 15 years in the EventTech industry, Jamie brings his knowledge in both leading-edge technology as well as the commercial opportunities involved. Jamie is the European Vice President of Sales for Cvent. Cvent (Nasdaq-CVT) is the leading event technology provider with clients all over the world.

Hayley is the Event Content Manager for the Financial Services Portfolio at Incisive Media, where she oversees a variety of in person and digital events for publication brands including COVER, Professional Pensions and Professional Adviser. She is passionate about event content, the delegate experience, and ensuring programmes including methods and tools to create meaning engagement for attendees.

Hayley has worked in a variety of companies over three years, producing conferences and training programmes in areas such as sales, cybersecurity, education, health & social care, dentistry, HR and real estate. Hayley is also a volunteer manager for the Guy’s Hospital Transplant Team, supporting them with media, fundraising and events, including preparation for the British Transplant Games.

Hayley holds a 1st Class Honours in International Business from the University of Portsmouth. She also studied for one year at the Beijing Technology and Business University for an academic placement in Chinese Economics and Trade. She is also a classical trained musician and has played the flute for 18 years.

Julianne spent six years managing a corporate events department, during which time she was awarded to meet the Prince of Wales for her work on the Great Exhibition of the North, completed Faye Sharpe’s Fast Forward 15 programme and won a C&IT Corporate Event Planners Award. 

The pandemic lead to a career shift into commercial procurement in 2019; Julianne recently completed her CIPS degree and is undertaking a Masters in the field of purchasing. Her current role is to manage contracts for Vertu Motors Plc ranging across engine oil, biometric security systems, music streaming and hotels.

Karen is a seasoned marketing veteran with over 25 years’ experience working in all facets of the discipline. Starting on the agency side she spent her early career as a Client Service Director to many large high-tech firms driving some of the biggest tech events of the day. Moving client side, she spent over 14 years at Microsoft in varying roles in both B2B and B2C, creating strategies to help extend the brand, build a global comms engine, and drive demand, first at the corporate headquarters in the US, then in the Western Europe field HQ in London.

After leaving Microsoft she shifted to the start-up world, first setting up her own marketing consultancy KAOS Marketing, then as Global VP of Sales & Marketing at Adepto. She then moved on to become Managing Director of marketing and design agency, Article Ten. Recently, she’s gone back to her roots, helping to build the enterprise marketing strategy in Europe for Cvent.

In her spare time, Karen works with a variety of industry organisations in various roles including the International Advertising Association, Bloom and the Conscious Advertising Network when she’s not wandering South London with her husband and Instagram influencer pup, Rupert.

Adam Sternberg is a director of Sternberg Clarke- London leading entertainment company supplying acts  of all types from magic to music, dance to circus but always looking for the new!