Alfie Deyes, the English YouTuber, vlogger and social disrupter is the headline speaker at Social Media Live, a new festival that will showcase the latest technologies and future predictions that are influencing social media in the RDS on October 25th.
Deyes will join social media writer, comedian and actor David Schneider along with a line-up of innovators, experts, artists and social media commentators.
The line-up of speakers includes the following:
Blathnaid Healy – Director EMEA, CNN Digital International
Malachy Browne – Senior Story Producer, The New York Times
Grad Conn – Chief Experience and Marketing Officer, Sprinklr
Katie Manor – Head of Paid Social, MediaCom Worldwide
Jana Damanhouri – Global Head of Social, Jungle Creations
Joe Galvin – Director of News, Storyful
Donagh Humphreys – Senior Social and Digital Manager, Thinkhouse
Jennifer Quigley-Jones – Founder and Managing Director, Digital Voices
Nic Newman – Senior Research Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Aisling McCarthy – Brand Voice, Guinness
Michael Nagle – Head of Social & Digital Content, Paddy Power Betfair
The best-selling author and founder of FunnyBizz Conference, David Nihill will head up Social Media Live as MC.
According to Dave Smyth, Group CEO of Cogs & Marvel: “Social media is a practice that does not stand still. It requires constant dedication, attention and flexibility to keep up with audience demands and expectations. The knowledge, experience and expertise our speakers will bring to Social Media live will be utilised to challenge the ‘norm’ as we see it and foresee the new and exciting ways in which social platforms will change both in the short term and long term.
With a line-up of international brands, social influencers, news and media powerhouses, Social Media Live is set to uncover exploding tensions that lie within audience behaviours, how we use social media and shape what’s coming next.”
Tickets for Social Media Live can be purchased at www.socialmedialive.ie
