Speakers
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Marcus Orlovsky - Entrepreneur
Marcus is passionate about creating better opportunities for young people and has a sophisticated understanding of the way in which teaching and learning takes place. He and his team work nationally and globally with school leaders and students from all backgrounds. They pride themselves in helping accelerate the development of talent at all levels and across all phases. Bryanston Square is now recognised as one of the leaders in educational and future thinking. It has a track record covering some £8Bn of buildings, more than 100,000 teacher training days, and numerous innovations. Marcus qualified as a Chartered Accountant and moved to being Director of Recruitment. He journeyed through commerce: Real Estate, Software and HR, whilst keeping up charitable commitments to education. He ended up speaking to schools and then designers, which led him and his colleagues to form Bryanston Square. Marcus has a thought-provoking and entertaining manner of delivery which stimulates ideas and discussion in audiences, his sessions are relevant and practical and, at the same time, far reaching.
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David Schneider - Actor
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David Schneider is an actor, writer, comedian and director who first came to prominence in award-winning programmes such as I’m Alan Partridge, Knowing Me Knowing You, and The Day Today. He has since appeared in numerous TV shows and films as varied as Mission Impossible and Horrid Henry, has written for TV, radio, films and the stage, and is a regular pundit on shows such as The Agenda and The Review Show. David has directed adverts and TV comedy for, amongst others, Armando Iannucci. The second series of his radio 4 sitcom set in a Register Office, “Births, Deaths and Marriages”, aired in the summer. An avid tweeter with over 160,000 followers, David now advises companies and brands on their digital and social media output through his own agency That Lot, as well as making viral comedy videos and pictures for the Huffington Post, Channel 4, the BBC and numerous websites and brands.
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Otti Vogt - Vice President Global Vertical Industries
Otti has extensive experience as a business leader in in TMT with a well-rounded background in general management, strategy, service, business development, and consultancy. He has an exceptional track record in large-scale transformational change and M&A integration, and ample expertise in managing global customer-centric businesses. In the past, Otti has held a number of high-profile senior management roles in BT and led BT’s global business advisory capability. In 2013 Otti was appointed VP Client Partner (Managing Director) for a global BT Top 30 Account in the Pharmaceutical Sector with multi-million pound P&L accountability. Prior to his current position, Otti was accountable EVP for customer service operations for BT’s major international enterprise customers. Whilst managing day-to-day operations and 2500 people in 30 countries to stringent contractual obligations, Otti implemented a portfolio of lean & continuous service improvement initiatives, significantly improving service quality and achieving double-digit cost reductions. He is a regular speaker on customer experience management. Before joining BT, Otti gained a wide range of experience in various consulting and Industry roles and in start-up companies. Otti speaks five languages and holds an MBA from London Business School and a Master’s Degree summa cum laude in Management from Bologna University. He lives in London and is a passionate badminton player in his spare time.
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Steve Bartlett - Entrepreneur
Dubbed the UK’s next creative pioneer and winner of the Young Entrepreneur of the year award this year, Steve Bartlett is the 21-year-old founder of Wallpark, The UK’s largest student noticeboard. He dropped out of university with no experience in the internet and built the platform which launched in January. It is an online noticeboard for students to sell stuff, find a job, find accommodation and much more. Not only is he a young entrepreneur that reached the last stage of the Junior Apprentice, he has made several appearances on BBC TV shows and he also writes for the Huffington Post UK. Steve has spoken at over 20 universities this year alone about entrepreneurialism and the art of pitching . He’s passion personified.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks,
he becomes.
- Mahatma Gandhi