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As founder, Danny is our lead spokesperson in the media. His columns have been published in national newspapers such as The Guardian and The Telegraph, as well as Campaign, Marketing, Media Week, Revolution, New Media Age, INMA, and the Journal of Digital Marketing, among others. As an author, he has contributed to books by the IPA, Henry Stewart, and the “For Dummies” series, and more.

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Driving the digital transformation agenda – at the BBC and beyond

Stories from transformation journeys, with Danny Meadows-Klue, Founder & CEO, Digital Strategy Consulting

Danny has been driving digital transformation since before it had a name.

In the early 90s, he created digital brands on databases and CD ROMs for the United News & Media group, where he trained as a publishing strategist. In 95, the UK’s first online newspaper, www.Telegraph.co.uk hired him as their brand manager where he pioneered digital publishing and became an industry leader, recognised by the government as one of the UK internet industry’s “100 founders”. He pioneered digital advertising, co-founding the digital industry’s trade association – www.IABuk.net – where he spent 10 years as CEO or Chairman, helping 20 other countries adopt the model to accelerate the transformation of their industries. He has pioneered the digital transformation agenda in education, helping author university and post-graduate courses in digital media and marketing before founding the Digital Training Academy. For the marketing and media industry, he wrote dozens of the first public access training programmes for groups across Europe including ISBA to the IDM, DMA and the IABs, teaching agencies and brands how to use digital channels and media owners how to package and sell in a digital world. In government, he’s served as a policy advisor to ministers of all three main parties, helping create policies to stimulate the creative industries, drive economic growth and regulate digital in a way that protects consumers while enabling commerce. He developed the idea for the ICO’s office, and became the inaugural Commissioner for Digital & Direct marketing to ensure people’s data and rights were respected.

As founder & CEO of www.DigitalStrategyConsulting.com he focusses on driving digital transformation within large organisations, leading the global digital transformation programmes for blue chip names such as Unilever, Diageo and Coca-Cola, coaching thousands of marketers and business leaders on using the latest digital and marketing tools and channels.

Here at the BBC, he was a catalyst in launching our commercial operations. Danny developed the BBC’s Digital Media Sales Academy for all our teams in the UK, Singapore and other markets, helped develop the first-rate cards and sales policies, and guided us along the right track at a time of massive change. To transform digital literacy more broadly, he worked on the launch of News 24, co-producing and presenting our first regular TV packages as “Cyber Update”, a mini-programme within Europe Direct delivered live from cybercafes around London – a show that would become today’s Click.

You can find out more and send him questions in advance of the talk at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannymeadowsklue 

Danny is a world expert in marketing and ecommerce transformation. He helps teams win in a digital world by accelerating their sales capability & marketing approaches.

He has led global the programmes that transformed Unilever, Coca-Cola, Mastercard, Diageo, and many more – running local programmes in more than 50 countries. He’s written more than 500 training courses in marketing, ecommerce and business transformation, and more than 45,000 people have attended his talks and education programmes.

In his early career he ran the first online newspaper in Europe www.Telegraph.co.uk, the first online fantasy football game, and one of the first ecommerce stores, before NBC appointed him as a European Vice President.

He advises governments and law makers, coaches CMOs, and began training teams on ecommerce in 2002. As an author, he’s written for dozens of newspapers and magazines, and is a regular commentator on television. At conferences he has more than 250hrs of keynote speeches.

Away from the digital world he is a master instructor scuba diver, a fellow of the UK’s Royal Society, keen traveller and photographer.

You can find out more and send him questions in advance of the talk at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannymeadowsklue 

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  In conversation: Danny Meadows-Klue, Founder & CEO, Digital Strategy Consulting, in conversation

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  Panel debate: Danny Meadows-Klue, Founder & CEO, Digital Strategy Consulting, chairing a pan-European panel of digital marketing leaders

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  VR for relaxation in the workplace - Danny Meadows-Klue invited Tripp to join us at Coca-Cola's Dominating the Digital Marketplace

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  Annual lecture: Danny Meadows-Klue, Founder & CEO, Digital Strategy Consulting, addressing the Institute of Direct Marketing

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  Question Time: Danny Meadows-Klue at the media industry’s “Question Time” debate

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  Industry task force: Danny Meadows-Klue, Founder & CEO, Digital Strategy Consulting, chairing an industry task force on standards in marketing and advertising

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  Coaching marketing and media leaders: Danny Meadows-Klue leading one of our first Digital Publishing Strategy Academy workshops

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  Hobbies and interests: Away from digital transformation and marketing training, Danny Meadows-Klue is a keen flier and qualified master scuba diving instructor. This photo may be relevant for conference biographies.