Twitter UK commercial director Bruce Daisley named as first keynote speaker for SAScon 2012

Further programme announcements will be made in the coming weeks, with the schedule set to cover a range of digital marketing subjects across social media, link building, social commerce, mobile marketing, PR and analytics.

Organising the conference is a committee of digital marketing professionals from the North West of England; Richard Gregory, COO of Latitude, Simon Wharton, managing director of PushOn, Pete Young, regional head of SEO at MediaCom, Nicky Wake, co-founder of Don’t Panic, Gareth Hoyle, director of Manual Link Building, Richard Hudson, director of Vanilla Storm, Pete Cobley, commercial director for hômejames.

Promoting the event will be PR Agency One.

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Richard Gregory, commented: “This conference should be our biggest yet and with Bruce Daisley, UK commercial director of Twitter, confirmed as keynote, SAScon delegates will get exclusive insight into some of the latest developments on the social media platform.”

He added: “SAScon 2012 is going to be jam packed with content and there’s something on offer for anyone with an interest in marketing, not just search and social specialists. Then there is the unique social programme that goes with SAScon, for those who want to network or just socialise with their peers.”

The event will take place at The Hive in Manchester with more details available to view at the SAScon website.