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After 18 years of working with the local church Matt has both breadth and depth of experience in leading teams, developing strategy, communicating vision, mobilising leaders and working in partnership with community-wide organisations. As an ENFJ he recharges around others, is a good listener and enjoys connecting with new people. He am focussed and disciplined and relish innovation and unlocking growth.

A leading portrait photographer specialising in families and children, branding and entrepreneurs and weddings and engagements, Jonathan is one of the highest-ranked photographers in the South East for Google reviews and has worked with over 500 families in the past five years as well as with leading high-street brands including current work with M&S and John Lewis. In the words of the Master of an Oxford college, “Jonathan’s photographs have a strong emotional charge and he builds an immediate and strong rapport with all his subjects”.

His career spans over 20 years working in the creative industries, firstly as a book editor for Random House (Jonathan Cape) and Penguin, then as an editor in the film trade before working for a variety of charities as a writer and trainer of story-telling, photography and social media and now working full-time as a portrait photographer.

Claire is an experienced Social Media Consultant and strategist, based in Cambridge. She specialises in helping businesses succeed on social media using savvy strategy, personal branding & training for business leaders.

James Poulter is a London based, international communications consultant, speaker and writer, specialising in social media marketing and technology. James Poulter (most people know him as JP) is the CEO of Vixen Labs and founder of Voice2 the UK’s leading Voice and Conversational Ai Community and an Innovation and Marketing consultant specialising in voice technology, conversational AI and social media.

Previously as Head of The LEGO Group’s Emerging Platforms & Partnerships team as part of the Digital Consumer Engagement division, James Poulter is pursuing new technologies, platforms and partners to build digital consumer engagement with LEGO customers, shoppers and consumers on a global basis.

Ben Jones is the CEO and founder of Missional Generation, (a Christian youth charity seeking to equip young people to live influential lives for God). Ben is married to Hannah and they have two primary aged children. The family have lived in Leeds for many years and enjoy being part of the local Church and community. Ben has over 15 years of experience working in the local Church developing youth ministries and has a personal interest in videography and digital communications. He loves to innovate and find new ways to share faith in Jesus and to disciple young people. Ben has led the charity’s work in using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality to explore faith, mission and evangelism.
Ben strongly believes that the Church can grow confident using digital to communicate the powerful truths within the Bible. He is passionate about seeing the combination of traditional paper based and digital methods to bring a fresh revelation of God’s word in this digital age.

Emma Sijuwade is the founder of Socibelle, a purpose driven social media agency which helps churches, businesses and brands build their social media presence. She has a trackable record of creating successful social media campaigns and works with purpose-driven brands like; The Church of England, Thy Kingdom Come, Everyday Church Online, SAT-7, Archbishop of Canterbury, Speak Life and more.