The Host

Jim Hawkins

Jim wants to make a positive difference with everything he does. With thirty years' Sony Award-winning broadcast experience to his name, he presents the weekday mid-morning show on BBC Radio Shropshire.

He's also a portrait photographer, event host, social entrepreneur and social-media enthusiast. Jim is a guitar player, and is very fond of cheese.

Visit Jim's website or follow him on twitter @jimallthetime

The Organisers

Heather Noble

Salt Solutions is a Shropshire based company established by local business woman Heather Noble in 2009. Providing a personal, flexible and bespoke service to local businesses to strengthen their brand image, promote their services and present themselves in the best light possible.

We get into the true essence of what makes your business unique, what makes your clients tick and what you need to shout about. And then we help you to shout about it!

Getting to know you and unearthing new routes to market is what gets us up in the morning and we can help you do this is several different ways;
Marketing, PR, Event Planning and Promotion, Presentation Skills and Networking opportunities.

Call 07843 006984 to find out more about our services.

You can also visit the website or follow Heather on twitter

Kirsty Burgoine

Kirsty Burgoine is an organiser of Shropgeek and a regular attendee. She is also a web developer based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

With 10 years experience working for marketing, print and web design studios throughout Shropshire. Kirsty has an excellent understanding of what it takes to create a successful website, including initial design and build, search engine optimization and online marketing.

In 2010 Kirsty set up her own business. Using her experience developing both small lead generation brochure sites and large scale, bespoke e-commerce solutions, she now specializes in developing for WordPress.

As well as this, Kirsty is the editor Imagine Shropshire. An online magazine designed to showcase all of those hidden gems Shropshire has to offer.

To find out more information visit her website www.kirstyburgoine.co.uk or follow Kirsty on twitter

Zach Beauvais

Zach is one of the original founders of Shropgeek and regular attendee

Zach Beauvais works for Talis as a Platform Evangelist: talking, reading and writing about the semantic web, Linked Data and online innovation.

With a background in linguistics, Zach is interested in semantics first, and the web second; seeing the advantage of building with machine-readable data.

He has written for ReadWriteWeb and ZDNet, he also edits the Semantic Web's community magazine, Nodalities and regularly records podcasts for Nodalities

You can find out more by reading Zach's blog, Blogging Perspective or you can follow Zach on twitter

To find out more about Talis visit their website www.talis.com/platform/