Jon Burkhart

- Jon started the world’s first real-time marketing blog UrgentGenius.com in 2010 with Grant Hunter

- Channels his passions to promote the world's largest tech festival South By Southwest Interactive where he sits on the Advisory Board. He's created and or delivered seven talks there in four years.

- Leads highly interactive "think-make-launch" workshops for agencies, brands and organisations like British Design and Art Direction.

- Currently builds newsrooms in agencies to kick-start real-time content creation, from designing the physical space to hiring staff to re-working approval processes.

- Spent 10 years in advertising agencies (M&C, VCCP, HHCL, AMV BBDO) from '95 to '05 as a copywriter in a creative team making TV, press and radio.