Speakers

Brett Spencer is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre of Podcasting Excellence at City, University of London He is also a creative consultant for Spiritland Productions and is Executive Editor of BBC Northampton and BBC Three Counties Radio, winners of last years Aria for Radio Moment of the Year award last year for a project with Coldplay. He was the Exec Producer on The Captain Tom Story podcast for BBC Sounds over the last two years.

He spent three years as Digital Content Director at Bauer Media working across both their national brands and local radio network. Prior to this he spent fifteen years at The BBC working for a range of networks including BBC Radio 5 Live, Radio 2, 6 Music and the Asian Network. He was part of the team that launched podcasting at the BBC and won a Sony Award for multiplatform for Wimbledon at BBC Radio 5 Live. Brett was part of the Commissioning team at 5 Live and then commissioned programmes, podcasts and digital output across the BBC Music Radio Networks.

Other major projects included 6 Music Live with Lauren Laverne, Radio 2 In Concert with Jo Whiley, Sounds of the 80s with Sara Cox and BBC Asian Network Comedy. He created and ran the pop up stations Radio 2 Eurovision (2 years) and Radio 2 Country (3 years)He has worked on events ranging from the General Election to the World Cup, the Olympics to Glastonbury, Radio 2 at Hyde Park to the 6 Music Festivals in Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow and Manchester. . He has also worked for IMG, ITN, GMTV and LBC as a programme maker and news editor