Mike is the Founder and CEO of Glisser, award winning audience engagement software. Prior to forming Glisser, Mike was a Chief Marketing Officer working in the telecoms and financial services industries, where he was responsible for multi-million dollar budgets with a significant weighting towards client and employee events. Most recently Mike was at Octopus Investments, a London fund manager and venture capital company, where he helped grow assets under management from £500m to £4 billion in five years. Octopus ran over 200 events each year, yet by streamlining the meeting design approach and deploying technology and resources effectively, employed just one Events Planner.

Event planners are tired of logging in and out of various systems to plan a single event. Even worse is exporting, cleaning and then re-importing data from one system to another. In this panel, we'll talk with the newly launched Event Tech Tribe on their philosophy of an open API. Not sure what that is? Don't worry - we'll cover that too!