ionSearch returns for second year

ONLINE marketing conference ionSearch is returning to Yorkshire and will feature a range of speakers over its two day duration.

Taking place in Leeds in April, ionSearch will welcome speakers from Expedia, BBC, Adobe and Hootsuite – as well as a host of leading experts from the online marketing world.

Expedia’s head of inbound marketing Martin MacDonald, Adobe’s head of social strategy Jeremy Waite, UK ambassador for Hootsuite Allan Beaton, Maplin’s online marketing manager Ed Schofield and BBC analytics expert Gerry White join a host of other speakers from the world of search and social media marketing, including SteelCast’s Dave Snyder, ex-Googler Vanessa Fox, Andrew Dumont of SEOmoz and Dave Naylor of Bronco.

ionSearch was founded by online marketing agency Blueclaw last year. Sponsored by Media Skunk Works, Searchmetrics, Linkdex and AnalyticsSEO, the expanded schedule will include talks, panel discussions and workshops.

Fergus Clawson, Blueclaw’s managing director and ionSearch founder, said: “We had such a fantastic response to the inaugural ionSearch that we decided to expand over two days for the second conference. We have a phenomenal speaker line-up for April, with some of the must see online marketing speakers from Europe and America appearing.

The event takes place at The Carriageworks Theatre on April 18 and 19.