30+ marketing and sales experts to talk about starting and growing a freelance business

Grant Lingel is the co-founder of Neil Patel Digital Latin America and Sentient Media. He is a serial entrepreneur in the tech and media space, teaches digital MBA courses for multiple international universities and online programs, and invests in plant-based businesses in the Brazilian market.

He has written two books, produced a travel show, and speaks multiple languages. Originally from Rochester, New York, he has lived in New York City, California, Mexico, Guatemala, Tanzania, and now Brazil, where he has been living since 2011.

Roderick has been named by LinkedIn as a number 1 #sales influencer 2021!

Roderick Jefferson is an internationally recognised, business-focused speaker. Having given keynote presentations nationally and 10 countries globally, he understands the power of sharing real-life strategies that work.

Over the past two decades, Roderick has shared his dynamic and energetic voice globally in a variety of events including keynotes, guest lectures, and domain expertise panels, with companies including Oracle, Salesforce.com, 3PAR/HP, Business Objects, NetApp, PayPal, Siebel Systems, and AT&T.

In addition to a highly successful speaking career, Roderick is an acknowledged thought leader in the sales enablement space and author of the book, Sales Enablement 3.0: The Blueprint to Success.

For over 20 years, he has built award-winning sales enablement organizations within some of the world's most successful Fortune 1,000 companies.

Alison describes her key skill as transforming creative ideas into a business reality. She accomplishes this with the films she produces, the creative entrepreneurs she mentors, SMEs and freelancers she advises and in her Penguin published book, The Freelance Bible.

Alison has an unique skillset in that she has formal academic training (INSEAD MBA); has worked at senior level in many media companies; is an entrepreneur who has established several businesses and is a Nesta accredited Creative Enterprise trainer and mentor. She brings her passion, knowledge and experience with her in all the work she does.

Katrina Cobb, a digital nomad, polymath, business consultant and growth catalyst, helps six figure service providers scale by uncovering blindspots that keep them small, leverage systems and support, and foster innovation in the business model and how they serve.

For more than 20 years, Cyriel has been inspiring organisations like IKEA, NASA and Unilever to approach Change with courage, confidence and enthusiasm. My pragmatic advice has earned me the nickname The Simplifier. In an increasingly complex world, we need new simple perspectives to enable us to navigate uncertainty and to turn problems into opportunities.

Sarah Townsend has been a freelance marketing copywriter for 20+ years and is author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, Survival Skills for Freelancers. Since publishing the ultimate guide to self-employment, Sarah has been on a mission to raise awareness of the importance of mental health and wellbeing for freelancers and the small business community through talks, webinars and mentoring. She is an Enterprise Nation adviser and a FreelanceHER 100 ambassador and mentor.

At 18 Andy started designing websites, made his passion into his regular income and grew to an agency sized company. That agency 'nmg' became a top-50 agency in Belgium and won Trends Gazelle award in 2021. Andy made an exit at age 37 after a multi-million euro deal but remains active as shareholder and at board of directors level.

Andy is an author of a book ''From Freelancer to Entrepreneur'' (which sold over 1.000 copies in Belgium) and a professional speaker.

Today Andy helps other organisations to scale-up trough marketing and branding strategies.

Sanne was a professional gap filler, problem solver and expert Googler. She would do everything that comes her way. She pioneered, optimised, solved, automated, created and worked hard. But when she was about to become a mother, her priorities changed, and she needed more flexibility and time.

So Sanne decided to made a complete career switch, learned everything along the way, and here she is now, working for a wide range of clients as a freelancer marketeer.

Andrea Chase is a Business Development Consultant and Entrepreneur from Ottawa, Canada. Her most recent venture, ProCabby LTD., is a Canadian technology startup; a free mobile app aiming to help modernize and rebuild the Taxi Industry. She is passionate about Entrepreneurship, women in business, and helping others find their own paths to success on their own terms. Andrea has a Degree in Psychology from Concordia University, and a Diploma in Small & Medium Enterprise Management from Algonquin College.

Sherif has 12+ years multinational corporate experience in Business development, marketing & sales with Vodafone, Henkel, IBM & Oracle. Moreover, startup experience with companies such as AdTech & Souq.com an "Amazon company". Now the Co-founder & CEO of tod-Z top talent freelance marketplace.

Samantha Salisbury has more than 20 years' experience managing events all over the world covering sectors including sport, academia, pharmaceuticals, banking, and public sector. In 2006, Samantha set up Jonsam Events – specialising in academic conferences and corporate events. Samantha is an Online Tutor for the MA in Creative Events Management at Falmouth University. In 2020 Samantha set up the Facebook Group – "Get Ahead in Events" which has grown to a community of nearly 900 event profs. Samantha also set up the Events Career Club in July 2020 which is a membership for event professionals looking to take that next step in their events career. Samantha has also created The Planner 2021 – a planner/diary to help event profs manage all aspects for their lives.

Shane has a degree in Advertising, Digital Media and Project Management and worked as a graphic designer in house within corporate before he followed his own path to help his clients discover why their business is different and why their audience should care.

As a Consultant in Growth and Funnel hacking, Pieter helps companies to make their sales and marketing funnel more profitable. Through application of data analysis, data tracking and data tracking implementation, Pieter helps to improve the existing sales funnel for his customers.

Stefan is a freelance writer for startups and VCs, and is the author of the bestselling book The 50 Laws of Freelancing.

As a journalist and writer, he's interviewed hundreds of founders, executives, investors, and government officials on what it means to be a successful entrepreneur. He's been featured in Huffington Post, Fast Company, Thrive Global, BetaKit, and more.

Michaela is one of the Nijskens Branding Agency's 'Branding Stars', a freelance Personal Brand Strategist. She specialises in personal branding, online reputation management, social media management and PR.

Kamila's education covers two separate degrees, Psychology and Social Anthropology, which gave her the perfect background knowledge for international design projects.

Kamila applies behavioural science to business, design, and marketing, incorporating such cool concepts as gamification and nudges.

Behavioural science applies research on attention, influence, and decision-making to marketing and sales to create campaigns that resonate with the target audience. In this session Kamila will help to discover what makes your customers tick, then make them tick for your brand.

Anastasiia is an experienced marketer working with the organizations with big missions. She helps such companies to reach their business goals with ethical marketing and community management. Her past projects include Belgian SaaS startups, English-language publications, tech projects, international communities and event industry.

Javier has been working in hyper growth SaaS sales for the last 7 yrs. His experience comes from 3 unicorns : Zenefits, Rippling & WeWork, where under his leadership he was responsible for scaling and leading growth in Sales organisation across the US and Latin America. He recently founded Cuota, where by leveraging his experience, he intends to, along with him team of sellers, bring the SaaS sales framework across the globe and via a marketplace make flexible SaaS opportunity available to global sales talent.

Mathias is passionate about bringing companies from 0 to 1. Acted as first employee or (co-)founder of 5 start-ups in the e-marketing and renewable energy industry. Currently creating entrepreneurs people look up to, both in business and in life.

Chris is the founder of Boulder SEO Marketing, a top-rated Colorado based digital marketing agency. Chris is also the founder of CR Global Digital Marketing, an international SEO agency. He's an international keynote speaker and lecturer in online marketing for the University of Strasbourg, France. Chris and his team assist local, national and international customers with all of their digital marketing needs. Learn more about Chris by connecting with him on LinkedIn and by following him on Twitter.

Ermelinda is a young Teal-Entrepreneur, a born connector and trained marketeer. She's Jack-of-all-trades and a growth/change agent. She founded AngLe Agency, a cutting-edge boutique agency, promoting change, growth, and digital transformation. In her presentation, she'll dive into the power of stories in inspiring action.

Stefaan is passionate about the good, bad and ugly of entrepreneurship. He loves to support founders with creating clarity, setting the right goals and keeping focussed on doing the right stuff. Has read every business book with at least 4 stars on Goodreads.

Ilse Van Eetvelde is a sociologist and marketeer. She has been an entrepreneur for 16 years, helping thousands of clients getting started with online marketing or enhancing results. Ilse runs Merkus, a marketing agency dedicated to SME's. Clients describe Ilse as being hands on, results-driven, over-delivering, creative and dedicated. She loves to share her knowledge and ample experience with others.

Angèl has over seven years experience as a Branding Strategist. She is specialized in personal branding, online reputation management, media & PR. She advises individuals and companies about how to build and promote a strong personal brand. Based on the experience she gained over the years, she developed a proven method to build a strong personal brand. Angèl works with entrepreneurs, public figures and politicians who want to raise their profile and build their credibility as a thought leader.

Frederik helps entrepreneurs and freelancers to increase their personal freedom by optimising and simplifying the internal communication in their company, creating time and space to work on the company instead of in the company.

Ania Krol is a world traveler, music lover, and ice-cream addict who loves helping people. Professionally Ania is the Freelance Coach who helps people grow their freelance business by providing career, sales and marketing mentorship. She has 5 years of experience in freelancing and coaching and has mentored over 200 people from 16 nationalities. Her mission is to show as many people as possible that they can be emotionally, financially and location independent. Ania is also a speaker, full-time digital nomad, and remote work consultant.

Nadia has 10+ years event industry experience. Before starting her own business in 2020, Nadia had worked in 4 different EU countries and had been working on supplier's and client's sides. Nadia specialises in business development, sales, revenue generation through events and negotiations. In 2020, Nadia founded "Business & Events Academy", an online platform providing continuous personal and professional education through trainings and coaching for the event professionals and the event business owners. Nadia is a proud 2020-2021 MICE Ambassador of Helsinki.

Nicolas helps founders and freelancers create a context of brutal honesty around them. At Rubicon, he surrounds them with like-minded peers that are willing to challenge them.

Úna Herlihy is the co-founder and curator of The Indie List, Ireland's first and only marketplace where freelancers can find work, network and be part of a like-minded community. She started her career in creative agencies McCann-Erickson and BBDO, but ultimately was destined to listen to her internal entrepreneur and has been working as an independent consultant, facilitator and connector of people since 2005. Apart from being passionate about creativity and the creative process, she is a board member of AsIAm, Ireland's autism charity. She lives in the south-east of Ireland with her artist husband, 3 children and a sad collection of mal-nourished house plants.

Nishant is a strong advocate of tech-enabled services for better, more seamless experiences and all things tech in general. As a longtime consultant and fueled by his passion for the future of freelancing and travel, he founded NOMAWO with the mission to build the first freelancer/independent professional platform that actually cares about them and exists to support and empower them to scale faster, better, and stress-free.

Nishant is an explorer, entrepreneur and a realistic optimist. He loves to cook and experiment with the fusion of different cuisines, is an avid traveler and an aspiring influencer with his wife.

Erendiz Ates is co-founder of AZ-Solutions and an authority in the field of LinkedIn and social selling trainings and implementations. With his very pragmatic approach, he educates his winning social selling framework that fits with your branding strategy. He helped over +250 companies and 1000+ professionals from different sectors to scale their visibility, trust and business. Since 2018, he has also been one of a select group of LinkedIn ambassadors in Belgium.