Christer Holloman is the Head of Digital Product Development at The Times and The Sunday Times, an expert commentator and resident blogger at Sky News Tech Talk. Apart from his contagious energy and entertaining presentations, what makes Holloman unique as a speaker and moderator is that he lives and breathes real digital innovation and delivery for a living.

Responsible for the digital product strategy of one of the worlds most well known media brands, as well as regularly discussing innovation with leaders of digital start-ups and global enterprises, he is in a unique position to appreciate corporate constraints, and ways around it, as well as spotting future digital trends today, new business models and new opportunities. He is very much looking forward to sharing this insight with any audience.

Christer has been identified as one of London's 1,000 Most Influential Individuals and ranked as Top 25 Within New Media by Europe's largest regional newspaper, The Evening Standard. He is also expert commentator for Sky News with his own weekly column.

He tried his entrepreneurial wings for the first time as a 10-year old when he attempted to become a retailer for LEGO. He started among other things a Rent-A-Santa operation and an advertising agency in his teens. His entrepreneurial breakthrough came at the height of the IT boom in 2000 when he sold a local social networking site to an investor for an undisclosed amount only 6 months after he had launched it.

Christer has written four books under the heading "First Time Entrepreneur Series" addressing the life cycle of a new business; innovation, planning, delivering and raising venture capital.

Outside business hours Christer is committed to encourage young people to explore their entrepreneurial potential and was named Volunteer of the Year by Young Enterprise (Junior Achievement) in 2008. In 2007 he was recognised by Prince's Trust for creating an online community for entrepreneurial university student.

He studied BSc Business Administration & Economics at the University of Umea in Sweden and Post-Graduate Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK.

Christer is regularly hired by corporates to address their clients and senior management at conferences and kick-offs to inspire and excite the attendees with new ideas they can apply to their own business or department. Most of all delegates will leave the room feeling great about the organisers. Clients include Fortune 500 companies across the EMEA region such as Ogilvy, Panasonic and Nokia.
 
His previous extensive consulting engagements include advising North American VC firms and work with and for brands like Microsoft, Yahoo! and Daily Mail.