Claire Morley Jones who MD of the HR Consultancy, HR180, Heather Jackson MD, Believe Corporate Relations and Sara Parker, Chair of Yorkshire YDF have been working over the past 2 months to confirm the speakers for the Institute of Directors, Young Directors Forum Conference.

After much anguish after some of the key note speakers we approached weren't available, we went continued to use our networks to find appropriate, inspiring speakers.

So here's the list of speakers:

• Miles Templeman – Event Opener
• Jon Hammond – MC (Catapult Group, former BBC presenter)
• Sir Digby Jones – Key Note (Former Director CBI)
• Judith Donovan – Key Note (Yorkshire Tourist Board)
• Etta Cohen – Key Note (Forward Ladies)
• Andy Stanford Clark – Workshop (IBM master inventor)
• Jo Haigh – Q & A

The next steps in the organisation will be to get the designs for the marketing sorted, website and sponsorship!