Conference Hosts 2026
Are you looking to plan a conference this year and looking for a conference host or facilitator? Or looking for someone to interview your CEO on stage in a fireside chat format?
We have supplied and worked with a number of experienced conference hosts and journalists that have hosted half day and full day conferences and these are just a few of them we would recommend
Declan Curry is former BBC Business Presenter and popular conference host and facilitator as well as an after-dinner speaker on the economy. A familiar face from television, he reported for BBC One’s “Breakfast” and “The One Show” as well as BBC Two’s “Working Lunch,” and “Your Money” on the BBC News channel.
Declan Curry hosted “On The Money,” a weekly review of business and enterprise for BBC Radio 5 live and broadcast daily segments from London for ABC News in the United States.
He has been explaining business and the economy for more than two decades; not only on TV and radio, but for newspapers and magazines, and on websites, blogs and social media.
Helen Fospero is a well-respected TV journalist and corporate host, known for her warmth, attention to detail and professionalism.
Helen is an experienced and popular facilitator for corporate events including conferences and awards ceremonies. Her clients include Rolls Royce, Barclays Bank, RICS, Pioneer Investments and Hyundai. Her work has taken all over the world – to South Korea, Shanghai, America, Africa, Europe and more.
She has worked for all of the UK’s main broadcasters as a correspondent and presenter – including Sky News, Five, ITV Breakfast, BBC1’s The One Show and consumer show Watchdog. Helen Fospero lived in New York as ITV’s U.S. Correspondent for three years and was the only British TV journalist to witness the Twin Towers come down on September 11th. Whether she’s interviewing Prime Ministers, royalty, celebrities, CEOs or members of the public, she puts everyone at ease.
Louise Minchin is a widely respected, broadcaster and TV presenter and best known for appearing on Breakfast on BBC One and is a popular choice to host conferences and awards events.
In addition to Breakfast, Louise has hosted The One Show on BBC One, and You and Yours for Radio 4 and has also presented programmes on Radio Five Live and BBC Radio Two. Louise was one of the main anchors on the BBC News Channel and a regular presenter of the BBC One O’clock News before she joined Breakfast full time in 2012.
Away from news she presented five series of Missing Live and Real Rescues on BBC One and has played a newsreader in Spooks, Silent Witness, and Torchwood. In 2016 she was runner-up in Celebrity Masterchef.
Roger Harrabin is one of the media’s most influential voices on the environment, energy and climate change. He is Energy and Environment Analyst for the BBC, where he has broadcast for more than 30 years.
Roger Harrabin has been a global pioneer in environment reporting. He was founder presenter of the BBC environment programme Costing the Earth and has won many awards for his work in radio and TV.
His quest for impartiality led him to broadcast two three-part series on Radio 4 tackling the risks and uncertainties in climate science and technology. His reporting on new topics has often been trend-setting – he was, for instance, the first mainstream reporter to highlight the central role that energy would play in the environment. He has interviewed many influential figures including Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Ban Ki Moon, Al Gore and Sir David Attenborough.
Katie Derham is a former News Presenter and now Radio 3 Presenter, who presents the Proms on BBC television and is a fantastic conference host and awards host. Known to many initially as a newsreader Katie spent the first 15 years of her broadcasting career in current affairs, first at the BBC then at ITV’s as there youngest ever newsreader.
She has since moved away from mainstream news and is a presenter on BBC Radio 3 and is one of the station’s best-known voices.
She has been presenting the BBC Proms since 2010 and hosts the weekly magazine show Proms Extra every Saturday on BBC2 during the season.
Samantha Simmonds is a TV news presenter, journalist, broadcaster and conference and awards host with more than 20 years experience. She is currently presenting on the BBC, where she covers all the main programmes for BBC World News – including the agenda-setting ‘The Briefing’on BBC 1 and ‘Business Live’on the BBC News Channel. She has also hosted the ‘One to One’Series on BBC Radio 4, and can also regularly be heard on BBC Radio London covering the early breakfast programme.
Samantha Simmonds has broken some of the biggest stories of recent years – most recently the devasting Sri Lanka bombings, the arrest of Julian Assange and the death of George HW Bush – anchoring rolling coverage for several hours.
She was previously a main presenter on Sky News for more than a decade. While there Samantha covered stories such as the shocking murder of British MP Jo Cox, the EU referendum and the royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Samantha was also the first British broadcaster to break the news of the death of pop superstar Michael Jackson.
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