Speakers of the 12th Edition

Ben Aston is Founder and CEO of BWZ, a portfolio of content-driven, community-powered media brands that help people and organisations win at work. BWZ reaches millions of professionals every month with trusted content, communities and practical tools that support career growth, decision-making and digital transformation.

It all started with project management. Ben is a PRINCE2 Practitioner and Certified ScrumMaster. In 2011, Ben founded The Digital Project Manager, a PMI Authorized Training Partner, which has become one of the most credible platforms for digital project management information, thought leadership and training. It serves more than 600,000 project managers every month with 50,000+ email subscribers and a 4,000-strong Slack community, making it one of the largest and most active communities of digital project managers in the world.

Ben is also CEO of Revleads, which helps B2B software companies turn marketing into measurable pipeline, and Revstacks, a monetisation platform helping B2B creators unlock the revenue potential of their audiences. Working across hundreds of vendors and publishers gives him a front-row view of where organisations are investing and what is actually delivering results.

Across everything he builds, his focus is the same: closing the gap between vision and delivery, investment and outcomes, and turning fragmented efforts into scalable systems that work in practice, not just on paper. Ben bootstrapped BWZ in 2018. Since then it has been recognised as #30 in Canada's Top Growing Companies, ranked #16 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 in Canada and #107 on the Fast 500 in North America, with 1,356% growth in three years.