Speakers 2026

Emily Lowden-Smith is an Account Manager at TwentyCi, working closely with removers, self-storage operators and home-moving businesses across the UK. Having spent the last several years helping businesses understand and act upon property market data, Emily has developed a strong understanding of the trends influencing customer demand and market activity. She regularly works with the industry’s leading operators, helping them translate market intelligence into practical business opportunities.

Yuriy Margolin is Owner/CEO of Moving Sales Professionals LLC, a call centre for moving and removals companies in the United States, UK and Canada, in business since 2018. He has worked in sales since 2000 and in the moving and removals industry since 2003. He is also Owner/Host of the Let’s Talk Moving Podcast, a podcast focused on the moving and removals industry, designed to educate and promote movers and related mover support businesses. Yuriy spoke at last year’s event.

Victoria Papathanasiou is Co-Founder and CEO of CentralNest, AI-powered quoting and inventory software for removal companies. She’s a physicist by training, with an MSc in Telecoms and 15 years in network engineering and product roles across telecoms, military tech, and retail. She and her husband and co-founder, George, have moved house 17 times, including one where the quote doubled on moving day because the van turned out too small. That’s the problem CentralNest was built to fix. Victoria spoke at FEDEMAC & YMC in Crete earlier this year.

Anthony works on Stora’s sales team, talking daily with storage operators across the UK and Europe about how they’re scaling their operations. He brings a ground-level view of what’s actually working for growing businesses right now, rather than theory.

Olly Sampson is Co-Founder and Director of Partnerships at RemovalsManager, an online operating platform used by removal and storage firms across the UK and Ireland. He spent over 15 years in the removals and storage sector before co-founding RemovalsManager with Paul Morris in 2017.

Oscar Pais is the founder of Relo AI, combining 20+ years of hands-on removals industry experience with deep expertise in AI implementation and automation. He is focused on helping moving companies leverage technology strategically to guarantee ROI.

Dominic Honey is the owner of Removals Plus and has been running marketing campaigns exclusively in the moving industry for over three years. In that time he has seen every angle of marketing for movers: the campaigns that fill diaries, the websites that quietly kill enquiries, and the agency promises that never turn into jobs. He has built a specialised team at Removals Plus that focuses solely on delivering the best quality in the industry across Google Ads, SEO and website building, working with over 60 removal companies across the UK. Every fact, benchmark and example Dominic shares is specific to the moving industry, drawn from real campaigns and real search data rather than generic marketing theory.

Rahul Vekaria is Managing Director of Amax Marketing, a digital marketing agency specialising in websites, SEO and digital growth. With years of experience in digital marketing, Rahul works closely with businesses across the self storage, removals and wider service sectors, helping them improve their online visibility, customer journey and generate more enquiries.

He regularly speaks at industry events, sharing practical, jargon-free advice around websites, SEO, Google and the changing world of online search.

Glen Wills is Head of Sales at S Jones Containers, overseeing the Container Sales and Hire divisions. Drawing on extensive experience gained throughout his sales career, Glen brings strong commercial insight into what customers need to turn an idea into a sustainable business.

Glen leads StoragePro, a dedicated service developed for new and established container self storage operators. He recognises the potential for movers and storers to turn surplus or underused land into a secure, long-term revenue stream. For operators taking that first step, S Jones offers competitive container pricing, business finance, Hire to Buy options and the flexibility to expand in phases, enabling them to start at a manageable scale and grow their sites in line with demand.

Nick Wilkinson runs Wilkinsons Removals & Storage, a very successful family-run removals and storage company in Bristol.

Cat Robson-Scarborough is the co-founder of Your Man With A Van Franchise — one of the UK’s fastest-growing and most distinctive franchise networks, with 70 branches in under three years, operating nationwide from Glasgow to Exeter, Belfast to Brighton.

Cat co-directs the business alongside co-founder and fellow director Dan Robson-Scarborough, and together they have built YMWAV into something the franchise industry rarely sees: a genuinely franchisee-first operation. No commission taken from jobs. No long-term lock-ins. A flat monthly fee and a model built on the belief that when franchisees thrive, everyone wins.

Before YMWAV became a national brand, it was a single van and a simple idea: do things differently. Cat has lived every stage of that journey – from start-up to structured, scalable franchise – and brings the unfiltered reality of that experience to everything she does. Her approach to business is rooted in first principles thinking, a refusal to accept industry norms just because they exist, and an instinct for finding the version of something that actually works rather than the version everyone else is already doing.

YMWAV’s disruptive approach to franchising has earned national recognition: the business features in the Elite Franchise Top 100, and Cat has been named Entrepreneur of the Year at the recent Global Woman Awards in London.

Cat has published her first book – “Is Your Business Ready To Franchise” – and it is already an Amazon Bestseller. The book is all about the reality of understanding whether you and your business are truly ready to enter the franchise journey.

She speaks and writes on franchise innovation, people-first business models and the honest, often uncomfortable reality of building a disruptive brand in a traditional industry.