GREG DYKE, former BBC director-general, tops the bill at next year's Kent 2020 Vision event to be held at the Kent Showground, Detling, on April 3.

The colourful media personality was forced to leave the Beeb in the wake of a damning report on the Corporation’s handling of the "sexed-up" dossier affair involving the late Iraq weapons expert David Kelly.

Mr Dyke will be joined by serial entrepreneur Karren Darby, Alan Knight, former head of sustainable development with B&Q, and Kent’s own business forecaster Professor Richard Scase, from Canterbury.