The Festival Line Up! (2021… Loading….)
The festival which takes place IN PERSON (6-8th Sept 2021) this year is packed full of amazing content over 3 days. On day 2 and 3 (Weds + Thurs) you can enjoy 2 workshop streams. Don’t worry you won’t miss anything as all sessions will be recorded and added to your event app to watch back whenever you like. Keep checking back to see updates to the programme as we add more great talks… yes! we are trying to impress you.
PS – This is the 2020 programme, but we promise 2021 will be even better… so book your ticket!
Event Welcome
Lucy Hall
Avviso Media Ltd
Eventicious: Welcome to a unique event experience
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AI and the future of work: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for good
Katie will share with the delegates how the AI which is emerging could be described as augmented intelligence, and it could fundamentally change the nature of work and tasks for every department.
Katie King, MBA
AI in Marketing
WWF: “Putting the ‘social’ back into social media”
From social media to streamed TV, partnerships to peer pressure, hear how WWF International aims to mobilise 1 billion people to help set the planet on a path to recovery.
Get Connected!
Your audience is talking about you, are you listening?
Surface-level metrics can be valuable but don’t tell the full story and oftentimes you might be in the dark. Do you have the full picture of what people are saying about you outside of your own channels? By conducting a social listening analysis, you can catch a crisis early, understand your audience as well as your strengths and weaknesses. well as how to stand apart from the crowd.
Wiebke Leffers
Falcon.io
Snapchat What’s New? Exclusive Look at the Best Snapchat Campaigns in 2020
Ed Couchman Snapchat UK GM will be taking us through exclusive audience insights and answering your questions directly from the floor. Find out what is in the development pipeline and see which brands are getting traction as Ed takes you through some of the platforms most innovative case studies.
Ed Couchman
Snapchat
Lunch and Connect
How to drive sales with YouTube creators
To win that attention and cut through the noise, brands should partner with YouTube creators who have earned the trust of their audiences, after years of finding their niche and producing educational or entertaining content. Learn how in this exciting session.
Jennifer Quigley-Jones
Digital Voices
Influencing retail – digital talent’s impact on driving sales
Influencers will have the single biggest impact on consumer product sales in the future. In this session Ian will cover the rapid rise in social media influencers and their impact on retail, his experience of working with some of the world’s biggest stars, and the opportunities for retail and consumer brands post COVID.
Ian Shepherd
The Social Store
BBC: Digital storytelling
Whether we like it or not the news is all around us – from the moment we wake up it’s on our phones, radios, televisions and delivered to us pretty much 24/7 on a proliferation of channels and platforms that we could have only imagined as little as a decade ago or before Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok were a twinkle in anyone’s eye.
Kim Rowell
BBC Three & BBC News
Fireside Q&A With Chris ‘Kubby’ Kubbernus
Returning to SocialDay to complete the "hatrick" Chris 'Kubby' is back, Chris is renowned for delivering amazing presentations full of value and humour. We always run out of time for questions with Chris so we have decided to invite him on stage for a fireside chat where he will be taking questions exclusively from the SocialDay audience. With his open and honest style, you do not want to miss this session!
Chris ‘Kubby’ Kubbernus
Kubb&Co
Get Connected!
How To Keep Up With Social Media News And Trends
One of the biggest challenges facing social media managers and marketers is the ever-changing features introduced by social media platforms. In this session, Luan shares her top tips on keeping up with the latest news and trends, and how to best manage their impact on your own activities without feeling constantly overwhelmed!
Luan Wise
FCIM
How to write a viral tweet, creative techniques that will wow your audience!
Those brands and people who always get loads of likes and retweets - how do they do it? Hel is one of those people who can write a popular tweet at will. In her talk, Hel will share with you the social media principles and creative techniques you can use to bang out tweets that your audience will LOVE. Try it out, and watch those likes, retweets and comments roll in!
Helen Reynolds
Comms Creatives
Leading the Way on Twitter
Seven strategies that brands can use in the coming months for their campaigns, showcasing examples of brands that have recently shown leadership and been active with campaigns on Twitter.
Dave Pepper
Facebook Blueprint Qualifications: Your Questions Answered
Ask the Facebook Blueprint team your burning questions about the qualifications for marketers on offer.
Kristen Walker Beck
Live Cocktail Making Class and Networking with AgoraPulse
Join the SocialDay Team and Agora Pulse for a fun, LIVE Cocktail making masterclass and network fun! You’ll find your recipe card via the app! Hosted by: Moondance Sponsored by: AgoraPulse
Event Welcome
Lucy Hall
Avviso Media Ltd
Eventicious: Welcome to a unique event experience
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Wrangling with Retention and Tackling TikTok
In the last 12 months Guinness World Records has had to adapt record breaking to new online formats, whilst facing the challenge of monetising YouTube, Facebook and Snapchat, learning how to retain the interest of easily distracted audiences on social. Hear all about how these challenges were tackled and how GWR became one of the top five most popular brands on TikTok.
Dan Thorne
Guinness World Records
TikTok Q&A Expert Panel
A panel hosted by Esme Rice, where they will be discussing the new innovations within TikTok using influencers and other marketers to answer your burning questions.
Yenan Wang
PHD Media
Ollie Barton
By Ollie B
Esme Rice
Tailify
Dan Thorne
Guinness World Records
Get Connected!
Generation Cynic?
Join this live panel of 18-24-year olds focussing on the topic of trust on social. It feels like trust is being eroded. Fake news, sketchy influencers or brands making false claims have caused a new generation of cynics. Hype Collective is running a research project, The Trust Issue, looking to understand what drives trust (or lack of trust) specifically around three core areas:
Simon Lucey
Hype Collective
Growth Marketing – Why marketers need a growth mindset?
Building products isn’t enough. Marketing channels are saturated. Rapid Experimentation and Growth Marketing skills help you beat the competition and keep growing! Growth comes from a mix of behavioural psychology, coding, creative marketing and data analysis. Having spent the last couple of years building, coaching and training regiments of growth teams and growth marketers, in this talk I’ll run you through the understanding of necessary data-driven mindset, together with some of the latest stories, learnings and tricks we’ve learned along the way
Ben Naughton-Rumbo
Growth Tribe
Lunch and Connect
Working With Content Creators: The Power of Inclusive Marketing
A talk discussing the importance of working with a diverse group of content creators - ethically and commercially. We'll talk through unconscious bias, best practices and examples of previous campaigns.
Charlotte Williams
SevenSix Agency
Test and Learn: Using Influencers for Market Research
We’re not interested in running out-of-the-box campaigns, and neither are the audiences of 2020. Join Beckii from Pepper Studio, as we prove that through researching whilst marketing, your campaign results will skyrocket. With three different approaches, lots of juicy data, and case-studies galore.
Beckii Flint
Pepper Studio
One Minute Briefs: Make amazing things happen through the power of community
By providing a place where creatives can build confidence, contacts, careers and, most importantly, friendships, Nick has created something special. And, when the OMBLES work together, there’s nothing stopping them.
Nick Entwistle
One Minute Briefs
Get Connected!
Does Brand Activism Win Over Brand Neutrality Panel
Boris Loman
Coca-Cola
Ish Verduzco
Crave It
Bianca Kea
Viacom
Dino Kuckovic
Falcon.io
Event Welcome
Lucy Hall
Avviso Media Ltd
Eventicious: Welcome to a unique event experience
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Instagram Battle: Paid v’s Organic
Kirstie Smith
Social Circle
How to engage your customers through Instagram Stories
Rhea Freeman
Rhea Freeman PR
Lunch and Connect
Does your social sound right? – the place for audio in a social strategy
James Erskine
Rocket - Powered By The Big Shot
Rock Your Personal Brand On Social Media
Christine Gritmon
Christine Gritmon Inc.
Get Connected!
Event Welcome
Lucy Hall
Avviso Media Ltd
Eventicious: Welcome to a unique event experience
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Fear, Faces, and Food: The psychology of grabbing and keeping attention
Patrick Fagan
Founder, Brainchimp
Case Study: Greggs Vegan Sausage Roll
Find out more about the successful viral launch campaign from the team that helped launched Greggs vegan sausage roll. They will also take you through their tips for sustaining organic reach in consumer campaigns.
Alex Clough
Splendid Communications
Get Connected!
How Events Become Communities
Ruslan Demyanenko
Eventicious
Lunch and Connect
Social Media Content Panel
A panel of experts answer your questions and discuss the burning issues in content creation.
Eloise Head
Fitwaffle
Athar Abidi
British Heart Foundation
Will Bonaddio
Electric House
Charlotte Williams
SevenSix Agency
Andy Lambert
Content Cal
Attention Economy: The battle for attention and how to bypass the issue.
The explosion of information across social media has created a battle for attention. These attention demands that didn’t previously exist: advertisers want your attention before you watch the next video on YouTube; your friends want your attention on TikTok SnapChat, Facebook. In this session, we look at how to bypass the issue.
Marcus Foley
Tommy
Why Creativity Fuels Social Growth
Adam Barrie
Electric House
Get Connected!
10 Honest Lessons Learnt From Running A Facebook Ads Agency
This session is all about the sometimes brutal reality of running Facebook Ads campaigns. As practitioners, we all know that certain hurdles exist, so what can you do to plan ahead of time and make sure your campaigns are winning consistently.
Jon Quinton
Overdrive Digital
Understanding Gen Z mindset on TikTok – algorithms, growing a profile and driving sales.
I'll be covering the new world of social media and what it means for marketers. How young people are spending their time and money and what this means for how marketers approach campaigns. i will be using our own case studies but also showing how we've used our own products and turnt them into incredibly successful products built for Gen Z.
Timothy Armoo
Fanbytes
Closing Keynote: Social Chain – Don’t build a brand, build a personality
Why do so many brands still get social media wrong? Hannah Anderson heads up a team who reach over 1.8bn people every month through their 80m followers. She will show how your brand can make a huge impact by building in emotive, human creative from the very start of your campaign.
Hannah Anderson
Social Chain
Wrap-up party: The rise of Gymshark. Timeline by Maybe*
Polly Barnfield OBE
Polly Barnfield OBE
Event Welcome
Lucy Hall
Avviso Media Ltd
Eventicious: Welcome to a unique event experience
Find out about how to navigate our website and app to get the best experience from your event.
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How to build an Effective Facebook Ads Strategy by Katherine George
During this session, Katherine till teach you how to build an Effective Advertising Strategy and Plan, including how to define your business goals, how to identify your target audience, understanding your customer journey, understanding advert objectives, how to create your Facebook adverts, and how to measure success.
Katherine George
Oh So Social
Lunch and Connect
Social Beach: How to explode your brand visibility with an integrated plan
During this session Vee will show how you can boost brand visibility and tactics you can integrate with social media to grow your brand online and offline (on any budget)
Vee Roberts
Insight 2 Marketing
