Join us at The Square Club on Wednesday 2nd August from 12.30-2pm. BCI’s members’ lunches are the perfect opportunity to catch up with fellow members and the BCI team and, as some of our lunches are now in person again, you can enjoy a delicious Mediterranean buffet lunch too!
There’ll be plenty of opportunities to catch up with old friends and meet some new faces too. Everyone will have a 3 min slot to introduce themselves and tell the others a little about who they are and what they do and share any news and/or challenges. You don’t need to fill the three minutes but Chris is a rigorous timekeeper! We usually find some common themes emerge which we can discuss over the course of the session. It’s all very informal with no need to stand up and present slides!
The members’ lunch is much more than just pitching; it’s a shared space for connecting with your peers to discuss challenges and opportunities: post-covid issues, maintaining company culture when working remotely, getting rid of office space, recruiting, new business pipeline and conversion, confidence, those on slowdown, those overstretched… the time flies by.
We see businesses of all shapes and sizes during the session. From the managing director of an established 50+ person agency to founders of innovative startups, each month we encourage a variety of members to attend. You’re more likely to meet potential partners or referrers than competitors.
If you’d like to attend email BCI’s membership manager Alli Nicholas at [email protected]. The members’ lunches tend to fill up quickly so if you miss out on this one, you’ll be top of the list for the next!
Going forward, our members’ lunches will be a mix of in person and online events so keep an eye on the calendar for details of future dates.
Not a member? Sign up today so you can join the lunch!
It will be an opportunity for local B Corps to meet with one another to encourage and share hints and tips on improving their impact. We are also inviting companies who are currently going through their B Corp journey or interested in getting started.
Delicious lunch, fabulous venue, amazing people.
Tickets are £24 to cover the price of food.
Arrival 1pm, food served at 1:30pm
All are invited to come along to kick off your month with a gorgeous Six Degrees breakfast gathering at The Square Club, Bristol.
Pull up a seat and fill up your cup with fresh coffee, grab a bowl of granola, help yourself to fresh fruit, quench your thirst with fresh juices and indulge in slightly-naughty-but-better-than-a-fried-breakfast-pastry. And do this all whilst networking with Bristol’s finest females.
What’s included
A room full of awesome, like-minded women
Tea & coffee station,
Juice,
Pastries,
Granola or melon pots!
Book your space below!
Parking: Metered parking is available on Berkeley Square; the West End multi-storey car park is 2 minutes around the corner on Jacob’s Wells Rd.
The event starts at 9am, and ends at 1.30pm. Register to secure your place, plus early access to the recordings. Details to join the live event via the HopIn platform will be sent in the few days before the event.
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Social Media: The Channel Most Likely to Lead a ‘Braver Marketing’ Revolution
Mark Choueke is the founder of B2B marketing consultancy and online education provider Choueke Creative. Mark, a once award-winning national newspaper business journalist and former editor of Marketing Week magazine is the bestselling author of B2B marketing book Boring2Brave. His reputation as a leader at the heart of the global B2B marketing arena is built on a 360 degree perspective having been the ‘media’, the ‘agency’ and the ‘brand’. Mark has operated within large corporates and startups alike and raised investment to co-found and run Rebeltech, a successful tech marketing agency. Mark – either on senior leadership teams in-house or as strategic advisor – has served more than 50 B2B technology companies across the world including SAP, Adobe and Contentsquare.
Using Social Media as a Tool to Advocate Diversity and Inclusion
Kim Crowder, Founder & CEO of Kim Crowder Consulting, is one of the United States of America’s executive, leadership and diversity, inclusion, and equity speakers, coaches, trainers, and consultants. Kim and her team work across industries serving global organizations to provide executives and leaders with actionable tools to build healthy, people-centred workplaces long term. Kim has been named by Forbes as a “Top Anti-Racism Educator Companies Need Now,” A Top 10 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Expert by All American, and Top Influential African-American Business Women to Follow by LinkedIn. She is also a member of the MIT Technology Review Global Panel and For(bes) The Culture, and is a LinkedIn Top Voice.
From Allies to Advocates: How to Use Social Media to Show Support for LGBTQ+ Rights
Jake Potter is the head of social media at Colt Technology Services & Pride in London. Joining Colt in 2017, Jake leads the global social media strategy, paid social, and employee advocacy. In 2019, Jake founded Colt’s LGBTQ+ network “Pride Matters” to drive inclusion across the business. As voluntary Head of Social Media at Pride in London, Jake delivers the social media strategy, engaging the community all year round.
Adapting to Gen Z’s Changing Behaviours
Dave Penney is Director of Marketing at UCAS, where he leads a team covering B2B and B2C marketing, reputation, and media relations, UCAS events and UCAS.com. He’s responsible for both UCAS the charity and marketing for its commercial arm and is leading on its strategy to make UCAS.com the go to destination for all education choices. He’s worked in higher education in marketing and communications roles for over 15 years, winning awards for his work on brand, student recruitment and widening participation.
Social Media Updates, with Luan Wise and Andy Lambert
Luan Wise is a chartered marketer and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Luan is author of the award-winning book Relax! It’s Only Social Media. In addition to running her consultancy and training business Luan has worked as a LinkedIn Learning course instructor since 2015 and an accredited lead trainer for Meta since 2019. Luan created The Lighthouse as a one-stop site for social media news and resources in 2021.
Andy Lambert has over 12 years’ experience in creating markets, building profitable businesses, and leadership roles in industry-leading SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) organizations. Working exclusively in B2B SaaS, he has led sales and marketing teams, created two businesses from scratch, and achieved significant exits. In 2016, Andy joined two others as one of the founding team of ContentCal, a social media marketing SaaS product. Over the course of five years, they raised over $10m, grew to be used by multiple thousands of customers in over 100 countries, won numerous awards, and, at the end of 2021 were acquired by Adobe Inc.
How B2B Brands Are Using TikTok in 2023
Katy Howell, CEO, immediate future, is often called in as the UK expert on social by TV, Radio and the press; Katy appears regularly on BBC news, Victoria Derbyshire, and Reuters, as well as in The Telegraph, FT and Guardian. She’s considered the 4th most influential social media marketing expert, named one of the 25 women who have made an outstanding contribution to digital by the Drum, and was honoured to be amongst the Top 100 Asian tech entrepreneurs in the UK.
She speaks at conferences, runs masterclasses, and guest lectures at two universities. She’s co-authored 5 books on social, and is a regular contributor to the press. Her expertise lies in helping brands deliver significant impact by breaking the social boring: using social data to springboard creative that delivers growth to business. Her agency works with brands including; lastminute.com, Princess Cruises, Selfridges, Mission Foods, Google, Diageo, OnBuy, Fujitsu, Sony Music, and many more. They win industry awards every year for their smarts and innovation in social media.
Stop motion animation workshop taught by Director and Animator, Dr Nigel Smith!
Taking place at Pithay Studios in Bristol, this workshop is an ideal beginner’s crash course for learning the art of Stop Motion animation.
The session is open to all ages and levels of experience, including seasoned filmmakers learning a new skill or kids and parents interested in being introduced to animation for the first time.
This is an exclusive opportunity to:
Tabb’s Filmmakers’ Shindig is your chance to get inspired and get involved! We want to encourage you to make your film projects happen, with this opportunity to hear from professionals who have been there and done it already
scriptLab is a FREE monthly event bringing together professionals and emerging talent to workshop new material and explore the possibilities for production.
If you want to:
Then please join us in a safe, supportive space. We meet on the last Saturday of the month.
You’re welcome to participate as a writer, actor, director or producer. Or you can just come along and watch.
Brought to you by ProducerWorks, Bath Spa University, and Tabb.
This short course will help you develop your improvisation, ensemble and story making skills. Learning will take place in a playful environment where you can participate in improvisatory theatre games and narrative driven exercises to tease out the stories you want to tell.
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School offers a fun and nurturing environment in which to pursue your creative ambitions. The support and feedback available from your tutor will help you develop your natural talents and confidence in theatre acting.
This course is perfect for actors, writers and also teachers looking to upskill in devising for work with their students.
15% Student and Spotlight Discount available.
Every click, every website visit, every email delivered – it all has a carbon impact. In fact, it’s estimated that our devices, the internet and the systems supporting them account for about 3.7% of all global greenhouse emissions, similar to that of the airline industry. These emissions are predicted to double by 2025.
So how, when our goal is to drive clicks and increase impressions, do you balance that with sustainability?
Jaye will share the hidden cost of marketing for our planet and the challenges we face as we try to reduce our carbon impact while balancing our marketing success. There is no simple answer, but there will be practical advice to take back to your marketing teams.
This talk will be useful for Marketing Managers and Directors interested in making their marketing more sustainable, or wondering where to start with their digital footprint.
About Jaye
Jaye Cowle is the Founder and Managing Director of Launch, the happy performance agency. Based in the South West, Launch turned 10 last year and has scaled from a kitchen table business to a £2m+ agency with 27 digital marketing experts. A Google Premier Partner, Launch has just been named in the Campaign Top 100 Best Places to Work.
These Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
As busy professionals, especially as people managers or leaders, we are faced with constant demands on our time, resources and resilience. This can drain our energy, and, if left unchecked, lead to burnout. Coach and strategist Fi Craig will walk you through 3 short and practical exercises that will illuminate and track your levels of resilience, and provide you with some immediate practical actions for building and protecting this valuable leadership quality for the future.
Expect to do some thinking of your own in this session, so whilst it’s not essential, a notebook or voice memo would be useful!
This session will be ideal for anyone dealing with conflicting and changing demands, particularly those in leadership and management positions, who sometimes feels overwhelmed and needs some coping strategies to keep them motivated and supported.
About Fi
Fi Craig has spent 20 years as an agency strategist and director, and now supports agency leaders and teams as a coach, consultant, facilitator and strategist. She’s fascinated by behaviour and ways of working, and is a partner at leadership consultancy Form, and an executive coach at Good Thinking.
These Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
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