Join Enterprise Nation, the UK’s leading small business network, to learn everything you need to get started on your business – in just one day.
In this jam-packed session, you’ll find out how to turn a business idea into reality.
Expect practical tips, inspiring stories, and a fun, interactive Saturday. Leave armed with all you need to begin your journey as a start-up founder!
Speakers: Hannah Lee and Carl Godfrey, Mytton Williams
The surprise benefits of side projects
Over the years, we have undertaken many side projects both personally and within the business – free from the defined goals of a client brief, they allow us time and space to explore our design creativity for personal rather than client purposes. However, they have also been an excellent addition to our marketing toolkit, helping us to connect with our audience in different ways and develop relationships, without being too ‘sales’ focused. In this talk we will reveal the surprise benefits of side projects and what they can bring.
Mytton Williams is a brand and design agency specialising in creating brands that are simple, smart and effective. We believe good design can make the world a better place. Less confusion, more clarity and more beauty. It has the power to shift perceptions and change behaviours, to help society and transform organisations.
The format of the night:
5.00 PM – Doors Open – Drinks, Networking, and smiles
5.30 PM – Introduction and Talks Begin
6.00 PM – Talks Finish, Networking, Listening, Saying Hello, and Positively Lovely People – A nice chilled out time 🙂
6.45 PM – End of the night – you leave with new contacts and fresh ideas
Price – £8 (includes free drink and any money left over from ticket sales will go to charity)
There’s no denying it, there is a war on talent in many sectors globally right now. The creative industry has seen swathes of talented people leave agencies for new careers, freelancing or even going across to client-side. So, how do you fight back? A starting point is creating an EVP – an employee value proposition that is thoughtfully considered, innovative in its construction and valuable and motivating to your staff. A promise that demonstrates that your business is progressive, empathetic, and culturally oriented.
This Wake Up Call is particularly relevant for agency leaders who are looking for inspiration on how to retain and attract the very best talent for their creative business.
Simon’s career in the industry began in London in the early 1990’s. He cut his teeth in client service working in advertising, integrated marketing and brand consultancy before making the leap into agency ownership.
Brand planning was something that he enjoyed as he ventured into agency ownership, but he’s never lost sight of how important relationships are in business world and his M.O. of always being helpful and giving without expectation has helped to create a positive and successful culture at Mr B & Friends. As CEO, he is ultimately responsible for the success and performance of the agency but is still delighted to roll his sleeves up and get stuck in to client projects.
> See Mr B & Friends member profile here
> Connect with Simon on LinkedIn
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.
The Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re interested in becoming a member with BCI, you can read about the membership perks here.
No matter how much time and money you invest in planning, research, UX, design & development, no website is perfect. But how can you be confident any changes you make will have a positive impact?
This session is perfect for anyone who manages, monitors, designs, builds or makes decisions about their own, or their clients’ websites. Ryan will recommend a tried & tested approach and give some tips for things you can implement immediately.
Ryan is an independent Conversion Optimisation Consultant, helping clients ensure visitors take the desired action on their website. He’s going to share his top conversion tips from more than 20 years and 400 clients’ website projects.
> See Ryan’s member profile here
> Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn
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.
The Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re interested in becoming a member with BCI, you can read about the membership perks here.
In this live webinar, you will gain an understanding of:
1. What Local Marketing is
2. Types of Local Marketing
3. How local marketing works to grow your business.
4. How to set goals for local marketing
5. What you need to make your local marketing strategy a success
With this information you’ll be able to create actionable steps to improve the local marketing strategy for your business.
Register now to save your seat. Click on the ‘GET TICKETS’ button below.
About the Presenter Brandon Griffin
Brandon joined Gannett in 2017 and has worked in various capacities including becoming one of the company’s first Regional Digital Marketing Experts, and a Client Success Manager on the first team ever dedicated to national brand support for print and digital advertising services in the United States and United Kingdom (Newsquest). With more than 10 years of experience in digital marketing, Brandon has worked with Non-Profit, Education, Retail, Government, Energy, Real Estate, Automotive, and Health Care clients strategically optimizing campaigns for positive ROI.
Bristol already has 15 Certified B Corporations. They are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. B Corps are accelerating a global culture shift to redefine success in business and build a more inclusive and sustainable economy.
Come along to find out more about how B Corp can support you to improve your social and environmental impact, developing your triple bottom line of People, Planet and Profit.
Our own Andy Hawkins is a B Leader and runs Business On Purpose who have helped dozens of companies with their own B Corp journey ranging from small businesses with one or two people right the way up to multi-nationals. This time more than ever it’s important we all play our part to be the very best version of ourselves that we can be. The B Corp framework helps you to move from aspirations to actions.
Free tickets via the RSVP, event will be held in the presentation space (Abraham Room) at Square Works
Together we can do so much more.
Me, Myself, I: Artists’ Self-Portraits provides historical context to today’s selfie culture, through an exploration of self-portraiture over the last three hundred years. The exhibition, curated by Tessa Jackson OBE, in particular explores the last fifty years and the ways artists have imagined and presented themselves: from the highly personal and psychological to the controversial and political.
Me, Myself, I: Artists’ Self-Portraits includes over 80 artworks by major artists such as Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin, Sonia Boyce, Antony Gormley, Gillian Wearing, Harold Offeh, Shanti Panchal, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Angelica Kauffman, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Lucian Freud, Patrick Heron, Tony Bevan, Madame Yevonde and many more.
Discover the artists who challenged social norms and defied conventions, who questioned identity, gender and representation ahead of their time, and who constantly think afresh in an ever-changing world. Me, Myself, I: Artists’ Self-Portraits is a timely re-examination of a fundamental area of art history that will bring together work from the 1720s to the 2020s, placing well-known artists alongside emerging talent.
#RWASelfPortraits
Image: Tony Bevan RA (B.1951), Head and Neck, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 90.6 x 74.1cm. Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photo © Royal Academy of Arts, London; photographer: John Hammond. © Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This MyWorld event, in collaboration with Digital Catapult, will mark the launch of the first funding opportunity from the programme; a Collaborative Research and Development (CR&D) Call for applicants seeking funding from £100,000 – £200,000 for cross-disciplinary projects.
The event will bring together the CreaTech, industry and research communities including those from the academic partners in the project (University of Bristol, University of Bath, UWE, and Bath Spa University) and provide an opportunity to meet with representatives from the MyWorld project, Digital Catapult, and wider programme partners.
Celebrating the vibrant creative technology and media production industries, and highlighting previous academic collaborations will be a key feature of the event. Attendees will hear from leading industry figures on the challenges and opportunities the sector faces, as well as highlighting some of the world-class academic research in the region. This is an opportunity to network, better understand the field as it is today, and see the vision for cementing the West of England’s position in the global creative technology industry.
This event is open to anyone from industry, start-ups or academia looking to apply to the CR&D call, or those interested in finding out more about the MyWorld programme and its expected impact on the region over its five-year duration.
Agenda:
1:30pm – Arrival. Tea and coffee provided.
2:00pm – Event start. There will be a number of presentations followed by a panel discussion.
4:30pm – Networking with light refreshments.
6:00pm – Departure.
Do you have a great tech business idea, but don’t know where to start? Or are you unsure what to do next in order to grow your technology company? Then sign up for #Idea2Pitch event hosted by SETsquared Bristol to help hone your ideas, and shape them into a pitch for gaining interest or support in your venture.
This event is designed for non-SETsquared members. Tech founders or aspiring tech entrepreneurs of all levels and backgrounds are welcome to apply to attend. The event will take place at the Coach House.
#Idea2Pitch includes an interactive workshop on what makes a good business idea, and how to pitch it for maximum effect, and an introduction to SETsquared.
Workshop leader: Rick Chapman, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at SETsquared
Virtua11y brings the leading thinkers and doers in accessibility and digital inclusion to share best practice, the latest thinking and what the future holds for accessibility. Expect talks, panel discussions, workshops and interviews that you can enjoy for free and from the comfort of your sofa.
Tuesday 17th May
10:00 – 11:00 | How to create a prioritised backlog of accessibility issues – Alistair Duggin, Principal Accessibility Consultant at Nomensa
13:00 – 14:00 | Talk details announced soon! – Mali Fernando, Global Head of Digital Experience and Accessibility at HSBC
15:00 – 16:00 | Announced soon!
Wednesday 18th May
10:00 – 11:00 | Building inclusive health services: lessons learned from my time working in accessibility and inclusion for Test and Trace – Joel Strohmeier, Senior Accessibility Consultant at Nomensa
13:00 – 14:00 | Moving beyond compliance – setting up an accessibility team for culture change at the UK Ministry of Justice – Ministry of Justice Accessibility team: Danielle Lyon (Senior Product Manager), Beverley Newing (Accessibility Lead), Laura Payten (Delivery Manager) and Eu-Hyung Han (Accessibility specialist)
15:00 – 16:00 | Making the Accessibility “Switch” – How to Change Behaviour at Scale – Lori Samuels, Senior Director of Accessibility and NBCUniversal
Thursday 19th May – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
10:00 – 11:00 | Form(s) over Function – Ronny Hendricks, Principal Accessibility Consultant at Nomensa
13:00 – 14:00 | Building an Accessible Product – Max Fumagalli Member of the Depop founding team and Marco Fabbri Accessibility Specialist and Design System owner at Depop
15:00 – 16:00 | Panel discussion – announced soon!
Virtua11y is covered by Interact London’s inclusion policy.
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