BIMA Networking Power Hour

This is a BIMA Member only session. For more information on becoming a BIMA Member visit the BIMA Site or email web@bima.co.uk

What’s it about? Serendipity in action.

The BIMA Community consists of over 380 agencies and industry partners, hundreds of freelancers with wide-ranging specialisms, and thousands of ‘soon to graduate’ digital industry talent, and in just one hour, you will have the chance to meet up to five of these people who may be potential partners, team members and sources of new business, insights and inspiration.

As a community we already have all the talent, ideas and connections that will help us all succeed, so join us to unlock the power of our community at our monthly BIMA Networking Power Hour.

Inspired by Frédéric Laloux’s Reinventing Organisations with self-organising teams, joining these sessions will expand your knowledge, contacts and network leading to new potential collaborations, partnerships and even business opportunities.

What to expect:

In each Power Hour session you will get to make a meaningful connection with up to five fellow BIMA members.

You will be put into breakout rooms at random for one-to-one conversations that will last 10 minutes — enough time to develop rapport , brainstorm and improvise solutions in a quick-fire manner, and see if there is mutual interest to find out more.

Who is it for?

These sessions are open to everyone in the BIMA Member community, from university members to CEO’s and brand individuals. If you are seeking to network more effectively, increase your capacity, develop new capabilities, or supercharge your strategic know-how, then this is the event for you.

Co-designed and hosted by Brad Smith, Founder of Succeed, and Ann Longley, BIMA South and Something New Together, we look forward to seeing you there!

Please note: the Zoom waiting room will open at 10.50am so we can start promptly at 11.00am, unfortunately we cannot permit late entrants.

Ann Longley, Founder of Something New Together and BIMA South Community Lead

Ann is the founder of Something New Together, a strategic design consultancy that helps businesses navigate volatility enabled by digital, data, technology and a customer-centric culture. She has worked with big brands, governments, and non-profits for +20 years honing her craft skills in marketing, digital strategy, and innovation. She has created award-winning integrated campaigns, digital and customer experience strategies, new products, services and introduced new ways of working that unify teams around a shared purpose.

She also works in business education as a Visiting Lecturer with the University of Greenwich helping tomorrow’s leaders develop their brand, digital and marketing skills and know-how. At the community level, through her work with BIMA and theRSA.org’s Digital Steering Group, Ann is focused on using digital, data, and technology to drive positive social, environmental and economic impacts.

Brad Smith, Founder of Succeed Digital

For the last 20 years, Brad has worked across agency and software sales. 4 years ago he founded his own agency Succeed.Digital as well as new business consultancy Succeed.Agency dedicated to helping agency owners to find more leads, build better pipelines and most importantly close more business!

Brad’s desire is to always help and guide others to get better at networking and building relationships, improve the quality and conversion rate of their sales, think up stronger strategies and ultimately make better commercial decisions within their business.

He loves to deliver great work and excellent results and help businesses of all shapes and sizes to ‘Succeed’ and leaves a trail of doing just that wherever he goes.

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