Virtual Conference – Owning the Winter

When Coronavirus transformed our lives back in March, we brought our business community together to provide insights and information.

Now, we want to help you succeed through the winter months and the many challenges that they are likely to bring.

As part of the Owning the Winter programme, we will be running our second Virtual Conference on Thursday 15 October.

The conference is a half-day event which will provide you with insights from thought-leaders and business experts across critical topics, providing you with the tools to prepare for the upcoming months.

The virtual conference will be an afternoon of fun, peer-to-peer learning and conversations.

The expectations from almost 100 participants at the conference in July were:

And when asked at the end of the conference, their feed was:

Event programme

The afternoon will be packed with knowledge around the following themes:

Owning the winter – It’s time to take charge

Dan Gerrella will be walking you through how to prepare for a crisis, the importance of communication and how to protect your reputation and ensure that your business comes back stronger. Mike Lander will give you tips and hints from his experience as a Purchasing Director. Discover how people like him operate, whilst also learning how to negotiate effectively during challenging times.

Leadership and Organisation

Simon Hammett will talk about the importance of leadership agility and developing resilience - both personally and within your organisation. He will be providing advice to help you prepare and adapt to the ever changing environment that we will be dealing with in the next 6+ months. In slot 2, Kevin Yuen will explain how you can implement customer-centric processes into your business, he will be explaining that by doing this you can help your customers deal with uncertainty and decision-making during difficult times. 

Marketing/Sales

Many of the conversations that we are having with SMEs seem to revolve around how to sell during the times of Covid-19. Howard Flint is helping us to identify the marketing strategies that will restart your business. Later, Adam Gray will outline why social media is crucial to your sales and marketing operations - now and in the future. Adam will help you to understand how Covid-19 has driven faster migration of prospects and customers away from more traditional channels to social media.

HR – Your people working from home in distributed and remote ways

The massive shift to working from home across many sectors is one of the most significant changes to our working lives. Nobody imagined that home-working would still be the norm months beyond the emergence of Covid-19.  Richard White will be exploring the myths around motivation and how some of the world's strongest businesses are embracing the strong correlation between leadership, employee engagement, customer loyalty and profitability. Nicky Buckley and Natalie Ellis from CIPD will provide us with insights into how we can look after employee performance, performance reviews and developing your talent with a distributed and partly remote workforce.

The EU Exit – Impact on you, your clients and your suppliers

With Covid-19 taking centre stage, we almost forgot about the hot topic of Autumn 2019. Once again, it is time to look at the impact of the EU Exit on the 31st December 2020. And whilst you may not be directly impacted, it will be crucial that you consider how it could affect your clients and suppliers. In slot 1, you will hear from Thom Webb from the Department of International Trade (DIT),will be offering advice and support for SMEs and giving an overview of what you should know about the EU Exit. Finally, Professor Emel Aktas will providing insights into how supply chains can be effectively managed during the uncertainty of the impacts from Covid-19 and EU Exit.

How the afternoon works

We have two time slots for speakers, where we will have five parallel sessions – one for each of the above topics. You can choose to join one live session per slot time,

After each of the time slots, we will be summarising and sharing the key takeaways from all the five parallel sessions. Therefore, you will not only take away the learning from the two sessions that you have participated in, but will also have exposure to all of the understanding from the ten sessions available on the day.

Based on feedback from the previous conference, we have included a greater focus on networking throughout the conference. There will be opportunities to connect with fellow business owners within breakout rooms. We hope that this will be an adequate substitution for the networking aspect that naturally occurs at face-to-face conferences.

You will receive exclusive access to all of the recordings after the event, allowing you to re-watch all of the content and discussions.

Agenda

Pricing

We have two types of tickets available, a single ticket for individuals and a company ticket which will allow you to bring 5 colleagues, customers and friends.

Standard tickets: £75
Company tickets: £250 

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