Our flagship evening event held 6 times a year. Each event addresses a provocative question or current theme focused on Planning & Strategy. These events are supported by Google.
Due to COVID-19, we have had to cancel these events until further notice.
APG Noisy Thinking
New Challenger Strategies: The Big Themes and How to Apply them to your Brands
How do you Plan?
Speakers: Raquel Chicourel, Craig Mawdsley and Milla McPhee
Planners' Cannes
Speakers: Jo Arden, Kevin Chesters, Vicki Holgate & Cat Wiles
How do you plan faster and more effectively?
Speakers: Amelia Torode, Sera Miller, Dom Boyd and Lucy Jameson
The Right to Disconnect
Speakers: Charlie Wells, Vicki Holgate, Helen Andrews, Matt Tanter & Chetan Murthy.
How do you keep strategy interesting?
Speakers: Rob Campbell, Sophie Lewis and Nick Hirst
Is it possible to think long term any more?
Speakers: Tom Roach, Elly Fenlon, Kieran Bradshaw, Richard Storey and Paul Cowper
The Art of Persuasion - How do you get your idea over the line?
Speakers: Jim Carroll, Marie Oldham, Laura Jordan Bombach and Martin Beverley
Alastair Campbell on what’s happening to political brands?
Speaker: Alastair Campbell
If the structure of our industry is broken, what do strategists do next?
Speakers: Ian Leslie, Sally Weavers, Stuart Smith and Guy Murphy
'How Not To Plan' Planning Surgery
Speakers: Sarah Carter & Les Binet
How best to make sense of the world now? 20 Strategic Tools
Speakers: Chris Arning, Alex Steer, Dr. Adam Gill, George Webster and Lucas Galan
Why aren't strategists impacting client's bottom line?
Speakers: Pete Markey, Martin Hayward and Bridget Angear
Does Brand Purpose have a point?
Speakers: Richard Shotton, Ian Leslie, Daianna Karaian and Marie Maurer
Do we need target audiences any more?
Speakers: Andy Davidson, Frank Durden, Verra Budimlija, Will Whalley and Lucy Jameson
Which bits of your job are going to be taken over by robots, and what are you going to do about it?
Speakers: Amelia Torode, Oli Feldwick, Ronnie Crosbie & Russell Davies
In a disruptive world, what skills do strategists really need to survive?
Speakers: Shekhar Deshpande, Fern Miller, Vicki Holgate and Lisa Bowcott
What inspires you?
Speakers: Simon Wassef, Kate Waters, Clare Hutchinson, Pete Buckley, Chris Baker and Clare Phillips
What is a Brand Nowadays?
Speakers: Dom Boyd, David Wilding, Mark Bell, Nick Kendall and Jane Buck
Brand Lessons from Brexit - Why did we stop listening?
Speakers: Alex Batchelor, Helen Job and Matthew Taylor
Is big data making strategy irrelevant?
Speakers: Les Binet, Lazar Dzamic, Shorful Islam and Leo Rayman
Why did we stop thinking beyond next week?
Speakers: Speakers: Richard Shotton, Dr. Guido Orgs and Bogdana Butnar
Collaboration in practice and how it can lead to great strategy and great work
Award-winning teams told us how working together made the difference on Sainsbury's and This Girl Can
What transformed your thinking in 2016?
Speakers: Lilli English, Stuart Bowden, James Caig, Kevin Chesters and Fern Miller
21st Century Strategy
Speakers: Agathe Guerrier, Neil Perkin and Giles Rhys Jones
How do you get noticed and influence people?
The future is bright, the future is....
Speakers: Pippa Morris, Enni-Kukka Tuomala, Thomas Griffiths, Hannah Mackenzie, Sam Reid and Melanie
How does Advertising work in the 21st Century?
Speakers: Paul Feldwick and Giles Hedger
Planning in a Post-Capitalist World
Speakers: Kirsty Fuller, Fern Miller and Tracey Follows
What is an insight?
Speakers: Tracey Follows, Andy Davidson, Nick Hirst, David Wilding, Caitlin Ryan and John Griffiths
Planners' Cannes
Speakers: Matthew Heath, Patrick Collister and Rachel Hatton
What makes a good brief?
Speakers: Thiago de Moraes, David Hackworthy, Craig Mawdsley and Nathan Guerra
Whatever happened to brand building?
Speakers: David Wilding, Alex Dunsdon and Mark Given
Why do women feel alienated by advertising?
Speakers: Jane Cunningham, Kate Smither, Rachel Pashley and Richard Huntington
What makes an idea influential?
Speakers: Dom Boyd, Chris Gallery and Tracey Follows
"I wouldn't let a planner near my boardroom"
Speakers: Paul Feldwick & Simon Gulliford
Content is King
Speakers: Kirsty Saddler, Nathan Guerra and Nick Price
What is an idea?
Speakers: Tracey Follows, Richard Storey, and Jim Carroll
When did Planning get so small? Is new 'tech' crowding out big thinking?
Speakers: Tracey Follows, David Hackworthy and Alex Dunsdon
Planners get the research they deserve
Speakers: Wendy Gordon, John Griffiths and Kirsty Fuller
When I'm CSO
Speakers: Lucian Trestler, Vinay Chaudhri, Stuart Harrison, Simin Radmanesh, Hamish Cameron, Max Keane & Melaine Arrow
What is the Future of Planning?
Speakers: Adam Morgan, Richard Huntington and Cameron Saunders
Whoever 'owns' the data owns the conversation
Speakers: Andy Nairn, Sue Unerman and Rory Sutherland
Business Bites Back
Speakers: Andy Fennell, Mark Lund, Alison Hardy and Doctor Foster
Planning 3.0 - Planning without a roadmap
Speakers: Tracey Follows, David Hackworthy and Alex Dunsdon
Noisy Thinking Goes Global
Speakers: Guy Murphy, John Shaw and Jackie Hughes
Drinking from the well of inspiration
Speakers: Craig Mawdsley, Richard Huntington, Rachel Hatton, Russell Davies and Malcolm White
APG Noisy Thinking is proudly sponsored by Flamingo, a global insight and brand consultancy.
Flamingo has sponsored APG Noisy Thinking since 2012
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