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.
APG Noisy Thinking
29th January 2020
6.30pm @ Google HQ
Theme: New Challenger Strategies with Adam Morgan
11th March 2020
6.30pm @ Google HQ
10th June 2020
6.30pm @ Google HQ
23rd September 2020
6.30pm @ Google HQ
14th October 2020
6.30pm @ Google HQ
25th November 2020
6.30pm @ Google HQ
Speakers: Raquel Chicourel, Craig Mawdsley and Milla McPhee
How do you Plan?
23 January 2019
Speakers: Jo Arden, Kevin Chesters, Vicki Holgate & Cat Wiles
Planners' Cannes
19 June 2019
Speakers: Amelia Torode, Sera Miller, Dom Boyd and Lucy Jameson
How do you plan faster and more effectively?
27 March 2019
Speakers: Charlie Wells, Vicki Holgate, Helen Andrews, Matt Tanter & Chetan Murthy.
The Right to Disconnect
24 September 2019
Speakers: Rob Campbell, Sophie Lewis and Nick Hirst
How do you keep strategy interesting?
22 May 2019
Speakers: Tom Roach, Elly Fenlon, Kieran Bradshaw, Richard Storey and Paul Cowper
Is it possible to think long term any more?
12 November 2019
Speakers: Jim Carroll, Marie Oldham, Laura Jordan Bombach and Martin Beverley
The Art of Persuasion - How do you get your idea over the line?
15 February 2018
Speaker: Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell on what’s happening to political brands?
19 June 2018
Speakers: Ian Leslie, Sally Weavers, Stuart Smith and Guy Murphy
If the structure of our industry is broken, what do strategists do next?
13 March 2018
Speakers: Sarah Carter & Les Binet
'How Not To Plan' Planning Surgery
21 November 2018
Speakers: Chris Arning, Alex Steer, Dr. Adam Gill, George Webster and Lucas Galan
How best to make sense of the world now? 20 Strategic Tools
26 April 2018
Speakers: Pete Markey, Martin Hayward and Bridget Angear
Why aren't strategists impacting client's bottom line?
8 March 2017
Speakers: Richard Shotton, Ian Leslie, Daianna Karaian and Marie Maurer
Does Brand Purpose have a point?
21 September 2017
Speakers: Andy Davidson, Frank Durden, Verra Budimlija, Will Whalley and Lucy Jameson
Do we need target audiences any more?
26 April 2017
Speakers: Amelia Torode, Oli Feldwick, Ronnie Crosbie & Russell Davies
Which bits of your job are going to be taken over by robots, and what are you going to do about it?
6 November 2017
Speakers: Shekhar Deshpande, Fern Miller, Vicki Holgate and Lisa Bowcott
In a disruptive world, what skills do strategists really need to survive?
15 June 2017
Speakers: Simon Wassef, Kate Waters, Clare Hutchinson, Pete Buckley, Chris Baker and Clare Phillips
What inspires you?
6 December 2017
Speakers: Dom Boyd, David Wilding, Mark Bell, Nick Kendall and Jane Buck
What is a Brand Nowadays?
1 February 2016
Speakers: Alex Batchelor, Helen Job and Matthew Taylor
Brand Lessons from Brexit - Why did we stop listening?
19 September 2016
Speakers: Les Binet, Lazar Dzamic, Shorful Islam and Leo Rayman
Is big data making strategy irrelevant?
18 April 2016
Speakers: Paul Feldwick and Giles Hedger
Why did we stop thinking beyond next week?
18 October 2016
Award-winning teams told us how working together made the difference on Sainsbury's and This Girl Can
Collaboration in practice and how it can lead to great strategy and great work
6 June 2016
Speakers: Lilli English, Stuart Bowden, James Caig, Kevin Chesters and Fern Miller
What transformed your thinking in 2016?
29 November 2016
Speakers: Agathe Guerrier, Neil Perkin and Giles Rhys Jones
21st Century Strategy
11 March 2015
Speakers: Matthew Heath, Patrick Collister and Rachel Hatton
How do you get noticed and influence people?
7 July 2015
Speakers: Pippa Morris, Enni-Kukka Tuomala, Thomas Griffiths, Hannah Mackenzie, Sam Reid and Melanie
The future is bright, the future is....
14 April 2015
Speakers: Paul Feldwick and Giles Hedger
How does Advertising work in the 21st Century?
22 September 2015
Speakers: Jon Steel
Reasons to be Grumpy
9 June 2015
Speakers: Kirsty Fuller, Fern Miller and Tracey Follows
Planning in a Post-Capitalist World
17 November 2015
Speakers: Tracey Follows, Andy Davidson, Nick Hirst, David Wilding, Caitlin Ryan and John Griffiths
What is an insight?
4 February 2014
Speakers: Matthew Heath, Patrick Collister and Rachel Hatton