Conference 2019

EAST ANGLIA’S COMMUNICATIONS EVENT OF THE YEAR

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See highlights of 2019’s conference below:

Don’t forget to log your 10 CPD points for attending this event on 15 May 2019.

Over 60 people from around the region joined us at the beautiful Dragon Hall in Norwich for East Anglia’s biggest annual PR & Communications conference. Attendees sharpened their skills, discussed fresh perspectives and were able to benchmark their work against some of the very best.

Programme:

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12:30 | Registration

13:15 | Welcome from CIPR President-Elect, Jenni Field

13:45 | Supercharged social media, Darren Caveney

14:15 | Breakout session (three topics to choose from):

Tone of voice in social media, Darren Caveney
Communications for change, Advita Patel
Wellbeing and creativity in PR, Leanne Ehren

15:00 | Break

15:15 | CommsHero: creating a brand and daring to fail, Asif Choudry

15:45 | What’s in a news story? Sally Beadle

16:15 | Breakout session (three topics to choose from):

An insider’s look at how to build a brand, Asif Choudry and Lee Grasby
An introduction to influencer marketing, Harry Seaton
Handling crisis comms online, Alasdair Dick

17:00 | Conference closes. You’re invited to join us for drinks!

Asif Choudry – CommsHero: creating a brand and daring to fail

Asif is Sales and Marketing Director with agency, Resource, and a multichannel communicator working to deliver innovative campaigns that get results. He is the co-founder of #CommsHero, the award-winning conference that’s a celebration of the heroics comms people perform every day. Although a big fan of social media, he’s not afraid to use tried and…

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Lee Grasby – an insider’s look at how to build a brand

Lee is Head of Creative at agency, Resource, and will be joining Asif for this workshop session. Lee is a multi-award-winning marketer and creative thinker specialising in brand strategy and marketing ideas. He’s experienced in delivering successful multi-channel campaigns across housing, sport, leisure, gaming, retail, financial, education and public sectors. Lee is also the co-founder…

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Jenni Field – Comms in 2019 and beyond

Jenni is a Board Director for Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), the President-Elect in 2019, a Chartered Practitioner and a CIPR Fellow. She has over 14 years’ experience in communications. Working at Director level for a global pharmaceutical company, Jenni has worked in the public sector, defence, advertising and retail and hospitality industries. She…

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Darren Caveney – supercharged social media

Darren is the creator of comms2point0 and owner of Creative Communicators Ltd. His 23 years in communications includes 10 years as a head of comms in local government and two years as a director of comms in the NHS. He has delivered in-house training and consultancy for over 100 organisations and has spoken at over…

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Advita Patel – communications for change

Advita is a Chartered PR professional who has worked in internal communications for the past 14 years in industries including healthcare, education and transport. In 2017 she decided to leave permanent employment to head up comms on a project within the nuclear industry and to start work on her own consultancy, CommsRebel. Advita has a…

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Alasdair Dick – handling crisis comms online

Alasdair is a consultant at Helpful Digital where he leads on building digital capability and delivering crisis training programs to a wide-range of clients across the public and private sectors. Previously, he has helped charities to design communications strategies, delivered digital communications in central government, and developed digital products for a publishing house.

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Leanne Ehren – wellbeing and creativity in PR

Leanne is an experienced communications professional leading regional and county-wide teams in the emergency services sector. Her area of specialism is crisis and major incident communications and after her team responded to three major incidents in six months, health and wellbeing and the mental health of communication professionals on a longer-term basis has become something…

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Harry Seaton – an introduction to influencer marketing

Harry is the 22-year-old managing director of Fluential, an influencer agency based in Norfolk and London. After seven years as an influencer with over 100,000 followers himself, and 3 years at a social media agency owned by the Maze Media Group, the partners made him MD of newly-launched Fluential to bring his unique expertise from…

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Sally Beadle – What’s in a news story

Sally has been a journalist with BBC East for 15 years, and has worked in radio, TV and digital. She is currently a senior producer at BBC Look East and is passionate about reflecting a real diversity of stories and voices from across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. She has recently become involved in the BBC’s…

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