SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS
Applications have opened for the All-Ireland Sustainability Awards, which will take place at Belfast's Europa Hotel on October 5, hosted by Barra Best.
This year’s awards are organised by All-Ireland Sustainability in partnership with Everun, and sponsors include Visit Belfast, International Synergies NI, Danske, NIE Networks, Veri Connect and Ulster Bank.
There are 14 awards being presented on the evening with 13 categories open for nomination to represent the wider sustainability agenda, here is also the Overall Winner of the Year 2023, which will be the final award of the evening. This prestigious title will go to one business, selected from all the category winners of the evening, to be awarded the most Sustainable Business of the Year 2023.
Danielle McCormick, of Triterra and founder of All-Ireland Sustainability, said: “All-Ireland Sustainability began in November 2020 with our free online networking group, the goal of which was to drive the sustainability agenda, and positive change, across the region, share best practice and learnings and create collaboration opportunities. The network now has 400 members across Ireland, we have run two All-Ireland sustainability summits. and are now looking forward to delivering our first awards event in October.”
Award categories, nomination forms and details can be found at: https://www.allirelandsustainability.com
BIG MARKETING MEET UP
Marketing professionals from across the north will have the chance to hear how their specialism is developing and growing at a new one-day event taking place in Belfast this May.
The Big Marketing Meet Up which will take place on May 25 at The MAC, will “power passionate marketeers” to learn, grow and upskill as they hear from a range of industry experts on topics such as sustainability, influencers, AI, branding, experiential marketing and more.
Keynote speaker will be Richard Shotton, founder of London-based behavioural science consultancy Astroten and author of The Choice Factory and The Illusion of Choice.
He will be opening and closing the event with his talks ‘What Makes Us Tick?’ and ‘The Illusion of Choice - When Marketing Meets The Mind Of The Customer’.
Having spent nearly two decades as a media planner on accounts such as Coke, Lexus and comparethemarket through his agency Astroten, Richard now works with a wide variety of brands, including Google, Mondelez, BrewDog and Barclays.
The Big Marketing Meet Up will see 12 specialist speakers with 11 presentations ranging from sustainability, consumer behaviour, influencers, finance, and AI take to the stage throughout the day.
Organiser say the event has been created by marketing professionals for marketing professionals and say the Big Marketing Meet Up is a chance to take the time out, re-charge, and for marketeers to fuel themselves with insights and ideas to help them become more effective.
Hosted by former BBC News reporter and presenter Sarah Travers, other speakers include entrepreneur and chairman of The Worshipful Company of Marketors Dr Glyn Cartwright who will be speaking on the topic of ‘How to never stop growing in your marketing career’; founder and director of Marcomm Una McSorely who will be delivering a “humorous guide to better communications In the workplace where you will learn how to communicate with the animals in your office” and lecturer in management development at Ulster University’s Business School Nancy Brown who will be talking about the power of experiential marketing.
Also taking to the stage throughout the day will be Tina Calder, founder and director of media and marketing agency Excalibur Press tackling the rise of the robots and what marketeers & copywriters need to know about the rise of Chat GPT and other AI content generators.
The full line-up of speakers and the programme are available now, as well as an early bird booking offer of £95 per person at www.bmmubelfast.com
COST SAVING WORKSHOP
:: Reveal Business Ltd is hosting another ‘Practical Procurement to Deliver Cost Savings’ workshop. The event will take place in Newry on May 24 (full day) and May 31 (evening session).
The training course focuses on practical ways to help teams develop and to provide techniques to find cost savings.
Growing sales is difficult for many businesses right now. So buying better and finding operational savings can be the best way to improve your bottom line.
The workshop has been developed to give procurement and purchasing individuals the skills, techniques and tools to understand how to better control costs, identify savings opportunities and reduce supply-chain risk within their business.
The sessions will outline practical ‘best practice’ purchasing and procurement strategies that can be applied and implemented.
The course will also focus on ‘time and resources’ and how we free up people so they can pursue value-added activities.
For more details email justin@revealbusiness,co.uk or to book visit Eventbrite: https://lnkd.in/eW3r5DY4
