Thursday 11th September 2025, Bristol Business School, UWE
Building Brands Bristol - 2025 - Schedule
Introduction - Powered by Omnisend!
We’ve been planning today for what seems like AGES! And now it’s here! Welcome to Building Brands Bristol!
We hope you have a great day with us, and pick up lots of great advice and inspiration that you can take back to the office next week and put into action! You’ve got a lovely new notebook in your goody bag that you can use to write down all your notes in, a pretty awesome Flapjackery flapjack, and some other things in there if you feel your energy levels starting to dip throughout the day!
Check out the schedule below - this will tell you what’s happening throughout the day, when, and where. If you have any questions, please just grab one of us during the day and we’ll do our best to help you! Huge thanks to all of our incredible speakers!
A massive thank you to our sponsors and partners today, as well as the awesome exhibitors in the foyer. Without them, we couldn’t put events like today on, so please go see them all and have a chat with them!
And an even bigger thank you to YOU for coming today. We hope you have a fantastic time, and go home with a notebook full of tips and advice, and lots of great new contacts!
Have the best day with us, and don’t forget to use #BuildingBrands as the hashtag on social media if you’re posting about today!
Schedule for the day
9:00 - 9:30 - Check in. Grab a drink
9.30am - Welcome
9.45am - 10.15am Morning Sessions
Room 1 - Retention reimagined: How smarter automation drives real growth
Speaker - James Ollerhead - More here
Room 2 - LinkedIn Without Cringing-Out: Personal Branding to Boost Your Credibility (and Not Die of Embarrassment)
Speaker - Gemma Rodgers - More here
Room 3 - Putting the C word into your next presentation
Speaker - Alan Mead - More here
10.30am - 11am Morning Sessions
Room 1 - Driving value through brand
Speaker - Ben Travers & Tom Kershaw - More here
Room 2 - Brand Visibility and B2C. Your competitors can help!
Speaker - Steve Paine - More here
Room 3 - How to accelerate your programme: Don’t Panic!
Speaker - Ellie Hughes - More here
11.15am - 11.45am Morning Sessions
Room 1 - Building Building Brands’ Brand
Speaker - Owen Jones - More here
Room 2 - Prowess Through Inspiration: How to Create Unstoppable Teams
Speaker - Anna Lewoniewska - More here
Room 3 - Beyond Google: How TikTok and Social Search Are Changing Brand Discovery
Speaker - Isa Lavahun - More here
12 noon - 12.30 Morning Sessions
Room 1 - How emotion makes us change our behaviour
Speaker - Jon Mowatt - More here
Room 2 - SEO and Brand, Sitting In A Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Speaker - Lidia Infante - More here
Room 3 - Why investing in your confidence is the best marketing strategy
Speaker - Charlotte May - More here
12.30 - Lunch
2.00pm - Welcome Back
Keynotes - Sponsored by Foot Anstey
2.10pm - Selling To Corporate
Speaker - Jessica Lorimer - More here
2.50pm - Truth, Lies and AI Hype
Speaker - David Sloly - More here
3.30pm - Break
3.50pm - Happiness
Speaker - Jaye Cowle - More here
4.30pm - Close