Thursday 22nd May, 2025, University of Plymouth
Building Brands Plymouth 2025 - Schedule
Introduction
We’ve been planning today for what seems like AGES! And now it’s here! Welcome to Building Brands Plymouth!
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, popcorn from Popcorn Kitchen 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!
You can download our Event Guide here.
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
8:30am - 9:30am - Networking, tea/coffee (Foyer)
9:30am - 9.45am - Room 1 - Welcome to Building Brands - Chris Bentley, Jon Payne, Maret Reutelingsperger
Morning Sessions (Sponsored by Bigwave Marketing)
9:50am - 10:20am
Room 1 - James Edgar and Darren Foley - Plymouth Design Forum - Making a Difference To Plymouth by Design
Room 2 - Kate Williams – KW Marketing - Next Level Email Marketing
Room 3 - Aisling Magill - Aisling Magill Photography - From Blurry to Bankable: How Killer Photos Boost Your Biz & Bottom Line
10:35am-11:05am
Room 1 - Owen Jones - Upshot Design - Brand: a Foundation for Optimism
Room 2 - James Neale - Idenna - How a controlling idea will help your creativity cut through
Room 3 - Nick Jones - Webselect - The SEO Secrets of the Pharoahs
11:20am-11:50am
Room 1 - Paul Philpott & Jonathan O’Brien - (Fresh Air Studios and Positive Purchasing) - Using podcasts and audio to enhance and build brand recognition
Room 2 - Josh Marinaro & Harry Dunn - Launch - Top of the shops: Research, optimise and test your products for Google Shopping
Room 3 - Olivia Dunn - Profound - Pimp your proposals: How to win more work and make more money.
12:05pm-12:35pm
Room 1 - Rob Harrison-Plastow - Source Nine - The Logic of Emotion: How to Create and Communicate Value To Grow Market Share
Room 2 - Jess Ratty - Halo - PR Power: Integrating Jess Ratty's strategies for building and amplifying your company milestones into impactful PR moments
Room 3 - Ben Barnes - Neural Edge - Proving SEO Works: How to Win Over Your Leadership Team
12:30pm-1:30pm - Lunch
1:30pm-1.40pm - Room 1 - Welcome back to Building Brands
Keynotes (sponsored by RFS Marketing)
1:40pm-2:20pm - Keynote - Lee Potter, Gemma Ross and Simon Beer - Bigwave Marketing - Beyond the bottom line: how mission and vision can drive success
2:25pm-3:05pm - Keynote - Jenny Novitzky - Love Productions - GSOH a must... Does your brand need to be funny on social media?
3:05pm - 3:35pm - Afternoon (Cake!) Break
3:40pm-4.20pm - Keynote - Dan Debnam - Inovara - AI Agents: The Must-Have Team Member for Marketing in 2025
4:20pm - 4:30pm - Thank you for coming to Building Brands!