Building Brands Exeter 2026
Your complete day guide to Building Brands Plymouth 2026—sessions, speakers and venues. Plan your path from doors open to after dark.
Networking, tea/coffee
Grab a hot drink, say hi to all the nice people
Welcome to Building Brands
Starting the day with a smile and a welcome from the best people in the world!
Is paying for SEO actually worth it?
With AI content and search on the rise, is SEO still the best investment for online visibility? Ben explores the answer.
Why the Creative Sector matters right now - and how it will benefit you!
Discover why the creative sector is a national growth priority, what it means for you, and how collaboration creates opportunity.
Ideas with Bite: Why Storytelling is Your Brand’s Ultimate Survival Tool
Discover how storytelling and evolutionary psychology can help your brand stand out, connect with people and build a lasting identity.
AI on Trial: Can It Really Benefit Your Paid Ads?
Can AI speed up ad creation? Launch reviews the evidence across paid search and social, sharing the hacks that worked... and didn’t.
Your Next Customer Won't Google You
Learn how AI chooses which brands to recommend, and how to improve your visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity and beyond.
You're wagging your tail at clients who don't even like dogs
Stop chasing the wrong clients. Learn how a clear ideal client profile improves your marketing, positioning and business growth.
AI Won’t Replace Email Marketers. But Marketers Using Connected AI Might.
Most marketers use AI to create content faster, but the real shift isn't content generation. It's AI-connected context.
How Design Will Build Trust in the AI Era
Trust isn't designed, it's built through consistency & connection. AI has made branding a luxury but in reality, it's the strategic glue.
You can’t force good ideas (but here are a few tricks to encourage them)
Creative and occasionally silly ideation and writing techniques to help you think differently and bring more originality to your content.
How to maximise your impact on social media in an AI world (without posting a gazillion times a day or trying every new ‘hack’.)
Social media is awash with AI content & run by inexplicable algorithms. But you can still stand out & connect with the right people to grow.
Employer Branding – The marketing channel most businesses ignore
The best candidates are already researching you. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain great people through employer branding.
Punchlines and Bottom lines: What marketing can learn from stand up comedy.
Christian reveals the unexpected lessons marketers can steal from the stage: staying in character, making ideas stick, handling failure ...
Lunch
Eat your own weight in conference food and brownies!
Welcome back to Building Brands
Kicking off the afternoon with the sexiest hosts in all of Devon!
Panel Discussion - How do you build a brand in 2027?
Join us for a practical, fast-paced panel session designed to strip away the jargon and take you back to the fundamentals of brand building.
From Data to Decisions: Turning Customer Signals into Campaigns
Marketing teams sit on so much customer data, the real challenge is turning them into campaigns that move the needle.
Afternoon (Cake!) Break
We're the only conference we know of that stops for cake in the afternoon!
Your gut stinks (or is your intuition as good as you think)
Are gut feelings enough in marketing? Andi explores when to trust instinct, when to use data and how to make better decisions at speed.
Thank you for coming to Building Brands!
Thanks for coming, we hope you enjoyed it, and look forward to seeing you again soon!