We’ve got your guide to March with events across digital, marketing and creative to sink your teeth into.
Whether you’re looking for some remote upskilling or a networking event to help connect you with industry professionals, we’ve got them all.
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RightAligned presents Nice work featuring DesignStudio
1 Mar 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 – Online – Paid
In this series, RightAligned invite globally respected studios to walk through the processes and methods they employ when working with clients. On Wednesday 1st March Vinay Mistry, Executive Creative Director, DesignStudio,will share the processes they employ when building the projects they are globally respected for.
Originally from Bradford, West Yorkshire, Vinay is a multi-award winning Executive Creative Director at DesignStudio. With over 10 years of experience Vinay has led multiple projects for brands including the BBC, Bentley,Williams F1, Motorola and Virgin amongst many others.
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Byta & CD Baby's Digital Launch Academy
2 Mar 2023, 15:30 - 23:30 – Online -Free
A *free* 1-day course on releasing music in the digital age! From pre-release best practices to music marketing, video and monetisation.
Digital Launch Academy will offer sessions to creators and their teams, focused on releasing and launching music. From pre-release digital hygiene, to timelines and monetising music. These sessions will help to equip tomorrow’s artists and industry leaders with the tools required to instil life, organisation and impact into their release campaigns. Register free via the form below, and sign up free to Byta to attend.
In this free, full-day course, presented by Byta & CD Baby, attendees will gain knowledge from 4 individual courses:
• Pre-release: be ready to get paid AND played: “pre-release hygiene” & metadata
• Digital best practices: file formats, digital and audio security
• Release planning: how to create timelines and schedule marketing
• Monetising music: “If you miss it, you miss it. So don’t miss it!”
Want to secure your spot?! Head to https://byta.com/digital-launch-academy and fill in the form.
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UX Academy Class: Intermediate UX Design Course
7 Mar 2023, 17:00 - 19:30 -Online -Paid
It’s not too late to join renowned education provider, UX Academy’s UX Class!
This 6 Weeks Intermediate UX Design Course will help you improve your existing skills while also giving you the confidence to take on projects you never imagined you could. The Intermediate UX Design Course is ideal for people with prior UX experience who want to advance their careers.
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Fora Presents: IWD23 | The Rise of the Queenager: A force to be reckoned with
7 Mar 2023, 18:00 - 20:30 - 35-41 Folgate St, London - Paid
Why 'midlife' women are a force to be reckoned with. In partnership with Noon.
Women between 45-60 control 95% of all household spending decisions, outspending millennials by 250%. They are starting businesses at a faster rate than any other demographic and are more likely to succeed when they do. Despite this, these women have oftentimes shared the feeling of being invisible to brands - appearing in less than five per cent of all advertising.
Join Eleanor Mills, journalist, campaigner, and Founder of Noon.org.uk - home of the Queenager - on March 7th, eve of International Women's Day 2023, for an in-depth look at why no business can afford to ignore the 'Queenager'.
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Fora Presents: IWD23 | Female Founders: What glass ceiling?
8 Mar 2023, 18:00 - 20:30 – Borough High St, London – Paid
Trailblazers in their industries, hear from an impressive panel of businesswomen hosted by Renée Saliba, Co-Founder of Lethally Her (@lethallyher). Renée is set to be joined by best-selling author and illustrator, Florence Given (@florencegiven); Co-Founder of award-winning creative agency paq (@paq.works), Chiamaka Ojechi; Founder of TTYA London (@ttyalondon), Irene Agbontaen; and Co-Founder and CEO of Rotaro (@rotaro), Georgie Hyatt.
Listen to their empowering stories, tips, tricks, and lessons learned whilst growing a business, and making an impact.
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Modelme IWD workshop: How to Have Hard Conversations
9 Mar 2023, 18:30 - 20:15 – Kings Rd, London – Paid
Learn how to have a hard conversation and impact ALL of your relationships going forward. Modelme are passionate about helping you understand your identity and who you really are, and as we all know, our relationships are an essential part of who we are, what we do, and how we feel.
Aligned with the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day – Modelme want to help you with the practicality of how to have hard conversations, something we know in today’s culture is not spoken about or taught - and yet is the pinnacle of having long lasting, strong relationships. And who are we if we don’t have people around us?
don’t have people around us?
The speaker:
Kara Nothnagel is a wife, mother, coach, writer and entrepreneur.
She is passionate about helping people identify their value, understand their purpose and walk them on their journey.
Kara is known for helping people with communication, planning, setting boundaries and building fruitful relationships.
https://www.karanothnagel.com/
https://www.instagram.com/karanoth/
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Women of the World Networking presents: WOW SPEED MENTORING
10 Mar 2023, 08:00 - 09:00 – Southbank Centre – Free
Share your challenges, exchange ideas and stories and meet a whole range of incredible women and non-binary people at this epic WOW Speed Mentoring session.
Do you have an ambition but don’t know how to make it happen? Starting out with something new? Or older and at a crossroads? This is an opportunity to meet people with a whole range of experiences across a huge variety of fields. You could meet a theatre director, journalist, scientist, campaigner, artist, WOW speaker or someone from a profession you’ve never even dreamed of!
Taking place in the Clore Ballroom, you’ll be matched at random for four individual 15-minute mentoring sessions.
WOW Speed Mentoring takes place at WOW Festivals across the globe. It’s a friendly, fun and joyful experience, so there’s no need to feel nervous beforehand – just come open and with an idea or challenge you’d like to discuss!
This event is for women and non-binary people.
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Outlandish Class
Marketing Yourself: Stand Out With Your Work
13 Mar 2023, 17:00 - 19:00 – Fonthill Rd, London – Paid
Carve a space online to shine and build your portfolio presence with ease.
The aim of this workshop is to help participants confidently stand out online and use social media to enforce structures around their brand or skillset. Outlandish will be highlighting the importance of sustaining relationships with potential clients/collaborators/industry connections and share a variety of methods for engagement that also showcase your skills. Plus, Outlandish will help you look at reducing anxiety around social media and building a balanced relationship with virtual engagement.
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IPA Conference
Making Sense: The Commercial Media Landscape 2023 Launch
14 Mar 2023, 10:00 - 11:00 – Online – Free
Over the last 4 years, we have witnessed shifts in media usage behaviours which we never could have anticipated.
Prior to March 2020, understandings of changes in commercial media usage were very much evolutionary, and followed established trajectories based on years of data and analysis of audience behaviour.
Now, as we move beyond lockdowns into a brave new post-COVID world, is this still the case? Did the old normal completely disappear, or is commercial media consumption back on the same track?
Simon Frazier, Head of Marketing & Data Innovation, IPA, will be delving into these questions and more as we launch the fifth edition of Making Sense: The Commercial Landscape, a report which has seen over 50,000 downloads globally to date.
In this webinar, IPA will be exploring:
The growth and decline trajectories of commercial media channels in recent years, how COVID-19 shifted the status quo, and whether or not changes will be lasting.
The impact of changing device usage, and why context and engagement are now more important than ever in building effective campaigns.
Just how easy or difficult is it to reach audiences effectively?
Where brands should focus their research, attention and effort to continue to thrive in 2023 and beyond.
Simon will then be joined by a panel of experts to discuss and dissect the findings of the research.
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Tech Circus presents UX Crunch: UX in Femtech Networking Event
14 Mar 2023, 18:00 - 19:00 – Online – Free
The Femtech industry is rapidly growing. After the health and wellbeing of women/AFAB took a backseat for so long, innovations in Femtech are taking power back, and it's not going anywhere.
Breakthrough technologies in women's/AFAB health and fertility solutions are changing the landscape for women/AFAB who need support. Family planning apps and contraceptive technologies are helping women take control of their life plans.
Overall, Femtech has so many vital areas covered that we want to delve into the solutions it has delivered. Join us to learn the needs and challenges facing this industry and how to design with a select audience's health in mind.
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General Assembly Presents Ask me Anything: UX Design
15 Mar 2023, 19:00 - 19:45 – Online - Free
Are you someone who needs to know what they’re getting into before doing something different?
Join GA for a live, 45-minute Q&A session with one of our instructors - who happens to be a UX Designer in real life. After walking you through their journey into UX design and answering some common FAQs, the floor is yours. Submit your questions via Zoom Q&A and have them answered in real time.
By the end of the livestream, you will:
Have a basic understanding of what UX Design is, and the different opportunities that exist within that field
Understand which skills you can transfer, and which you have yet to learn
Feel confident knowing the next steps to break into a UX Design career
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D&AD Present Beyond Sans Serif with I love Typography
16 Mar 2023, 18:00 - 21:00 – Cheshire St, London – Free
For many years now, high-profile rebranding projects have had one thing in common: a typographic change towards a low contrast sans serif style, quite often a geometric or a grotesque one. The result is that many brands now “sound" the same with many designers lamenting the loss of identity and the sense of time and place that those brands carried.
This panel discussion poses the question: Is there a typographic space beyond Sans Serifs? Is it still possible to rebrand, to look contemporary, to speak today’s language, without the need to resort to the same typographic solution?
Host: Nadine Chahine, CEO, I Love Typography
Panellists: Astrid Stavro, Vice President Creative Director, Collins; Sarah Hyndman, Founder, Type Tasting; Shaun Loftman, Executive Creative Director, Landor & Fitch; and Paul Barnes, Graphic Designer & Partner, Commerical Type
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BIMA UX Peer Network Roundtable
21 Mar 2023, 12:00 - 13:00 – Online - Free
A practical, forward thinking & interactive session focusing on your current challenges as UX Specialists.
The past few years have resulted in fresh, never before encountered challenges for digital teams, leaders and businesses. This session for UX professionals is a safe space for the community to come together and discuss the agency landscape and what you in particular are facing, and to offer your own insight to solutions you and your team are implementing to help overcome barriers.
This month it will be hosted by Mark Edgington, Founder & Principal Consultant at Incendiary Blue. They will be driving discussion and perspectives, but crucially looking into what you are doing in the midst of this unique time.
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Right Aligned Presents The Strategy Masterclass by Natalie Burns
22 Mar 2023, 11:00 - 11:45 – Online – Paid
In this masterclass session partner and strategist at UnitedUs Natalie Burns will share the processes she uses when developing the foundation for the brands they support as a studio including how important it is to understand people, the relationship she has built with clients including Google and Lego and the methods they have developed as an agency.
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Copy Club Presents: How We Do Marketing with M&S
23 Mar 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 – Online – Paid
Tom Speed is Marketing Strategy Manager at M&S Food, where his job is to ensure everything the marketing team does ladders back to their core strategy. Prior to this, Tom spent seven years at strategic brand consultancy The Value Engineers, where he cut his teeth in the world of brand, innovation and customer insight across various industries. As you’ll quickly discover, Tom’s passion in life is food; outside of work he runs pop-up restaurants and a successful Tiktok and Instagram @feedingspeedy, where he celebrates the stories and diversity of American cuisine.
Marks & Spencer’s Marketing Strategy Manager (Food), Tom Speed, will be covering:
His personal reflections on what it’s like working in “not just any” Marketing team!
Key principles for how to inspire a business with marketing strategy
Watch-outs when moving from an agency to client-side
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Product Career Fair by Product School
28 Mar 2023, 16:00 - 21:00 – Online – Free
Product Career Fair by Product School is the leading career fair for product enthusiasts looking for new opportunities.
There has never been a better time in history to build digital products! The Product Career Fair brings together the most dynamic companies hiring Product Managers alongside the most qualified candidates to create an event like no other.
For Companies: Tap into a vast well of top talent and expand your Product team with the Product Leaders of the future. Drive growth, innovation and revenue with passionate Product Managers who will be proud to join YOUR team. All candidates vetted in advance by Product School.
For Job Seekers: Meet and network with hiring managers from the world’s leading technology companies at the Product Career Fair. Discover what hiring managers are looking for, and make the connections you need to land your dream job and accelerate your career growth.
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Black and Queer Professional Networking Event
30 Mar 2023, 17:00 - 20:00 – London - Free
Network with black and queer professionals, over drinks at this evening business networking event in London.
This is a free-to-attend event that brings together black and queer professionals.
This event is for entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals, and investors looking to expand their network.
This meetup is informal and networking-focused, and will likely happen in a pub setting in central London.
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BIMA Networking Power Hour (Members Only)
30 Mar 2023, 10:00 - 11:00 – Online - Free
Join BIMA's Monthly Networking Power Hour to expand your knowledge, contacts and network.
The BIMA Community consists of over 380 agencies and industry partners, hundreds of freelancers with wide-ranging specialisms, and thousands of ‘soon to graduate’ digital industry talent, and in just one hour, you will have the chance to meet up to five of these people who may be potential partners, team members and sources of new business, insights and inspiration.
In each Power Hour session you will get to make a meaningful connection with up to five fellow BIMA members.
You will be put into breakout rooms at random for one-to-one conversations that will last 10 minutes — enough time to develop rapport , brainstorm and improvise solutions in a quick-fire manner, and see if there is mutual interest to find out more.
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