Innovation events

Our Winning Through Innovation programme of events can help you bring your innovative new products, service or business model to market.

New ideas are the starting pistol for companies. Once you’ve initiated your new product, process, service or business model, it’s a race through development to get to market.

That's why our Winning Through Innovation programme can help you bring your product to market.

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Headline events

Start with our Headline Event – a sector-specific event open to all businesses, and designed to stimulate your innovative thinking. During this half-day introduction, experienced and motivational innovators will help you come up with ideas, and show you how to make original thinking part of your everyday business activity.

Workshops

You can then advance to the selection of more specific workshops, where you’ll work in small groups with our experienced practitioners who will help you build your skills in all the basic practices and processes from concept to launch.

There’s even an advanced Masterclass programme, and the option to run a Topic Specific workshop, for detailed work on a particular challenge.

Previous headline events

Shine Online: Karen Plumb on TripAdvisor

Karen looks at how TripAdvisor is changing and adapting to the way people are travelling and searching for online information.

How travellers do research and reach decisions

The first part of Daniel's talk looks at how the traveller researches their experience and the traveller decision journey.

How to promote your business using social media

The second part of Daniel's talk focuses on customer decision making and how to promote your business using new marketing techniques.

How to get customers to endorse your business

The final part of Daniel's talk looks at getting customers to endorse and promote your business through online tools, and some great take away tips.

Kirsten Knipp on inbound marketing

Kirsten Knipp, Director of Product Marketing at HubSpot, shows how inbound marketing can help all sizes of businesses spend up to 60% less on leads for customer acquisition.

Using internet marketing effectively

In the second part of our webinar, Chris van der Kuyl and Luke Brynley-Jones continue the discussion on how you can harness the potential of inbound marketing.

Why inbound marketing is so effective

Following "Let new business find you", we interviewed Kirsten Knipp, Director of Product Marketing at HubSpot, about inbound marketing.

Luke Brynley-Jones on social media

Luke gives us his take on quality versus quantity: is it more important to have many followers, or should you focus on attracting the right kind of follower?

Chris van der Kuyl on the future of inbound

Chris gives his thoughts on what he thinks the main trends and developments in inbound marketing will be over the next year or two.

Grow your business through technology

Watch Hamish Taylor, expert on leadership, innovation and branding, and a previous Winning Through Innovation headline speaker give his thoughts on innovation.

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