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Book your Place for Great Digital Events!

Don't miss the best events of the season and book your places for our Internet Leaders Dinner with EDF, Digital Sparks and Creating the Ultimate Customer Journey Roadshow-Dublin. You will have the chance to hear from industry renowned speakers over a nice three-course meal or over some glamourous drinks. Please find all the details below and book your delegate places. If you can't make it to one of our events, you can always be up to date following us on Twitter and Linkedin.

Internet Leaders Dinner:The Trials and Tribulations of Digital Transformation

Date: Thursday 13th November
Overview: Our speaker will be Chris Ketley, Director of Beechgate Consulting, consultant and senior interim manager in Digital Customer Transformation and Online Business Development – previously at Aviva, HSBC Commercial Banking, Bupa, Pru Health and currently at EDF Energy. At this evening’s dinner Chris will provide insights and top tips on managing digital transformation, a process that he has implemented in many different organisations. He will share his experience and provide practical advice on the challenges of getting started, barriers to progression, securing senior stakeholders buy-in, planning an effective strategy and practical advice on delivering change within established big brand businesses.

Please book your place here.

Creating the Ultimate Customer Journey Roadshow- Dublin
Date: Tuesday 18th November
Overview: At this one day conference taking place in Dublin, supported by our partners SLI Systems, Feefo, dotmailer and Realex Payments we will focus on creating the best journey for your customers.
Media Partners: IDMA, UXPA, IXDA, Independent.ie

Please book your FREE delegate place here.

Digital Sparks
We are looking for a few more vendors to speak at our quarterly Digital Sparks Event that will take place on Thursday 20th November in Central London. Previously we have had sponsors such as SDL, Livelink New Media, Adestra, Channel Creator, Newscred, dotmailer, Silverpop, The Beans Group, Cohaesus, Evenstagram, Crowd Reactive and more. For this event we have signed up Social Noise so there are five more opportunities to present. At the event our sponsoring companies will be speaking about omnichannel, how consumers are purchasing from the web and the journeys they take to do it. It is a chance for tech and digital companies to speak in front of interested brands and agencies as well as network over a couple glasses of wine. Our keynote speaker for the event is Andy Beale, Head of Digital and Multichannel Development at Tesco, F&F clothing.

Sponsoring the event would include...

10 minute speaker slot
Full list of delegates
4 free staff tickets
Logo on events landing page
Logo on all promotions and reminders
And more

Price - £995 + VAT

If you are looking to run a client summit, run partner events or create your own bespoke event to generate new business leads, then give our team a call on 020 8985 4249 or email davina@mixingdigital.com or ben@mixingdigital.com

Take care

Miss Charlie Lines
Director and Founder
Mixing Digital

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Conversion Conference (29th-30th October)

Now in its fifth edition, Conversion Conference was the first conference series worldwide focusing exclusively on the optimisation of conversion rates and is aimed for web designers, optimisation or analytics professionals, marketers or business owners. During the two days, experts will share latest strategies for increasing website conversion rates. This year’s conference will be opened by leading US conversion expert Tim Ash, CEO at SiteTuners.

To book your place please click here and use the code MIXDIGDDBUK14 for a 15% discount.

eMetrics Summit (29th-30th October)

At eMetrics Summit, experts from different backgrounds such as e-commerce, B2B, finance and insurance, media and publishing, start-ups, representatives from leading agencies and vendors gather in one place to share their insights and find out about future trends. “It was wonderful — I came back with lots of new ideas and energized to move ahead on a number of initiatives. I really like the mixture of big successes in the keynotes with the smaller sessions that are more focused on inquiry and process. You have put together a winning formula. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to participate in this terrific event.”, City Square Consulting.

To book your place please click here and use the code MIXDIGDDBUK14 for a 15% discount.

Predictive Analytics World (29th-30th October)

Predictive Analytics World is the leading vendor-neutral analytics conference that gathers top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders. The conference offers 4 trend-setting keynotes with international top speakers and will be opened by Programme Chair Geert Verstraeten exploring new ways of improving the industry standard using ensemble-based logic. Data mining and predictive analytics expert Dean Abbott, Prof. Dr. David Hand from Imperial College London and Dr. John Elder from the US's largest and most experienced data mining consulting team will share their experience and knowledge with the audience.

To book your place please click here and use the code MIXDIGDDBUK14 for a 15% discount.