

CMOs are facing a barrage of new challenges around acquisition and loyalty due to evolving customer behaviours and the accelerating shift towards e-commerce due to the pandemic.
Sense check your approach with likeminded industry experts, sharing insight on business-critical challenges and disruptive technology and drive your industry forward collaboratively.
Connect with 70+ senior Marketing leaders for a curated agenda focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward. Our summits are designed to help you:
Build new connections with likeminded senior leaders
Stay current with emerging business trends
Understand the impact new technology can make
De-risk new projects by gaining a broad range of insights
Accelerate key projects through meaningful new partnerships
Downloadable and actionable takeaways
09:00 - 09:20
Intro & Challenger Panel
3 Roundtable moderators
09:20 - 09:50
Micro Storytelling
09:55 - 10:35
Old Game, New Rules: Getting Results in a Cookie-Less World
As data and privacy have been pulled forward and are now top of mind with shoppers and anyone using social media, marketers find ourselves in a world where cookies are disappearing and consumers are choosing to exercise more control. As brands, it is our responsibility to honor consumer choice. As advertisers we still want the targeting and measurement capabilities afforded by first-party data. The question is how do advertisers develop brand safe data?
10:35 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:45
Track 1: A Picture Lasts Forever: Unlocking the Long Term Value (LTV) of your Marketing Assets
What happens when we treat our marketing assets as true investments, with lifetime value and ROI. This is, after all, the brand art that presents us to the world. We dream it up, create it, put it everywhere all at once, and then…on to the next campaign? Have we planned to get the most out of our content, as growth engines, relationship builders and brand drivers? Have we really unlocked its long-term power?
Track 2: Predicting (and optimising for) Demand
When the pandemic pushed everyone online, traditional tools for predicting demand became less reliable and the data became harder to interpret. How do we forecast demand in the new reality? What do we do with those forecasts? This roundtable explores how consumer behaviour has changed and what strategies you can implement to (a) predict demand and (b) optimise your marketing channels (and spend) to tap into that demand.
Track 3: Marketing Transformation: Modern Marketing Right now
High-performing marketing teams reach consumers in the right place at the right time – they are data-led, lean, agile and connected. Best-in-class marketers are never satisfied. They’re always hungry to keep learning and be better. But without the right tools and support for building excellence, marketing teams can’t keep thriving in a complex world. What does it take to elevate marketing performance, at scale?
11:50 - 12:20
Digital Marketing's Future: How Video and Social Entertainment Are Making A Difference
The brand marketing landscape is changing drastically. Social media consumption surged after the pandemic, moving the digital ecosystem away from a social-first to a content-first approach. The result is a new era of social entertainment that demands authentic and engaging content from brands. Top marketers are adjusting their strategies to prioritise content and use insights to fuel growth as the need for creating, sourcing and distributing great content increases.
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
Personalization at Scale
The last 24 months have not been business as usual for marketers. How have we overcome the challenges, launching a lifecycle marketing capability to address key challenges? The biggest of these issues can include balancing automation, scale, and personalisation; marrying experience with brand; rethinking segmentation; and creating relevance through content.
09:45 - 10:25
10:25 - 10:35
10:35 - 11:35
Track 1: A Picture Lasts Forever: Unlocking the Long Term Value (LTV) of your Marketing Assets
What happens when we treat our marketing assets as true investments, with lifetime value and ROI. This is, after all, the brand art that presents us to the world. We dream it up, create it, put it everywhere all at once, and then…on to the next campaign? Have we planned to get the most out of our content, as growth engines, relationship builders and brand drivers? Have we really unlocked its long-term power?
Track 2: Predicting (and optimising for) Demand
When the pandemic pushed everyone online, traditional tools for predicting demand became less reliable and the data became harder to interpret. How do we forecast demand in the new reality? What do we do with those forecasts? This roundtable explores how consumer behaviour has changed and what strategies you can implement to (a) predict demand and (b) optimise your marketing channels (and spend) to tap into that demand.
Track 3: Marketing Transformation: Modern Marketing Right now
High-performing marketing teams reach consumers in the right place at the right time – they are data-led, lean, agile and connected. Best-in-class marketers are never satisfied. They’re always hungry to keep learning and be better. But without the right tools and support for building excellence, marketing teams can’t keep thriving in a complex world. What does it take to elevate marketing performance, at scale?
11:40 - 12:10
Broad Teams at Broad Sheets - Collaboration in the Media
Graham will inform us on how the Financial Times has integrated a cross-functional team mentality, and how this has driven growth over the past 24 months. He’ll discuss how the FT needed to make revenue growth an organisation-wide challenge – to inspire collaboration, and how it’s impacted the business.
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
Can we do better business …with the planet?
An exploration into some of the big and urgent questions around what marketers can do to drive forward their sustainability agenda.Is sustainability good for business... Or the only business to be in? - How we’ve reached the tipping pointCan we win more...By competing less? – How we can work better with the wider ecosystem and build partnershipsDo great minds think alike...Or completely differently? – The role of innovation and co-creation for scaling sustainable solutions
09:45 - 10:25
Integrating Social Purpose in Brand Manifesto
10:25 - 10:35
10:35 - 11:35
11:40 - 12:10
Diverse Leadership within Marketing
For a long time, women had to borrow male leadership models if they wanted to be seen as serious and trustworthy professionals. In fact, the first cracks in the "glass ceiling" were made by women in grey suits and tons of assertiveness. After them, many other women thought that this was the only possible way to climb their way up. Even Sheryl Sandberg in her “Lean In” urges us to behave like our worst male colleagues. But is this really the only possible way to be a credible and effective leader?
Engage with a virtual live audience just as you would at a physical event and create meaningful conversations.
The ultimate live polling and gamification tools, keeping your audience engaged.
Enabling our team to help you control your session experience.
Interactive quizzes to gamify your session
Content and insight from industry experts when it matters most
There is no cost associated with attending a GDS Summit. In return, we ask that all senior executives in participation attend for the full duration to ensure that all attendees get maximum value and insight from the interactive roundtables, live Q&As and breakout networking sessions.
Our digital summit portfolio is designed to bring together senior decision makers from large global businesses and innovative disruptor brands to drive industry forward through addressing business critical challenges collaboratively.
If you’re keen to build new connections with likeminded leaders, de-risk your projects through new insight and establish new partnerships that can accelerate your projects then apply to attend today.
Complete our ‘apply to attend’ form on the event page if you’re interested in attending the summit and you meet our application criteria. A member of the GDS team will then reach out to run you through the programme and event format and discuss your participation.
On stage: co-host a panel discussion with a group of likeminded senior executives or host a solo keynote presentation. Both slots include elements of interactive audience Q&A
Off stage: become a roundtable moderator, leading the discussion with the same cohort of executives for the duration of the summit around a specific topic you’ve agreed to focus on during the roundtable session.
We can tailor a partnership package to help meet your business objectives. This might include brand awareness, driving traffic to your site or quality editorial content via exclusive interviews and Q&As with our executive audience. Enquire today for more information.
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You will leave the summit with best practices to immediately apply back to your organisation and new connections from meaningful conversations.
If you haven’t been to a GDS Digital Summit, you will be incredibly impressed. It’s far more engaging than most digital event experiences. It’s a very interactive environment.
I connected with peers that I know I’ll stay in touch with, including suppliers which have presented a fantastic opportunity for 7-Eleven Global in the future. It may well be the most valuable summit I’ve attended in many years
Thank you so much! Great Summit - an outstanding 3 days that culminated in this Award ... I am humbled and honored. Congratulations to you all for pulling off a Hybrid Summit with Augmented Reality features that are truly unparalleled in the Industry! Collaborative, Interactive & showcasing leading edge technology ... GDS Summits really set the bar so high that a return to physical conferences might be re-evaluated in the Industry. You are an amazing Team of Professionals & I am truly honoured to have been a part of this Summit.