

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 45+ 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 - 20:00
Intro & Challenger Panel - 3 Roundtable moderators
09:20 - 09:50
Building the Healthcare Industry of tomorrow
Why creativity matters more than ever for the Consumer Health industry
09:55 - 10:35
Leadership Innovation: is talent the competitive differentiator for 2021?
Informed buyers want to buy from informed brands. In turn, this requires brands to evolve beyond the age of personalization into an age of personal commerce.
10:35 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:45
Track 1: Leadership Innovation: is talent the competitive differentiator for 2021?
How can you leverage the gig economy to scale downstream activities?
Track 2: Agility: creating the ‘new normal’ playbook for a digital world
Collaborate on channel strategy design – how can marketing, IT and sales relationships evolve?
Track 3: Data & Analytics – How do you anticipate the conversation?
What are the main challenges you face in embracing a data-driven marketing approach?
12:00 - 12:40
What Makes a True Partner
In this session our Diamond Solution Provider partner will address the entire delegation with an end user of theirs to highlight and showcase what a true partnership means between executives and solution providers in today’s climate.
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
Agile Business Transformation and Future Proofing
A 3-Step value model of future proofing for agile business transformation and growth
09:45 - 10:25
From Selling to Mattering
Lessons from transforming modern marketing’ Creating more engaging audience-first content vs. traditional product marketing, through an agile delivery model
10:25 - 10:35
10:35 - 11:35
Track 1: Leadership Innovation: is talent the competitive differentiator for 2021?
How can you leverage the gig economy to scale downstream activities?
Track 2: Agility: creating the ‘new normal’ playbook for a digital world
Collaborate on channel strategy design – how can marketing, IT and sales relationships evolve?
Track 3: Data & Analytics – How do you anticipate the conversation?
What are the main challenges you face in embracing a data-driven marketing approach?
11:40 - 12:10
Parking is fascinating – The digital transformation of an analogue business into a marketing and product powerhouse
• With 11,500 car parks in 13 countries, APCOA Parking is the #1 Parking Operator in Europe. Get the inside story of how it transformed itself into a B2C and B2B2C powerhouse, by connecting Parking to Mobility and Urban Life.
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
“Everyone has a plan before I punch them in the face” (Mike Tyson) - Implementing Agile Through Covid and add speaker: Mark Evans - Managing Director Marketing & Digital - Direct Line
In this session our featured Solution Provider partner will address the entire delegation to discuss how technology is enabling and will continue to enable the future of the industry or sector.
09:45 - 10:25
Fluid Experiences ❤️ Data
10:25 - 10:35
10:35 - 11:35
Track 1: Leadership Innovation: is talent the competitive differentiator for 2021?
How can you leverage the gig economy to scale downstream activities?
Track 2: Agility: creating the ‘new normal’ playbook for a digital world
Collaborate on channel strategy design – how can marketing, IT and sales relationships evolve?
Track 3: Data & Analytics – How do you anticipate the conversation?
What are the main challenges you face in embracing a data-driven marketing approach?
11:40 - 12:10
We're in this together - fusion and the new ecosystem
Amid uncertainty, 2020 saw brands enter into new partnerships that engaged customers in novel ways.
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
Recognising outstanding Executives who have demonstrated exemplary leadership
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.