

Digital Marketing leaders are facing a barrage of new challenges around acquisition, retention, 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
09:20 - 09:50
Agility: Creating the ‘New Normal’ Playbook for a Digital World - A successful pivot to an agile digital channel strategy not only meets customer needs as they unfold but also anticipates the conversation.
09:55 - 10:35
Navigating the MarTech Stack in 2021: How to Succeed & Utilize - Your marketing technology (MarTech) stack is critical to your organization’s success.
10:45 - 11:45
Track 1: Pivoting Online: How Customer Experience is Driving Digital Transformation - How can organizations replicate their in-person experiences in a digital environment?
Track 2: Leadership Innovation: Is Talent the Competitive Differentiator for 2021? - What does leadership innovation involve?
Track 3: Data & Analytics: Forging Your Digital Strategy - What are the main challenges you face in embracing a data-driven marketing approach?
11:50 - 12:20
What Makes a True Partner? - What does partnership mean in the time of digital transformation?
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
The Age of Personal Commerce: Informed Buyers Want to Buy from Informed Brands - Brands need to move towards meeting consumers where they are, and that requires a masterclass in how to best identify and action your data.
09:45 - 10:25
The New King of Social: Short-Form Videos - Marketers looking to target younger consumers must invest in their short-form video strategy and execution.
10:35 - 11:35
Track 1: Pivoting Online: How Customer Experience is Driving Digital Transformation - How can organizations replicate their in-person experiences in a digital environment?
Track 2: Leadership Innovation: Is Talent the Competitive Differentiator for 2021? - What does leadership innovation involve?
Track 3: Data & Analytics: Forging Your Digital Strategy - What are the main challenges you face in embracing a data-driven marketing approach?
11:40 - 12:10
A Challenge Addressed! Solution Provider Case Study - In this featured session, our featured Solution Provider partner will address the entire delegation with an end user partner of theirs to highlight and showcase a pressing challenge, actions and the results.
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
Technology Enabling the Future - In this featured 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
Beyond the Cart: The Benefits of Shoppable Posts - With the popularity of shoppable posts growing as a result of the pandemic, how can organizations utilize social media to increase their revenue?
10:35 - 11:35
Track 1: Pivoting Online: How Customer Experience is Driving Digital Transformation - How can organizations replicate their in-person experiences in a digital environment?
Track 2: Leadership Innovation: Is Talent the Competitive Differentiator for 2021? - What does leadership innovation involve?
Track 3: Data & Analytics: Forging Your Digital Strategy - What are the main challenges you face in embracing a data-driven marketing approach?
11:40 - 12:10
The CMO: No Longer Just the Bullhorn for the Brand - Evolving and increasingly demanding customer needs and a tougher competitor landscape means that marketing teams are looking for new strategic approaches and innovation opportunities.
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